Sheet Music

  • [SHEET MUSIC] Waiting for the Robert E. Lee

    # 12730

    MUIR, Lewis F. (music); GILBERT, Louis Wolfe (words)

    [SHEET MUSIC] Waiting for the Robert E. Lee

    Cover: Featured by Marie Eaton, Fred Leslie & Rupert Darrell. Sydney : Albert &​ Son, [c.1912]. Folio, cloth backed illustrated wrappers with original ownership inscription of Roland Thomas and label and blind stamp of Melbourne, Ballarat, Bendigo and Geelong music seller Sutton’s, [4] pp, musical score for voice and piano; a fine copy. Copies are …

  • [SHEET MUSIC] I’m a married man

    # 12558

    CARROLL, Harry (music); MACDONALD, Ballard (words)

    [SHEET MUSIC] I’m a married man

    Cover: Introduced in George Marlow's brilliant Adelphi success “Under two flags”. Sydney : Albert's, [c.1910]. Folio, publisher's pictorial wrappers with vignette portrait of Australian performer Wilton Welch, 5 pp of musical notation (arrangement for solo voices, chorus and piano), lower wrapper with publisher's advertisements; a fine copy. Two copies are recorded in Australian collections (National …

  • [SHEET MUSIC] The girl up there

    # 12556

    CAMPBELL, Hal (words & music)

    [SHEET MUSIC] The girl up there

    Cover: Featured with enormous success by Stella Gastelle in J.C. Williamson's pantomime Hack & Jill. Sydney : Albert's, [c.1910]. Folio, publisher's pictorial wrappers with vignette portrait of Australian performer Stella Gastelle, contemporary ownership signature of Roland Thomas and music seller's stamp of Dinsdale, Melbourne, [3] pp of musical notation (arrangement for piano and voice), lower …

  • [SHEET MUSIC] Zenda / by Louis Breau &​ Ernst Luz

    # 12015

    BREAU, Louis; LUZ, Ernst

    [SHEET MUSIC] Zenda / by Louis Breau &​ Ernst Luz

    Cover: “The sensational hit from Rex Ingram's Prisoner of Zenda. Featured throughout Australia in conjunction with the filming of the Metro Film, The Prisoner of Zenda”. Melbourne : L.F. Collin, [1922]. Folio, illustrated wrappers, 5 pp of musical notation, a near fine copy.  Copies are recorded in two Australian collections (National Library of Australia; State Library …

  • [SHEET MUSIC] Musical nursery rhymes picture book

    # 11900

    OUTHWAITE, Ida Rentoul (illustrator)

    [SHEET MUSIC] Musical nursery rhymes picture book

    Cover: To sing and play with the watcher-bird. Melbourne : Murfett, 1945. Quarto, illustrated wrappers, 16 pp, 8 full-page colour illustrations by Outhwaite, a very good copy. Muir 5610.

  • [SHEET MUSIC] Musical nursery rhymes picture book

    # 10853

    OUTHWAITE, Ida Rentoul (illustrator)

    [SHEET MUSIC] Musical nursery rhymes picture book

    Cover: To sing and play with the watcher-bird. Melbourne : Murfett, 1945. Quarto, illustrated wrappers (corners worn), 16 pp, 8 full-page colour illustrations by Outhwaite, a good copy. Muir 5610.

  • Bandicoot ballads, numbers 9-16 (special coloured edition)

    # 10799

    MANIFOLD, John; EDWARDS, R.G. (illustrator)

    Bandicoot ballads, numbers 9-16 (special coloured edition)

    Lower Ferntree Gully, Vic : Rams Skull Press,1955. “This set is no. 24 of 100 handcoloured. R.G. Edwards '55” (manuscript limitation). Quarto, card portfolio, front cover with illustration and title in red (sunned along edges), containing 8 loose leaf ballad broadsheets of Australian folk songs, with hand coloured lino-cut illustrations by Ronald George Edwards; the …

  • [SHEET MUSIC]  The Vagabond King : a musical dramatization of Justin Huntly McCarthy’s great play,

    # 10965

    [SHEET MUSIC]  The Vagabond King : a musical dramatization of Justin Huntly McCarthy’s great play,

    “If I were King”. Sydney : J. Albert & Son, [c.1928]. “Copyright 1926”. Quarto, pictorial wrappers (price sticker residue upper right), 12 pp, for piano. A very clean copy.

  • [SHEET MUSIC] The Chusan waltz

    # 9710

    MARSH, Henry (composer); ANGAS, George French, 1822 - 1886 (illustrator)

    [SHEET MUSIC] The Chusan waltz

    Cover: Dedicated to Captain Henry Down and the officers of the Peninsular and Oriental Navigation Company’s Steam Ship Chusan by Henry Marsh, Sydney. Sydney : Published by H. Marsh & Co. at the Sydney Pianoforte and Music Ware Rooms, 490 1/2 George Street, [c.1852]. Folio, front cover with a bichrome lithograph of the Chusan by …

  • [SHEET MUSIC] I’m waiting my darling for thee

    # 9707

    EVANS, Geo. T. (arranger)

    [SHEET MUSIC] I’m waiting my darling for thee

    Cover: Sung by Mr Arthur Romer. Melbourne : Nicholson & Ascherberg, [1875]. Folio, lithographed cover by Charles Troedel of Collins Street, printed in green, original owner's inscription Mary G. Connell July 11th 1875 at upper right and blind stamp of bookseller Walch of Launceston at upper left, 3 pp of musical notation, a very good …

  • [SHEET MUSIC] Heliotrope valse

    # 9700

    LACOSTE, Leona (pseud.) [BURNS, Felix, 1864-1920]

    [SHEET MUSIC] Heliotrope valse

    Cover: By special arrangement with Francis, Day & Hunter, London. Melbourne : Allan & Co., [c.1905]. Folio, illustrated cover with inset portrait of a young woman, contemporary cloth backing, 6 pp of musdical notationrear cover with music for Within the law waltz by Gustave Leon, a very good copy.  The prolific Scottish composer Felix Burns …

  • [SHEET MUSIC] Put me in my little bed

    # 9709

    WHITE, Charles A. (music); SMITH, Dexter (lyrics)

    [SHEET MUSIC] Put me in my little bed

    Cover: As sung by Mr. Hallam of Weston & La Feuillade's Minstrels. Melbourne : W. H. Glen of Collins Street., [c.1870]. Folio, front cover with lithograph of a young girl praying beside her bed by Charles Troedel of Collins Street (mild foxing to front and rear covers), 2 pp musical notation (scattered foxing). This noted song …

  • [SHEET MUSIC] If I could meet the fellow that started ragtime

    # 9698

    FOX, Frank H.

    [SHEET MUSIC] If I could meet the fellow that started ragtime

    Cover: Introduced in George Willoghby’s Ltd. Gorgeous Presentation Aladdin Pantomime. Sydney : Alberts, 1914. Folio, illustrated cover by A. Morrow showing the unnamed female lead of the pantomime Aladdin (small burn mark to front), 3 pp of musical notation, a very good copy. Produced by Lester Brown and with musical direction by Wynne Jones, this Sydney …

  • [SHEET MUSIC] Come down ma evening’ star

    # 9697

    SMITH, Robert B. (lyrics); STROMBERG, John (music)

    [SHEET MUSIC] Come down ma evening’ star

    Melbourne : Allan & Co., [1902]. 'Published under licence from M. Witmark New York'. Folio, illustrated cover with inset portrait of the Australian singer Florence Young (front cover detached), 3 pp of musical notation, first page with wet stamp of S. Marshall & Sons, 52 Rundle St., Adelaide, internally clean and sound. Originally a song …

  • [SHEET MUSIC] Dream thoughts : intermezzo for piano

    # 9696

    MOSS, Eric R.

    [SHEET MUSIC] Dream thoughts : intermezzo for piano

    Melbourne : Allan & Co., [c1912]. Folio, illustrated cover featuring an Art Nouveau lithographic design by W. George, 7 pp of musical notation, rear cover with music for Remembrance, by Anton Kurtz, a fine copy. Copies are recorded in four Australian collections (National Library of Australia; State Library of New South Wales; State Library of …

  • [SHEET MUSIC] La Carita (Tempo di Marcia).

    # 9694

    LORRAINE Paul

    [SHEET MUSIC] La Carita (Tempo di Marcia).

    Melbourne : Allan & Co., c.1908. Folio, illustrated cover with lithographed portrait of a young gypsy woman by W. George (front cover detached, with wet stamp of T.L. Hood Music seller, Hobart, and ownership inscription blacked out), 7 pp of musical notation (pencilled annotations), plus extracts from other pieces on inner rear and rear covers. Unrecorded …