BERLIN, Irving: A Specially Bound Collection of Songs by Irving Berlin, [191 in total] Each with a Reproduction of the Original Sheet Music Cover. SIGNED PRESENTATION COPY TO HIS COLLEAGUE ALAN JAY LERNER. From the Collection of Lerner's Last Wife

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BERLIN, Irving : A Specially Bound Collection of Songs by Irving Berlin, [191 in total] Each with a Reproduction of the Original Sheet Music Cover. SIGNED PRESENTATION COPY TO HIS COLLEAGUE ALAN JAY LERNER. From the Collection of Lerner's Last Wife

1969

Irving Berlin. 1969. Large thick 4to. A complete alphabetical collection of Berlin's songs, presented as they came out with facsimiles of the original coloured sheet music covers. Bound in rexine binder, inside covers are marbled and all the page edges are gilt. SIGNED PRESENTATION COPY TO ALAN JAY LERNER [Best known for Gigi, An American in Paris and My Fair Lady] "For Alan Jay Lerner with my deep admiration for his great talent. Irving Berlin 1969." The front cover has a coffee stain on it - this was, according to Liz Robertson, typical of Lerner, "Alan was like that. He never took care of anything properly." Front cover slightly bowed, small nick to spine. The contents are very clean. This is an utterly unique piece of musical theatre history. A presentation copy from one of the great American songwriters to another. Lerner had eight wives, two more than Henry VIII, this volume is from the collection of his last wife, Liz Robertson. She married Alan Jay Lerner in August 1981 in Billingshurst, England. The couple met when he directed her in a revival of My Fair Lady.

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