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ARLEN, Harold (1905-1986) and KOEHLER, Ted (1894-1973). Ame...
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ARLEN, Harold (1905-1986) and KOEHLER, Ted (1894-1973). Americanegro Suite. Four Spirituals a Dream and a Lullaby. Illustrations by Botkin. New York: Chapell & Co., Inc., [1941]. 4to. Illustrated with several mounted plates and intertextual illustrations. 71, [1, blank] pp. Publisher's brown cloth backstrip over pictorial boards (boards edgeworn, text a bit toned, a few mounted plates partially detaching, the rfep and the final 4 leaves with marginal tears, chips and creases). Very good. FIRST EDITION, WARMLY INSCRIBED BY ARLEN ON THE VERSO OF THE FFEP: ?For Jackson ? The gifted friend from Charleston From the Buffalo choir boy Harold 4-16-61". Inscription has bled-through to the ffep. Arlen and Koehler were two of the most successful American composers (Arlen co-wrote the songs for The Wizard of Oz (1939 ? notably ?Over the Rainbow"), Arlen and Koehler co-wrote ?Get Happy," ?Stormy Weather," and they co-wrote songs for the legendary night club, The Cotton Club.
