Description
Christy Publishing Co., Los Angeles, Published 1922. Sheet music, 5 pp. (the song paginated 3-5); 31 cm; plate "Sometime 3"; for voice and piano; illustrated cover.
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Condition & notes
In Acceptable condition. Illustrated cover, a guitarist silhouetted against a moonlit sea beneath stylized trees, in deep blue and gold; signed by the artist at lower right. Previous owners' names in ink and pencil on the front cover. Pages reinforced along the spine with off-white cloth tape. Several nicks and short tears (1/2 inch or less) with edge creasing and light corner chipping. Light to moderate overall spotting, toning, and soiling. Otherwise unmarked. Inside front cover blank; rear cover blank but for the San Francisco printer's imprint.Words by James A. Pease, music by Chris Schonberg (composer of "Darling"), from a small Los Angeles publisher. Cover art by Milton Menasco (1890-1974), a Los Angeles artist who began in the early Hollywood studios painting film posters and served as art director on some thirty silent pictures, among them the 1925 "The Lost World." He painted murals for the 1915 Panama-Pacific Exposition and, in later life, became one of the country's foremost painters of thoroughbred horses.