The Library of Jerome Kern. New York City. Part One A-J [and] Part Two J-Z

  • [6], 247, [1, imprint]; [4], 249-468 pp. 1486 items. Priced copy, with names of buyers. 2 vols. 8vo
  • New York: The Anderson Galleries, 1929
New York: The Anderson Galleries, 1929. [6], 247, [1, imprint]; [4], 249-468 pp. 1486 items. Priced copy, with names of buyers. 2 vols. 8vo. Presentation binding in flexible brown pebbled morocco, titles in gilt. Ownership name in Part Two, Storm. Some rubbing. [6], 247, [1, imprint]; [4], 249-468 pp. 1486 items. Priced copy, with names of buyers. 2 vols. 8vo. Record of the most important American sale in the first part of the twentieth century. Composer Jerome Kern's library was sold by Mitchell Kennerley's Anderson Galleries in eight evening sessions in January 1929 and realized a total of $1,729,462.50

Colton Storm (Oberlin class of 1930) worked as a cataloguer for American Anderson Galleries until opening a book shop in 1936 with Charles Retz. From 1942 he was a curatorr at the Clements Library in Ann Arbor, later serving as assistant director.

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Title

The Library of Jerome Kern. New York City. Part One A-J [and] Part Two J-Z

Binding

[6], 247, [1, imprint]; [4], 249-468 pp. 1486 items. Priced copy, with names of buyers. 2 vols. 8vo

Condition

Unknown

Publisher

The Anderson Galleries: New York

Date

1929


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