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Gershwin, George. George Gershwin’s Song-book.
Gershwin, George. George Gershwin’s Song-book.
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Gershwin, George. George Gershwin’s Song-book. New York, 1932. Folio. Publisher’s two-tone orange cloth. Inscribed by Gershwin to Silent Film Star Aileen Pringle, on the f.f.e.p.: "to Pringie / This book, not to mention / some warm affection / fond / George / Sept. 18, 1932." Illustrated with numerous plates by Alajalov. Joan Peyser wrote of Aileen Pringle, in The Memory of All That: The Life of George Gershwin (New York, 1993): "Most of the music for Delicious was composed before he left New York, but an extended sequence was composed by Gershwin while he was the guest of Aileen Pringle, a silent movie actress, in Santa Monica. This music was designed to accompany a sequence in which Janet Gaynor runs wildly through the streets of New York
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