SONGS OF THE GILDED AGE : Words & Music for Favorite American Songs of the Elegant Eighties, the Gay Ninties, & the First Decade of the 20th Century

New York, NY: Golden Press, 1960. 1st Edition First Thus. Hardcover. Very Good/None As Issued. Lucille Corcos (Illustrator). Text/NEW & Bright w/edge wear to pg #73 & detached pg 127, both secured w/archival tape. Illustrated boards/VG; sound w/light surface wear, and rubs to corner tips & lower spine. Anthology of some 100 period Americana songs. In the Preface, prize winning composer & President of the Julliard School of Music William Schuman (1910 - 1992 ), praises the collection as a historical tribute to the custom of "Sunday nights around the piano". Selected by Margaret Brandford Boni (1893 - 1974), arranged for voice, piano & guitar by Norman Lloyd (1909 - 1980), and illustrated by the celebrated Lucille Corcos (1908 - 1973), one of America's foremost "modern primitivist" painters of urban scenes. 156 pgs in 6 parts: Part I, Places; II, Love; III, Girls; IV, Memories; V, Stories; and VI, Patriotism, followed by indices to Titles, First Lines, and Authors/Composers. Fine copy despite flaws.