San Antonio: Song by Harry Williams & Egbert van Alstyne, as Sung and Featured by Ethel Levey

AUCTION 51 | Thursday, June 23rd, 2011 at 1:00

Fine Judaica: Printed Books, Manuscripts Graphic & Ceremonial Art Including: The Alfonso Cassuto Collection of Iberian Books, Part II

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Lot 90

(AMERICAN JUDAICA)

San Antonio: Song by Harry Williams & Egbert van Alstyne, as Sung and Featured by Ethel Levey

Sheet music. Photographic illustration of Ethel Levey in cow-girl costume on front cover pp. (6). Slightly tattered. Original pictorial wrappers, chipped. Folio

Detroit: Jerome H. Remick & Co. (1907)

Est: $700 - $900

The performer and movie actress Ethel Levey was born in San Francisco in 1881 and died in New York in 1955. She was the protégé and wife of the producer, composer and lyricist George M. Cohan (1878-1942). In a long career in the theater, she also spent time on the stage in London.