“ALL ABOARD”: A Brilliant Polka.
Baltimore, (MD): Miller & Beacham, c1855. First edition (also published in Boston by Ditson the same year). 4to. 7 pp. Publisher’s ad on verso of final page. Music only. At head of front wrapper: “To Miss E.J. Caperton / Monroe Co., Va.” OCLC locates six copies of this issue (New York State Library, Duke, Baylor, Virginia Historical Society, Virginia, Library of Virginia). Original printed wrappers, illustrated with a lithograph (Lith. of Sarony & Co., New York) picturing a horse-drawn sleigh loaded with well-dressed gentlemen racing across a snowy field, a large plantation house in the background. Disbound (from a volume of sheet music), marbled edges. Very good. Item #65445
Price: $75.00