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[SHEET MUSIC]. A Gigantic Collection of Nearly 500 Early 20th Century Sheet Music, Nearly All in Full-Color Wrappers. [V.p., ca. early 20th century]. A superb collection of sheet music encompassing many genres, including jazz, marches, patriotic, waltzes, and more. Sheet music generally 14 x 11” and slightly smaller. The usual general wear, soiling, some tears to margins, spines. An excellent and comprehensive collection, with an inventory in a binder. Some titles include: Alamo Blues, Baby Love, Babes in Toyland, Black Hawk Waltz, Boy Scouts Parade March, Calico Rag, Cherokee Native Maid, The Cuban Hero, Dope Two Step, Everybody’s Crazy ‘Bout the Doggone Blues But I’m Happy, Frolic of the Demons, Fuji San Song, The Gingerbread Man, The Gypsy Rag, Hitchy Koo, Hypnotic Rag, Indianola, Down in Jungle Town, Let ‘Er Go March, Little Nemo, Maple Leaf Rag, U. S. Marine Band March and Two-Step, Melodies from Scotland, Monkeyland, Motor King, My Pony Boy, Oh That Navajo Rag, Over There, The Pavlowa Gavotte, Pierrot, Porcupine Rag, The Ragtime Goblin Man, Sit Down! You’re Rocking the Boat, Roosevelt March, Tropical Climber (in Russian), Schlitz Beer Song, Shufflin’ Along, A Signal from Mars, The Skeleton Rag, Swanee One Step, Through Rough Weather (in German with a Zeppelin on the cover), The Trolley Car Swing, Under the Anheuser Bush, Memphis Blues, Wake Up, America!, The Wild Wild Women Are Making a Wild Man of Me, At that Bully Wooly Wild West Show, Here’s to Your Boy and My Boy, Ziegfeld Follies of 1915, Islam March, That Dixie Rag, and many more. From the Mark Rucker Collection.