Songs

San Francisco: Sherman, Clay & Co., (1916). Unknown edition. . Quarto in ribbon-tied pictorial pale beige decorative self-wraps; 29 pages of musical scores; 31 cm About near fine to with soiling and darkening to wrapper edges. Paperback.

Scarce. Latest song copyright date present in this item is 1916. Eight original songs. Music and Lyrics by the author, with one song with lyrics by George Sterling. Zenda is a pseudonym of Mrs. Rosaliene Reed Travis, who collaborated frequently with celebrated California poet Geoge Sterling. / Early San Francisco women composers. Songs, Romantic music. Art deco book design. / "George Sterling (December 1, 1869 – November 17, 1926) was an American writer based in the San Francisco, California Bay Area and Carmel-by-the-Sea. He was considered a prominent poet and playwright and proponent of Bohemianism during the first quarter of the twentieth century. His work was admired by writers as diverse as Ambrose Bierce, Robinson Jeffers, Jack London, Upton Sinclair, Theodore Dreiser, Sinclair Lewis, and Clark Ashton Smith. In addition, Sterling played a major role in the growth of the California cities of Oakland, Piedmont, and Carmel-by-the-Sea."—Wikipedia