To The Shores Of Tripoli

Life at the Marine Training Base in San Diego on the eve of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.

From the late 20’s to just after 2nd World War musicals were incredibly popular with theatre goers and like today where you are able to download the accompanying soundtrack to a movie, you were able to purchase the sheet music to play on your piano for a good old fashioned family sing song.

More often than not sheet music covers would feature the stars of the movie, along with unique artwork unseen on the theatrical posters, therefore in their own right they make lovely display pieces once framed. Many of these Australian printed sheets also have artwork that differs greatly from its US or UK counterparts and without doubt they were also produced in far less quantities, making them far rarer.

The main points of note with this one are light creasing, scattered light marks, an addition of the New Zealand vendors (Beggs of Christchurch) stamp and some minor age darkening. In all a great wartime piece featuring one of Hollywood’s biggest stars Maureen O’Hara.

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