You Are So Beautiful
San Francisco, California: Sherman Clay & Co., 1917. You Are So Beautiful Lawrence Zenda and George Sterling, Sherman Clay & Co., San Francisco, California, 1917, 13 5/8 x 10 1/2 inches, 5pp.
Printed wrapper with mild toning and edge wear. Minor split to head and foot of spine. Lightly wrinkled pages. Good condition.
Sheet music for the song "You Are So Beautiful" by Lawrence Zenda put to poetry by George Sterling. Zenda is a pseudonym of Mrs. Rosaliene Reed Travis, a frequent collaborator with poet Geoge Sterling and supposed lover of Sterling's.
George Sterling (1869--1926) was a writer based mostly in the Bay Area and Carmel-by-the-Sea with brief stays in New York. Sterling was admired as a poet and playwright active during the first quarter of the twentieth century and promoted heavily by his mentor Ambrose Bierce. His time in Carmel was often spent in the company of Jack London, Mary Austin and Robinson Jeffers and became associated with the 'bohemian' movement, including membership in the famed San Francisco Bohemian Club.
Several copies of this sheet music show up in OCLC at Stanford, Yale, Berkeley and Harrison Memorial Library. Item #2395
Price: $25.00