Multi-Topic Song Sheet Book

This section includes books that feature song sheets in several topical areas or genres. As such, their coverage of each included genre is selective.

1973: Memory Lane: 1890 to 1925 / Ragtime, Jazz, Foxtrot and other popular music and music covers selected by Max Wilk. Max Wilk. London: Studio International Publications, Ltd. (numerous color illustrations)

1975: Old Sheet Music: A Pictorial History. Marian Klamkin. NY: Hawthorn Books, Inc. (many b&w and some color illustrations)

1976: Memory Lane: The Golden Age of American Popular Music. Max Wilk. NY: Ballantine Books. (This is a reissue of his 1973 book; numerous color illustrations)

1985: American Life in Our Piano Benches: The Art of Sheet Music. Jean M. Bonin. University of Wisconsin. (b&w and a few color illustrations)

1989: I Hear America Singing: A Nostalgic Tour of Popular Sheet Music. Lynn Wenzel and Carol J. Binkowski. NY: Crown Publishers, Inc. (numerous color images)

1997: The Gold in Your Piano Bench: Collectible Sheet Music, Tearjerkers, Black Songs, Rags & Blues. Marion Short. Atglen, PA: Schiffer Publishing Ltd. (profusely color illustrated)

1997: More Gold in Your Piano Bench: Collectible Sheet Music, Inventions, Wars, and Disasters. Marion Short. Atglen, PA: Schiffer Publishing Ltd. (profusely color illustrated)

1998: From Saginaw Valley to Tin Pan Alley: Saginaw’s Contribution to American Popular Music, 1890–1955 (Great Lakes Books Series). R. Grant Smith. Detroit, MI: Wayne State University Press, 1998. (numerous b&w and some color illustrations)

1998: Covers of Gold: Collectible Sheet Music, Sports, Fashion, Illustration and the Dance. Marion Short. Atglen, PA: Schiffer Publishing Ltd. (profusely color illustrated)

2013: North Dakota Composers: An Album of Sheet Music Covers 1887- 2008. Yvonne McDonald and Rudolf Polt. Morrisville, NC: Lulu Publishing (self-publisher). (b&w and color illustrations)

2014: Visions of Music: Sheet Music in the Twentieth Century. Tony Walas. Milwaukee: Hal Leonard Books. (profuse color illustrations)