Congrats on the Li'l Abner, DR George. If I didn't have my own copy, I would certainly have leapt at that, too.
I wonder how many years that score has been out of print. I first bought it around 1964-65 and it was almost certainly among my first -- oh, probably seven or eight -- vocal scores. Just as with my other ones then, I was thrilled to be able to put actual notes to those great numbers I was hearing on the cast album. It soon thereafter became my first ever show to play in, on the piano in a junior theater pit of 8 or 10 players, and that was a real thrill.
Then somehow or other, at some point it joined half a dozen of my other scores in becoming lost. LOST! It had to have happened while I was away at school and my family was moving from Florida back to Ohio. A small pile of scores either got lost in the shuffle, or my family somehow decided "oh, he doesn't need these old things any more". When I went to replace it some years later, I found it was no longer available, and it wasn't till much later still that I nabbed a hardcover copy off eBay. It wasn't a publisher's hardcover, just a library binding, but a nice looking one. No one had ever made a mark in it, and I appreciate that the pages are well protected.
