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...HAROLD ARLEN'S BLUES OPERA...AN AMERICAN MUSIC-DRAMA BASED ON A PLAY BY ARNE[sic] BONTEMPS AND COUNTEE CULLEN. New York: American Lyric Theatre, [ca. 1957]. With: HAROLD ARLEN'S "FREE AND EASY"....
Arlen, Harold, and Johnny Mercer:
New York. [ca. 1959].
First item: [4],44,14,[1],38,16,15 leaves, plus three laid in leaves; second item: [1],5,[3],54,14,[1],34,27 leaves, plus five laid in leaves. Both paginated.. more
Price: $1,750.00
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ORIGINAL PORTRAIT PHOTOGRAPH OF ETHEL WATERS.
[Waters, Ethel]: Van Vechten, Carl:
[New York. 28 August 1938].
Original borderless gelatin silver print, with semi-matte finish, 8 x 10 inches (25.2 x 20.2 cm). Photographer's blindstamp in lower.. more
Price: $950.00
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" ALL NIGHT PROGRAM" SCREENPLAY BY....
Jarrico, Paul, and Lester Koenig:
[Np]. 20 August 1940.
[1],141 leaves. Legal format. Original typescript, on rectos only of yellow flimsy, bradbound. A few corners creased and a few.. more
Price: $850.00
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THE HORN.
Holmes, John Clellon:
New York: Random House, [1959].
Loose sheets, narrow quarto, punched at top and string bound in plain wrappers. Fine. Original uncorrected long galleys of the.. more
Price: $500.00
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8TH AVENUE SCREENPLAY BY....
Flender, Harold:
New York: Film Projects Inc./ Ric Eyrich, [nd. but ca. early 1960s].
[1],96 leaves. Quarto. Mimeographed typescript, printed on rectos only. Bolt-bound in gilt-stamped stiff-card steno binder, with small production logo label.. more
Price: $450.00
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" SWINGTIME AT THE SAVOY" GOOD TIME NO. 1.... [caption title].
Hughes, Langston, and Noble Sissle:
[New York]: National Broadcasting Company, Wednesday, 28 July 1948.
[1],8 leaves. Quarto. Mimeographed typescript, printed on rectos only, stapled at upper corner. Very faint damp mark and wrinkling to.. more
Price: $300.00
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ABOUT THAT BOOK "REALLY THE BLUES"...[caption title, a.k.a. "DEAR BERNIE WOLFE"].
Miller, Henry:
[Np]. [nd. but ca. post 1948].
[2]pp. Quarto. Mimeographed typescript, printed on rectos only. Stapled at upper corner. Old folds from having been mailed, otherwise near.. more
Price: $150.00
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JAZZ RECORDS A - Z 1897-1931.
Rust, Brian [comp]:
[Hatch End, Middlesex: Published by the author, 1962].
Gilt polished red buckram. Second, revised, edition of this authoritative discography. Index compiled by Richard Grandorge. Minor flecking to cloth.. more
Price: $150.00
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JAZZ RECORDS A - Z 1932 - 1942.
Rust, Brian [comp]:
[Hatch End, Middlesex: Published by the author, nd, ca. 1962].
Gilt green cloth. First edition of the continuation of Rust's masterful discography, published uniform with the second edition of the.. more
Price: $150.00
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HARMONY MAGAZINE OF THE 5TH ANNUAL AMERICAN NEGRO MUSIC FESTIVAL [wrapper title].
[African American Music]:
Chicago: American Negro Music Festival, Inc., July 1944.
Quarto. Pictorial wrappers by LeRoy Winbush. Photographs and illustrations. Very near fine. A striking, elaborate program, including portraits and bios.. more
Price: $125.00
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OTTO PREMINGER'S MANDEN MED DEN GYLDNE ARM [wrapper title].
[Algren, Nelson]:
[Copenhagen, Denmark]: United Artists, [1955].
[12]pp. 12mo. Pictorial wrappers (with upper wrapper adapted from Saul Bass's design). Photographs. Near fine. A program attending the Danish.. more
Price: $75.00
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" YOU DON'T LOOK LIKE A MUSICIAN."
Freeman, Bud:
Detroit: Balamp Publishing, [1974].
Cloth. First edition of this obscurely published assemblage of autobiographical anecdotes. Fine in faintly smudged dust jacket. .. more
Price: $75.00
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ALL WHAT JAZZ A RECORD DIARY 1961 - 68.
Larkin, Philip:
New York: St. Martin's, [1970].
Gilt cloth. Pencil inscription on pastedown, otherwise fine in dust jacket. First edition, U.S. issue. One of 1059 copies bound.. more
Price: $75.00
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ALL WHAT JAZZ A RECORD DIARY 1961 - 71
Larkin, Philip:
London & Boston: Faber and Faber [1985].
Boards. Pencil inscription on pastedown, tiny nick at edge of pastedown, otherwise fine in dust jacket. First revised (and expanded).. more
Price: $75.00
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BENEATH THE UNDERDOG.
Mingus, Charles, and N. King:
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1971.
Narrow quarto. Padbound printed wrappers, paper label. Uncorrected proofs of the first edition of this seminal, and highly controversial, jazz.. more
Price: $75.00
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SEND ME DOWN.
Steig, Henry:
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1941.
Gathered and trimmed signatures, perfect bound in the dust jacket of the published book. Some light wear at edges and.. more
Price: $75.00
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FOUR LIVES IN THE BEBOP BUSINESS.
Spellman, A.B.:
New York: Pantheon, [1966].
Quarto. Spiral bound printed wrappers. Title label and narrow chip at top edge of wrapper, else about fine. Uncommon. Uncorrected.. more
Price: $65.00
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JAZZ PEOPLE.
Brask, Ole, and Dan Morgenstern:
New York: Abrams, [1976].
Quarto. Cloth. Photographs. First edition. With a Foreword by Dizzy Gillespie and an Introduction by James Jones. Bookplate, a few.. more
Price: $60.00
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NEW SHORT NOVELS.
Foote, Shelby, et al.:
New York: Ballantine, [1954].
Boards. Very good in modestly frayed dust jacket. First edition, edited by Mary L. Aswell. Includes Foote's jazz novella, "Ride.. more
Price: $55.00
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AMERICAN SINGERS.
Balliet, Whitney:
New York: Oxford, 1979.
Cloth. A fine copy in a rubbed dust jacket with some small nicks and a short tear to the spine.. more
Price: $50.00
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ALEC WILDER AND HIS FRIENDS.
Balliett, Whitney:
Boston: Houghton, 1974.
Cloth. Photographs. Bit of rubbing to tips, else about fine in dust jacket. First edition. Review copy, with a personal.. more
Price: $50.00
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A HISTORY OF JAZZ: THE NEW YORK SCENE.
Charters, Samuel, and L. Kunstadt:
Garden City: Doubleday, 1961.
Printed wrappers, printed label. A couple minor nicks or creases, else fine. Uncorrected trimmed galley proofs of the first edition... more
Price: $50.00
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TOMMY AND JIMMY THE DORSEY YEARS.
[Dorsey, Tommy and Jimmy]: Sanford, Herb:
London: Ian Allan, [1972].
Cloth. Illustrations and photographs. First edition. With an introduction by Bing Crosby. Top edge badly dust spotted, else a very.. more
Price: $50.00
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TOWARD JAZZ.
Hodeir, Andre:
New York: Grove Press, [1962].
Cloth and boards. First American edition, translated by Noel Burch. Light date stamp on endsheet, otherwise fine in very faintly.. more
Price: $50.00
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LOUIS ARMSTRONG.
Panassie, Hugues:
New York: Scribner, [1971].
Gilt cloth. Large octavo. Photographs. First U.S. edition (translation uncredited). Fine in dust jacket. .. more
Price: $50.00
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GUIDE TO JAZZ.
Panassie, Hugues, and Madeleine Gautier:
Boston: Houghton, 1956.
Decorated cloth. Photographs. First U.S. edition, translated by Desmond Flower, edited by A.A. Gurwitch, and with an introduction by Louis.. more
Price: $50.00
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THE MUSIC OF BLACK AMERICANS: A HISTORY.
Southern, Eileen:
[New York: Norton, 1971].
Narrow thick quarto. Bolt bound printed wrappers. Title label at lower edge, else near fine. Uncorrected original trimmed galley proofs.. more
Price: $50.00
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READINGS IN BLACK AMERICAN MUSIC.
Southern, Eileen: [ed]:
New York: Norton, [1971].
Quarto. Loose sheets, punched at top and spiral bound in printed boards. Uncorrected original trimmed galley proofs of the first.. more
Price: $50.00
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THE PIANO SPORT.
Asher, Don:
New York: Atheneum, 1966.
Cloth and boards. First edition of the author's first book. Fine in lightly smudged, very good white dust jacket with.. more
Price: $45.00
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SABOTAGES DANS LE CIEL.
Goffin, Robert:
New York: Editions de la Maison Francaise, 1942.
Decorated wrappers. First edition, trade issue, of this novel by the sometime jazz historian. Wraps faintly tanned and rubbed, but.. more
Price: $45.00
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LOUIS' CHILDREN AMERICAN JAZZ SINGERS.
Gourse, Leslie:
New York: William Morrow, 1984.
Cloth and boards. Photographs. First edition. Bookplate, edges lightly foxed, small coffee spot on upper board, else very good in.. more
Price: $45.00
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DUKE, LESTER, CHARLES: THE SIXTH JAZZ CHAP [bound dos-a- dos with]: REVERIES FROM THE CHAISE LOUNGE. By Mark Weber.
Locklin, Gerald, and Mark Weber:
[Albuquerque: Zerx Press, 2001].
Pictorial wrappers. First edition, one of four hundred copies issued as Zerx Chapbook 51. Inscribed at length by Locklin to.. more
Price: $45.00
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THE BLACK MAN IN WHITE AMERICA.
Van Deusen, John G.:
Washington: Associated Publishers, 1944.
Large octavo. Cloth. Second, much revised, edition. Very good in dust jacket with small chips and tears. Includes sections on.. more
Price: $45.00
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JAZZ IN ITS TIME.
Williams, Martin:
New York: Oxford University Press, 1989.
Cloth and boards. First edition. Williams, arguably among our greatest jazz critics, covers everything from Sidney Bechet to fusion in.. more
Price: $45.00
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NEW YORK NOTES A JOURNAL OF JAZZ 1972-1975.
Balliett, Whitney:
Boston: Houghton, 1976.
Gilt decorated cloth. First edition. A fine copy in dust jacket. .. more
Price: $40.00
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GOOD MORNING BLUES THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF COUNT BASIE AS TOLD TO ALBERT MURRAY.
Basie, Count, and Albert Murray:
New York: Random House, [1985].
Cloth and boards. Photographs. First edition. Publisher's review copy with material laid in. Fine in dust jacket with short closed.. more
Price: $40.00
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REMEMBERING BIX A MEMOIR OF THE JAZZ AGE.
Berton, Ralph:
New York: Harper & Row, [1974].
Cloth. Large octavo. Photographs. First edition. Fine in dust jacket. Laid in is a recent t.l.s. from the author (aged.. more
Price: $40.00
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SWEET MAN THE REAL DUKE ELLINGTON.
[Ellington, Duke]: George, Don:
New York: Putnam, [1981].
Cloth. Photographs. First edition. Bookplate, remainder mark on bottom edge, light foxing to edges, else very good in rubbed dust.. more
Price: $40.00
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THE WORLDS OF JAZZ.
Hodeir, Andre:
New York: Grove Press, [1972].
Large octavo. Cloth. First American edition, translated by Noel Burch. Review slip and publisher's letter of presentation laid in. Top.. more
Price: $40.00
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BLOW UP A STORM.
Kanin, Garson:
New York: Random House, [1959].
Thick, narrow quarto. Spiralbound printed wrappers. Uncorrected page proofs of the first edition. Trace of sunning, residue of publisher's label,.. more
Price: $40.00
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BLOW UP A STORM.
Kanin, Garson:
New York: Random House, [1959].
Cloth. First edition of this jazz novel. Top edge dusty, else near fine in spine-darkened, lightly soiled dust jacket with.. more
Price: $40.00
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TEACH YOURSELF JAZZ.
Lindsay, Martin:
London: English Universities Press Ltd., [1958].
Cloth. Small octavo. First edition. Near fine in price clipped dust jacket. .. more
Price: $40.00
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CALL HIM GEORGE.
Stuart, Jay Allison [pseud of Dorothy Tait]:
London: Peter Davies, [1961].
Gilt cloth. First U.K. edition of this biography of George Lewis. Fine and bright, in somewhat rubbed black dust jacket.. more
Price: $40.00
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KING KONG AN AFRICAN JAZZ OPERA.
Bloom, Harry, [with lyrics by] Pat Williams:
London: Collins, 1961.
Pictorial boards. First British edition of this dramatic work by the anti-apartheid activist. Fine in near fine dust jacket. .. more
Price: $35.00
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DUKE ELLINGTON IN PERSON AN INTIMATE MEMOIR.
Ellington, Mercer, and Stanley Dance:
Boston: Houghton, 1978.
Cloth. Photographs. First edition. About fine in dust jacket. .. more
Price: $35.00
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THE BOOK OF JAZZ A GUIDE TO THE ENTIRE FIELD.
Feather, Leonard:
New York: Horizon Press, [1957].
Cloth and boards. First edition. Very good in spine-faded dust jacket with a torn corner on the inside front flap,.. more
Price: $35.00
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THE LITERATURE OF AMERICAN MUSIC IN BOOKS AND FOLK MUSIC COLLECTIONS: A FULLY ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY.
Horn, David [comp]:
Metuchen, NJ: Scarecrow Press, 1977.
xiv,556pp. Cloth. As new, without dust jacket, as issued. First edition of what was, to its date of issue, the.. more
Price: $35.00
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REFERENCE BACK ...UNCOLLECTED JAZZ WRITINGS 1940 - 1984.
Larkin, Philip:
[Hull: University of Hull Press [1999].
Boards. First edition. Edited by Richard Palmer and John White, with a Foreword by Alan Plater. Small bookplate and pencil.. more
Price: $35.00
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THE MIDNIGHT SPECIAL THE LEGEND OF LEADBELLY.
[Ledbetter, Huddie]: Garvin, Richard M., and Edmond G. Addeo:
[New York]: Bernard Geis, [1971].
Cloth and boards. First edition. Review copy with slip. About fine in lightly rubbed dust jacket with a small nick.. more
Price: $35.00
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THE REAL JAZZ...REVISED AND ENLARGED EDITION.
Panassie, Hugues:
New York: Barnes, [1960].
Cloth. Small bookplate, otherwise a nice copy in lightly nicked and edge tanned dust jacket. First U.S. edition of the.. more
Price: $35.00
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