New York: Norton, (1939), First Edition. octavo, bright blue cloth in pictorial dust jacket. (234)pp. Norton, Illustrated with photographs. A near fine, clean copy, top and bottom of spine bumped. Jacket price clipped and with wear to extremities especially at spine. More
No place: Dave Cooper, 1989, First Edition. quarto, pictorial wrappers, stapled. 124 pp. Dave Cooper, An expanded discography with biographical notes. Fine. More
No place: no date (1984), Offprint. quarto, printed wrappers, stapled. 10 leaves, printed recto only. Offprint from the Gutenberg Yearbook, 1984. Illustrated. Upper right-hand corner lightly bumped. More
New York: Dodd, Mead, 1937, First Edition. octavo, blue cloth stamped in gilt on front cover and spine in printed dust jacket. (xiv), (306)pp. Dodd, Mead, Frontispiece. Illustrations by Alajalov. A fine, clean copy. Bright, clean jacket with slight shelf scuffs at edges. Jacket not price clipped. More
New York: M. Witmark & Sons, (1936), First American Edition. octavo, blue cloth stamped in gilt. (xx), 363 pp. M. Witmark & Sons, "The Complete, authoritative work on swing...its great performers, its great recordings, its great achievements." Translated by Lyle and Eleanor Dowling from "Le Jazz Hot". Several small chips..... More
Suffolk, Eng: Boydell & Brewer, 1989, First Edition. quarto, cloth in dust jacket. 205pp. Boydell & Brewer, Pepys's music collection ranges from psalm-books to operas, includes treatises on the subject of musical theory and items of historical interest. The map collection concentrates on material related to navigation and the `Calligraphical..... More
London: Faber and Faber, (1967), First Edition. octavo, red cloth in dust jacket. 227pp. Faber and Faber, Stewart was a member of No. 22 Squadron flying F.E. 2Bs and then No. 54 Squadron flying Sopwith Pups. He was awarded the MC and the AFC. Jacket is price clipped, else fine..... More
Kalamazoo, MI: Western Michigan University, 1993, First Edition. octavo, red cloth. (iv), 135 pp. Western Michigan University, Illustrated. New. More
Pittsburgh: University Press, 1974, First Edition. octavo, cloth. (xiv), 410pp. University Press, Part of the Pittsburgh Series in Bibliography. A detailed, illustrated bibliography covering Books and Separate Publications; Contributions to Books; Contributions to Periodicals; Miscellany; Translations; Musical Settings; Recordings; Dedicatory Poems and Poems Referring to Stevens; Books about Stevens; Books..... More
Columbia SC: MJB, 1999, First Edition. octavo, cloth. 358pp. MJB, Matthew J. Bruccoli established this collection in the University of Virginia Library in 1965 in memory of his father, a veteran of the Great War. Books, Pamphlets, and Periodicals (fiction, poetry and non-fiction); Motion Picture and Video Material, Title List..... More
Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1990, First Edition. octavo, blue cloth. xxii, 423pp. University of Pittsburgh Press, With a foreword by Dickey. Part of the Pittsburgh Series in Bibliography. A detailed, illustrated bibliography covering Books and Separate Publications; Contributions to Books; Contributions to Periodicals; Miscellany; Translations; Musical Settings; Recordings; Dedicatory..... More
Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1981, First Edition. octavo, cloth. (xiv), (194)pp. University of Pittsburgh Press, Part of the Pittsburgh Series in Bibliography. A detailed, illustrated bibliography covering Books and Separate Publications; Contributions to Books; Contributions to Periodicals; Miscellany; Translations; Musical Settings; Recordings; Dedicatory Poems and Poems Referring to Stevens;..... More
Bruxelles: "Editions du Hot Club" (1946), First Edition. octavo, pictorial heavy paper wrappers. (64)pp. "Editions du Hot Club", Illustrated with photographs.Presentation Copy, inscribed and signed by de Trazegnies on the half title" "To Al Otto. Sincerely Jean de Trazegnies 29.6.46." (in green ink). A fine, clean copy. A most attractive..... More
New York: The Pierpont Morgan Library, (1998), First Edition. octavo, gray cloth in pictorial dust jacket. 336pp. The Pierpont Morgan Library, Text in Engish and German. The publication for the first exchange exhibition by the Morgan Library in the German-speaking world in Basel and a selection of contemporary music manuscripts..... More
New York: Doubleday Page, 1927, First Edition. quarto, black cloth stamped in gilt on front cover and spine in dust jacket. (xvi), (184)pp. Doubleday Page, With numerous woodcuts by Paul Honore, including 3 full page and in color. Book is truly very fine and clean. Dust jacket is unusually nice..... More
London: Duckworth, (1929), First Edition. octavo, purple cloth in dust jacket. 312pp. Duckworth, "...a satire on this age of jazz bands and love." A very fine, clean copy, top edge dusty. Jacket has slight edge wear with bump to head of spine which is sunned. More
New York: Éditions de la Maison Français, 1946, First Edition. octavo, printed wrappers in printed dust jacket. (271) pp. Éditions de la Maison Français, Text in French. Chip to front flap of jacket with has minor chipping along edge. Near fine. More
Text in French. "...Under the conditions guaranteed to me by the terms of your letter of the 9th, I accept very willingly the very flattering offer that you make to me of the honorary presidency of the artistic musical society of Angers." Signed "Ch. Gounod". Gounod wrote symphonies, songs but..... More
London: Pilot Press Ltd, 1946, First Edition. octavo, blue cloth in dust jacket. 382 pp. Pilot Press Ltd, Spike Hughes was a British musician, composer and arranger who spanned the worlds of classical music and jazz. He has been called Britain's earliest jazz composer. This text covers not only jazz..... More
McFarland & Company, 2000, First Edition. large octavo, brown cloth. viii, 190 pp. McFarland & Company, A very fine, clean copy. More
Copenhagen: Knudsen, (1969), First Edition. octavo, printed heavy paper wrappers. (vi), (49)pp., stapled. Knudsen, A very fine, clean copy. This book is one of approximately 1,500 jazz, blues, big band and swing books we will be uploading. Stay tuned. More
(Brande, Denmark): Debut Records, 1959, First Editions. small octavo , printed wrappers, stapled. (18) leaves printed recto only ; 21 leaves printed recto only. Debut Records, Heavily annotated by Rolph Fairchild best known as a writer of jazz album liner notes and the author of the art Hodges discography. Both..... More
Worcester: American Antiquarian Society, 1983, First Edition. octavo, cloth in dust jacket. xii, (324)pp. American Antiquarian Society, One of the most useful texts in the history of the book, the essays focus on literacy, the book trade between England and America, in Boston and Colonial Virginia, early American music printing..... More
New Haven: Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library, 2012, First Edition. large octavo, printed wrappers. 78 pp. Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Remembering Shakespeare tells the story of how a playwright and poet in late sixteenth- and early seventeenth-century England came to be remembered as the world’s most venerated..... More
Greenwood Press, (1996) , First Edition. octavo, brick red cloth. (x), (227) pp. Greenwood Press, A very fine, clean copy. More
Paris: La Table Ronde, (1961), First Edition. octavo, printed wrappers. (260), (ii) pp. La Table Ronde, Text in French. Presentation copy, inscribed and signed on half-title. Near fine. More
New York: The Viking Press, 1934, First Edition. octavo, red cloth in dust jacket. (xii), 321 pp. The Viking Press, "A musical record of America through half a century, told in the lively memoirs of an old-timer who knew them all - the people who wrote our songs, the singers..... More
(New York): G. P. Putnam's Sons, (1974), First American Edition. large quarto, black cloth in dust jacket. (368) pp. G. P. Putnam's Sons, Extensively illustrated with photographs. Includes a very detailed index. Very fine in a very fine dust jacket which is not price clipped. More
Paris: Editions R.-A. Corrêa, (1934), First Edition. octavo, pictorial paper wrappers. 432 pp. Editions R.-A. Corrêa, Frontispiece drawing by Roger Chastel. Illustrated with photographs. Text in French. The first of a dozen books written by Panassie on Hot Jazz. Wrappers with chipping along edges, front and back. Tape reinforcement to..... More
Westport, CT: Greenwood, (1980), First Edition. octavo, maroon cloth. x, (134)pp. Greenwood, A very fine, clean copy. This book is one of approximately 1,500 jazz, blues, big band and swing books we will be uploading. Stay tuned. More
New York: E. P Dutton, 1946, First printing of the Revised and Enlarged edition. octavo, maroon cloth in dust jacket. 287 pp. E. P Dutton, A technical consideration of jazz as an art. Small chips to edges of jacket, back panel water spotted, not price clipped. Two water spots to..... More
Norman, (Oklahoma): University of Oklahoma Press, (2013), First Softbound Edition. octavo, pictorial heavy paper wrappers. (xx), (208)pp. University of Oklahoma Press, An innovative exploration of a legendary excursion on the western plains. On a chilly January morning in 1872, a special visitor arrived by train in North Platte, Nebraska. Grand..... More
New York: Rinehart, (1957), Book of the Month Club. octavo, maroon cloth in pictorial dust jacket. (xiv), (370)pp. Rinehart, Twenty-one biographical and critical studies of jazz musicians. Illustrated with photographs. Tiny bit of fading to cloth at foot of spine, very small name label on front lower endpaper, a fine..... More
New York: Crowell, (1957), First Edition. octavo, red cloth in dust jacket. (vi), (216) pp. Crowell, Chapters on Joe Oliver, Louis Armstrong, Bessie Smith, Bix Beiderbecke, Fats Waller, Duke Ellington, Benny Goodman, Count Basie, Billie Holiday, Woody Herman, Stan Kenton and Dizzy Gillespie. Front endpaper has the small name and..... More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, (2002), First American Edition, Sixth printing. quarto, cloth and boards in pictorial dust jacket. (xxxiv), (475)pp. Alfred A. Knopf, Although Pepys' diary is a remarkable record of his life, the author presents a unique and original biography illuminating his entire life from his childhood, transforming..... More
London: Peter Davies, (1957), First Edition. octavo, blue cloth in dust jacket. xxvi, 230, 224 pp. discography of 1956 Jazz recordings. Peter Davies, Illustrated. With articles by Louis Armstrong, Benny Green, Berta Wood, and seven others. Complimentary slip laid in signed by Sinclair Traill. Chips along edges of jacket... More
(New York): Cambridge House, (1946), First Edition. quarto, printed heavy paper wrappers, stapled. 130pp., stapled. Cambridge House, Well illustrated with photographs. A fine, clean copy. This book is one of approximately 1,500 jazz, blues, big band and swing books we will be uploading. Stay tuned. More
London: Farrand Press, 1990, First Edition. quarto, brown cloth. 371 pp. Farrand Press, . "When Aloys Senefelder invented lithography in 1796, he made it possible to produce books without the use of a hand-press. It revolutionized publishing, making it possible to reproduce cheaply and efficiently short- hand symbols, calligraphy, facsimiles..... More
Suffolk, Eng: D. S. Brewer, (1992), (1994), First Edition. large quarto, boards; cloth. lxii, (426), (vi)pp.; (xxiv), (184)pp. D. S. Brewer, Pepys' ballad collection is the largest surviving collection of English ballads printed in London in the seventeenth century, and is an outstanding source for English popular culture of the..... More
New York: Dutton, 1947, First Edition. octavo, black boards in dust jacket. 223 pp. Dutton, "An intense, moving novel of the private life of a famous band leader." Minor shelf wear to jacket which is not price clipped and bottom edge of boards, near fine. More
Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1930, First Edition. octavo, original orange cloth stamped in black on front cover and spine, in original printed dust jacket. (x), (278)pp. Duke University Press, A nearly as new copy of this scarce history of Black American minstrels. Jacket is clean, bright and not price..... More
Chicago: Laird & Lee Publishers, 1892, First Edition. octavo, printed wrappers. 186, (ii) pp. Laird & Lee Publishers, Words and music complete. Very small chip at top of back wrapper. More
Seattle: Parkside Publications, 2002, First American Edition. large quarto, blue cloth in dust jacket. 383 pp. Parkside Publications, The fascinating story of one of the "senior statesmen" of jazz, the late Buddy DeFranco, who was generally regarded as the greatest jazz clarinetist of all time. Extensively illustrated. Very minor bump..... More
