Buddy Rich - A Lifetime of Music.
No place: Dave Cooper, 1989, First Edition. quarto, pictorial wrappers, stapled. 124 pp. Dave Cooper, An expanded discography with biographical notes. Fine. More
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"A System for Describing Fifteenth-Century Music Type."
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
American Jazz Music.
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
Hot Jazz. The Guide to Swing Music.
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
Catalogue of the Pepys Library at Magdalene College, Cambridge. Vol. IV. Music, Maps, and Calligraphy.
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
Early Drama, Art, and Music Documents. A Paleography Handbook.
Kalamazoo, MI: Western Michigan University, 1993, First Edition. octavo, red cloth. (iv), 135 pp. Western Michigan University, Illustrated. New. More
From Jehovah to Jazz. Music in America from Psalmody to the Present Day.
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
Eugene O'Neill: A Descriptive Bibliography.
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
The Joseph M. Bruccoli Great War Collection in the University of Virginia Library.
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
James Dickey: A Descriptive Bibliography.
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
James Gould Cozzens: A Descriptive Bibliography.
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
Duke Ellington (Harlem Aristocrat of Jazz).
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
The Master's Hand. Drawings and Manuscripts from The Pierpont Morgan Library, New York.
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
Frontier Ballads Heard and Gathered By Charles J. Finger.
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
Jazz and Jasper. The Story of Adams and Eva.
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
La Nouvelle-Orléans Capitale du Jazz.
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
Autograph Letter, signed, dated St. Cloud - 14 Juillet.
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
Opening Bars. Beginning an Autobiography.
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
Mel Torme. A Chronicle of His Recordings, Books and Films.
McFarland & Company, 2000, First Edition. large octavo, brown cloth. viii, 190 pp. McFarland & Company, A very fine, clean copy. More
Christina Rossetti: A Descriptive Bibliography.
New Castle: Oak Knoll Press, 2011, First Edition. large quarto, cloth in dust jacket. 380 pp. Oak Knoll Press, With the publication of her first book, Goblin Market and Other Poems (1862), Christina Rossetti (1830-1894) became the first of the Pre-Raphaelite poets to achieve critical success. Although Rossetti was (and..... More
A Discography of Count Basie 1951-1968.
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
Discography of Jelly Roll Morton. Vol 1: Period 1922-29; Vol. 2: Period 1930-40.
(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
Printing and Society in eary America.
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
Remembering Shakespeare.
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
The Fred Waring Discography.
Greenwood Press, (1996) , First Edition. octavo, brick red cloth. (x), (227) pp. Greenwood Press, A very fine, clean copy. More
Histoirie du Jazz moderne.
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
They All Sang from Tony Pastor to Rudy Vallee.
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
Le Jazz Hot. Introduction by Louis Armstrong and Preface by Eugene Marsan.
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
Brian Rust's Guide to Discography.
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
Jazz: Hot and Heavy.
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
Manuscripts Changing Hands. Handschriften wechseln von Hand zu Hand.
Harrassowitz Verlag, 2016, First Edition. quarto, pictorial boards. 368 pp. Harrassowitz Verlag, Medieval manuscripts were conceived to move from one set of hands to the next. Holding a book presented possibilities, and possessing a book implied power. Thus, books functioned as potent connectors. They bound producers with consumers, givers with..... More
Custer, Cody, and Grand Duke Alexis. Historical Archaeology of the Royal Buffalo Hunt.
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
The Jazz Makers.
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
Jazz Dance. The Story of American Vernacular Dance.
New York: Macmillan, 1968, First Edition. large octavo, blue and red cloth in dust jacket. xvi, 464 pp. Macmillan, A wide-ranging history beginning with dance in Africa and the West Indies, Minstrel dances, carnivals, ballroom origins, followed by focus on the pioneers: King Rastus Brown, Bill Robinson, Frank Condos, Harland..... More
Samuel Pepys. The Unequalled Self.
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
Just Jazz.
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
Big Book of Swing.
(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
Early Lithographed Books, A Study of the Design and Production of Improper Books in the Age of the Hand Press.
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
Catalogue of the Pepys Library at Magdalene College, Cambridge. Vol. II. Part 1. Ballads, Catalogue. Part 2. Ballads, Indexes. TWO VOLUMES.
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
Books in Transition at the Time of Philip the Fair. Manuscripts and Printed Books in the Late Fifteenth and Early Sixteenth Century Low Countries.
Brepols Publishers, 2010, First Edition. large octavo, cloth in dust jacket. vi, 319 pp. Brepols Publishers, In 2006, 500 years after his death, the Royal Library of Belgium organised an exhibition revealing treasures from the era of Philip the Fair (1478-1506), last duke of Burgundy. This volume reunites most of..... More
Little Boy Blues.
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
TAMBO AND BONES. A History of the American Minstrel Stage.
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
The Gem Songster. A Choice Selection of Famous Songs. The Most Popular Ballads, Patriotic, Comic and Favorite Negro Melodies.
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
A Life in the Golden Age of Jazz: A Biography of Buddy DeFranco.
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
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