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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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
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
Aux Frontieres du Jazz.
Paris: Editions du Sagittaire, no date, circa 1938, Fourth Edition. small octavo, printed self-wrappers. (260) pp. Editions du Sagittaire, Text in French. Preface by Pierre Mac Orlan. Illustrated with 60 photographs. "By 1923, he was a lawyer at the Court of Appeal of Brussels, and in 1928, he married Suzanne..... 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
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Boston Symphony Orchestra. [Poster].
Poster created for the Boston Symphony Orchestra, Boston, Mass., 1983. 6-color, silkscreened by Rob Day. 34" x 13.5". Limited to 275 copies numbered and signed by Lance Hidy. Note: A small number of posters printed printed in 1986 or earlier may have minor imperfections around the trimmed edges, caused during..... 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Two Spanish Songbooks.
Institucion Colombina, Seville: Liverpool University Press, (2000), First printing of this edition. octavo, brown boards in dust jacket. 438 pp. Liverpool University Press, This is an edition, with notes and introduction, of two medieval Spanish songbooks. Both contain poetry by Montoro not found in other cancioneros and in the same..... More
Hear Me Talkin' To Ya: The Story of JAZZ by the men who made it.
New York: Rinehart & Company, (1955), First Edition. octavo, black cloth in dust jacket. xvi, 432 pp. Rinehart & Company, "As told by Kid Ory, Bunk Johnson...Louis Armstrong, Clarence Williams, Jelly Roll Morton...W. C. Handy, Fats Waller, Ethel Waters, Benny Goodman, Billie Holiday, Duke Ellington, Dizzy Gillespie, Dave Brubeck and..... 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
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