Organs for America: The Life and Work of David Tannenberg (Anniversary Collection)
University of Pennsylvania Press Anniversary Collection, February 1968. Hardcover. xvi, 154 pp. Very sharp and clean, unmarked. DJ clipped, very light rubbing.
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That's Got 'Em!: The Life and Music of Wilbur C. Sweatman (American Made Music Series)
University Press of Mississippi, January 2010. Hardcover. xvii, 230 pp. A sound, unmarked copy.
Johannes Brahms: Life and Letters
Oxford University Press, February 1998. First Edition. Hardcover with Dust Jacket. 8vo, blue hard covers, gilt spine title, B/W plates. Pristine copy, entirely clean and sharp in like DJ.
WE SHALL OVERCOME!
Oak Publications, 1963. First Edition, First Printing. Paperback. [4], 112 pp. 12mo, sewn binding in two-tone blue and black printed paper cover. A bit worn, some lightly bent pages. Lovingly illustrated with B/W photos of joyful singers in practice and protest alongside other scenes of the civil rights movement. First.....
Jelly Roll Morton's Last Night at the Jungle Inn (Imaginary Memoir)
Marion Boyars Publishers Ltd, July 2000. Paperback. 153 pp. Author signature to half title, clean and unmarked.
JAZZ
Doubleday, 1962. First Edition. Hardcover with Dust Jacket. 382 pp. 8vo, two-toned black and yellow cloth, gilt titling and red-stamped trumpet to front yellow panel, illustrated throughout with B/W in-text photos. Foxed, edgeworn, hinges starting, spine leaning just a bit. DJ foxed, worn and torn, tape repair to tail of.....
William Claxton: Jazzlife: CD Edition
TASCHEN, September 2010. Hardcover with Dust Jacket. 551 pp. Folio. With CD. Rear hinge cracked and amateurely repaired with glue, binding loose and splitting at several gatherings. DJ worn, now wrapped in mylar. Nevertheless, a complete and clean reading copy of this compendious photo-essay. Heavy item, will require additional shipping.....
Pres: The Story of Lester Young
University of Arkansas Press, July 1993. Paperback. xvi, 252 pp. Foxing, damp stain to rear, clean and unmarked otherwise.
THE EMORY HYMNAL
John J. Hood / Grape, Taylor & Supplee, 1887. First Edition. Hardcover. [2], 256 pp. 12mo (20 cm), printed paper over boards, backed in brown cloth. Covers rubbed, rear cover stained, foxing, front hinge shaken and cracked, binding sound otherwise, unmarked. A collection of scored hymns for the immediate use.....
JAZZ MASTERS OF THE 40’S
Macmillan, 1966. First Edition, Second Printing. Hardcover with Dust Jacket. 290 pp. 12mo, Dark gray cloth, gilt spine lettering, black stamped saxophone to front cover. Fore head corners lightly bumped, very clean and sharp otherwise. DJ tips a bit rubbed, puncture to rear, price clipped, otherwise clean and bright.
STONES TOURING PARTY
Michael Joseph, 1974. First Edition. Hardcover with Dust Jacket. 337 pp + 16 pp b/w photos. 12mo, black paper-over-boards, silver gilt spine lettering. Dampstain to head of spine and fore head corner, a bit thumbed, light rubbing to tips, sound and unmarked otherwise with owner's name inscribed San Francisco, 1978.....
Benny Goodman - 'the Famous 1938 Carnegie Hall Jazz Concert'
Prancing Fish Publishing, January 2009. First Edition. Paperback. 218 pp. Tips a bit rubbed, clean and sharp otherwise. Signed and inscribed by the author to Jazz collector and author, Arthur Newman.
The Music of Our Lives
Temple Univ Pr, January 1991. Hardcover. xii, 258 pp. Pen markings, some rubbing. DJ front flap creased, some rubbing.
COUNT BASIE AND HIS ORCHESTRA
Negro Universities Press, 1971. Trade Paperback. 320 pp. Some light rubbing to extremities, sunned.
[Sacred Hymns in Three Volumes: Resurrection, Liturgy, Holy Week with Byzantine 'Neumes' Notation]
Ekdotikos Oikos D. & P Demetrakou, 1923. Hardcover. 3 volumes bound in 1. 240, [1], 242-394, [1], 2-148 pp. 8vo, black cloth backed in black leather with raised bands and gilt spine lettering. Tips rubbed, leaves tanned and somewhat brittle, as expected. Complete cycle of Greek Orthodox liturgical chant set.....
Cafe Society: The wrong place for the Right People (Music in American Life)
University of Illinois Press, March 2009. Hardcover. xxi, 376 pp. Stamp to fore edge, very light rubbing to extremities. DJ lightly rubbed.
TURK MUSIKISININ NAZARIYE VE ESASLARI
Turkiye Is Bankasi Kultur Yayinlar, 1981. Hardcover with Dust Jacket. In Turkish. ('Theory and Principles of Turkish Music.') xxii, 789 pp. 4to, embossed blue cloth. Fore head corner bumped, otherwise a clean, sharp and sturdy copy; DJ is worn and torn, wrapped in mylar.
Twenty Years on Wheels (The Michigan American Music Series)
University of Michigan Press, October 1989. Hardcover. 147 pp. Light rubbing to extremities. DJ lightly rubbed.
THE SONATA IN THE CLASSIC ERA: The Second Volume of A History of the Sonata Idea
University of North Carolina Press, 1963. Hardcover with DJ. xxii, 897 pp. Green cloth, gilt spine lettering, frontispiece, Louis Weil’s copy with inscription and blindstamp. Light foxing to head edge, otherwise very clean and sharp. DJ faintly sunned, some tears with minor loss, a few stains, sound otherwise.
They Called Him Al: The Musical Life of Al Bowlly
BearManor Media, May 2010. Paperback. 412 pp. A sound, unmarked copy.
Himlische Lieder (5 Vols in 1)
Georg Olms, 1976. Facsimile. Hardcover. 18mo, blue cloth, gilt stamped lettering, sewn binding. 5 volumes bound together in one. High quality facsimile of the 1641 Luneberg edition. Clean, sharp copy.
THE NEW GROVE DICTIONARY OF MUSIC AND MUSICIANS (20 Volume Set)
Macmillan, 1980. Hardcover. Complete set in twenty volumes. Large Octavos, brown gloth, gilt spine lettering blocked in royal blue. Ex-lib, very clean and sharp otherwise with tight bindings. Heavy item, may require additional shipping fees.
Where the Dark and the Light Folks Meet: Race and the Mythology, Politics, and Business of Jazz (Volume 60) (Studies in Jazz, 60)
Scarecrow Press, January 2010. Hardcover. x, 277 pp. A sound, unmarked copy. DJ clean and bright.
The Life and Works of John Knowles Paine (Studies in Musicology)
UMI Research Press, January 1980. Hardcover. xiii, 756 pp. Khaki boards, black lettering. Corners a bit bumped, pristine otherwise.
A GOLDEN AGE OF JAZZ REVISITED: 1939-1942
NPP Books, 2008. Limited Edition with two CD’s. Hardcover. xii, 220 pp. Quarto, printed hardcovers, illustrated throughout with color and B/W photos. Light scratches to covers, pristine otherwise.