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19641513341964. unbound. Signatures by Percy Humphrey Jim Robinson Albert Burbank James "Sing" Miller Louis Barbario and Narvin Kimball who appended his instrument banjo to his signature decorate the verso of the album sleeve corners slightly bumped small stain on verso does not obscure signatures. 12 1/2" x 12 1/2". No place no date. Circa 1964. Fine condition.<br/><br/> unknown books
198347448Carmel CA: Productions Unlimited 1983. Quarto. Staple-bound color pictorial wrappers; 40pp; illus. Fine unworn copy. Official program for the 1983 festial. Marquee performers that year included Mel Torme Irma Thomas Wynton Marsalis Sarah Vaughan others. Productions Unlimited unknown books
197847450N.p.: Program '78 / MJF 1978. Quarto. Staple-bound color pictorial wrappers; 40pp; illus. Fine unworn copy. Official program for the 1978 Festival. Featured performers included Ruth Brown Dexter Gordon Etta James Dizzy Gillespie Maynard Ferguson others. Program '78 / MJF unknown books
1993263756Port Chester: Medi-Media Pub. Inc 1993. Magazine. 116p. including covers 5.25x8.25 inches erotic fiction reviews articles illustrated with b&w cartoons explicit photos and ads for sex toys very good digest size magazine in stapled pictorial wraps. Medi-Media Pub. Inc unknown books
1989263761Port Chester: Medi-Media Pub. Inc 1989. Magazine. 116p. including covers 5.25x8.25 inches erotic fiction reviews articles illustrated with b&w cartoons explicit photos and ads for sex toys lightly-worn digest size magazine in stapled pictorial wraps. Special report: Gay Theatre since Stonewall. Medi-Media Pub. Inc unknown books
1961WRCLIT84374New York: Simon and Schuster 1961. Quarto. Cloth and paper over boards stamped in silver-gilt. Numerous b&w illustrations. First edition. Spine sunned in a few patches yet a good sound copy with detached pieces of the somewhat tattered dust jacket laid in. Simon and Schuster hardcover books
1981WRCLIT79359New York & London: Garland 1981. 300pp. Gilt cloth. First edition. About fine without dust jacket as issued. Garland hardcover books
1961WRCLIT83650New York: Dial Press 1961. Narrow quarto. Loose sheets punched at top bolt bound into printed boards. Uncorrected original trimmed galley proofs of the first edition. A few soft creases in upper board otherwise fine. Very scarce format. Dial Press hardcover books
1964WRCLIT18032New York: Knopf 1964. Narrow quarto. Spiral bound plain wrappers printed labels. Uncorrected original trimmed galley proofs of the first edition. Two old tape marks on wrappers else fine. HORN 905. Knopf unknown books
1976WRCLIT19138Boston: Houghton 1976. Printed wrappers. Uncorrected page proofs of the first edition. Label removed from lower edge two old staple marks in front wrapper very good. Houghton unknown books
1959016384October 1958-Fall 1959. 1959. First Edition. Hardcover. Ralph Gleason's mag near fine copies. Terkel Ellington Gitler Charters Berton Sales et al. . October 1958-Fall 1959 hardcover books
198944770New York: Oxford University Press 1989. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo 24cm; black paper and blue-gray cloth-covered boards with titles stamped in silver and metallic pink on spine; dustjacket; xviii9197pp. Textblock sagging faint foxing to upper edge of textblock with sunning to lower edge of front board; Very Good. Dustjacket is unclipped with modest shelfwear and a hint of sunning to spine; Very Good. Second volume in Schuller's monumental The History of Jazz documenting the swing era. Oxford University Press unknown books
1947016506November 1944; November. 1947. First Edition. Paperback. Wraps very good to very good. . November, 1944; November paperback books
199844606Westport & London: Greenwood Press 1998. First edition. 230 pp w/indexes. Some light spotting along top edge else near fine in full green cloth with gold stamping to spine and cover. No dust jacket as issued. Anthologies works by individual authors and a cross reference guide matching jazz musician/composer to poet. Westport & London: Greenwood Press hardcover books
195016320Berkeley: Associated Students of the University of California Berkeley 1950. First edition. Paperback. Very Good. Spring 1950 issue of Cal Berkeley's literary magazine. Edited by Dale Joe. This issue featuring numerous writings on jazz by Brubeck Kid Ory Turk Murphy and others plus Patchen Miller and more. A very good copy in stapled printed wrappers. Decidedly uncommon issue. <br/><br/> Associated Students of the University of California, Berkeley paperback books
199920067Great Barrington: The Figures 1999. First edition. Paperback. Near Fine. Stapled pamphlet with cover by Diego Velaquez. An 18 pp poetry chapbook by the great jazz drummer. A near fine example in thin stapled wrappers. This copy INSCRIBED by the author "for Gary / this copy of the initial/ copy/ "sorrier than a blown lip"/ love/ Billy Higgins/ 15 Mar 99" Photograph of the author on the final page of this pamphlet with the following text below "SPACE JAM played directly into the computer on Jan 29 and 30 1999 then xeroxed at Kwik Print Great Barrington in an edition of two on Feb 20. Copy one for the 60th birthday of Clark Coolidge & copy two for the personal library of Billy Higgins." One copy located at Stanford University. Please note: there has been some suggestion that this book was actually written by Geof Young. Additional info is welcome. The Figures paperback books
199520230Germany: Nieswand Verlag 1995. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. 4to. Unpaginated volume of large black and white photographs taken from the world of jazz. Text in English by Milt Hinton and Ole Brask. A near fine copy in cloth backed photo-illustrated boards. Issued without dustwrapper. Nieswand Verlag hardcover books
194714922New York: E.P. Dutton 1947. First Edition. Octavo 21cm. Black cloth boards stamped in red on spine and front cover; dustjacket; 223pp. Review copy with publisher's slip laid in. Endpapers mildly darkened else a tight Near Fine copy in the original pictorial dustwrapper. Jacket is unclipped lightly worn at spine ends with a small closed tear at upper margin of front panel; Very Good. Third volume of Willis's loosely-connected postwar trilogy about jazz musicians in the Midwest. Preceded by Tangleweed 1943 and The Wild Faun 1945. HANNA 3829. E.P. Dutton unknown books
1938WRCLIT76284Boston: Houghton Mifflin 1938. Cloth. Mild tanning at edges and endsheet gutters but very good in good rather shelfworn dust jacket. First edition of the author's first book a fictionalization of the meteoric troubled career of Bix Beiderbecke. Michael Curitz directed the 1950 film adaptation based on a screenplay by Carl Foreman and Edmund North and Kirk Douglas Lauren Bacall Doris Day Hoagy Carmichael and Juano Hernandez starred. A Houghton Mifflin Fellowship novel. HANNA 179. Houghton Mifflin hardcover books
1941016504Dec 20 1940; February 21. 1941. First Edition. Paperback. Wraps very good. . Dec 20, 1940; February 21 paperback books
1955WRCLIT70714Los Angeles: Warner Bros 1955. Eight full color 11 x 14" pictorial lobby cards. Some minor smudging rumpling and tack holes in margins marking crayon notations on verso else a good set. A complete set of the studio lobby cards promoting the film based on Richard L. Breen's screenplay. Directed by and starring Jack Webb as Pete Kelly and Janet Leigh Edmond O'Brien Peggy Lee a role for which she was nominated for an Oscar Lee Marvin and Ella Fitzgerald et al. The soundtrack was nominated for a Grammy. Warner Bros unknown books
1955WRCLIT83426Los Angeles: Warner Bros 1955. Twelve full color 8 x 10" glossy color stills with cut-lines. Slightly curled with some minoir darkening to the borders. but very good. A set 1-12 of the color stills used in promoting the film based on Richard L. Breen's screenplay. Directed by and starring Jack Webb as Pete Kelly a Kansas City trumpter and band leader along with Janet Leigh Edmond O'Brien Peggy Lee a role for which she was nominated for an Oscar Lee Marvin and Ella Fitzgerald et al. The soundtrack was nominated for a Grammy. Warner Bros unknown books
1952WRCLIT77560New York: Rinehart & Co. 1952. Gilt cloth-textured boards. A very good copy in good modestly chipped and creased pictorial dust jacket. First edition of this novel about New Orleans jazz. In additions to his novels Sinclair wrote THE PORT OF NEW ORLEANS volume in the American Seaport Series. Rinehart & Co. hardcover books
1960CAT206New York et al. 1960. Five 8 x 10 and two 5 x 7 inch gelatin silver prints with Bradley's estate marks to versos. Excellent. Jack Bradley was a Cape Cod native who after graduating from the Massachusetts Maritime Academy fell in love with Jazz after seeing Louis Armstrong perform at the Boston Armory in 1956. In 1958 he moved to New York from Cape Cod and began dating Jeann Failows a member of Louis Armstrong's inner circle. Through Failows Bradley gained access to Armstrong eventually becoming very close friends with the trumpeter and his inner circle. Bradley already had amassed a large collection of jazz material much related to Armstrong and he augmented his own collection by photographing Armstrong and his Jazz circle for the next decade. The bulk of Bradley's collection now resides at the Louis Armstrong House Museum in Queens. <br /> <br /> This collection is of seven photographs of jazz musicians from Bradley's estate showing a wonderful window into the tail end of the Classic Jazz era. <br /> <br /> Photographs as follows:<br /> <br /> Willie Cook. 5 x 7 inches. A portrait of Cook seated. Excellent condition. <br /> <br /> Count Basie and Duke Ellington. 5 x 7 inches. The two jazz greats are seated at their respective pianos during rehearsal. Excellent condition.<br /> <br /> Duke Ellington's Empty Bandstand. 8 x 10 inches. The horns chairs and sheet music are laid out. Very good condition with some toning to margins and a faint scratch at outer edge of image. <br /> <br /> Duke Ellington Conducting his Band. 8 x 10 inches. Excellent condition. <br /> <br /> Ella Fitzgerald at the Apollo Theatre New York c. 1959. 8 x 10 inches. Excellent Condition.<br /> <br /> Count Basie Seated at a Table Smoking a Cigar. 8 x 10 inches. Excellent condition. <br /> <br /> Pee Wee russell Painting at his New York Apartment c. 1966. Good condition marginal tear affecting ½ inch of image. <br /> <br /> Overall a nice group and an example of a photographer whose work is not often available on the market. unknown books
199453559NY: Jazz at Lincoln Center 1994. 8vo pp. 15. Paper wraps. Illustrated with photographs. Schedule of events and short articles about Armstrong. A nice copy. A program for an event at Lincoln Center December 14-19 1994. Jazz at Lincoln Center unknown books
