[Paris: 1927]. Original silver-gelatin photographic print, 7" x 6". Mounted on thin board, 13" x 9-3/4", signed "A. Feny" on mount below image (see note). Dated in the subject's hand, "17/8/27 - Paris," and inscribed: "To the Beloved couple Grover [?] & Nettie hoping you will continue having success and..... More

Cambridge: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1938. First Edition. Octavo (21cm.); original cloth in black pictorial dust jacket; [8],243pp. Spine a bit cocked, jacket extremities rubbed and a bit ragged with several short closed tears and subsequent creasing. Still, Very Good or better in Near Very Good jacket. "A Houghton Mifflin Fellowship..... More

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1932. First Edition. The career of an American jazz pianist, from his roots in a small-time dance band to fame and fortune on the scale of Gershwin and Ziegfeld. Basis for the 1941 movie Dance Hall, starring Carole Landis and Cesar Romero. For Burnett, an..... More

New York: Simon and Schuster, 1953. First Edition. First printing. Octavo. Blue cloth hardcover; dustjacket; 344pp; illus. Faint tape shadows to front and rear endpapers, else a tight, Near Fine copy. In the original dustwrapper, unclipped, trifle rubbed at extremities; Very Good+. A quite good show business memoir, simply by..... More

[Roosevelt, NJ: by the Author, c.1956]. Quarto (37cm). Printed card portfolio holding twelve lithographic plates, loose as issued. All lithographs are signed in plate; Martin has inscribed the portfolio, "Jean and Sol [Libsohn] / David," undated. Very mild external toning and soil; Near Fine. Inside of portfolio is printed with..... More

New York: Macmillan, 1969-70. Second and fifth volumes are first printings; remainder are second or later printings. Six octavo volumes. Uniform cloth hardcovers in dustjackets; 255+223+290+246+288+287pp; illustrated with photographic plates (halftones). All in Very Good or better condition in the original dustwrappers; jacket to 4th volume slightly ragged along upper..... More

Irvington, NJ: Morton Books, 2005. First Edition. Inscribed by Lateef on title page: "To Brother Roberto / In Peace, Sincerely, Bro. Yusef Lateef." Undated, but apparently contemporary with publication. Octavo. Pictorial card wrappers; 355pp. Tight, fine, textually unmarked copy. Lateef was well into his 80's when this title was published..... More

Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1928. First Edition. First printing. Octavo (23cm). Recently rebound in quarter linen over paper-covered boards; x,[1]-181pp; text diagrams; 17 inserted leaves of photographic plates (halftones) not reckoned in pagination. Closed marginal tear to second flyleaf (blank); minimal aging to text; Near Fine, albeit..... More

Paris: Le Point, 1952. First Edition. Entire issue devoted to (mostly American) jazz, with articles by Hugues Panassie ("Le Jazz, musique vivant"), Madeleine Gautier ("Le Blues"); Big Bill Broonzy ("Lowland Blues"), others. Many full-page photographs featuring portraits of Don Byas, Zutty Singleton, Mezz Mezzrow, Louis Armstrong, and others; 10 photos..... More

New York: Farrar, Straus & Cudahy, 1961. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (21cm.); brown spine over tan boards; black topstain; dustjacket; 219pp.; a few faint scuffs to the boards still a Fine copy. The dustjacket has a bit of toning and there are a few tiny nicks along edges mostly;..... More