Boston: Oliver Ditson, 1905. First Edition. Landmark collection of African-American spirituals, by the first African-American to gain true eminence as a composer in the European classical style. Somewhat scarce in dustwrapper. Quarto (32cm). Original card wrappers; dustjacket; (xiv), 125pp. Near Fine in the scarce printed dustwrapper, chipped at corners and... More
New York: 1949. First Edition. Flyer advertising the weekly show "A Tonal Paradise," presented by Harold Anton and "Raphael" at the Panel Ballroom every Friday night from 9 PM to 2 AM. The show features Gene Sedric on the clarinet, bebop songs by Anton, and "Ecstasy Provided By The Shmoo."... 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: St. Martin's Press, [2000]. First Edition. Thick octavo (24cm.); publisher's simulated cloth in decorative dust jacket; viii,872pp. Some minor wear and soil, else Very Good or better. Collected works of the jazz critic for the New Yorker. More
New York: William Morrow & Company, 1987. First Edition. Collection of poems and essays co-written by the Baraka's, with essays on Miles Davis, Pharaoh Sanders, Woody Shaw, Jay Hoggard, and other contemporary musicians, as well as reflections on soul, modern trends and the history of jazz and blues. First Printing... More
Urbana: University of Illinois Press, [1986]. First Edition. Octavo (23.5cm.): publisher's cloth in red and grey photo-illustrated dust jacket; xiii,[1],379pp.; illus. throughout. Jacket spine a bit sunned, else Just About Fine. 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
Köln: Taschen, [2005]. First Edition. Large, thick folio (41cm.); publisher's cloth in black decorative dust jacket lettered in red and white; 695pp.; photographic illus. throughout. Some wear to jacket extremities, rear panel slightly wrinkled, else Very Good, internally fine. Includes CD in sleeve mounted inside rear cover. A massive work..... More
Köln: Taschen, [2005]. First Edition. Large, thick folio (41cm x 31cm). Black cloth boards (hardcover) with titling blind-stamped on cover and spine; pictorial dustjacket; 695pp.; photographic illus. throughout. Near Copy; slight shelf wear to corner tips, else clean and tight. Near Fine dustwrapper; slight shelf wear to extemities. Includes CD..... More
[New York]: L.B. Fischer, [1945]. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (20.75cm.); publisher's cloth in pictorial dust jacket; [4],219pp. Some minor chipping and one closed tear at top edge of upper jacket panel, light dust-soil, else Near Fine in Near Very Good jacket. "A white music critic falls in love with... More
[New York]: L.B. Fischer, [1945]. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (20.75cm.); publisher's cloth in pictorial dust jacket; [4],219pp. Jacket quite chipped and worn with a number of small losses and one large loss along top edge of upper flap touching text without loss of sense. About Very Good only. "A... More
New York: Commodore Music Shop, 1940. "Corrected and Reprinted" Small octavo (18.5cm.); publisher's blue gilt-lettered cloth; 416pp. Cloth extremities rubbed with some brief exposure to corners, spine gilt quite dulled, minor white paint splatter to upper cover, some brief pencil checkmarks throughout text, contemporary ownership bookplate to front pastedown, else... More
New York: International Publishers, 1965. First Edition. Marxist perspective on the growth of the folksong movement of the Sixties. Includes discussions of Woody Guthrie, Seeger, Dylan, Ochs, Tom Paxton, Mark Spoelstra and others. 12mo. Pictorial card wrappers; 126pp. Very minor dusting to covers, else an apparently unread, Near Fine copy... More
New York: Random House, 1964. First Edition. Ellison's second book, a collection of essays "concerned with three general themes: with literature and folklore, with Negro musical expression--especially jazz and the blues--and with the complex relationship between the Negro American sub-culture and the North American culture as a whole." An especially... More
New York: Oxford University Press, 1998. First Edition. First Printing. Thick octavo (24cm.); publisher's cloth-backed boards in black decorative dust jacket; xi,[1],690pp. Light shelf wear to jacket extremities, corners bumped, light soil to top textblock edge, else Very Good and sound. More
London: Quartet Books, [1984]. First Edition. Octavo (24cm.); publisher's simulated cloth in pictorial price-clipped dust jacket; xiii,[1],306pp.; 8 leaves of illus. printed on rectos and versos. Light wear, front free endpaper has compression from previously-removed paperclip, else Very Good to Near Fine. More
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1972. Reissue of Handy's highly-regarded 1926 volume on the blues, containing lyrics and music to 53 songs inspired by the folk melodies heard up and down the Ohio and Mississippi rivers. Critical text by Abbe Niles, with illustrations by Miguel Covarrubias. First printing of this... More
New York: G. Ricordi & Co, [nd, ca 1917]. First Edition. Bifolium, 21cm; cover portrait, [3pp]. Horizontal fold (as issued?), light wear; Very Good. Promotional brochure reprinting a substantial article from the Boston Evening Transcript of March 10, 1917 titled "Deep River" Popularizes a Composer, signed in print H.K.M. Cover... More
[New York]: Da Capo Paperback, [1979]. First Thus. Octavo (20.75cm.); publisher's pictorial card wrappers; xiii,[5],179pp. Wrappers a bit worn, spine quite sunned, else Very Good. The African-American jazz pianist's memoirs reissued in this edition two years after his death. More
Detroit: Broadside Press, 1970. Revised Edition. The highly-politicized Philadelphia jazz poet's second book, with Afro-centric illustrations throughout by B.L. Carpenter. First Printing of the "Revised Edition." Slim octavo (21.5cm); illustrated wrappers, stapled; 32pp; illus. Top edge slightly dusty, else Fine. More
New York: Random House, [1958]. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (20.75cm.); original cloth over boards, black pictorial dust jacket, black topstain; [12],243pp. Minor wear to jacket flap folds and spine ends, boards just a hint rubbed, else a Very Good or better copy. Novel about an African-American jazz saxophonist with... More
New York: E.P. Dutton, 1947. First Edition. 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. Octavo (21cm). Black cloth boards, stamped in red on spine and front cover; dustjacket; 223pp. Review copy, with publisher's... More
New York: St. Martin's Press, 1970. First American Edition. Octavo. Brick red cloth (hardcover); dustjacket; 272pp. Faint foxing to endpapers, else a tight, Near Fine copy in the original pictorial dustwrapper, also faintly foxed on flaps but crisp, clean and unclipped. Collection of Larkin's jazz record reviews for the London... More
London: Scala, (2006). First Edition. Quarto. Cloth boards (hardcover); dustjacket; 239pp; illus. Fine, unmarked and unworn copy in crisp, clean dustwrapper, very Near Fine. First full monograph devoted to the life and work of Leonard, arguably the 20th century's greatest jazz photographer. A lovely copy. More
Northfield, MN: Carleton Jazz Club, Carleton College, 1954. First Edition. Octavo. Printed card wrappers (softcover); 103pp. Moderate external wear; bumps to corners; Very Good. Bulletin No. 1 of the Carleton Jazz Club, a discursive discography of jazz recordings on the (then relatively new) long-play format. More
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