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

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]: 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: 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

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: 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

Palo Alto: Jamal Publishing Company, [1970]. Revised Edition. Octavo (21cm.); original white and black staplebound wrappers; 64,[2]pp. About Fine. San Francisco-based jazz drummer's first poetry collection. No copies of this edition noted in OCLC; 5 copies of the first edition located (Michigan and Temple only outside California). More

London: Editions Poetry, 1946. First Edition. Linen-backed boards (hardcover); dustjacket; 188pp; illus. Mild foxing to endpapers; brief gift inscription (dated 1948), brief bumps to board corners; Very Good. In slightly rubbed pictorial dustwrapper, unclipped, lightly worn at spine ends. Articles by Max Jones, Charles Wilford, Frederic Ramsey, Charles McCarthy, others;..... More

Carmel, 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. More

[Columbia?]: University of Missouri Press, [1973]. First Edition. Octavo (22cm.); original cloth in tan dust jacket; 107pp. Upper jacket panel a bit spotted with some minor glue residue from previously removed label, else Very Good and sound. Paul Anthony Brick Lectures, Ninth series. More

New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, [1974]. First Edition. Octavo (21.5cm.); original linen in white pictorial price-clipped dust jacket; [6],183pp. Jacket extremities a bit toned, else Very Good or better. Inscribed and signed by the author on title page, "For Mary, Some background riffs for improvisation, Albert Murray." African-American jazz critic's..... More

Girard, KS: Haldeman-Julius, 1946. First Edition. A brief treatise on American popular music, by the author of such other classics as "Superfluous Hair and Its Removal" (1938) and "Chastity Safeguards" (1947). A less-common Haldeman-Julius title; not widely seen in the trade, fewer than a dozen copies located via OCLC. Staple-bound..... More