New York: Macmillan Company, 1936. First Edition. The second collaborative effort by John and Alan Lomax, less a study of Negro folk songs than the oral autobiography of Huddie William Ledbetter, known to his friends as "Lead Belly." While traveling the southern states recording folk songs for the Library of... More about Negro Folk Songs As Sung By Lead Belly, "King of the Twelve-String Guitar Players of the...

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 about Broadside] "Friday Nites in Greenwich Village" Jazz Concert and Dance

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 about Collected Works: A Journal of Jazz, 1954-2000

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 about The Giant Swing

[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 about The Robbed Heart: A Novel

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 about Hot Discography. 1938 Edition

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 about Shadow and Act

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 about A History of Jazz in Britain, 1919-50

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 about The Boston Evening Transcript eulogizes America's great composer of Art Songs, H.T. Burleigh

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 about Black Velvet

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 about Little Boy Blues

New York: Pantheon Books, 1966. Reprint. Octavo; red cloth, with titling and decorations stamped in gilt and in blind to spine and front cover; dustjacket; xvi,205pp. Inscribed by the author on the front endpaper: "Dear Ralph, If you're gonna start (and I sure hope you're gonna!), this is my idea... More about Where's the Melody?: A Listener's Introduction to Jazz [Inscribed

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 about Jazz, Giants, and Journeys: the Photography of Herman Leonard