![A Drop Of Patience [Bound Galley Copy]. AFRICAN AMERICANA, William Melvin KELLEY](/pictures/medium/50995.jpg?v=1601343544)
Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1965. First Edition. Third book and second novel by Kelley (1937-2017), an African-American novelist and short story writer best known for his debut novel, A Different Drummer. "One of the great jazz novels of any era, A Drop of Patience tells the story..... More
![Broadside] "Friday Nites in Greenwich Village" Jazz Concert and Dance. Harold ANTON](/pictures/medium/27174.jpg?v=1546561308)
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: Prentice-Hall, 1954. First Edition. First printing. 12mo; cloth-backed patterned boards (hardcover); dustjacket; red top-stain; 240pp; six inserted leaves of photographic plates (halftones). Faintly musty from storage, but still a Very Good, straight, tight copy in the original pictorial dustwrapper, price intact on front flap, with a few nick2s..... 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
Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2011. First Edition. First printing. Quarto; pictorial card wrappers (softcover); 129pp; illus. Presentation copy, inscribed on title page "For Nat - May this bok inspire you with even more respect for traditionsl jazz," signed by photographer Shannon Brinkman. Spot of moisture at base of..... 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. 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: 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
Chicago and New York: Ziff-Davis Publishing Company, 1944. First Edition. An examination of the lives and major successes of some of the prominent figures in American popular music, with chapters on King Oliver, Irving Berlin, Louis Armstrong, W.C. Handy, Meade Lux Lewis, Duke Ellington, Paul Whiteman, Ferde Grofe, George Gershwin..... 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
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: Oxford University Press, 1989. First Edition. Second volume in Schuller's monumental The History of Jazz, documenting the swing era. First Printing. Octavo (24cm); black paper and blue-gray cloth-covered boards, with titles stamped in silver and metallic pink on spine; dustjacket; xviii,919,[7]pp. Textblock sagging, faint foxing to upper edge..... 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
![Basic Jazz on Long Play. The Great Soloists [...] and The Great Bands [...]. John LUCAS](/pictures/medium/31583.jpg?v=1529353661)
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
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
San Francisco: Chronicle Books, [2004]. First Edition. Folio (31cm.); original photo-illustrated boards in clear mylar decorative dust jacket printed in black, yellow, and red; unpaged; chiefly photographic illus. Mylar a bit worn with some shallow splitting along flap folds, small loss to bottom fore-edge corner of upper panel, light wear..... 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
![Official Program] 21st Annual Monterey Jazz Festival, 1978. MONTEREY JAZZ FESTIVAL, Susan...](/pictures/medium/47450.jpg?v=1580426287)
N.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. More
![Official Program] Monterey Jazz Festival, 1983. MONTEREY JAZZ FESTIVAL, Joanna MATHEWSON, cover...](/pictures/medium/47448.jpg?v=1580426287)
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
Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1985. First Edition. Octavo. Cloth boards; dustjacket; 214pp; illus. Fine in lightly edge-rubbed jacket. On American cultural reception of jazz and modern classical music in the inter-war period. Issued simultaneously in softcover; the cloth issue is somewhat less common. 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
