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: 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

Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1948. First Edition. The artist's best-known work, a collection of pen-and-ink drawings illustrating the text of three African-American spirituals, including "Nobody Knows the Trouble I See," "Swing Low, Sweet Chariot," and "Heaven." Crite (1910-2007), a celebrated Boston painter and illustrator, was a graduate of the School..... 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

[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

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: 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

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

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

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

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

New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, [1971]. First Edition. Octavo (21.5cm.); original cloth in yellow pictorial dust jacket, blue topstain; [10],230pp. Jacket spine a hint toned, topstain starting to fade, else Very Good to Near Fine. Memoirs of the African American jazz critic (and later novelist). More