The Book of Jazz: From Then Till Now: A Guide to the Entire Field [*SIGNED*]
by Feather, Leonard
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- Condition
- Very Good in Good dj
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Los Angeles, California, United States
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About This Item
New York: Bonanza Books. Very Good in Good dj. (c.1965). Reprint. Hardcover. [a decent clean copy, moderately shelfworn, with slight deterioration of cloth in vicinity of spine (both top and bottom of book); the jacket is worn, with numerous tiny chips and tears along top and bottom edges]. (musical examples) INSCRIBED "to Gordon[?]" and SIGNED by the author on the front endpaper. A revised and updated edition of a book originally published in 1957, and written "for the widest possible audience -- from the newcomer to the field who asks the most basic, most-difficult-to-answer question, 'What is jazz?,' to the musicians themselves (one of whom recently asked, 'Who is Bessie Smith?')." Signed by Author .
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- Bookseller
- ReadInk (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 27775
- Title
- The Book of Jazz: From Then Till Now: A Guide to the Entire Field [*SIGNED*]
- Author
- Feather, Leonard
- Illustrator
- (dj design) Sigrid Spaeth
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good in Good dj
- Edition
- Reprint
- Publisher
- Bonanza Books
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- (c.1965)
- Keywords
- Music, Musicians, African American, Signed
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- Reprint
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- Cloth
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- Inscribed
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- Spine
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