Jazz: The Essential Companion
by Carr, Ian; Fairweather, Digby; Priestly, Brian
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/Fair
- ISBN 10
- 0246127414
- ISBN 13
- 9780246127419
- Seller
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Staten Island, New York, United States
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About This Item
London: Grafton Books, 1987. Hardcover, red cloth in price-clipped dust-jacket. 562 pages. Illustrated with vignette photographs. First edition. An up-to-date [for 1987] and comprehensive reference on jazz with more than 1600 entries. Includes important essays on all major jazz figure, lucid definitions of jazz terminology, historical and geographical essays, and much more. No previous ownership marks. A clean, square, unmarked copy. Dust-jacket damaged, albeit essentially complete but for price-clipped flap. Near fine in fair dust-jacket. . First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Fair. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Great Expectations Rare Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 014118
- Title
- Jazz: The Essential Companion
- Author
- Carr, Ian; Fairweather, Digby; Priestly, Brian
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Fair
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0246127414
- ISBN 13
- 9780246127419
- Publisher
- Grafton Books
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1987
- Keywords
- Jazz, Reference
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
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About the Seller
Great Expectations Rare Books
Biblio member since 2005
Staten Island, New York
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- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Fair
- is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....
- Vignette
- A decorative design or illustration placed at the beginning or end of a ...