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Pocket Books, January 1975. Mass Market Paperback. Used - Good.
Looking for a Bluebird by Joseph Wechberg - 1947
by Joseph Wechberg
Looking for a Bluebird
by Joseph Wechberg
- Used
- Paperback
1947. Mass media paperback. Vintage paperbacks Good . 16mo - over 5¾ - 6¾" tall. Fading covers. Paper aging. #622. Original price 50 cents. 1st printing. About the book: When the "Blackbirds," famous American all-Negro review came to Paris Moulin Rouge Music Hall, late in the summer of 1928, I and five other white violinists were hired to form a string section in the orchestra. Tells about the first performance...the touching friendship between the mother of the Polish violinist and one of the "Bluebirds" musicians, a Negro by the name of George Washington. Author also relates his experience as a movie musician in Madame Dubois's Boulevard-Cinema in Aubervilliers. (New Yorker 1944)
- Bookseller The Sun Also Rises (US)
- Format/Binding Mass media paperback
- Book Condition Used - Vintage paperbacks Good
- Binding Paperback
- Date Published 1947
- Size 16mo - over 5¾ - 6¾\" tall