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SHINING TRUMPETS A History Of Jazz
by Rudi Blesh
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller
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New York, New York, United States
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About This Item
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1949. First American Edition . Hardcover (with Dust Jacket). Very Good. 8vo (381 pages, with 24 pages of musical transcriptions, index, photographs.). A useful history of jazz that was once considered definitive but has since been supplanted. This is a very good copy of the First Edition in a dust jacket that is lightly creased, with fractional loss along upper spine edge and a closed tear on front face. Contents fine, with browning to page edges and an ink gift inscription on the front free endpaper.
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- Bookseller
- Chartwell Booksellers
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 140370
- Title
- SHINING TRUMPETS A History Of Jazz
- Author
- Rudi Blesh
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover (with Dust Jacket)
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First American Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Alfred A. Knopf
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1949
- Size
- 8vo (381 pages, with 24 pages of
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- Fine
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