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Storyville to Harlem: Fifty Years in the Jazz Scene [with Original Watercolor Drawing]
by Longstreet, Stephen
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0813511747
- ISBN 13
- 9780813511740
- Seller
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Cleveland, Ohio, United States
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About This Item
New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1986. Black cloth, red embossed title and image of jazz muscian on front board, in original dustjacket, (12.25 x 9.25 inches). First Edition (NAP: No Additional Printings indicated on copyright page). 211 pages; illustrated. Boldy SIGNED by Longstreet in red marker on free endpage. Tipped-in is an ORIGINAL WATERCOLOR DRAWING (11 x 8 inches) by Longstreet titled "Blues Singer," SIGNED lower right. In additon, the artist/author has hand colored the title page illustration. Longstreet is a noted American artist whose work is in the Library of Congress, the Oakland Museum, the New Orleans Jazz Museum, Yale and Princeton collections. A clean, tight copy showing just light wear and minor chipping to jacket.. Signed. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good/Very Good. Folio.
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- Bookseller
- Books & Bidders, Antiquarian Booksellers
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 005823
- Title
- Storyville to Harlem: Fifty Years in the Jazz Scene [with Original Watercolor Drawing]
- Author
- Longstreet, Stephen
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0813511747
- ISBN 13
- 9780813511740
- Publisher
- Rutgers University Press
- Place of Publication
- New Brunswick, NJ
- Date Published
- 1986
- Size
- Folio
- Keywords
- Longstreet Watercolor; Jazz History
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