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1971réf. 38129Chicago: American Library Association 1971. Hardcover. Good. Octavo. Full gray cloth with titling silver to upper and spine. Ex-Kansas City Public Library with their bookplate handstamps and label to front endpapers and handstamps to dedication leaf. xiv 142 pp. American Library Association hardcover books
1985réf. 38136New York: Beech Tree Books / William Morrow 1985. Hardcover. Good. Octavo. Gray cloth-backed yellow boards with titling to spine. 197 pp. With illustrative plates and occasional illustrations in text. Endpapers slightly soiled. Ex-library with bookpocket handstamps and labels to verso of free rear endpaper. Beech Tree Books / William Morrow hardcover books
2015réf. 264180Lansing KS: Punch Drunk Press 2015. 28p. staplebound zine very good. On depression and the challenges of wanting to help. Punch Drunk Press unknown books
1994réf. 53559NY: Jazz at Lincoln Center 1994. 8vo pp. 15. Paper wraps. Illustrated with photographs. Schedule of events and short articles about Armstrong. A nice copy. A program for an event at Lincoln Center December 14-19 1994. Jazz at Lincoln Center unknown books
1970réf. 27206Graz: Universal Edition. 1970. Softcover. Wraps very good wilh mild signs of handling with a library stamp in upper right corner of front wrap and with title underlined on front wrap. Ex-lib with those minimal marks. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 197 pp . Universal Edition paperback books
1981réf. 20416NY: Oxford University Press. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1981. Hardcover. 019502835X . First edition. Trace foxing to edges else fine in a near fine dust jacket. . Oxford University Press hardcover books
1993réf. 263756Port Chester: Medi-Media Pub. Inc 1993. Magazine. 116p. including covers 5.25x8.25 inches erotic fiction reviews articles illustrated with b&w cartoons explicit photos and ads for sex toys very good digest size magazine in stapled pictorial wraps. Medi-Media Pub. Inc unknown books
1989réf. 263761Port Chester: Medi-Media Pub. Inc 1989. Magazine. 116p. including covers 5.25x8.25 inches erotic fiction reviews articles illustrated with b&w cartoons explicit photos and ads for sex toys lightly-worn digest size magazine in stapled pictorial wraps. Special report: Gay Theatre since Stonewall. Medi-Media Pub. Inc unknown books
réf. 021700Chicago. Softcover. Creasing. Very Good. A large 9-7/8" x 6-3/4" postcard from the famous jazz supper club The London House in Chicago SIGNED "To Edna/Best wishes/Barbara Carroll." Carroll was dubbed by critic Leonard Feather as "the first girl ever to play bebop piano." She was awarded the Kennedy Center's Mary Lou Williams Women in Jazz Lifetime Achievement Award in 2003. Also SIGNED by Lonnie Simmons and legendary Chicago broadcaster Marty Faye. paperback books
réf. 021699Chicago. Softcover. Creasing. Very Good. A large 9-7/8" x 6-3/4" postcard from the famous jazz supper club The London House in Chicago SIGNED "To Bill/Best wishes/Barbara Carroll." Carroll was dubbed by critic Leonard Feather as "the first girl ever to play bebop piano." She was awarded the Kennedy Center's Mary Lou Williams Women in Jazz Lifetime Achievement Award in 2003. Also SIGNED by Lonnie Simmons and legendary Chicago broadcaster Marty Faye. paperback books
réf. 021698Chicago. Softcover. Creasing. Very Good. A large 9-7/8" x 6-3/4" postcard from the famous jazz supper club The London House in Chicago SIGNED "All the best--/Sincerely/Billy Taylor." Taylor was a jazz pianist composer broadcaster and educator whom critic Leonard Feather once said "It is almost indisputable that Dr. Billy Taylor is the world's foremost spokesman for jazz." paperback books
réf. 53424Signed: "To James with warm good wishes Peggy Lee".Peggy Lee was an American jazz and popular music singer songwriter composer and actress in a career spanning six decades Framed behind glass. Paet of the lower image marred by adhesion to the glass. American jazz and popular music singer songwriter composer and actress whose career spanned over six decades. She was the recipient of three Grammy Awards an Academy Award nomination as well as being inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame. unknown books
1998réf. 44606Westport & London: Greenwood Press 1998. First edition. 230 pp w/indexes. Some light spotting along top edge else near fine in full green cloth with gold stamping to spine and cover. No dust jacket as issued. Anthologies works by individual authors and a cross reference guide matching jazz musician/composer to poet. Westport & London: Greenwood Press hardcover books
1920réf. BK0059Chicago: Williams & Piron Music Publishers 1920. First. Four pages 9 ½ x 12 ¼ inches. Illustrated cover signed "Wilson. Detached at spine with slight chipping to margins; good overall. A scarce Williams & Piron sheet music imprint for The Dance They Call the "Georgia Hunch" with words and music by Clarence Williams Louis Wade and Spencer Williams. The attractive illustrated cover signed "Wilson" shows a couple dancing beneath the title. The song was issued by Williams & Piron in Chicago in 1920 during Clarence Williams's brief publishing partnership with New Orleans violinist and bandleader Armand J. Piron. Their firm advertised itself as the "House of Jazz." The song's title refers to the Georgia Hunch an early jazz or vernacular dance documented in period performance and later dance history sources. It does not appear to have become a standardized dance craze on the level of the shimmy black bottom or Charleston but it was more than an invented title; Williams recorded The Dance They Call the Georgia Hunch in 1921 as Okeh Records 8029 and the dance appears in later jazz-dance documentation though it apparently never reached the fame of more well known dance steps of the time. OCLC locates two copies institutionally at Baylor and the British Library. . Williams & Piron Music Publishers unknown books
1990réf. 159578San Francisco: Farley's 1990. Vintage flyer for a concert at Farley's Cafe of San Francisco featuring Big Bones and the Bone-a-fide Blues Band circa early 1990s. Located in Potrero Hill Farley's Cafe now Farley's Coffeehouse has been a popular cafe since 1989 frequently hosting live music. 8.5 x 11 inches with center star hand colored with marker. Two small pin holes right of center else Near Fine. Farley's unknown books
1960réf. 45557Harrisburg PA: Penn-World Attractions 1960. Very Good . Harrisburg PA: Penn-World Attractions 1960. Broadside flyer 28x21.6cm printed on peach stock advertising a Louis Armstrong concert at The Forum in Harrisburg Pennsylvania May 19 1960. Minor wear and creasing to edges; Very Good or better. Promotion from a late career concert for Armstrong which took place a year after he suffered a heart attack while touring in Italy. Features Armstrong's bandmates Danny Barcelona "Peanuts" Hucko and Velma Middleton. Not separately cataloged in OCLC. Penn-World Attractions unknown books
1950réf. List2914Unknown location 1950. 7 x 11 inch poster. Some small marginal tears overall excellent. A small poster for Pearl Bailey with the Louie Bellson Quartet presented by the United Service Organizations and Department of Defense. Bailey 1918–1990 was a singer dancer and actress; she started her career performing at Black nightclubs on the east coast and later performed in several Broadway hits including an all-Black version of Hello Dolly! Louie Bellson 1924–2009 was Bailey’s husband a composer bandleader and jazz drummer credited with inventing the double bass drum setup. Bailey toured regularly with the USO beginning in 1941 though this poster is likely from later; the DOD was called the Department of War until 1949 and the USO was inactive between 1945 and 1950. unknown books
1969réf. 81807New York: Macmillan 1969-70. Second and fifth volumes are first printings; remainder are second or later printings. Six octavo volumes. Uniform cloth hardcovers in dustjackets; 255223290246288287pp; illustrated with photographic plates halftones. All in Very Good or better condition in the original dustwrappers; jacket to 4th volume slightly ragged along upper edge else all Very Good or better. An indispensable set compiling reviews interviews profiles and critical articles with reading lists and selected discographies. Macmillan unknown books
1933réf. 45554Lyons NY: Sevalen's Hall 1933. Very Good . Lyons NY: Sevalen's Hall 1933. Broadsheet palm card; printed promotional card 12.8x7.5cm for an "April Fool's Comedy Dance" in the New York Hamlet featuring the Colored Night Hawk's sic band; advertisements for Lyons Soda Spa to verso. Light rubbing and a couple smudges; Very Good or better. Drummer Boots Ward's band was variously called the Colored Night Hawks or simply the Night Hawks and sprang from its Worcester Massachusetts antecedent "Mamie Moffett and Her Five Jazz Hounds" which was headed by Worcester's "First Lady of Jazz." A lovely record of small town Depression-era good times when tickets went for 25 cents to the ladies and 35 to the men. . Sevalen's Hall unknown books
1917réf. List3667Omaha Nebraska: Maceo Pinkard Music Publisher 1917. Folio sheet music 11 x 14 inches 3 pp. plus cover. Light edge wear and small creases; a couple tiny tears to margins very good with strong color and excellent internal condition. An early jazz-era composition by the important African American songwriter Maceo Pinkard 1897–1962 issued from his short-lived Omaha publishing venture during the first years of the national “jass band” craze. The cover advertises the piece as a “1917 ‘Jass Band’ Craze!” and features a photograph of Sophie Tucker’s Five Kings of Syncopation the ensemble associated with the immensely popular vaudeville star Sophie Tucker during the years immediately preceding American entry into the First World War. Pinkard born in Blue Springs Nebraska emerged as one of the most important Black popular songwriters of the early twentieth century. As a teenager he worked in Nebraska theaters and dance orchestras before forming a publishing firm in Omaha while still barely twenty years old. His early Midwestern publications—including pieces such as “The Blue Melody”—show him operating within the ragtime and syncopated dance music tradition that was evolving into early jazz. Within a few years Pinkard relocated to Chicago and New York where he became a major Tin Pan Alley figure later composing standards such as “Sweet Georgia Brown” 1925. The piece is respectfully dedicated to “Sophie Tucker’s 5 Kings of Syncopation” reflecting Tucker’s role as one of the most influential vaudeville singers of the 1910s. The interior advertisement reproduces a sample chorus of Pinkard’s hit “I’m a Real Kind Mama” another early jazz-age success associated with Tucker’s repertoire. Maceo Pinkard Music Publisher unknown books
1983réf. 499742Bangor: The Bangor Historical Society 1983. Softcover. Fine. First edition. Slim octavo. 8pp. Stapled wrappers. Illustrated including two portraits of King. Fine. Includes “A Novelist’s Perspective on Bangor” by King as well as a brief biography. OCLC locates six copies. N.B. There was also an edition issued by the same publisher with 40 pages of text including advertisements for distribution at the March 1983 benefit for the Bangor Historical Society. The Bangor Historical Society unknown books
1948réf. BK0120Atlanta Georgia: Atlanta Music Club 1948. Illustrated program 18 pp. 10 ¾ x 8 ½ inches stapled in illustrated blue wrappers. Near fine condition. A program for Paul Whiteman's all-Gershwin concert at Atlanta's Municipal Auditorium on November 6 1948 built around Whiteman's close place in the history of Gershwin's concert music. Whiteman had commissioned Rhapsody in Blue and conducted its celebrated first performance at Aeolian Hall in 1924 with Gershwin himself at the piano. More than two decades later and eleven years after Gershwin's death Whiteman returned to the composer's work with this touring "musical tribute." The program ranges across Gershwin's popular and concert works opening with an instrumental medley of "Swanee" "Do It Again" "Of Thee I Sing" "Someone to Watch Over Me" and "Love Is Sweeping the Country." Vocalists Eugenie Baird and Russell McIntyre appeared alongside guitarist Mike Pingitore and saxophonist Al Gallodoro while pianist Jane Anderson performed a variation on "I've Got Rhythm" the first movement of the Concerto in F and as the finale Rhapsody in Blue. The booklet also contains a photographic portrait of Whiteman and several essays reviewing his career and his role in the development of American popular and concert music including "The Dean of Modern American Music" and "Tops' Moves to the Blue." . Atlanta Music Club unknown books
1920réf. List3820Chicago Illinois: Schlink Studio 1920. Real photo postcard measuring approximately 3 ½ x 5 ½ inches. Studio portrait of an African American musician standing in overcoat hat gloves and cane beside a chair displaying a saxophone and clarinet. Divided postcard back. Light wear and soiling with small loss or surface disturbance at lower margin; very good. A real photo postcard portrait of an African American musician posed with saxophone and clarinet. The sitter is not identified but the portrait was clearly made to present him as a professional or semi-professional performer rather than as an informal amateur. The formal clothing cane and carefully arranged instruments give the image the character of a publicity or theatrical portrait. The combination of saxophone and clarinet is especially appropriate to early twentieth-century dance-band and jazz performance when reed players commonly doubled on both instruments. The photograph likely dates from the period in which Black musicians circulated through local orchestras theater bands dance halls vaudeville circuits and early jazz ensembles often leaving behind few named records apart from photographs like this. A strong real photo postcard portrait of an African American reed player with good visual presence and clear musical content. . Schlink Studio unknown books
1971réf. 38867NY: ESP Disk 1971. Tabloid format 8 pp. printed on newsprint illustrated with a Gilbert Shelton character on the front. Paper tanned as would be expected with some loss to the folds and edges small light stain to middle front else a very good example. While we've had a few copies of the 1967 catalog and the more uncommon 'Special Complete Catalog" this one is new to us and were not aware of its existence until it threw itself over our transom. Though it originally existed to release Esperanto-based music starting with the release of Albert Ayler's Spiritual Unity ESP became the most important exponent of the burgeoning free jazz music scene of the time releasing records by such future greats as Sun Ra Frank Wright and Sunny Murray among others. Along with free jazz the label also produced music by Ed Sanders' band the Fugs the Lower East Side folk of the Holy Modal Rounders and the primitive proto-noise of the Godz. While never much of a commercial success for the musicians the label's philosophy of "The artists alone decide what you will hear on their ESP-Disk" led to the creation of a musical output that to this day wields a heavy influence. ESP Disk unknown books
1925réf. 589771925. Two black & white photo images 8" x 10" on glossy stock mounted in Crown Studio mats 11 1/4" x 13 1/4". Images are night shots of windows depicting surroundings full of architectural details. Very minimal soiling to lower fore-edge. 1 image with a bit longer exposure time still a very good pair of photos. These two commercial photos of 1920s window displays provide an invaluable historical glimpse into the marketing of men's fashions at the height of the Jazz Age. The photos include unique period elements with breathtaking flower arrangements positioned amongst the displayed clothing. The men's suits range in tints and style primarily including double-breasted and single-breasted suits with trousers carefully draped over surrounding decorative tables and stands cravats at the neck and each with a dapper cane displayed above it. Rich draperies of men's suit fabrics have been arranged below and around the displays. Frank Jacoby's store was a thriving business in Bridgeport CT. at 1083 Broad Street until the throes of the Great Depression when they were forced to close in 1933. unknown books
