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1978Best.-Nr. 47450N.p.: Program '78 / MJF 1978. Quarto. Staple-bound color pictorial wrappers; 40pp; illus. Fine unworn copy. Official program for the 1978 Festival. Featured performers included Ruth Brown Dexter Gordon Etta James Dizzy Gillespie Maynard Ferguson others. Program '78 / MJF unknown books
1983Best.-Nr. 47448Carmel CA: Productions Unlimited 1983. Quarto. Staple-bound color pictorial wrappers; 40pp; illus. Fine unworn copy. Official program for the 1983 festial. Marquee performers that year included Mel Torme Irma Thomas Wynton Marsalis Sarah Vaughan others. Productions Unlimited unknown books
1989Best.-Nr. 44770New York: Oxford University Press 1989. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo 24cm; black paper and blue-gray cloth-covered boards with titles stamped in silver and metallic pink on spine; dustjacket; xviii9197pp. Textblock sagging faint foxing to upper edge of textblock with sunning to lower edge of front board; Very Good. Dustjacket is unclipped with modest shelfwear and a hint of sunning to spine; Very Good. Second volume in Schuller's monumental The History of Jazz documenting the swing era. Oxford University Press unknown books
1947Best.-Nr. 14922New York: E.P. Dutton 1947. First Edition. Octavo 21cm. Black cloth boards stamped in red on spine and front cover; dustjacket; 223pp. Review copy with publisher's slip laid in. Endpapers mildly darkened else a tight Near Fine copy in the original pictorial dustwrapper. Jacket is unclipped lightly worn at spine ends with a small closed tear at upper margin of front panel; Very Good. Third volume of Willis's loosely-connected postwar trilogy about jazz musicians in the Midwest. Preceded by Tangleweed 1943 and The Wild Faun 1945. HANNA 3829. E.P. Dutton unknown books
1958Best.-Nr. 23571Cannes: Le Comite Des Fetes De La Ville De Cannes et Le Jazz-Club Francais 1958. First edition. Paperback. Very Good. Scarce program for the 8 Au 13 Julillett 1958 Cannes Jazz Festival. Unpaginated stapled magazine format. Text in French. A very good copy with some general light soiling to covers. The festival featured such luminaries as Donald Byrd Don Byas Stephane Grappelly Stan Getz Zoot Simes Dizzie Gillespie and Coleman Hawkins among others. Le Comite Des Fetes De La Ville De Cannes et Le Jazz-Club Francais paperback books
1976Best.-Nr. 23294Northport NY: Jazz Magazine 1976. First edition. Paperback. Very Good . Three early issues of Tom Stites' magazine devoted to jazz music. Fall 1976 Summer 1977 and Fall 1978. Includes articles photographs and interviews. Subjects range from Miles Davis to Chick Corea Dexter Gordon to Yusef Lateef and Carmen McRae to Sarah Vaughan. The first two issues in superb near fine condition. The third being only in good to very good condition with noticeable wear and small reading creases. Sold as a group. Jazz Magazine paperback books
1998Best.-Nr. 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
1970Best.-Nr. 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
1947Best.-Nr. 016506November 1944; November. 1947. First Edition. Paperback. Wraps very good to very good. . November, 1944; November paperback books
1941Best.-Nr. 016504Dec 20 1940; February 21. 1941. First Edition. Paperback. Wraps very good. . Dec 20, 1940; February 21 paperback books
1942Best.-Nr. 016502June. 1942. First Edition. Paperback. Wraps very good first four issues. . June paperback books
1959Best.-Nr. 016384October 1958-Fall 1959. 1959. First Edition. Hardcover. Ralph Gleason's mag near fine copies. Terkel Ellington Gitler Charters Berton Sales et al. . October 1958-Fall 1959 hardcover books
1953Best.-Nr. 23564New Orleans: New Orleans Jazz Club 1953-1959. First Edition. Wraps. Very good . 8vo. Wraps most saddle-stapled. Condition very good overall. Many folded for mailing; others toned; several with handwritten notes or prices. Most issues 16-30 pages. An overall clean and presentable set. Includes: Vol. 4 Nos. 1 January 1953 and 6 June 1953; Vol. 7 Nos. 5/6 May-June 1956 and 7-8 July-August 1956; and Vol. 9 Nos. 5/6 May-June 1959. Jazz fan magazine issue via mailorder by the New Orleans Jazz Club. Consists of critical articles on jazz culture and accounts of jazz news both local and national. Subjects include Louis Armstrong Duke Ellington Jelly Roll Morton and many other contemporaries. New Orleans Jazz Club paperback books
1958Best.-Nr. 23918Plainview L.I. N.Y.: The Jazz Foundation of America 1958. 16 pages; with information regarding this second concert of the Foundation ".in line with our policy to perpetuate the activity and interest in jazz." the Jazz Foundation of America Band under the direction of Jon LaPorta the Foundation Octet under Rusty Dedrick; Dennis Sandole the guitar soloist; officers of the Foundation were Hal Wildman Al Langstaff Nadine Wildman Lucille Mucci Tony DeLorenzo; with lists of the big band personnel boosters for the event the Program; with advertisements for the supportive businesses that helped promote the event; and a one-page notice for the First Annual Festival of Contemporary Music Hofstra College Hempstead L.I. Saturday May 24th 1958 with the program lineup ticket information; approx. 7" x 9 3/4" size; stapled printed glossy paper wraps; light edge tips wear to covers; in very good condition interesting jazz & Long Island NY musical entertainment ephemeral history. First Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good. The Jazz Foundation of America Paperback books
1950Best.-Nr. 16320Berkeley: Associated Students of the University of California Berkeley 1950. First edition. Paperback. Very Good. Spring 1950 issue of Cal Berkeley's literary magazine. Edited by Dale Joe. This issue featuring numerous writings on jazz by Brubeck Kid Ory Turk Murphy and others plus Patchen Miller and more. A very good copy in stapled printed wrappers. Decidedly uncommon issue. Associated Students of the University of California, Berkeley paperback books
2015Best.-Nr. 264180Lansing KS: Punch Drunk Pres 2015. 28p. staplebound zine very good. On depression and the challenges of wanting to help. Punch Drunk Pres unknown books
Best.-Nr. 14220Used; Like New/Used; Like New. An original 1930's album containing 88 autograph signatures of jazz musicians sporting figures and other personalities. The musicians represented include Coleman Hawkins Johnny Desmond Gene Krupa Bid Sid Catlett Benny Goodman Artie Shaw "Hot Lips" Page Cab Calloway Anita O'Day Roy Eldridge Woody Herman Les Brown and many more. The album with a two-ring binding with some signatures signed directly onto the album leaves and others clipped and mounted some on larger folded sheets. 31 pages of autographs with further blank pages in the middle; on the last several pages all the grades from the owner's report cards from 1930 to 1943 are meticulously recorded! An inscription to the owner on the verso of the title page dates the album to 1931. Light toning and edge wear; overall in fine condition. 6.25 x 4.5 inches 15.8 x 11.7 cm. unknown books
Best.-Nr. 13000Used; Like New/Used; Like New. Original press photograph showing the great soul singer posing for photographers after arriving in London for his 1975 British tour. Some spotting and wrinkling; overall in very good condition. 25.3 x 20.3 cm. unknown books
1979Best.-Nr. 15409JLos Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox 1979. First Edition. Paperbound 11” x 15”. A special film program made by the studio for advance screenings of the film of the acclaimed film dance musical All That Jazz directed by the great Broadway and film choreographer Bob Fosse and based upon his life starring Roy Scheider Jessica Lange Ann Reinking and Ben Vereen. Fine in printed wrappers. Twentieth Century-Fox unknown books
1964Best.-Nr. 1513341964. unbound. Signatures by Percy Humphrey Jim Robinson Albert Burbank James "Sing" Miller Louis Barbario and Narvin Kimball who appended his instrument banjo to his signature decorate the verso of the album sleeve corners slightly bumped small stain on verso does not obscure signatures. 12 1/2" x 12 1/2". No place no date. Circa 1964. Fine condition. unknown books
1989Best.-Nr. 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
1993Best.-Nr. 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
1960Best.-Nr. CAT206New York et al. 1960. Five 8 x 10 and two 5 x 7 inch gelatin silver prints with Bradley's estate marks to versos. Excellent. Jack Bradley was a Cape Cod native who after graduating from the Massachusetts Maritime Academy fell in love with Jazz after seeing Louis Armstrong perform at the Boston Armory in 1956. In 1958 he moved to New York from Cape Cod and began dating Jeann Failows a member of Louis Armstrong's inner circle. Through Failows Bradley gained access to Armstrong eventually becoming very close friends with the trumpeter and his inner circle. Bradley already had amassed a large collection of jazz material much related to Armstrong and he augmented his own collection by photographing Armstrong and his Jazz circle for the next decade. The bulk of Bradley's collection now resides at the Louis Armstrong House Museum in Queens. This collection is of seven photographs of jazz musicians from Bradley's estate showing a wonderful window into the tail end of the Classic Jazz era. Photographs as follows: Willie Cook. 5 x 7 inches. A portrait of Cook seated. Excellent condition. Count Basie and Duke Ellington. 5 x 7 inches. The two jazz greats are seated at their respective pianos during rehearsal. Excellent condition. Duke Ellington's Empty Bandstand. 8 x 10 inches. The horns chairs and sheet music are laid out. Very good condition with some toning to margins and a faint scratch at outer edge of image. Duke Ellington Conducting his Band. 8 x 10 inches. Excellent condition. Ella Fitzgerald at the Apollo Theatre New York c. 1959. 8 x 10 inches. Excellent Condition. Count Basie Seated at a Table Smoking a Cigar. 8 x 10 inches. Excellent condition. Pee Wee russell Painting at his New York Apartment c. 1966. Good condition marginal tear affecting ½ inch of image. Overall a nice group and an example of a photographer whose work is not often available on the market. unknown books
1961Best.-Nr. WRCLIT84374New York: Simon and Schuster 1961. Quarto. Cloth and paper over boards stamped in silver-gilt. Numerous b&w illustrations. First edition. Spine sunned in a few patches yet a good sound copy with detached pieces of the somewhat tattered dust jacket laid in. Simon and Schuster hardcover books
1999Best.-Nr. 20067Great Barrington: The Figures 1999. First edition. Paperback. Near Fine. Stapled pamphlet with cover by Diego Velaquez. An 18 pp poetry chapbook by the great jazz drummer. A near fine example in thin stapled wrappers. This copy INSCRIBED by the author "for Gary / this copy of the initial/ copy/ "sorrier than a blown lip"/ love/ Billy Higgins/ 15 Mar 99" Photograph of the author on the final page of this pamphlet with the following text below "SPACE JAM played directly into the computer on Jan 29 and 30 1999 then xeroxed at Kwik Print Great Barrington in an edition of two on Feb 20. Copy one for the 60th birthday of Clark Coolidge & copy two for the personal library of Billy Higgins." One copy located at Stanford University. Please note: there has been some suggestion that this book was actually written by Geof Young. Additional info is welcome. The Figures paperback books
