Richards, Dal (Signed); Taylor, JimMareMagnum
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2009Boldly signed by Dal Richards upon half-title page. 288 pages. Index. Reproductions of many black and white photos. "These are Dal's memories of the stars and the wannabes, the hustlers and bootleggers and hat check chicks, all of whom paraded through his life in the days when Vancouver's nightclub scene rivalled San Francisco's and Hollywood's big-name performers made it a regular tour stop." - from dust jacket. Very light wear. Dust jacket now preserved in glossy new archival-grade Brodart. Promotional bookmark and relevant news clipping laid inside front board. A lovely copy. Book
195580 pages. Features: I was a daughter of the Gold Rush - the exciting story of Klondy Nelson; The Face of America - Song of Old (photo); Rebirth of the Ohio River; This is My Story - Arthur Godfrey (part 8 of 8); Exiles of the Wasteland - Red Shaw and Lou Kley run an isolated Utah railroad outpost for the Southern Pacific Railroad; What Happened to These Children - fascinating explanation of the 700-year-old mystery of the Pied Piper of Hamelin; Cities of the world (#15) - Guatemala City; How to Handle $100,000,000 - The Philadelphia Board of City Trusts. Fiction: A Candle of the Lord; The Lady Hated Jazz; The Warmhearted Polar Bear; Kiss Me, Sergeant; The case of the Mission Poison (part 3 of 8); The Burning Hills (conclusion). Above-average wear. Centerfold loose but present. Long tear to back cover with related puncture/tear to last few pages. Unmarked. Not pretty but a worthy reference copy of this great issue. Magazine
1985416 pages. Footnotes, Bibliography and Index. Reproductions of photos in black and white. "Not only an account of the shoals and reefs of Davis' life up to 1960 but a highly literate history of the social and cultural milieu of his times. Indispensable to anyone interested in music." - from dust jacket. Prior owner's details atop front free endpaper, otherwise unmarked with average wear. Dust jacket now preserved in glossy new archival-grade Brodart. A sound copy. Book
1956250 pages. Chronological discography. Autobiography of this eminent jazz and pop vocalist. Fascimile dust jacket preserved in archival-grade Brodart. Usual library markings. Rebound in decorated green library buckram sans the original photo-illustrated endpapers. Above-average wear. Binding intact. A worthy first edition reading copy. Meadows 2173 Book
197540 pages. Includes trumpet sheet music for fifty songs including: Black Bottom Stomp; Chicago Breakdown; Dixieland Blues; Easy Rider; Jimtown Blues; Maple Leaf Rag; Mr. Jelly Lord; Sidewalk Blues; Sobbin' Blues; Steamboat Stomp; Sugar Babe; Tia Juana; Weary Blues; and many more. Undated but appears to be circa 1975. Unmarked with above-average external wear. Binding intact. A worthy working copy. Book
196115 pages. "By playing and analyzing someone else's ideas, the talented musician can stimulate his own imagination and discover ideas that formerly were beyond his scope." - page 2. Complete and unmarked. Above-average wear. Binding intact. Contents tanned with age. A worthy vintage copy. Book
195350 pages. Features: Super color cover photo of Rita Hayworth; Two large black and white photos of Miss Universe, Armi Kuusela of Finland; You Can Be Healthier, Be Happier - follow this expert's rules for living in nature's four great worlds - photo-illustrated article including half-page black and white photo of a dozen or so boys skinny dipping at the "Ole swimming hole"; Abducted Women - Emotional photo-illustrated article on the over 500,000 women forcibly detained during the partition of India in 1947, some of whom are now being repatriated; The Duel - brief photo-illustrated article on Tasso's "Jerusalem Delivered", as presented by the Ballets de Paris; Heaven on Earth - photo-illustrated article on a new sculpture symbolizing beauty and joy of life, The Fountain of Faith, recently unveiled at Falls Church, VA; I Was a Spy for Stalin - Nora Korzhenko Murray, an agent of the Soviet secret police, reveals her cloak-and-dagger career as a tool of the N.K.V.D. and a lure for Allied diplomats living in Moscow; Best photos of 1952; Babies in Jail - photo-illustrated article on babies born in jail to mothers who are pregnant when incarcerated; Flying Saucers - The Last Word! - exclusive interview with the world's best informed military man - Major General John A. Samford - on the world's most exciting modern mystery; Earl Wilson, America's 'Saloon Editor' picks his "Super-Six" - photos and brief write-ups of American beauties Marilyn Monroe, Gloria Van Deweel, Julie Wilson, Eva Gabor, Ava Gardner, and Virginia Mayo (no photo of her); Faith is a Star - belief in a benign and divine power is a refuge in a time of trouble; So Hot Soho - article on U.S. Jazz in London's Bohemian west end - with super photos of dancers in action; Hoop Houdini - Photo-illustrated article on Boston Celtic Bob Cousy (written by Curt Gowdy who went on to a great career in TV sports broadcasting); Great 3/4-page sexy photo of Rita Hayworth; Letters from readers; plus many great vintage ads. Unmarked with average wear. Binding intact. PLEASE NOTE: lacking pages 33-34 which, we believe, contained the last page of the Flying Saucer article and a photo of Virginia Mayo. Otherwise, a sound vintage copy of this wonderful issue. Book
1981pp. xii, 300. Index. "Provides a thorough survey of books, articles, and theses and dissertations written on or about specific jazz styles and jazz musicians from the turn of the century through 1978." - Introduction. Lists 2,563 items, some of which are annotated. Separate sections address: Pre-Swing, Swing, Bop, Modern, Biographies, Discographies, Histories, Technical Materials, and more. Former library copy with usual markings and moderate wear to publisher's green cloth. Binding tight. A sound reference copy. Book
1958Features: Cover photo on deck of U.S. destroyer in Taiwan (Formosa) Strait; There is No News From Auschwitz - Now nothing happens at Konzentrationslager Auschwitz, which fourteen years ago was a place of unutterable horror; Photos of famous people of the day; Captain of our Economic Campaign - banker-politician Douglas Dillon deals with foreign trade and foreign aid; Q. & A. With an American Tourist on a Moscow Street Corner; Professor in the Political Maze - Williams College Professor Jim Burns is a candidate for Congress in MA; Great Cliche Debate (continued); Golfer's Real Handicap - Pride; Glories of Versailles; Virtues of Veal; (Ladies') Paris Fashion Report - photos; Photo feature on a glass-walled home designed by Ladislav L. Rado; Teen-Age Tastes - Good, Bad or Inevitable?; Five photos of Elizabeth Taylor in "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof"; Three photos of Jerome Robbins' new ballet "N.Y. Export, op. Jazz"; and more. 44 pages. Many fascinating black and white reproductions of photos plus lovely illustrated ads, some of which are in color. Small clipping from ad on page 39 - text unaffected. Doodling on ad on page 33, otherwise unmarked with average wear. A sound vintage copy. Book
1928Please note: This copy lacking its covers. First and last pages loose but present. Features: Canada in the Great War (Part 2) - The stirring record of 'the men behind the guns' - and of our wemen, too - photo illustrated article; The Crushing Horde - fiction from the north; Doctor to the Poor Fish - a free clinic for ailing aquarium pets; Canadian Sprinter Percy Williams (Peerless Percy) - Winner of the 100 and 200 metre Olympic sprints; Down Three Steps (short story); She Lika da Jazz (short story); Did They 'Get' Bulldog Kelly? - a tale of the North West Mounted; Prosperity's Leap From the Bush - The successful Canadian pulp and paper industry - photo-illustrated article; The Winking Satyr (short story); Our Population Problem (Part 4) - a suggestion that our need for people be solved by transplanting British industries; A Little Way Ahead (part 6); Beautiful one-page colour ad for Waterman's pens features waterfall and rainbow; Daily Newspapers Under Fire; Gorgeous one-page colour-illustrated ad for Quaker Puffed Rice features boy and girl at table; Nice one-page colour ad for Canadian National Steamships features their cruises to the Caribbean; Lovely one-page colour ad for Wahl-Eversharp Gold Seal Pens; Teaching Etiquette to Children; Crossword on page 78 has been completed; Jacobean Embroidery. A worthy reference copy. Book
1962An early men's publication in the model of Playboy. 74 pages with color and black and white photos. Pictorial: Paris digs crazy American sex hit Le Streep! - article with great photos of Carole Von Ryva, Rapha Temporel, Maia Turov, Ghora DeVenise, and Poupee LaRose; A Day with Charity Leigh - article and photos of the ups and downs of a loving secretary. Fashion: Shirting the Issue - photo review of the fall sports shirt scene. Shelba - color photo feature of Miss Shelba Jean Britt. Fiction: First Kill; Allison and Saint Skippy. Humor: The Smuttybaggers; Fables for Flips; Joker. Articles: How to Live in an All-Night Movie - Lady Joyce guides you into the 3am world of fruits and nuts; The Bang Bang Boys - A Naked Portrait of Mel Brooks and Carl Reiner; We Regret to Inform You That; The Gimmick and the Facelift - a salty study of the new cars for 1963; Are You Hombre Enough To Take a Mistress?; Jazz Review Board. Great one-page photo ad promoting investments in Florida land. Small reply ad clipped from page 3, affecting book review on page 4, otherwise clean and unmarked with light wear. A nice vintage copy. Book
1960An early men's publication in the model of Playboy. 70 pages with color and black and white photos. Features: Cathie - short story by Alexander Trocchi; First Class Luggage; A Guide to Stewardesses - Things a traveler should know about the skygirls, by Marvin Kitman; Lord Chatterby's Mistress - satire by G.J. Jaffe; Careers Abroad - article by Tom Martin; Photo feature of Laura Thurlow from Britain; San Severino Cartoons; Photo-illustrated article on Gerry Russell - Bartender at The Golden Door restaurant at New York's Idlewild (later JFK) Airport; Return of the Hero - story by Nat Benchley; Men's Fashion; Stan Gets - Expatriate of Jazz; The Golden Monster - story by Charles Shapiro; Photo feature of lovely Annick Rodin of France; How To Fix a Fight - article by L.J. Amster; and more. Unmarked with Average wear. A sound vintage copy. Book
1962An early men's publication in the model of Playboy. 74 pages with color and black and white photos. Features: The Seven Year Itch - Fact or Fancy? - article by Dr. Albert Ellis; Love for Six Broccolis - fantasy by Bruce Jay Friedman; Photo feature of Patricia Stockton; Profile of Comedian Lenny Bruce; The Goal - fiction by Stuart James; The Women who Helped Settle the West - A look behind the screen at one of TV's more distorted images; The Election - fiction by Richard Harper; The Jazz Makers - Part I of a Symposium by Arnold Shaw; Photos of men's leisure wear fashions; The Casting Couch - satirical article by Robert G. Elliott; Photos of women in showers/mud baths at the Westerlands Kurbadehauser, or Westerland Health Club on the island of Sylt in Germany; and more. Unmarked with moderate wear. A sound vintage copy. Book
1963An early men's publication in the model of Playboy. 64 pages with color and black and white photos. Features: Gorgeous cover photo of Sophie Dorn; Artsy black and white photo of Laura Cummings inside front cover; Coney Island - a winter portrait by Robert Burg; More photos of Laura Cummings (in color and black and white); The Hungry One - a true friendship is worth fifty women, by Herbert Andrews; Battle of the Bosoms - the continuing controversy in girlie-show business in Las Vegas; Vandenberg Air Base - photo essay on this key defense base; The Two Minds of Frederick Garst, by Tom Phillips; Girls of Tahiti - Lovely color and black and white photos; Fistful of Life - A Little Lesson in a Singapore Bar, by Richard B. Johnston; More black and white photos and color centerfold of Laura Cummings, a student at Colorado State University; The 36th floor - story by Stephen R. Allen; Flip! - a series of 18 color photos of a cute dancing girl which may be clipped, then flipped to watch her move; An Introduction to Jazz; New Zealand's Finest - photo feature of Bernadette Kell; Ski Sailing - photo-article on a new winter sport; Ad for the Tisch-Bumbass one-man jazz band; and more. Unmarked with moderate wear. A sound vintage copy. Book
1985208p., illus. Biography of the noted jazz singer, including discography. Hardcover Very good condition good
1974428 p., illus. Hardcover Very good condition good
1944230 p., illus. Hardcover Good condition
1988128 p., ilus. Paperback Good condition
1990191pp. 29 cm. + 1 sound disc Paperback Very good condition As issued in unopened plastic package with book, movie poster, and CD of Qunicy's greatest music
1978319pp. 22 cm. Hardcover Very good condition good
1978155pp. 24 cm. Hardcover Very good condition good
1972127 p. : chiefly ill. (some col.) Hardcover Very good condition good
1968Oblong, 24p PAMPHLET Very good condition
2007No marks or inscriptions. Very minor creasing to covers. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. 23pp. Solo arrangements of twelve great jazz songs with (still sealed) CD accompaniment. Includes Fever, Fly me to the Moon, Take the 'A' Train, A Night in Tunisia, Desafinado, Yardbird Suite.
1972Ex-library book with usual marks and stamps and upper corner of front end paper missing. Clean pages in a very tight binding with bright unmarked tape-free boards, rubbing to board edges and very minor bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked with light creasing mainly to edges. 160pp. Well illustrated study of the rise of the jazz dance bands of the inter-war years from 1919 to 1944.
