Best.-Nr. 201010316Paris, Garancière Jazz, 1986 ; in-8, 123 pp., cartonnage de l'éditeur. Bon état - traduit de l'anglais par Corine Derblum.
1992Best.-Nr. B2991Genève, Éditions Zoé, 1992 ; in-8, 142 pp., broché. Bon état.
1925Best.-Nr. 50606New York: A. Koenigsberg 648 Broadway ca. 1925. 8vo. 12 pp. Photo illustrated throughout colour-tinted centerfold. Colour-illustrated softcovers model wearing a stylish hat printed in red & black stapled as issued sewn through punch hole at head of spine w/ gold silk braid slight shelfwear 1 very small closed tear at fore-edge front cover still VG copy. First edition of this very scarce and beautiful catalogue of hat frames and hat bases for millinery shops during the 1920s. The company could supply for hat designers Zibeline hatters plush hats Lyons Velvet Brims Satins Velours Ribbon bound fur and felt hats as well as millinery supplies and hat boxes. Koenigsberg b. 1889 emigrated from England in 1889 to New York where he worked as a furrier for many years with his father Wolf before setting up his own successful millinery supply shop and 4200 square foot factory which successfully operated until the Great Depression. After his shop closed Koenigsberg moved into selling pin ball machines. No copies located in Worldcat; See: New York State Industrial Bulletin of the Department of Labor 1921 Vol. 1 p. 171. A. Koenigsberg, 648 Broadway, paperback
Best.-Nr. GF14929Dessin original à l'encre de chine sur calque signé - format 13,5 x 10,5 -
Best.-Nr. 200809313Paris, Eds, 1984 ; in-4, 44 pp., cartonnage de l'éditeur. Eo dédicacée et numéroté; page onduler.
Best.-Nr. 200803901Paris, Eds, 1986 ; in-4, 44 pp., cartonnage de l'éditeur. Eo bas de coiffe abimé plus 4 plat taché.
1962Best.-Nr. 8971Imola, Cooperativa tipografico editrice "Paolo Galeati", Modern jazz discographies serie, 1962. Brochure in-8 brochée de 24 pages imprimées au seul recto, couverture jaune. Dos insolé.
1933Best.-Nr. 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
1933Best.-Nr. 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
1985Best.-Nr. 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
1971Best.-Nr. 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
Best.-Nr. 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
Best.-Nr. 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
Best.-Nr. 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
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
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
12 fascicules relié en 1 volumes In-4, environ 440 pages au total. Les 12 premiers numéros de cette célèbre revue de Jazz. La revue en comptera 17 en tout et s'arretera en 1947. Contributions : Ch. Delaunay, H. Panassié, A. Hodeir, K. Mohr, A. Garsin, M. Gautier, B. Vian, L. Choquart, etc... Illustré de nombreuses photographies, dessins et documents divers. En excellente condition.
1990Best.-Nr. 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
1990Best.-Nr. 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
Best.-Nr. 68854The Netherlands 1950-1991. Set of 18 original photos. Various sizes. = Mostly from jazz concerts in the Netherlands in the 1950's to 1990's. Includes Ella Fitzgerald 31 March - 1 April 1962 - photos by Hans van den Busken; Duke Ellington The Hague 28 April 1950 together with the female crooner Kathryn Elisabeth Wimp 1920-2012 professionally known as Kay Day Miles Davis several including a young dated 1956; photo Nico van der Stam and older Miles photos dated 10 January 1980 and 1991; including photos by Vincent Mentzel Mahalia Jackson Fela Kuti Melkweg concert Sidney Bechet The Hague 7 October 1956 Eartha Kitt North Sea Jazz Festival 1988 Chet Baker photo Ernst Nieuwenhuis 1975 etc. Several with light creasing due to handling but otherwise a delightful set. unknown
1960Best.-Nr. 41772VP 1960. A total of ten items ranging in format from folio to octavo illustrated profusely with photo reproductions. Lightly worn Very Good. 1. SMITH Charles Edward. HOT JAZZ by Jelly Roll Morton. Camden NJ: Radio Corporation of America ca 1945. 6-7/8" x 9-3/8." Staple-bound booklet couple of short blank margin tears. Light spotting upper right corner of entire booklet. Contains an essay on Morton with annotations on songs included in his album Hot Jazz not included here. Illustrations. 2. Michael Todd's HOT MIKADO WITH BILL ROBINSON. New York: 1939. Illustrated red wrappers. Essay on The Great Bojangles songs program. 3. GEORGE GERSHWIN'S & DU BOSE HEYWARD'S PORGY AND BESS. SOUVENIR PROGRAM. Porgy and Bess. New York: Artcraft Litho & Ptg. Co. 1940s. Illustrations 4. JUMP FOR JOY. N.p.: 1941. Souvenir program from American Revue Theatre's presentation of Duke Ellington in "Jump for Joy" with Dorothy Dandridge Ivy Anderson and Herb Jeffries. Many Illustrations. 5. STORMY WEATHER. COTTON CLUB PRESENTS ETHEL WATERS GEORGE DEWEY WASHINGTON IN COTTON CLUB PARADE. 22ND EDITION WITH DUKE ELLINGTON AND HIS FAMOUS ORCHESTRA. New York: Mills Music Inc. 1933. Sheet music words and music. Illustrations. 6. MUSICAL SCORE FROM THE 20TH CENTURY-FOX PRODUCTION "STORMY WEATHER" WITH LENA HORNE BILL ROBINSON CAB CALLOWAY AND HIS BAND. Words and music from the production illustrations. 7. SUPERSONIC SHOW OF STARS OF 1961. N.p. 1961. Program featuring Jackie Wilson as headliner. With: MASON Sonnie photographer. Three silver gelatin photographs of musicians Freddy Hubbard Donald Byrd and Bennie Maupin each in near excellent condition with rich tonality occasional spotting to versos some light corner creasing. Photographer's stamp to versos. Views of three legendary jazz musicians performing at a concert at Howard University. unknown
1960Best.-Nr. 41772VP 1960. A total of ten items ranging in format from folio to octavo illustrated profusely with photo reproductions. Lightly worn Very Good. 1. SMITH Charles Edward. HOT JAZZ by Jelly Roll Morton. Camden NJ: Radio Corporation of America ca 1945. 6-7/8" x 9-3/8." Staple-bound booklet couple of short blank margin tears. Light spotting upper right corner of entire booklet. Contains an essay on Morton with annotations on songs included in his album Hot Jazz not included here. Illustrations. 2. Michael Todd's HOT MIKADO WITH BILL ROBINSON. New York: 1939. Illustrated red wrappers. Essay on The Great Bojangles songs program. 3. GEORGE GERSHWIN'S & DU BOSE HEYWARD'S PORGY AND BESS. SOUVENIR PROGRAM. Porgy and Bess. New York: Artcraft Litho & Ptg. Co. 1940s. Illustrations 4. JUMP FOR JOY. N.p.: 1941. Souvenir program from American Revue Theatre's presentation of Duke Ellington in "Jump for Joy" with Dorothy Dandridge Ivy Anderson and Herb Jeffries. Many Illustrations. 5. STORMY WEATHER. COTTON CLUB PRESENTS ETHEL WATERS GEORGE DEWEY WASHINGTON IN COTTON CLUB PARADE. 22ND EDITION WITH DUKE ELLINGTON AND HIS FAMOUS ORCHESTRA. New York: Mills Music Inc. 1933. Sheet music words and music. Illustrations. 6. MUSICAL SCORE FROM THE 20TH CENTURY-FOX PRODUCTION "STORMY WEATHER" WITH LENA HORNE BILL ROBINSON CAB CALLOWAY AND HIS BAND. Words and music from the production illustrations. 7. SUPERSONIC SHOW OF STARS OF 1961. N.p. 1961. Program featuring Jackie Wilson as headliner. With: MASON Sonnie photographer. Three silver gelatin photographs of musicians Freddy Hubbard Donald Byrd and Bennie Maupin each in near excellent condition with rich tonality occasional spotting to versos some light corner creasing. Photographer's stamp to versos. Views of three legendary jazz musicians performing at a concert at Howard University. unknown 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
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
1939Best.-Nr. 61627York Pennsylvania: The Valencia Ballroom 1939. Quarto. Spiral-bound leatherette boards hardcover; 94pp; illus. Trivial soil to covers with front board very slightly bowed at fore edge; internally fresh clean and unmarked; Near Fine. Promotional album for the storied Valencia Ballroom a popular musical venue during the Swing Band era. Strategically located on a route that connected New York Philadelphia and Baltimore the Valencia caught traveling orchestras on their way north or south thus bringing an impressive assortment of acts to the unlikely industrial city of York PA. Richly illustrated with photographs of the venue of the Tassia family owners and managers of the Valencia architectural views and dozens of portraits of the popular performers who played there including Eddie Duchin Kay Kyser Benny Goodman Sammy Kaye Guy Lombardo Bunny Berrigan the Dorseys and a host of others. Though the Valencia clearly favored white orchestras a few noteworthy African-American performers appeared there regularly and are pictured including Jimmy Lunceford Cab Calloway Duke Ellington and Claude Hopkins. A lavishly-produced souvenir and highly uncommon; OCLC notes four locations and we trace no other copies in the trade. The Valencia Ballroom unknown books
