Jazz in Perspective, The Background of the Blues. Jazz Book Club 8, London, The Jazz Book Club by arrangement with Hutchinson & Co. Ltd, 1957. Previous owner’s stamp on front endpaper, sellotape marks front and rear endpapers, text in good condition.
Hardback, illustrated with black & white photographs, abstract dust jacket, 19 cm, 148 pages. SECONDHAND
Play That Music, A Guide to Playing Jazz. Jazz Book Club 10, London, The Jazz Book Club by arrangement with Faber & Faber Ltd, 1958. Previous owner’s stamp on front endpaper, sellotape marks front and rear endpapers, text in good condition.
Hardback, abstract dust jacket, 19 cm, 113 pages. SECONDHAND
His Eye is on the Sparrow, an autobiography by Ethel Waters. Jazz Book Club 11, London, The Jazz Book Club by arrangement with W.H. Allen, 1958. Sellotape marks front and rear endpapers, text in good condition.
Hardback, abstract dust jacket, 22 cm, 260 pages. SECONDHAND
Jazz: Its Evolution & Essence, Andre Hodeir translated by David Noakes. Jazz Book Club 12, London, The Jazz Book Club, 1958. Previous owner’s stamp on front endpaper, sellotape marks front and rear endpapers, book club number 12 handwritten not typeset on title page, text in good condition.
Hardback, abstract dust jacket, 19 cm, 295 pages. SECONDHAND
Jazz: Hot and Hybrid, new and enlarged edition. Jazz Book Club 17, London, The Jazz Book Club, 1959. Sellotape marks front and rear endpapers, text in good condition.
Hardback, abstract dust jacket, 19 cm, 287 pages. SECONDHAND
World in a Jug. Jazz Book Club 24, London, The Jazz Book Club by arrangement with Jonathan Cape, London, 1960. Sellotape marks front and rear endpapers, text in good condition.
Hardback, abstract dust jacket, 19 cm, 220 pages. SECONDHAND
The Jazz Scene. Jazz Book Club 26, London, The Jazz Book Club by arrangement with Macgibbon & Kee, London, 1960. The beat generation in England. Sellotape marks front and rear endpapers, text in good condition.
Hardback, illustrated with black & white photographs, abstract dust jacket, 19 cm, 303 pages. SECONDHAND
These Jazzmen of our Time (Thelonious Monk, Miles Davis, Art Blakey, Charlie Mingus et al). Jazz Scene. Jazz Book Club 27, London, The Jazz Book Club by arrangement with Victor Gollanz, London, 1960. Sellotape marks front and rear endpapers, text in good condition.
Hardback, illustrated with black & white photographs by Herman Leonard, abstract dust jacket, 19 cm, 236 pages. SECONDHAND
The Horn, a jazz novel. Jazz Book Club 29, London, The Jazz Book Club by arrangement with Andre Deutsch, London, 1961. Sellotape marks front and rear endpapers, text in good condition.
Hardback, abstract dust jacket, 19 cm, 243 pages. SECONDHAND
Death of Music? The Decline of the European Tradition and the Rise of Jazz. Jazz Book Club 39, London, The Jazz Book Club by arrangement with Victor Gollanz Ltd, 1962. Sellotape marks front and rear endpapers, text in good condition.
Hardback, abstract dust jacket, 22.5 cm, 192 pages. SECONDHAND
Essays on Jazz Music (Billie Holiday, Lester Young, Bix Beiderbecke, Oscar Peterson, Johnny Hodges, Duke Ellington). Jazz Book Club 41, London, The Jazz Book Club by arrangement with Sidgwick and Patterson, 1962. Sellotape marks front and rear endpapers, review pasted in front endpaper, text in good condition.
Hardback, abstract dust jacket, 19 cm, 205 pages. SECONDHAND
The Jazz Word. Jazz Book Club 43, London, The Jazz Book Club by arrangement with Dennis Dobson, 1963. Sellotape marks front and rear endpapers, review pasted in front endpapers, text in good condition.
Hardback, abstract dust jacket, 21 cm, 192 pages. SECONDHAND
The Story of the Original Dixieland Jazz Band. Jazz Book Club 44, London, The Jazz Book Club by arrangement with Sidgwick and Jackson, 1963. Sellotape marks front and rear endpapers, text in good condition.
Hardback, abstract dust jacket, 20.5 cm, 268 pages. SECONDHAND
The Reluctant Art, the Growth of Jazz (Bix Beiderbecke, Benny Goodman, Lester Young, Billie Holliday, Charlie Parker). Jazz Book Club 47, London, The Jazz Book Club by arrangement with Macgibbon & Kee, 1964. Sellotape marks front and rear endpapers, text in good condition.
Hardback, abstract dust jacket, 20 cm, 191 pages. SECONDHAND
Just Jazz. Jazz Book Club 4, London, Souvenir Press, 1960. Contains a ‘Disconography’ of jazz records issued February 1959-April 1960, compiled by G. Cherrington.
Hardback, illustrated with black & white photographs, 24.5 cm, 159 pages. SECONDHAND
Jazz: A People’s Music, illustrated by Jukes Halfant. Jazz Book Club 48, London, The Jazz Book Club by arrangement with the Citadel Press, 1964. Sellotape marks front and rear endpapers, text in good condition.
Hardback, abstract dust jacket, 20 cm, 278 pages. SECONDHAND
Trumpet on the Wing, foreword by Bing Crosby. Jazz Book Club 51, London, The Jazz Book Club by arrangement with Doubleday & Co Inc, 1964. Sellotape marks front and rear endpapers, text in good condition.
Hardback, abstract dust jacket, 19.5 cm, 256 pages. SECONDHAND
Jazz Panorama, From The Pages of The Jazz Review. Jazz Book Club 52, London, The Jazz Book Club by arrangement with the Crowell-Collier Press, 1965. Sellotape marks front and rear endpapers, text in good condition.
Hardback, abstract dust jacket, 19.5 cm, 318 pages. SECONDHAND
Towards Jazz (Jazzmen, criticism, group relations, improvisation). Jazz Book Club 54, London, The Jazz Book Club by arrangement with Grove Press Inc, 1965. Sellotape marks front and rear endpapers, text in good condition.
Hardback, abstract dust jacket, 19 cm, 224 pages. SECONDHAND
Frontiers of Jazz, 2nd edition. Jazz Book Club 58, London , The Jazz Book Club by arrangement with Frederick Ungar Publishing Co., 1966. Sellotape marks front and rear endpapers, text in good condition.
Hardback, abstract dust jacket, 20.5 cm, 178 pages. SECONDHAND
Blues People, Negro Music in White America. Jazz Book Club 59, London, The Jazz Book Club by arrangement with Macgibbon & Kee, 1966. Sellotape marks front and rear endpapers, text in good condition.
Hardback, abstract dust jacket, 20.5 cm, 244 pages. SECONDHAND
Music on My Mind, The Memoirs of an American Pianist. Jazz Book Club 60, London, The Jazz Book Club by arrangement with Macgibbon & Kee,1966. Sellotape marks front and rear endpapers, text in good condition.
Hardback, abstract dust jacket, 20.5 cm, 318 pages. SECONDHAND
Just Jazz, Fully Illustrated with complete Discography of 1956 Jazz Recordings. Peter Davies, London , 1957.
Hardback with illustrated dust jacket, 22 cm, 224 pages. SECONDHAND
Been Here and Gone. A history of Black music in the southern states of the U.S.A., based on photographs and tape-recordings made by the author during visits there in 1954-1957. London, Cassell & Company Ltd, 1960.
Cloth covered hardback, illustrated, 23.5 cm, 177 pages. SECONDHAND
Jazz, New Perspectives on the History of Jazz by twelve of the world’s foremost jazz critics and scholars. The Jazz Book Club, London, by arrangement with Cassell & Company Ltd, 1962.
Cloth covered hardback, 22 cm, 387 pages. SECONDHAND
The New Yearbook of Jazz, Volume 3 of The Encyclopaedia of Jazz Series. Includes over 524 biographical entries of musicians who have become prominent since 1956 and 54 photographs of musicians at jazz festivals, night clubs and poetry-with-jazz evenings. London, Arthur Barker Ltd, 1959.
Hardback with dust jacket, text good condition, endpapers discoloured by sellotape 26 cm, 187 pages. SECONDHAND
Who’s Who of Jazz, Storyville to Swing Street, with forward by Johnny Simmen. Contains over 1,000 biographies of musicians and vocalists born or raised in the before 1920. Chilton Book Company, Philadelphia, New York & London, 1972.
Hardback with decorative, slightly torn dust jacket, illustrated, 23.5 cm, 419 pages. SECONDHAND
Kings of Jazz 1, Duke Ellington, London, Cassell & Co Ltd, 1959. One of a series published by Cassell to provide authoritative introductions to individual masters of jazz.
Hardcover, illustrated, 18.5 cm, 90 pages. SECONDHAND
Kings of Jazz 2, Dizzy Gillespie, London, Cassell & Co Ltd, 1959. One of a series published by Cassell to provide authoritative introductions to individual masters of jazz.
Hardback, illustrated, 18.5 cm, 89 pages. SECONDHAND
Kings of Jazz 4, Bix Beiderbecke, London, Cassell & Co Ltd, 1959. One of a series published by Cassell to provide authoritative introductions to individual masters of jazz.
Hardback, illustrated, 18.5 cm, 90 pages. SECONDHAND
Kings of Jazz 5, Louis Armstrong, London, Cassell & Co Ltd, 1960. One of a series published by Cassell to provide authoritative introductions to individual masters of jazz.
Hardback, illustrated, 18.5 cm, 87 pages. SECONDHAND
Kings of Jazz 6, Charlie Parker, London, Cassell & Co Ltd, 1960. One of a series published by Cassell to provide authoritative introductions to individual masters of jazz.
Kings of Jazz 9, Miles Davis, London, Cassell & Co Ltd, 1961. One of a series published by Cassell to provide authoritative introductions to individual masters of jazz.
Kings of Jazz 12, Coleman Hawkins, Cassell & Co Ltd, 1963. One of a series published by Cassell to provide authoritative introductions to individual masters of jazz. Review pasted in front endpaper.
The Sound, a jazz novel about Red Travers, trumpet player. London, the Jazz Book Club by arrangement with Cassell, 1964. Review pasted in front endpaper, slightly foxed.
Hardback, 20.5 cm, 287 pages. SECONDHAND
The Book of Jazz, Its Nature and its Instruments, Its sources and its Sounds, Its Development, Performers, Composers and its Future. Foreword by Dizzy Gillespie. London, Arthur Baker Ltd, 1959. Previous owner’s stamp and review on front endpaper.
Hardback with dust jacket, 21.5 cm, 280 pages. SECONDHAND
Jazz Men, articles about the growth of jazz in New Orleans, Chicago, New York, and comments on the contemporary scene. London, Sidgwick and Jackson, 1957. Previous owner’s stamp on front endpaper and endpapers discoloured by sellotape.
Hardback with decorative dust jacket, illustrated, 22.5 cm, 360 pages. SECONDHAND
Benny, King of Swing, A Pictorial Biography based on Benny Goodman’s own archives. London, Thames & Hudson, 1979.
Hardback with dust jacket, 212 illustrations, 31.5cm, 208 pages. SECONDHAND
The Collector’s Jazz, Traditional and Swing, Philadelphia & New York, J.B. Lippincott & Co, 1958.
Paperback, cover discoloured, 19.5 cm, 318 pages. SECONDHAND
The Book of Bilk, 41 Characters in Search of an Acker. Comedy, depicting Acker Bilk as his supposed famous ancestors. London, The Jazz Book Club by arrangement with Macgibbon & Kee, 1963. Sellotape marks front and rear endpapers, most of text in good condition.
Hardback with dust jacket, illustrated, 22 cm, 96 pages. SECONDHAND
The World of Jazz, Oxford, Phaidon Press, 1980.
Hardback, with dust jacket, illustrated, 32.5cm, 192 pages. SECONDHAND
The Life and Thoughts of Louis Armstrong – A Self-Portrait. The interview by Richard Meryman. New York, Eakins Press, 1971.
Card cover, illustrated, 18 cm, 59 pages. SECONDHAND
Kings of Jazz 3, Bessie Smith, London, Cassell & Co Ltd, 1959. One of a series published by Cassell to provide authoritative introductions to individual masters of jazz.
Hardback, illustrated, 18.5 cm, 83 pages. SECONDHAND
Kings of Jazz 7, Fats Waller, London, Cassell & Co Ltd, 1960. One of a series published by Cassell to provide authoritative introductions to individual masters of jazz.
Kings of Jazz 11, Jerry Roll Morton, London, Cassell & Co Ltd, 1962. One of a series published by Cassell to provide authoritative introductions to individual masters of jazz. Review pasted on front endcover.
Hear Me Talkin’ To Ya, the story of jazz by the men who made it. London, The Jazz Book Club by arrangement with Peter Davies, 1967. Sellotape marks front and rear endpapers, and review pasted in.
Hardback with dust jacket, 20 cm, 383 pages. SECONDHAND
We Called it Music, an autobiography of Eddie Condon. London, Peter Davies, 1956. Sellotape marks front and rear endpapers and previous owner’s stamp.
Hardback with dust jacket, illustrated, 20.5 cm, 287 pages. SECONDHAND
Selling Sounds. The Commercial Revolution in American Music. Uncovers the origins of the culture industry in music and chronicles how music ignited an auditory explosion that penetrated all aspects of society. It maps the growth of the music business across the social landscape and analyses the effect of this development on everything from copyright law to the sensory environment.
Hardback, 356 pages, NEW
Count Basie And His Orchestra, Its Music and Musicians, with Disconography by Alun Morgan. London, Jazz Book Club No 14 by arrangement with Victor Gollanz, 1958. Previous owner's name and sellotape marks on endpapers.
Hardback with dust-jacket, 320 pages. SECONDHAND
The Sound of Surprise, 46 Pieces on Jazz by Whitney Balliett, London, Jazz Book Club No 34 by arrangement with William Kember, 1961. A selection of articles by jazz critic Whitney Balliett. Previous owner's name and sellotape marks on endpapers. Review of the book also pasted into front endpapers.
Hardback with dust-jacket, 254 pages. SECONDHAND
