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Mass Market Paperback. Condition: Very Good-. Early Printing. Mass market paperback in very good minus condition: light external wear; straight and tight; pages a little toned. Early printing. Size: 12mo - over 6� - 7�" tall. Book.
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Soft Cover. Condition: Very Good++. No Jacket. First Edition First Printing. 203pp. With revised Discography by Vincent Pelote. Pictorial Soft Cover. "The searing autobiography of an American muscial legend." Minor underlining on one page. Paperback.
Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Illustrated with photographs. 191pp. Pictorial Soft Cover. Never been read. Paperback.
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21 x 13 cm, Broschur. Condition: Gut. 209 Seiten. kaum Gebrauchsspuren, guter Zustand. Sprache: Deutsch Gewicht in Gramm: 450 Ungek�rzte deutsche Erstausgabe, 1. Auflage.
220 pages, 16 photographic glossy plates. - Publisher's colour-illustrated softcover (ca. 20 x 13 cm). *** [Erweiterter SOMMERVERKAUF / Expanded SUMMER-SALE: um fast 20% REDUZIERTER PREIS bis Donnerstag 21.07.2022, 24 Uhr (PRICE-REDUCTION until Thursday, July 21st, 12 p.m.); urspr�nglicher Preis / originally: EUR 26,50] --- FIRST SOFTCOVER EDITION, SOFTCOVER ORIGINAL. - Minimal shelfwear, else in best condition. isbn 0349117055.
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Gyldendal, 1957. 250 sider. Hft. Lidt brugsspor men indvendig ren. Fiorst Danish edition / F�rste danske oplag.
Deutsche Erstausgabe, 209 S., sehr gutes Exemplar, Original-Broschur,
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Condition: Fair. 1958. First Edition. 226 pages. No dust jacket. Red cloth boards with gilt lettering. Contains black and white illustrations. Clean pages and illustrations with noticeable tanning and foxing throughout. More pronounced to free endpapers and pastedowns. Pencil markings to front pastedown. Moderate tape marks to free endpapers and pastedowns. Binding remains firm. Boards have moderate edge-wear with bumping to corners and rubbing to surfaces. Gilt lettering is darkened. Moderate sunning to spine and edges with crushing to spine ends. Moderate splits to spine ends and corners causing cloth to be frayed. Visible wear marks to boards.
Condition: Fair. Acceptable condition. No Dust Jacket NY: Doubleday 1956. Early printing, no 1st edition statement. Hardcover 8vo 250 pgs. Fair with no dust jacket. Red cloth. Covers are edgeworn, water spotted, lightly soiled. Silver gilt on spine is worn. Cloth on spine ends and corners is tattered and there is a 1 inch tear to backstrip on the front cover/spine head hinge area. B/w photo endpapers. Contents clean and binding sound. (music, biography, blues).
Hardcover. First Edition; First Printing. Very good but for sunned and worn spine, lacking the dust jacket. This book as well as the titles that follow are all from the library of New York Times music critic John S. Wilson [1913-2002], one of the most esteemed jazz critics of his era. One of the first critics to write about jazz in a regular column, he was also well-known as a jazz radio host. The provenance of these books is guaranteed as we purchased them personally from John and his wife. Some are inscribed to him, a few have his signature, some have review slips, a few have a label (supplied by us) laid in, and several have no indication of ownership except from our own business records made when processing the purchase. Most of these books are first printings in their jackets, except for several uncorrected proofs. Two books lacks a dust jacket. Condition is very good+ to fine. Here Lies Leonard Sillman (inscribed by this Broadway producer); Encyc. of Quotations about Music (N. Shapiro, inscr. note); Best of Music Makers (insc. G. Simon); Jazz Country (Hentoff, Review slip); Live at Village Vanguard (proof, Gordon/Hentoff); Jazz Singing (Friedwald, label); Jazz Is (Hentoff, label); Louis (Jones & Chilton, Letter from Publisher); My Life in Jazz (Kaminsky); Great American Popular Singers (Pleasants, JSW marginal comments); Encycl. Folk, Country and Western Music (Stambler, label); Mable Mercer (Haskins, 6pp of JSW notes laid in); Listen: Gerry Mulligan (Klinkowitz, label); Story of Jazz (Stearns, JSW notes & annotations); Discovering Great Singers of Classic Pop (Hemming, proof, JSW notes on cover); Sweetest Music This Side of Heaven [Lombardo] (Herndon, JSW few notes, brackets, label); Jazz Singing (Friedwald. proof, JSW marks); Modern Jazz (Morgan, no dj, JSW marks); American Musical Revue (Bordman, proof, few JSW marks & notes); Golden Age of Jazz (Gottlieb, paperback, pub's note to JSW); Guy (Richman, label). Media Mail postage is $20.00. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 250 pp.
Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. First Ed. Early reprint ed. No statement of edition on copyright page. Good condition, moderate over all wear, gift inscription on title page, lettering of author's name on spine flaking off.
FIRST EDITION, octavo red cloth boards, black and silver lettering to spine, illus., 250pp, VG- (scruffy: heavy scuffing to boards with moderate fraying to top of spine, moderate soiling to boards; moderate tanning to edges, light tanning within; main detraction: pages 99-102 have closed tears with prev. owner's tape repairs, unsightly, leaving tape stains to adjacent pages also) in d/w G+ (substantially complete, back section split from front; heavy scuffing creasing and rubbing; moderately large sections missing to top and bottom of spine, with small triangular sections missing from corner of front, which is, otherwise, substantially complete).
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Garden City 1956. 8.5 x 5.5", cloth, 250 pp, book is slightly cocked, with wrinkled back cover in edge frayed, torn, & wrinkled dw. FIRST EDITION.
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Hard Cover with Dustjacket. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Poor. First Edition, Early Printing. Hardcover with dustjacket: very good / poor. Book: red cloth hardcover with silver and black lettering to spine and front; pictorial endpapers; 250 pages; no indication of edition on copyright page so it is an early printing but not a first; very good condition: light staining to front board; light spotting to pages previous to title page; straight; hinges strong. Jacket in new mylar protector; original price $3.75 on front flap; poor condition with rubbing, tears, and chips. Size: 8vo - over 7� - 9�" tall. Book.
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Very good, clean, tight condition with light wear. Early printing. Text free of marks. NO JACKET. Professional book dealer since 1999. All orders are processed promptly and carefully packaged with tracking.
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Description : 1/1 UK Condition : Book rebound in quarter leather with Jefferies decorated paper sides and vellum tips. Raised bands and leather lettering panels to spine. Size : 225mm x 145mm Book is contained in a paper covered slipcase.
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Hardcover. Condition: Fair. First Edition. 250 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.
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Hardcover. Condition: VERY GOOD +. Dust Jacket Condition: Good++. 1st Edition. 250pp, bound in red cloth, with most of the white lettering on the spine present, photographic endpapers, binding and hinges tight. NO LABELS, INSCRIPTIONS NOR MARKINGS. The Dust Jacket shows the flap price of $3.75, is not clipped, with edge wear/tear, and is now housed in a protective mylar cover.
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Doubleday & Co. Garden City, New York. 1956. 250 pages. First edition stated, first printing. Binding and hinges are strong and sound. Illustrated endpapers are bright and clean. Red cloth is clean. Slight dulling to sheen in spots. Shelf-rubbing along edges. Softening to backstrip cloth at edges. Light rubbing to titles on backstrip. A solid copy with flaws noted. First edition, first printing. VG.
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Very good with faint toning to bottom of spine and white lettering of title and author on spine almost competely gone (but "with William Dufty" and "Doubleday" in black unaffected). Interior clean and tight. In a very good dust jacket ($3.75 price intact) with light rubbing at the spine ends and corners, and a dime-size chip at the top corner of the spine. A very nice first printing of a title rarely found in dust jacket.
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Lady Sings The Blues (Autobiography) LEGENDARY JAZZ SINGER, in Dustjacket, CHRONOLOGICAL DISCOGRAPHY, STATED 1st Edition, Published in 1956, when BILLIE Holiday was 41 years old, 9 years after her incarceration in Alderson Federal Prison Camp for narcotics offences,

Billie Holiday, with William Dufty photographic endpapers IN B/W of Holiday, Inner DJ Flap $3.75 WITH some Separation at FOLD

Published by Doubleday, Garden City NY, 1956

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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. HBDJ, Stated 1st Edition, 1956 ON HALF TITLE & COPYRIGHT ,1st Impression, ,Red cloth Titled on Spine Cover in B/W VG+/GOOD , Cover & SPINE light rub, wear Scuff, 250 pgs, Interior nice tight clean light wear Fox. DJ HAS RUB, WEAR SCUFFING ETC & TINY EXTREMITIES CHIPS, a bit of spine lean, some bumping at board and spine extremities, a few scuff marks to boards, rubbing/fading to spine, pages clean & unmarked & a bit age-tanned; dust wrapper has chipping and tears at head & foot of spine and inside flap fold corners, shelfwear at edges, white tape at top right of front panel, some tape repair to verso, scuffing to panels, rubbing to spine TAPE RESIDUE TOP FRONT DJ CORNER , and 3 years before her untimely death of cirrhosis of the liver at the age of only 44. pulls few punches in addressing her troubled childhood experiences of sexual abuse and prostitution, her heroin addiction, her drinking, her imprisonment on narcotics charges, her sex life and her relationships with abusive men.includes a Billie Holiday discography, and a number of monochrome photographs on the front and rear pastedowns and free endpapers.
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. HBDJ, 1ST UK EDITION, STATED FIRST PUBLISHED 1958, First English edition. VG/VG-, AS-IS, 226 pages plus plates, Jacket was taped in at one point many years ago TO ENDPAPERS and left tape ghosts to the inner and outer boards, INTERIOR LITE FIX & FEW FOX STAINS . Book also has some spotting to first blank pages . Jacket also has some spotting and a couple neat repairs on the back at the spine tips. Displays quite well with despite its flaws. Rare in hardcover these days. 226 PGS BRITISH DISCOGRAPHY. & CHRONOLOGICAL DISCOGRAPHY, RED CLOTH TAPE GHOSTS AT EDGES Titled in gold on spine cvr.
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. HBDJ, 1ST UK EDITION, FIRST PUBLISHED 1958, First English edition. 226 pages plus plates. VG/VG, DJ has Tiny Extremities Tears chips, , else a NEAR fine- copy in the very slightly chipped, rubbed dustwrapper (now protected with removable archival plastic); a presentable copy.