They All Played Ragtime by Blesh, Rudi & Janis, Harriet - 1960

Sidgwick & Jackson, 1960. Hardcover. Acceptable. 1960. Jazz Book Club Edition. 338 pages. No dust jacket. Blue cloth. Pages remain bright and clear with minimal tanning and foxing. Free endpapers are removed. Previous owner's annotations to rear pastedown. Some creasing to gutter. Boards have moderate edge-wear with bumping to corners and rubbing to surfaces. Soft crushing to spine ends. Noticeable tanning to spine and edges. Brown marks overall.

5-5: Sidgwick and Jackson. Good+ with no dust jacket. 1958. First Edition. Hardcover.

New York: Grove Press, Inc, 1959. Revised Edition. Paperback. Very Good. 345p; xviii. A softcover book in very good condition. Spine creased; otherwise clean and tight.

New York. : Oak Publications., 1971.. Fourth edition.. Soft cover. . Fine copy. . Octavo. . Illustrated. Important reference work. Very scarce in this condition.

The Jazz Book Club 1960. Super octavo hardcover (VG) in d/w (VG); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage cost

NY: Knopf, 1950. First Edition. 8vo, pp. 338, xviii (index). A fine copy in some worn dj, former owner's name on front and rear end paper. Illustrated with photographs as well as a list of phonograph records.

New York: Evergreen/Grove Press, Inc., 1959. Trade Paperback. Very Good. 8vo or 8° (Medium Octavo): 7¾" x 9¾" tall. Roy Kuhlman (Cover Design). 345 pp. Solidly bound copy with moderate external wear, crisp pages and clean text. Creased spine.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1950. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. First edition. Very faint stain on the boards, thus very good in an about very good dustwrapper with a stain on the rear panel, and a triangular chip to part of the foot of the spine. Important history of a uniquely American musical form.