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Louis' Children; American Jazz Singers
by Leslie Gourse
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0688022413
- ISBN 13
- 9780688022419
- Seller
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WINFIELD, Kansas, United States
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About This Item
New York, NY: William Morrow & Company, 1984 William Morrow & Company, New York. 1984. Hardcover. Stated First Edition/First Printing by Line Number. Book is tight, square, and unmarked. Book Condition: Very Good; light dust soiling of text block top; small area of sun-bleaching at head. DJ: Very Good; NOT Price Clipped ($19.95); bumping to head and tail; light rubbing to panels. Gray grained boards with green cloth overlay on the spine with bright silver lettering on the spine. 366 pp 8vo. In the beginning there were gospel and blues singers and then came Louis Armstrong and Jazz. From the lead of Armstrong grew the great singers and their jazz- Bing Crosby, Nat "King" Cole, Brenda Lee, Billie Holiday, Ella Fitzgerald, Frank Sinatra and a host of others. This is the first comprehensive overview of Armstrong's great legacy. A clean very presentable copy in a Brodart mylar jacket
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- Bookseller
- Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 009185
- Title
- Louis' Children; American Jazz Singers
- Author
- Leslie Gourse
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0688022413
- ISBN 13
- 9780688022419
- Publisher
- William Morrow & Company
- Place of Publication
- New York, NY
- Date Published
- 1984
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾
- Keywords
- jazz, jazz music, Louis Armstrong, jazz singers, music, music performers, songwriters,
- Bookseller catalogs
- Art/Music/Motion Pictures/Television; Biographies;
Terms of Sale
Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
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About the Seller
Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
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WINFIELD, Kansas
About Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
Walnut Valley Books is a small independent home-based business with the bulk of my holdings being of an American military nature covering everything from the Revolutionary War to the current wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. I also have holdings of books on the Middle East, the southwestern United States (New Mexico especially, Kansas related titles, Oklahoma related titles, and other regionally specialized books. All of my holdings are hand-selected to be good quality books of interest to the reader, historian, or the collector. In addition to the above, you will also find a wide range of other topics such as Medical, US History, autobiographical, biographical, sports, women's studies, and many other eclectic topics.
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- Brodart
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- Tight
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- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Price Clipped
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- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Text Block
- Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....
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