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Shining Trumpets: A History of Jazz
by Rudi Blesh (1899-1985)
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Good to very good
- Seller
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Fort Worth, Texas, United States
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About This Item
xvi+365+xxii pages plates, music score, appendix and indices. Royal octavo (9 1/2" x 6 1/2") bound in original publisher's yellow cloth with red and blue lettering to spine and decorative blue to cover in original jacket. First edition.
Calls attention to key personalities and developments in the history of jazz and notes the distinctive features of the uniquely American musical form.
Condition: Edges soiled, corners bumped. Jacket soiled, corners and spine ends chipped, edge wear with closed tears, small chips and creases, spine sunned. Very good in a good to very good dust jacket
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- Bookseller
- The Book Collector ABAA, ILAB, TBA
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- BOOKS001958
- Title
- Shining Trumpets: A History of Jazz
- Author
- Rudi Blesh (1899-1985)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Good to very good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First
- Publisher
- Alfred A Knopf
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1946
- Size
- Royal octavo
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- JAZZ
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- Soiled
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- Cloth
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- Jacket
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- Sunned
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- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- Spine
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