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The Sound I Saw: The Jazz Photographs of Roy DeCarava : January 20 to March 20, 1983 by DeCarava, Roy - 1983

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The Sound I Saw: The Jazz Photographs of Roy DeCarava : January 20 to March 20, 1983

by DeCarava, Roy

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NY: Studio Museum in Harlem. Very Good with no dust jacket; Lower rear corner bumped .. 1983. Softcover. 60 black and white plates of such jazz greats as Duke Ellington, John Coltrane, Milt Jackson, Billie Holliday, Count Basie, Zoot Sims, Horace Silver, Thelonious Monk, Miles Davis, Lester Young, Coleman Hawkins and many others. Other photos of jazz clubs, patrons, and other musicians. Preface by Willard C. Butcher, foreword by Dr. Mary Schmidt Campbell, introduction by A. D. Coleman and essay by C. Daniel Dawson. Footnotes. Chronology and bibliography by Sherry Turner DeCarava. Catalogue of the full exhibition at rear. Library of Congress number 82-62795. ; Square 4to 9" - 11" tall; 84 pages .
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  • Book Condition Used - Very Good with no dust jacket; Lower rear corner bumped .
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  • Publisher Studio Museum in Harlem
  • Place of Publication NY
  • Date Published 1983
  • Keywords JAZZ, Jazz Musicians, Jazz Photography, Jazz Musicians

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New York: Phaidon Press, 2003. Second printing. Paperback. Very Good/very good. Tall paperbound quarto. Thick unpaginated volume of black and white photographs. Second printing from 2003. A very good copy in very good paper dustwrapper. Some inevitable waviness to the paper due to the size and weight of this volume. DeCarava's poetry and photos. Tribute to Jazz music. Wonderful book. A large and heavy book. Additional shipping charges may apply.
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New York: Phaidon Press. Very Good+. 2003. Softcover. 0714843318 . Roy Decarava (1919 - 2009), a life-long New Yorker, was an important American artist and photographer who published only five books. This book profiles jazz artists of the 1960's, and most were never published prior to this oversize book. Nearly every page has contains a single photo of the jazz greats of this era. First issued in 2001 as a hardcover, the paperbound version was issued two years ater. Bound in the original publisher's glossy black photo-illustrated covers with a glossy black dust jacket with the same images as the book covers. Unpaginated but about 208 pages. This is a nice clean, tight and unmarked book with no interior or exterior markings, no previous owner names and no bookplates. The dust jacket in similarly nice condition with no chips, tears, or markings. This is an oversize book: international and priority will be extra. ; B&W Photographs; Folio 13" - 23" tall; Unpaginated pages . Read More
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