Indianapolis, New York, Kansa City: The Bobbs-Merrill Company/Howard W. Sams & Co., Inc. NONE [NONE] 1966, 1st printing. (hardcover) 366+. Very good in very good dust jacket. 8vo. Jacket shows light wear, closed tears at upper and lower edges, and faint rubbing. Olive green cloth, silver titles stamped to front and spine. There is a name penned (small) to the front free endpaper; else is clean, bright, tight, and well-bound. Includes 49 selections from the 70-odd pieces written by the author on jazz between 1962 and the time of publication for the New Yorker..

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Bookseller: Spafford Books (CA)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 126985
Title: Such Sweet Thunder; Forty-Nine Pieces on Jazz
Author: Balliett, Whitney
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used
Quantity Available: 1
Publisher: The Bobbs-Merrill Company/Howard W. Sams & Co., Inc. NONE
Place of Publication: Indianapolis, New York, Kansa City
Keywords: Music History, Jazz History, Jazz Music, Music History, The New Yorker

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