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Garden City NY: Doubleday, Doran and Company, Inc.. Very Good+ in Very Good dj. 1943. First Edition. Hardcover. [light shelfwear, minor bump to lower front corner, vintage bookseller's label (John G. Kidd & Son, Cincinnati) on front pastedown; the jacket is edgeworn (especially along the top edge, where there is a short closed tear and some associated creasing), with some scuffing to the front panel]. "This novel, about the world of hot jazz, is written out of the experiences of a young man who played drums in many small bands himself. It tells, with a hard, biting realism, the story of a jazz musician's attempted compromise with commercialism, love, and the music that drove him with a rocking, relentless beat." The setting is the "Union Garden," a tawdry nightclub in Kansas City. This was the author's first novel, as well as the initial (and scarcest) book in what's been called a trilogy, followed as it was by two more, also about jazz musicians…
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Tangleweed
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Garden City: Doubleday, Doran & Co, 1943. 1st. Hardbound. Fine copy in dust jacket (light rubbing, mild wear to spine ends).. Octavo. 182 pages. Grey boards in black decorative dust jacket. A novel about the world of hot jazz written out of the experiences of a young man who played drums in many small bands himself . Volume One of the triliogy 'The Three Musicians'.
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- Book Condition Used - Fine copy in dust jacket (light rubbing, mild wear to spine ends).
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- Publisher Doubleday, Doran & Co
- Place of Publication Garden City
- Date Published 1943
- Keywords , , Music, Fiction,
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