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Thunder's Mouth Press, 1988. Paperback. Very Good. Former library book; May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

Early (1953) Beat novel about a jazz musician.John Clellon Holmes reflects on the history of jazz in this classic novel. Edgar Pool is "The Horn," the hero, and the man who helps change the face of American music. He becomes the legend whose triumphant and tragic career is reconstructed through the memories of his friends and lovers.

Thunder's Mouth Pr, April 1988. Paper Back. Good. As new appearance, upper textblock slightly soiled, owner name present, marginalia in foreword.

Thunder's Mouth Pr, 1988 The best Beat Jazz novel ever written. VG. Unmarked.. 3rd Edition. Soft cover. Very Good.

Thunder's Mouth Pr, 1988 The best Beat Jazz novel ever written. VG. Unmarked.. 3rd Edition. Soft cover. Very Good.

New York: Random House, (1958). Octavo, black cloth & green boards (hardcover), 243 pp. Very Good, with light wear to spine. Without dj, but with dj flaps laid-in. From dj flap: He was the greatest horn player of his generation, Edgar Pool was his name, but nobody called him that -- not if they knew anything at all about jazz. No, he was simply, eloquently, “The Horn” to everybody who’d ever heard him, or heard about him. And to the younger ones, musicians and disciples alike, he was almost a myth. Until the night Walden Blue came along. That’s the night the story begins -- early morning, really, in those blue hours just before dawn, the hours in which jazz musicians come into their own. The night-club doors are closed, the outlanders have all gone home; then the real “session” gets under way, when the men play out of their own love and need, for themselves and the few who really belong. “The Horn’s” music reflected his mood that morning; drunk, sardonic, bitter, he mocked… Read More

Paperback. Acceptable.

Paperback. Very Good.

New York: Random House. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1958. First Printing. Hardcover.

Thunder's Mouth Press, 1988. Hardcover. Good. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

London: Penguin Books Ltd, 1988-01-01. paperback. Good. 0x0x0. 243pp. Tight, sturdy, and square; text very good+. Corner creased at rear panel. NOT ex-lib. Ships from Dinkytown in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

NEW YORK NY: RANDOM HOUSE. F/NONE. 1958. HARDCOVER. ISBN: SECOND PRINTING / AN AUTHENTIC AND POWERFUL NOVEL ABOUT THE WORLD OF JAZZ. Keywords: BEAT WRITER, CHARLIE BYRD, JAZZ, INVISIBLE, ABCDEF.

Random House, 1958, 1958. Hardcover. Good. Missing dust jacket; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

NY (1958). Good+ with no dust jacket. 1958. Second Printing. Hardcover. 8vo 8"-9" tall. .

New York: Random House, 1958. Second Printing. Hardcover with Dust Jacket. Near Fine/Very Good. 8vo. Pp. [2], 3-243. Bound in black half-cloth over green paper-covered boards, lettering stamped in blue and white on spine. Top edge dyed gray. One corner bumped. In the illustrated dust jacket, price-clipped, that shows light edge-wear. Holmes' novel set in the after-hours world of jazz clubs, where the players pushed their material to the front burner and turned it on high. Dust jacket illustration is uncredited, but it resembles the shoe drawings of Andy Warhol, as well as his dust jacket for the Walter Ross novel The Immortal (1958). Holmes is credited as coining the phrase "beat generation;" indeed, this novel is dedicated to "Shirley" and Jack Kerouac. Dust jacket is now housed in a removable, clear archival sleeve.

Random House, 1958. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. Name stamped on flyleaf; interior pages unmarked. Dust jacket edge & shelfworn. Price clipped. Binding firm..

London: Andre Deutsch, 1959. Cloth/no dust jacket Octavo. Hardcover. Good. black cloth, gilt lettering, no dust jacket, 243 pp front endpaper removed black ink marking on the copyright page Standard shipping (no tracking) / Priority (with tracking) / Custom quote for large or heavy orders.

Crest Books. New York: Fawcett Publications. , 1959 first edition . S-307 very good - fine, crease Cover art by Mitchell Hooks. paperback,

Random House, 1958. First edition, second printing. Very close to fine cloth boards with no dustjacket with clean bright text throughout. An authentic and powerful novel about the world of jazz from a close associate with Jack Kerouac

NY:: Random House,. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1958. Hardcover. Second printing. Very good in a very good (light edge wear) dust jacket. .