Search Results: Music from David Palmer

London: Frank Cass, 1969. Two volume set. A very good facsimile of the first edition of 1803, complete with folding plates and maps. Deals at great length with customs, beliefs, agriculture, diet, music, war, trade, religion and magic. The author was a doctor and the whole of the second volume is devoted to medicine and disease. Both volumes are in fine condition.

London: Snape Maltings Foundation and Faber Music, 1972. First Edition. A valuable collection of essays on Aldeburgh, its history and the Festival and its literary associations. 457pp. Very good in very good dustjacket.

BBC, 1929. First edition. 480 pages, Illustrated throughout with photographs and drawings and with many advertisements, particularly for electrical and radio products. Articles on the whole range of broadcasting: music, drama, sport etc. and a large section dealing with technical aspects of early broadcasting. A good tight and clean copy with moderate shelf wear.

Picador, 1999, First UK edition. 572 pages. A history of the emergence of modern jazz from the Swing Era of the 1930s and the musicians such as Charlie Parker and Thelonious Monk who made the new music. The book contains a lot of new material from oral memories of musicians. A very good copy in dust wrapper.

London: Picador, 1999.First UK edition. 572 pages. An authoritative and scholarly survey of early modern jazz. Fine in very good dustjacket.

London: Quartet, 1974. First edition. Hardback. With owner's neat inscription on front end paper. Very good in very good dustjacket.

Prestige/Bluesville Records, 1991. First issue of a box set of seven CDs, including studio and live recordings and a long recorded interview with Hopkins by Samuel Charters. The record company catalogue number is 7PCD-4406-2.The CDs are in fine condition, as is the 32 page booklet. The box is clean but its corners are slightly worn and bumped.

Oxford University Press, 1993. First edition. Hardcover, 536 pages. An important collection of reviews, essay, memoirs concerning Duke Ellington, his music and musicians. Near fine in very good dust wrapper.

Da Capo Press, 2001. First edition. Illustrated. On the road with the the Marsalis band. Fine copy in fine dust wrapper.

Quartet Books, 1989. First edition. A fascinating study of the great tenor saxophonist, Dexter Gordon. With full discography. Illustrated. A near fine copy in near fine dust jacket.

London: Yale University Press, 2005. First edition. Review copy with publisher's review slip loosely inserted. Fine in fine dustjacket.

Viking, 2003. First edition. One of the pieces is a libretto version of Salman Rushdie's 'Haroun and the Sea of Stories'. Fine copy. Fine dustjacket with just a little crimping at the top of spine.

London: Heinemann, 1971. First edition. A very good copy in very good dustjacket.

Oxford University Press, 2001. First edition. A compilation of articles, reviews, interviews concerning the great American jazz musician and composer, Thelonious Monk. A fine copy in a fine dust wrapper.

New York: Grove Press, 1962. First edition. Very good in dw. "The best analytical book on jazz ever written." (Downbeat). Essays on Parker, Tatum, Basie, Ellington, Monk etc.

London: Faber, 2002.First edition. Fine in near fine dustjacket.