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New York: Hill and Wang, 1960. First US Edition . Wraps. VG+/VG-. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. David Stone Martin. See photos for condition details. Hardcover with dust jacket. Original price of $4.50 is still present on the front flap. DJ shows scuffing and minor soiling along with numerous edge and corner chips… Read more about this item

NY: Da Capo Press, 1978. reprint. Softcover. Very Good/None. Softcover, 245 pages, b&w photos. Sidney Bechet (1897-1959) was one of the most brilliant exponents of New Orleans jazz. A prodigy on the clarinet, he soloed with Bunk Johnson's orchestra at age eleven, was improvising cornet-clarinet duos with Buddy Petit at age fifteen. Leaving New Orleans in the 1920s,… Read more about this item

Paperback. Good.

Hill And Wang. Very Good in Good+ dust jacket. (1960). First American Edition. Orange cloth covered boards with mild soil and edgewear, and bumped spine ends. Corners sharp. DJ in mylar has light soil and rubbing, light edgewear with tiny tears and related creasing, and lightly sunned spine. Not price clipped. Binding sound, text clean. Illustrated in… Read more about this item

Plenum, 1978. 1st. Paperback. New/New.

Hardcover no dust jacket, assumed as issued - 1975 Da Capo red cloth reprint, text appears clean and unmarked, binding is square and tight, covers are clean but for rubbing on the spine -- Dependable seller since 1994, daily shipping with tracking from our brick and mortar store in Madison, Wisconsin.

Hill and Wang, 1/1/1960. Hardcover. Like New. In mylar. 1st edition. Clean, unmarked pages. Good binding and cover. Hardcover and dust jacket. Hill & Wang, 1960 printing. Very minor sunning to spine edge. Ships daily.

London: The Jazz Book Club / Cassell, 1962. Hardcover. Near Fine/Good. Reprint. Illustrated from black and white photographs. Foreword by Desmond Flower. Octavo. 243pp. Pages age-toned, near fine in a good only lightly dampstained dust jacket with short tears on spine ends.

Hill and Wang, January 1960. Hardcover . Very Good/Good. Early printing with no edition stated; Tight binding; Clean, sturdy boards; Mild foxing present at paste-downs; Pages free of markings; Un-clipped dust jacket Good w/ moderate edge-wear including scuffing, creasing and some closed tears, one significant closed tear at rear of jacket; Jacket now housed in protective mylar to… Read more about this item

NY:: Hill and Wang,. Good in Good dust jacket. 1960. Hardcover. An autobiography. First edition thus. Foxing to edges and endpapers, else good in a good (minor edge wear, sun faded along the spine) dust jacket. .

Cassell & Company 1960. FIRST EDITION, Super octavo hardcover (VG) in d/w (VG-); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage cost

Da Capo Press, 8/21/1978 12:00:01 A. paperback. Very Good. 1.1000 8.4000 5.5000.

Cassell, London 1960.. 1960. Hardcover. 8vo. hardcover. 245pp. index, b/w plates. Good+, some foxing, mainly to endpapers, cover lightly foxed. / Good d/w with some small tears. .

Da Capo Press, 1978. Paperback. Acceptable. Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

Da Capo Press, 2002-03-05. 2nd ed. Paperback. Very Good. 8x5x0. Softcover. Good binding and cover. Small spot to half title page, else unmarked.

Da Capo Press, Incorporated, 2002. Paperback. Very Good. Disclaimer:A copy that has been read, but remains in excellent condition. Pages are intact and are not marred by notes or highlighting, but may contain a neat previous owner name. The spine remains undamaged. At ThriftBooks, our motto is: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

NY: Hill and Wang, 1960. First Edition. 8vo, pp. vi, 245. Catalog of recordings, index. Illustrated wtih photographs. Orange cloth. Cover little scuffed at edges, o/w a VG tight copy in scuffed and chipped dj. An autobiography of the jazz great made from tapes recorded just before his death.

Hill and Wang, 1960. First edition, first printing. Near fine orange boards in very good dust jacket. Lovely back cover photograph of Bechet. Nicely illustrated with vintage photographs and portraits of Bechet at work

London: Cassell and Company, Ltd., 1960. 17 b/w illustrations. 245 pages, clean and clear. Clean white endpapers. Yellow cloth cover with purple titles on the spine. Head and tail of spine very lightly worn. Black DJ with purple and yellow titles and illustration. Light wear along the edges. Near Fine/Near Fine. First Edition.… Read more about this item

New York: Hill & Wang, 1960. 245 pp. White endpapers. Orange cloth with black titles. Bottom corners slightly worn. Brown illustrated DJ with white titles. Scribble on front cover, small chips, wear along the edges. VG+/GOOD.. 1st Edition.