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  • Tanner, Lee, editor.
    DIZZY: JOHN BIRKS GILLESPIE IN HIS 75TH YEAR.

    Edition: First edition.

    San Francisco: Petaluma Art Books, 1992. Hardcover first edition -

    Condition: As new.

    Book ID: 1793
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  • CHASIN' THE TRANE: The Music and Mystique of John Coltrane. by Thomas, J. C.
    Thomas, J. C.
    CHASIN' THE TRANE: The Music and Mystique of John Coltrane.

    Edition: Trade paperback.

    New York: Da Capo Press, (1980.). Illustrated with photographs. Discography. 235 pp. 1988. ISBN: 0-306-800438.

    Condition: Very good in glossy illustrated wrappers (a clean tight copy, minor wear to the covers)

    Book ID: 57179
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  • THE HAWLEY COLLECTION OF VIOLINS, with a History of Their Makers & a Brief Review of the Evolution & Decline of the Art of Violin Making in Italy, 1540-1800. by Thomas. Theodore, introduction.
    Thomas. Theodore, introduction.
    THE HAWLEY COLLECTION OF VIOLINS, with a History of Their Makers & a Brief Review of the Evolution & Decline of the Art of Violin Making in Italy, 1540-1800.

    Edition: Limited, numbered first edition.

    Chicago: Lyon & Healy, 1904. Hardcover first edition - Introduction by Theodore Thomas. Includes 37 tissue guarded illustrations of classic violins (the Healy and the Earl by Stradivari and others) with front, back and side views - 24 are tipped in Chromoithographs in color and 13 black and white plates. Diagrams. #743 from a printing limited to 2000 numbered copies. Large format. 105 pp.

    Condition: Very good in paper covered boards with red cloth spine - rubbing to spine and corners and edges of boards, paper spine label and some tissue guards missing.

    Book ID: 75793
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  • JAZZ: A History. by Tirro, Frank.
    Tirro, Frank.
    JAZZ: A History.

    Edition: Later printing.

    New York: Norton, (1977.) dj. Hardcover - A comprehensive history, from its roots in African music, through the late 18th and 19th centuries, illustrated with numerous black/white photos, much actual musical notation, including 22 pp of transcriptions, a synoptic table which puts the events in jazz in context with other historical events, an annotated bibliography, discographies, glossary and index. 457 pp. ISBN: 0-393-090787.

    Condition: Very good in very good dust jacket (some scattered highlighting, affecting about 8-10 pp.)

    Book ID: 43847
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  • [Toscanini, Arturo.] Chotzinoff, Samuel.
    TOSCANINI: An Intimate Portrait.

    Edition: Book of the Month Club edition (same size and quality as trade edition).

    New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1956. Hardcover - A warm memoir of the brilliant conductor, illustrated with photographs by Adrian Siegel. 148 pp.

    Condition: Good in red boards with black cloth spine (rubbing to spine), lacking the dj.

    Book ID: 41183
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  • MUSIC TO MY EARS: THE BILLBOARD ESSAYS : PROFILES OF POPULAR MUSIC IN THE '90s. by White, Timothy
    White, Timothy
    MUSIC TO MY EARS: THE BILLBOARD ESSAYS : PROFILES OF POPULAR MUSIC IN THE '90s.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Faber & Faber, (1996.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Eighty-five columns from Billboard which combine interviews with recording artists and reviews of their records. Ranges across all genres of music, from rock, new wave, punk, blues, jazz, rap, country, reggae, world music, calypso, Latin to classical and more. Pieces on veteran artists like Eric Clapton, George Harrison, David Byrne, Ray Charles, Wyonna Judd, Joni Mitchell and the Eagles, White and on the less known artists like Liz Phair, Joan Osborne, Alanis Morissette, the spiritual dance sonorities of the Haitian group Boukman Eksperyans and many others. Photographs. Index. 333 pp. ISBN: 0-805039759.

    Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.

    Book ID: 41884
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  • JAZZ HERITAGE. by Williams, Martin.
    Williams, Martin.
    JAZZ HERITAGE.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Oxford University Press, 1985. dj. Hardcover first edition - An important book by one of jazz's most distinguished critics - includes reviews, essays about musicians at work recording, rehearsing and performing as well as a selection of album liner notes. by one of jazz's most distinguished critics, divided into sections, includes a collection of reviews of Ella Fitzgerald, Ornette Coleman, Bud Powell, Ellington, Fats Waller and many others; depictions of musicians at work recording, rehearsing and performing as well as a selection of album liner notes for Jelly Roll Morton, Coleman Hawkins, Charlie Parker, Thelonious Monk, Miles Davis and others. Index. xiv, 253 pp. ISBN: 0-195036115.

    Condition: Ex-library with the usual markings, but overall tight and clean in a very near fine and unmarked dust jacket.

    Book ID: 40026
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  • Wilson, John S.
    JAZZ: The Transition Years, 1940-1960

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Appleton, 1966. dj. Hardcover first edition - Includes photographs, glossary, index. 185 pgs.

    Condition: Ex-library with usual pocket, stamps, but overall in very good condition in a near fine dj.

    Book ID: 11101
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  • Zinsser, William.
    WILLIE AND DWIKE: An American Profile.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Harper & Row, 1984. dj. Hardcover first edition - In writing this biography of two jazz musicians, William Ruff and Dwike Mitchell, who have performed as a jazz duo since 1955, with Ruff on the double bass and French horn and Mitchell on the piano, Zinsser, who had studied jazz piano with Mitchell, followed them on their tour to Shanghai in 1981 (where they introduced jazz to China) and ending with a trip to Venice in 1983. A warm personal account of the shaping of two musicians. ISBN: 0-06-0152753.

    Condition: Very near fine in a near fine dustjacket (remainder mark, price clipped.)

    Book ID: 22943
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  • Zinsser, William.
    WILLIE AND DWIKE: An American Profile.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Harper & Row, 1984. dj. Hardcover first edition - In writing this biography of two jazz musicians, William Ruff and Dwike Mitchell, who have performed as a jazz duo since 1955, with Ruff on the double bass and French horn and Mitchell on the piano, Zinsser, who had studied jazz piano with Mitchell, followed them on their tour to Shanghai in 1981 (where they introduced jazz to China) and ending with a trip to Venice in 1983. A warm personal account of the shaping of two musicians. ISBN: 0-06-0152753.

    Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.

    Book ID: 22994
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  • Set of 2 Mid-19th Century Song Sheets: NOBODY KNOWS WHAT A RACKET WAS THERE and PRAIRIE FLOWER.
    Set of 2 Mid-19th Century Song Sheets: NOBODY KNOWS WHAT A RACKET WAS THERE and PRAIRIE FLOWER.

    Philadelphia & New York: Johnson Song Publisher / Jackson. nd (ca 1860s). The first of these sheets - "Nobody Knows What a Racket," to be sung to the tune of "Nobody Knows the Trouble I had" - is an example of the influence that Irish immigrants had on these sheets. One of the stereotypes of the Irish was that they never backed away from a fight, and this is a rollicking account of a barroom fight that wound up with the combatants (representing several ethnic groups) in prison for "setting fire to the house on St Patrick's Day." Plain sheet with the publisher's name above the lyrics and an advertisement for 2 books (published in 1859 and 1869) at…

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    Philadelphia & New York: Johnson Song Publisher / Jackson. nd (ca 1860s). The first of these sheets - "Nobody Knows What a Racket," to be sung to the tune of "Nobody Knows the Trouble I had" - is an example of the influence that Irish immigrants had on these sheets. One of the stereotypes of the Irish was that they never backed away from a fight, and this is a rollicking account of a barroom fight that wound up with the combatants (representing several ethnic groups) in prison for "setting fire to the house on St Patrick's Day." Plain sheet with the publisher's name above the lyrics and an advertisement for 2 books (published in 1859 and 1869) at the bottom. The second is a popular sentimental song by George Root, frequently printed but usually under the title of "Rosalie." This copy does not credit Root as the author. The lyrics are surrounded by a decorative border, the printer's name appears in a single line at the bottom. While neither of these are included in Wolf's American Song Sheets, a quote from the introduction gives a good sense of the popularity of these sheets: "A fad in American life produced a shower of song sheets, slip ballads and poetical broadsides. Although such sheets had been printed by enterprising publishers for centuries, it was not until about 1850 that it became big small-business. Then, to meet a growing popular demand sheets, which had once been printed by the score, appeared by the thousands. They were run off in large editions, sold wholesale to dealers and sold retail by hawkers and in stationery shops and book stores."

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    Condition: Good condition overall - printed on thin, fragile and somewhat toned paper, and Prairie Flower has some creasing to the upper corner.

    Book ID: 81639
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