T H E C O L O P H O N B O O K S H O P Robert and Christine Liska 101B W A T E R ST E X E T E R N E W H A M P S H I R E 0 3 8 3 3 ( 6 0 3 ) 7 7 2 8 4 4 3 JAZZ / BLUES / SWING All items listed have been carefully described and are in fine collector’s condition unless otherwise noted. All are sold on an approval basis and any purchase may be returned within two weeks for any reason. Member ABAA and ILAB. All items are offered subject to prior sale. Please add $5.00 shipping for the first book, $1.00 for each additional volume. New clients are requested to send remittance with order. All shipments outside the United States will be charged shipping at cost. We accept VISA, MASTERCARD, AMERICAN EXPRESS and PAYPAL (603) 772-8443; FAX (603) 772-3384; e-mail: [email protected] Please visit our web site to view MANY additional images and titles. http://www.colophonbooks.com Signed by W. C. Handy 1. HANDY, W. C. Unsung Americans Sung. (New York: Handy Brothers Music Co., 1944), quarto, boards in dust jacket. 236 pp. First Edition. Songs memorializing and celebrating African Americans along with brief biographical notes: Booker T. Washington, Dr. George Washington Carver, Frederick Douglass, Paul Laurence Dunbar, Harriet Tubman, Phyllis Wheatley, et. al. Contributors include Langston Hughes, "Doc" Charles L. Cooke, Spencer Odom, W. C. Handy, James P. Johnson, and many other African Americans who also deserve recognition. With a bibliography. Presentation copy, inscribed and signed by African American Jazz orchestra leader, George Morrison, on the front pastedown, "To Katherine / Wishing you every success / Geo Morrison / 1.14.46". Also signed on the front endpaper by W. C. Handy and dated 1945. Water (?) stain along bottom 1/2" of back board. Publisher's promotional slip offering two other binding styles and pricing. Minor shelf wear to edges of jacket and scuffing along bottom edge of boards. Fragile binding solid at spine showing just the tiniest bit of weakness along top outer edge. (31312) $300.00 2. WITTKE, Carl. TAMBO AND BONES. A History of the American Minstrel Stage. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1930, octavo, original orange cloth stamped in black on front cover and spine, in original printed dust jacket. (x), (278)pp. First Edition. A nearly as new copy of this scarce history of Black American minstrels. Jacket is clean, bright and not price clipped. Top of jacket spine has a very tiny chip. (30753) $250.00 3. PANASSIE, Hugues. Le Jazz Hot. Introduction by Louis Armstrong and Preface by Eugene Marsan. Paris: Editions R.-A. Corrêa, (1934), octavo, pictorial paper wrappers. 432 pp. First Edition. Frontispiece drawing by Roger Chastel. Illustrated with photographs. Text in French. The first of a dozen books written by Panassie on Hot Jazz. Wrappers with chipping along edges, front and back. Tape reinforcement to top and bottom of spine. (31293) $175.00 4. PANASSIE, Hugues. Hot Jazz. The Guide to Swing Music. New York: M. Witmark & Sons, (1936), octavo, blue cloth stamped in gilt. (xx), 363 pp. First American Edition. "The Complete, authoritative work on swing...its great performers, its great recordings, its great achievements." Translated by Lyle and Eleanor Dowling from "Le Jazz Hot". Several small chips around edge of jacket, not price clipped. A swing related newspaper clipping laid in which has offset at pp. 160/161. Faint erasure to front endpaper. (30882) $350.00 5. BOULTON, David. Jazz in Britain. London: W. H. Allen, 1958, octavo, red boards in dust jacket. 206 pp. First Edition. Foreword by Chris Barber. This book falls into three parts: a general history, the British jazz scene at the time of publication, and finally a comprehensive catalogue of British jazz bands. Illustrated with photographs. a fine, clean copy in a fine dust jacket that is not price clipped. (31309) $35.00 6. BROONZY, William as told to Yannicj Bruynoghe. Big Bill Blues. (London): The Jazz Book Club, (1957), octavo, blue boards in dust jacket. 139 pp. Jazz Book Club edition. First published by Cassell in 1955, this edition was published for members of the Jazz Book Club only. Illustrated with photographs. The 8 pp. gathering containing the title page, Foreword, Contents and list of Illustrations is present but not bound in and without stab holes. Dust jacket design by Victor Reinganum. Minor chipping at top and bottom of jacket spine and at flap folds. (31303) $45.00 7. COURLANDER, Harold. Negro Folk Music U.S.A. New York: Columbia University Press, 1963, octavo, orange cloth in dust jacket. (xii), 324 pp. First Edition. "The considerable acculturation between Negro and white folk music, and the effects Negro tunes and styles have had on popular music in the United States are all taken into account. The author examines thoroughly the influence of Negro musical tradition on jazz, and shows that they are completely separate developments although jazz as a popular art form developed out of folk style." (31310) $22.00 8. DEMEUSY, Bertrand, Otto Fluckinger, Jorgen Grunnet Jepsen, Kurt Mohr. compilers. Hot Lips Page. Basel, Switzerland: Jazz-Publicaitons, 1961, small octavo, printed wrappers stapled. 30 pp. First Edition. With Discography by Jorgen Grunnet-Jepsen and Kurt Mohr. Illustrated. One page addendum laid in. One entry in the discography annotated by Rolph Fairchild, best known as a writer of jazz album liner notes and the author of the art Hodges discography. Edges of wrappers faded, else fine. (31315) $50.00 9. (ELLINGTON, Duke). de TRAZEGNIES, Jean. Duke Ellington (Harlem Aristocrat of Jazz). Bruxelles: "Editions du Hot Club", (1946), octavo, pictorial heavy paper wrappers. (64)pp. First Edition. Illustrated with photographs.Presentation Copy, inscribed and signed by de Trazegnies on the half title" "To Al Otto. Sincerely Jean de Trazegnies 29.6.46." (in green ink). A fine, clean copy. A most attractive copy. This book is one of approximately 1,500 jazz, blues, big band and swing books we will be uploading. Stay tuned. (31263) $45.00 10. GOFFIN, Robert. Aux Frontieres du Jazz. Paris: Editions du Sagittaire, no date, circa 1938, small octavo, printed self-wrappers. (260) pp. Fourth Edition. Text in French. Preface by Pierre Mac Orlan. Illustrated with 60 photographs. "By 1923, he was a lawyer at the Court of Appeal of Brussels, and in 1928, he married Suzanne Lagrange. During this period, his focus shifted to the new American art form, jazz, and in 1932 he published what is considered the first serious book on the new genre, Aux Frontières du Jazz ('On the Frontiers of Jazz')." Wikipedia. Small chip at bottom of spine which has been creased from reading. Two glass rings on front wrapper, overall shelf wear but solid. (31295) $150.00 11. GOFFIN, Robert. La Nouvelle-Orléans Capitale du Jazz. New York: Éditions de la Maison Français, 1946, octavo, printed wrappers in printed dust jacket. (271) pp. First Edition. Text in French. Chip to front flap of jacket with has minor chipping along edge. Near fine. (31296) $85.00 12. HUGHES, Spike. Opening Bars. Beginning an Autobiography. London: Pilot Press Ltd, 1946, octavo, blue cloth in dust jacket. 382 pp. First Edition. Spike Hughes was a British musician, composer and arranger who spanned the worlds of classical music and jazz. He has been called Britain's earliest jazz composer. This text covers not only jazz but opera, Max Reinhardt, Eric Gill, W. B. Yeats and his own experiences as a composer. Several large chips to dust jacket, front and back, which is price clipped. (31313) $75.00 13. JAMES, Burnett. Essays on Jazz. London: Sidgwick and Jackson, (1961), small octavo, brown boards in dust jacket. 205 pp. First Edition. Essays covering Billie Holiday, Lester Young, Bix Beiderbecke, Oscar Peterson, Duke Ellington and more. White background of dust jacket slightly dust soiled. Jacket not price clipped and book very fine. (31299) $25.00 14. GERHARDI, William. Jazz and Jasper. The Story of Adams and Eva. London: Duckworth, (1929), octavo, purple cloth in dust jacket. 312pp. First Edition. "...a satire on this age of jazz bands and love." A very fine, clean copy, top edge dusty. Jacket has slight edge wear with bump to head of spine which is sunned. (31182) $175.00 15. HOBSON, Wilder. American Jazz Music. New York: Norton, (1939), octavo, bright blue cloth in pictorial dust jacket. (234)pp. First Edition. Illustrated with photographs. A near fine, clean copy, top and bottom of spine bumped. Jacket price clipped and with wear to extremities especially at spine. (30872) $55.00 16. HOLMES, John Clellon. The Horn. New York: Random House, (1958), octavo, turquoise boards and black cloth in printed dust jacket. (xii), (244)pp. First Edition. "An authentic and powerful novel about the world of jazz." Book in very fine, clean condition. Jacket near fine with a few scuffs and bump to head of spine. Jacket is not price clipped. (31173) $75.00 17. JEPSEN, Jorgen Grunnet. A Discography of Count Basie 1951-1968. Copenhagen: Knudsen, (1969), octavo, printed heavy paper wrappers. (vi), (49)pp., stapled. First Edition. A very fine, clean copy. This book is one of approximately 1,500 jazz, blues, big band and swing books we will be uploading. Stay tuned. (31260) $20.00 18. KAUFMANN, Helen L. From Jehovah to Jazz. Music in America from Psalmody to the Present Day. New York: Dodd, Mead, 1937, octavo, blue cloth stamped in gilt on front cover and spine in printed dust jacket. (xiv), (306)pp. First Edition.