Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Schirmer Books/Macmillan Publishing Co., Inc, New York
Date Published: 1975
Description: 4to, gold cloth (hardcover), 143 pp. Photographs. Ex-library. Good. Stampings on top, side and bottom edges of pages, endpapers and title page. Label on endpapers. Dust jacket-good-spine faded, light edge wear. read more
Edition: First Edition; First Printing
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Schirmer Books, O3
Date Published: 1975
Description: Very Good. Trade PB. 4to. Schirmer Books. 1975. 144 pgs. Wrappers lightly worn. Book is free of ownership marks. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. Pages browned. O3; 4to 11"-13" tall; 144 pages. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Schirmer Books/Collier Macmillan
Date Published: 1975
Description: Good. GOOD+ 1ST IMPRESSION 1975 ABACUS PB, WITH COLOUR COVER PHOTO & CENTRAL GLOSSY PHOTO SECTION. A WIDELY ACKNOWLEDGED CLASSIC BIOGRAPHY OF BLUES PIONEER BESSIE SMITH. LIGHT READING WEAR WITH READING CREASES TO SPINE & PAGE TAN, INNERS UNMARKED, BINDING VERY SECURE. JACKIE KAY'S BESSIE SMITH BOOK ALSO AVAILABLE. IMMEDIATE 1st Class/Airmail dispatch fromUK JAZZ COLLECTION ~~Please browse our Alibris storefront for more related items, combined postage available. Alibris UK Featured Seller 2. read more
Edition: First Separate
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Abacus
Date Published: 1975
Description: Collectible; Good. GOOD+ 1ST IMPRESSION 1975 ABACUS PB, WITH COLOUR COVER PHOTO & CENTRAL GLOSSY PHOTO SECTION. A WIDELY ACKNOWLEDGED CLASSIC BIOGRAPHY OF BLUES PIONEER BESSIE SMITH. LIGHT READING WEAR WITH READING CREASES TO SPINE & PAGE TAN, INNERS UNMARKED, BINDING VERY SECURE. JACKIE KAY'S BESSIE SMITH BOOK ALSO AVAILABLE. IMMEDIATE 1st Class/Airmail dispatch fromUK JAZZ COLLECTION. read more
Description: Song selections. Subjects: The Blues. Smith, Bessie, 1894-1937. Fine paperback copy. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. 2. pp. 143. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Schirmer Books, New York
Date Published: 1975
Description: Hardcover with dustjacket. 4to. First edition. Book is in fine condition; jacket is in VG+ condition, with two small closed tears to top edge and one torn corner tip. Covers are lightly scuffed. Contains numerous photographs, as well as transcriptions of Smith's recorded performances, with piano reductions and guitar chords. Not price-clipped. 144 pp. read more
Description: Song selections. Subjects: The Blues. Smith, Bessie, 1894-1937. Fine paperback copy. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. read more
Edition: First Printing
Binding: Quality Paperback
Publisher: Schirmer Books, New York
Date Published: 1975
Description: Very Good (Book Condition) A nice copy, but for sunning to cover and pages lightly tanned. Text clean, binding strong. [Our rating system: 1. Fine; 2. Near Fine; 3. Very Good; 4. Good; 5. Fair. ] read more
Edition: First Edition, First printing
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Schirmer Books, New York
Date Published: 1975
Description: 4to hardcover with dustjacket. VG/VG. Interior clean, age-toning to sheet music pages, crack in board at top edge of spine. DJ is in protective plastic sleeve, but appears to have had a few small tears as edges repaired with scotch tape, soiling to bottom edge, one thin white rubbed/scraped line across spine. 143 pp. No ISBN. [Black text on yellow spine. In song books. ] Music. 9-35-670360. read more
Description: NY: Schirmer, 1975. 143 pp. First edition. Orange, cloth boards with black stamping on spine. Oversize hardcover, 8.5 x 11 inches. Fine, in a very good dust cover with some soiling & a couple small closed tears. DJ in protective glassine. read more
Edition: First Printing
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Kane, USA
Date Published: 1975
Description: Good. 4to-over 9¾"-12" tall. 144 pages. Index. Discography. "The Greatest Singer and Entertainer of the Century-Bessie Smith comes alive again in this unique collection of 30 of her most famous songs. Not just copies of sheet music, here are actual transcriptions of her most famous songs, with piano reproductions and guitar chords...Gunther Schuller contributes notes on her singing style-perhaps the only good critical description of her art. This is the ideal companion to the record set of ... read more
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