Edition: Reprint
Binding: Mass Market Paperback
Publisher: A Dell Book, New York
Date Published: 1946
Description: Fair. No Jacket. This book has some shelf wear as well as tanning and marks on the cover and pages. There is creasing on the spine. This book is 384 pages. read more
Edition: 1st printing
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Random House
Date Published: 1946
Description: Good. No dj. Cover worn along edges, binding a little loose but all pages appear to be intact, previous owner's name & address on ffep otherwise pages are unmarked. read more
Description: Dell (D118), NY, 1946; Paperback; 384pp; Slight musty odor, slight slant, light creasing to covers, spine creased, previous owner's initials on flyleaf, pages clean & tight, G+ cond. Memoir of jazz, crime, prison, drugs & more, a "modern odyssey of an old-time jailhappy jazzman who spiked beer for Al Capone, smoked opium with the Purple Gange, peddled marihuana in Harlem, played Clarinet in dives high & low, married across the color line, today heads a jazz record company...written in rich, ... read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: New York: Dell
Date Published: 1946
Description: Good. Softcover, copy right 1946, new revised edition, 35 cent cover price, pages are unmarked and tanning with age, covers are worn but nice, some edge wear, cover art by walter brooks, mass market paperback, book surprisingly tight. read more
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Dell (, New York
Date Published: 1946)
Description: First Edition of this Dell paperback D118, 35c, a reprint of the new revised edition. Includes index. 384 pages. Pocket softcover, very good condition: bright, spine wrinkled rather than creased and with rub spots, cover corners creased. --"Music school? Are you kidding? I learned to play the sax in Pontiac Reformatory..." read more
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Softcover.
Publisher: Dell (#D118), NY
Date Published: n.d. [ca. 1952]
Description: First paperback edition (new revised edition). Originally published by Random House in 1946 (in hardcover). Compelling story of the forties and Mezz Mezzrow, "an old-time jail-happy jazzman. " Original wrappers. Striking cover. Spine is creased, but the pages are all firmly intact. Some faint creases to both covers, but overall a very good+ copy. Uncommon. read more
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Cloth
Publisher: Random House, New York
Date Published: 1946
Description: Good+ No Jacket. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. 1st Edn., 1st Ptg. Clean copy-blue boards are somewhat spotted and/or faded. Pages are yellowing and previous owner's name on fpdp. Hinges are weakening. Slight edgewear. read more
Edition: fourth printing, 1946
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Random House
Description: Very Good, Good++ 8VO, 388 pgs. Hardcover: Light grey cloth binding with title on frontboard in blue and on spine. Slightly soiled on edges. This is a strange wonderful autobiography of Jazz and Jazz Musicians. Nice tight binding. Jacket: Edgewear and chipping. Closed tear on each side of upper spine area. Lightly soiled covers. Author's photo on back. Attractive copy in protective mylar. read more
Binding: Unknown Binding
Publisher: The Jazz Book Club
Date Published: 1959
Description: Good. VG-/VG-1959 JAZZ BOOK CLUB HARDBACK #16 WITH ORIGINAL UNCLIPPED DJ. SUBLIME BLUES MEMOIR BY MEZZ MEZZROW, IN THIS LOVELY JAZZ BOOK CLUB EDITION WITH REINGANUM JACKET DESIGN. A LITTLE CORNER RUBBING TO OUTER EDGES OF DJ, PAGES A LITTLE DISCOLORED AT EDGES, INNERS AND BINDING VG. EXTENSIVE COLLECTION OF JAZZ BOOK CLUB HARDBACKS AVAILABLE. IMMEDIATE 1ST CLASS/AIRMAIL DISPATCH WORLDWIDE ~~Please browse our Alibris storefront for more related items, combined postage available. Alibris UK ... read more
Binding: cloth
Publisher: Random House, New York
Date Published: 1946
Description: Very Good in a Near Fine dustwrapper. Second Printing. This copy is SIGNED by both authors on the front endpaper along with American Jazz legends Louis Armstrong and Sidney Bechet as well as Velma Middleton, who served a long stint in Armstrong's band as vocalist, and Pops Foster, who is generally acknowledged as being the father of the jazz bass. On a rear blank are three signatures of French musicians including orchestra leader and specialist in the music of Bechet, Jacques Doudelle. An ... read more
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Dell, no date, New York
Description: Mass market paperback. "New revised edition". Dell pb D118. Rubbing to spine folds; text paper tanned; small corner tip torn from first leaf; VG clean and tight copy otherwise. Later issue with 50c cover price (1950s. First pb was in 1953). "Mezz" wasn't a major jazz player, but this is a classic jazz autobiography. Reefer. read more
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: New American Library of Canada, (Toronto)
Date Published: 1964
Description: Signet mass market paperback T2586, Canadian issue. Tiny ink name at top of first page, browning inside covers, text yellowed of course, else a VG clean and tight copy. "Mezz" wasn't a major jazz player, but this is a classic jazz autobiography. Reefer. read more
Binding: Cloth
Publisher: Secker & Warburg, London
Date Published: 1957
Description: Good. 8vo. New edition. Wear to joints and extremities. Ridged spine. Imps to front board. Some foxing, some creases to a couple of pages. read more
Edition: 4th Print.
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: NY: Pub. Random House, 1946, NY
Date Published: 1946
Description: 4th Print. 8" x 5 1/4", 388 pages; major localities are Chicago, New York, New Orleans, appendices are 1) New Orleans and Chicago: the Root and the Branch, 2) Translation of the Jive Section, 3) A Note on the Panassie Recordings, 4) Glossary, 5) Index; grey cloth binding moderately worn & soiled, edges moderately spotted, rear corners bumped. G-. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Secker & Warburg, London
Date Published: 1957
Description: 388 pp including index, previous owner's name on front paste-down, spine sunned, else very good copy in blue boards. First published 1946. read more
Edition: First Printing
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Random House, New York
Date Published: 1946
Description: Very Good. 388pgs. blue cloth, white lettering. Covers, lettering clean. upper corners bumped, spine rubbed in spots. small stain on lower outer edge of pages. rear hinge exposed, but intact. internally clean, unmarked. biography of a clarinetist in the middle of the newly evovled jazz scene, its ups and downs. read more
Edition: First Printing
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Random House, New York
Date Published: 1946
Description: Octavo. 387pp. Index. Blue cloth lettered in white with original blue dust jacket. Warmly inscribed by Mezzrow on the front free endpaper. Good+, front hinge broken, cloth worn and soiled, faint corner stain. Fair dust jacket with chipped and split spine, edgewear, and the front panel detached (but present). Image or additional images available upon request. read more
Edition: First printing
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Random House, New York
Date Published: 1946
Description: Octavo, dark blue cloth lettered in white, pp (x), 388, (2). Page edges yellowed, text paper lightly toned, else fine, no owner names, no flaking to cover lettering. Dust jacket is chipped and rubbed at tips of bit yellowed spine (no lettering lost); small abrasion near centre of front panel; rubbing and short tear to outer corners; good, flap price intact. Jazz, jail, smoking O and reefer, hip not to mention hep. Memoirs of this minor American jazzman (clarinet), a classic of jazz literature. read more
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