Edition: First edition. First Thus; First Printing.
Binding: Mass-market paperback
Publisher: New American Library, [New York]
Date Published: 1958
Description: Good. No dust jacket. First Printing thus. Spine creases. Crease front & back cover, bottom corners. Age-tanning. Edge chips. Still, a very nice, solid copy. MMPB. A Mentor book, MD240.. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Mentor, New York
Date Published: 1958
Description: Very Good. Very good. No dust jacket as issued. This book is solid and unmarked. The covers are slightly discolored. 272p., ill., 18 cm.; Photpographs; Notes; Bigliography; Syllabus; Index / This book has a white, illustrated cover with multi-colored prin t. "One of the great books on Jazz. "--N.Y. Times Sczrce! ; Alibris.0014935. read more
Edition: 3rd Printing
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Mentor Book, New York USA
Date Published: 1963
Description: Fair. 12mo-over 6¾"-7¾" tall Paperback Paperback. Some wear to cover. Buddy Bolden. King Oliver. Jelly Roll Morton. Louis Armstrong. Bix Beiderbecke. Benny Goodman. Dizzy Gillespie. Charlie 'Yardbird' Parker. In this systematic and objective history, the author, the noted jazz expert, described their contribution to the history of jazz as he traces its evolution, structure and techniques from the tribal music of Africa to the great jazz of New Orleans to the rock 'n' roll of present-day ... read more
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