Satchmo: My Life in New Orleans.
by Armstrong, Louis
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Palm Beach, Florida, United States
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About This Item
New York: Prentice-Hall, Inc, 1954. First edition, second printing of the autobiography of one of the most influential figures in the history of jazz, Louis "Pops" Armstrong. Octavo, original half cloth, pictorial endpapers, illustrated. Presentation copy, inscribed by the musician on the half-title page, "To Josh: The Old Dixie Jazz-hound from New Orleans!! Your friend, Louis Armstrong ("Satchmo")." The recipient, Joshua B. Glassel was a fellow Dixieland jazz musician and friend of Armstrong's in New Orleans. Near fine in a very good price-clipped dust jacket. With Glassel's ownership signature to the half-title page. American trumpeter, composer and vocalist Louis Armstrong was one of the most influential figures in the history of jazz. His career spanned five decades, from the 1920s to the 1960s, and he was renowned for his charismatic stage presence and voice almost as much as for his trumpet playing. Armstrong was one of the first popular African-American entertainers to "cross over"; whose skin color became secondary to his music in an America that was extremely racially divided at the time.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Raptis Rare Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 137133
- Title
- Satchmo: My Life in New Orleans.
- Author
- Armstrong, Louis
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Prentice-Hall, Inc
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1954
- Keywords
- Louis Armstrong First Edition Signed, Satchmo: My Life in New Orleans First Edition
- Bookseller catalogs
- Biography and Autobiography;
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About the Seller
Raptis Rare Books
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Palm Beach, Florida
About Raptis Rare Books
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- First Edition
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- Jacket
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- Fine
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- Inscribed
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- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...