Wait until dark: Jazz and the underworld, 1880-1940
by Morris, Ronald L
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine/Near Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0879721499
- ISBN 13
- 9780879721497
- Seller
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Staten Island, New York, United States
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About This Item
Bowling Green, Ohio: Bowling Green University Popular Press, 1980. Hardcover, red cloth lettered in black, in publisher's dust-jacket. 231 pages. Bibliography, Index. Illustrated with 5 pages of photographs. First edition [with same date on title and copyright page and no additional printings listed]. A history of the attitudes and behavior of American criminal elements and their relation to the jazz world from 1880 until just before America's entry into the Second World War. No previous ownership marks. No remainder marks. A clean, square, fresh and unmarked copy in a lightly shelf-worn dust-jacket. Dust-jacket shows no tears or chips. Fine in a near very good, very scarce dust-jacket. . First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Near Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Great Expectations Rare Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 014085
- Title
- Wait until dark: Jazz and the underworld, 1880-1940
- Author
- Morris, Ronald L
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Near Very Good
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0879721499
- ISBN 13
- 9780879721497
- Publisher
- Bowling Green University Popular Press
- Place of Publication
- Bowling Green, Ohio
- Date Published
- 1980
- Keywords
- Jazz, Crime and Music, History
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
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Great Expectations Rare Books
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Staten Island, New York
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