The World of Count Basie
by Basie, Count; Dance, Stanley
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- See description
- ISBN 10
- 0684166046
- ISBN 13
- 9780684166049
- Seller
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Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada
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About This Item
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons [0-684-16604-6] 1980. (hardcover) xxi, 399pp. Very good in very good dust jacket. 8vo. Jacket shows light wear at the lower edge, faint rubbing. Black cloth, silver title stamped to spine. There is a name penned (small, in red ink) to the front free endpaper; else is clean, tight, bright, solid. An essential history of the great bandleader and the music he made, richly illustrated through anecdotes, opinions, biographical information, and extraordinary black and white photographs..
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Details
- Bookseller
- Spafford Books (CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 126990
- Title
- The World of Count Basie
- Author
- Basie, Count; Dance, Stanley
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- ISBN 10
- 0684166046
- ISBN 13
- 9780684166049
- Publisher
- Charles Scribner's Sons
- Place of Publication
- New York
- This edition first published
- 1980
- Keywords
- Jazz Music, Jazz History, Jazz Music, Music Biographies, Music History, Swing Music
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About the Seller
Spafford Books
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Regina, Saskatchewan
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- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.