Duke: A Portrait Of Duke Ellington by Jewell Derek - 1977

NY: W.W. Norton & Company. 1st printing with number 1 on copyright page. . VG. Hardcover. 1st. 1977.

W. W. Norton & Company, March 1980. Trade Paperback. Good+/None. Remainder mark on bottom. Tanning and edgewear. Sticker remnants inside cover.

W W Norton & Co Inc, 1977. 1st printing. hardcover. Acceptable/FAIR. 7x1x10. Previous owner markings on flyleaf with pen - and bracketing and underlining passages. Dust jacket short tears and chips along top edges and lower spine. Foxing heavy at top, lighter along leading edges.

New York: W W Norton & Co Inc, 1977. Hardcover in publisher's price-clipped dust-jacket. 264 pages. Select Discography and Bibliography, Index. Illustrated with photographs. First edition, first printing with full number line. No previous ownership marks. A clean, square, unmarked copy. Fine in a near fine dust-jacket. . First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

W W Norton & Co Inc, 1977-04. Hardcover. Good.

Hardback. Good.

Paperback. Very Good.

Paperback. Good.

New York: W.W. Norton & Company, Inc, 1977. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 5x0x9. First edition. Addenda slip laid in. Jacket lightly toned, bottom corner of front jacket flap clipped. 1977 Hard Cover. 264 pp. Includes black-and-white photographs. "Edward Kennedy Ellington, the Duke. As a musician, there has been no other artist quite like him. His expansive talent poured out more than five thousand compositions, from all-time pop songs like “Sophisticated Lady” and “Solitude” to major suites and musicals. Derek Jewell had admired Ellington for thirty years, knew him well in the later years of his life, talked with him and watched him at work in many environments. His story starts in turn-of-the-century Washington, when jazz was growing under the fingers of poolroom maestros, moves on to the hustling night life of Prohibition, and then develops into a portrait of Ellington the international celebrity,… Read More

Scranton, Pennsylvania, U.S.A.: W W Norton & Co Inc, 1977. hardcover in fine condition with near fine dust jacket. Hardcover. Fine/Fine.