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Harcourt Brace and Company, New York. Near Fine. 1939. 1st ed.. 1st ed., 8vo., beige cloth, 360 pp. This early jazz history focus es on the important hot spots and musicians of New Orleans, Chica go, and New York. 56 photographs; comprehensive index. CONDITION: Near fine in fair dustjacket. A clean, tight copy: prior ownerâ €™s penciled signature on front end paper, some browning in the h inges; contemporary bookshop label inside back cover [and transfe r to facing page]; no tears, chips, or rubbing. The jacket is com plete, not price-clipped but has numerous edge tears up to 1”, chipped a spine ends; soiled back panels. .

A life of Jimi Hendrix told through text, rare photographs, reproductions of documents and memorabilia, and a 70-minute audio CD.
4to, 10.25x10.75", illustrated boards, 64 pp. plus inserts of memorabilia.
With exclusive access to the private family archives, the authors provide an indispensable addition to the Hendrix canon. The book includes a 70-minute audio CD with interviews and unreleased recordings of live concert music and a Record Plant jam
CONDITION: A new copy, with CD pocket still sealed. However, a former store display copy with some light surface wear to the cover and slipcase.

London, Princes Theatre, 1961. Stapled wrappers.7.25x5" 24pp.
'King Kong' was a pioneering South African musical inspired by the life and death of the heavyweight boxing champion Ezekiel Dlamini. Billed as a 'Jazz-Opera', the production was first staged in Johannesburg, opening on February 2nd 1959 and went on to take South Africa by storm. Nelson Mandela attended the opening night and is on record as highlighting the show as his favorite musical. 'King Kong' subsequently opened at London's Princes Theatre on February 23rd 1961 and ran for 201 performances.
With an all-black cast, the play portrayed the life and times of a heavyweight boxer, Ezekiel Dlamini, known as "King Kong". Born in 1921, after a meteoric boxing rise, his life degenerated into drunkenness and gang violence. He knifed his girlfriend, asked for the death sentence during his trial and instead was sentenced to 14 years' hard labor. He was found drowned in 1957 and it was believed his death was suicide. Only two copies of this program… Read More

Revised edition (Seventy-fifth thousand). 12mo. pp. viii, 265. 8vo, decorated cloth stamped in black and gold.
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Illustrated with an Albertype frontispiece plate (printing a photograph of the Jubilee singers - with an accompanying caption printed on the tissue guard); 2 tinted lithographic portrait plates; and 1 wood-engraved plate (of Jubilee Hall at Fisk University).
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Condition: Fair. Small ownership signature in pencil on the front free endpaper verso, corners lightly rubbed; spine somewhat darkened with ends moderately rubbed; front hinge lightly cracked but fully intact. Internally clean and tight overall but with a loose signature at p. 199