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To BE or not to BOP. Memoirs
de Gillespie, Dizzy with Al Fraser
- Usado
- Muy bueno
- Tapa dura
- Firmado
- First
- Estado
- Muy bueno/Very Good (Minus)
- ISBN 10
- 0385120524
- ISBN 13
- 9780385120524
- Librería
-
Chico, California, United States
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Sobre este artículo
Garden City: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1979. The autobiography of one of the most important innovators of Twentieth-Century American Classical Music (also known as "Jazz"). John Birks Gillespie's virtuoso career spanned the end of Swing, through BeBop, Cool Jazz, and on to Ethnic/World Music. Diz (1917-1993) was an incredible influence, and his compositions ("Night in Tunisia," "Salt Peanuts," et.al.) remain standards today. This is a Very Good copy of the First Edition. Orange paper-covered boards with a blue cloth spine titled in gilt. Clean text; xix, 552 pages. Indexed. Illustrated with numerous black-and-white photographs. This copy has been SIGNED and INSCRIBED by Diz on the front paste-down, dated in 1983. Lightly bumped, with a bit of rub and minor fade to the spine. The dustjacket is complete but clipped (with a torn price-tag on the rear panel. Spine is darkened and there is considerable chipping at the margins. In an archival plastic protector.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good (Minus). 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
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Detalles
- Librería
- Quercus Rare Books
(US)
- Inventario del vendedor #
- 005282
- Título
- To BE or not to BOP. Memoirs
- Autor
- Gillespie, Dizzy with Al Fraser
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Tapa dura
- Estado del libro
- Usado - Muy bueno
- Estado de la sobrecubierta
- Very Good (Minus)
- Edición
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0385120524
- ISBN 13
- 9780385120524
- Editorial
- Doubleday & Company, Inc.
- Lugar de publicación
- Garden City
- Fecha de publicación
- 1979
- Tamaño
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9&f
- Catálogos del vendedor
- Music;
Términos de venta
Quercus Rare Books
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Sobre el vendedor
Quercus Rare Books
Miembro de Biblio desde 2006
Chico, California
Sobre Quercus Rare Books
Quercus Books seeks out and provides to the discriminating Reader or Collector noteworthy books in the First Edition. Our particular focus is on Modern Literature (roughly from the Second World War to the present) and Irish Authors. We also retain a small stock of non-fiction titles, mostly in the fields of American Western History, American Indians, and the American Civil War. Member of IOBA - the Independent Online Booksellers Association.
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- 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....
- Chipping
- A defect in which small pieces are missing from the edges; fraying or small pieces of paper missing the edge of a paperback, or...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Paste-down
- The paste-down is the portion of the endpaper that is glued to the inner boards of a hardback book. The paste-down forms an...
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Inscribed
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