JAZZ from the CONGO to the METROPOLITAN; Armed Services Edition; This is the COMPLETE BOOK ~ NOT a DIGEST. * de GOFFIN, Robert - 1944

Doubleday & Co. Inc, 1946-01-01. hardcover. Good. 5x0x8. No jacket. Tanned and discolored. Clean pages, good condition.

New York: Doubleday, 1944. First edition. X-Library; Good reading copy, some pencil marks in the margins.. 254 pages.

Garden City, N. Y. , Doubleday, Doran & Co. , Inc., 1944. Hardcover. Acceptable. 1944. First Edition. 254 pages. No dust jacket. Beige cloth with gilt lettering. Inscription to front endpaper. Rough cut pages are lightly tanned and thumbed at the edges, with creased corners and foxing. Binding has remained firm. Boards are a little rub worn, slight shelf wear to corners, spine and edges. Corners are a little bumped. Spine ends are mildly crushed. Tanning to spine and edges. Book has a forward lean. Boards are bowed.

Armed Services, 1945. Book. Good. Soft cover. First Ed Thus. First paperback ed. thus. Good condition, over all wear, inside of covers yellowed, spine wrinkled. Armed Services 920..

Doubleday, Doran & Co., 1944. First edition, first printing. Faint wear, still fine in very good dust jacket with some rubbing and one 3/4 inch chip in mylar cover..

Editions for the Armed Services. Good. 1944. Soft Cover. (G283) .

NY: Doubleday and Doran, 1945. Fair d.w.only (spine of d.w. has 2" missing). Overall, a decent early reprint copy of a rare jazz title. 248 pp. and Bibliography.. Later Printing. Hard Cover. VG+/Fair.

Garden City, N. Y.: Doubleday, Doran & Co. Inc., 1944. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover with Dust Jacket. Very Good+/Fair. Black cloth with red spine titles; 8 inches tall; xii p. , 1 l. , 254 pages with a bibliography. The bindings are tight and square. Text clean, light even toning. Moderate shelf handling wear. The Dust Jacket is with the price of $2.50 and shows handling wear; several tape repairs and is in a new clear protective Mylar sleeve. Introduction by Arnold Gingrich; Translated by Walter Schaap and Leonard G. Feather. First Edition, First Printing.. Robert Goffin was a Belgian lawyer, author and poet, who fled to the USA during the Second World War and is credited with writing one of the first serious analyses on jazz Aux Frontières du Jazz in 1932. In 1942, he collaborated with Leonard Feather to teach what is considered the first course ever on jazz history and analysis at the New School for Social Research in New York. Subjects: Jazz --History and criticism. Jazz musicians

Paperback / softback. New.

Garden City, N. Y. , Doubleday,, 1944T. hardcover. Very Good. in x in x in. A clean, tight copy. Minor wear and tanning. No dust jacket. Beige cloth with gilt lettering. Previous owner signature. Fromt of dust jacket has been cut out and stuck in to the front enpapers.