Scott Joplin: The Man Who Made Ragtime First edition. de Haskins, Jameswith Benson, Kathleen - 1979

London: Robson Books, 1979. Book. Fine. Hardcover. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Light brown paper covered boards, lettered in gold foil. Essentially as issued. xiii,248 pp. Dust jacket mildly sunned along spine panel, otherwise only slight shelf wear..

Robson Books (London), 1979. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 1979 FIRST EDITION [U.K.] hardcover with dustjacket. APPEARS UNREAD. Bright, unmarked pages and firm binding. Jacket shows minor shelf rubbing and minor edge wear only. This is NOT an ex-library book. This remains a very good, sturdy, collectible copy! "Thoroughly documented, including conversations with people who knew the composer, SCOTT JOPLIN is the tragic account of a gifted man whose dreams went unrealized until decades after his death.

London: Robson Books Ltd, 1979 Book. Very Good. Mustard Cloth Boards. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Biography of the American composer and pianist Scott Joplin (1868-1917), known as 'the man who made ragtime'. 248pp with index, illustrated with 8 pages of black and white photographs. Gilt lettering to spine. Slight foxing to top edges and endpapers, otherwise very good copy with no inscriptions. Unclipped DJ has some edgewear slight surface marking, internal foxing and fading to spine, otherwise good..

London: Robson Books. This is a Very Good + Copy of this Book in Publisher's brown cloth with gilt title lettering to spine,in a Very Good + Dust-Jacket which has some slight sunning to spine with no chips or tears to the outer edges of the dust-jacket.Not price clipped and this copy has NO previous owner's names or inscriptions present.The book has a firm binding with no hinge weakness.8vo 248pp First Edition 1st Impression . Very Good+. Hardcover. First Edition. 1979.

London : Robson, 1979. 1st U.K. Edition. Hardback. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dw. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. ; 248 pages; Description: xv, 248p, [8]p of plates : ill. , facsims. , ports. ; 23cm. Originally published: Garden City, N. Y. : Doubleday, 1978. Subjects: Joplin, Scott, 1868-1917.