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Peter Davies, 1961. Hardcover. Good/Acceptable. 1961. First Published. 285 pages. This is an ex-Library book. Pictorial dust jacket over green cloth. Expected library inserts, stamps and inscriptions. Pages remain bright and clear with minimal tanning and foxing. Thumb-marking present. Loose frontispiece. Visible creasing to gutter. Boards have mild edge-wear with slight rubbing to surfaces. Soft crushing to spine ends. Light tanning to spine and edges. Minor marks to boards. Textblock is shaky. Unclipped jacket has moderate edgewear with chips, tears and creasing. Loss to edges. Some tanning to spine. Noticeable rubbing to surfaces. Scuffing to edges.

London: Peter Davies. VG+/Good only (see notes). 1961. 1st. hardcover. 12mo . 286pp . Book itself quite nice. 1" chip bottom spine DJ, wrapping some to back panel, other tears and edgewear to DJ. In mylar. Bio of jazz clarinetist George Lewis. .

London: The Jazz Book Club, 1963. A bit of pale foxing to page edges. Tight, square and unmarked. 285pp. Jacket is shelf rubbed and has a toned spine. In a protective mylar cover. Volume 42 in the Jazz Book Club series.. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 12mo - over 6" - 8" Tall.

London: Jazz Book Club, 1963. Hb, 286pp. Good with clean contents in a Fair dj which has light foxing and a couple of tears on the back. Light foxing along top edge of page block. Biography of New Orleans jazz clarinetist and band leader, George Lewis.. Hard Cover. Good/Fair.

London: Jazz Book Club, 1963. Reprint. Hardcover. Very Good+ with no dust jacket. Biography of George Lewis, 286 pages. We have many Jazz Book Club titles, please inquire.; 5 1/4 x 7 1/2

Jazz Book Club, 1963. Hardcover. Good. 1963. First Edition Thus. 286 pages. No dust jacket. Green cloth boards with red lettering to spine. Binding remains firm. Crinkling to pages at gutters. Pencil inscription to front endpaper. Pages remain bright and clear with minimal tanning. Boards have mild edge wear with slight rubbing to surfaces. There is bumping to corners and crushing to spine ends. Tanning to spine and edges causing discolouration. Book has a slight forward lean.

London, United Kingdom: Peter Davies, 1961. Hardcover without dust jacket, 286 pages, frontpiece photograph of George; green cloth covers with very bright and clear gilt lettering to spine, tiny traces of shelf wear to cover edges, but very gently used, very clean and unmarked;. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good ++.

GB: Jazz Book Club, 1963. Bit cocked. . 1st Thus. Hardback. VG+/No DW.

Peter Davies, 1961. Hardcover. Good/Good. 1961. 285 pages. Black pictorial dust jacket over green cloth with gilt lettering. Pages are in good condition with a firm binding. Endpapers and page edges are lightly tanned and foxed. 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. Light wear to clipped dust jacket with tears, nicks and creases to spine, edge and corners. Tanning to spine and edges.

Peter Davies. Very Good in Good dust jacket. 1961. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Very clean & tightly bound hardback book with no inscriptions, in a bright unclipped dustjacket which is rubbed and creased at the edges. 286 pages, photo frontispiece .

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The Jazz Book Club 1963. Octavo hardcover (VG) in d/w (VG-); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage cost.

The Jazz Book Club. Fair with no dust jacket. 1963. Hardcover. Jazz Book Club 42. Hardback without dustjacket; pages yellowed, otherwise good in dented and faded green cloth boards. ; Biography of jazz clarinetist George Lewis. ; 286 pages .

Peter Davies, 1961. Hardcover. Acceptable. 1961. First Edition. 286 pages. No dust jacket. Signed by the author. Signed by George Lewis, and the author using both names, Jay Allison Stuart, pseudonym of Dorothy Tait, on half title page. Tait was Lewis' manager. Green cloth with gilt lettering. B&W photographic frontispiece. Small brown stains mainly round page edges, with notable dark smudging to front endpaper. Pages remain firmly bound. Mild wear and bumping to spine, board edges and corners, with crushing to spine ends. Minor scuffing, small stains and marking across the boards.

London: Jazz Book Club/Phoenix, 1963. First Thus. . Hardcover. Vg/G. 286pp. Sl. frayed wrapper Size: Cr.8vo

London: Peter Davies, 1961. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. First edition. Owner's tiny embossed initials on front fly, else fine in a slightly rubbed very good or better dustwrapper with tiny nicks and tears mostly at the spine ends. biography of a noted jazz clarinetist.

London: The Jazz Book Club (by arrangement with Peter Davies), 1963. First Thus (No. 42) . Hardcover (with Dust Jacket). Very Good. 12mo (285 pages). Biography of the eminent New Orleans clarinetist, George Lewis. This is a very good copy of the lovely British Jazz Book Club edition, in a dust jacket that is moderately faded at the spine, else fine.

London: Peter Davies, 1961. First edition. Hardcover. near fine/very good. Octavo. 8" x 5". Signed twice and inscribed by George Lewis. Stamp of New Orleans Jazz Museum under signature. Nice copy in an edge worn dust jacket.

Peter Davies, 1961-01-01. Hardcover. Very Good. in x in x in. No DJ. Signed by the author and inscribed on the front free page: For James Nassikas, A fellow Yankee and a warm and gracious host---with gratitude! Dorothy Tait (Jay Allison Stuart), July 29, 1967. Lightly read. Scuffed covers with bump to bottom corner tips. Laid in is a Wall Street Journal article: A Clarinetist of Swing and Sweet Sorrow, May 15, 2001. 286pp.