Ralph Venables (19 results)

hardback. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. hardback, octavo, blue cloth lettered red to spine, lacking dust jacket. A tightly bound copy, free of marking but with foxing to the closed edges and pre-lims & therefore description as good only. Illustrated, 184pp.

Condition: Good. 1947. First Edition. 184 pages. No dust jacket. Blue cloth. Book is in better condition than most examples of this age. Neat, clean, well bound pages with very minimal foxing, tanning and thumbing. Small inscriptions and neat labels may be present. Boards have mild shelf wear with light rubbing and corner bumping. Some light marking and sunning.

Paperback. Condition: Good+. First Edition. Book.

Paperback. Condition: Good. First Edition. loose centrefold. Book.

Paperback. Condition: Good. First Edition. cover pulling at staples. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Illustrated laminated boards, 265 x 200 mm approx. 62 pp Illustrated with colour and b/w photos. Edited by Ralph Venables the book contains articles by various contributors on prominent riders of the day in their various motorcycle sports, profiles of bikes etc. First Edition 1979.Please see our images of the actual book offered for sale for further details and condition. Near Fine (Book- negligible shelf wear, no previous owner name or insc. No notable defects).

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Hardback. No dust jacket. Contains map of Chicago. Photograph available on request.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. Dust Jacket Condition: No dust jacket. No dust jacket. Marks and wear to the boards. Bumping and slight rubbing to ends of spine and corners. Foxing to page edges. 184 pages. B&W photos. Fold out maps.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Four volumes pub. 1949 to 1952. In cream or grey soft covers with black titles to spines and fronts. No dust jackets. The books are in good + condition. Generally there is minor shelf-wear to the extremities of the covers and the spines are tanned; vol. 1 is in poorer condition with creases to both front corners, minor damage to the head and tail of the spine and quite extensive light marking. The bindings are tight although there are minor tears adjacent to the staples to the end page of vol. 1. There is light bruising to the corners of volume 1 and a small spot to the title page, otherwise the pages are clean and unmarked. There is a small spot to the top edge and two spots to the fore edge of volume 2. The pages of vols. 3 and 4 are clean and unmarked.

Wrappers as published. Condition: Very Good. "A Cliff Jones Publication". Jazz. Discographical Society Pamphlets.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. 116 pages. A4 format. B/w photographs with descriptions.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good-. First Edition. Six softcovers, overall in about very good minus condition. Copyright dates from 1949 to 1957 Size: 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Book.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. 124 pages. A4 format.

8vo. pp 7. Pamphlet. Original publisher's illustrated covers, lettered white. Contributors include: Mal Winton, Jim Moynahan, Alma Hubner. No date, [1947]. Front and rear covers detached but present and included, overall very good minus.

Couverture souple. Condition: Assez bon. Edition originale. The directory of recorded Jazz and Swing Music collated and compiled by David A. Carey, Albert J. Mc Carthy, Ralph G.V. Venables Vol 1 to 6 (représente la totalité de la publication ) Vol 1 edité par The Delphic Press, 1949, couverture blanche titre bleu, étiquette d'inventaire sur la couverture, 177 pages. couverture salie, dos foncé. charnières renforcées au ruban adhésif avec marques de jaunissement. Vol 2 (CD) : édité par The Delphic Press, 1950, couverture grise titre bleu, étiquette d'inventaire sur la couverture, pp 177-363. charnières renforcées au ruban adhésif avec marques de jaunissement. Vol 3 (EFG) : titre augmenté de Including Gospel and Blues records. édité par The Delphic Press, 1951 couverture grise titre bleu, étiquette d'inventaire sur la couverture, pp 365-551. Vol 4 (GHI) édité par The Delphic Press,1952, couverture grise titre bleu, pp 553-738. Vol 5 (J-KIRK) édité par Cassel Company, 1955, couverture grise, titre en bleu, dos jauni pp 739-925 Vol 6 (ki - Lo)édité par Cassell and Co, 1957, dos et page de titre détaché du brochage pp 927 - 1112 Ces 6 volumes représentent la totalité de la publication qui demeurera longtemps la seule discographie sur le Jazz. Couvertures brunies avec signes d'usages et de restauration. notes intérieures. intérieur bien frais. Traces de ruban adhésif. De la bibliothèque de Gérard Conte avec ex libris tampon encré (1931 - 2012) Historien du Jazz.

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. In great condition.

Tomos 1, 2, 3, 5. 8vo., cartulina de editor.

Paperback. Condition: Good. Ex-library book, usual markings. Clean copy, sound binding. Quick dispatch from UK seller.

Softcover. First Edition; First Printing. Wraps, a terrific association, being John Godrich's own copy, given to me by John right after the publication of the first edition of Blues and Gospel Records 1902-1942, compiled by John and R M W Dixon (1963). In the time between the 1949 publication of Jazz Directory (which never made it beyond Volume Six, Kl-Lo) , Jazz Directory was the only blues (and jazz) discography in existence. This copy is filled with hundreds of John's hand-written entries, from corrections to additions, from matrix numbers to record numbers. The quantity of his entries is mind-boggling. The rear blanks are filled with additions, all in his hand. Occasionally, one finds tiny texts cut from printed sources, overlaying the original entry. The book itself has a spine partially reinforced by clear tape and is quite worn. It has short tears and a serious mended tear going across the entire rear wrap. My name stamp is on the first page and I have circled the matrix numbers for some items in my collection back in those early days. I had my own set of Volume two-six--Volume One was already very scarce, and those five volumes are also included in the sale.; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 177 pp.