Abbe Niles W C Handy Miguel (6 results)

Cloth. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. Miguel Covarrubias (illustrator). First Printing. This is a near fine hardcover ex-library copy in red cloth with silver lettering, no DJ. Minimal exlib markings. A bright attractive copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. Dust jacket condition: Fair. Jacket soiled and chipped and worn at edges. Text free of highlighting and writing. Edited by W.C. Handy ; with an historical and critical text by Abbe Niles ; with pictures by Miguel Covarrubias. Chiefly for voice and piano (in part with chord symbols and guitar or ukulele chord diagrams); some works for piano solo. First edition published in 1926 under title: Blues : an anthology. 1 score (258 pages) : illustrations ; 29 cm Contents:Train's a-coming -- Let us cheer the weary traveller -- Somebody's wrong about dis Bible -- Joe Jacobs -- Goin' to see my Sarah -- Sail away, ladies --- Come on, Eph! -- Juba -- East St. Louis -- A typical stomp -- Careless love -- Ever after on -- Vesta and Mattie's blues -- Got no mo' home dan a dog -- Friendless blues -- The Memphis blues -- Dallas blues -- The jogo blues -- St. Louis blues -- Yellow dog blues -- The long lost blues -- Florida blues -- Kansas City -- The hesitating blues -- Joe Turner blues -- The snakey blues -- Rice Hotel blues -- Beale Street blues -- Tishomingo blues -- Barnyard blues (Livery stable blues) -- Hooking cow blues -- West Texas blues -- Goin' down that long long lonesome road -- Royal Garden blues -- Aunt Hagar's children -- Loveless love -- You'll think of me -- Sundown blues -- Gulf Coast blues -- The basement blues -- Weeping willow blues (after Bessie Smith) -- Banjo blues -- Mississippi blues (Bamville croon) -- Mountain top blues (Blue mama's suicide wail) -- Rock pile blues (Mama's prison yard blues) -- Deep river blues -- The blues I've got -- Basin Street blues -- Beat me daddy, eight to the bar -- Boogie-woogie on St. Louis blues -- Baby seals blues -- Chinese blues -- Ole Miss -- Homesickness blues (excerpt) -- Long gone -- The schoolhouse blues -- Harlem blues -- John Henry blues -- Atlanta blues (Make me one pallet on your floor) -- The Chicago gouge -- The half of it, dearie, blues -- Chantez les bas -- Willow, weep for me -- Hong Kong blues -- Krazy kat ballet (excerpt) -- Rhapsody in blue (excerpt) ; Concerto in F (excerpt) / George Gershwin.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Good condition with wear and markings. Ex-library.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. New York: Charles Boni; Distributed By Simon and Schuster, 1949. First edition, 1949. Good to very good in fair to good dustjacket. Music and lyrics with occasional black and white illustrations. Black hardcover with red cloth spine, with dustjacket. The book has some edge rubbing, maily the lower edge, good hinges, sound text block, lightly age-toned but clean pages, no names or other markings. The mylar protected dustjacket is not priceclipped [5.00] and has an old tape repair along the front joint, other quite minor wear, almost no paper loss. First Edition. Hard Cover. Good/Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

Hardocover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dj. Covarrubias, Miguel (illustrator). Early edition. 258 pp. Red and gray boards with authors' signatures in gold on front. Lettering also on spine. This is a very nice copy save for a half-inch tear on the corner of the rear corner. Minor rubbing ot he extremities. Interior is clean and unmarked. Illustrations are charming. Dust jacket is unclipped, with original price on flap of $5.00. One small chip on top front and back corner. Size: Quarto. Book.

Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Miguel Covarrubias (illustrator). Signed and dated by W.C. Handy to front fly. Quarter red cloth over black paper-covered boards; dustjacket wrapped in mylar. Small tear to head and tail of dustjacket (see image). Overall a nice clean copy without previous owners' names or other markings. 8.25 x 11.25 in.