Charles Edward Smith Editors (14 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good-. First American Edition. (xviii) 264 pp. Quarter-bound in blue cloth on lavender boards; lettered in silver on the spine; headband. Edge and corner wear on the dustjacket; price intact; no interior markings. Dj art by Ray Colmer. Illustrated with line drawings by: John Stewart; Andrew Smith; David Lloyd; Dave Carson; Jim Pitts; Randy Broecker; Allen Koszowski; Alan Hunter; Russ Nicholson; Mark Dunn; and Tom Campbell. This anthology contains: The Terminus by Kim Newman; A Place of No Return by Hugh B. Cave; Dreams May Come by H. Warner Munn; The Forbidden by Clive Barker; The Frolic by Thomas Ligotti; Ever the Faith Endures by Manly Wade Wellman; The Last Wolf by Karl Edward Wagner; The Dark Country by Dennis Etchison; Dead to the World by Allen Ashley; The Generation Waltz by Charles L. Grant; Don't Open That Door by Frances Garfield; The Sorcerer's Jewel by Robert Bloch; The Strange Years by Brian Lumley; Red by Richard Christian Matheson; Extension 201 by Cyril Simsa; Tongue in Cheek by Mike Grace; In the X-Ray by Fritz Leiber; The Bad People by Steve Rasnic Tem; The Green Man by Kelvin Jones; and The Voice of the Beach - a novelette by Ramsey Campbell. Size: 8vo. Ray Colmer; John Stewart; Andrew Smith; David Lloyd; Dave Carson; Jim Pitts; Randy Broecker; Allen Koszowski; Alan Hunter; Russ Nicholson; Mark Dunn; Tom Campbell; (illustrator). Book. …

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good-. First American Edition. (xviii) 264 pp. Quarter-bound in blue cloth on lavender boards; lettered in silver on the spine; headband. Edge and corner wear on the dustjacket; price intact; no interior markings. Dj art by Ray Colmer. Illustrated with line drawings by: John Stewart; Andrew Smith; David Lloyd; Dave Carson; Jim Pitts; Randy Broecker; Allen Koszowski; Alan Hunter; Russ Nicholson; Mark Dunn; and Tom Campbell. This anthology contains: The Terminus by Kim Newman; A Place of No Return by Hugh B. Cave; Dreams May Come by H. Warner Munn; The Forbidden by Clive Barker; The Frolic by Thomas Ligotti; Ever the Faith Endures by Manly Wade Wellman; The Last Wolf by Karl Edward Wagner; The Dark Country by Dennis Etchison; Dead to the World by Allen Ashley; The Generation Waltz by Charles L. Grant; Don't Open That Door by Frances Garfield; The Sorcerer's Jewel by Robert Bloch; The Strange Years by Brian Lumley; Red by Richard Christian Matheson; Extension 201 by Cyril Simsa; Tongue in Cheek by Mike Grace; In the X-Ray by Fritz Leiber; The Bad People by Steve Rasnic Tem; The Green Man by Kelvin Jones; and The Voice of the Beach by Ramsey Campbell. Size: 8vo. Ray Colmer; John Stewart; Andrew Smith; David Lloyd; Dave Carson; Jim Pitts; Randy Broecker; Allen Koszowski; Alan Hunter; Russ Nicholson; Mark Dunn; Tom Campbell; (illustrator). Book. …

Soft cover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Music history. No date, circa 1960. Covers rubbed and faded, spine tanned. Interior clean, binding cracked at the center photo plates.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. (xviii) 264 pp. Personalized inscription on the title page by the editor, Stephen Jones, to editor/publisher/writer Raymond Alexander: "To Raymond. My first book! Your friend, Stephen Jones." Black boards lettered in gilt on the spine; headband. Lightly rubbed on the corners of the dustjacket; price clipped; aside from the editor's inscription, no interior markings. This includes three dropped-in prints on card stock by Chris Achilleos: Lovers; Red Dragon Challenge; and Black Tears. Dj art by Chris Achilleos; interior line drawings by: John Stewart; Andrew Smith; David Lloyd; Dave Carson; Jim Pitts; Randy Broecker; Allen Koszowski; Alan Hunter; Russ Nicholson; Mark Dunn; and Tom Campbell. This anthology contains: The Terminus by Kim Newman; A Place of No Return by Hugh B. Cave; Dreams May Come by H. Warner Munn; The Forbidden - a novelette by Clive Barker; The Frolic by Thomas Ligotti; Ever the Faith Endures by Manly Wade Wellman; The Last Wolf by Karl Edward Wagner; The Dark Country by Dennis Etchison; Dead to the World by Allen Ashley; The Generation Waltz by Charles L. Grant; Don't Open That Door by Frances Garfield; The Sorcerer's Jewel by Robert Bloch; The Strange Years by Brian Lumley; Red by Richard Christian Matheson; Extension 201 by Cyril Simsa; Tongue in Cheek by Mike Grace; In the X-Ray by Fritz Leiber; The Bad People by Steve Rasnic Tem; The Green Man by Kelvin Jones; and The Voice of the Beach by Ramsey Campbell. Size: 8vo. Chris Achilleos; John Stewart; Andrew Smith; David Lloyd; Dave Carson; Jim Pitts; Randy Broecker; Allen Koszowski; Alan Hunter; Russ Nicholson; Mark Dunn; Tom Campbell; (illustrator). Signed by Editor. Book.…

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Digest format. Light rubbing on the corners; no interior markings. Cover art by Robert Gibson Jones; interiors by Virgil Finlay; Charles Hornstein; Lawrence; Clem Scalztti; Joseph Eberle; Bureloff; and Michael Becker. This issue contains: The Door by Eric Frank Russell; Lord Tedric by Edward E. Doc Smith; The Watchers by George O. Smith writing as Jan Smith; A Thousand Angels Can Dance by H. B. Carl; Let Me Live in a House by Chad Oliver; The Soluble Scientist by T. P. Caravan; The Man with the Broken Nose by Wilson O Clough; The Voices by Edward Wellen; and Alien Invasion by Marcia Kamien. Size: 12mo. Robert Gibson Jones; Virgil Finlay; Charles Hornstein; Lawrence; Clem Scalztti; Joseph Eberle; Bureloff; Michael Becker; (illustrator). Book.…

Trade Paper. Condition: Good Condition. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. As Issued. Bright orange illustrated card covers. Ink name of previous owner on front flyleaf. Binding rubbed and spine faded. 360. Indexed. Content clean, bright and sound. B/W Photo Illustrations (illustrator).

NY, Armed Services Editions, n.d. (1945), first edition thus, wrappers. Softcover. No. 726 in this important series, "a colorful, lusty book about the men who made jazz and how they played it," divided into four sections (New Orleans, Chicago, New York, and Hot Jazz Today) with contributions by the editors as well as William Russell, Stephen W. Smith, Wilder Hobson, and others on the likes of King Oliver, Louis Armstrong, Bix Beiderbecke, etc., issued by the Council on Books in Wartime, designed to fit the pocket of a World War II American GI. Spine fade, else very good.…

Paperback. Condition: Very Good condition. Reprint of the 1939 original. New York: Harvest Book / Harcourt, Brace and Company Bright, clean, tight, square, unmarked copy. No remainder mark. No store stamp, owner's name or bookplate. No underlining. No highlighting. No margin notes. No date (but circa 1960). 5.25" wide by 8" tall. 32 pages of illustrations. A classic study of American Jazz and Blues. Well illustrated with vintage photos of Buddy Bolden's Band, The Original Creole Band, King Oliver's Creole Jazz Band; The Wolverines - Bix Beiderbecke; Louis Armstrong, and his Hot Five; Bessie Smith; Duke Ellington; Ella Fitzgerald; Willie Bunk Wilson; etc. Includes chapters on King Oliver and his Creole Jazz Band; Blues; Louis Armstrong; Bix Beiderbecke; The Austin High School Gang; Boogie Woogie; The Five Pennies; etc. Traces the history/evolution of jazz in New Orleans, Chicago, New York, and Hot Jazz (Swing Era). Index of Music. Index. Reprint of the 1939 original. Softcover. Very Good condition. 360pp . Great Packaging, Fast Shipping.…

NY, Armed Services Editions, n.d. (1945), first edition thus, wrappers. Softcover. No. 726 in this important series, "a colorful, lusty book about the men who made jazz and how they played it," divided into four sections (New Orleans, Chicago, New York, and Hot Jazz Today) with contributions by the editors as well as William Russell, Stephen W. Smith, Wilder Hobson, and others on the likes of King Oliver, Louis Armstrong, Bix Beiderbecke, etc., issued by the Council on Books in Wartime, designed to fit the pocket of a World War II American GI. Very good.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. no dj. The pioneering 1939 history of early jazz, edited by Frederic Ramsey, Jr. and Charles Edward Smith, with chapters by William Russell, Otis Ferguson, E. Simms Campbell, Wilder Hobson and others on New Orleans, Storyville, King Oliver, Jelly Roll Morton, Bix Beiderbecke, Louis Armstrong, Chicago and the blues. Among the first serious books on jazz written in America, and the source of the Bunk Johnson revival. With 32 pages of illustrations. Harcourt, Brace and Company, New York. Copyright 1939 by Harcourt, Brace and Company, Inc. Third printing, December 1941. Tan cloth lettered in blue on the front cover. Book.…

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. ASE 726. Paper covers. 319 pages. Average wear, pages yellowing.

Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First British edition. A fine first British edition hardcover in a fine dust jacket, no remainder marks, good straight tight bindings. A very nice copy. Chris Achilleos; John Stewart; Andrew Smith; David Lloyd; Dave Carson; Jim Pitts; Randy Broecker; Allen Koszowski; Alan Hunter; Russ Nicholson; Mark Dunn; Tom Campbell; (illustrator). …

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Good Solid Copy, Cover Soil, Tanning at Spine Area, Richard Allan Yaffe Humorous Owner Bookplate Octavo, Tan Cloth, PP.360, B & W Photo Plates of Louis Armstrong, King Oliver Creole Bank, Bix Beiderbecke, Bessie Smith, Ella Fitzgerald, Duke Ellington and Many More, The Greats Of The Day From New Orleans, Chicago and New York.…

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Wraps. Slim 8vo.pp. 28. Music "in the Swing Tradition." Original publisher wraps in grey, Black and white, featuring a portrait drawing of Bessie Smith by Hugo Gellart on the front cover and a list of releases on the rear Cover including Louis Armstrong, Louisiana Rhythm Kings, The Cellar Boys and Bessie Smith with 'One and Two blues.' Contributors include: Frank Norris, Charles Edward Smith, Guy Sykes, Margaret Kidder, William Pene Dubois. Very good. Slight soiling. Decent condition.…