Dance Stanley Basie Count (5 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. 1st Edition. 122 pp. including Glossary and Index. Reduced from $34.

[0-684-16604-6] 1980. (hardcover) Very good in very good dust jacket. xxi, 399pp. 8vo. Jacket shows light wear at the lower edge, faint rubbing. Black cloth, silver title stamped to spine. There is a name penned (small, in red ink) to the front free endpaper; else is clean, tight, bright, solid. An essential history of the great bandleader and the music he made, richly illustrated through anecdotes, opinions, biographical information, and extraordinary black and white photographs.

8vo, 230pp. Black & white illustrations. A very good hardback copy in like dust jacket. The late Count Basie is one of the jazz immortals. In this sociable and pioneering oral history of Basie and his band, Stanley Dance talks with the Count himself, Jimmy Rushing, Buddy Tate, Buck Clayton, Joe Williams, Jay McShann, Jo Jones, Dicky Wells, Lester Young, and a dozen others, who reminisce about each other, Kansas City jazz, and their legendary peers Billie Holiday and Charlie Parker.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Very good first edition inscribed by Stanley Dance to front endpaper. Some bumping, wear to spine ends, corners. Crisp red leatherette binding with gilt lettering to spine. Pages clean and unmarked save some very minor age-toning to pages throughout, as is common. Very good dust jacket. Not price-clipped, though previous bookseller's price-sticker to front flap. Fading to spine, rear cover. Some general rubbing. Wear to spine ends, edges, folds. A nice, crisp copy inscribed by the respected 20th century British Jazz critic Stanley Dance. Inscribed by Author(s).

Publisher's original colour illustrated card wrap covers. 8vo. 9½'' x 6¼''. Contains [xxi] 399 printed pages of text with monochrome photographs throughout. Without any ownership markings and in Fine condition, no dust wrapper as published. Member of the P.B.F.A. MUSIC [Jazz].