Ramsey Frederic Editors (8 results)

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.

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).

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.…

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.

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Basement soiling to back cover of 1st issue, otherwise the first three issues (1946-1947) of this post-WWII British jazz with cool covers by Stanley Jackson, and contributions by Langston Hughes and Kenneth Patchen, are in very nice condition. RARE. Illustrated (illustrator). …

Pictorial Wrappers. Condition: Fair to Good. Original Issue. One of the scarcest early Jazz magazines. A quarterly Review of Jazz and literature that was short lived. Contains articles on Jazz in Canada, Albert Wynn, Tommy Ladnier, Jimmy Noone, etc. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Pictorial Wrappers. Condition: VG-. Original Issue. One of the scarcest early Jazz magazines. A quarterly Review of Jazz and literature that was short lived. Contains articles on Jazz in Austalia; South Africa, India, Ward Pinkett, etc. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.