W C Handy Ed (6 results)

Quarto. Wrappers. 224 pp.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Very good first edition. "Complete words and music of 67 great songs from Memphis Blues to the present day". Light wear and bumping to spine ends, edges, corners. Age-toning to pages throughout, as is common. Good dust jacket. Price-clipped. General wear, including to spine ends and edges, with some chipping. Some rubbing to covers. Overall a nice first edition copy, edited by W.C. Handy, and with a critical text by Abbe Niles. Miguel Covarrubias (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Covers show some surface wear. Some wear to spine. Shipped from the Calico Cat Bookshop, a brick and mortar bookshop established in 1975. Covarrubias, Miguel (illustrator).

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. First edition, stated second printing. Original blue cloth, index of names, xv + 317 pp. Hardcover, near fine in good dustjacket. Dustjacket lightly age yellowed, 2 inch tear and corresponding crease on rear panel, several lesser tears and chips, price present. Book itself has lower corners bumped, touch of fading on spine, otherwise tight, clean, paper crisp, unmarked and apparently never read. Autobiography; biography; African-American; Black memorabilia; music.…

Cloth. Condition: Very Good +. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. A nice Association copy: INSCRIBED BY W.C. HANDY TO SAXOPHONIST MAX COLE on the front free endpaper. FURTHERMORE, THIS COPY ALSO INCLUDES A 2 PG. TYPED, SIGNED LETTER (WITH ITS VISUALLY-STRIKING "HANDY BROTHERS MUSIC CO." LETTERHEAD) FROM A 79 YEAR OLD HANDY TO MAX COLE, BLUNTLY SPEAKING ABOUT HIS RELIEF OVER THE 1952 ELECTION OF EISENHOWER, HIS OWN REPUBLICAN LEANINGS, HIS DISAPPOINTMENT TOWARD THE AFRICAN-AMERICAN COMMUNITY OVER ITS SEEMING REJECTION OF HIS POLITICS AND CURRENT RACE RELATIONS. A very sharp copy to boot of this 1949 re-issue, which "expands and brings up to date an earlier compilation prepared by the same authors in 1926". Tight and VG+ (several tiny closed tears at the spine crown, just a touch of wear to the front panel's bottom-edge) in an unusually crisp, price-intact ($5.00), Near Fine dustjacket, with the slightest hint of light soiling to the panels. Quarto, illustrated (as was the 1926 original edition) by the great Mexican artist Miguel Covarrubias. Truly a collector's copy. Miguel Covarrubias (illustrator). Signed. …

First Edition. Very good in a dust jacket with some chips and stains. Inscribed by Handy in 1944. The publication solicitation is laid in, identifying this as the less expensive of two bindings available. While this alternative is described as 'maroon,' it is closer to brown. A compendium of prose and music by many, but including his own 'Memphis Blues.' All books described as first editions are first printings unless otherwise noted. All books described as first editions are first printings unless otherwise noted.…