Willie Lion Smith (20 results)
Music on My Mind. the Memoirs of an American Pianist. (Jazz Book Club 60)
Smith, Willie The Lion; George Hoefer; Duke Ellington (Introduction)
Published by The Jazz Book Club By Arrangement With MacGibbon & Kee, London, 1966
- Hardcover
Seller: Literary Cat Books, Machynlleth, Powys, WALES, United KingdomLiterary Cat Books
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Add to basketOriginal boards. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Book Club Edition. Loosly inserted jazz column for members of the jazz book club, number 57. Slight foxing on fore edge & top edge. With slight wear & slight soiling to spine, covers & corners. Dustjacket lightly foxed on inside, otherwise light wear and li…ght soiling only.; 8vo; xviii, 318 pages.
Published by London: Macgibbon & Kee, 1965., 1965
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- First Edition
Seller: Cornell Books Limited, Tewkesbury, United KingdomCornell Books Limited
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Add to basketCondition: Good. First UK edition (hardback). 8vo (22cm by 15cm), xvii, 318pp. Original fawn cloth, dustwrapper. There is some light spotting to the edges of the text block, else the book is in very good condition; the dustwrapper is in good to very good condition (some rubbing, slight chafing of the edges). The dustwrapper has…now been put in a mylar cover to protect it.
Published by Sackville, 2004
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Audio CD. Condition: Very Good. 2004. 2 discs. Disc Quality: Excellent. CD31.
Language: English
Published by Jazz Book Club, London, 1966
- Hardcover
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Add to basketHardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. A clean tight copy of this title Now in loose removable protective clearcover wrapper guard.
Published by jazz book club,, 1964
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- First Edition
Seller: Victoria Bookshop, BERE ALSTON, DEVON, United KingdomVictoria Bookshop
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Add to basketHardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Book.
Music On My Mind: The Memoirs Of An American Pianist
Willie the Lion Smith with George Hoefer (Authors); Duke Ellington (Foreword by); John S. Wilson (New Introduction by)
Language: English
Published by A Da Capo Paperback/Published by Da Capo Press, Inc./A Subsidiary of Plenum Publishing Corporation, New York, 1978
- Softcover
Seller: gearbooks, The Bronx, NY, U.S.A.gearbooks
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Trade Paperback. Condition: Very Good. 1st Paperback Edition: 1978. 318 pp. A great, almost spotlessly clean copy! Solidly and tightly bound, essentially and nearly flawless copy with minimal internal and external wear and use. Copy with crisp pages, clean text, and light shelf wear. Smooth covers. Minimally shelf worn. Joseph D…el Gaudio (Cover Design); Charles Stewart (Cover Photo) (illustrator).
Published by Doubleday & Co, Garden City NY, 1964
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Add to basketHardcover. Condition: very good+. Dust Jacket Condition: very good-. First Edition. 318 pages; 5 3/4 x 8 1/2" Foreword by Duke Ellington. Jacket spine edges and corners are worn; slight sun-fading to jacket spine; 1/2" tear to upper edge of jacket spine; jacket in a mylar sleeve.
Language: English
Published by MacGibbon & Kee Ltd
- Hardcover
Seller: Optimon Books, Gravesend, KENT, United KingdomOptimon Books
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Add to basketHardcover. Condition: Good. Described as 'one of the most low-down, swinging, charming and shocking memoirs ever written', The Lion is here, William Henry Joseph Bonaparte Bertholoff Smith, and he has co-written this text with George Hoefer. Not only is he still a mean tickler who'll take on anybody, he is a composer of note, an… iconic jazz and stride pianist, a major influence on the likes of Duke Ellington (who also provides a foreword to the book), Joe Bushkin, and Artie Shaw, and a verbal historian of considerable authority and wit. He is also the perfect guide to take the reader on a crawl through the dives, cellars, brothels, on the tours and into the caves that sp.
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No DJ Issued. Reissue. Reissue (1975.) Hardcover without dust jacket as issued. 8vo with 318 pages. The book is in very good condition. Interior is clean and tight. ".truly a one-off; thats how to describe The Lion and his magnificent book "music on my mind." Michael Lang s…tamp at the top of the Front free endpaper, this came from his library: *Michael Anthony Lang was an American pianist nd composer, who was recognized for his highly prolific career as a pianist on more than 2500 film scores. Lang recorded numerous albums and worked with Barbra Streisand, Vanessa Williams, Russell Watson, Michael Bolton, Ray Charles, Natalie Cole, Ella Fitzgerald, Aretha Franklin, Marvin Gaye, John Lennon and Frank Zappa. Some of his movie and television work includes A League of Their Own, The Russia House, Arachnophobia, Twilight Zone: The Movie, Black Sunday, The Towering Inferno, The Paper Chase, The Poseidon Adventure, and Close Encounters of the Third Kind. The Simpsons, Family Guy, Privileged, American Dad, Orville, and The Secret Life of the American Teenager." On the back of the front paste down is a date, July 1975 L.A. this is a notation by Lang. Red cloth/Silver text. #033883 Size: 8vo. Biographies / Music.
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Published by Doubleday & Company, Inc., Garden City, New York, 1964
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Seller: Courtside Books, Medford, NJ, U.S.A.Courtside Books
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Add to basketHardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. 1st Edition. With a Foreward by Duke Ellington. Near Fine in Near Fine DJ. The dust jacket is exceptionally sharp with just some slight rubbing to ends. Uncommon in such lovely condition.
Published by Macg, London, 1965
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Seller: Bagatelle Books, Asheville, NC, U.S.A.Bagatelle Books
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Add to basketHardcover. Condition: Very good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First UK Edition, First Printing. Octavo. 5.75 x 8.75 in. 318 pp. Very good in original paper-covered boards with foxing to edge of text block and endpapers, and good, price-clipped, dust jacket with general rubbing, toning, and chipping. Originally published in the U….S. in 1964. Co-written by George Hoefer and with a foreword by Duke Ellington.
More imagesMusic on My Mind: The Memoirs of an American Pianist
Willie the Lion Smith; with George Hoefer; Foreword by Duke Ellington
Published by MacGibbon & Kee, London, 1965
- Hardcover
- First Edition
Seller: The Old Sage Bookshop, Prescott, AZ, U.S.A.The Old Sage Bookshop
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Add to basketHard Cover with Dustjacket. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good-. First Edition. Hardcover with dustjacket : very good plus / very good minus. Book: spine tips slightly soft; binding is clean and bright; straight; hinges strong; small stain to ffep; slight spotting to top edge of text block; pages excellent.…Jacket in new mylar protector; orange on spine is a little faded; mild wear and a little soiling. Wikipedia: "William Henry Joseph Bonaparte Bertholf Smith (November 23, 1893[a] - April 18, 1973), nicknamed "the Lion", was an American jazz and stride pianist." Size: 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Book.
More imagesPublished by Da Capo, New York, 1978
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Seller: Pulp Fiction Murwillumbah, Murwillumbah, NSW, AustraliaPulp Fiction Murwillumbah
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Add to basketSoftcover/Paperback. Condition: Good. Fair with some wear, minor discolouration on endpapers and textblock.
Published by MacGibbon and Kee, London, 1965, 1965
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- First Edition
Seller: Jackson Street Booksellers, Omaha, NE, U.S.A.Jackson Street Booksellers
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Add to basketHardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Very Good in a Good jacket. 1st Printing. The DJ has a thin vertical crease on the front panel.
Published by jazz book club, 1964
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Seller: pristina, Isle of Man, United Kingdompristina
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Add to basketHardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. good.
Published by Macgibbon and Kee, London, 1965
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- First Edition
Seller: JERO BOOKS AND TEMPLET CO., SANTA MONICA, CA, U.S.A.JERO BOOKS AND TEMPLET CO.
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Add to basketHardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. First Edition (1965.) Hardcover with dust jacket. 8vo with 318 pages. The book and dust jacket are in very good condition. Fading to spine. Interior is clean and tight. Pictures available upon request. Black orange spine/white text. #033919 Size: 8…vo. Memoirs.
More imagesPublished by Paris, H.C., 1949
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Seller: Mille Septante Books, Anderlecht, BRUSS, BelgiumMille Septante Books
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Add to basketSoft cover. Condition: Very Good. 4to, original wrappers, 33 pp.; good condition, fold in the middle. December 1949 issue of La Revue du Jazz signed and inscribed on the front cover by Willie The Lion Smith (1893 1973). Smith was an American jazz pianist and composer. He is seen as one of the masters of the stride style. He was…a major influence on Duke Ellington, who wrote several compositions dedicated to him. Inscribed by Author(s).
More imagesPublished by Doubleday, 1964
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- First Edition
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Seller: Moe's Books, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.Moe's Books
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Add to basketHardcover. Condition: Very good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very good. First edition. Inscribed by the author on the front flyleaf. Covers have some shelfwear and light staining. Dust jacket is chipped.
More imagesPublished by Doubleday, Garden City, 1964
- Hardcover
- First Edition
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Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA
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Add to basketHardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First edition. Foreword by Duke Ellington. Octavo. 318pp. Small label and a single short ink stroke on front fly, else near fine in slightly rubbed and spine-sunned very good dustjacket. Inscribed on the rear fly leaf by Smith: "Best of Luck to my friend Ray Murp…hy. From Willie The Lion Smith. Pianist, Lady Jane." Additionally Signed by pianist Claude Hopkins, whom Ellington mentions in his foreword as one of the pianists he grew up studying and emulating. Scarce signed by Smith.
More imagesPublished by Doubleday, 1964
- First Edition
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Seller: Carpe Diem Fine Books, ABAA, Monterey, CA, U.S.A.Carpe Diem Fine Books, ABAA
Contact seller4-star sellerFirst Edition. INSCRIBED "To Tom Noel. A fine man who knows all the good thngs in life. From Willie the Lion Smith = Jane - all the best in life." 8vo. 318 pp. Smudging and soiling to to grey cloth boards; offsetting to front endpapers; a very good copy in near fine illustrated dustjacket (light wear to extremities; darkening co…vers). Uncommon signed copy of this autobiography of the jazz great William Henry Joseph Bonaparte Bertholf Smith (1893 - 1973). Smith was instrumental in developing the Harlem stride piano style, along with Fats Waller and others, which would become popular in the 1920s. He was great influence on Duke Ellington, who writes the Foreword for this books.
