SHINING TRUMPETS
A History Of Jazz
1949
First American Edition
Alfred A. Knopf [New York]
8vo (381 pages, with 24 pages of musical transcriptions, index, photographs.)
Hardcover (with Dust Jacket) [Patterned yellow cloth]
Item Number: 12046
$85.00
Description
A useful history of jazz that was once considered definitive but has since been supplanted. This is a very good copy of the First Edition in a dust jacket that is lightly creased, with fractional loss along upper spine edge and a closed tear on front face. Contents fine, with browning to page edges and an ink gift inscription on the front free endpaper.