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To BE or not to BOP. Memoirs
by Gillespie, Dizzy with Al Fraser
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good (Minus)
- ISBN 10
- 0385120524
- ISBN 13
- 9780385120524
- Seller
-
Chico, California, United States
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About This Item
Garden City: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1979. The autobiography of one of the most important innovators of Twentieth-Century American Classical Music (also known as "Jazz"). John Birks Gillespie's virtuoso career spanned the end of Swing, through BeBop, Cool Jazz, and on to Ethnic/World Music. Diz (1917-1993) was an incredible influence, and his compositions ("Night in Tunisia," "Salt Peanuts," et.al.) remain standards today. This is a Very Good copy of the First Edition. Orange paper-covered boards with a blue cloth spine titled in gilt. Clean text; xix, 552 pages. Indexed. Illustrated with numerous black-and-white photographs. This copy has been SIGNED and INSCRIBED by Diz on the front paste-down, dated in 1983. Lightly bumped, with a bit of rub and minor fade to the spine. The dustjacket is complete but clipped (with a torn price-tag on the rear panel. Spine is darkened and there is considerable chipping at the margins. In an archival plastic protector.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good (Minus). 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
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- Bookseller
- Quercus Rare Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 005282
- Title
- To BE or not to BOP. Memoirs
- Author
- Gillespie, Dizzy with Al Fraser
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good (Minus)
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0385120524
- ISBN 13
- 9780385120524
- Publisher
- Doubleday & Company, Inc.
- Place of Publication
- Garden City
- Date Published
- 1979
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9&f
- Bookseller catalogs
- Music;
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About the Seller
Quercus Rare Books
Biblio member since 2006
Chico, California
About Quercus Rare Books
Quercus Books seeks out and provides to the discriminating Reader or Collector noteworthy books in the First Edition. Our particular focus is on Modern Literature (roughly from the Second World War to the present) and Irish Authors. We also retain a small stock of non-fiction titles, mostly in the fields of American Western History, American Indians, and the American Civil War. Member of IOBA - the Independent Online Booksellers Association.
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