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Eubie Blake
by Al Rose
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good/Good -
- ISBN 10
- 0028721705
- ISBN 13
- 9780028721705
- Seller
-
Chicago, Illinois, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
New York, NY: Schirmer Books, 1979. 214pp. Index. Original black cloth covered boards. 1st Printing (with complete number line). Illustrated (b/w photographs throughout). Pages are clean (unmarked) but a bit dull with age. Binding is tight and secure. Boards have very light bumping to heel of spine, rubbing to corners. Unclipped pictorial DJ is slightly age-toned. Shelfwear to DJ (chyipping to head of spine, several small closed tears/faint creased to edges, moderate rubbing to extremities). Looks nice in added protecive mylar covering. Nice reading copy of this increasingly scarce title. . First Edition, 1st printing. Hard Cover. Good/Good -. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Mylared.
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Details
- Bookseller
- after-words bookstore
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 106871
- Title
- Eubie Blake
- Author
- Al Rose
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- Good -
- Edition
- First Edition, 1st printing
- ISBN 10
- 0028721705
- ISBN 13
- 9780028721705
- Publisher
- Schirmer Books
- Place of Publication
- New York, NY
- Date Published
- 1979
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9&f
- Keywords
- Music Biography Aubie Blake
- Bookseller catalogs
- Music; Music - Biography; Music - Jazz;
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after-words bookstore
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- Heel
- The lower most portion of the spine when the book is standing vertically.
- Reading Copy
- Indicates a book that is perfectly serviceable for reading. It may have a defect or damage. As such, reading copy is not a...
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Shelfwear
- Minor wear resulting from a book being place on, and taken from a bookshelf, especially along the bottom edge.
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
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