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Jazz from the Congo to the Metropolitan: A High-Point of Jazz Histories
by Goffin, Robert (1898-1984)
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- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good+/Fair
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About This Item
Garden City, N. Y.: Doubleday, Doran & Co. Inc., 1944. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover with Dust Jacket. Very Good+/Fair.
Black cloth with red spine titles; 8 inches tall; xii p. , 1 l. , 254 pages with a bibliography. The bindings are tight and square. Text clean, light even toning. Moderate shelf handling wear. The Dust Jacket is with the price of $2.50 and shows handling wear; several tape repairs and is in a new clear protective Mylar sleeve. Introduction by Arnold Gingrich; Translated by Walter Schaap and Leonard G. Feather. First Edition, First Printing.. Robert Goffin was a Belgian lawyer, author and poet, who fled to the USA during the Second World War and is credited with writing one of the first serious analyses on jazz Aux Frontières du Jazz in 1932.
In 1942, he collaborated with Leonard Feather to teach what is considered the first course ever on jazz history and analysis at the New School for Social Research in New York.
Subjects: Jazz --History and criticism. Jazz musicians
Black cloth with red spine titles; 8 inches tall; xii p. , 1 l. , 254 pages with a bibliography. The bindings are tight and square. Text clean, light even toning. Moderate shelf handling wear. The Dust Jacket is with the price of $2.50 and shows handling wear; several tape repairs and is in a new clear protective Mylar sleeve. Introduction by Arnold Gingrich; Translated by Walter Schaap and Leonard G. Feather. First Edition, First Printing.. Robert Goffin was a Belgian lawyer, author and poet, who fled to the USA during the Second World War and is credited with writing one of the first serious analyses on jazz Aux Frontières du Jazz in 1932.
In 1942, he collaborated with Leonard Feather to teach what is considered the first course ever on jazz history and analysis at the New School for Social Research in New York.
Subjects: Jazz --History and criticism. Jazz musicians
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- Blind Horse Books [ABAA - FABA]
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 17976
- Title
- Jazz from the Congo to the Metropolitan
- Author
- Goffin, Robert (1898-1984)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover with Dust Jacket
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good+
- Jacket Condition
- Fair
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition, First Printing
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Doubleday, Doran & Co. Inc.
- Place of Publication
- Garden City, N. Y.
- Date Published
- 1944
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