KING OLIVER by Allen, Walter & Rust, Brian A.L. (revised by Laurie Wright) - 1987

Privately Issued. Good. 1955. Limited Edition. Softcover. 4to. Copy number 164 . We specialize in fine books in collectible condition. Orders are professionaly packaged and shipped promptly. P38 .

The Jazz Book Club, 1957. Book. Good. hardback. hardback, octavo, blue cloth lettered gilt tom spine, no dust jacket. Knocked at the bottom leading corner tips of the boards, tightly bound, mild spotting, free of markings, xii + 224pp.

London: The Jazz Book Club, 1957. Hardcover. Good.. 8vo.. Dust jacket is scuffed top and bottom with small loss to edges of spine. It is not price clipped. Pages are age tanned but clean. 8vo. Previous owner's signature and address on fep. 1957

LONDON: THE JAZZ BOOK CLUB, 1957. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Good. Produced by the Jazz Book Club for its members only. The book is rubbed and a little dusty, prelims a little foxed. A good reading copy.

London: Sidgwick and Jackson. Hardcover. VG/VG. Octavo. 7.5" x 5.25" 224pp. A very good copy with a very good dust jacket. Book has to the top and bottom of the spine. Jacket is nice but has wear at the top of the spine and several small tears along the back cover top edge.

London: Sidgwick and Jackson. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. Octavo. The definitive biography of the early Jazz King, with an excellent bibliography and discography in detail. Book is fine and unmarked; except for a 1/2"" gently closed corner tear and price-clipping, jacket is also fine, clean and bright, and protected by a Mylar cover.

Chigwell: Storyville Publications. Fine copy. 1987. Revised ed.. hardcover. 8vo, 438 pp. .

Belleville, NJ: Walter C. Allen, 1955. 1st Edition . Original Document. Very Good. Jazz Monographs No. 1. This is a manuscript copy of Allen and Rust's excellent look at the life, work, and recordings of the great jazz cornet player, bandleader, and composer. 162 mimeographed pages in a black binder. Very good copy with minor wear. Label attached to spine of binder with some loss but title and authors' names intact. Very scarce.

London: Sidgwick and Jackson Ltd., 1958. Hardcover (with Dust Jacket). Very Good. 8vo (238 pages). One of the first, and still one of the best, monographs written about the seminal New Orleans cornetist, Louis Armstrong’s “Papa Joe.” This is a virtually mint copy of the First Edition, in dust jacket. It was the property of Armstrong’s later clarinetist, Joe Muranyi, whose name is inscribed in ink on the front free endpaper.