Bloomington: The Black Music Center/School of Music, Indiana University, 1973. Spiral_bound. [26p] 7.25x10.25 inches, monthly calendar and on facing pages lists of first, birthdays, composers etc., selected bibliography, very good, stiff card stock in spiral-bound black pictorial covers with a hole drilled at top for hanging on wall. More

Cat.No: 183393

Santa Monica: CalArts/Herb Alpert Foundation, 1996. [16p] photos of the five recipients intext, wraps. Includes two African American artists among the group that deals with gender-bending themes. More

Cat.No: 112913

Sacramento CA: Woodlake Inn, no date. Single 8.5x11 inch green sheet printed one side with Dixieland band illustration and schedule of players, two fold creases and some edgewear. Bands appearing are Bob Ringwald Trio, Frank Silva Combo, Grand Republic Jazz Band, Riverbank Blues Band & Sutterville Stompers. More

Cat.No: 169186

Berkeley: Jazz Publications, 1958-59. A complete run of the magazine edited by Ralph J. Gleason, various paginations, very good in wraps but with musty odor. The first issue contains Studs Terkel's 'Big Bill's Last Session'; the second, Duke Ellington's 'A Royal View of Jazz', the third John Hammond, Samuel B.... More

Cat.No: 134643

New York: Mercury Record Corporation, mid-1950s. Huge folio leaf printed in two colors and folded once to make a sleeve for a 12" phonograph record: we have this printed sleeve only. It lists sixty artists, from Dinah Washington to Cannon Ball Adderly; and on another side lists many many recordings... More

Cat.No: 229254

Munich: Nymphenburger Verlagshandlung, (1953, 1958). Hardcover. 92p., later (fourth) printing, openweave black cloth with titling and panel gilt, in unclipped dj, jacket mildly rubbed with handling and age. "Modern Negro Poetry," ...Poetry and lyrics, in English and German, many by Langston Hughes. Also Countee Cullen, Arna Bontemps, Jean Toomer, Melvin... More

Cat.No: 198283

New York: New Foundations Cooperative Press, 1949. Single issue of the journal, in staplebound pictorial wraps; 5x8 inches, touch of rust around the staples, otherwise very good. Magazine associated with the American Youth for Democracy and the Labor Youth League, youth groups of the CPUSA. Includes a Stalinist diatribe against... More

Cat.No: 207187

N. pl. Brunswick Radio Corp. 1943. 8p., wraps. Record notes for the album. Collectors'. More

Cat.No: 30221

New York: Playbill, 1998. Paperback. 90p., 5.5x8.5 inches, illustrations, articles, cast bios etc., very good first edition program in stapled pictorial wraps. Playbill volume 98, number 12, December 1998. More

Cat.No: 168063

San Francisco: Qiblah Press, 1995. 39p., 5.5x8.5 inches, very good first edition booklet in stapled printed buff raps, er, wraps. Poetry by the Bay Area jazz musician that "reflects an ardent endeavor to carry on the Islamic oratorical legacy of ... Malcolm X." - p. 29. Back cover has a.... More

Cat.No: 62891

Carmel CA: The Friends of Photography, 1981. Paperback. 192p., high-gloss clay-coated paperstock throughout, profuse fullpage b&w reproductions facing minimalist captions, the whole with perhaps twenty pages of critical apparatus, intro, chronology and exhibitions. A very large paperbound, 12x11 inches, edgeworn with some corner-tip creasing; within, find a few faint seller's... More

Cat.No: 231844

Hollywood: Matco Publishing, 1971. Magazine. 80p. including covers, 8.25x10.75 inches, articles on New Orleans, Storyville, other jazz greats, biography of Satchmo, b&w and color photos, the great cover portrait repeated inside without cover text, mild dampstain at bottom edhge, souvenir collectors' magazin in pictorial wraps. More

Cat.No: 224645

Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1987. Hardcover. ix, 217p., dj. African American author. More

Cat.No: 46814