Wraps, an article by David H. Sawyer, an ephemeral bit of Johnson lore for the completist. Paul Robeson cover, Sacramento Labor Chorus, more. Near fine. View More...
The first two issues, the second of which is the double number 2/3. Number 1 has soiling and a dime-sized stain on the front wrap, very good; Number 2/3, wraps are browning near edges, very good+. Both issues are set in Courier, but the printing is several steps beyond mimeograph. ; Small 4to 9" - 11" tall; 20, 47 pp View More...
4 volumes: A great tool for blues and Mississippi history research. 1963 is very good with a little rubbing to joints; 1967 is very good+; 1969 has the front two pages loose, small start to the foot of the front joint, ownership stamp of the Credit Bureau of Clarksdale; 1977 is near fine. Each volume has a ribbon marker and begins with a short, photo-illustrated history of Clarksdale. City directories list every business and every person, with their address and telephone number. They are full of business advertisements in their yellow pages and list persons in their white pages, with sections ... View More...
Three issues: No. 2 (June 1974) ; No. 6 (Sept 1975) ; No.9 (Dec 1976). Issues 2 and 6 are very good; Issue 9 has a damp stain in the corner of the front cover and the first page. The cover of No. 9 is adly rippled, the first page, only slightly. No. 9 has more photos than the other issues. Stories and / or pix on Hi Tide Harris, Micky Baker (interviview) , BB King (interview) ; Screaming Jay Hawkins, Jay Miller (interview) , Sonny Rhodes, many more. The three:; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 54;66;62 pp View More...
Wraps, fine. An exhibition catalog in the form of a checklist of items drawn from the Chicago Jazz Archive, celebrating its 20th anniversary. Illustrated; short history of the Archive included. An interesting catalog that never got much circulation. ; Small 4to 9" - 11" tall; 19 pp View More...
Wraps, very good with rubbed and worn edges, small fore-edge chip to one page (text pages printed on newsprint), penciled note"try this on your piano", color cover illustration of large minstrel group. Contains jokes, advertisements and sheet music of popular songs like When that Mobile Boy Sings the "Memphis Blues," When I Dream in Dreamland, etc. plus a few song lyrics without music. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; (16) pp View More...
Wraps, very good with wear and rubbing to edges and spine. Color cover illustration of large minstrel group on stage, text paper on newsprint. Contains popular songs like Down in Arkansaw, Broken Blossoms, Dear Old Fashioned Mother, etc. Most songs with music, some with lyrics only, jokes and advertisements. ; Folio 13" - 23" tall; (16) pp View More...
Wraps tabloid format, very good, folded across the middle unevenly. Features on Miles Davis and Willie Dixon (cover story.); tabloid 14 x 12"; 39 pp View More...
Wraps, very good+ with chips and tears to covers, pages not affected. Compilation of minstrel songs from W.F. Shaw, a popular publisher of music in the 1800's. ; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall View More...
Spiral bound book with 5 CDs in pockets, in decorated slipcase. Text contains much from (and about) Broadside magazine, including what are now the most famous names in the genre, with their music on CD. Fine in near fine slipcase with one bit worn label (the one noting that 5 compact disks are included. ; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 157 pp View More...
Wraps, a fine copy of this heavily illustrated work, a wonderful compilation of facts and photos of Ladnier's life. ; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 215 pp View More...
Wraps, a terrific association, being John Godrich's own copy, given to me by John right after the publication of the first edition of Blues and Gospel Records 1902-1942, compiled by John and R M W Dixon (1963). In the time between the 1949 publication of Jazz Directory (which never made it beyond Volume Six, Kl-Lo) , Jazz Directory was the only blues (and jazz) discography in existence. This copy is filled with hundreds of John's hand-written entries, from corrections to additions, from matrix numbers to record numbers. The quantity of his entries is mind-boggling.. The rear blanks are filled ... View More...
Single leaf illustrated in color announcing a two-day concert featuring Rita Warford, Jodie Christian, Jane Burnett, Quartet featuring Cecile Savage, Sheila Jordan/Harview Swartz, Deidre Murray/Fred Hopkins, Myra Melford Trio, and Geri Allen. Verso printed in black on white for folding and mailing. This example not folded, near fine with light corner crease. The HotHouse was a highly esteemed venue opened in 1987 by Marguerite Horberg and continued in their Milwaukee Avenue location in Chicago until 1995. They moved to a new location on Balbo in 1995 and closed in 2007. This poster is from th... View More...
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