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Hardcover, black cloth in publisher’s non price-clipped dust-jacket. 276 pages. Bibliography, Index. Illustrated with vignette photographs. First edition, first printing with full number line. A general introduction to jazz, both historical and technical, discussing the nature of jazz improvisation, the growth and development of jazz from pre-Civil War days, covering all the major milieus and styles in the course of that evolution. No previous ownership marks. A clean, square, unmarked copy ina lightly worn dust-jacket. Near fine in a good dust-jacket.