Description

Hardcover, red cloth lettered in gold. no dust-jacket as issued. 230 pages. Illustrated with photographs and a double page historical chart. Introduction by Arnold Gingrich. A volume in the Da Capo Press reprint series “The Roots Of Jazz”, being an unabridged republication of the first edition published in New York in 1944 by Smith and Durell, Inc.. Esquire’s first book published on jazz, compiling information on books and periodicals published. discographies, highlights from the magazines 10 year interest in jazz, musicians and bands and much or on the contemporary jazz scene on the mid 1940’s. No previous ownership marks. A clean, square, fresh and unmarked copy, near as new. Fine. .