SHINING TRUMPETS: A History Of Jazz

-First American Edition-

1949

First American Edition

By: Rudi Blesh

Alfred A. Knopf [New York]

8vo (381 pages, with 24 pages of musical transcriptions, index, photographs.)

Hardcover in Dust Jacket [Patterned yellow cloth]

Item Number: 12036

$100.00

Description

A useful history of jazz that was once considered definitive but has since been supplanted. This is a very good copy of the First Edition in a dust jacket that is lightly creased, with fractional loss along the lower spine edge and a closed tear on the front face that has been internally reinforced with tape. The contents are fine, with browning to the page edges.