LEONARD FEATHER, EDDIE CONDON AND OTHERS

A quantity of books relating to the history of jazz, many signed by the authors, including three works by British jazz pianist Leonard Feather, two by British blues historian Paul Oliver, and two foreign language books – one in French, the other Italian – the latter widely considered to be the first book on jazz in the language. The group of 29 volumes, majority octavo, comprising:

GARON, Paul (1946-2022). The Devil’s Son-in-Law. London: Studio Vista, 1971. Signed by the author on the half-title. [With:] DYER, Geoff (b. 1958). But Beautiful. A Book about Jazz. London: Jonathan Cape, 1991. Inscribed by the author on the title page. [With:] GOLD, Robert S. (b. 1946). A Jazz Lexicon. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1964. Inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper. [With:] TERKEL, Studs (1912-2008). Giants of Jazz. New York: Thomas Y. Crowell, 1957. Inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper. [With:] FEATHER, Leonard (1914-1994) and Jack TRACY. Laughter from the Hip. Drawings by A. Birnbaum. New York: Horizon Press, 1963. Inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper. [With:] FEATHER, Leonard (1914-1994). The Pleasures of Jazz. New York, Horizon Press, 1976. Inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, accompanied by a photograph of Hoagy Carmichael and Louis Armstrong backstage at the LA Coliseum in 1970, with stamped studio credit verso. [With:] – From Satchmo to Miles. New York: Stein and Day, 1972. Inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper. [With:] SHAPIRO, Nat (1922-1983) and Nat HENTOFF (1925-2017), eds. Hear me talkin’ to ya. The Story of Jazz by the Men who made it. New York: Rhinehart & Company, 1955. Inscribed by Shapiro on the title page. [With:] MARSALIS, Wynton (b. 1961) and Carl VIGELAND. Jazz on the bittersweet blues of life. Cambridge: Da Capo Press, 2001. Inscribed by the author on the half-title. [With:] CONDON, Eddie (1905-1973) and Richard GEHMAN (1921-1972), eds. Eddie Condon’s Treasury of Jazz. New York: The Dial Press, 1956. Inscribed by the editors on the front free endpaper. [With:] WILLIAMS, Martin (1924-1992). The Jazz Tradition. New York: Oxford University Press, 1970. Inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper. [With:] GODBOLT, Jim (1922-2013). A History of Jazz In Britain. 1915-50. London: Quartet Books Limited, 1984. Inscribed by the author on the title page. [With:] HINTON, Milt (1910-2000). Over Time. The Jazz Photographs. San Francisco: Pomegranate Art Books, 1991. Inscribed by the author to Woody Allen on the half-title. [With:] BLESH, Rudi. (1899-1985). Shining Trumpets. A History of Jazz. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1946. Accompanied by a concert programme for Eubie Blake’s centenary celebration at the Sam S. Shubert Theatre, signed by Blesh. [With:] RUSSELL, Ross. The Sound. New York: E.P Dutton & Co., Inc., 1961. [With:] – Bird lives! New York: Charterhouse, 1973, first edition. [With:] BALLIETT, Whitney (1926-2007). Such Sweet Thunder. 49 Pieces on Jazz. Indianapolis: The Bobs-Merrill Company, Inc., 1966. [With:] – The Sound of Surprise. 46 Pieces on Jazz. New York: E. P Dutton & Co., Inc., 1959. [With:] OSGOOD, Henry O. (1879–1927). So this is Jazz. Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1926. [With:] WHITEMAN, Paul (1890-1967) and Leslie LIEBER (1912-2018). How to be a band leader. New York: Robert M. McBride & Company, 1948. [With:] OLIVER, Paul (1927-2017). Screening the Blues. London: Cassell & Company Ltd., 1968. [With:] – Blues fell this Morning. The Meaning of Blues. London: Cassell & Company Ltd., 1960. [With:] MITCHEL, George (1899-1972). Blow my Blues away. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1971. [With:] The Savoy Orpheans. London: Published Privately by Baynard Press, 1924. First and only edition of 1,000 copies. Presentation copy from Debroy Somers, leader of the Savoy Orpheans to Swedish singer, actor and composer Ernst Rolf. [With:] CARACENI, Augusto. Il Jazz Origini ad Oggi. Milan: Edizioni Suvini Zerboni, 1937. [And:] BURIAN, Emil Frantisek (1904-1959). Jazz. Prague: Storch-Marien, 1928. [With:] REISNER, Robert George (1894 – 1947). Bird: The Legend of Charlie Parker. London: Macgibbon & Kee, 1962, first edition. [With:] COPLAND, Aaron. Old American Songs. Boosey & Hawkes, c.1966. Hawkes Pocket Scores edition. [And:] LEMON, Brian (1937-2014) A self-published photographic history of the life of Brian Lemon.