George murphy foreword (5 risultati)

Paperback. Condizione: Good. first edition,1p; 54321pt line. GOOD CONDITION.marginal pencil markings.else quite nice, bright; yellow cover titles with Cover photo Pop & strings. paper covers.; 212pg pages; double-bass stylist in jazz, George Murphy "Pops" Foster enjoyed a career that spanned gigs with greats from Louis Armstrong and Duke Ellington to Charlie Parker and John Coltrane.; 6x9".…

Paperback. Condizione: Very Good. First Edition. VERY GOOD CONDITION, Name ep "Hernandez" else clean, solid, bright. ; Black titles on glossy white paper covers showing PALM TREES BLOWING IN THE WIND COVER ART.; 230 pages; 25 of its most renowned writers.home or haven to many of this country's esteemed authors.…

Hardcover. Condizione: New. In shrink wrap.

Very good with very good dust jacket. Folding map laid in. Dust jacket is faded on spine, has a one inch slit in middle of spine, and has a 1/2 inch tear at top of spine. 56 pages with a bibliography and 16 illustrations. Tall 8vo size.

Small quarto; 56pp, including 2-page bibliography; 15 b/w illustrations plus frontis portrait of the author; folded facsimile map at rear. A Near Fine copy (spine sunned) of a fairly common edtion made unique by its later custom full beige leather binding in custom slipcase in grey buckram; gilt lettered black title label to spine. A very attractive work with dramatically marbled endpapers, ruled at top and bottom in blind; blind-embossed title to upper board, which bears an inlaid device in black. Tipped in to ffep, which bears previous owner name, is a slip "The runic sign of death is called for as the sole decoration as the narrative is of tragedy and death." The binding is signed 'Anson Herrick 1966." Herrick (1883-1969) was principal in the accounting firm which disbursed relief funds following the 1906 earthquake and was in charge of the accounting procedures for the 1915 Panama Pacific International Exposition. He was Director of the Pictorial Photographic Society of San Francisco and clearly an accomplished amateur hand bookbinder. "This edition is limited to 1400 copies" on preliminary leaf, to which is tipped a slip "Binding of This Copy as No. 1401 Was Specially Authorized.".…