Smith willie the lion (20 risultati)

Original boards. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. Book Club Edition. Loosly inserted jazz column for members of the jazz book club, number 57. Slight foxing on fore edge & top edge. With slight wear & slight soiling to spine, covers & corners. Dustjacket lightly foxed on inside, otherwise light wear and light soiling only.; 8vo; xviii, 318 pages.…

Condizione: Good. First UK edition (hardback). 8vo (22cm by 15cm), xvii, 318pp. Original fawn cloth, dustwrapper. There is some light spotting to the edges of the text block, else the book is in very good condition; the dustwrapper is in good to very good condition (some rubbing, slight chafing of the edges). The dustwrapper has now been put in a mylar cover to protect it.…

Audio CD. Condizione: Very Good. 2004. 2 discs. Disc Quality: Excellent. CD31.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. A clean tight copy of this title Now in loose removable protective clearcover wrapper guard.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. 1st Edition. Book.

Trade Paperback. Condizione: Very Good. 1st Paperback Edition: 1978. 318 pp. A great, almost spotlessly clean copy! Solidly and tightly bound, essentially and nearly flawless copy with minimal internal and external wear and use. Copy with crisp pages, clean text, and light shelf wear. Smooth covers. Minimally shelf worn. Joseph Del Gaudio (Cover Design); Charles Stewart (Cover Photo) (illustratore). …

Hardcover. Condizione: very good+. Condizione sovraccoperta: very good-. First Edition. 318 pages; 5 3/4 x 8 1/2" Foreword by Duke Ellington. Jacket spine edges and corners are worn; slight sun-fading to jacket spine; 1/2" tear to upper edge of jacket spine; jacket in a mylar sleeve.

Hardcover. Condizione: Fair. General wear. Discolouration to dust jacket.

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. Dust jacket is price-clipped. Some shelf-wear to jacket. Old book plate pasted inside front cover. Foxing to top edge, otherwise clean and unmarked.

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. Described as 'one of the most low-down, swinging, charming and shocking memoirs ever written', The Lion is here, William Henry Joseph Bonaparte Bertholoff Smith, and he has co-written this text with George Hoefer. Not only is he still a mean tickler who'll take on anybody, he is a composer of note, an iconic jazz and stride pianist, a major influence on the likes of Duke Ellington (who also provides a foreword to the book), Joe Bushkin, and Artie Shaw, and a verbal historian of considerable authority and wit. He is also the perfect guide to take the reader on a crawl through the dives, cellars, brothels, on the tours and into the caves that sp.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Very good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Good. First UK Edition, First Printing. Octavo. 5.75 x 8.75 in. 318 pp. Very good in original paper-covered boards with foxing to edge of text block and endpapers, and good, price-clipped, dust jacket with general rubbing, toning, and chipping. Originally published in the U.S. in 1964. Co-written by George Hoefer and with a foreword by Duke Ellington.…

Hard Cover with Dustjacket. Condizione: Very Good+. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good-. First Edition. Hardcover with dustjacket : very good plus / very good minus. Book: spine tips slightly soft; binding is clean and bright; straight; hinges strong; small stain to ffep; slight spotting to top edge of text block; pages excellent. Jacket in new mylar protector; orange on spine is a little faded; mild wear and a little soiling. Wikipedia: "William Henry Joseph Bonaparte Bertholf Smith (November 23, 1893[a] - April 18, 1973), nicknamed "the Lion", was an American jazz and stride pianist." Size: 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Book.…

Softcover/Paperback. Condizione: Good. Fair with some wear, minor discolouration on endpapers and textblock.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. 1st Edition. Very Good in a Good jacket. 1st Printing. The DJ has a thin vertical crease on the front panel.

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Good. good.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. First Edition. First Edition (1965.) Hardcover with dust jacket. 8vo with 318 pages. The book and dust jacket are in very good condition. Fading to spine. Interior is clean and tight. Pictures available upon request. Black orange spine/white text. #033919 Size: 8vo. Memoirs.…

Soft cover. Condizione: Very Good. 4to, original wrappers, 33 pp.; good condition, fold in the middle. December 1949 issue of La Revue du Jazz signed and inscribed on the front cover by Willie The Lion Smith (1893 1973). Smith was an American jazz pianist and composer. He is seen as one of the masters of the stride style. He was a major influence on Duke Ellington, who wrote several compositions dedicated to him. Inscribed by Author(s).…

Hardcover. Condizione: Very good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very good. First edition. Inscribed by the author on the front flyleaf. Covers have some shelfwear and light staining. Dust jacket is chipped.

Hardcover. Condizione: Near Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. First edition. Foreword by Duke Ellington. Octavo. 318pp. Small label and a single short ink stroke on front fly, else near fine in slightly rubbed and spine-sunned very good dustjacket. Inscribed on the rear fly leaf by Smith: "Best of Luck to my friend Ray Murphy. From Willie The Lion Smith. Pianist, Lady Jane." Additionally Signed by pianist Claude Hopkins, whom Ellington mentions in his foreword as one of the pianists he grew up studying and emulating. Scarce signed by Smith. …

First Edition. INSCRIBED "To Tom Noel. A fine man who knows all the good thngs in life. From Willie the Lion Smith = Jane - all the best in life." 8vo. 318 pp. Smudging and soiling to to grey cloth boards; offsetting to front endpapers; a very good copy in near fine illustrated dustjacket (light wear to extremities; darkening covers). Uncommon signed copy of this autobiography of the jazz great William Henry Joseph Bonaparte Bertholf Smith (1893 - 1973). Smith was instrumental in developing the Harlem stride piano style, along with Fats Waller and others, which would become popular in the 1920s. He was great influence on Duke Ellington, who writes the Foreword for this books.…