$35.00
Oxford University Press, New York, 1996, First Thus, First Printing with complete number line. From the library of the eminent jazz writer Nat Hentoff, publisher’s slip with his address is laid in. With sixteen additional essays, this is a revised and significantly expanded edition of Balliett’s classic series of jazz portraits, American Musicians, first published in 1986. In quarter cloth over mustard boards, spine ends slightly compressed, one inch of wear to top front fore edge, else very good++, clean, crisp, in a very good + dust jacket, unclipped, light shelf wear and edge curling, shallow inch long nick to top front edge, compression and light creasing to spine ends, now in mylar sleeve. Increasingly uncommon in the first edition. J1728
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