Temple University Press, Philiadelphia, 1988, First Edition, First Printing. SIGNED, dated and warmly inscribed by Milt Hinton to jazz book seller and collector, Arthur Newman at the ffep. Advance review copy with publisher's letter laid in. The great bassist's warm, anecdotal memoir of a life in jazz which spanned more than five decades, lavishly illustrated with the author's photographs, selected from his personal archive of over 60,000 negatives. This is the companion volume to an extensive collection of Hinton's remarkable jazz photographs entitled, Over Time, published in 1991. In red cloth boards, foot of spine is lightly compressed, very slight spine lean, else about fine, tight, clean, unmarked. In a like dust jacket, not price clipped, spine ends lightly creased, tiny spot of soiling to top edge of rear panel, in mylar sleeve. An uncommon, signed review copy with a strong jazz association. J1250
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