Lorne Bair
W.C. Handy - Father of the Blues: An Autobiography
Memoir by musician and composer William Christopher Handy (1873-1958), who did much to popularize and publish American blues music. "He tells of his early struggles; the lot of a Negro musician knocking about with entertainment groups in the South; his days in famous old minstrel shows; his work keeping his own band going; how he made but $100 from "Memphis Blues"; how his orchestra came to grief with the last war; his career in New York as a publisher and song writer" (from flap text). An attractive copy of a wear-prone title. BLOCKSON 7995; SKOWRONSKI (Black Music in America: A Bibliography) 6875.
First Printing. Octavo (22cm); dark blue cloth, with titles stamped in black on spine and front cover; blue topstain; dustjacket; xviii,317,[1]pp, with a frontispiece portrait of the author. Light wear to spine ends, hint of sunning to spine, topstain dulled, with a small, faint circular stain to rear cover; contents fresh; Very Good+ or better. In a supplied dustjacket, price-clipped, with light wear to heel and front flap fold, with a few tiny tears and creases; Near Fine.
W.C. Handy - Father of the Blues: An Autobiography
Memoir by musician and composer William Christopher Handy (1873-1958), who did much to popularize and publish American blues music. "He tells of his early struggles; the lot of a Negro musician knocking about with entertainment groups in the South; his days in famous old minstrel shows; his work keeping his own band going; how he made but $100 from "Memphis Blues"; how his orchestra came to grief with the last war; his career in New York as a publisher and song writer" (from flap text). An attractive copy of a wear-prone title. BLOCKSON 7995; SKOWRONSKI (Black Music in America: A Bibliography) 6875.
First Printing. Octavo (22cm); dark blue cloth, with titles stamped in black on spine and front cover; blue topstain; dustjacket; xviii,317,[1]pp, with a frontispiece portrait of the author. Light wear to spine ends, hint of sunning to spine, topstain dulled, with a small, faint circular stain to rear cover; contents fresh; Very Good+ or better. In a supplied dustjacket, price-clipped, with light wear to heel and front flap fold, with a few tiny tears and creases; Near Fine.