Item #000011155 Giants of Jazz. Studs Terkel.

Giants of Jazz

New York: Thomas Y. Crowell Company [1957], 1957. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [8], 1-215, [1] pp. Orange cloth with a black decoration on the front board and black lettering on the spine. Price of $3.00 on the front flap of the dust jacket. Illustrated with a few full-page drawings of jazz icons. Signed on the free front endpaper by Studs Terkel. Terkel's first book, with biographies of Duke Ellington, Dizzie Gillespie, Bessie Smith, Count Basie, Billie Holiday, and others. Very Good / Near Very Good. Item #000011155

Toning to the endpapers and pastedowns; jacket has a split to the front fold and toning and fading to the spine.

Price: $250.00

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