ID 1016373
Los 154 | Swing that Music and Satchmo: My Life in New Orleans
Schätzwert
£ 2 000 – 3 000
Louis Armstrong
Louis ARMSTRONG (1901-1971). Swing that Music and Satchmo: My Life in New Orleans. London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1936, and New York: Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1954.
First edition and first US edition, each signed and inscribed by Louis Armstrong. Swing that Music inscribed in green ink on the half-title 'Best wishes from Louis “Satchmo” Armstrong'; Satchmo similarly signed in blue ink with full name and sobriquet.
Two volumes, octavo. Swing that Music with introduction by Rudy Vallee, portrait frontispiece, 11 additional plates and 10 folding score sheets. Original red cloth gilt and dust-jacket. Satchmo with 16 plates and pictorial endpapers. Original cloth backed paper boards (slight tape stains to board edges) and dust-jacket (slight toning and rubbing, a couple of small tape marks and closed tears to flaps).
[With:] GOFFIN, Robert (1898-1984). Horn of Plenty. The Story of Louis Armstrong. New York, Allen, Towne & Heath, 1947. First edition in English, signed and inscribed in green ink on the front free endpaper by Louis Armstrong 'Best Wishes To Herby Hill, From Louis Armstrong.' Octavo. Original green cloth (faint dampstaining to extremities, slight cockling) and dust-jacket (splits and chips to spine and folds).
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