Beneath the Underdog

Lot 569
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Lot 569 | Beneath the Underdog
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MINGUS, Charles (1922-1979). Beneath The Underdog: His World as Composed by Mingus. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1971.

First edition, signed and dated by Charles Mingus on the title page: ‘Dec. 6, 1974, Charles Mingus’.

Octavo (212 x 143 mm). Original silver and black cloth, in the dust jacket.

[With:] a vintage gelatin silver Atlantic Records publicity portrait of Charles Mingus, signed in blue ballpoint pen in the lower margin ‘Charles Mingus’, 205 x 256 mm.

[And:] two albums Ah Um, Columbia Records, 1959, and Mingus Moves, Atlantic Records, 1974, each signed in blue ballpoint pen on the back of the sleeve by Charles Mingus, the first additionally inscribed ‘Best in life to Joel’.
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