ID 1029122
Lot 471 | Jazz Periodicals: 66 issues
Estimate value
£ 1 200 – 1 800
A collection of jazz magazines and periodicals, 1930s-1960s. 66 issues, quarto and octavo, comprising:
PANASSIE, Hugues, ed. Jazz Hot. Revue Internationale de la Musique de Jazz. Paris: Hot Club de France, 1935-37. The first 22 issues, bound in black buckram gilt, original pictorial wraps bound in. ‘Jazz Hot expanded the French jazz community... by disseminating information about hot music throughout the country... [it] became France’s preeminent journal devoted to the music and helped to define it more thoroughly.’ Jackson, 185.
[With:] - La Revue du Jazz. Organe du Hot Club de France. Paris, 1949-50. The first 11 issues, housed in a custom black cloth solander box.
[With:] – Le Hot Jazz. Paris: 1933. Rare French record catalogue, predating and foregrounding Panassié’s classic book Le Jazz Hot.
[With:] BARCLAY, Eddie & Boris VIAN. Jazz News. Paris: 1948-50. Nos. 1-11, wire-stitched in the original pictorial wraps, housed in a custom black cloth solander box.
[With:] America. Paris, 1947. No.5 Jazz 47, special issue, with cover design by Charles Delaunay.
[With:] McCARTHY, Albert J. ed. Jazz Forum. Fordinbridge: The Delphic Press, 1946-7. Numbers 1-5, wire-stitched in the original pictorial wraps, with cover designs by Stanley Jackson, housed in a custom black cloth solander box.
[With:] MORGENSTERN, Dan, ed. Down Beat. Chicago: Maher Publications, 1969. Vol. 36 nos. 1-14, bound in brown cloth gilt, original pictorial wraps bound in. Accompanied by a typed letter signed from Jools Holland to Charlie Watts ‘The brothers in the shop [Teuchtler, Vienna] wanted me to give you this enclosed book which has some superb adverts and articles, including some great shots of Buddy Rich, Don Lamond, Art Blakely [sic] and others’, dated 2018.
[And:] Esquire’s 1947 Jazz Book. New York, 1946. Inscribed to jazz pianist Art Hodes by the Executive Editor Frederic A. Birmingham ‘with the compliments of Esquire and our most sincere appreciation’. Bound for Hodes in burgundy buckram gilt, his name gilt to the upper board, original wraps bound in.
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