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(JAZZ) DRIGGS, Frank & Harris LEWINE.
Black Beauty, White Heat.
A Pictorial History of Classic Jazz, 1920-1950. Introduction by Paul Bacon.
Publisher: New York, William Morrow and Company, Inc., 1982
Stock code: 41115
Price: £350 Currency Conversion
First Edition. Superb visual history - "an essential part of every aficianado's library", John Hammond - edited by writer, record producer and collector Driggs. This copy inscribed on the front free endpaper in year of publication to Jazz collector and researcher Arthur Newman, "For Arthur sincerely Frank Driggs." Designed by Lewine, art director of the legendary Riverside Records label.
Quarto. Original plum cloth with titles gilt on black printed lebels to upper board and spine, in dust jacket. Profusely illustrated. Very good in dust jacket.
