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Jones, LeRoi [Amiri Baraka] BLACK MUSIC.
$500.00
Edition: First printing.
New York: Morrow, 1967. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition – Essays on young jazz musicians – including Coltrane, Monk, Archie Shepp, Ornette Coleman – written between 1959 to 1967. SIGNED on the dedication page by Baraka and dated in 1996. Photographs, discography, index. Review copy with publisher’s slip laid in. 211 pp. ISBN: 0-688-243444.
Condition: Very near fine in a very near fine dust jacket. Uncommon in this condition, and especially so signed.
Book ID: 93006
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