Oscar Levant (114 results)

hardcover. Condition: Good. This is a used book in good condition and may show some signs of use or wear . This is a used book in good condition and may show some signs of use or wear .

Condition: Good. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Nick Lucas on Cover (illustrator). 1st. 6 clean, unmarked pages; pictorial wraps with Nick Lucas, {Nick Lucas, was an American jazz guitarist and singer. He was the first jazz guitarist to record as a soloist. His popularity during his lifetime came from his reputation as a singer.} owner's stamp.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Connecting readers with great books since 1972! Used books may not include companion materials, and may have some shelf wear or limited writing. We ship orders daily and Customer Service is our top priority!

paperback. Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. The Encore Press , N.H. , 1946 First Edition 127 page Vintage Digest sized magazine with stories and articles by William James , Oscar Levant, David L. Cohn and others. Contents Page in photos A near fine copy with light dust soiling to the covers . See Photos whb12.

DVD. Condition: Used - Good.

DVD. Condition: Used - Good.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Dust jacket missing. Book club edition. Shelf and handling wear to cover and binding, with general signs of previous use. Secure packaging for safe delivery.

No Binding. Condition: VG. 1st Edition. A VG or better original release 8 x 10 mini lobby card. Photographic Image.

No Binding. Condition: VG. Dust Jacket Condition: None. This is an original vintage print trade ad that measures approximately 8 1/2 x 11 and is in VG or better condition. Ideal for framing, this ad comes protected in a plastic sleeve and backer and is shipped first class mail in a cardboard mailer. We combine shipping with multiple ads shipping at no additional charge. Size: 8" x 11". Paper.

Paperback. Condition: Very good. 224 pages. Armed Services Edition No. T-7. Printed for the ASE in 1945. Pages aged darkened. Good plus to very good, wrappers. (195).

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Harms Inc. New York, 1929. Softcover, 5 pp. Sheet music booklet. A song from the 1929 RKO film 'Street Girl', which starred Betty Compson as a poor violinist. Very good condition with a music store ink stamp and a partially erased name on front wrap.

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. Remick Music, New York, 1928. Softcover, 5 pp. Sheet music booklet. A song from the 1928 Warner Brothers film "My Man", performed in the film by Fannie Brice. Near fine with a faint music store stamp near foot of front wrap.

No Binding. Condition: VG. 1st Edition. A VG or better original release 8 x 10 mini lobby card. Photographic Image.

NY, Armed Services Editions, n.d. (1945), first edition thus, wrappers. Softcover. No. T-7 in this important series, "impudent, wit-filled stories about music, musicians, and himself," issued by the Council on Books in Wartime, designed to fit the pocket of a World War II American GI. Very good minus.

Soft cover. Condition: VG. 1610-77. A VG or better original release 8 x 10 still Size: 8" x 10". Book.

Unbound. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 7 pp. Previous owner name on the front cover. The score is clean. Scored for solo piano.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. 2nd Printing. Softcover. Good binding and cover. Edge wear. Spine creased. Pages tanned, but unmarked.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. G. P. Putnam's Sons, Published 1965. Hardcover, 320 pp.; 22 cm. In Very Good condition with a Good dust jacket. Publisher's quarter-cloth binding: red cloth spine with gold lettering and a small gold-stamped figure of a man with arms raised, orange paper over boards with the same gold-stamped figure at the lower right of the front board. Top edge of the text block stained red. Mild shelf wear with light bumping to the corners and a hint of color loss along the edges. Binding tight; mild toning to the endpapers and a small stain to the last page of text and rear free endpaper; otherwise pages unmarked. Cream-colored pictorial dust jacket with a photographic image of Levant on the front and a black-and-white photograph of him at the piano (by Julian Wasser) on the back; jacket design by Ben Feder. Dust jacket shows several small nicks, chips and short closed tears (each one inch or less) at the spine ends and corners, mild to moderate overall toning with light soiling, and heavier toning to the paper over the spine; unclipped at $5.95. Now in an archival quality (removable) Brodart cover.Oscar Levant (1906-1972), a pianist, composer, radio and television personality, film actor, and self-described professional neurotic, looks back across four decades of American musical and theatrical life in this informal autobiography, his successor to A Smattering of Ignorance. Levant moves between recollections of Arnold Schoenberg, Toscanini, George Gershwin, Harpo Marx, Clifford Odets, Aldous Huxley, Al Jolson, S. N. Behrman, and Christopher Isherwood; accounts of his Tin Pan Alley apprenticeship, his Information Please years, and his Hollywood and concert-hall career; and chapters on his struggles with addiction, mental illness, and treatment at the psychiatric ward of Mt. Sinai Hospital.Contents: Total Recoil; Little Boy's Blues; Woe Is I; Blame It on My Youth; Leaves of Trash; Hats Off, Gentlemen!; Variations on No Theme; The Real Tinsel; Duet for Three Hands; My Bed of Nails; Stand Up and Faint.

hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Hardcover with dust jacket. Third impression. No markings noted. Dust Jacket with edge wear, small tears. Considerable fading at top of book spine, else mild wear.

No Binding. Condition: VG+. 1507X1. A VG or better original release 8 x 10 still. Size: 8" x 10". Photographic Image.

No Binding. Condition: VG. 1st Edition. A VG or better original release 8 x 10 mini lobby card. Photographic Image.

No Binding. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: None. A good folded insert. Size: 14" x 36". Poster.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. Missing dust jacket; Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

NY, Armed Services Editions, n.d. (1945), first edition thus, wrappers. Softcover. No. T-7 in this important series, "impudent, wit-filled stories about music, musicians, and himself," issued by the Council on Books in Wartime, designed to fit the pocket of a World War II American GI. Very good.

hardcover. Condition: Acceptable. New York Putnam Hardcover with jacket in mylar. *EX-LIBRARY with stamps on fore edges, front fly leaf and first chapter page; sticker on spine; and residue from removed card pocket on rear fly leaf.* Tight binding.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good Plus. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good Plus. Early Printing. Book is sturdy and basically clean, with tiny owner's signature and "tanned"pages, covered by a facsimile of a lightly worn bright jacket. Wise-cracking, witty autobiography of the famous musician.

pocketbook. Condition: Good. 2025 octoberfiled in backroom.

No Binding. Condition: VG+. A VG or better original release 8 x 10 still. Size: 8" x 10". Photographic Image.