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Published by Corréa - Collection "Le Chemin de la vie" dirigée par Maurice Nadeau, 1950
Book Signed
Demi-reliure à coins. Condition: Très bon. Edition originale de la traduction française de Marcel Duhamel et Madeleine Gautier. Préface d'Henry Miller. SIGNATURE autographe de Milton Mezz Mezzrow à l'encre verte sur le faux-titre. Bon exemplaire en reliure d'époque : demi maroquin rouge à couns, lettre or au dos à nerfs, couvertures conservées. >Autobiographique de ce clarinettiste et saxophoniste américain de jazz, publié aux Etats-Unis en 1946 sous le titre "Really the Blues". Dans ce récit il assume son comportement de « mauvais garçon », évoquant ses séjours en prison et sa forte consommation puis la vente de marijuana. Il y décrit les sensations qu'il éprouve la première fois qu'il joue sous l'influence de cette drogue. Il devient également dépendant à l'opium et à l'alcool, démons qu'il réussit à chasser avant de relancer sa carrière. Signé par l'auteur.
Published by Gyldendal, Köbenhavn / Copenhagen, 1954
Seller: LIVRESCOLLECTOR, Bruxelles, Belgium
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Softcover, 21cm x 13,5cm, 324pp. Front cover with very slight small rednesses and creasing to corners, small tear to spine top and bottom edges, very slight small waterstains and rednesses to flyleaf, else near fine / couverture recto avec légères petites rousseurs et petits plis aux coins, petite déchirure en tête et en queue du dos, très légères petites taches d humidité et légères petites rousseurs à la page de garde, sinon très bon état. SCARCE / RARE. Danish translation of "Really the Blues" (title taken from a Sidney Bechet's composition), autobiography of Milton "Mezz" Mezzrow published in USA in 1946, a popular success introducing mass audience to aspects of black culture / Autobiographie traduite en danois du clarinettiste de jazz "Nouvelle-Orléans" Mezz Mezzrow, publiée aux Etats-Unis en 1946 sous le titre de "Really the Blues" (nom d'une composition de Sidney Bechet) et qui remporta un vif succès de librairie, faisant découvrir des aspects de la culture noire à un large public. SIGNED BY SIDNEY BECHET TO CLAUS (BORRE) to first page (three lines). Milton "Mezz" Mezzrow, born Mesirow (1899-1972) was a jazz clarinetist and saxophonist from Chicago, better known for his drug dealing than his music ("mezz" became slang for marijuana and himself was known as "Muggles King", "muggles" being another slang for it). He organized and took part in many recording sessions in the 1930s and 1940s and helped spark the "New Orleans revival". In the mid-1940s he started his own record label, King Jazz Records. After appearing at the 1948 Nice Jazz Festival, he made his home in France and organized bands that included French musicians. He declared himself a "voluntary negro" and spent the last twenty years of his life in Paris, where he was a life-long friend with the French jazz critic Hugues Panassié and where he died. Bernard Wolfe (1915-1985) was an American writer. Between 1936 and 1938, he contributed to Trotskyist journals and worked in 1937, for eight month, as Trotsky's bodyguard and secretary in Mexico. In 1939, he moved to Greenwich Village, where is eventually drifted from the Trotskyist movement and met Anaïs Nin and Henry Miller, who wrote a preface for "Really the Blues" (which is not published in the Danish edition). Through them he found employment writing pornographic novels. In 1960, he began publishing stories in "Playboy Magazine". He wrote many novels, some related to Trostky. Sidney Bechet (1897-1959) was an American saxophonist, clarinetist and composer, one of the first important soloists in jazz. He was born in New Orleans to a middle-class Creole of color family. He played in many New Orleans ensembles. In 1919, he joined Will Marion Cook's Syncopated Orchestra who traveled in Europe and performed at the Royal Philarmonic Hall in London. In 1925, he sailed again to Europe, with "Revue Nègre" and Josephine Baker. He toured Europe with various bands, even Soviet Union in 1926. Few years later, he toured also with Noble Sissle's Orchestra in Germany and Soviet Union. In 1950, he moved to France, where he easily found well-paid work, became very popular and recorded many hit tunes, like "Les Oignons" or "Petite Fleur. Claus Borre, born in 1944 in Copenhagen, is one of the best-known Danish sports journalists, working for national newspaper Berlingske Tidende (1968-1977), Danmarks Radio (1977-2005) and then for TV2. Jazz. Danmark. Denmark. Danemark. American music. Musique américaine. Etats-Unis. United States. (B).
Paris, Le Club français du Livre / Série " Récits, volume 5 " de 1951. In-8 cartonnage éditeur, pleine toile noire, de 373 pages, au format 21,5 x 3,5 x 13,5 cm. Couverture illustré par un portrait de l'auteur. Dos rond, avec titre, en blanc. Plats et intérieur frais. Superbe pages de garde en photographies, noir et blanc. Préface de Henry Miller. Souvenirs du musicien de Jazz, Milton " Mezz " Mezzrow, écrits en collaboration avec Bernard Wolfe et traduits de l'américain par Marcel Duhamel et Madeleine Gautier. Ouvrage composé d'après les maquettes de Pierre Faucheux et imprimé uniquement à 4000 exemplaires numérotés sur bouffant alfa ( n° 102 ). On joint le prière d'insérer de l'édition originale. Etat superbe de fraicheur. Edition originale en club. ierre Faucheux. Précieux exemplaire, enrichi d'une dédicace autographe, signée, non nominative, de Milton " Mezz " Mezzrow.
Published by Editions Corrêa, 1951
Seller: ShepherdsBook, Yvonand, Switzerland
Book First Edition Signed
Couverture souple. Condition: Bon. Edition originale. Traces d'insolation. Dédicacé par l'auteur.
Published by Corrêa, 1952
Seller: Librairie Quillet, Loix - Ile de Ré, France
Book Signed
Couverture souple. Condition: Très bon. Paris, Corrêa, 1952. Reliure brochée. Bel exemplaire de cette seconde édition de l'autobiographie du fameux clarinettiste et saxophoniste de jazz américain. Dédicace à Alain Breton de Milton Mezzrow. Rare. Dédicacé par l'auteur.
couverture souple. - Corrêa, Paris 1950, 14,5x19,5cm, broché. - Edition originale, sur papier courant, de la traduction française. Exemplaire complet de sa jaquette qui comporte de petits manques angulaires. Préface d'Henry Miller. Signature manuscrite de Milton Mezz Mezzrow à l'encre turquoise sur la page de faux-titre. [ENGLISH DESCRIPTION ON DEMAND].
Published by Random House, New York, 1946
Seller: Abacus Bookshop, Pittsford, NY, U.S.A.
First Edition Signed
hardcover. 1st edition. 8vo, 388 pp., Signed by both authors on the front free endpaper. Nearly fine copy in very good dust jacket.
Published by Random House, New York, 1946
Seller: The Chatham Bookseller, Madison, NJ, U.S.A.
First Edition Signed
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good-. First Edition. 388pgs. White lettered blue cloth. Signed by both Milton "Mezz" Mezzrow and Bernard Wolfe on the front free endpaper. Stated first printing. Prev. owner name on the front pastedown. Except for some rubbing to the lower edges, an unmarked, clean copy. The unclipped blue and black jacket with chipping to the top and bottom edges of the spine and front panel. in mylar sleeve. A nice copy of this now classic and excellent autobiography of the life and times of jazz musician Mezz Mezzrow, a "A white kid who fell in love with black culture, Really the Blues was a rousing wake-up call to alienated young whites to explore the world of jazz, the first music America could call its own. Told in the jive lingo of the underground's inner circle, this classic is an unforgettable chronicle of street life, smoky clubs, and roadhouse dances." Size: Octavo. Signed by Milton Mezz Mezzrow and Bernard Wolfe.
Published by Random House, 1946
Seller: J. Mercurio Books, Maps, & Prints IOBA, Garrison, NY, U.S.A.
Association Member: IOBA
Book First Edition Signed
Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Stated First Printing. Warmly inscribed and signed by Bernard Wolfe. Unclipped DJ in archival cover, chips, some large. wear. Inscribed by Author(s).
Published by Paris: Éditions Corrêa, 1951, 1951
Seller: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, United Kingdom
Signed
Second edition in French (following the first of 1950), originally published in the US in 1946. Boldly signed by Mezzrow in blue biro on the half-title, along with the signatures of four other jazz musicians: French pianist Claude Bolling, New Orleanian trumpeter Lee Collins, trombonist Jimmy Archey, and drummer Fred Moore; identifying annotations in pencil by a previous owner. The autographs may have been garnered at the Salle Pleyel, Paris, when the same line-up appeared there on 21 November 1954 as Mezz Mezzrow and his Orchestra (see Claude Bolling & Jean-Pierre Daubresse, Bolling Story, 2008, p. 273). "If ever there was a real-life version of Norman Mailer's 'White Negro', it has to be Mezzrow, who turned his back on a well-off white Jewish background to pass as black. Mezz's skills as a clarinetist were limited; his skills as a fixer and self-mythologizer were beyond question. The ghosted autobiography, Really the Blues, can't be trusted, but it remains a great read" (Cook & Morton, The Penguin Guide to Jazz recordings). Mezzrow was renowned as a supplier of marijuana, and "Mezz" became, briefly, a slang term for the substance. Octavo. Original vivid yellow light card wrappers printed in black and white. With dust jacket (titles in reverse white, yellow and blue on black). Jacket just a little rubbed, text-block browned, neat contemporary ownership signature in blue ink to front free endpaper (dated "5.12.1951"), overall a very good copy.