Nelson Moore Robert, First Edition (13 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Very Good + to near Fine in stapled wraps with light toning at periphery & light handling. Bright & unmarked. First printing of 250 copies.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Color Cover Illustration By T. L. Kryss (illustrator). First Edition. In stapled wraps with upper cover illustration in color by T. L. Kryss, 8vo, unpag. One of 250 copies in the first printing. Size: 8vo - over 7 3/4" - 9 3/4" Tall. Book.

First edition. [16 pp]. Very good plus in stapled wrappers. Two-color cover silkscreen by T.L. Kryss. One of 250 copies.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. First Edition. Small chips and tears at edges, loss of bottom 1/4" of spine including last digit of year.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st edition. VG. 8vo, 64pp, printed wrappers. Uncommon original copy of this 1939 issue. Issue includes a Delmore Schwartz piece on Rimbaud, Nelson Algren on Robert Graves, verse by Hugh MacDiarmid and others. Unmarked copy, light stain to fore-edge. Not Signed.

First edition. [16 pp]. Very near fine in stapled wrappers. Two-color cover silkscreen by T.L. Kryss. One of 250 copies. Twelve poems. A mimeo beaut, published by Douglas Blazek.

Pamphlet. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. Illustrated by Kryss, T. L. (illustrator). First Edition; First Printing. [8] unnumbered leaves, including title. Stapled pamphlet bound in pale blue wraps with bright red and blue silk-screen by T. L. Kryss. Covers a little sunned, some slight edge curl at top corners. Interior is clean and unmarked, bit faded, some slight curl at top edge, otherwise good. Limited to 250 copies. ; Silk screen; 16 pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. xiv, 233 p. : ill., ports. ; 26 cm. ISBN 9780520029996, 9780520037199, 0520029992, 0520037197 OCLC 3289253 LCCN 75007193 LC ML3561.J3 S39 Dewey 785.420973 ; gray cloth in pictorial dust jacket ; Contents: Preface / Chadwick Hansen -- Introductions -- Introducing the Jazz Record 1943 / Art Hodes -- Jazz Record: the first year, 1944 / Art Hodes and Dale Curran -- Jazz Record remembered, 1973 / Art Hodes -- Part 1: Facts Of Life / Art Hodes -- Rainbow cafe -- Everybody's in the union -- Playing for kicks -- Wingy, Louis and me -- Liberty Inn drag -- Jam session -- Cops -- Taxi dance hall -- Big bands: 1 -- Big bands: 2 -- Making a record -- Enlightenment-through radio -- Blues for Bennie -- Blues for the dago -- Blues for Nick and tricky Sam -- Blues for 52nd street -- Part 2: Beginnings-Blues, Boogie-Woogie And Ragtime -- Cow cow and the boogie-woogie / Cow Cow Davenport -- Mama don't low no music / Cow Cow Davenport -- Blues in his heart / Jasper Wood -- Rag alley story / Rudi Blesh -- Little brother / Eurreal Montgomery -- Preserve genuine early ragtime / S Brunson Campbell -- They all had it / S Brunson Campbell -- Scott Joplin / R J Carew -- Baby, I done got wise / William "Big Bill" Broonzy -- Memories of Bessie Smith / Carl Van Vechten -- Bessie Smith / Art Hodes -- Really the blues / Milton (Mezz) Mezzrow -- I remember the queen /Zutty Singleton -- Part 3: New Orleans And All That Jazz -- New Orleans trumpeters / Cy Shain -- Jazz music of the gay '90s / John A Provenzano -- Mardi Gras, chic la pai / John A Provenzano -- Mr Armstrong and Mr Robbins / transcribed by Lorraine Lion -- When Armstrong came to New York / Kaiser Marshall -- King Oliver's last tour / Fred Moore -- King's nephew / Dave Nelson, as related to Danny Barker -- Mostly about Morton / Omer Simeon -- Oh, Mr Jelly / Charles Edward Smith -- Oh, play that thing / Warren "Baby" Dodds -- Forty-eight years on the string bass / Pops Foster -- Blues for Jimmy / Vincent McHugh -- Tribute to Joe Darensbourg / John Wittwer -- Once upon a time / Eddie Edwards -- Kid Ory / Alma Hubner -- Letter from Bunk / Bunk Johnson -- Jam session with Bunk / Lewis Eaton -- Play number nine / George Lewis -- New Orleans trombone / Jim Robinson -- Big eye Louis Nelson / Robert Goffin -- Part 4: Second Line -- Baby Dodds knew how / George Wettling -- Drummer from Chicago / Earl Wiley -- Drummer Danny / Bob Aurthur -- Kazoo come on / Jack Bland -- As I knew Eddie Lang / Jack Bland -- Idyll of the kings / Amy Lee -- Riverboat Jess / Mary Peart -- Barrelhouse Frank Melrose / Pete Daily -- Davenport piano / Floyd Bean -- Portrait of George Bruni(e)s / Amy Lee -- Modest George / Harvey Lebow -- Bud Freeman said it / Jasper L Wood -- Pee Wee's soul is music / Alma Hubner -- Rod Cless as I knew him / Ray Cless -- Muggsy Spanier / Alma Hubner -- Hear that ragtime band / Dale Curran -- Wild William / Bob Aurthur -- Talking about boze / Mary Peart -- Dixieland, twin city style / Paul (Doc) Evans -- Gentleman of jazz / Fats Baker -- Music is a business / Fats Baker -- Village tavern league / George Avakian -- Musicians are independent / G F Quittner -- Part 5: Lest We Forget -- Gram-o-phone days / Dale Curran -- Recording with Panassie / Mezz Mezzrow -- I'm a sweet Papa Pigment / Alsion Blair -- St Louis Jazzman / Ed Crowder and A F Niemoeller -- Drums on the Mississippi / Harry Dial -- Everybody loves Cecil / H B M -- Music is my business / Henry Goodwin -- Fats Waller and James P / James McGraw -- Trouping with Fats Waller / Gene Sedric -- You got to be original, man / Allan Morrison -- Sidney Bechet, musical father to Bob Wilber / Al Avakian -- Selections from the gutter / Art Hodes ; FINE/FINE. Book.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. VG+ Edges slightly frayed, corners creased, spine faded, pages slightly tanned, otherwise very clean throughout. Cover art by H. W. McCauley.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st edition. Near VG. 8vo, 64pp, stapled self-cover. Scarce literary magazine edited by William Wantling during his time at Illinois State University, includes four poems and an excerpt from a novel by Wantling. Unmarked copy, outer leaf pulling at staples, which have some rust. Not Signed.

1st edition. Solid tight clean issue. Scarce. 7 x 10, 146 pp, b/w illus & ads. VeryGood+ unmarked, backstrip intact, edgewear to lower edge, faint bookstore stamp. Magazine in color illus wraps (art by Stockton Mulford).

4to. 146 pp. Text illustrations throughout by Robert Fuqua, Rod Ruth, Julian S. Krupa, Joe Sewell. Colour-illustrated softcovers, yapp fore-edges, front cover art of Robot by C.L. Hartman, back cover by H.M. Duffin (minor shelfwear, slight creasing) still NF copy. First edition of this relatively scarce installment of the famed pulp magazine after it had been purchased by Ziff-Davis in 1938, and installed Raymond Palmer as editor. This issue features Binder's robot story of "Adam Link's Vengeance," Williams' "Rockets over Europe," and Vincent's Undersea Prisoner.

First Edition. AVON FANTASY READER, Avon Books, 1947 thru 1952, first edition, 18 volumes complete, near fine to fine in full color pictorial wraps. Contributions by Robert E. Howard, Gelett Burgess, William Hope Hodgson, Hugh Cave, Algernon Blackwood, Edward Lucas White, James Francis Dwyer, G. K. Chesterton, Frank Owen, Ray Bradbury, Anthony Boucher, Nelson Bond, E. Hoffman Price, H. P. Lovecraft, Sax Rohmer, Manly Wade Wellman, M. R. James, Lord Dunsany, Clark Ashton Smith, Seabury Quinn, Francis Flagg, Doanld Wollheim, Malcolm Jameson, Amelia Reynolds Long, Fritz Leiber, Robert Bloch, Donald Wandrei, Ambrose Bierce, C. L. Moore, Abraham Merritt, Frank Belknap Long, David Keller, Jack Williamson, Edmond Hamilton, Henry S. Whitehead, Carl Jacobi, William F. Harvey, C. M. Kornbluth, S. Fowler Wright, Murray Leinster, August Derleth, H. G. Wells, H. R. Wakefield, et.al. Along with AVON SCIENCE FICTION READER, all 3 volumes, near fine to fine in full color pictorial wraps.