Oscar Levant (114 results)

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. It's a well-cared-for item that has seen limited use. The item may show minor signs of wear. All the text is legible, with all pages included. It may have slight markings and/or highlighting.

Condition: good. All pages and cover are intact including the dust cover, if applicable . Spine may show signs of wear. Pages may include limited notes and highlighting. May include "From the library of" labels. Shrink wrap, dust covers, or boxed set case may be missing. Item may be missing bundled media.…

Condition: good. The item shows wear from consistent use, but it remains in good condition and works perfectly. All pages and cover are intact including the dust cover, if applicable . Spine may show signs of wear. Pages may include limited notes and highlighting. May NOT include discs, access code or other supplemental materials.…

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

Softcover. Condition: Very Good-. Glossy softbound covers. Light shelf wear to the edges of the covers.; 5.5 X 1 X 8.5 inches; 320 pages.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. 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. Nick Lucas on Cover (illustrator). …

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.

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

No Binding. Condition: VG. 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.…

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.

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

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

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.

Mass Market Paperback. Condition: Good. foxing and stamp to page edges, age toned, rubbing to cover.

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. None. A good folded insert. Size: 14" x 36". Poster.

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.…

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

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.…

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

No Binding. Condition: VG+. A lot of four VG or better original release 8 x 10 stills. Photographic Image.

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

No Binding. Condition: VGF. A VG or better original release 8 x 10 English FOH lobby card. Photographic Image.

No Binding. Condition: VGF. A VG or better original release 8 x 10 English FOH lobby card. Photographic Image.

No Binding. Condition: Very Good. 658-97. A VG or better original release 8 x 10 still. Photographic Image.

Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1965 Fourth Printing. Hardcover. Good. Dust Jacket. Wearing and rubbing on covers and spine. Some foxing on fore-edge. Interior is unmarked. DJ is Good with wearing, rubbing, and some tears. 351p.