Published by Ecco Press, New York, 1996
ISBN 10: 0880014628 ISBN 13: 9780880014625
Seller: Willis Monie-Books, ABAA, Cooperstown, NY, U.S.A.
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st US Printing.
Published by Lester & Oppen Dennys, 1973, 1973
Seller: Longhouse, Publishers & Booksellers, Brattleboro, VT, U.S.A.
First Edition
First edition First Canadian edition, first printing. Fine and bright in like dustjacket with crisp bright text throughout. Handsome all around and attractive work as always by this author. Gift quality.
Published by Ecco Press, New York, NY, 1996
ISBN 10: 0880014628 ISBN 13: 9780880014625
Seller: Hourglass Books, Vancouver, BC, Canada
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good+, Not Price Clipped. American First. Complete number line from 1 to 9; minor wear; otherwise a solid, clean copy with no marking or underlining; collectible condition. Book.
Published by W. W. Norton, New York & London, 1973
ISBN 10: 0393024709 ISBN 13: 9780393024708
Seller: Willis Monie-Books, ABAA, Cooperstown, NY, U.S.A.
Softcover. Condition: Very Good. Advance Reading Copy/Proof.
Published by Alfred A. Knopf Canada, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, 1995
ISBN 10: 0394280601 ISBN 13: 9780394280608
Seller: Alex Simpson, Carrying Place, ON, Canada
First Edition
Hard Cover. Condition: VG. Dust Jacket Condition: VG. First Edition. First Canadian printing. Light soil to outer edges otherwise pages are unmarked and firm in binding. Slight spine lean. DJ has light edge/rub wear. Actual book for sale pictured. 15.4 x 21.8 x 4.8 cm, wt999g.
Published by Alfred A Knopf Inc, N.Y., 1979
ISBN 10: 0394502671 ISBN 13: 9780394502670
Seller: MURDER BY THE BOOK, Warwick, RI, U.S.A.
First Edition
Hard Cover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First US Edition. 1st ed. Black half cloth over grey marbled boards, with embossed figure of man playing saxaphone, gold lettering is bright, very light fading at edges, else near fine in unclipped dust jacket ($8.95 price intact). The two haunting, poetic novellas that comprise The Bass Saxophone brilliantly evoke the comedy and sadness of life under the Nazi and Soviet dictatorships. They are prefaced by a remarkable memoir of Skvorecky's jazz-obsessed youth. Jazz is a symbol of freedom in both these novellas. In "Emoke", which is set in the shadow of the Communist regime, jazz becomes the means by which a jaded young man plots the seduction of a mysterious girl enmeshed in superstition and the occult. Spurned, but fascinated, he is drawn into her tortured existence until catapulted into the final bitter comedy. In "The Bass Saxophone" a young Czechoslovakian student living under the rule of the Nazis is lured by his love of jazz - the "forbidden music" - into secretly and dangerously playing in a German band, with bizarre and unexpected results. Book.
Published by Chatto, London, 1978
Seller: Signature Firsts, Brecon, POWYS, United Kingdom
First Edition
Hardback. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. Near fine copy in original price clipped dust wrapper. The book itself is without serious flaws but the top edge of the text block has some accumulated dust. The dust wrapper is without tears or creases but shows signs of handling over 40 years.
Published by Chatto & Windus, London, 1978
ISBN 10: 0701123184 ISBN 13: 9780701123185
Seller: Wormhole Books, Kunyung, VIC, Australia
First Edition
Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First. 186 pp. Dustjacket, now protected in easily removable archival mylar, is not price clipped but has edgewear including a closed tear to rear panel and is a little soiled. Sticker residue and abrasion to front panel of dustjacket. Red cloth boards are clean and square, with some bumping to ends of backstrip. Faint dust foxing to upper edge of text block. Internally clean, bright and solidly bound. "But jazz is decadent bourgeois music," I was told, for that is what the Soviet Press had hammered into Russian heads. "It's my music," I said, "and I wouldn't give up jazz for a world revolution." -- Langston Hughes Size: Octavo.
Published by Key Porter, Toronto, 2002
ISBN 10: 1552633683 ISBN 13: 9781552633687
Seller: June Samaras, STREETSVILLE, ON, Canada
Hardcover. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: New. Translated from the Czech by Kaca Polackova Henley. (illustrator). 1st Canadian Edition. "In an urn sealed in the wall of an ancient Central American tomb . a mysterious manuscript has been found . it is the 'Narrative of Questus", a Roman who lived in the 1st century AD during the reign of Augustus . The central mystery: How did the scrolls come to end up in Central America thousands of years before anyone knew that the Americas existed? An academic mystery that challenges some of our most deeply held beliefs about history." 179 pages. Book.