Stokes Don (13 results)

A Pictoral Soft Cover. Condition: Very Good or Better. name sticker IFC. ANSOL Canine Rescue Stock.

First Edition. Used. Minor and light shelf wear to cover. This is minimal. Internal pages FN and clean. Binding is tight. A solid copy w/ some lovely photographs.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Later Printing. Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Color and B&W Illustrations (illustrator). Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Charles Peterson entered the jazz world of New York as a guitarist but made his true contribution documenting an era and its most notable performers. A photographer whose images captured the passion and intensity of his subjects, Peterson took up the camera in the mid-1930s and transformed himself from a performer on stage to a visual recorder and observer of the stage. Creating a photographic style that combines artistic sensibility and technical skill, he became a preeminent New York jazz photographer of the pre-bebop, small combos and Big Band era. A deep love of jazz led Peterson to the legendary clubs of Harlem, 52nd Street, and Greenwich Village; concert halls and ballrooms; jam sessions; recording studios; backstage get-togethers; and private parties. As a jazz scene insider, Peterson had access to all of these formal and informal venues and was often recommended to shoot special events by musicians, record producers, and club owners because, as Eddie Condon once noted, "he knows how to handle musicians. He won't bother them when he shouldn't bother them and he'll get what you want". And he did. Among the countless subjects he enshrined on film are Louis Armstrong, Billie Holiday, Duke Ellington, Benny Goodman, Zutty Singleton, Fats Waller, Mildred Bailey, Cab Calloway, Pee Wee Russell, Lester Young, and Jack Teagarden. Peterson's photographs expose a startling contrast between integrated bandstands and audiences and the segregated world, and reveal the determination of those who refused to be confined by such oppressive conventions of the time. They depict musicianship and camaraderie, dancing, and technical innovation, as well as the harsh contrast of an all-too-pervasivealcoholism that interrupted the lives of many in that New York scene. Jazz historian and critic W. Royal Stokes provides commentary, historical and biographical information, and lively anecdotes that connect the musicians featured in Peterson's photographs to each other and to the music within the social world of jazz. Don Peterson, the son of Charles Peterson, restored the 229 photographs included here from his father's original negatives. More than half have never been published, while many others have not been seen in print since the 1940s. This striking collection represents a historical document of a city and an era that brought the great jazz and swing musicians of the time to the height of success and solidified their reputations.…

Soft cover. Condition: Good. PB/Gd. condition/89 pages - The complete guide to attracting, identifying, and enjoying hummingbirds. (HI5A). Book.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. Ex library, faded spine, CD of bird songs in back pocket.

Condition: nFine. Softcover; 89p., color illus. ISBN 0-316-81715-5.

Condition: Good. Softcover, ISBN 0-316-81734-1.

Hard Cover. Condition: VG. Dust Jacket Condition: VG. Oblong, 220pp. with b/w illustrations. DJ has light edge/rub wear. Actual book for sale pictured. 26 x 21.1 x 1.9cm, wt1KG Please note the book is oversized and it may require extra postage. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

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Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. DJ in archival cover.

Hardcover. Condition: New.

Soft cover. Condition: Fair. 1st Edition. Stapled wraps, 11 7/8 x 9 1/4 inches, 47 pp., figures and tables, references. Fair (covers nearly detached; chips to spine aspect of rear cover, with an insignificant loss of two words of text on the corresponding spine aspect of p. 47). Scarce in any condition. NACA was the immediate precursor to NASA. Contents: Infinite Tailpipe; Finite Tailpipe; Application to Muffler Design; Engine Tests. This report "Supersedes NACA TN 2893 'Theoretical and Measured Attenuation of Mufflers at Room Temperature Without Flow, With Comments on Engine-Exhaust Muffler Design' by Don D. Davis, Jr., George L. Stevens, Jr., Dewey Moore, and George M. Stokes, 1953 and NACA TN 2943, 'The Attenuation Characteristics of Four Specially Designed Mufflers Tested on a Practical Engine Setup' by George M. Stokes and Don D. Davis, Jr., 1953." (K015).…