With George Hoefer (6 results)

Trade Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Joseph Del Gaudio (Cover Design); Charles Stewart (Cover Photo) (illustrator). 1st Paperback Edition: 1978. 318 pp. A great, almost spotlessly clean copy! Solidly and tightly bound, essentially and nearly flawless copy with minimal internal and external wear and use. Copy with crisp pages, clean text, and light shelf wear. Smooth covers. Minimally shelf worn.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. 1st Edition. With a Foreward by Duke Ellington. Near Fine in Near Fine DJ. The dust jacket is exceptionally sharp with just some slight rubbing to ends. Uncommon in such lovely condition.

Hard Cover with Dustjacket. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good-. First Edition. Hardcover with dustjacket : very good plus / very good minus. Book: spine tips slightly soft; binding is clean and bright; straight; hinges strong; small stain to ffep; slight spotting to top edge of text block; pages excellent. Jacket in new mylar protector; orange on spine is a little faded; mild wear and a little soiling. Wikipedia: "William Henry Joseph Bonaparte Bertholf Smith (November 23, 1893[a] - April 18, 1973), nicknamed "the Lion", was an American jazz and stride pianist." Size: 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Very Good in a Good jacket. 1st Printing. The DJ has a thin vertical crease on the front panel.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First edition. Foreword by Duke Ellington. Octavo. 318pp. Small label and a single short ink stroke on front fly, else near fine in slightly rubbed and spine-sunned very good dustjacket. Inscribed on the rear fly leaf by Smith: "Best of Luck to my friend Ray Murphy. From Willie The Lion Smith. Pianist, Lady Jane." Additionally Signed by pianist Claude Hopkins, whom Ellington mentions in his foreword as one of the pianists he grew up studying and emulating. Scarce signed by Smith.

First Edition. INSCRIBED "To Tom Noel. A fine man who knows all the good thngs in life. From Willie the Lion Smith = Jane - all the best in life." 8vo. 318 pp. Smudging and soiling to to grey cloth boards; offsetting to front endpapers; a very good copy in near fine illustrated dustjacket (light wear to extremities; darkening covers). Uncommon signed copy of this autobiography of the jazz great William Henry Joseph Bonaparte Bertholf Smith (1893 - 1973). Smith was instrumental in developing the Harlem stride piano style, along with Fats Waller and others, which would become popular in the 1920s. He was great influence on Duke Ellington, who writes the Foreword for this books.