Swing Street, Signed (4 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Hardback. Dust Jacket. 8vo. pp [8], 447. Original publisher's red cloth, lettered gilt at the spine. Copiously illustrated in black and white throughout. Signed presentation from the author on the front endpaper, 'To Walter, with best wishes, John Chilton 5.10.70'. Bookplate of Walter Maier on the front atedown, otherwise about fine in very good dust jacket. Signedes.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Hardcover in red cloth boards. No dust jacket. First printing of first edition. SIGNED and dated with an inscription: "To Bobby Gordon, Best of luck to a great jazzman, Bill & Dorothy Cleland December 1971." Gordon was a noted jazz clarinetist; the Clelands were jazz supporters associated with the New Jersey Jazz Society. Book is sturdy and clean, with very light wear and lightly bumped corners. Jacket flaps and typed "Additions and Corrections" sheet laid in. Photo illustrations. 8vo. 448 pp. Including index.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First American edition. Sm 4to. 419 pp. Black cloth with neon pink and green lettering - near fine. The price-intact ($7.50) jacket is very good with light wear to corners and the spine ends. The biggest issue is a closed, taped on the verso, tear that extends about 3" across the bottom of the front panel. Taped to the front pastedown is a xerox copy of a letter from John Chilton to Berisford "Shep" Shepherd thanking him for supplying his bio info for this book. Obviously Shep's copy at one point - and he has inscribed it to the jazz drummer, Benny Carter: "To Benny Carter, who liked the sound of my twenty-eight-inch bass drum in 1941 - thereby causing most of this resume (Page #335) to come about. Many thank to you and yours. Sincerely, "Shep" Shepherd. Benny Carter was a renowned alto sax, trumpeter, arranger and composer. In addition, taped to the half-title page is a 3 1/2" by 5" black and white polaroid of Benny Carter and his drum kit. Really nice association. Inscribed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Near fine first edition Pages clean and unmarked. Binding square and tight. Very minor wear to spine ends. Dust jacket also near fine. Not price clipped. Minor wear and slight rubbing. Signed by Chilton on the title page. Signed by Author(s).