My Life in Jazz (Inscribed First Edition)

First edition. First printing. Hardbound. Fine in a near fine jacket. A clean tight copy. Price intact on jacket ($4.95) . Jacket slightly rubbed. Comes with archival-quality mylar jacket protector. Smoke-free. . Inscribed to prior owner and SIGNED by the author on ffep, "Best wishes, Max Kaminisky," with date and place (Eddie Condon's). In red cloth boards. Increasingly scarce signed copy. In this memoir, Kaminsky, a trumpet player, reminisces about playing with many notables including Bix Beiderbecke, Fats Waller, Louis Armstrong, Gene Krupa, Artie Shaw, and others. 8vo. 241 pp. Including index. Eddie Condon's was the name of three successive jazz venues in New York run by jazz banjoist, guitarist, and bandleader Eddie Condon from 1945 until the mid-1980s. This signature is from 1965.