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Book. Octavos, Two Volumes. In Good Plus condition. Spines are faded blue with gilt lettering. Boards have some scuffing and minor shelf wear. Text block has foxing along the exterior edges and small pen inscriptions on the front end pages from previous owners. CONTENTS: Vol. I (xiii, 422 pages)--Vol. II (418 pages). Shelved in Room G. 1372803. Special Collections.
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Very Good. No DJ's Issued. Biographies / Music. 8vo. Signed First Editions (1982. ) Hardcovers without dust jackets as issued. 8vo's with Vol I-422 pages and Vol II-417 pages. Signed on the front free end paper in Vol. I, "To Mike Lang, with my best "Wheaties"? Sincerely, Benny Carter, " and in Vol. II "Encore! B.C." On the back of the front paste down in Vol. II is a date, Feb 1983 L.A. this is a notation by Lang. The books are in very good condition. Interiors clean and tight. Illustrated. Pictures available upon request. **"Michael Anthony Lang was an American pianist and composer, who was recognized for his highly prolific career as a pianist on more than 2500 film scores. Lang recorded numerous albums and worked with Barbra Streisand, Vanessa Williams, Russell Watson, Michael Bolton, Ray Charles, Natalie Cole, Ella Fitzgerald, Aretha Franklin, Marvin Gaye, John Lennon and Frank Zappa. Some of his movie and television work includes A League of Their Own, The Russia House, Arachnophobia, Twilight Zone: The Movie, Black Sunday, The Towering Inferno, The Paper Chase, The Poseidon Adventure, and Close Encounters of the Third Kind. The Simpsons, Family Guy, Privileged, American Dad, Orville, and The Secret Life of the American Teenager." Blue cloth spine/Silver text. #033882.
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Fine. First edition. Two volumes. Publisher's blue cloth gilt, issued without dustwrapper. Fine. Signed in Volume One by Benny Carter and Edward Berger; Inscribed in Volume Two by Benny Carter. Nice scholarly work, seldom found signed. Carter was an important and influential jazz performer who played with nearly every major jazz artist of the 20th Century.
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