John Bale Books LLC
Handy, W. C.
Father of the Blues
An Autobiography
$225
Item Details
New York, The Macmillan Company, 1941, Hardcover, cloth, with dust jacket
First edition, Good; damaged dust jacket, worn cloth, toned pages
Octavo. With a photographic frontispiece and additional illustrations. Inscribed on endpapers. First edition, 1941, with foreword by Abbe Niles and edited by Arna Bontemps.
Blue cloth, in the original illustrated dust jacket. Jacket is badly chipped and torn, especially along the spine and edges; wear and some damage to the cloth at the head of the spine. Pages are toned. A library copy stamp appears on the front endpaper. The front endpaper bears a bookplate noting donation to the Motion Picture Country House, and a handwritten presentation inscription signed W. C. Handy, dated 8-14-41.
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