Jazz Instruments.

Item Details

Pasadena, Weather Bird Press,, 2003, Boards

First edition, one of 50 copies., Fine

Twelve by 9 1/2.” Twelve gatherings, loose, in portfolio. Ten pochoir illustrations of musicians playing ten different instruments (violin, clarinet, vibraphone, bass, trombone, saxophone, guitar, drums, trumpet and piano), together with descriptive text. Includes glossary of names and nicknames of mentioned musician

Loose in tan handmade paper portfolio, with brown stencilled matching label affixed to front cover. A fine copy.

One of fifty copies, printed by Vance Gerry. The numbered copies are all signed by Gerry, but this is not signed. It is not clear whether this is one of the fifty copies, or an extra copy, out of series.

"The illustrations show the common instruments of jazz, but the depiction of the players is purely fictional and are not meant to portray particular jazz musicians" (introduction).

 “Of all Vance Gerry’s books my own favourite has to be his swan song in pochoir, Jazz Instruments — a masterpiece of style and design which surely would have made Walt Disney chuckle” (Ada Roatcamp, from Parenthesis 12).