Jazz Book Club; Toward Jazz, André Hodeir, 1965

Toward Jazz, by André Hodeir. Translated bu Noel Burch. No. 54 in the series.

The Jazz Book Club was a publishing project of Sidgwick & Jackson publishers, from London, which resulted in sixty-six works being published between 1956 to 1967. This volume features a series of articles on Jazz first published in Jazz periodicals in France and the USA, with just minor revisions for this book.

Published by The Jazz Book Club, London, by arrangement with Grove Press, Inc., New York, 1965. First edition thus, but originally published by Grove Press Inc.

A near fine blue cloth hardback with printed title design to spine. Cover crisp and clean. With a near fine original dustjacket, with spine and top edges just a little discolored. Dustjacket flap still has the membership slip attached. Light crease to inside flap. Covered in removable protective plastic. Soundly bound.

Text is bright and clean with some very light spotting to edge of text block. A nice example.

Text in English.

224pp.

Weight approximately 266g (unpacked).

Dimensions: approximately 190mm high x 127mm wide x 20mm deep.