Description
Signed first edition of The Hero and The Blues by Albert Murray.
Octavo, 107pp. Green cloth, title in brown on spine. No additional printings listed on copyright page. Solid text block, faint smudge to title page, otherwise fine. In the publisher’s dust jacket, $5.00 retail price on front flap, light sunning to spine, a few small stains to panels. A near fine copy.
Inscribed on the title page: “For the big Q / some field notes for a definition / Al Murray.”
The recipient of this copy was poet and writer Quincy Troupe. Both authors are notable for their contributions to writings on Jazz music: Murray for this work on the blues and a biography on Count Basie, and Troupe for a set of books on Miles Davis.
