1957-1964 Two JAZZ LEXICONS, ONE BEAUTIFULLY ILLUSTRATED

1957-1964 Two JAZZ LEXICONS, ONE BEAUTIFULLY ILLUSTRATED

2 books together:

Robert S. Gold. A JAZZ LEXICON / An A t Z Dictiontary of Jazz terms in the vivid idiom of America;s most successful noncomformist minority (NY, Knopf, 1964) First Edition. Original hardcover cloth binding in unclipped Dust Jacket. 363pp. (Some soil and slight edgewear to Dust Jacket, otherwise Very Good+)

Stephen Longstreet and Alfons Dauer. KNAURS JAZZ LEXICON (Munich, Germany, 1957) Original hardcover cloth binding. 324pp. (Moderate soil to covers, slight foxing; Good overall) Text in German.. Beautifull;y illustrated in color with 178 modernist drawings by Longstreet, a prolific writer of fiction and movie scripts ("Jolson Story"). This book was apparently translated into English and published in the US in 1989.