ASK YOUR MAMA: 12 MOODS FOR JAZZ
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1961. First Edition, First Printing. Oblong Octavo, 92 pages. In Very Good minus condition with a Very Good minus dust jacket. Spine is dark green and with tan lettering. In cream quarter cloth binding with multicolored geometrically decorated paper boards. Blue and brown ink printed on pink paper. Dust jacket protected with a mylar covering, price uncut: "$3.95." Bumping and chipping to edges of boards and dust jacket. Some tearing along dust jacket edges with material loss to head of spine and top edge of dust jacket. Age toning to dust jacket. Minor soiling to text block. Shelved in Case 3.
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Shelved Dupont Bookstore
Price: $1,250
NOTES
"Robert and Ann Doyle met Langston Hughes when Robert was at the Chicago Tribune’s radio station WGN and he hosted Hughes for a broadcast hour. Robert Doyle served as the Time Shanghai bureau chief in 1948. One of the last evacuees from Nanking, he then established a bureau office in Hong Kong. He was killed in Java in April of 1950, and Hughes’ was the first cable to arrive in Hong Kong for Ann. "Two Americans Are Found Slain On Jeep Journey in Central Java; One Victim Is R.J. Doyle of Time Magazine The Other Is Believed to Be Professor Raymond Kennedy of Yale" THE NEW YORK TIMES April 29, 1950, Page 3. "