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Seven Photographs of Jazz Musicians

Seven Photographs of Jazz Musicians by [Jazz] Bradley, Jack

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Seller: Auger Down Books
Title
Seven Photographs of Jazz Musicians
Author
[Jazz] Bradley, Jack
Seller
Auger Down Books (United States)
Condition
Excellent
Description
New York, et al., 1960. Five 8 x 10 and two 5 x 7 inch gelatin silver prints, with Bradley’s estate marks to versos. Excellent. Jack Bradley was a Cape Cod native who, after graduating from the Massachusetts Maritime Academy, fell in love with Jazz after seeing Louis Armstrong perform at the Boston Armory in 1956. In 1958 he moved to New York from Cape Cod and began dating Jeann Failows, a member of Louis Armstrong’s inner circle. Through Failows, Bradley gained access to Armstrong, eventually becoming very close friends with the trumpeter and his inner circle. Bradley already had amassed a large collection of jazz material, much related to Armstrong, and he augmented his own collection by photographing Armstrong and his Jazz circle for the next decade. The bulk of Bradley’s collection now resides at the Louis Armstrong House Museum in Queens. This collection is of seven photographs of jazz musicians from Bradley’s estate, showing a wonderful window into the tail end of the Classic Jazz era. Photographs as follows: Willie Cook. 5 x 7 inches. A portrait of Cook seated. Excellent condition. Count Basie and Duke Ellington. 5 x 7 inches. The two jazz greats are seated at their respective pianos during rehearsal. Excellent condition. Duke Ellington’s Empty Bandstand. 8 x 10 inches. The horns, chairs, and sheet music are laid out. Very good condition with some toning to margins and a faint scratch at outer edge of image. Duke Ellington Conducting his Band. 8 x 10 inches. Excellent condition. Ella Fitzgerald at the Apollo Theatre, New York, c. 1959. 8 x 10 inches. Excellent Condition. Count Basie Seated at a Table, Smoking a Cigar. 8 x 10 inches. Excellent condition. Pee Wee russell Painting at his New York Apartment, c. 1966. Good condition, marginal tear affecting ½ inch of image. Overall a nice group and an example of a photographer whose work is not often available on the market.
Carte-de-Visite of Pauline Cushman

Carte-de-Visite of Pauline Cushman by [Civil War] [Women] [Cushman, Pauline] Sutterley & Co

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Seller: Auger Down Books
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Carte-de-Visite of Pauline Cushman
Author
[Civil War] [Women] [Cushman, Pauline] Sutterley & Co
Seller
Auger Down Books (United States)
Description
Virginia City: Sutterley and Co, 1867. Albumen photograph on mount, 4 x 2 ½ inches. Pauline Cushman was an actress and one of the most successful spies for the Union Army. She ingratiated herself with the Confederate army by toasting Jefferson Davis after one of her performances. She was eventually caught and sentenced to death by hanging. She was spared only due to the arrival of the Union Army. After the war she toured the country giving lectures and performances recounting her experiences as a spy. She eventually headed west, marrying in 1872 in San Francisco and eventually working a range of jobs in Arizona Territory, Texas, and eventually back in San Francisco, where she died in 1893 at age 60 from a morphine overdose. We find no record of this portrait, which was taken by the Sutterley brothers, James and Clement, in their Virginia City, Nevada studio somewhere between 1864 and 1867. The Sutterleys operated out of their studio on the Union block of Virginia City for five years before dissolving their partnership in 1867. It is likely that the portrait was taken during one of Cushman’s tours throughout the region during these years. A beautifully preserved example in very good condition with a small chip to upper margin and some fading. Though Cushman ostensibly would have sold cartes-de-visite in support of her touring, few survive on the market today.
Forty-Nine Photographs of the 2nd Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry, Most Identified

Forty-Nine Photographs of the 2nd Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry, Most Identified by [Spanish-American War] [Massachusetts] Second Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry

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Seller: Auger Down Books
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Forty-Nine Photographs of the 2nd Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry, Most Identified
Author
[Spanish-American War] [Massachusetts] Second Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry
Seller
Auger Down Books (United States)
Description
Massachusetts, 1898. The 2nd Massachusetts Volunteers mustered into service in May, 1898, and within a month saw significant action in Cuba at the Battle of El Caney. They were one of three volunteer units from Massachusetts to see action on the Santiago Campaign. The regiment was inexperienced - 55% were untrained recruits. The lack of experience, combined with their rifles giving off a very visible black smoke, led to a heavy casualties in the Battle of El Caney. After an encampment near Santiago de Cuba in which a large number of the soldiers became ill with disease - estimates are as high as 65% - the regiment returned home in August. Historians have noted that soldier demographics changed considerably from the Civil War to the Spanish American war, as the smaller number of troops and the lack of a draft led to a more enthusiastic army with higher morale. The photographs in this group are interesting as a typological grouping of images of untrained soldiers, and also for their historical value, as most contain identifications to versos. The highlight of the group is forty-four uniformly mounted portraits of soldiers, nearly all identified, measuring 3 ¾ x 2 ½ inches each. Other photographs include a large portrait of Captain Frederick E. Pierce, with the blindstamp of Goldsmith Studio, Springfield, Massachusetts and a 3 ¼ x 3 ¼ inch square card of Capt. Pierce in Camp Turner. Also included are two slightly larger photographs on similar mounts. Overall an interesting group. Good condition overall with assorted chips and wear.
Neville Chamberlain's Chimera or Nine Metaphors of Vision or Visions of Nine Metaphors

Neville Chamberlain's Chimera or Nine Metaphors of Vision or Visions of Nine Metaphors by Mark Axelrod

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Title
Neville Chamberlain's Chimera or Nine Metaphors of Vision or Visions of Nine Metaphors
Author
Mark Axelrod
Seller
Capitol Hill Books, ABAA (United States)
Condition
Very Good
Description
Milwaukee, WI: Membrane Press, 1979. Very Good. Milwaukee, WI: Membrane Press, 1979. First Edition. Quarto (26.5cm); publisher's white staplebound wrappers; [12]pp.; text printed in red and blue throughout. Some toning to wrapper margins, else Very Good, internally clean and sound. The author's first book.

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