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Father of the Blues, W.C. Handy. First Edition.

Father of the Blues, W.C. Handy. First Edition.

Father of the Blues, W.C. Handy. First Edition.

Father of the Blues, W.C. Handy. First Edition.

Father of the Blues, W.C. Handy. First Edition.

Father of the Blues, W.C. Handy. First Edition.

Father of the Blues, W.C. Handy. First Edition.

Father of the Blues, W.C. Handy. First Edition.

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Father of the Blues, W.C. Handy

First edition, first printing of the autobiography of one of the most influential songwriters in American history – W.C. Handy. Edited by Arna Bontemps with a forward by Abbe Niles. Handy changed the course of American music by becoming one of the first to publish music in the blues form, thereby taking the blues from a regional music style (Delta blues) with a limited audience to a new level of popularity. His timeless hits include "St. Louis Blues," "Memphis Blues" and "Aunt Hagar's Blues." An important work, scarce in the original dust jacket.

New York: The Macmillan Company, 1941. Publisher's original blue cloth, lettered in black; pp. xiv, [4], 317 with a frontispiece portrait and musical notation throughout. A very good copy in a very good, clipped dust jacket. Binding remains and sturdy, light toning to boards and spine, minor shelfwear to extremities. Offsetting to endpapers, else internally quite clean. Jacket remains bright with some general shelfwear and chipping, small closed tear to back panel, spine a touch toned. Corners clipped with the front flapped clipped along the edge. Protected in archival mylar.

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