Mar 21, 2013 - Sale 2308

Sale 2308 - Lot 450

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Estimate: $ 500 - $ 750
(MUSIC.) ARMSTRONG, LOUIS "SATCHMO." Swing That Music. 136 pages plus ten original folding parts for the piece "Swing that Music" at the rear of the book. 8vo, original cloth; spine lightly faded. New York, 1936

Additional Details

first edition, inscribed and signed by armstrong on the half-title. "To 'My Radio Boss' Mr. Gardner, from Louis 'Satchmo' Armstrong. 'yea man.'"" The "Radio Boss" to whom Armstrong inscribed this probably was a producer on one of the several radio programs that Armstrong played on, like that of Rudy Vallee, who wrote the introduction to this book.