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HERMAN LEONARD (1923-2010) A comprehensive 3-part portfolio comprised of 30 (of 30) photographs from Leonard's series Images of Jazz. Selenium-toned silver prints, the images measuring 16 1/4x12 1/2 inches (41.3x31.8 cm.), and smaller, and the reverse, the sheets 20x16 inches (50.8x40.6 cm.), each with Leonard's signature, title, negative date, and edition notation, in ink, on recto. Elephant folio-sized black silk-covered clamshell boxes (3), each with Leonard's black-stamped signature on the cover, and the black-stamped portfolio number on the spine; each with the colophon, with Leonard's facsimile signature, twice, and the edition notation 9/30; contents loose as issued; all housed in a matching standing slipcase. ONE OF 30 COPIES. New Orleans, Louisiana: Self-published, 1948-60 and 1991; printed 1998
Volume I. Chet Baker, 1956 Duke Ellington, 1958 Stan Getz, Birdland, 1949 Billie Holiday, 1949 James Moody, 1951 Fats Navarro, Royal Roost, 1948 Charlie Parker, Birdland, 1949 Bud Powell, Birdland, 1949 Buddy Rich, 1954 Sarah Vaughan, Birdland, 1949.
Volume II. Art Blakey, Club St. Germaine, 1958 Ray Brown, 1948 Ella Fitzgerald, Downbeat, 1949 Dizzy Gillespie, Royal Roost, 1948 Johnny Hodges, Brasserie Lipp, 1958 Quincy Jones, 1955 Gerry Mulligan & Zoot Sims, 1955 Frank Sinatra, 1958 Sonny Stitt, 1953 Lester Young, 1948.
Volume III. Louis Armstrong, 1960 Clifford Brown, Birdland, 1948 Nat King Cole, 1949 Miles Davis, 1991 Billy Eckstine, Royal Roost, 1948 Dexter Gordon, Royal Roost, 1948 Thelonius Monk, Minton's Playhouse, 1949 Max Roach, 1950 Art Tatum, 1955 Dinah Washington, 1955.
