Aerobleu:. Pilot's Journal 1947
first edition Hardcover
1997 · San Francisco, CA
by Morgan, Max
San Francisco, CA: Chronicle Books, 1997. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. Fine in Fine Slipcase. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. A facsimile reproduction of the journal of Max Morgan, wartime pilot who subsequently ran a renowned jazz club in Paris called Aerobleu (featuring performances by Dizzy Gillespie, Miles Davis, Django Reinhardt, and other great jazz musicians and was the stomping grounds of the likes of Jean-Paul Sartre, Humphrey Bogart, Ernest Hemingway, Picasso, and others.). He disappeared mysteriously in Havana in the late 1950s. A near pristine copy. Tight, bright and unmarred. Slipcase bright and clean. Quarterbound, brown faux leather spine, dark brown textured paper boards, silver gilt lettering, aluminum slipcase fastened with rivets (ala aircraft) with color ink decorative element and grey ink lettering. Oblong 8vo. np. Original descriptive slip laid in. (Inventory #: 2619)