TO BE OR NOT TO BOP; Memoirs
signed first edition
1979 · Garden City NY
by GILLESPIE, John Birks (Dizzy)
Garden City NY: Doubleday, 1979. First Edition. 8vo, pp. xix, 552. Discography, index. Al Fraser co-author. Notations in ink by musicians James Moody, Mike Longo, Joe Carroll, Paul West, and Milton Hinton; written beside sections that quoted them. Illustrated with photographs. Paper over boards with cloth spine. Cover very slightly worn at corners and ends of spine, o/w a VG tight copy in little scuffed and chipped dj. A blend of Dizzy's words and rememberances by the musicians who knew him. (Inventory #: 53190)