New York: Norton, c1976 (1977). Tan cloth and brown boards, dark blue endpapers, mid-blue top page edges. (159) pp. Topstain mottled, else fine in fine, price-clipped jacket. A nice copy of the author's first novel, it "brings to life the fabulous, colorful panorama of New Orleans in the first flush of the jazz era; it is the story of Buddy Bolden, the first of the great trumpet players, some say the originator of jazz, who was in any case the genius, the guiding spirit, the king ot that time and place." - jacket. First published Toronto: Anansi, 1976, it was a co-winner of the Books in Canada First Novel Award. The hardcover issue of the Toronto edition is scarce. The US edition was published 25 April, 1977, and is not particularly common.; Octavo 0393087654