[Rarebooks] FS: Jazz Prints from Paris in Original Aluminum Suitcase

[Bob Petrilla]

Lees, Gene. AEROBLEU 1947. NY: Chronicle Books, 1997. First Edition. This
"book" comprises a portfolio and 8 prints housed in an aluminum box,
measuring 15" x 12" x 3", with a piano-hinged top, buckle clasp, and
colored image on the top. Inside the box is a portfolio of stiff brown
paper, which opens to reveal two pages of background text inside the covers
and eight loose, brightly colored prints on stiff paper. 14.75" x 11.75"
Fine. Original Wraps.
The prints are from " event posters commissioned for now-legendary jazz
happenings at Aerobleu (a Paris nightclub in the late 1940s), including an
evening with Dizzy Gillespie in "48 and one of Miles Davis"s first Paris
appearances in "49." This unusual, limited-edition item commemorates the
50th anniversary of Aerobleu's zenith as a jazz club.   $90.00

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