Young Man With a Horn

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1938. First Edition. SIGNED by the author on the front endpaper.

Dorothy Baker's first novel, about a jazz trumpeter whose music suffers as a result of his alcoholism and unhappy marriage, loosely based on the life of famed coronet player Bix Beiderbecke. Basis for the 1950 film starring Kirk Douglas, Lauren Bacall, and Doris Day.

Very Good plus in a Very Good plus dust jacket. Slight spine lean. Jacket spine panel lightly faded, with small chips at the spine ends.

[Book #156391]