First Edition with no other printings indicated. First novel by the gifted British jazz critic and saxophonist, depicts an aspiring young jazz musician in wartime London. Green's book, The Reluctant Art, published in 1962, is considered an important work of jazz criticism. In maroon cloth boards, small dent to top edge of top board at hinge, else, near fine, tight, clean, unmarked, in a like dust jacket, unclipped, lightly soiled at rear panel. Quite uncommon. J111
