Louis Armstrong

Paris: Editions de Belvedere, (1947). First Edition. Octavo. Printed paper wraps (softcover, as issued); 107pp; frontispiece and 5 unnumbered leaves of photographic plates (halftones). Mild toning to covers and page margins; still a tight, clean and unmarked copy, lacking the dustwrapper. Text entirely in French. Publisher's photo-illustrated bookmarkd laid in. Also laid in is a 4-pp typescript English translation of an excerpt from the book's second section.Nice copy of a highly-regarded biography of Armstrong, issued in the Belvedere series "Maitres du Jazz. (Inventory #: 84871)