CLAXTON, William.

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Jazz West Coast. A Portfolio of Photographs. First edition, first printing, of Claxton's superb evocations of the West Coast jazz scene, his first publication, inscribed by Claxton on the half-title, "For Yves - with my best wishes! After all these years! William Claxton, Lyon, November 3, 1993". From the collection of Rolling Stones drummer and jazz aficionado Charlie Watts, with his posthumous bookplate.Jazz West Coast was art-directed by Lee Friedlander and Stuart Fox, edited by Claxton himself together with Nesuhi Ertegun, soon to be VP at Atlantic, and Richard Bock, founder of Pacific Jazz, who had hired Claxton as his art director, and for whose enterprises this would appear to be a promotional item.

• Printing: first

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