Bill Graham, 1970. Poster. Postcard, oblong format, 7 x 9.25 inches. For performances in San Francisco November 19-20-21-22. With November/December calendar on rear Very good copy. Postcard has staple pinholes and impression at top edge corners.
Riverhead Books, 2010. Trade Paperback. 208 pages. A new copy. From the founder of the Wu-Tang Clan--celebrating their 25th anniversary this year--an inspirational book for the hip hop fan. The RZA, founder of the Wu-Tang Clan, imparts the lessons he's learned on his journey from the Staten Island projects to.....
Voyageur Press, October 2011. Hardcover. Dead Letters is the fully authorized portrayal of the Grateful Dead according to the world's most devoted fan base: Deadheads. Beginning in their earliest days, the Grateful Dead saved tens of thousands of letters sent to them by Deadheads reflecting on the spectacular concerts they'd.....
Citadel Press. Carol Publishing Group, 1990. First Edition Thus. Trade Paperback. 404 pages. Reprint of 1946 edition. First edition thus. Very good copy in illustrated wappers (paperback). "Really The Blues" is the story of a white kid who fell in love with black culture, learning to blow clarinet in the.....
University of Illinois Press, 1978. First Edition. Hardcover. 473 pages. B/W illustrations. Large bibliography. First edition (first printing). Near fine copy in green cloth covers with gilt lettering on spine. No dust jacket.
Lawrence Hill Books, October 2013. Trade Paperback. Connecting the black music tradition with the black activist tradition, Party Music brings both into greater focus than ever before and reveals just how strongly the black power movement was felt on the streets of black America. Interviews reveal the never-before-heard story of.....
St. Martin's Griffin, April 2004. Trade Paperback. Basically, this is the real thing. No rock star contrivance, no intellectual perspective, no master plan for world domination. You're talking about four guys from rural Washington who wanna rock...--Everett True, Melody Maker, March 18th, 1989 In 1992, Nirvana's breakthrough anthem, Smells Like.....
Abrams Image, October 2010. Trade Paperback. A compendium of rap lyrics paired with academic translations which precisely explain all the confusing terms and lyrics in a language even the most unhip person can understand. It features hip hop artists of all names, colours and creeds and organises the lyrics into.....
Griffin, August 2016. Trade Paperback. With a brand-new introduction and chapter that cover the last five years of Prince's life and work and his untimely death in April 2016. In his three decades of recording, Prince had nearly thirty albums hit the Billboard Top 100. He is the only artist.....
Canongate U.S., April 2006. Trade Paperback. Elvis Costello is undoubtedly one of the most important and challenging musicians of the last thirty years. Complicated Shadows paints a detailed portrait of an intensely private, complex, and creatively restless individual. It draws on a wealth of new research, including exclusive interviews with.....
Schirmer Books, 1981. Trade Paperback. 614 pages. B/W illustrations. 4th Edition. Very good copy in color illustrated wrappers. The "definitive volume" on the sounds of swing is back, with the complete story of hundreds of bands, bandleaders, vocalists and instrumentalists.
Oak Publications, 1967. First Edition. Trade Paperback. 223 pages. Illustrated with B/W photographs. First edition (first printing). Very good copy in color illustrated wappers (paperback).
Simon & Schuster, October 2015. Hardcover. A new copy. Celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of the most popular and enduring band ever: "Even the most hardcore Deadheads will be impressed by this obsessively complete look at the Grateful Dead's lyrics" (Publishers Weekly). The Complete Annotated Grateful Dead Lyrics is an authoritative.....
Two Dollar Radio, November 2017. Trade Paperback. *2018 12 best books to give this holiday season --TODAY Show*Best Books of 2018 --Rolling StoneA Best Book of 2017 --NPR, Buzzfeed, Paste Magazine, Esquire, Chicago Tribune, Vol. 1 Brooklyn, CBC, Stereogum, National Post, Entropy, Heavy, Book Riot, Chicago Review of Books, The.....
Mills College, 1979. Poster. Poster, 17.5 x 22.5 inches, printed in green, black and orange on white. Poster design by Fast Forward. Scheduled performances by David Mahler; Alvin Curran; Rhys Chatham; Laurie Anderson, Peter Gordon and David van Tieghem; Joel Chadabe and Roger Meyers; and Joseph Celli. CTM was founded.....
Hal Leonard, 2006. Trade Paperback. A near fine copy in wrappers (paperback). Light edge wear. (Piano/Vocal/Guitar Artist Songbook). We proudly present the most comprehensive Sinatra songbook ever! Weighing in at more than 400 pages, this deluxe volume features 100 classics performed by Ol' Blue Eyes, plus an informative biography and.....
DK ADULT, 2004. First Edition. Hardcover. First edition (first printing). Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. DESCRIPTION From poverty to power, Hoboken to Hollywood, this story is the embodiment of the American Dream. For over 50 years Frank Sinatra was at the epicenter of American life - his.....
Alfred A. Knopf, 1984. First Edition. Hardcover. 475 pages. First edition (first printing). A fine copy in a fine dust jacket.
4AB, n.d. ca. 1969. Trade Paperback. 9 loose color posters, 12 x 16 inches. Posters illustrate lyrics from the 'Doolittle' album. The Pixies were an altenative rock group formed in 1986. This album was their second studio album and was released in 1969. First edition (first printing). Posters are near.....
Schirmer Books, January 1988. Hardcover.
Simon & Schuster, October 2020. Trade Paperback. This extraordinarily intimate and "gripping" (Vanity Fair) biography of Janis Joplin establishes the Queen of Rock & Roll as the rule-breaking musical trailblazer and complicated, gender-bending rebel she was. Janis Joplin's first transgressive act was to be a white girl who gained an.....
Harper & Brothers, 1936. First Edition. Hardcover. 205 pages. An amateur history of bands and band instruments. First edition (first printing). A very good hardcover (a few pages with pencil markings, a bit musty) in a largely intact but torn and tape-repaired dust jacket.
Wesley Webster and others. Ephemera. 44 pieces of sheet music: 30 published by Wesley Webster, San Francisco; 10 published by Arthur H. Stockwell, Inc., London; and 4 published by other companies. Pendleton (1887?- ?), born of a pioneer family, was a California poet and composer who lived and taught in.....
Backbeat Books, May 1998. Trade Paperback. A near fine copy in wrappers (paperback). CD sleeve unopened. For every Beatles or Stones, there are hundreds of visionary rock groups who remain unsung heroes. From cult figures such as Pink Floyd's Syd Barrett (the most famous musician included here) to virtually undiscovered.....
Metropolis Graphics, January 1981. Unknown.