Simon & Schuster, October 2020. Trade Paperback. A new copy. 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.....
St. Martin's Griffin, March 1997. Trade Paperback. Very good in wrappers (paperback). Clinton Heylin has devoted his career to Bob Dylan's work and presents here a comprehensive study of all of Dylan's recording sessions.
Apes of Wrath, [1980]. Poster. Poster, 8.5 x 14 inches, printed in black on white. First edition (first printing). Very good copy. 'At Sounds Amusing coffee house, 2320 Bancroft & Dana, Fri., Jul 25, 8:30 p.m. Swing tunes, rock & roll, be-bop, blues, country.' Previously folded, tanninf along folded edge.....
n.d., late 1950s. Photograph. B/W photograph, 8 x 9 inches. Photograph shows Presley with guitar standing before a microphone with Scotty Moore in left background, drummer in middle rear (face not visible) and bassist behind Presley (feet and portion of bass visible). Presley, Moore, Fontana and Bill Black formed the.....
Photograph. 4 original B/W 8 x 10 inch photographs; 2 color photograph, 5.2 x 7 inches. Production starred Heinz Blankenburg, Edith Mathis, Tom Krause and Arlene Saunders. Produced in Hamburg. First edition (first printing). Near fine copies. One B/W photograph in duplicate. Notes in English with identifications in ink on.....
Ther Philadelphia Orchestra, [1955]. First Edition. Trade Paperback. 8 pages. 'A Trip to Nahant,' comments on leaves 1 and 2. The Philadelphia Orchestra, Eugene Ormandy, conducting, Fifty-fifth Season, 1954-55, Carnegie Hall, New York, Tenth Concert, Thursday, April 19, 1955. This was the first performance in New York of this piece.....
E. C. S. Schirmer Music Co., 1932. First Edition. Trade Paperback. 9 pages. E.C.S. No. 737. To Hugh Ross and the Schola Centorum of New York. First edition (first printing). Very good copy in wrappers (paperback).
E. C. Schirmer Music Co., 1932. First Edition. Trade Paperback. 15 pages. E.C.S. No. 740. Horace: Odes III, 13. For Chorus of Mixed Voices. First edition (first printing). Very good in wrappers (paperback). Covers separated at fold.
E. C. Schirmer, 1938. First Edition. Trade Paperback. 6 pages. Lyrics for 'Velvet Shoes' by Elinor Wylie. First edition (first printing). Very good copy in printed wrappers (paperback) with titles in framed and decorated border on upper front cover. Some mild soiling and tanning to covers.
E. C. S. Schirmer Music Co., 1932. First Edition. Trade Paperback. 12 pages. E.C.S. No. 736. Horace: Odes I, 30. For Chorus of Mixed Voices with Accompaniment for Orchestra or Piano. First edition (first printing). A near fine copy in wrappers (paperback). Covers beginning to separate at fold.
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.
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.....
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.....
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).
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.....
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.
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.....