New York: Pocket Books, 1969. 1st Printing. Mass Market Paperback.
1st printing. Faint toning.
Black-and-white photographs. The Raw Pearl is a most unusual book to come from a famous entertainer, singer, actress. Most such books are either ghosted or written 'with the collaboration of.' This book was written by Pearl.....
Princeton: Princeton, 1993. 1st Printing. Trade Paperback.
1st printing. Faintly rubbed.
284 pp. Antonin Dvorák made his famous trip to the United States one hundred years ago, but despite an enormous amount of attention from scholars and critics since that time, he remains an elusive figure. Comprising both interpretive essays.....
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1961. Later Printing. Hard Cover.
Later printing. Jacket edges rubbed with some tears.
227 pp. Delius, Frederick Theodor Albert (1862–1934), composer, was born on 29 January 1862 at Claremont, Horton Lane, Bradford, Yorkshire, the grandson of Ernst Friedrich Delius (1790–1831) and the fourth of the.....
New York: B. B. Bowen, 1852. Third Edition. Hard Cover.
Third edition. Some loss to spine head and to spine base, page ridges abraded, bottom corner of front free endpaper chipped, front hinge starting, rear free endpaper removed.
432 pp. Engraved frontispiece of author, who was a blind music teacher.....
New York: Harper, 2015. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition. Signed by author without inscription. Minor sticker adhesive on jacket spine. Spine very slightly cocked.
viii, 209 pp. Author's first book. "Academy Award-nominated actress and musician Abigail Breslin is your best friend in her publishing debut, a collection of hilarious.....
New York: Dell, 1974. First Edition. Mass Market Paperback.
First edition. Front wrapper lightly rubbed.
267 pp. Janis Joplin - A different kind of person and only a different kind of book could bring her back to life the way she really was. It tells a story as raw and.....
Grand Rapids: Zondervan Publishing House, 1975. 4th Printing. Hard Cover.
4th printing. Signed with undedicated inscription on front endpaper ('Your friend Johnny Cash'). In another hand with a different color ink is written 'Mrs Ray Cash 4-16-77, Romans 8-13.' Ray Cash was Johnny's father. The Bible passage referenced is 'For.....
New York: Beech Tree Books / William Morrow, 1985. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition. Owner blind stamp on front endpaper, small smudge on fore edge.
256 pp. From the jacket: "Here is the first comprehensive study of the work and the life of one of the true geniuses of.....
New York: Oxford University Press, 1989. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition. A few smudges to jacket, foxing to page ridge.
432 pp. This biography of Benny Goodman's music and times attempts to recreate the colourful music world of the 1920s and 1930s, when Goodman was hailed the King of.....
New York: Thames & Hudson, 1991. First American Edition. Hard Cover.
First American Edition. Edges worn.
351 pp. Offers a chronology of Beethoven's life, identifies important contemporaries, discusses the historical background of the period, and looks at Beethoven's philosophy, influences, and music.
New York: Blue Rider Press, 2015. Hard Cover.
Sticker remnant to jacket.
Unfaithful Music & Disappearing Ink provides readers with a master's catalogue of a lifetime of great music. Costello reveals the process behind writing and recording legendary albums like My Aim Is True, This Year's Model, Armed Forces, Almost.....
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1972. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition. Jacket spine creased, jacket edges bumped. Boards soiled.
xvi, 424, xvi pp. The standard biographical source for the last decades of Stravinsky's life and a unique trove of primary material on twentieth-century cultural and intellectual history, now again.....
New York: Ballantine, 2017. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition. Jacket faintly rubbed.
In August 1970, Elton John achieved overnight fame with a rousing performance at the Troubadour in Los Angeles. Over the next five years, the artist formerly known as Reginald Dwight went from unheard of to unstoppable, scoring.....
Portland: Amadeus Press, 1997. Hard Cover.
Lacks jacket. Minor 1" sticker ghost near base of spine, black marker dot on bottom page ridge.
494 pp. Published in celebration of the 100th anniversary of her birth, this book presents a candid portrait of Ponselle, "the Caruso in petticoats," contrasting the singer's.....
New York: St. Martin's, 2001. First American Edition. Hard Cover.
First American edition. Faint foxing to top ridge.
400 pp. Maria Callas continues to mesmerize us twenty years after her death, not only because she was indisputably the greatest opera diva of the 20th century, but also because both her.....
New York: Jazz at Lincoln Center, 1999. Signed Copy. Large Softcover.
Inscribed & signed by Walter Blanding, Jr. on rear wrapper corner ('Joe: Thank you, it's been a pleasure! Sincerely Walter' - the r of Walter is stylized into a saxophone and a musical stave). Blanding is a saxophonist and.....
Englewood Cliffs, N.J. Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1970. First Edition. Large Hardcover.
First edition. Jacket edges rubbed with some minor chips. Board edges lightly rubbed.
x, 387 pp. The history of the American popular song told through the lives, careers, achievements, and personalities of its foremost composers and lyricists--from William Billings of.....
New York: Amistad, 2007. 1st Printing. Trade Paperback.
1st printing. An exceptional copy.
Bob Marley was a reggae superstar, a musical prophet who brought the sound of the Third World to the entire globe. Before the Legend: The Rise of Bob Marley goes beyond the myth of Marley to bring.....
New York: Collins, 1993. First Edition. Large Hardcover.
First edition. Jacket rubbed.
256 pp. Takes readers on a tour of the house, the twenty cars of its automobile museum, and Elvis's clothes and music memorabilia and includes photographs of previously unpublished items from the collection of Elvis's manager, Colonel Tom.....
New York: Stein and Day, 1974. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition. Jacket flaps previously taped down to paste-down endpapers, jacket rubbed.
224 pp. Irving Berlin, original name Israel Baline, (born May 11, 1888, Mogilyov, Russia [now in Belarus]—died Sept. 22, 1989, New York, N.Y., U.S.), American composer who played.....
Detroit: Balamp Publishing, 1974. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition. Signed without inscription on title page. Ink name on front endpaper, portion of publisher order slip laid in.
xii, 236 pp. The memoirs of the famous jazz saxophonist, with considerable commentary on other great jazz musicians, including Louis Armstrong, Lester.....
New York: Random House, 1989. 2nd Printing. Hard Cover.
Second printing. Page ridges foxed.
xviii, 441 pp. He was a virtuoso of the piano who inspired an almost religious fervor in his fans, yet he hated performing and left the concert stage forever at the age of 31. He was.....
New York: Flash Books, 1975. 1st Printing. Soft Cover.
First printing. Edge wear.
112 pp. Exclusive photographs accompany the transcript of an interview in which Elton John speaks of his rise to fame and his meeting with Bernie Taupin, who also shares anecdotes about the music world.
Boston: Atlantic Monthly Press / Little, Brown and Company, 1975. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition. Jacket a bit rubbed, jacket price clipped.
xx, 280 pp. An overview of jazz featuring some of its most prominent musicians, with a particular focus on Duke Ellington. Includes a foreword by Studs Terkel.....
New York: Friedman / Fairfax, 1994. Soft Cover.
A nice copy.
72 pp. Bessie Smith, Billie Holliday, Sarah Vaughan, Doris Day and more. "Satin Dolls describes the struggle for recognition that female vocalists--from early stars like Bessie Smith and Mamie Smith to later superstars like Ella Fitzgerald and Carmen McCrae--faced.....