The Gilbert and Sullivan operas
Abrams, January 1983. Cloth. Beautiful blood red cloth binding, embossed on the front board and lettered in gold along the spine. Very minor shelf wear on the jacket. More
Abrams, January 1983. Cloth. Beautiful blood red cloth binding, embossed on the front board and lettered in gold along the spine. Very minor shelf wear on the jacket. More
Da Capo Pr, April 1993. Oversize Softcover. From the earliest riverboat jazz to Dizzy Gillespie's Hep-Sations of 1945, Swing Out is the story of the great black dance bands who dazzled America for over 40 years. Included are stories of the greats: how Fletcher Henderson would become so hypnotised by..... More
Plume, November 1997. Trade Paperback. The first-ever biography of this controversial rock legend chronicles his amazing career, deadly addictions, and enduring presence as one of the world's greatest popular composers and performers. He was the brains behind the innovative and phenomenally popular band The Who. He invented the rock opera..... More
Alfred A. Knopf, November 1993. Oversized Hardcover. The most literate and word-loving of song writers, Ira Gershwin wrote irresistibly witty and enticing lyrics. Here are his collaborations with his brother George, with Harold Arlen, Vernon Duke, and Kurt Weill, just to name a few--over 700 songs, 400 of which have..... More
Little Brown & Co, January 2001. First Edition. Hardcover. From Bing Crosby's early days in college minstrel shows and vaudeville, to his first hit recordings, from his 11 year triumph as star of America's most popular radio show, to his first success in Hollywood, Gary Giddins provides a detailed study..... More
Donald I. Fine, Inc., May 1989. First Edition. Hardcover. {6 & 1/4' x 9 & 1/4'} In edgeworn jacket with some faint foxing at margins. Front flap is not clipped. Brick red paper covered boards with gold lettering along edge. Previous owner's name in ink upper left corner of front..... More
Tangent Books, October 2014. Paper Back. A collection of rare archive images by phographer John Spink document the Bristol Music scene from the days of Prog Rock, through Punk to Art Rock. Gill Loats, the first female DJ at the legendary Dug Out Club provides the words. Oblong octavo. Gently..... More
Outerbridge and Dienstfrey, January 1972. First Thus. Paper Back. Trade paperback. Octavo. First US. Well worn exterior with soiling, scars, creases... Creased, slightly leaning spine. Foxing & soiling of textblock edges. Some large spots of soiling on several of the first pages. [375 pages]. More
Artisan, November 2023. Hardcover. A monumental gift for music lovers: a deluxe boxed set of Philip Glass's most personal body of work, along with Studies in Time, a book of essays from notable fellow artists Philip Glass is one of the most influential artists of our time. In his long..... More
Chicago Review Press, December 2022. Paper Back. "As close to an autobiography as we're going to get from John Prine, Prine on Prine captures the inimitable, whimsical voice of one of our greatest songwriters . . . Nashville legend Holly Gleason knew the man and assembled this brilliant collection with..... More
Plume Books, September 2010. Hardcover. The perfect gift for fans of Morrissey, The Smiths, and any music lover, Mozipedia is the definitive guide to one of the most beloved cult figures in pop music history. Steven Patrick Morrissey is undoubtedly one of the most original musicians of all time. With..... More
Bantam Books, February 1969. Reprint. Mass Market PaperBack. Mass market paperback with edgeworn, rubbed cover with worn top & bottom of spine. 5th printing. [147 pages]. More
Popular Library, (1970). Mass Market PaperBack. More
Bloomsbury USA, November 2013. Hardcover. The story of Stax Records unfolds like a Greek tragedy. A white brother and sister build a record company that becomes a monument to racial harmony in 1960's segregated south Memphis. Their success is startling, and Stax soon defines an international sound. Then, after losses..... More
Fireside, January 1979. Oversize Softcover. More
Harmony, October 2007. First Edition. Hardcover. Nearly twenty years in the making, "Can't Buy Me Love" is a masterful work of group biography, cultural history, and musical criticism. That the Beatles were an unprecedented phenomenon is a given. In "Can't Buy Me Love," Jonathan Gould seeks to explain why, placing..... More
Taylor Publishing Company (TX), November 1988. Oversized Hardcover. More
Chicago Review Press, October 2003. Trade Paperback. Offers insight into the making of the seminal album, Pet Sounds, revealing the processes that went into its creation and featuring interviews with key players. This work chronicles the ways in which Pet Sounds changed the face of American popular music, from conception..... More
Hachette Books, March 2024. Hardcover. The definitive, authorized, and first-ever biography of Terry Allen, the internationally acclaimed visual artist and iconoclastic songwriter who occupies an utterly unique position straddling the disparate, and usually distant, worlds of conceptual art and country music. "People tell me it's country music," Terry Allen has..... More
Grand Central Publishing, September 2013. First Edition. Hardcover. He inspires awe with his colorful costumes and helps ordinary people find a Voice. With vocals so effective (in fact, they're almost otherworldly), he turned a four-letter word into a global phenomenon. Without a doubt, CeeLo Green is a superhero of soul-and..... More
Gibbs Smith, August 2006. Oversized Hardcover. Singing Cowboys tells the fabled story of the men and women who shone brightly during the magical era of the singing cowboy movie star. It was an era when Western heroes sang and yodeled as well as threw punches and drew six-guns; an era..... More
Doubleday/ Anchor, 1955. First Thus. Mass Market PaperBack. Mass market paperback.This Anchor edition 'is the first publication of 'An Elizabethan Song Book.' Mildly darkened spine. Non-authorial inscription in pink ink, 'For Jille, on this her Natal date, 4.V.67' on half title page. Else interiors sound and without markings. [243 pages..... More
Anchor, October 1992. Trade Paperback. More
University of Georgia Press, April 2021. Paper Back. Col. Bruce Hampton was a charismatic musical figure who launched and continued to influence the jam band genre over his fifty-plus years performing. Part bandleader, soul singer, storyteller, conjuror, poet, preacher, comedian, philosopher, and trickster, Col. Bruce actively sought out and dealt..... More