Makeba: My Story
Plume, March 1989. Trade Paperback. More
Plume, March 1989. Trade Paperback. More
Penguin Press, March 2024. Hardcover. The national bestseller! "A superb book...[Kaplan is] a master biographer, a dogged researcher and shaper of narrative, and this is his most ambitious book to date." --Los Angeles Times From the author of the definitive biography of Frank Sinatra, the story of how jazz arrived..... More
Oxford University Press, October 1983. Hardcover. Review slip laid in. Blind-stamp on front free endpaper. Jacket spine lightly sunned. More
Trans-Atlantic Pubns, January 1996. Paper Back. This anthology undertakes a search for the real meaning of jazz and the blues. The book includes the words of Solomon Northup, an ex-slave describing musical life on a plantation, Ralph Ellison dismembering the politically slanted analyses of LeRoi Jones, and Sterling Brown's poem..... More
Stein & Day Pub, February 1986. First Edition. Hardcover. Cream boards with embossed gold lettering. Blue cloth spine lettered in gold. Light shelf wear on the jacket with a few tiny edge cuts. Mylar wrapped to preserve. Light foxing on the edges of the print block. More
Seven Stories Press, December 2013. First Edition. Hardcover. Nineteen-seventy-one was the year John Lennon left London and pop stardom for a life in New York City as a solo artist, record producer and activist looking to help end the war in Vietnam. He settled in Greenwich Village and quickly came..... More