Da Capo Press, April 2017. Paper Back. Under the Big Black Sun explores the nascent Los Angeles punk rock movement and its evolution to hardcore punk as it's never been told before. John Doe of the legendary band X and co-author Tom DeSavia have woven together an enthralling story of..... More
Oxford University Press, USA, August 1986. Trade Paperback. This greatly enlarged edition includes many rewritten and updated entries as well as numerous new articles on composers and performers, details of casts at first performances, and much additional information on the development of opera in different countries. Comprehensive, compact, and inexpensive..... More
Random House / Rolling Stone Press Book, October 1983. Reprint. Trade Paperback. {6' x 9'} Mild user wear. 5th printing. [648 pages]. More
Music Sales Corp, May 1997. First Edition. Hardcover. One of fourteen children born to a schoolmaster and a domestic servant with family roots in what is now the Czech republic. Schubert was the quintessential Viennese composer. The poetry of his music, its love of dance rhythms and its emotional ambiguity..... More
Pan Books Ltd/ Jonathan Cape, January 1986. First Edition. Hardcover. First UK edition without dustjacket, as issued. {6' x 8'}} Paper pictorial covered boards. Boards are covered in slick clear mylar coating. FFEP has blind stamped 'Library of...' previous owner's name emblem upper right corner of ffep. Someone has written..... More
Harper & Row, October 1986. First Edition. Cloth. John Lennon lives on in this never-before-published collection of his stories, songs, and drawings. Beautifully printed in two-colors throughout, this will join the bestselling ranks of Lennon's In His Own Write and A Spaniard in the Works. Octavo in bright, clean jacket..... More
Bantam Books / Delilah Books, December 1980. Reprint. Mass Market PaperBack. Mass market paperback edition with heavy wear. Chipped edges. Small tears & chips & a two inch (mostly) closed tear to front cover fore-edge. More
Oxford University Press, February 1988. First Thus. Cloth. Sidney Bechet was truly a giant of jazz, who ranks with Louis Armstrong and Bix Beiderbecke as one of the supreme jazz soloists and improvisors of the 1920s. Duke Ellington called him "the very epitome of jazz," and the great Swiss conductor..... More
Playboy Press, October 1981. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo. In dustjacket with moderate shelfwear. Flap is not clipped. Chocolate colored cloth covered spine with gold lettering along edge. Grey paper covered boards with stamped gold lettering centered front panel. [194 page]. More
Harpercollins, October 1996. Trade Paperback. John Lennon wrote "Skywriting by Word of Mouth," an impressive collection of writings and drawings, while Yoko was pregnant with Sean, and always planned to have it published. It was a wish that seemed to end with his assassination in 1980 and the subsequent theft..... More
St Martins Press, January 1995. First Edition. Cloth. Quarto. {8 & 3/4' x 11'} In dustjacket with lightly edgeworn DJ, with tiny tears & pulling at top of spine. One inch closed tear top of edge of front jacket panel. Light foxing top edge and fore-edge of textblock. Dust stain..... More
Viking, March 2015. Hardcover. Kirkus Best Books of 2015 selection forBiography Published in celebration of Holiday s centenary, the first biography to focus on the singer s extraordinary musical talent When Billie Holiday stepped into Columbia s studios in November 1933, it marked the beginning of what is arguably the..... More
Vintage, November 1984. Paper Back. {8 & 1/2' x 11'} First Vintage Books Edition. Edgeworn cover with creased cover. Previous owner's name written in ink first inside page. [501 pages]. More
Holt, Rinehart & Winston, January 1973. First Thus. Paper Back. Quarto. {8 & 1/2' x 11'} Cover is darkened/tanned with mild edgewear. Previous owner's name inked half title page. Top textblock edge dust stained. Foxing/dark stains interior pages especially heavily at begining & end of book. [128 pp.]. More
It Books, December 2011. First Edition. Oversized Hardcover. The very best of Punk--the legendary magazine thatdefined an era--finds new life in this stunning anthology, featuring originalarticles along with behind-the-scenes commentary and the backstory on eachissue as told by editor-in-chief John Holmstrom. Punkwas the Bible of the urban counterculture movement. It..... More
Headpress, May 2009. Trade Paperback. A collection of the writing, reviews and interviews of John Sinclair, spanning forty years and personally selected by the author. The music, people and topics include: Detroit in the 1960s, and the author as manager of the MC5; John Lennon; Sun Ra; Jack Kerouac; Dr..... More
