Rolling Stone Press, December 1986. Paper Back. The definitive history of rock and roll from its beginnings to the present; the story of the artists, the industry, and the social forces that gave it life and shaped it into the most vital music of our time. More
Back Bay Books, June 2023. Paper Back. In this New York Times bestseller, Rolling Stone founder, co-editor, and publisher Jann Wenner offers a "touchingly honest" and "wonderfully deep" memoir from the beating heart of classic rock and roll (Bruce Springsteen). Jann Wenner has been called by his peers "the greatest..... More
Jawbone Press, July 2023. Paper Back. Johnny Thunders: In Cold Blood is the definitive portrait of the condemned man of rock'n'roll, from the baptism of fire and tragedy that was the New York Dolls, through the junkie punk years of the Heartbreakers, to his sudden and mysterious death in 1991..... 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
Berkley, December 1982. Mass Market PaperBack. Sound mass market paperback with scratch marks and flaking of back cover. Foxing and marginal darkening of interior pages. Light stains/soiling of textblock edges. [237 pages plus one page Epilogue and one page list of Berkley books then available]. More
University of Chicago Press, August 1982. Paper Back. In this abridgment of his monumental study, "Berlioz and the Romantic Century," Jacques Barzun recounts the events and extraordinary achievements of the great composer's life against the background of the romantic era. As the author eloquently demonstrates, Berloiz was an archetype whose..... More
Little Brown and Company, October 1998. Hardcover. In this unique homage to an American icon, journalist and award-winning author Pete Hamill evokes the essence of Sinatra--examining his art and his legend from the inside, as only a friend of many years could do. Shaped by Prohibition, the Depression, and war..... More
N/A, April 1994. Trade Paperback. CIRCLE OF SONG is designed as a resource book for musicians, teachers, educators and anyone interested in sharing song, dance and ritual. More
Alfred A. Knopf, February 1984. Paper Back. {10 & 1/2' x 12'} First/first US paperback. Mild shelf wear. Unfortunate musty odor. Some highlighting within the list of sessions pp. 189 to 191, the 'sessionography'. [192 pages]. More
W W Norton & Co Inc, January 1986. Reprint. Paper Back. Octavo. Foxing toward beginning & end of interior text. [307 pages]. More
W W Norton & Co Inc, October 1984. Paper Back. Octavo. Foxing especially toward first & last interior pages. Else clean, sound. [292 pages]. More
W W Norton & Co Inc, 1988. Reprint. Paper Back. Octavo. 2nd printing. Darkened at margins of internal pages. [201 pages]. More
W. W. Norton & Company, January 1986. Reprint. Paper Back. Octavo. [240 pages]. More
Oxford University Press, USA, September 1970. Trade Paperback. Beginning with the African musical heritage and its fusion with European forms in the New World, Marshall Stearns's history of jazz guides the reader through work songs, spirituls, ragtime, and the blues, to the birth of jazz in New Orleans and its..... More
Green Integer, April 2001. Paper Back. In Operratics Leiris turns his brilliant mind upon one of his major loves, opera. Approaching it as a lover of music without training, he discerns fascinating patterns of cultural movement in opera and reveals his personal tastes in this great genre. Michel Leiris began..... More
University of California Press, January 1977. First Edition. Cloth. Octavo in dustjacket with mildly darkened spine. Flap is not clipped. Ginger colored cloth covered boards with small gold lettering along spine. Tightly bound. [185 pages]. More
Univ of North Carolina Pr, February 2021. Paper Back. In the summer of 1978, the B-52's conquered the New York underground. A year later, the band's self-titled debut album burst onto the Billboard charts, capturing the imagination of fans and music critics worldwide. The fact that the group had formed..... More
Broadway, February 2005. First Edition. Hardcover. An intimate, eye-opening look inside the life of one of the most unique and adored performers of contemporary rock music From her critically acclaimed 1992 debut, "Little "Earthquakes, to the recent hit, "Scarlet's Walk," Tori Amos has been a formidable force in contemporary music..... More
Power House Books, October 2002. Hardcover. 1977: Punk rock music and fashion blew out of New York City, exploded in London, and caught like wildfire in San Francisco, Los Angeles and the world over. It developed concurrently everywhere, and every region had it's own identity. But it was in San..... More
Ecco, January 2022. First Edition. Hardcover. "We have performed side-by-side on the global stage through half a century.... In Lightning Striking, Lenny Kaye has illuminated ten facets of the jewel called rock and roll from a uniquely personal and knowledgeable perspective." -Patti Smith An insider's take on the evolution and..... More
Atria Books, May 2020. First Edition. Hardcover. AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A timely and passionate call to action for engaging with our current political moment, from the Grammy-nominated and multiplatinum singer-songwriter and New York Times bestselling author Tori Amos. Since the release of her first, career-defining solo album..... 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
Simon & Schuster, October 2004. Trade Paperback. WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE Music legend Bob Dylan's only work of fiction--a combination of stream of consciousness prose, lyrics, and poetry that gives fans insight into one of the most influential singer-songwriters of our time. Written in 1966, Tarantula is..... More
Ecco, January 2022. First Edition. Hardcover. "We have performed side-by-side on the global stage through half a century.... In Lightning Striking, Lenny Kaye has illuminated ten facets of the jewel called rock and roll from a uniquely personal and knowledgeable perspective." -Patti Smith An insider's take on the evolution and..... More
