Music
My Music, My Life
Mandala Publishing, January 2009. Hardcover. "My Music, My Life" chronicles the extraordinary career of India s best-known musician. Through his relationships with George Harrison and Philip Glass in the 1960s, Ravi Shankar brought Indian classical musical to the world stage and became one of the most influential musicians of the..... More
My Music, My Life
Mandala Publishing, January 2009. Hardcover. "My Music, My Life" chronicles the extraordinary career of India s best-known musician. Through his relationships with George Harrison and Philip Glass in the 1960s, Ravi Shankar brought Indian classical musical to the world stage and became one of the most influential musicians of the..... More
We Danced All Night: My Life Behind the Scenes with Alan Jay Lerner
William Morrow & Company, December 1990. First Edition. Hardcover. This tender, personal story reveals the public and private lives of show-business genius Alan Jay Lerner and his personal assistant, Doris Shapiro--the outsider he took along with him for the ride. Photographs. Octavo. In DJ with mild edgewear. Quarter bound: blue..... More
Hear Me Talkin' To Ya: The Story of Jazz by The Men Who Made It
Rinehart and Co., January 1955. Hardcover. Early printing w/ no colophon at copyright page; Solid binding, gently worn at spine; Clean, sturdy black boards w/ white/pink text at spine; Pages free of markings; Dust jacket Good w/ moderate edge-wear present including scuffing, chips and closed tears; Jacket now housed in..... More
Hear Me Talkin' to Ya: The Story of Jazz As Told by the Men Who Made It
Dover Publications, June 1966. Trade Paperback. "Music is your own experience, your thoughts, your wisdom. If you don't live it, it won't come out of your horn." -- Charlie Parker "What is jazz? The rhythm -- the feeling." -- Coleman Hawkins "The best sound usually comes the first time you..... More
Honkers and Shouters
Collier Books, March 1986. Paper Back. Foxing and mild cover wear; overall, a solid copy of a scarce and desirable title. More
The Rock Revolution
Paperback Library, February 1971. First Thus. Mass Market PaperBack. Tear on bottom left of front cover. More
Shaw on Music -- Anchor A53 A selection from the music criticism of Bernard Shaw made by Eric Bently
Doubleday Anchor, January 1955. Mass Market PaperBack. Previous dealer's large stamp on verso of cover panel. Previous reader's name written in ink on half title page. [307 pages]. More
The Playboy Interviews with John Lennon & Yoko Ono: The Final Testament (The Complete Texts plus unpublished conversations and Lennon's Song-by-song analysis of his music with 8 pages of photographs)
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
Skeleton Key
Main Street Books, August 1994. Trade Paperback. Steve Silberman's tribute to Jerry Garcia, 1942-1995. As is. Light perforations on the front cover. More
Leonard Cohen (Kill Your Idols Series)
Thunders Mouth Press, October 2000. Trade Paperback. More
Groovin' High: The Life of Dizzy Gillespie
Oxford University Press, USA, June 1999. First Edition. Hardcover. Dizzy Gillespie was one of the most important and best-loved musicians in jazz history. With his horn-rimmed glasses, goatee, jive talk, and upraised trumpet bell, he was the hipster who most personified bebop. The musical heir to Louis Armstrong, he created..... More
Testimony: The Memoirs of Dmitri Shostakovich
Limelight Editions, May 2000. Paper Back. More
The Future Is Now!: An Illustrated History of the MC5
Creation Books, October 2004. Paper Back. The MC5 were one of the most explosive and legendary rock bands of the '60s. Formed as a Detroit garage band, they then became "house band" for John Sinclair's revolutionary White Panthers. The MC5 soon became a potent musical force in their own right..... More
Touched by the Sun: My Friendship with Jackie
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, October 2019. Hardcover. The instant New York Times bestseller Named one of the ten best books of 2019 by People magazine A chance encounter at a summer party on Martha's Vineyard blossomed into an improbable but enduring friendship. Carly Simon and Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis made an..... More
The Symphony: Volume 2: Elgar to the Present Day
Penguin Books / a Pelican Original, January 1969. Reprint. Mass Market PaperBack. Well worn mass market, Pelican Original. Creases and cracks with tape repairs. [282 pages plus four pages of advertisements]. More
Symphony 1 Haydn To Dvorak
Penguin / a Pelican Original, January 1966. First Thus. Mass Market PaperBack. Mass market paperback with scuff marks & rubbing & shelf wear. Previous owner's name written in ink first inside page. Previous dealer's stamp on verso of heavily darkened front cover verso [384 pages]. More
Beethoven symphonies (BBC music guides)
University of Washing Press, 1978. Reprint. Paper Back. {4&3/4' x 7&3/4'} Well worn with bumped/bent base & head to spine. Previous reader's name in ink on right corner of half title page. 2nd printing. [61 pages]. More
This Is Gonna Hurt: Music, Photography and Life Through the Distorted Lens of Nikki Sixx
William Morrow, April 2011. First Edition. Oversize Softcover. This Is Gonna Hurt is music, photography, and life through the distorted lens of Nikki Sixx, bassist for heavy metal rock band Mötley Crüe's and the New York Times bestselling author of The Heroin Diaries. A combination of powerful prose and dramatic..... More
Music of the common tongue: Survival and celebration in Afro-American music
Riverrun Press. Hardcover. More
She Come By It Natural: Dolly Parton and the Women Who Lived Her Songs
Scribner, October 2020. First Edition. Hardcover. Nominated for the 2020 National Book Critics Circle Award The National Book Award finalist and New York Times bestselling author of Heartland focuses her laser-sharp insights on a working-class icon and one of the most unifying figures in American culture: Dolly Parton. Growing up..... More
A Book of Days
Random House, November 2022. Hardcover. NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - A deeply moving and brilliantly idiosyncratic visual book of days by the National Book Award-winning author of Just Kids and M Train, featuring more than 365 images and reflections that chart Smith's singular aesthetic--inspired by her wildly popular Instagram. ONE..... More
A Book of Days
Random House Trade Paperbacks, April 2024. Paper Back. NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - A deeply moving and brilliantly idiosyncratic visual book of days by the National Book Award-winning author of Just Kids and M Train, featuring more than 365 images and reflections that chart Smith's singular aesthetic--inspired by her wildly..... More
Just Kids
Ecco, November 2010. Trade Paperback. WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD "Reading rocker Smith's account of her relationship with photographer Robert Mapplethorpe, it's hard not to believe in fate. How else to explain the chance encounter that threw them together, allowing both to blossom? Quirky and spellbinding." -- People It..... More