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ALL ABOUT THE BEAT: Why Hip-Hop Can't Save Black America.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Gotham Books, (2008.) dj. Hardcover first edition - A book which celebrates hip-hop for what it is, but also defines what it is not, and that is a way for political change. Notes. 186 pp. ISBN: 9781592403745.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket (as new, but with a remainder line.)
Book ID: 54475More details Price: $15.00 -
LYDIA MENDOZA'S LIFE IN MUSIC / LA HISTORIA DE LYDIA MENDOZA: Norteno Tejano Legacies.
Edition: First printing.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 37534More details Price: $25.00 -
WORLD OF MEDIEVAL & RENAISSANCE MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS.
Edition: 2nd printing.
Woodstock, NY: Overlook Press, (1980) dj. Hardcover - A comprehensive and thoroughly researched account not just of the instruments of that the early Middle Ages, through the Crusades, the Hundred Years War and the Renaissance, but also of changes in the theory of music, its notation and of the musicians themselves from the earliest wandering musicians to the court era and to the first formal orchestras. Contains over 100 black and white illustrations and 15 in full color. Bibliography, index. 136 pp. Illustrated endpapers. Large square format. ISBN: 0-879510455.
Condition: Fine in near fine dust jacket (price-clipped)
Book ID: 86916More details Price: $27.50 -
ENCLYCLOPEDIA OF MUSIC: Elementary, Techinical, Historical, Biographical, Vocal and Instrumental, to which is added an Appendix introducing Musical Events to 1870.
Edition: Later printing.
Boston: Oliver Ditson & Co., (1880.). Hardcover - A massive reference originally published in 1852. 1004 pp plus a 45 pp. appendix with a separate title page: Appendix to Encyclopedia of Music, Containing events and information occurring since the main work was issued. 1875. Includes some scores and musical notations.
Condition: Good only in original embossed brown cloth - wear to the covers, fraying to the ends of the spine, title page partially detached, some tidemarks to the edges of the textblock, not affecting the contents. Uncommon and still quite readable and usable.
Book ID: 40158More details Price: $40.00 -
BIGMOUTH: Morrissey 1983-1993.
Edition: First printing, a slim paperback.
London: Dunce Directive. (1993). First edition - A 6,000-word essay exploring Morrissey and his place in late 20th century popular culture - under the headings of genius, sex and money. Introduction by John Peel. Illustrated with black and white photographs. 32 pp. ISBN: 0-9522068-03.
Condition: Very near fine in stiff black and white illustrated covers. Uncommon.
Book ID: 75036More details Price: $25.00 -
JELLY ROLL MORTON'S LAST NIGHT AT THE JUNGLE INN.
Edition: Trade paperback.
New York & London: Marion Boyars (1994.). Described as an imaginary memoir, this is an interesting blend of fiction and fact, presented in the form of a monologue by the self-professed inventor of jazz: pianist, composer and lyricist extraordinary. Illustrated with photographs. 153 pp. ISBN: 0-7145-28978.
Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers (as new)
Book ID: 26456More details Price: $10.00 -
FIRE IN THE RAIN. . . SINGER IN THE STORM: An Autobiography.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Morrow, (1990.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Recounts her life from her childhood on a farm in Potter Valley in Mendicino in Northern California to her career as an actress and then as a singer, activist and feminist. Illustrated with photographs. 290 pp. ISBN: 0-688-087337.
Condition: Near fine in a very good dust jacket (price-clipped.)
Book ID: 48444More details Price: $12.50 -
FIRE IN THE RAIN. . . SINGER IN THE STORM: An Autobiography.
Edition: Later printing.
New York: Morrow, (1990.) dj. SIGNED hardcover - Recounts her life from her childhood on a farm in Potter Valley in Mendicino in Northern California to her career as an actress and then as a singer, activist and feminist. Illustrated with photographs. Boldly INSCRIBED by Near on the front endpaper. "Jane, Peace to you" and dated in 1992. 290 pp. ISBN: 0-688-087337.
Condition: Very good in a rather tattered and worn dust jacket (now protected by an archival cover.)
Book ID: 48163More details Price: $13.50 -
FIRE IN THE RAIN. . . SINGER IN THE STORM: An Autobiography.
Edition: 3rd printing.
New York: Morrow, (1990.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Recounts her life from her childhood on a farm in Potter Valley in Mendicino in Northern California to her career as an actress and then as a singer, activist and feminist. SIGNED on the front endpaper with the word "peace." Illustrated with photographs. 290 pp. ISBN: 0-688-087337.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 61393More details Price: $18.50 -
LIVING COUNTRY BLUES.
Edition: Trade paperback.
New York: Minerva Press, (1975.). The definitive book on contemporary country blues, one which focuses on the songs rather than the musicians, although it includes a 16 page insert of wonderful photographs. While this includes chapters on the Setting of the Blues, their history, and a defintiion of the blues, as well as one on the blues as poetry, the majority of the book contains complete annotated lyrics to over 200 songs, some with scores. The author, a folklorist, recorded thousands of songs in Louisiana, especially at Anglola Prison and the Cajun country in the southwestern part of the state.Index xv, 464 pp. ISBN: 0-308-102363.
Condition: Ex-library with the usual markings, creasing to the cover, but a good reading copy.
Book ID: 44668More details Price: $15.00 -
THE SOUL OF ROCK 'N ROLL: A History of African Americans in Rock Music.
Edition: Trade paperback original.
Oakland, CA: Regent Press, (2004.). SIGNED - SIGNED on the title page. A decade by decade survey - from Chuck Berry, Little Richard, Big Mama Thornton, Muddy Waters, B. B, King and others in the 50's to Janet Jackson, Ice-T, Tracy Chapman and others in the 90's and Aretha Franklin, the Temptations, Gil Scott-Heron, Prince, Otis Redding, Jimi Hendrix and dozens more in the intervening decades - by a songwriter and founder of two African American rock bands. 201 pp. ISBN: 1-587901056.
Condition: Fine (a new copy) in black and white wrappers.
Book ID: 35460More details Price: $20.00 -
KANSAS CITY LIGHTNING: The Rise and Times of Charlie Parker.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: Harper Collins, (2013). First edition - Biography of the jazz great which focuses on his early years in Kansas City. 334 pp.
Condition: Fine in illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 58508More details Price: $26.50 -
LESSONS FROM THE ROAD: Musicians as Business Leaders.
Edition: First printing, a trade paperback original.
Los Angeles: Archer, (2017). SIGNED first edition - "The language of music meets the language of business in this unorthodox examination of the influences and impact that creativity, improvisation, and collaboration have within an organization, using interviews with successful business people who also were (or still are) professional musicians." SIGNED on the title page. 203 pp plus final drawings. ISBN: 978-1941729243.
Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 74644More details Price: $25.00 -
NOTES FROM THE ROAD (And the Songs I Sang There): Journals, Poems, and Lyrics.
Edition: First printing.
Cambridge, MA: Black Wolf Press, (2002) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The first book by this singer-songwriter, filled with his journal entries, sketches, poetry and lyrics. "Ellis Paul is now a national folk star and to many the quintessential Boston songwriter literate, provocative, urbanely romantic."INSCRIBED on the title page "------- Glad you came!" and dated in 2004 in Charlotte, NC. Illustrated, 209 pp. ISBN: 0-9720270-09.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 58171More details Price: $30.00 -
THE BEST OF JAZZ SCORE.
Edition: First printing.
London: BBC Books, (1992) dj. Hardcover first edition - "An unparalleled selection of anecdotes, one-liners and reminiscences from the BBC Radio 2 series Jazz Score." Photographs in black and white. 160 pp. ISBN: 0-563363266.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 55726More details Price: $18.00 -
THE ART OF FLAMENCO.
Edition: Fourth edition.
Shaftesbury, Dorset. UK: Musical New Services Ltd. (1984) dj. SIGNED hardcover - A revised and updated edition of this comprehensive and award-winning book on Flamenco, the author's first book originally published in 1962. Includes a look at the history of the dance, a section on flamenco guitar makers, appendices on the juerga, flamenco festivals, resources for learning flamenco and more. INSCRIBED by the author on the front endpaper and dated in 1985. At the time of publication, the author was the only non-Spaniard to be elected to the Catedra de Flamencologia of Jerez de la Frontera. Illustrated with many black and white photographs. Glossary. 217 pp. ISBN: 0-946570027.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket (corners bumped).
Book ID: 72573More details Price: $60.00 -
MUSICAL ADVENTURES IN CORNWALL
Edition: First printing.
Dawlish, England: David & Charles, 1965. dj. Hardcover first edition - Foreword by Frank Howes. Memoirs covering 50 years of lives of the Radford sisters. In addition to the obvious joy they found in music of all kinds - from small village concerts to folk-dancing tours and especially with the Falmouth Opera Singers - this includes a lot of social history of England in the first half of the 20th century: World War I, their recalcitrant automobile, etc. 103 pp.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket (price-clipped.)
Book ID: 32483More details Price: $25.00 -
BLACK AND BLUE: The Life and Lyrics of Andy Razaf.
Edition: First printing.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket (a bit of light discoloration to outer edges of back of textblock.)
Book ID: 88678More details Price: $20.00 -
NO SIMPLE HIGHWAY: A Cultural History of the Grateful Dead.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: St Martin's, (2015). First edition - Published on the band's 50th anniversary, this book attempts to answer the question of why the Grateful Dead became one of the world's most legendary bands. Notes, sources. 353 pp.
Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 64185More details Price: $24.50 -
BLACK AMERICAN MUSIC: PAST AND PRESENT, vol 1.
Edition: Reprint with corrections and a new preface (originally published in 1973), so a first thus.
Malabar, FL: Robert E. Krieger Publishing Co, Inc. 1985. dj. Hardcover first edition - An important survey of African American music, beginning with the slave era and going forward to tin pan, ragtime, gospel, blues and jazx. Includes short biographies of most major, and many minor, Black figures in music.
Condition: NF/VG (some crinkling to front cover of dj.)
Book ID: 7279More details Price: $38.00 -
DEAD RECKONINGS: The Life and Times of the Grateful Dead.
Edition: First printing, a trade paperback original.
New York: Schirmer Books, (1999). First edition - The Library Journal calls this anthology of essays, articles, and book excerpts, "an important collection of commentary on perhaps the hardest to define of all rock groups." Includes pieces either about or by people not usually connected to the Grateful Dead, like George Plimpton, Miles Davis, and novelist Robert Stone, which illustrate how the Grateful Dead's influence on popular culture is in turn a result of the wide variety of influences absorbed by the band. Illustrated with photographs. Selected bibliography, chronology, discography and index. xiv, 349 pp. ISBN: 0-02864896X.
Condition: Very good (slight soiling to edges of textblock)
Book ID: 82384More details Price: $25.00 -
BEETHOVEN'S HAIR.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
Condition: Very good in illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 39675More details Price: $12.00 -
STIR IT UP: Musical Mixes from Roots to Jazz
Edition: First printing.
New York: Oxford University Press, 1997. dj. Hardcover first edition - Second collection of essays by this critic and musician: among the topics are Paul Simon, Aretha Franklin, Thelonius Monk, Jimi Hendrix, Coltrane ,Ornette Coleman and Mingus, Cuban and Hawaiian music and more. 193 pgs including index. ISBN: 0-19-5098692.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 9345More details Price: $18.00 -
THE JOY OF JAZZ: Swing Era 1935-1947.
Edition: First printing, a trade paperback, not issued in hardcover.
Golden, CO: Fulcrum Publishing, 1996. First edition - Discusses the history of the era when jazz, formerly 'musicians' music' suddenly became popular, including a look at the effect racism had on the music and performers. Includes the big bands led by Bennie Goodman, Count Basie, Duke Ellington and others, singers like Ella Fitzgerald and Billie Holiday and dozens of great players from Duke Ellington and Jack Teagarden to Lester Young and Django Reinhardt. Bibliography, recommended recordings, index. 148 pp. ISBN: 1-55591-2370.
Condition: Fine (as new.)
Book ID: 24990More details Price: $15.00 -
SCENEN AUG GOETHE'S FAUST fur Solostimmen, Chor und Orchester. Klavierauszug mit Text.
Edition: Hardcover.
Berlin and Leipzig: C. F. Peters n.d. [ca. 1880's]. Hardcover - Piano and vocal score (in German / Deutsch). Interesting inscription on the front endpaper - "For my greatly gifted friend and pupil, Raylyn Kinney - a cornerstone for her future library of musical rarities." and signed Homer Henley (1872-1939, San Franciso music critic - for the Argonaut) and dated Christmas 1932. 27.5 cm tall by 19.5 cm. 172 pp.
Condition: Good overall condition in marbleized boards - loss of about 4.5 cm of spine covering at top of spine, rubbing and wear to edges of boards.
Book ID: 37110More details Price: $45.00 -
MOZART: A Biographical Romance.
Edition: Reprint.
Boston: Oliver Ditson and Company, 1870 (c 1868.). Hardcover - Novel based on the life of Mozart, includes author's introduction and a translator's note, explaining differences from German edition. 323 pp.
Condition: Fair condition only in brown cloth with gilt title on front, gilt lettering on spine (prev onwer's name dated 1871, both hinges cracked, tear to cloth along side of spine, wear to edges, corners and end of spine.) Reading copy only.
Book ID: 42632More details Price: $12.50 -
THEY STILL SING OF LOVE.
Edition: First edition.
New York: Horace Liveright, 1929. Hardcover first edition - A series of essays, ranging from the light-hearted to the more serious, on popular music - ranging from love songs, to songs of travel, barbershop quartets and more. Includes chapters on 'jazzmania,' primitive music, etc. 234 pp.
Condition: Good in tan cloth with red and black lettering (some soiling to the covers, stamp of previous owner on front endpaper.)
Book ID: 33514More details Price: $20.00 -
CONTINUO: A Life in Music.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Random House, (1987) dj. Hardcover first edition - Autobiography of this noted composer and musician. In 1937, at age 13, he was one of the youngest students ever admitted in the State Academy of Music in Vienna, but in 1938 expelled the following year for being a Jew, and his parents sent him to Palestine. Photographs. 209 pp. ISBN: 0-394-555155.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 71768More details Price: $15.00 -
REGGAE SCRAPBOOK (Book with DVD.)
Edition: First printing.
San Rafael, CA: Insight Editions, (2007.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Reggae scholar and Beat magazine founder Roger Steffens traces reggae's history and roots, in a chronological format, illustrated with striking photographs in both black and white and full color by reggae enthusiast Peter Simon (Carly's brother). Includes a foreword by Toots Hibbert and an introduction by Stephen Davis. It also includes a DVD specially made for this book compiling rare and previously unseen interviews with the greats of reggae music - including Peter Tosh, Jimmy Cliff, and Toots Hibbert - and removable printed reproductions of items from Steffen's personal collection. Oversized format, illustrated throughout. A fascinating book. SIGNED on the half title page by Roger Steffens with "one" and a drawing of a heart. ISBN: 1933784237.
Condition: Fine in a fine dust jacket (as new.)
Book ID: 46360More details Price: $100.00 -
IGOR STRAVINSKY - THE COMPOSER IN THE RECORDING STUDIO: A Comprehensive Discography.
Edition: First printing.
Condition: Fine in brown boards with a black panel and copper stamping.
Book ID: 68252More details Price: $60.00