Boston: Little Brown, 1935. Hardcover first edition - An account by this National Book Award-winning biographer of growing up in a family of amateur musicians. She herself was an active amateur chamber music player throughout her life and this book captures the joys and comedy of making music for the fun of it. Small format. 261 pp.

San Francisco: Straight Arrow Books, (1973). First edition - Includes interviews with John Lennon, Mick Jagger, Jean-Luc Bertrande and others, essays on Bob Dylan, Leonard Crow Dog, The Last Poets, Randy Newman, the Fillmore, Yoko Ono, Igor Stravinsky, Jean Genet, Ingmar Bergman, Francois Truffaut, Frank O'Hara, film reviews, and a selection of Cott's poetry and more - a great picture of the late 1960s, early 1970s! Illustrated with black and white photographs. 349 pp plus final photograph. ISBN: 0-87932-0656.

San Francisco: Straight Arrow Books, (1973). First edition - Includes interviews with John Lennon, Mick Jagger, Jean-Luc Bertrande and others, essays on Bob Dylan, Leonard Crow Dog, The Last Poets, Randy Newman, the Fillmore, Yoko Ono, Igor Stravinsky, Jean Genet, Ingmar Bergman, Francois Truffaut, Frank O'Hara, film reviews, and a selection of Cott's poetry and more - a great picture of the late 1960s, early 1970s! Illustrated with black and white photographs. 349 pp plus final photograph. ISBN: 0-87932-0656.

New York: Atheneum, (2017) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's first children's book, a celebration of the indomitable drive of blues musician Muddy Waters, whose fierce and electric sound laid the groundwork for what would become rock and roll. Strikingly illustrated in full color by Evan Turk. Winner of many honors including New York Times Best Illustrated Book of 2017, NPR's Best Books of 2017 List, New York Public Library's 2017 Best Books for Kids Top 10 and more. Includes a 2 pp author's note on the impact of Muddy Waters and a brief bibliography, unpaginated. Large square format. ISBN: 978-1481443494.

Los Angeles: Black Accent L.A. Press, 1996 (c 1992) dj. SIGNED hardcover - A comprehensive look at the Southern California music history over a period of five decades. Illustrated with over 400 archival black and white photographs of the Black musicians, Band leaders, night club owners and others involved in the L. A. music scene during those 50 years. Bibliography. SIGNED on the front endpaper with the words "The music lives. . . the culture defines. Enjoy!" and dated in 1999. Large format (quarto), printed on heavy glossy stock throughout. Laid in is the author's business card and a card indicating "Compliments of the National Academy Recording Arts and Sciences." 478 pp. ISBN: 0-96329086x.

New York: Dodd, Mead, (1957.) dj. Hardcover first edition - A title in the Famous Biographies For Young People series. Includes brief but pointed and informative biographies on Louis 'Satchmo' Armstrong, Lena Horne, Josephine Baker, Paul Robeson, Duke Ellington, Nat King Cole, Sammy Davis Jr., Harry Belafronte, Sidney Poitier, Paul Robeson, Bill Bojangles Robinson, Eartha Kitt, Fats Waller and more. Illustrated. Index. 122 pp. Uncommon in the first edition.

New York: Ballantine, (2005) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Memoir by this woman best known for her thirty year marriage to musician Carlos Santana, but it is an account of a biracial girl growing up in San Francisco in the 1960s, daughter of a white mother and a black father, the blues guitarist Saunders King, and of her freewheeling adventures during the late 1960s, her involvement with Sly Stone, and her spiritual reawakening. "The civil rights movement was the foundation of her growth, the Woodstock era the backdrop of her love with Carlos." SIGNED on the half title page. Glossary of Spanish terms. xiv, 331 pp. ISBN: 978-0345471253.

New York: Simon & Schuster, (1989) dj. Hardcover first edition - Author's first novel, second book, the story of a rock band on the road in honky-tonks and cheap motels from Louisiana to Texas to Arizona to Mexico - nothing too crazy until Nadine "gets Jesus" in a vision from the Cajun swamps and they meet Elaine and her home-brewed voodoo. Dust jacket praise from Hubert Selby, Steve Erickson and Norman Mailer (who calls it "the best novel about American musicians I have read.") 423 pp. ISBN: 0-671-623737.

New York: Simon & Schuster, (1989) dj. Hardcover first edition - Author's first novel, second book, the story of a rock band on the road in honky-tonks and cheap motels from Louisiana to Texas to Arizona to Mexico - nothing too crazy until Nadine "gets Jesus" in a vision from the Cajun swamps and they meet Elaine and her home-brewed voodoo. Dust jacket praise from Hubert Selby, Steve Erickson and Norman Mailer (who calls it "the best novel about American musicians I have read.") 423 pp. ISBN: 0-671-623737.