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New York:: Gotham Books,, (2008.). Hardcover first edition -. Fine in fine dust jacket (as new, but with a remainder line.). First printing. 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.

Shaftesbury, Dorset. UK:: Musical New Services Ltd., (1984). SIGNED hardcover -. Near fine in near fine dust jacket (corners bumped).. Fourth edition. 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.

New York:: Doubleday,, 1988.. Hardcover first edition -. Fine in a fine dust jacket (as new.) Uncommon, especially in this condition. . First printing. "An original interpretration of the world's best loved light opera." Text by William Schwenck Gilbert. Notes by Isaac Asimov. New York: Doubleday, A comprehensive annotated reference to the comic operas of William S. Gilbert and Sir Arthur Sullivan, including "The Sorcerer", "H.M.S. Pinafore", "The Pirates of Penzance","Patience", "Iolanthe", "Princess Ida", "The Mikado", "Ruddigore", "The Yeomenof the Guard", "The Gondoliers", "Utopia, Limited", and "The Grand Duke" and more. Photographs. A massive and very heavy book. xiv, 1056 pp. .

Delhi, NY: : Birch Brook Press, , (1998). Hardcover first edition -. Fine in a fine dust jacket (as new.). First printing. ""Dear Dr. Bond: We have never met, but you may well have heard of me. My name is Maria Callas. I am an opera singer. I am tking the liberty of writing to you because a friend of mine who is your patient says you are a wonderful psychoanalyst." Thus begins this compelling, fictional autobiography of the great diva, whose brilliant talent and tumultuous relationships have stirred the imagination of music lovers throughout the world." Bibliography. 222 pp.

New York:: Broadway Books,, (2000.). First edition -. Very good in illustrated wrappers.. Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. ) From the cover: "An extraordinary historical odyssey and a musical mystery solved ...- As Ludwig van Beethoven lay dying in 1827, a young musician named Ferdinand Hiller came to pay his respects to the great composer. In the days after Beethoven's death, Hiller snipped a lock of his hair as a keepsake. This lock was passed down for more than a century through Hiller's family, until, during the second World War, it somehow found its way to the town of Gilleleje, in Nazi-occupied Denmark. There, it was given to a local doctor, Kay Fremming, who was deeply involved in the effort to provide aid for hundreds of frightened and hunted Jews. Who gave him the hair, and why? ...After his death, Fremming's daughter inherited the lock, and eventually put it up for sale at Sotheby's, where two American Beethoven enthusiasts, Ira Brilliant and Che Guevara,… Read More

New York:: Oxford University Press,, 1989.. Hardcover first edition -. Fine in fine dust jacket (appears unread.). First printing. A detailed biography of the clarinet player and band leader who became known as the 'King of Swing,' one which documents his career against the Depression era and the changing social milieu and popular music of the time. Goodman was the first to hire black musicians for a white band (Teddy Wilson and Lionel Hampton) and many other musicians, including Gene Krupa, Harry James and Peggy Lee, got their start in his band. . Illustrated with 16 pages of photographs; extensive notes, index. 404 pp.

London:: BBC Books,, (1992). Hardcover first edition -. Fine in fine dust jacket.. First printing. "An unparalleled selection of anecdotes, one-liners and reminiscences from the BBC Radio 2 series Jazz Score." Photographs in black and white. 160 pp.

New York:: Stein & Day,, (1975). Hardcover first edition -. Near fine in very good dust jacket (some wear to the dj at the ends of the spine). First printing. A biography of Billie Holiday by a friend and musician, one that focuses on the contradictions of her artistry as an accomplished jazz singer and her struggles as a drug addict, as a woman who earned the adulation of fans and suffered the humiliations of Jim Crow and incarceration. Foreword by Buck Clayton. Illustrated with photographs. Selected bibliography, index. 264 pp.

Malabar, FL:: Robert E. Krieger Publishing Co, Inc., 1985.. Hardcover first edition -. NF/VG (some crinkling to front cover of dj.). Reprint with corrections and a new preface (originally published in 1973), so a first thus. 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.

New York:: Schirmer Books / Macmillan,, (1992). Hardcover first edition -. Near fine in near fine dust jacket (a bit of light discoloration to outer edges of back of textblock.). First printing. A book which chronicles the life and Prohibition-era times of this legendary songwriter and whose musicals pioneered a distinctive African-American musical theater on Broadway, but who has been almost forgotten. "The 1920s were thrilling years for Broadway and Tin Pan Alley. Uptown in Harlem, talented musicians and composers were working to shed the image of minstrelsy and to find mainstream success within the structures of that particularly African American music known as jazz. The subject of this biography was lyricist for hundreds of songs, including 'Honeysuckle Rose' and 'Ain't Misbehavin'.' His contemporaries formed a Who''s Who of jazz greats, from Louis Armstrong to Razaf's most noted collaborator, Thomas 'Fats' Waller. Razaf brought a sensitivity and… Read More

Prescott, AZ:: Hohm Press,, 1999.. SIGNED first edition -. Fine in glossy blue illustrated wrappers.. First printing in wrappers. No hardcover edition. A very personal account of the history and significance of the blues music by the guitarist of the (almost) all women blues group, SHRI. 200 pgs, photographs, notes. SIGNED by the author on the half title page.

London:: Eddison Press,, 1975.. Hardcover first edition -. Near fine in a price-clipped, but otherwise fine dustjacket.. First printing. The true first printing of this classic work on the blues which was revised and reissued as a trade paperback in 1996. Illustrated with many photographs, index, bibliography. 178 pgs.

Garden City, NY:: Doubleday,, 1985.. First edition -. Fair condition only (some crinkling from dampness to the outer margin of the first few pages, light creasing to the front cover.).. First printing, a trade paperback original. The definitive biography of this influential Jamaican musician based on interviews with those close to Marley and with Marley himself, including an account of his final concert in Pittsburg just months before his tragic death from cancer in spring of 1981. Bob Marley made "reggae music and his own message of rebellion, self-determination, and the power of the individual a spiritual and political force throughout the world." INSCRIBED by the author inside the front cover and dated in the year of publication, and uncommon thus. Illustrated with photographs, bibliography, index. x, 276 pp

New York:: Oxford University Press,, 1995.. Very good+. (slight edge wear). First paperback printing. This book takes a look at racism in the past and present of jazz- both the white racism that for decades ghettoized black musicians and their music, and what Lees demostrates is an increasingly strident prejudice of some black musicians against their white counterparts.

New York:: Oxford University Press,, 1994.. Hardcover first edition -. Near fine in a near fine dustjacket (a new unread copy, but some slight signs of handling.). First printing. Essays on several jazz musicians, including Horace Silver, Dave Brubeck, Red Rodney and many others - but also a book which deals with racism and its affect on jazz, in all of its different facets.

New York:: Da Capo Press,, (1980.). Very good in glossy illustrated wrappers (a clean tight copy, minor wear to the covers). Trade paperback. Illustrated with photographs. Discography. 235 pp. 1988

New York:: Simon & Schuster,, (2004). Hardcover -. Very near fine in a like dustjacket.. Later printing. Volume One of Dylan's autobiography focuses on the start of his musical career and the early years in Greenwich Village, where he arrived in 1961, along with accounts of his road trips to New Orleans, Woodstock and his home state of Minnesota. 293 pp.

New York:: Random House,, (1987). Hardcover first edition -. Fine in fine dust jacket.. First printing. 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.

New York:: Public Affairs, , (1999). First edition -. Fine in illustrated wrappers.. Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. ) Jackson's memoir of growing up musical, from his impoverished childhood in a rough English port town to the Royal Academy of Music, London's punk and new wave scenes, and the brink of stardom. "An intelligent and passionate book about music, the creative process and coming of age as an artist." xiv, 277 pp.

Cambridge, MA:: Da Capo Press, , (2001.). SIGNED first edition -. Fine (as new.). First printing, a trade paperback original. An anthology, signed by Steve Erickson at his essay 'Neil Young on a Good Day.' Also includes contributions from Jonathan Lethem, David Rakoff, Mike Doughty, Richard Meltzer, Sarah Vowell, William Gay, Ryan Malan, Monica Kendrick, Gilbert Garcia, Whitney Balliett and more. Introduction by Nick Hornby, Series editor Ben Schafer. List of other notable essays of the year 2000 and notes on the contributors. 337 pp.