Cambridge: Withrop Publishers, Inc, 1970. Second Printing. Softcover. " A delightful, refreshing collection of lyrics from the new popular music. This book of poems - written by the most outstanding of today's young poet-musicians - will prove a welcome addition to anyone's poetry shelf." Includes lyrics by Leonard Cohen, Paul..... More
New Haven: Yale University Press, 2010. First Paperback Edition. Large Paperback. Shattering longstanding myths, this new biography reveals the robust and positive life of one of the nineteenth century's greatest composers This candid, intimate, and compellingly written new biography offers a fresh account of Robert Schumann’s life. It confronts..... More
Ann Arbor, Michigan: Center for Chinese Studies, University of Michigan, 1982. First Edition (presumed). Softcover. No. 42 in the Michigan Papers in Chinese Studies series. More
Colorado Spings: David C Cook, 2011. First Edition. More
London: Faber and Faber, 2020. Luke Bird (series design). Trade Paperback. A new edition as part of the Faber Greatest Hits – books that have taken writing about music in new and exciting directions for the twenty-first century. Re-make/Re-model tells the little known and fascinating story of the individuals..... More
London: Faber and Faber, 2020. Luke Bird (series design). Trade Paperback. A new edition as part of the Faber Greatest Hits – books that have taken writing about music in new and exciting directions for the twenty-first century. Re-make/Re-model tells the little known and fascinating story of the individuals..... More
London: Faber and Faber, 2019. First U.K. Edition, Fourth Printing. Hardcover. Formed as a New York City hardcore band in 1981, Beastie Boys struck an unlikely path to global hip hop superstardom. Here is their story, told for the first time in the words of the band. Adam “ADROCK” Horovitz..... More
London: Bloomsbury Publishing, 2012. Allison Saltzman (cover design). First UK Paperback Edition. Reprint. Paperback. WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD It was the summer Coltrane died, the summer of love and riots, and the summer when a chance encounter in Brooklyn led two young people on a path of..... More
New York: New Directions Publishing, 2011. Fifth Printing. Hardcover. In this small, luminous memoir, the National Book Award–winner Patti Smith revisits the most sacred experiences of her early years, with truths so vivid they border on the surreal. The author entwines her childhood self—and its “clear, unspeakable joy”—with memories both..... More
New York: Vintage Books, 2020. Linda Huang (cover design). First Trade Paperback Edition, First Printing. Trade Paperback. Signed by author. Riveting, elegant, humorous—and illustrated by Smith’s signature Polaroids—New York Times bestseller Year of the Monkey is a moving and original work, a touchstone for our turbulent times. Following a...... More
Harcourt, Brace & World, Inc., 1956. Irene Haas. First Edtion. Hardcover. Music sheets with lyrics. More
Munich: Prestel, 2015. Revised and Expanded Second Edition. Outsize Hardcover. Extra shipping fee for heavy item. Now available in an expanded edition, this landmark collection presents all of the record covers designed by Andy Warhol between 1949 and 1987, charting the Pop icon’s lifelong engagement with music and casting a...... More
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1986. John Owen Ward (ed.). Tenth Edition (reset and revised). Hardcover. Heavy item with extra shipping fees. This is the most famous of all one-volume musical encyclopedias. It contains over a million works on all aspects of music, lucidly and entertainingly presented, and nearly a thousand..... More
London: Haus Publishing Ltd, 2013. First Edition (presumed). Hardcover. Unscrupulous, devilishly ambitious and undeniably charismatic, Domenico Barbaja was the most celebrated Italian impresario of the early 1800s and one of the most intriguing characters to dominate the operatic empire of the period. Dubbed the "Viceroy of Naples", Barbaja managed both..... More
London: Faber and Faber, 1985. Pentagram (cover design), Nick Cudworth (illustration). Revised Edition. Trade Paperback. Collected jazz criticism by Philip Larkin from 1961 to 1071. More
London: Thames & Hudson, 2014. First Edition. Outsize Hardcover. Extra shipping fee for heavy item. Released to commemorate the 75th anniversary of the coolest and best- known label in jazz, this book celebrates over seven decades of extraordinary music from a company that has stayed true to its founders' commitment..... More
Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 2015. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. One of the famous canal cities of the world and a former center of culture, trade, transportation, and fashion, the old town of Yangzhou evokes romantic bridges, beautiful courtesans, fine gardens, and eccentric painters. It is also remembered as..... More
Alfred Publishing Co, 2003. Paperback (Outsized). Accompanying CDs are missing. More
London: Reynolds & Hearn Ltd, 2002. Second Edition. Softcover. More
London: Doubleday, 2020. First Edition. Third Printing. Trade Paperback. From acclaimed journalist Sophy Roberts, a journey through one of the harshest landscapes on earth―where music reveals the deep humanity and the rich history of Siberia Siberia’s story is traditionally one of exiles, penal colonies and unmarked graves. Yet..... More
New York: Vintage Books, 1984. Carin Goldberg (cover design). Reprint. Paperback. As a pianist, Glenn Gould was both a showman and a high priest, an artist whose devotion to music was so great that he eschewed the distractions of live performance. That same combination of flamboyance and aesthetic rigor may..... More
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