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Amburn, Ellis BUDDY HOLLY: A Biography
NY St. Martin's Press (1995). 1995 0312134460 / 9780312134464 1st Edition Hardcover Dust Jacket Included Jacket
Gift inscription on endpaper, else in fine condition. 9.5" x 6.25" pictorial dj pp: ix, 422 This comprehensive account is based on interviews with several hundred people, including Holly's widow. The endpaper gift-inscription is rendered less objectionable by its reference to the recipient as "one of Orange's Big Boppers.". Illustrated by frontis and 32pp photo-illus. First Edition. Binding is cloth/boards.
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Amburn, Ellis BUDDY HOLLY: A Biography
NY St. Martin's Press 1995 0312134460 / 9780312134464 First Edition Cloth-backed boards Fine Fine Jacket
pp: ix, 422 This comprehensive account is based on interviews with several hundred people, including Holly's widow. Frontispiece and 32pp illustrations from photos. 9.5" x 6.25".
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Amburn, Ellis BUDDY HOLLY: A Biography
NY St. Martin's Press 1995 0312134460 / 9780312134464 First Edition Cloth-backed boards Fine Fine Jacket
pp: ix, 422 This comprehensive account is based on interviews with several hundred people, including Holly's widow. Frontispiece and 32pp illustrations from photos. 9.5" x 6.25".
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Amburn, Ellis PEARL: The Obsessions and Passions of Janis Joplin, A Biography
NY Warner Books (1992). 1992 0446516406 / 9780446516402 1st Edition Hardcover Dust Jacket Included Jacket
Small, private bookplate, else book and dust jacket near fine condition. 9.25" x 6" pictorial dj pp: xii, 340 Discography and index. This detailed biography of Janis is based on interviews with friends, lovers, other musicians, etc. Illustrated by 16pp illus from photographs. First Edition. Binding is orig boards.
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Balliett, Whitney JELLY ROLL, JABBO & FATS: 19 Portraits in Jazz
NY Oxford University Press 1984 0195034252 / 9780195034257 First paperback edition Printed wraps Fine 8" x 5.25"
pp: x, 197. Balliett, perceptive jazz critic for The New Yorker, here writes on Jelly Roll Morton, Sidney Bechet, Ornette Coleman, Doc Cheatham, Erroll Garner, and 14 other musicians.
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Bechet, Sidney TREAT IT GENTLE: An Autobiography
NY Hill and Wang 1960 First Edition Original cloth Very Good Good 8.5" x 5.5"
pp: (ix), 245; 16pp illus from photographs. This autobiography comprises oral history, based on field recordings made by the great jazz clarinetist, and a discography of his recordings. The frontispiece portrait is by David Stone Martin.
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Caress, Jay HANK WILLIAMS: Country Music's Tragic King
NY Stein and Day 1979 0812825837 / 9780812825831 First Edition Original cloth Very Good Very Good 9.5" x 6.5"
pp: xiii, 253, bibliography, extensive discography, and index; 16pp illus from photographs. This biography of the man who was arguably America's greatest songwriter of country music is based in part on interviews with his friends and associates. It includes "a never-before-published account of the night Hank Williams died."
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Cessac, Catherine MARC-ANTOINE CHARPENTIER. Translated from the French by E. Thomas Glasow
Portland, OR Amadeus Press 1995 First US Edition Original Cloth Very Good Very Good 9.25" x 6.25"
558pp, indices; 16pp illustrations. Charpentier, the French composer of about 550 pieces, notably oratorio and vocal music, died in 1704 and was rediscovered after World War II, nearly three centuries past his heyday. This biography traces his life, analyzes his work, and includes a complete catalog of his compositions along with an extensive bibliography.
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Charters, Samuel THE LEGACY OF THE BLUES: Art and Lives of Twelve Great Bluesmen
NY Da Capo 1977 0306800543 / 9780306800542 First paperback edition Pictorial wraps Very Good
192pp; text illus from photographs. First published in 1975. Discusses the blues idiom as well as the lives and music of 12 players: Big Joe Williams, J.D. Short, Bukka White, Robert Pete Williams, Juke Boy Bonner, Snooks Eaglin, Jack Dupree, Sunnyland Slim, Mighty Joe Young, Eddie Boyd, Memphis Slim, and Lightnin' Hopkins. 8.5" x 5.25".
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Chilton, John SIDNEY BECHET: The Wizard of Jazz
NY Oxford University Press 1987 0195206231 / 9780195206234 First US Edition Original boards Fine Fine 9.5" x 6.25" Illus from Photographs
pp: xv, 331, index; 32pp illus from photographs. This is the first full-length biography of the great clarinetist, a contemporary of Louis Armstrong, Bix Beiderbecke, and other early figures in jazz.
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Claire, Vivian JUDY COLLINS
NY Flash Books 1977 First Edition Pictorial wraps Very Good 10 Illus from Photographs
78pp; frequent illus from photographs. Has discography. This biography of the folk songwriter/singer, then 38, looks at her "career, accomplishments, politics, music, and life.".
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