Coventry, England: Beat Scene Press, 2020. Limited First Edition. Stapled Wrappers. "Jack Kerouac loved jazz music all his life. He wrote eagerly of the form and of Charlie Parker and his forays into bop. Kerouac was so knowledgeable about big band music as well and he worked Charlie Parker, Slim Galliard, George Shearing and many others into his novels and onto his album recordings." (front flap) A rich, informative essay..... More
[Item #3518]
San Francisco, CA: Betty Thomas & Scott Summerville, 1982. First Printing. Softcover. This double number of the literary-cultural journal published by Betty Thomas & Scott Summerville & edited by "Vale" is "A Special Book Issue" that delves deeply into three subjects: William S. Burroughs, Father of the Beat Generation, among the greatest & most subversive literary & cultural figures of all time; Brion Gysin, the artist & writer who co-invented..... More
[Item #3562]
Santa Monica, CA: Geffen Records, 2000. First Edition. Both Signed by Sonic Youth Guitarist Thurston Moore. NYC Ghosts & Flowers, a 2000 album by Sonic Youth, is mainly a creative reaction to the theft of their instruments in July 1999, in which Irreplaceable guitars and effects pedals with numerous modifications were stolen. It is also the first Sonic Youth album to extensively use prepared guitar since 1985's Bad Moon Rising..... More
[Item #4142]
Louisville, KY: White Fields Press/ The Literary Renaissance, 1994. First Printing. Single Sheet. "Genius is not a generous thing/ In return it charges more interest than any amount/ of royalties can cover/ And it resents fame/ With bitter vengeance" (Fragment 1, first stanza) A broadside (appx. 11" x 22") with the title poem by Jim Carroll (1949-2009), the legendary poet, diarist & punk musician who was influenced by William S...... More
[Item #3837]
New York, NY: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1931; 1938. First Edition, Second Printing; First Edition. Hardcovers. One of two volumes signed by author Clara Clemens, daughter of Mark Twain. "Twenty long years have passed since my father was laid in the ground, yet had these years been only days the memory of that tragic event could not be more vivid. In the lovely month of April- month of soft green..... More
[Item #4216]
Montreal, Quebec, Canada: L'oie de Cravan, 2011. Limited First Edition. Softcover. Inscribed & signed by Byron Coley to Charles Plymell. A bi-lingual compilation of early letters & musical review writings by Byron Coley, the pioneering American critic featured in Forced Exposure, New York Rocker & other independent magazines that chronicled cutting-edge rock in its heyday. The letters are to his friend Angela Jaeger, & are like diary entries of his..... More
[Item #3497]
New York, NY: St. Martin's Press, 1991. First Softcover Edition. Softcover. "Jim Morrison, the Lizard King, was a Renaissance statue come to life with the body of an adolescent god mailed in leather. He embodied the hallucinated, under-the-volcano neon black vision of L.A. like no one else. Like a prophet from the wilderness made king, he was ultimately trapped and never made it back from the other side." (back cover)..... More
[Item #3529]![NYC Transit[s] with: Wichita Jazz and Vice Between the World Wars. Robert Dumont, Joshua L....](/pictures/medium/3367.jpg?v=1576005624)
Thorofare, NJ; Wichita, KS: Xlibris; Rowfant Press, 2002; 2010. First Softcover Edition, Later Printing; First Edition. Softcovers. NYC Transit[s] inscribed & signed by Robert Dumont to Charles Plymell; Wichita Jazz and Vice with handwritten annotations by Charles Plymell. A fascinating & collectible bundle of two books, both of literary merit in themselves & also linked with that Legendary Literary Outlaw, poet-printer-publisher Charles Plymell: (1) NYC Transit[s], a volume of short..... More
[Item #3367]
Asheville, NC: Native Ground Music, 1995. First Edition. Stapled Wrappers; Folded Sheet. Inscribed & signed by Doug Elliot to Thomas Rain Crowe. "This book is like a bridge in many ways- a bridge between the arts and the sciences; between the disciplines of folklore, music, history, biology, and ecology; and between the past and the present. Now it might not look like the steel suspension spans you're used to. In..... More
[Item #3902]
Pasadena, CA: Red Hen Press, 2020. First Edition. Softcover. "There are perfectly good explanations/ for the simultaneous risks we juggle./ There are shipyards of baubles/ and harbors that have dried up/ and martinis made up by Episcopalians/ that burnish them for the plagiarisms/ of the Holy Spirit. It's only right/ that the room is furnished/ with importance and low light./ Gotta flaunt the groove, with flourishes/ and gentle force, I...... More
[Item #3812]
n/p: Cottonwood Magazine & Press, 1987. Limited First Printing. Single Sheet Framed. Signed by Allen Ginsberg & Steven Taylor. "Phoned up the doctor, official reply: "Never Mind"/ Same afternoon, suggested we take iodine/ Three days later Chernobyl's error disclosed/ All over Europe people are saying, "Who knows?" (fourth stanza) A broadside (appx. 11" x 17"; 13" x 18&3/4" incl. matte & frame) with the title poem by Allen Ginsberg, a...... More
[Item #3786]
New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2012. Fourth Printing. Hardcover. If you know absolutely anything about Jazz or Jazz History, the blurbs on the work's back cover will strike one as....well, striking. Sonny Rollins, the "Saxophone Colossus" himself, writes: 'Which is best: interpretation or song? In any case, Jazz and standards are forever locked in loving embrace. A finely researched work." Best known to this author as a dissenting contributor..... More
[Item #4920]
New York, NY; Lansing, MI: G. Schirmer, Inc.; Henry R. Pattengill, 1912; 1899. First Editions Thus. Softcovers. Two vintage musical volumes: (1) George Frideric Handel, "The Messiah" Oratorio vocal score, edited by T. Tertius Noble, revised according to Handel's original score by Max Spicker. Large softcover in sewn binding published by G. Schirmer, Inc., New York, copyrighted 1912. As noted with an arrow on front cover, this is one of..... More
[Item #4349]
New York, NY: Random House, 1958. First Edition. Hardcover. "He was the greatest horn player of his generation. Edgar Pool was his name, but nobody called him that- not if they knew anything at all about jazz. No, he was simply, eloquently, "The Horn" to everybody who'd ever heard of him, or heard about him. And to the younger ones, musicians and disciples alike, he was almost a myth..." (from..... More
[Item #3403]
Cullowhee, NC: Amazon.com Books/ New Native Press, 2017. First Edition. Softcover. Signed by publisher Thomas Rain Crowe "Grant was a thoughtful dreamer, a ponderer, like the statue of The Thinker. Now here he is a zillion light years later, still the dreamer with a love for the process that's never left him, an elder statesman of the world with a collection of his poetry and poetic songs. Poetry and songs..... More
[Item #4058]
Canterbury, NH: Wind in the Timothy Books, 2001. First Edition. Softcover. "The dancers arrive, spilling into the hall like a tipped over basket of many colored balls of heavy yarn, waving college pennants. They start to unravel, spinning around like parenthesis. Some go down the center like slinkies- some turn like a brace & bit, others like a dime on edge." (from "A Dudley Dance," pg. 3) A collection of..... More
[Item #3916]
New York, NY: Corinth Books, Inc., 1963. First Edition. Softcover. "Greenwich Village is the liveliest and most colorful local community within New York City. An exciting complex of interesting people, fascinating places and dynamic ideas, the Village has the vitality of a metropolis, the intimacy of a neighborhood, and a personality all its own." (from "Greenwich Village, Past and Present: Old Green Village," pg. 16) A vintage, now-classic book of..... More
[Item #3447]
New York, NY: Simon & Schuster, 1970. First Edition. Hardcover. "In the past few years, no one has influenced the sound and style of hard-rock music in America as greatly as Jim Morrison, lead singer, composer and lyricist for The Doors. The savage, superheated intimacy of his performance, the turned-on intensity of his music, and his uninhibited personality and public pronouncements have made an indelible impression on high school and..... More
[Item #4461]
Bay Saint Louis, MS: Proteus Publications; Ken Murphy Publishing, 2010. First Edition. Hardcover. Signed by photographer Ken Murphy. "Ken (Murphy)'s photography books document our state in the present with their beautiful images, and the music photographs from Mississippi were my personal favorites...Ken and I started talking about a blues photo project with the goal of capturing the current Mississippi blues scene. As his third volume of work evolved I watched..... More
[Item #3560]
Ashland, KY: BullHead Books, 2018. First Edition. Book. Signed by Joe Napora. "I would like to believe/ that we call Autumn Fall/ because here it is in middle/ September and the slight breeze/ provokes the high and low leaves/ the ash, maple, and the beech/ and that young sycamore leaves/ which are dry as they are clunk/ to the ground and the tulip poplar/ turns green to brown the leaves/..... More
[Item #4174]
Austin, TX: University of Texas Press, 2019. First Edition. Hardcover. "William S. Burroughs's fiction and essays are legendary, but his influence on music's counterculture has been less well documented- until now. Examining how one of America's most controversial literary figures altered the destinies of many notable and varied musicians, William S. Burroughs and the cult of Rock 'n' Roll reveals the transformation in music history that can be traced to..... More
[Item #4080]
Rochester, NY: University of Rochester Press, 2011. First Edition. Hardcover. "Simultaneously the memoir of a famed composer, conductor, and music educator, and an important historical sourcebook on the American musical scene during the twentieth century and into the twenty-first, the autobiography of Gunther Schuller chronicles the first thirty-five years of this multifaceted and expansive figure's life and work." (from front flap) A memoir-autobiography by Gunther Schuller (1925-2015), the acclaimed &..... More
[Item #4838]
Louisville, KY: The Literary Renaissance, 1993. First Printing. Single Sheet. A large, slender broadside-poster (appx. 11" x 36") which announces & promotes the titled event, a Music & Poetry Festival described as a "59 Hour Non-Stop Insomniacathon" with a total of over 130 poets, writers, bands & musicians at a venue in Louisville, Kentucky which took place during October 7-10 of 1993. The creator-sponsor of this unprecedentedly monumental happening was..... More
[Item #3892]
San Francisco, CA: Searchlight Publishing, 1978 (Reprinted 1988). Second Printing. Loose Folded Sheets. This penultimate number of the musical, cultural & literary underground journal originally published & edited by V. Vale features an interview with William S. Burroughs conducted by Ray Rumor (undoubtedly a pseudonym). In this transcribed interview, WSB opines on cultural-societal, political & even economic topics- very few of his statements relate, at least directly, to his literary..... More
[Item #4659]![LIFE Magazine Vol. 57 No. 9 (August 28, 1964) [1] with: LIFE Magazine Vol. 70 No. 14 (April 16,...](/pictures/medium/3711.jpg?v=1596331883)
Chicago, IL: Time Inc. (Time Magazine), 1964 [1] / 1971 [2]. First Printing. Magazine. Here it is: a "TIME" / "LIFE" capsule from Beatlemania (and an additional issue of "LIFE" covering the brilliant, angst-laden early 70s post-Beatledom of the great Paul McCartney). Starting with item [1], we have some eerie reminders that Democracy is a "work-in-progress" like the late, great Civil Rights leader Rep. John Lewis taught us: "...the 88th..... More
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