Music Biography from Diversity Books, IOBA

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia: Pan Macmillan, 1996. x, 390pp. Book clean, square. Spine firm. Leaves clean and unmarked, albeit moderately tanned. Colour-illustrated card wrapper mildly edgeworn. " . . a rollercoaster ride through that amazing year of Billy Thorpe's life. It's a true story of street life, music and mayhem. If you remember the 60s you'll love it.… Read more about this item

Crows Nest, N.S.W., Australia: Allen & Unwin, 2014. 337pp., plus 2 x 16 page b/white (and some colour) illustrated sections. Book clean, square. Spine firm, Leaves clean, and unmarked, with just a hint of tanning. Colour illustrated card wrapper has tiny corner creases, minor edgewear, small, soft crease to rear panel. "A young street kid with an uncanny ear for… Read more about this item

Bakersfield, CA, U.S.A.: Owen Publications, 2019. xviii, + 178pp. B/white photographic illustrations. Book clean, square. Spine firm. Leaves clean and unmarked. Illustrated card wrapper very good. Stories from Merle's best friend and manager, Fuzzy Owen. Contents include: Introduction. Foreword. Preface. 22 chapters. Afterword. Appendices A-F. Acks. Book weight approx. 350g. (This book will post as a small parcel within… Read more about this item

New York: Doubleday, 1980. 215pp. Two unpaginated, b/white halftone plate sections. Book clean. Bright gilt title over minimally bumped and canted black quarter-cloth spine. Plain dark yellow boards undamaged. Textblock unmarked. Random flecks on untrimmed foredge. Photographic, colour-illustrated (Grace Slick, photographed by Alex Gotfryd) dustjacket nipped, creased and edgeworn, closed tear, and a thumbnail-size nip on head. This authorized… Read more about this item

South Melbourne, VIC, Australia: Macmillan, 1986. ix, + 214pp. Tinted endpapers. Illustrated, montage-style, unpaginated b/white halftone plates throughout. Book clean and square. Bright gilt title over nominally bumped spine. Plain red cloth boards undamaged. Textblock unmarked. Illustrated dustjacket mildly edgeworn only. Sifting fact from fantasy, the author, Therese Radic, has produced the story of Australia's iconic soprano, Dame Nellie… Read more about this item

Australia: Viking (Penguin Group Australia), 2015. x, + 674pp. Intext, b/white halftone plate illustrations throughout. Book clean and square. A reading crease on otherwise firm spine. Illustrated card wrapper minimally edgeworn, and has an oblique crease on lower foredge of rear wrap. Textblock unmarked. Born into a family of musicians, Elvis Costello, stage name of Declan Patrick MacManus (b.… Read more about this item

New York: Oxford University Press, 1995. xiv, + 168pp. Unpaginated, b/white halftone plate section. Book clean and square. Quarter-cloth spine firm, minimally bumped on head and heel. Blue boards undamaged. Textblock unmarked. Montage-illustrated dustjacket lightly edgeworn only. As told to Bob Golden, this book is the story of American recording executive icon Bob Thiele (b.1922-d.1996), discoverer of Buddy Holly… Read more about this item

North Bellmore, New York: National Drum Association, 1998. vi, + 435pp., plus (vii). Unpaginated b/white halftone plate section. Book clean and square. Backstrip firm, a trivial bump on head of same. Ditto bump on upper foredge corners, else bright gilt titles over undamaged cream, original cloth boards. Textblock pristine. Colour-illustrated dustjacket lightly bumped and edgeworn, with several creases on… Read more about this item

New York: Beaufort Books, 1983. 128pp., illustrated throughout: photographic colour and b/white plates (photography by Philip Kamin). Book clean and square. Spine firm, nominally bumped. Colour-illustrated card wrapper lightly bumped and edgeworn. Textblock unmarked. The Rolling Stones launched their 1982 European summer tour in Rotterdam, where rock photographer Philip Kamin and journalist-Rolling Stones archivist James Karnbach teamed up to… Read more about this item

Sydney, NSW, Australia: HarperCollins Publishers, 2011. 269pp., unpaginated colour-plate sections. Book clean and square. Spine firm. Photographically-illustrated card wrapper mildly bumped and creased only. Signed on title-page, under a hand-drawn 'heart' symbol by the primary author Kasey Chambers, using a black felt-tip pen, else textblock unmarked. Raised in a nomadic lifestyle on Australia's remote, vast Nullabor by her entertainer… Read more about this item

London: Independent Music Press, 2001. 220pp., plus (iii). Unpaginated, b/white halftone plate section. Book clean and square. Spine firm. Illustrated card wrapper lightly bumped only. Textblock unmarked. The "first and only book on Moby" - Replay, his life and times is the biography of U.S. born techno musician - Moby (born Richard Melville Hall, September 11, 1965 in… Read more about this item

London: Plexus Publishing, 2008. 384pp., one b/white illustration. Book clean, square. Spine firm. Leaves clean. Illustrated card wrapper has a bump to lower spine. From the rear panel: "Joy Division are the perennial cult post-punk band. Four young men with weight on their shoulders, the drama and tension of their music remains unsurpassed. Paul Morley was their contemporary and Northern… Read more about this item

London: T. Werner Laurie, 1937. 315pp., plus (iv), sepia, halftone portraits (frontispiece and unpaginated thoughout) of selected composers. All called-for plates extant and attached, some are mildly striated. Small, intext b/white art decorations throughout. Attached ribbon bookmark, worn and frayed at end. Book clean and square. Bright gilt titles over lightly shelfworn and mildly marked, blind-embossed decorated original red cloth… Read more about this item

London: Souvenir Press, 1992. xvi, + 429pp. Book clean, square. Spine firm. Leaves clean, albeit tanned. Illustrated card wrapper very good. From the back cover: " . . . here in their own words, some of the most famous jazz musicians of all time - Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, Dave Brubeck, Fats Waller, Jelly Roll Morton, Billie Holiday and many… Read more about this item

New York: Viking/Penguin, 2010. 245pp. Book clean, square. Spine firm, silver title there-on. Silver initials 'RC' to front panel of blue boards, which have a very small area of discolouration. Leaves clean. Illustrated dustjacket negligibly edge-creased at head of spine, tiny pale blue spot to reverse. " . . . the story of an artist finding her voice - both… Read more about this item

Bath, England: Parragon, 2002. 383pp., b/white and colour photographic illustrations throughout. Book clean, square. Spine firm. Leaves clean. Illustrated gloss boards undamaged. Like-illustrated dustjacket trivially creased at head, surface scratches to gilt title, tanned strip to flap folds. " . . . charts the life and achievements of the boy from Tupelo, Mississippi, from his first taste of fame in… Read more about this item

London: Sidgwick & Jackson, 1996. xx, + 348pp. Book clean, square. Spine firm, white title there-on. Plain black boards lightly bumped on lower foredge corners. Leaves clean. Illustrated dustjacket has minor edgewear and indentations. An interesting insight into the great band: Pink Floyd, with contributions from a variety of sources. Includes Index. Book weight approx. 670g.. Second Impression. Hard Cover… Read more about this item

London, United Kingdom: Bloomsbury Publishing, 1992. 375pp., plus 16 page, b/white illustrated section. Book clean, square. Spine firm, silver title there-on. Leaves clean. Illustrated dustjacket has minor edgewear and scuffs, clear tape reinforcing to inner (reverse) folds. " . . . discusses all of (composer) Cage's works in depth and sets them in the context of his compositional, theoretical and… Read more about this item

Millers Point, NSW, Australia: Murdoch Books, 2010. 288pp., colour and b/white photographic illustrations throughout. Book clean, square. Spine firm. Leaves clean. Flapped card wrapper negligibly scuffed only. Foreword by Mick Rock. " . . . brings you the fascinating histories, behind-the-scenes secrets, and encapsulated biographies of the biggest names in music from the last fifty years . . . You'll… Read more about this item

Double Bay, NSW, Australia: Rockpool Publishing, 2007. 320pp., some colour, mostly b/white, photographic illustrations throughout. Book clean, square. Spine firm. Leaves clean. Colour, pictorially-illustrated, fold-out dustjacket in very good + condition. " . . . profiles the hottest rock 'n' roll women, spanning the 1960s to current times - from Janis Joplin, Suzi Quatro and Chrissie Hynde to Courtney Love… Read more about this item