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Searching For Robert Johnson
by Peter Guralnick
Robert Johnson, while probably the most influential of all blues guitarists, is also one of the most obscure. Recognized as an influence on musicians like Eric Clapton and the Rolling Stones, Johnson was poisoned by a jealous husband in 1938--at the age of twenty-seven. This untimely death, his supposed bargain with the devil that enabled him to play guitar, and the ferocity and tormented originality of his work have given rise to a legend that has inspired a Hollywood movie and numerous stories. Peter...
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Sir Walter Scott
by John Buchan
Sir Walter Scott, 1st Baronet (15 August 1771 – 21 September 1832) was a prolific Scottish historical novelist and poet, popular throughout Europe during his time. Scott has been said to be particularly associated with Toryism, though several passages in Tales of a Grandfather display a liberal, progressive and Unionist outlook on Scotland's history.
W C Handy's Saint Louis Blues Featured By Louis Armstrong and His All Stars In the Columbia Record Album No Cl 591
by W C Handy
What's the Use Of Walking If There's a Freight Train Going Your Way? Black Hoboes & Their Songs
by Paul and Gene Tomko Garon
Includes bibliographical references (p. 268-276) and index
Compact disc accompanying this book shelved in the Music Listening Center
Compact disc accompanying this book shelved in the Music Listening Center
Blues Books & Ephemera
Searching for Robert Johnson
by Guralnick, Peter
New York: Penguin/Plume, 1998 Reprint in trade paperback. 85 pp. Photographs, bibliography. Minor shelfwea, small faint crease to the top corner of the rear cover. Very Good.
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SGD 13.66
I'm a Road Runner Baby
by Leiser, Willie
Bexhill-on-Sea: Blues Unlimited. 1969. First Edition; First Printing. Softcover. Wraps, near fine but for a slight stain on front cover and slight creasing. British blues fan's odyssey around the US hearing blues, gospel and more. Photos.; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 38 pp .
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SGD 48.05
Crazy Music The Journal of the Australian Blues Society 3 issues
by Cuffe, Greg, et al, eds
Australian Blues Society. 1975,75,76. First Edition; First Printing. Periodical. Wraps, #2, June 1975 near fine, a little rumpled, #6 Sept. 1975, some slight abrasions on front cover, still nice, #9 Dec 1976, vg, water stain on front wrap, slightly affecting the next page. Record reviews, interviews with blues musicians, want ads and for sale ads for records. (where's our time machine??) Lots of pictures. Cover stories are B.B.King, T-Bone Walker, and Screaming Jay Hawkings. ; 8vo 8" -...
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The directory; of recorded jazz and swing music (including gospel and blues records); volume six (Kirkeby - Longshaw)
by Carey, Dave and Albert J. McCarthy, comps
London: Cassell & Company, 1957. Unpaginated preliminaries, 927-1112p., softbound in 9.5x6 inch plain printed grey wraps. Bindery mis-trimmed the lower corner of last several leaves, a San Francisco record dealer (Jack's Record Cellar on Haight) stamped his address on cover, an else very good copy.
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SGD 24.71
Black Sabbath; the secret musical history of Black-Jewish relations
New York: Idelsohn Society for Musical Preservation, 2010. Pamphlet. 40p., wraps, very good condition, 5.25x7.25 inches. Booklet to accompany the CD (the CD is lacking).
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SGD 16.47
The directory; of recorded jazz and swing music (including gospel and blues records); volume four (G H I)
by Carey, Dave and Albert J. McCarthy, comps
Fordingsbridge: The Delphic Press, 1952. Paperback. Unpaginated preliminaries, 553-738p., softbound in plain printed grey wraps, 9.5x6 inches. Mildly edgeworn with some cover soil, title page was fastened to cover and textblock both causing a tear in the gutter, a good to very good copy.
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SGD 24.71
Berkeley Barb: vol. 7, #20 (#169) Nov. 8-14, 1968
by Scherr, Max (ed.)
Berkeley: Berkeley Barb, 1968. Newspaper. 24p., folded tabloid, illus., evenly toned edgeworn, front wrap lightly foxed along fold, else good condition. Issue of Berkeley's iconic underground paper with cover headline "Yippie Power" and photos and articles about the Erection Day demonstrations in the SF financial district: fights with cops, letting loose of Pigasus (V.P. candidate), the usual chaos. Report on the SF Tac Squad vs student strikers at SF State, interview with John Mayall, and full page...
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SGD 27.46
Feel Like Going Home
by Peter Guralnick
260 pages. Portraits in Blues and Rock 'N' Roll.
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SGD 13.73
Ma Rainey and the Classic Blues Singers.
by Stewart-Baxter, Derrick
Studio Vista,, London, 1970. 1970. Softcover. 8vo. softcover. 112pp. index, b/w illus. Good, covers worn. .
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SGD 35.83
The Folk music sourcebook; new, updated edition
by Sandberg, Larry and Dick Weissman
New York: Da Capo Press, 1989. x+272p., 9x12 inches, illustrated with photos, very good in original pictorial wraps. Encyclopedia of folkies. Where to find Sonny Terry stuff, for instance, and what titles of his to look for.
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SGD 16.47
Ma Rainey and the Classic Blues Singers
by Stewart-Baxter, Derrick
NY: Stein and Day. 1970. First Edition; First Printing. Paperback. Wraps, 1st US paper edition, the first comprehensive study of the female blues singers, from Ma Rainey and Bessie Smith, to Virginia Liston, Ida Cox, Maggie Jones and many more. Basic reading for any serious blues library. Very good copy with rubbing. Jazz and witchcraft writer, Chadwick Hansen's copy. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 112 pp .
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SGD 20.59
Aspects Of The Blues Tradition
by Oliver, Paul
NY: Oak. 1970. First US Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 1st US edition of Screening the Blues, very good+ with owner's name, in very good- dust jacket, heavily rubbed, short tears at top edge, and with chips on rear panel. Essays on specific blues subjects like the numbers game (policy), sexuality in the blues, John Henry & Joe Louis, Forty Four Blues and more.; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 294 pp .
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SGD 34.32
Searching For Robert Johnson
by Guralnick, Peter
NY: Dutton. 1989. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine in fine dust jacket. .
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SGD 41.19
Woke Up This Mornin' Poetry of the Blues
by Nicholas, A.X., ed. and intro
New York: Bantam Books. 1973. First Edition; First Printing. Softcover. Wraps, very slight wear, near fine. Lyrics of blues songs treated as poetry and his corrections for lyrics transcripted in earlier books. Bantam Poetry #Q7595 ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 122 pp .
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SGD 41.19
The second people's song book... lift every voice! With an introduction by Paul Robeson, illustrated by Jim Lee
by Silber, Irwin, ed
New York: Sing Out Inc, 1953. Pamphlet. 96p., a few b&w illustrations, music notation & lyrics throughout, softbound in 10x7 inch self-wraps (as issued, no outer cover stock), spinefold split three inches at tail, mildly dust-soiled with small stains and crimps along spinefold. Sufficiently sound to use easily, no dirt-problems within, no ownership or institutional markings, a fair-to-good copy. Associate editors included Pete Seeger and Earl Robinson.
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SGD 27.46
'Blues Boy' The Life and Music of B.B. King
by Danchin, Sebastian
Jackson: University Press of Mississippi. 1998. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Fine in find dust jacket; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 156 pp .
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SGD 20.59
Joe Williams: Publicity Photograph for Fantasy Records.
by Fantasy Records (New York)
New York: Fantasy Records, [1975].. Glossy Black & White Photograph, 8 x 10 inches, Very Good.
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SGD 34.32
Searching for Robert Johnson
by Guralnick, Peter
Dutton. Hardcover. Good/Very Good. 1989. First edition. Dust jacket is in great shape, with just minor surfa ce wear and wear around the edges. Pages are in great shape as well, however, there is significant spotting along the page edges.
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SGD 4.10
Alice Stuart and Snake: Publicity Photograph for Fantasy Records.
by Fantasy Records (New York)
New York: Fantasy Records, [1971].. Glossy Black & White Photograph, 8 x 10 inches, Very Good. Includes Press Materials.
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SGD 34.32
B. B., King blues guitar; arrangements by Hampton Reese
by [King, B. B.]
N. pl: Edward B. Marks Music Company, 1970. Paperback. 48p., softbound in 12x9 inch wraps, illustrated with b&w photos of King in recording studios and on tour. Externally rather worn but a sound copy clean within. Lyrics and music, with a prefatory statement by B.B. endorsing these transcriptions.
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SGD 20.59
Johnny Guitar Watson: Publicity Photograph for Fantasy Records.
by Fantasy Records (New York)
New York: Fantasy Records, [1975].. Glossy Black & White Photograph, 8 x 10 inches, Very Good.
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SGD 34.32
![Allen's poop sheet, volume 1, no. XIII (1973-1974 issue) [+ letter addressed to Walter Allen from Ralph J. Gleason]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/089/377/1488377089.0.b.jpg)
Allen's poop sheet, volume 1, no. XIII (1973-1974 issue) [+ letter addressed to Walter Allen from Ralph J. Gleason]
by Allen, Walter C
Highland Park, NJ: Walter C. Allen, 1974. Staplebound. Single issue of the serial published between 1958 and 1975, 19p., 6x8.5 inches; some pen tick marks throughout, mailing address on back for American music critic, Ralph J. Gleason, one advertisement circled in pencil, some light (ink?) blotches on back wrap, somewhat unevenly toned, wraps slightly handled, light creasing through back wrap, in good condition. Only two holdings found in OCLC (7/22). Trade catalogue of jazz vinyls with an index of...
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SGD 102.97
Blues Empress In Black Chattanooga. Bessie Smith and the Emerging Urban South.
by Scott, Michelle R
Urbana: Univ Illinois Press. 2008. First Edition; First Printing. Paperback. Wraps, a fine copy. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 198 pp .
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SGD 34.32
Robert Johnson lost and found
by Pearson, Barry Lee and Bill McCulloch
Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2003. Hardcover. xii, 142p., first edition, very good condition in like dust jacket. Examination of the Johnson myths.
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SGD 20.59
Five of the Best
by Ray Charles
EMI Music, No date. Edition Unstated. Softcover (Stiff Card). Very Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. Ephemera, small booklet or pamphlet, limited pages Size: A4 (300 x 210mm approx.). Item Type: Ephemera, small booklet or pamphlet, limited pages. Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. No foxing in this copy. All edges clean, neat and free of foxing. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1...
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