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GURALNICK, Peter. Feel Like Going Home.New York : 1971
First edition, first printing of the author's celebration of blues and early rock 'n' roll, featuring biographies of Muddy Waters, Johnny Shines, Skip James and Howlin' Wolf. Learn More£65.00Stock Code: 140697
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HANDEL, George Frideric. Eighteenth-century religious musical manuscript, but including notation of minuets by Handel.English : c.1750
Unusual mid-eighteenth century manuscript in an unknown hand largely comprised of liturgical music, but with the almost surreptitious inclusion of minuets by Handel. The first six rectos carry neumatic notation in brown and red ink of a Kyrie, Gloria, Credo and Sanctus from a so far unidentified Mass. Then spread over the versos of the first four of... Learn More£1,250.00Stock Code: 134794
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PORTER, Cole. Autograph letter signed to his lifelong friend, actor Monty Woolley.Los Angeles : [1936]
Very appealing, amusing and warm autograph letter entirely in pencil and signed familiarly "Potah", to Porter's lifelong friend and Yale classmate, the actor Monty Woolley (1888-1963), addressed here as "Beardie", dated "Tuesday A. M. Mar. 31 1936". Porter writes from California to Woolley at the Shubert Theatre in Boston to congratulate him on the... Learn More£2,750.00Stock Code: 126892
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DRUSKIN, Mikhail Semenovich. Ocherki po istorii tantseval'noi muzyki [Essays on the history of Dance Music].Leningrad : 1936
First and only edition. One of 3500 copies. Uncommon, just 14 copies on OCLC. This is the first systematic work on dance music in Russian, which includes notable early criticism of Shostakovich's ballets. Mikhail Druskin (1905-1991), Soviet musicologist, was responsible for a wide range of cultural-historical publications, also working as a broadcaster.... Learn More£1,250.00Stock Code: 126481
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BAKER, Joséphine. Les mémoires.Paris : 1927
First edition, the oddly attractive, limited large-paper issue on pur fil Lafuma, number 114 of 300 copies, inscribed by La Baker on the front free endpaper in the year of publication, "Josephine Baker, August 27/27 Paris".
In his memoirs Paul Colin remembers his first sight of Baker. "Then, naked but for green feathers about her hips, her... Learn More£1,650.00Stock Code: 130748
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RIMSKY-KORSAKOV, Nicolai. Principes d'Orchestration.Paris : 1914
First edition thus, with the Paris imprint, first published in 1905. This copy from the library of composer Lord Berners, and with his annotations in pencil, mostly consisting of marking passages for attention, but with occasional comment, such as his own calculation of orchestra numbers in the margin of the table p. 7, "horns & trumpets" p. 26, and... Learn More£575.00Stock Code: 137505
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WARHOL, Andy. Andy Warhol's Interview. December 1977. Vol. VII No. 12.New York : 1977
First edition, first printing. Signed by Andy Warhol on the front cover across a photo of Mick Jagger dressed as Father Christmas carrying Iman and Paul von Ravenstein in a sack over his shoulder. The cover is designed by Richard Bernstein. Bernstein painted, sliced, and stenciled celebrity designs which graced the covers of over a decade's worth of... Learn More£1,000.00Stock Code: 139536
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KEY, Pierre V. R. Enrico Caruso.Boston : 1922
First edition, first printing, this copy subscribed for Marion Talley, signed by Caruso's widow Dorothy, Key, and Zirato on the limitation page, copy number 90 of 99 deluxe edition copies.
Marion Talley (1906-1983) was an American opera coloratura soprano. The present book would have reached her when, in 1922, she appeared as the lead in a production... Learn More£1,250.00Stock Code: 132883
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(CLAXTON, William.) LE QUERREC, Guy. Jazz comme une image.Paris : 1993
First edition, first printing, presentation copy inscribed to the legendary jazz photographer William Claxton (although not named) on the title page, thanking him for their improvised, yet long-awaited, encounter: "Avec ma pleine amitié et toute mon admiration. Le souvenir d'une rencontre, improvisée, que j'espérais depuis longtemps. Merci pour ces... Learn More£350.00Stock Code: 141756
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(RIMBAUD, Arthur.) VIEILLARD, Roger. Hommage A Rimbaud.Paris : 1945
First edition, first printing, inscribed in pencil "à Ralph Kirkpatrick pour 'les possibilités harmoniques' Roger Vieillard amicalement" inside the first blank, including two musical drawings, further drawings on the title page with the caption "pour Ralph Kirkparick" signed with Vieillard's "RV" monogram and dated "1942-1971-1982". This copy number... Learn More£1,250.00Stock Code: 135463
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(ROLLING STONES.) SYKES, Christopher Simon. The Rolling Stones Tour of the Americas 1975.Guildford : 2006
Signed limited edition, number 29 of 2,500 copies signed by the photographer Christopher Simon Sykes and the Rolling Stones tour manager Peter Rudge; this is one of 350 deluxe copies bound in full leather (the rest of the edition bound in quarter leather), with an additional photographic print of Mick Jagger signed by Sykes and a facsimile of the "Starship"... Learn More£1,750.00Stock Code: 141063
