Music

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Ludwig van Beethoven; Carl Reinecke | L. van Beethoven Sonaten fur das Pianoforte | Breitkopf & Hartel | n.d. | Handsome copy with minor wear to cover, most evident at extremities of spine & corners. | £100

Brian Belle-Fortune | All Crews | Vision | 2004 | Evidently secondhand copy with worn cover, creased at the corners, and foxed/marked endpapers. No problem with main body of book. | £25

Harry Shapiro; Pete Brown (intr.) | Graham Bond: The Mighty Shadow | Guinness | 1992 | 9780851125831 First printing in unclipped jacket. Book appears to be in unread condition. Outer edge of page-block foxed. | £50

Julie Burchill & Tony Parsons | The Boy Looked at Johnny | Pluto | 1982 | 0861040309 Third impression. Minor wear to cover & edge, bottom of spine bumped. | £35

Pauline Butcher | Freak Out! My Life with Frank Zappa | Plexus | 2011 | 9780859654791 | Apparently unread copy. Outer edge lightly marked. | £20

R. Serge Denisoff and Richard A. Peterson | The Sounds of Social Change | Rand McNally | 1972 | A reading copy. Label residue on cover, cover & edge rather worn & marked. No problem with text pages. | £15

Bob Dylan | Lyrics 1962-2001 | Simon & Schuster | 2004 | 9780743239448 First printing. Light wear to unclipped jacket. A little foxing to outer edge of page-block. | £40

Simon Ford | Wreckers of Civilisation: the Story of COUM Transmissions and Throbbing Gristle | Black Dog | – | 9781901033601 Minor wear to cover, most evident at outer edge & corners, where the lamination has just started to peel. Outer edge of page-block darkened & foxed. | £150

Chuck Foster | Roots Rock Reggae | Billboard | 1999 | 9780823078318 Rough reading copy with remainder label on front cover, marked back cover. The edge of the page-block is water-stained: this does not extend beyond the margins & all text pages remain readable. | £20

Frank Kofsky | Black Nationalism and the Revolution in Music | Pathfinder | 1973 | A reading copy. Cover worn & creased, outer edge of page-block worn, no problem with text pages. | £30

Alessandra Libutti | Wire: Exploded Views | Stampa Alternativa | 1994 | 988872261729 Book & live CD set. Book has English-Italian parallel text. Top corner of book is a little bowed. | £30

Alan Licht; Jim O’Rourke [intr.] | Sound Art | Rizzoli | 2007 | 9780847829699 Top corner of back cover a little bumped, CD still in its unopened pocket. | £30

R. Meltzer | The Aesthetics of Rock | Something Else Press | 1970 | 87110069X Some wear to cover & edge, most evident at corners. Brief pencilled notes on ffep. | £30

Jim Morrison & Craig Strete | Dark Journey | In de Knipscheer | 1979 | 0906265035X One of an edition of a thousand copies. The Doors website notes: ‘I suspect that Craig Strete wrote this book under the influence of Jim Morrison rather than ‘with’ Jim Morrison as the credits suggest.’ Some wear to cover, top corner a little bowed. | £75

Amanda Palmer; Neil Gaiman; Kyle Cassidy, Beth Hommel [photos] | Who Killed Amanda Palmer: A Collection of Photographic Evidence | Eight Foot Books | 2009 | 9780615234397 Self published hardback in jacket. Light wear to jacket. Big sprawly dedication from Amanda Palmer on half-title page. | £100

Tony Russell | Blacks, Whites and Blues | Studio Vista | 1970 | 289798310 Worn reading copy with pencil marking on a few pages, damp stain at lower corner of page block (affects edge & outer margin only). | £15

Lois Stavsky, I. E. Mozeson, Dani Reyes Mozeson | A2Z: the Book of Rap & Hip-Hop Slang | Boulevard | 1995 | 1572970073 Some wear to cover & edge, outer edges of book fan out. Blotchy foxing on outer edge of page-block. Internet resources page has a single entry for alt. rap on USENET. Unused VHS tape stickers left inside as bookmark! | £25

David Toop | Exotica | Serpent’s Tail | 1999 | 9781852425951 First printing. Some wear to cover & edge, front cover set a little forward. | £50

Pete Townshend | Horse’s Neck | Faber | 1985 | First edition in unclipped jacket, inscribed by Townshend to an unnamed recipient “for all your help on this first tour” on half-title page. | £350