Collection of (35+) vintage hardcover books on music and musicians, including The Real Frank Zappa Book inscribed and signed b...

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Collection of (35+) vintage hardcover books on music and musicians, including The Real Frank Zappa Book inscribed and signed by Frank Zappa. (1950s-1990s) Collection of (35+) vintage books, many hardcover first editions with original dust jackets, on musical styles and musicians, including (10) inscribed and signed to journalist George Christy. Inscribed and signed titles include The Real Frank Zappa Book by Frank Zappa, Did They Mention the Music? by Henry Mancini, Hickory Wind: The Life and Times of Gram Parsons by Ben Fong-Torres, Rhythm and the Blues by Jerry Wexler, Bobby Short: The Life and Times of a Saloon Singer by Bobby Short, Streisand by Anne Edwards, Dazzler: The Life and Times of Moss Hart by Steven Bach, Naked at the Feast: A Biography of Josephine Baker by Lynn Haney, The Life That Late He Led: A Biography of Cole Porter by George Eells, and A Cradle of Haloes by Bernie Taupin. Also includes first edition copies of The Noel Coward Songbook, The Beatles: The Authorized Biography by Hunter Davies, Cellist by Gregor Piatigorsky, Beneath the Undergod: His World as Composed by Mingus, The Jazz Makers edited by Nat Shapiro and Nat Hentoff, Nureyev: An Autobiography with Pictures by Rudolph Nureyev, Lyrics on Several Occasions by Ira Gershwin, Critical Affairs: A Composer's Journal, Music from Inside Out, The New York Diary, and The Paris Diary of Ned Rorem by Ned Rorem. Also includes a review copy of Sex by Madonna, and copies of In His Own Write and A Spaniard in the Works by John Lennon, The Yellow Submarine by Max Wilk, and others. From the collection of legendary Hollywood journalist George Christy.

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