Music from Downtown Books & News

New York: Roaring Fork Press, 1970. First edition. Looseleaf paper. Very Good. Square (9.5"x9.5"). 12 of 14 sections, loose (box designates 15 sections, the 15th of which was not included). Light toning, very light edgewear, flexi-discs apparently fine and unused (by visual inspection only). Missing S1: the assemble-yourself-box designed by Robert Smith (meant to hold all sections)… Read more about this item

Warsaw, Poland: Polskie Wydawnictwo Muzyczne, 1951. Facsimile. Paperback. Good. Oblong 4to (11"x13.5"). 41pp. Preface text in English, French, Russian and Polish, followed by facsimile manuscript scores. Heavily chipped paper over spine, binding/sewing weak. Edgewear, lightly creased corners. Covers and interior toned.

Milan, Italy: Gio. Riccordi, 1831. Second edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Oblong (13.25"x9.75"). Rebound in dark green and blue. Shelfwear. Corners scuffed. Original front cover shows more wear than rest of book, with small tears and a bit of a crumpled look. This cover is only page to show signs of repair patching. Foxing throughout. Instances of double page… Read more about this item

Newton, NJ: Rock Chapel Press, 1988. First edition, first printing. Paperback. Very Good. 8vo (8.5"x5.5"). 341pp. Illustrated paper covers (Robert Crumb). Light shelfwear: light scuffs, laminate starting to wrinkle at fore-edge, corners rubbed. Lightly soiled textblock edges. Erased pencil marks to ffep. B&W frontis, B&W plates.

London, UK: William Reeves Bookseller Ltd, 1931. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo (9"x6"). Navy cloth-covered boards with giltstamped title to spine. Color frontis. B&W illustrations. Spotting to upper joint & fore-edge. Light creasing from head to tail of the upper cover cloth. Tail corners bumped. First/last pages & textblock edges foxed. Missing dust jacket.

Kent, England: Felix Aeppli/Record Information Services, 1996. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. 4to (9"x11.5"). 607pp. Red paper-covered boards with silver-stamped decoration to upper cover. No dust jacket as issued. Textblock edges slightly toned.

Power City Press / Smog Veil Records, 2010. First printing. Paperback. Very Good. 8vo. 159pp. Pictorial covers lightly scuffed. Joints creased with a spot of soiling to upper cover. Inscribed by author with accompanying doodle.

Chapel Hill, NC: The University of North Carolina Press, 1963. No additional printings indicated. Hardcover. Very Good/very good -. 8vo. 897pp. Green cloth covered boards. Endpapers and edges lightly foxed and soiled. Price-clipped Dj. foxed along edges with chipping to edges of spine. Contains notation of musical examples throughout.

Los Angeles, CA: Price Stern Sloan, 1989. First edition, first printing. Paperback. Good +. Small 8vo. 176pp. Covers lightly scuffed with creasing to edges. Inscribed by Cherie on inside of front cover. Reads, "To Lori with love, Cherie Currie." Currie's tale of fast teenage living playing while playing with the Runaways.

Rowan Press, 1993. Paperback. Very Good. 99pp. Simple blue wraps lightly scuffed. Edge of text block foxed. One page formerly dog-earred. An interesting and scarce book. The title is pretty self-explanatory, the Kelly examines song lyrics in six differently themed chapters.

Encinitas, CA: Entwhistle Books, 2000. Second edition. Softcover. VG-. 8vo. 206pp. Illustrated wraps. Front cover gently creased along fore edge and is warping away from the text block, especially at the corners. Crease along lower joint. Written by founder and editor of Crawdaddy! Magazine.

Tokyo, Japan: Improvised Music from Japan, 2003. First edition. Softcover. VG. 8vo. Pictorial wraps. Exterior of wraps lightly scuffed. General wear to extremities. Text in both English and Japanese. B/W pictures throughout. DOES NOT INCLUDE CD. Excellent articles and interviews with contemporary radical Japanese musicians. Featuring such artists as Ami Yoshida, Sachiko M, Otomo Yoshide, Aki Onda, and… Read more about this item

PictureBox Inc, 2006. No additional printing indicated. Softcover. Fine. 4to. Unpaginated. All pictures/collages, no text. Created by the band Black Dice. Color photographs/collages throughout.

New York, NY: Garland Publishing, Inc, 1989. No add'tl ptg. indicated. Hardcover. VG/No dustjacket. 8vo. 408 pp. Green cloth with gold lettering on upper board and spine. Foxing to head of text block. A few light spots of scuffing to lower board, else fine. "Includes traditional music from Britain and Ireland, mostly from the late 19th century… Read more about this item