Search Results: Music, Stage and Film from Lawrence Jones

Gold Coast: Gold Coast Show Society, 2006. xv, 128pp, references, num bw & col ills. Or pictorial card covers. Slight of edge wear, small rub/abrasion at top left of front cover. 100 years of the Gold Coast agricultural show.. First Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good. 4to.

Washington D.C.: Potomac Books, 2006. xvi, 269pp, index, bibliography. Or card covers. Remainder line on bottom edge. Dozens of top ten lists covering pop culture of the 1960s.. First Edition. Trade Paperback. Very Good. 8vo.

Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 1983. xi, 180pp, appendix, bw ills. Or cloth in jacket. Australian baritone Neil Warren-Smith looks back at 25 years in the Australian opera, from his days as a smoko entertainer to his star status in the Australian Opera Company where he performed memorable roles in Rigoletto, Fidelio, The Magic Flute, Der Rosenkavalier, War and Peace and dozens of other operas. Loved as a character and admired as a bass baritone, he appeared in over 300 productions on stage and television.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. 8vo.

London: Northern Songs., 1964. 28pp, bw ills, music. A few slight creases near spine, approx 1" tears along spine at top and bottom and rest of spine rubbed, some edge wear- still nice appearance BUT some ink notations in the music. The scarce second issue souvenir song album with articles and bw photos of the group; as well as the words & music to 8 songs. First Edition. Soft Cover. Good Plus. 4to.

London: Everest Books, 1977. 154pp, bw ills. Or card covers. Page edges toned, light rubbing to covers. Contemporary account of one of the best loved groups of all time.. First Edition. Paperback. Good. 8vo.

Surrey: Castle Communications, 1994. 183pp, discography, num bw & col ills. Bump/crease to top front and bottom rear corners, otherwise minor edge wear. Comprehensive account of Sweden's most famous export. . First Paperback. Soft Cover. Very Good. 4to.

London: Sidgwick & Jackson., 1995. 348pp, index, discography, bw & col ills. Or black cloth in pictorial jacket. Slightest signs of edge wear to jacket. Tells the ABBA story, exposing cosy myths and revealing behind the scenes discord. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. 8vo.

Sydney: Harper Collins Publishers., 2009. HEAVY. 488pp,index, num bw & col ills, decorated endpapers. Or textured black boards titled in metallic silver and red. Some rubbing to edges and along edeg of spine. Australia's premier rock & roll band in depth.. First Thus. Hard Cover. Very Good. 4to.

New York: Amsco Publications, 2008. 170pp, music, col ills. Or card covers. Near new. Guitar tablature music for AC/DCs Black Ice- includes Anyhting Goes; Big Jack; Black Ice; Decibel; Money Made; Rock n Roll Dream; Rock n Roll Train; Rocking All the Way; She Likes Rock n Roll; Skies on Fire; Smash n Grab; Spoilin' for a Fight; Stormy May Day; War Machine and Wheels.. First Edition. Soft Cover. Fine. Illus. by Karp, Guido (photography). 4to.

Moscow: Progess Publishers, 1981. 343pp, sources, bw ills, errata slip. Or boards. Scuffed/bumped on fore-edge of front cover, corners slightly worn. Covers period from 1926-1975 in chronological order.. First English Language Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good. Small 4to.

London: Geoffrey Bles, 1964. viii, 313pp. Or red cloth boards in jacket. Some light foxing to page edges, small bookseller label on front pastedown. Jacket price clipped, spien faded and rear panel foxed. Nice vintage edition of the classic volume on the Stanislavsky method of acting.. Eighth Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good. 8vo.

London: Papermac, 1989. x, 342pp, 8pp of b/w plates, notes, four appendices, bibliography, index. Paperback. The biography offers a full and searching account of the long life and complex personality of a great English music-maker.. First Paperback. Soft Cover. Fine. Trade Paperback.

New York: HarperPerennial, 2003. x, 241pp, bw ills. Or card covers. Near new. The stories behind 'America's most outrageous TV show'- TV Nation.. Reprint. Trade Paperback. Fine. 8vo.

San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 1997. 144pp. Or cloth backed textured boards in riveted aluminium slipcase. Tall, narrow volume. Max Morgan was the owner of Paris' Aerobleu jazz nightclub, notorious for its all night jam sessions. He diappeared from HAvana in the late 1950s leaving behind some of the best Jazz ever played and a state of mind that has come to be known as "Aerobleu". Long believed lost, Max's diary is here reproduced as he wrote it. Both a personal and historical document, it records his adventures in Casablanca, Dakar and Algiers as well as his famous airborne jam sessions to the US, and his increasingly frequent secret trips to Havana.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Slipcase. 4to.

Middlesex, UK: Penguin Books, 1977. xii, 323pp, index, num bw ills, few col plates. Or card covers.Blues, swing, torch songs, bop, country and western, rhythm and blues, rock and roll, protest songs, bluegrass, improvisational jazz, ragtime and show tunes- the music and the people who made it, the history of popular music . . First Paperback. Soft Cover. Very Good. 4to.

New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston., 1971. xvi, 204pp, index, bibliography, bw ills. Or red cloth in jacket. Very light edge wear to jacket with 2 'pin holes' in front flap fold. Volume in Twentieth Century Composers series. Takes as its theme the search for a distinctly American musical expression. Includes a chapter on Thomson's 3 operas, a section on Latin American music and over 100 biographies of American composers.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo.

New York: Harry N. Abrams, 2001. 238pp, num bw & col ills, pictorial endpapers. Or pictorial boards in jacket. As new. American roots music-encompassing blues, country and western, gospel, Cajun, zydeco, Tejano, Native American and other forms of folk music- originated and was nutured in small communities and spread across the nation. This book published in conjunction with the PBS television series tells the story of this music. Chapters include: Early Country: Treasures Untold; The Birth of the Blues; The Flowering of the Folk Revival; Hallelujah: The Sacred Music of Black America; Cajun and Zydeco:The Music of French Southwest Louisiana; Musica Tejano: The Music of Mexican Texas; Native American Music of the Twentieth Century; Native Tongue:Contemporary Native Music; Keeping it Country:Tradition and Change 1940 to the Present; Mojo Working: The Blues Explosion and Roots Music Begats Rock and Roll. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. 4to.

New York: W. W. Norton & Co., 1985. 224pp, index, bibliography, notes, num bw & col ills. Or blue cloth in jacket. A couple of tiny tears to jacket. From simple toys and folk instruments to elite keyboards, this volume explores a full range of musical instruments held at the Met.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 4to.

Sydney: The Nicholson Museum, University of Sydney., 2003. 83pp, concordance, col ills. Or card . Near new. Catalogue accompanying an exhibition. Papers include Introduction to Greek Drama; Ancient Theatre: Context and Performance; The Excavations at the Site of a Theatre in Nea Paphos, Cyprus followed by the catalogue of objects.. First Paperback. Soft Cover. Very Good. 4to.

New York: Interland Publishing Inc., 1969. xiv,234pp, index, bibliography, glossary, nem bw ills. Or brown cloth with embossed title in orange to front and spine, in jacket. Pages very slightly shaken, jacket sunned at spine with rubbing and chipping. Presents every known animation technique of its time, and its uses in education, entertainment, sales, business, television, industrial and scientific film production. Introduced at novice level leading progressively from the simplest to most sophisticated concepts. Covers historical background from inception to modern usage throughout the world, and contains a comprehensive glossary of animation terms. The photographic illustrations are representative of virtually all major producers of animated films at that time.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good Plus. Oblong 4to.