Blues Roll, First Edition (74 results)

Condition: Good. 1st. Former library copy. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Hard Cover. Condition: Fair. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. BO1 - DJ is mylar protected. DJ has light discoloration and shelf wear otherwise fine. Book has front loose endpaper missing, chipping and peeling on the side near the spine on the front fixed endpaper, label and library stamping on the title page, and very light shelf wear. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Ex-Library.

Condition: Good. 1St Edition. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Condition: Good. 1St Edition. Former library copy. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. It's a well-cared-for item that has seen limited use. The item may show minor signs of wear. All the text is legible, with all pages included. It may have slight markings and/or highlighting.

Hardcover. Condition: Good to Very Good. 1st Edition. 288 pp. Tightly bound. Corners not bumped. Text is free of markings. Good to very good, price clipped dust jacket. PLEASE NOTE: This is a very clean EX-LIBRARY COPY. There are no call numbers on the spine of the book. There are no call numbers on the spine of the jacket. There are no stamps on the page edges. There is no check-out pocket at the back of the book. There is a small neat library name and withdrawn stamp on the front end paper along with a date. First Edition / First Printing.

Soft cover. Condition: Good - Very Good. No Jacket. First Thus. First paperback printing of Guralnick's classic of the history of blues & the roots of rock 'n roll. Damp stain toward the binding at the top edge of the first 60 pages. A good to very good copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Illustration & Art Direction by Helane Freeman (illustrator). 1st Edition. Not a book but a 12-inch, 33-1/3 rpm vinyl LP record, Priority Records SL-9755, near-mint vinyl in original plastic inner sleeve, in a very-good-plus glossy cardboard jacket. Includes unused foldable cardboard "stand-up" insert. This group of animated ("claymation") advertising characters actually won an Emmy award and released four LPs in the years 1987-1988, including "Meet the Raisins!" on Atlantic. The characters were originally created for a 1986 Sun-Maid commercial on behalf of the California Raisin Advisory Board when writer Seth Werner despaired "We've tried everything but dancing raisins singing (Marvin Gaye's 1968 hit) 'I Heard It Through the Grapevine!'" So they tried it, to enormous success, including a 3-D comic book, a tidal wave of raisin-themed merchandise, even a short-lived Saturday morning cartoon television show. Unfortunately, the Raisin campaign eventually failed when production costs to the raisin growers reportedly exceeded the measurable increase in their earnings. In this entry, the raisins offer Marvin Gaye's "Dancing in the Street"; Smokey Robinson's "Tracks of My Tears" and "My Girl"; Holland/Dozier/Holland's "Stop! In the Name of Love," and , of course, "I Heard It Through the Grapevine (Remix)." David Woodford, Saxophone; Dave Marotta, bass guitar. You could not make this stuff up. Reduced from $14.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Not a book but a 12-inch, 33-1/3 rpm "Full Color Fidelity" (mono) vinyl record album, ABC-Paramount ABC-315, near-mint vinyl in a near-mint cardboard jacket. Three cuts ("I Don't Need Nobody," "I'm a Lonely Man," and "I've Got the Blues and the Blues Got Me") are credited to L. Price-H. Logan; "Sittin' Here and Rockin'" to Johnny Otis, "Please Send Me Someone to Love" to Percy Mayfield. There are seven other cuts. Arranged and produced by Sid Feller. Lloyd Price -- best known for "Lawdy Miss Clawdy" (1952) and "Stagger Lee" (1958) was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1998. This LP now reduced from $15.

Hard Cover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. First Edition. AU2 - Book has taped label on the spine, fading on the spine and some edges, sides, and corners, light scratches, lightly bumped on some corners, library stamping on the top, title page, and back loose endpaper with label and cardholder, label on the back fixed endpaper, fixed on the hinges of the half-title page and title page, label with some library code written on page page 328, some dog-eared pages, light discoloration and shelf wear otherwise good. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Ex-Library.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Cover photo by Bruce Steinberg (illustrator). 1st Edition. Not a book but a 12-inch, 33-1/3 rpm vinyl rock 'n roll / rhythm & blues record album, Columbia KCS 9913, very-good-plus vinyl (several scuffs which cannot be felt) in a very-good cardboard jacket. Name of this album appears to jacket spine and jacket rear panel, but NOT to jacket front panel, probably because for this first pressing, Day-glo blue titling (by R. Crumb) appeared to removable front plastic shrink-wrap only. Includes a couple of Joplin originals as well as the Gibbs' "To Love Somebody" and two tracks credited to Nick Gravenites -- "Work Me, Lord" and "As Good As You've Been to This World." Reduced from $22.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Not a book but a 10-inch "Long Playing" (mono) vinyl LP, Capitol H-513 with purple labels, vinyl "very good" or better," which demonstrates that Capitol (and Miss Morse) were offering rock 'n roll records before anyone had even settled on a name for the genre. Here, Ella Mae (who was featured on Capitol's first-ever release, "Cow-cow Boogie") offers "Have Mercy Baby," "Rock Me All Night Long," Jesse Stone's "Money Honey," four others. Vinyl plays through nicely with an occasional click or pop. This is early rock 'n roll with no audible guitar -- main instrumental backing is by piano and acoustic bass with an occasional wailing sax. Miss Ella Mae can really belt them out, however -- even if it's hard to keep a straight face when a set of back-up singers that could have been working for Johnny Mann or Sing Along With Mitch contribute their occasional scripted "bop-shoo-wop." Grade the jacket, with some tape adhesions near the top edge, "very good" as well. This 10-inch album has been known to catalog at $400 -- we started at $26, now reduced to $10.50.

Hard Cover. Condition: Near Fine. First Printing. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. First Printing. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. The author sets the record straight on the two periods (1917-1922 and 1940-1941) that Jelly Roll Morton spent on the West Coast. In addition to checking and rechecking his sources, correcting mistakes in scholarly accounts and situating eyewitness narratives within the histories of New Orleans and Los Angeles, Pastras offers a fresh interpretation of the life and work of Jelly Roll. 246 pages including index. Great copy.

PAPERBACK. Condition: VG. FIRST PRINTING. TANNING TO PAGES.

Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. First Edition. 1st EDITION. This copy is NEAR FINE; the text is clear, bright, and unmarked; binding is tight, but edges show slight shelf wear. The jacket is also near fine; intact in all ways, including perfect color and design, but slight wear on corners. We have a five star rating because of our fulfilment success and because our descriptions are accurate. We guarantee: NO NASTY SURPRISES.

No Binding. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Not a book but a group of five, 7-inch, 45 rpm rhythm & blues/rock 'n roll records from the year 1964, combined to consolidate shipping. For a reasonable price you get the ORIGINAL RELEASES of The Shangr-Las' "Remember (Walking in the sand)" -- Red Bird 10-008, vinyl very good, though both labels are seriously soiled; The Jewels' "Opportunity / Gotta Find A Way" (Dimension D-1034, vinyl very-good-plus); Candy and The Kisses' "The 81 / Two Happy People" (Cameo C-336, vinyl near-mint); Mary Wells' definitive rendition of William "Smokey" Robinson's "My Guy" (Motown 1056, vinyl very-good-plus but the label considerably rubbed with Previous Owner's initial letter "H" inscribed), and The Butterflys' "Good Night Baby / The Swim" (Red Bird 10-009, J. Barry-E. Greenwich-S. Venet, vinyl very-good-plus. Group of five ORIGINAL 45 rpm "singles" from the year 1964, priced together as one lot to consolidate shipping charge, now reduced from $18.

Soft Cover. Condition: Near Fine --. First Printing. A fascinating new view of a still underrated and misunderstodd titan. Recounts the tumultuous saga of Jelly Roll Morton, a virtuoso pianist with a larger-than-life personality and the composer of such influential early jazz pieces as "King Porter Stomp" and "New orleans Blues." 288 pages including index. B&W photos.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Covers rubbed at tips. Tight and unmarked. 256pp. Size: 8vo - 8" - 9" Tall.

Trade Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Val Wilmer (Cover Photo) (illustrator). 1st Vintage Books Edition: April 1981. 260 + pp. A great, almost spotlessly clean copy! Solidly and tightly bound, essentially and nearly flawless copy with minimal internal and external wear and use. Copy with crisp pages, spotlessly clean text, and light shelf wear. Smooth covers. Moderate foxing on page edges, not affecting text. A publisher's remainder copy with a mark (hole) on cover page top corner.

No Binding. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Not a book but a group of seven, 7-inch, 45 rpm rock 'n roll / rhythm & blues records from the year 1963, combined to consolidate shipping. All of these discs should play well, they generally grade "very good" to "very-good-plus" (though the flip side of "Louie Louie" -- that being the eminently forgettable "Haunted Castle" -- shows visible scratches), but none of them are shiny new. Some of the labels -- the Gordy, particularly -- show considerable rub from having been stored without individual paper sleeves. Nonetheless, for a very reasonable price you get the ORIGINAL RELEASES of The Angels' "My Boyfriend's Back" (production credited to those venerable Australian sheep herders, Feldman-Goldstein-Gottehrer); The Kingsmen's timeless rendition of Richard Berry's "Louie Louie" (possibly the only rock 'n roll song with its own FBI file); Bob and Earl's "Harlem Shuffle" (later covered by the Rolling Stones on their "Dirty Work" album, 1986); a double hit from Mary Wells -- Holland-Dozier-Holland's "You Lost the Sweetest Boy" backed by "What's Easy for Two Is So Hard for One," credited to one William Robinson, whoever that may be; Martha & The Vandellas offering two more Holland-Dozier-Holland compositions, those being "Quicksand" backed by "Darling, I Hum Our Song"; Jan Bradley offering some Northern Soul on the Chess label with "Mama Didn't Lie / Lovers Like Me," and finally Jimmy McGriff on the Sue label with "One of Mine / Broadway," both tracks from his Sue LP 1013, said LP also titled "One of Mine." Group of seven ORIGINAL 45 rpm "singles" from the year 1963, priced together as one lot to consolidate shipping charge. This group of seven, 45 rpm singles now reduced from $32.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. clean, unmarked copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Near fine with near fine dust jacket. Book is lightly bumped at bottom of spine. Dust jacket is lightly bumped at top of spine. Book and dust jacket are lightly bumped at top front corner. 276 pages with index, bibliography and illustrations.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition; First Printing. As New. Illustrated with black-and-white photographs. The dust jacket is protected by a Brodart mylar cover and is not clipped. Not an ex-library copy. No remainder marks. No names or marks in the text. Most books shipped within 24 hours. All books mailed with Delivery Confirmation. Fine condition in fine dust jacket. Unread. A volume in the Music of the African Diaspora series. ; Music of the African Diaspora; Vol. 5; Black-and-white illustrations ; 8vo.; xxiv, 246 pages.

Soft cover. 1st Edition. Pictorial paper covers and contents in very good condition. 12" x 9" (48)pp. Illustrated by instructional photos in text. First Edition. Binding is original wraps.

ISBN 0-520-23687-4. Trade Paperback. Near Fine condition. Tight, bright, attractive copy with no markings to the book. First Printing. Copy 1.

ISBN 0-520-23687-4. Trade Paperback. Near Fine condition. Tight, bright, attractive copy with no markings to the book. First Printing. Copy 2.

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. pgs.256 with index clean tight copy with minuscule corner wear.

Trade Paperback. Condition: Like New. First Edition. First Edition, First Printing. Published by California CBMR, 2001. Octavo. Book is like new with very light toning to the page ends and some sticker residue on the back bottom edge. 100% positive feedback. 30 day money back guarantee. NEXT DAY SHIPPING! Excellent customer service. Please email with any questions or if you would like a photo. All books packed carefully and ship with free delivery confirmation/tracking. All books come with free bookmarks. Ships from Sag Harbor, New York.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. Bargain book!

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. First Edition.