Category: Music & Dance

Song Hits Annual, Winter '73-'74 (1973-1974)

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Derby, Charlton : 1973

Seller ID: 017454

Binding: Magazine

Condition: Very Good

A collection of lyrics to popular songs in the winter of 1973-74. Divided into pop, soul and country categories, and featuring the lyrics to recordings by Bread, Lobo, James Brown, Tom T. Hall, Tammy Wynette, Fifth Dimension (each with a short feature article), as well as lyrics to recordings by George Harrison, Anne Murray, Jackson 5, Arlo Guthrie, Steeler's Wheel, and many others. Among the songs are "Bad, Bad Leroy Brown," "Give Me Love," "You're So Vain," "Papa Was a Rolling Stone," "Superstition," "Touch Me in the Morning," "Ravishing Ruby," "Send Me No Roses," " Emptiest Arms in the Worl...
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The 1988 Nova Scotia International Tattoo

Price: $20.00

Publisher: : 1988

Seller ID: 013949

Binding: Stiff Card Wraps

Condition: Very Good

Souvenir programme for the 1988 version of the extravaganza described on the Tattoo's site as, "the world's largest annual indoor show. Its unique combination of music, dance, drama, gymnastics, comedy, military displays, competitions and much more, continues to thrill audiences year after year." 56 pages, four souvenir postcards still attached, copiously illustrated. Two Tattoo newsletters/cover letter laid in. Moderate general wear.
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THE COPPER FAMILY SONG BOOK -- A Living Tradition. (signed)

Price: $45.00

Publisher: Peacehaven, Coppersongs : 1995

Seller ID: 018961

ISBN-13: 9780952624004

Binding: Spiral Bound Stiff Card Wraps

Condition: Very Good

"This book is intended to be a definitive (almost) record of Copper family songs," and contains the words and music to 65 of them Signed on title page by four family members. 113 pages, illustrated. Corner/edgewear, crosscrack, light general wear.
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The Bay City Rollers Picture Scrapbook

By: Columb, David (photographs), and Tony Jasper (words)

Price: $25.00

Publisher: London, Queen Anne Press Ltd. : 1975

Seller ID: 018943

ISBN-13: 9780362002522

Binding: Stiff Card Wraps

Condition: Very Good

Offers "a whole collection of very important Roller pictures" by the guy "who is their official photographer." Although they began playing in the mid'60s, they didn't become teenybopper heartthrobs until about the mid-'70s, after which they sold 120,000,000 records worldwide. Unpaginated. Minor edgewear, a few impressions/thin scratches, moderate handling wear. Uncommon.
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Three Plays and a Ballet

By: Cummings, E.E. (Edward Estlin), edited by George Firmage

Price: $10.00

Publisher: London, Peter Owen : 1968

Seller ID: 018344

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Contains the plays "Him," "Anthropos: or the Future of Art," and "Santa Claus, a Morality," and the ballet "Tom," (based on 'Uncle Tom's Cabin'). Introduction by Firmage. Black cloth w/gilt spine lettering, 170 pages. Gently bumped corners/spine ends, odd little bump (3/8" long by 1/8" wide) on front pastedown (the suspicion here is that in the printing process some little thing got caught betwixt inside cover and pastedown, but hey, for all I know it could be a device planted by the totalitarian Chinese Communists to monitor Theatre of the Absurd readers), tanned edges, in price-clipped dust ...
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Hit Parader: September 1968 #50, November 1968 #52, December 1968 #53, February 1969 #55

By: Delehant, Jim (editor)

Price: $45.00

Publisher: Derby, Charlton Publishing Corp.

Seller ID: 019032

Binding: Wraps

Condition: Good to Very Good

A four-issue lot of one of rock music's better-than-average magazines from the 1960s and '70s, with articles, interviews, photographs, song lyrics and other stuff of paramount importance to your average drug-addled teenage music freak just a year or so before Altamont, which marked the beginning of the end for the peace/love/groovy years. Mainly in pretty good shape w/scrape to bottom right portion of back cover of September issue, and only moderate general handling wear otherwise.
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The Paths We Choose, A Memoir

By: Erna, Sully

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Laurel, Bartleby Press : 2007

Seller ID: 019127

ISBN-13: 9780910155687

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

The frontman for Godsmack, a Boston hard rock/alternative metal band, tells his story. Blue boards w/pine quarter cloth backstrip w/silver spine lettering, 277 pages, illustrated. Spine cocked, a hint of wear to corners/spine ends, in lightly edgeworn dust jacket w/small stain to top inside spine/rear panel.
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Stan Rogers, Northwest Passage

By: Gudgeon, Chris

Price: $65.00

Publisher: Kingston, Fox Music Books : 2004

Seller ID: 018845

ISBN-13: 9781894997010

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Very Good to Fine

"A previous edition of this book was released by Penguin Books Canada Ltd in 1993 as 'An Unfinished Conversation: The Life and Music of Stan Rogers.' This special commemorative edition has been substantially updated, expanded, and annotated." That earlier version seems easy enough to get, but for some reason this version doesn't seem to be around much. Foreword by Sylvia Tyson. 269 pages, illustrated. Internally tight and clean w/bumped bottom spine, light general wear.
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Grooks in Music

By: Hein, Piet, and Svend Asmussen

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Toronto, General Publishing Company : 1971

Seller ID: 012350

ISBN-13: 9780773600188

Binding: Spiral Bound Stiff Card Wraps

Condition: Very Good

Eighteen of Hein's Grook verses graced with facing music by Asmussen (music on the left page, verse/illustration on the right). A nice copy w/only moderate general wear and no previous owner's marks or notations.
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IDEALIZING VAIN FANTASY, A Fantasy Rock Opera, An Album of Songs and a Fairy Tale

By: Hughes, Charles R.

Price: $50.00

Publisher: Port Coquitlam, Privately published : 1978

Seller ID: 015461

Binding: Stiff Card Wraps

Condition: Good

A play with song lyrics by Gloria Jean Hughes, poetry by Jack M. Heitz, and photography by Stephan Mirsky. Uncommon. 36 pages, Moderately soiled covers, corner wear, moderate handling wear.
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ECHOES, The Stories Behind Every Pink Floyd Song

By: Jones, Cliff

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Carlton Books : 1996

Seller ID: 018001

ISBN-13: 9781858682181

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine

This one "looks at the entire output of Pink Floyd track by track in chronological order, exploring the creative context behind the music, the albums and the concepts." Pictorial boards, 176 pages (including chronology, list of discs/videos/books, author's acknowledgments, index), copiously illustrated. Moderate general wear, in rubbed dust jacket w/thin scratches, small area where glossy finished has lifted. All in all, though, a nice copy.
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Songs and Sayings of an Ulster Childhood (signed)

By: Kane, Alice (edited by Edith Fowke)

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Toronto, McClelland & Stewart (M&S) : 1983

Seller ID: 018182

ISBN-13: 9780771032103

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

The author provides a wealth of folklore, including songs, sayings and verse from her childhood in Northern Ireland. Kane's inscription reads, "To Mary Barker/Greetings!/Alice Kane/7/12/84." Another, non-authorial, gift inscription reads, "for Mary Barker,/in kind appreciation for/including me in the planning/and activities of the visit/of the first Canadian astronaut/ to Fredericton, Nov. 30, 1984/sincerely/Gary Whiteford/UNB" (Whiteford was a geology professor at the University of New Brunswick, and was well-known as a world traveller and huge baseball fan -- he died in 2013). Cream cloth w/...
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ABOVE ALL, The Fascinating and True Story of the Lives and Careers of the Famous Blackwood Brothers Quartet (signed)

By: Kree, Jack Racine

Price: $65.00

Publisher: Memphis, Jarodoce Publications : 1967

Seller ID: 018893

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

The story of a Gospel group that has sold more than 50,000,000 copies of 200+ albums, winning a boatload of awards and receiving considerable recognition in the process. This copy signed on front free end paper by Bundy Brewster (the band's "professional driver"), Dave Weston (piano, 1966-68), James Blackwood (lead singer), and London Parris (more accurately, perhaps, Conley "London" Parris, bass); and on reverse of front free end paper by Cecil Blackwood (baritone). Souvenir and gift page unused. Bright orange cloth w/black cover lettering, 191 pages, illustrated. Spine a bit cocked, ligh...
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The Man Who Made New Brunswick Sing

By: McCullagh, Harold

Price: $10.00

Publisher: St. Stephen, Print'N Press Ltd. : 1978

Seller ID: 006863

ISBN-13: 9780920732083

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Very Good

The story of New Brunswick musician David Thomson. Foreword by Louis Robichaud. 97 pages + 13 pages of photographs. Reading crease, edgewear, moderate handling wear, previous owner's sticker to inside front cover.
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THE ART OF ASKING, or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Let People Help

By: Palmer, Amanda

Price: $15.00

Publisher: New York, Grand Central Publishing : 2014

Seller ID: 018217

ISBN-13: 9781455581085

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good to Fine

Dresden Dolls co-founder Palmer here gives us "the story of an artist struggling with the new rules of exchange in the 21st century, both on and off the Internet." Palmer is married to writer Neil Gaiman. Foreword by Brené Brown. White boards w/black spine lettering, 337 pages + brief author biography, illustrated. A bit of bumping to spine ends, bump to fore-edge of both covers, light general wear, in dust jacket w/mild bumping to spine ends, a couple of small smudges to front panel. All in all a nice copy.
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Country Music in the Maritimes: Two Studies

By: Rosenberg, Neil V.

Price: $10.00

Publisher: St. John's, Memorial University of Newfoundland Department of Folklore : 1976

Seller ID: 019025

Binding: Stiff Card Stapled Wraps

Condition: Very Good

The second title in Memorial University's Reprint Series, this one containing a pair of articles, the first entitled "'Folk' and 'Country Music in the Canadian Maritimes: A Regional Model," first published in 1974 in The Journal of Country Music, the second entitled "Studying Country Music and Contemporary Folk Music Traditions in the Maritimes: Theory, Techniques, and the Archivist," first published in Phonographic Bulletin, in 1976. Booklet, 20 pages (including notes for both articles). Sunned edges, small nick to top edge of front cover.
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RAILWAY ROMANCE and other essays

By: Scott, James

Price: $25.00

Publisher: London, Hodder & Stoughton : 1913

Seller ID: 019135

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good to Very Good

No date (1913). A collection of 23 essays, divided into four sections: Railway Romance, Meanderings With Mother Nature, Stepping-Stones o'er Troubled Waters, and Threads through the Maze. Green cloth w/gilt lettering/rule to spine, 291 pages. Bumped/worn corners/spine ends, wear to spine edges, a bit of cover soil/wear, dusty/moderately soiled edges, tanning.
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Discographical Essays (inscribed & signed)

By: Tolley, Trevor

Price: $250.00

Publisher: Williamsburg, Seven Willows : 2009

Seller ID: 019160

Binding: Stiff Card Wraps

Condition: Near Fine

One of two books on jazz written by an accomplished professor of English at Carleton University (among several other institutions of higher learning worldwide), who for 75 years was a renowned jazz enthusiast/collector/authority who amassed a collection of 9,000 records before bequeathing them to Carleton upon his death in 2018. Inscription reads, "For Harold/with all good wishes/Trevor/May 2009". A very scarce title. 98 pages, illustrated w/four plates (three in colour). Internally tight and clean w/light general wear.
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Poetry & Legendary Ballads of the South of Ireland

By: Various Writers

Price: $45.00

Publisher: Cork, Guy and Company Limited : 1894

Seller ID: 019259

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fair to Good

Contains about 300 poems/ballads by more than 135 writers, "with biographical notices, notes, etc." First Series. Brown cloth w/gilt spine lettering, 360 pages, illustrated. An ex-library copy w/a few of the usual librarian-inflicted desecrations, some bubbling to cloth (probably water-related), edgewear, worn/scraped corners/spine ends, 1" deep strip torn from top of front end paper, gift inscription to second end paper, piece torn from bottom corner of pages 317/8 (does not affect text), tanning.
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Conversations With Tom Petty

By: Zollo, Paul

Price: $50.00

Publisher: London & New York & Sydney, Omnibus Press : 2005

Seller ID: 018510

ISBN-13: 9781844498154

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

The first authorized book "to focus solely on the life and work of the man responsible for some of the most memorable rock anthems of our generation," with special attention paid to Petty's songwriting. A songwriter/singer/guitarist much missed at this address. Black cloth w/gilt spine lettering, 330 pages (including discography, photo credits, index), illustrated. Minor smudging/light abrasions to page edges, in dust jacket w/edgewear, light discolouration, moderate handling wear.
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Category: Music & Dance