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Tillie's Punctured Romance & The Love Song of Rotten John Calabrese plus Selected Short Subjects
by LEEDS, Charlie
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- Very Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very good
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About This Item
Vancouver: Prism International Press & November House, 1970. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good/Very good. 138 p. 24 cm. Grey cloth in psychedelic dustjacket. Some soiling and slight wear to jacket edges. A few dents to book's edges.
Prose by a US jazz musician imprisoned in New Jersey at the time of publication. Intro by Jim Christy. Named after Chaplin's first feature movie, Tillie's Punctured Romance is a series of poetic improvisations on themes central to Leeds' life: drugs, religion, love, jazz, movies, show business. Leeds was serving a sentence at Trenton State Prison for drugs. From Atlantic City originally, Leeds was once a professional jazz bassist who played with Woody Herman, Buddy Rich, Al Cohn, Charlie Parker and others. After that he spent time in treatment centres, mental hospitals and jails.
Prose by a US jazz musician imprisoned in New Jersey at the time of publication. Intro by Jim Christy. Named after Chaplin's first feature movie, Tillie's Punctured Romance is a series of poetic improvisations on themes central to Leeds' life: drugs, religion, love, jazz, movies, show business. Leeds was serving a sentence at Trenton State Prison for drugs. From Atlantic City originally, Leeds was once a professional jazz bassist who played with Woody Herman, Buddy Rich, Al Cohn, Charlie Parker and others. After that he spent time in treatment centres, mental hospitals and jails.
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- Attic Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 145483
- Title
- Tillie's Punctured Romance & The Love Song of Rotten John Calabrese plus Selected Short Subjects
- Author
- LEEDS, Charlie
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Prism International Press & November House
- Place of Publication
- Vancouver
- Date Published
- 1970
- Keywords
- Jazz, Jim Christy, Improvisations, Drugs, Counterculture,
- Bookseller catalogs
- Counterculture;
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