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New York: St. Martin's Press. Near Fine. 1999. Reprint. Trade Paperback. 463 pages. Hailed as important, entertaining, and revealing, <I>Copland: Since 1943</I> is composer Aaron Copland's irresistible account of the latter half of his career--a career that brought us such pioneering works as <I>Appalachian Spring</I> and <I>Lincoln Portrait</I>, the movie scores for <I>Of Mice and Men</I> and <I>Our Town</I>, and numerous other orchestral and chamber works. It tells the story of how a self-described "brash young man from Brooklyn" went on to become one of the founding fathers of "serious" American music. Featuring cameos by luminaries such as Leonard Bernstein, Martha Graham, Agnes de Mille, Benny Goodman, and other peers of Aaron Copland during this explosively creative period, <I>Copland: Since 1943</I> is an invaluable memoir that charts the crescendo of one of the most accomplished… Read More

New York: Houghton Mifflin. Near Fine in Fine dust jacket. 2009. First Edition. Hardcover. Personal inscription, "From Brian & Kelly Christmas 2009", on the page between the half-title and the title page. Protected in a removable Brodart archival cover. Black boards and spine with title and author imprinted in gold. Full number line 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1. . 475 pages. Louis Armstrong was the greatest jazz musician of the twentieth century and a giant of modern American culture. He knocked the Beatles off the top of the charts, wrote the finest of all jazz autobiographies - without a collaborator - and created collages that have been compared to the art of Romare Bearden. The ranks of his admirers included Johnny Cash, Jackson Pollock and Orson Welles. Offstage he was witty, introspective and unexpectedly complex, a beloved colleague with an explosive temper whose larger-than-life personality was tougher and more sharp-edged than his worshipping fans ever knew. "Wall… Read More

New York: Gotham. As New in As New dust jacket. 2006. First Edition. Hardcover. Cream boards with black spine imprinted in red metallic with title and author. Full number line 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1. . 184 pages .