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America's Songs: The Stories Behind the Songs of Broadway, Hollywood, and Tin Pan Alley
by Furia, Philip; Lasser, Michael
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- Hardcover
- Signed
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- Condition
- Fine/Near Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0415972469
- ISBN 13
- 9780415972468
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About This Item
New York: Routledge, 2006. Book. Fine. Hardcover. Signed by Author(s). First Edition, First Printing.. Very clean hardcover first edition, first printing, SIGNED by author Michael Lasser, in clean unchipped dust jacket. Black paper-covered boards with red cloth spine, silver lettering on spine. No bumping, fading or wear. Binding is tight and square, pages are clean. Inscribed and signed on half-title page: "For Peg, Remembered songs give us an emotional history of our lives. As the songwriter said, "The song is you." - Michael Lasser 10/03/06." Illustrated with photographs. 328 pages with Index. Clean bright dust jacket is unchipped, has one tiny closed edge tear at top rear panel edge; enclosed in new archival quality removable mylar cover. This book tells the fascinating, funny, and sometimes poignant stories behind the greatest songs ever to emerge from the Broadway musical, Hollywood movies, and the music industry of Tin Pan Alley..
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- Title
- America's Songs: The Stories Behind the Songs of Broadway, Hollywood, and Tin Pan Alley
- Author
- Furia, Philip; Lasser, Michael
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Edition
- First Edition, First Printing.
- ISBN 10
- 0415972469
- ISBN 13
- 9780415972468
- Publisher
- Routledge
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 2006
- Keywords
- AMERICAN MUSIC, BROADWAY MUSICALS, HOLLYWOOD, TIN PAN ALLEY, HISTORY OF SONG IN AMERICA, FIRST EDITION, SIGNED BY AUTHOR, PHILIP FURIA, MICHAEL LASSER
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