"Outside of a dog, man's best friend is a book. Inside of a dog, it's too dark to read."
— Groucho Marx
London, Sidgwick and Jackson 1984. [Rock music biography] FIRST EDITIONS. Volume one covers the period 1940-1966, volume two spanning 1967-1980. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.350, 334, with photographic plates. Hardback in glossy dust-wrappers. A little handled, no inscriptions or price-clipping, edges slightly dusty/spotted; very good copies indeed. Ray Coleman [1937–1996] was the former editor-in-chief of Melody Maker and a regular contributor to other music magazines including Disc, Black Music, Musicians Only, and Billboard. As a respected author and noted authority he was responsible for ten music biographies including the lives of Lennon, McCartney and Brian Epstein as well as co-writing Stone Alone (with Bill Wyman). Item #72756
Oxford Companion to Literature, p.75. Book Collector No.287 (p32-62) 'The Sixties'.
Price: £65.00
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