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COHEN, RICH: : MACHERS AND ROCKERS: CHESS RECORDS the BUSINESS OF ROCK ROLL

US.NEW York,NY. W. W. NORTON & COMPANY INC.,2004.

ISBN 039305280X.

UK,slim small 8vo HB+protected dw/dj,1st edn. FINE+/FINE+.No owner inscrptn and no price-clip to dw/dj.Bright,crisp,clean,glossy,recording artists' biographical,contemporary b/w photograph (inside CHESS recording studio) illustrated front panel with b/w+red lettering, similar colour lettered spine/backstrip,rear panel with critics' black lettered reviews and other white lettering with thumbnail b/w portrait photographs; all with negligible shelf-wear,bumping,creasing to edges and corners – no nicks,tears or splits present.Top edges with minimal,minor blemish but still bright and clean,fore-edges bright and clean without foxing/spotting; contents bright,tight,clean, solid and sound – pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corner tips,possibly unread,apart from my own collation.Publisher's bright,crisp,clean,sharp-cornered,original,white speckled paper-covered boards with RAF blue coloured paper blind spine with bright,crisp, blocked silver gilt lettered spine/backstrip,a blue+white chequered headband and immaculate plain white endpapers.UK,slim,small 8vo HB+ protected dw/dj,1st edn,13-220pp [paginated] includes 6 chapters,contemporary b/w photographs interspersed throughout the text and the book.Sources,Suggested Listening, Acknowledgements,and an Index; plus [unpaginated] half-title with blank verso, publisher's advert for previously published and forthcoming titles to its verso,all the following: the title page,dedication,contents list/table and a title separator page are with blank versos,plus to the rear of the book,4pp blanks. Visually the exterior appearance is exceptional,and even internally,the book is also in an exceptional condition/state of preservation and presentation.It is only the minor exterior faults described,that prevent a higher grading.Despite that,it really is an exceptional copy for brightness and cleanliness. A tour-de-force history of Jews,blues,and the birth of a new industry.On the south side of Chicago in the late 1940s,two immigrants,one a Jew born in Russia,the other a black blues singer from Mississippi met and changed the course of musical history.Muddy Waters electrified the blues,and Leonard Chess recorded it.Soon Bo Diddley and Chuck Berry added a dose of pulsating rhythm,and Chess Records captured that,too.Rock & roll had arrived,and an industry was born. In a book as vibrantly and exuberantly written as the music and people it portrays,Rich Cohen tells the engrossing story of how Leonard Chess, with the other record men,made this new sound into a multi-billion-dollar business aggressively acquiring artists,hard-selling distributors,riding the crest of a wave that would crash over a whole generation.Full of absorbing lore and animated by a deep love for popular music,'Machers and Rockers.' is a smash hit. Please contact seller,for correct shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas customers - BEFORE ordering through the order page! ** N.B. ALL buyers please note,stocks' actual shipping/P+p costs are adjusted and any difference is refunded,after order's receipt and before the order's despatch,especially if the item(s) are offered either P+p included/FREE. ** This item offered P+p included.Offer available UK only,unless indicated otherwise. ** ** N.B. US/Canada customers please be aware: Standard AIRMAIL postage from UK to these destinations can now cost more than the price of the book! If speed is not of the essence,then Economy rate is recommended - at approx. anything from a 1/3rd to 1/2 of the standard AIR quote/rate - sometimes arriving sooner than the 42 days - but not always.

US,slim,small 8vo HB+ protected dw/dj,1st edn.
Not SIGNED.

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