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Hardcover. Etat : Fine. Etat de la jaquette : Fine. 1st Edition. Fine unread condition black boards, red cloth spine, and gold spine lettering contained in a fine condition non price-clipped color photographic dust jacket. Includes Author Dedication; Acknowledgments; Preliminary Page Quote by Liz Brown-Lavoie, Berklee College of Music; Discography and Index. Illustrated with two sections of black-and-white photographic plates and portrait photographic frontispiece. A neatly scripted gift inscription on the last rear blank endpaper. "Patti LaBelle has enjoyed phenomenal success for three decades - as a member of the girl group the Blue Belles in the sixties, and the leader of the flamboyant Labelle in the seventies, and as a Grammy-winning solo artist in the eighties and nineties. She has won admiration not only for her music, but also for her tireless charity work and devotion to her fans. Yet until now the public has known only Patti LaBelle the star. Finally, in Don't Block the Blessings, we meet Patti LaBelle the woman, who recounts the ups and downs of her life, including the personal tragedies that haunted her even as she reached every professional goal she set. Patti's early childhood in southwest Philadelphia was happy, despite her paralyzing shyness. But when her parents' relationship ended violently, Patti's world changed forever. Finding her captivating voice in a Baptist youth choir helped Patti through this heartbreaking time. It also began to transform the painfully quiet high school dropout, who thought of herself as ugly, into the outrageous star with the five-inch pumps and the five-octave range. Music helped sustain her through good times and bad, but Patti also used it as a hiding place in the early years of her marriage and when she helplessly witnessed all three of her sisters die of cancer before the age of forty-four. Only on the eve of a day she never thought she'd live to see did Patti start to really live. In the down-to-earth style she's famous for, Patti tells the real story her fans have been waiting for - years of crippling fear that she cloaked with non-stop cross country performances. A terrible sense of guilt, which she tried to assuage through tireless charity work. And finally, a hard won feeling of peace and purpose, a deep personal understanding of what's important in life and how it's always there for all of us - if we don't block the blessings." - from the inner front and rear jacket flaps. Fasciano, Isabella (jacket design); Vaccaro, Nick (front and spine photographs); Fine, Sam (makeup); Karan, Donna (wardrobe); Bromfield, Shelly (stylist); Harrell, Michael (stylist); Santoro, Maria (stylist) (illustrateur).…

Hardcover. Etat : As New. Etat de la jaquette : Fine. 1st Edition. As new condition black boards, black spine, facsimile front cover red Rod Stewart autograph and red spine lettering contained in an a fine non price-clipped color photographic dust jacket. Includes Introduction; Conclusion; Acknowledgments; Discography; Photography Credits and Index. Profusely illustrated with four sections of both black-and-white and color photographic plates plus illustrated front and rear endpapers. Tiny bit of rubbing at lower jacket spine edge; the jacket is otherwise in as new condition (see photographs). "Rod Stewart was born the working class son of a Scottish plumber in north London. Despite some early close shaves with a number of diverse career paths ranging from gravedigging to professional socceer, it was music that truly captured his heart - and he never looked back. Rod started out in the early 1960s playing the clubs on London's R&B scene before his distinctively raspy voice caught the ear of the iconic from man Long John Baldry, who approached him while he was busking one night on a railway platform. Stints with pioneering acts like the Hoochie Coochie Men, Steampacket, and the Jeff Beck Group soon followed, paving the way into a raucous five years with the Faces, the rock star's rock band, whose onstage and offstage antics with alcohol, wrecked hotel rooms, partying, and groupies have become the stuff of legend. And during all this, he found a spare moment to write "Maggie May," among a few other tunes, and launch a solo career that has seen his sell in excess of 200 million records, be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame twice, and play the world's largest-ever concert. Not bad, as he says, for a guy with a grog in his throat. And then there is his not-so-private life: marriages, divorces, and affairs with some of the world's most beautiful women - Bond girls, movie stars, and supermodels - and a brush with cancer, in which he almost saw it all slip away. Rod's is an incredible life, and here - thrillingly and for the first time - he tells the entire thing, leaving no knickers under the bed. A rollicking rock 'n' roll adventure that is at times deeply moving, this is the remarkable journey of a guy with one hell of a voice - and one hell of a head of hair." - from the inner front jacket flap. Sturman, Barbara (book design); Nagin, Michael (jacket design); Lancaster, Penny (jacket photograph: front, spine) (illustrateur). …

Hardcover. Etat : Fine. Near Fine. 1st Edition. HBDJ, March 1998, Stated First Edition. first printing with #1 Intact Number Line, FINE/FINE-, AS-IS, ,Hardback Cloth boards Titled in Gold gilt on Spine Cvr, . Book Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine- with Light Wear. Dust jacket in protective cover. Signed by Author,l Interior Nice, Tight clean, Titled at DJ top in Yellow & White at Btm WITH MASK IN CENTER, 350 pgs ,strange things are happening on the streets of New Orleans with its myths of voodoo and magic but then again it is the Mardi Gras, tale of danger death and ancient evil . Murder & Dark Magic Prowl New Orlean Streets, Author gives us a Tired & BURNED-OUT HOMICIDE INVESTIGATOR , who thinks he has seen it All, Until he starts coming Across Bodies with Wooden Stakes in Their Hearts. Signed by Author(s).…

First UK Edition. Michael Joseph. 1979. Attractively bound in black paper-coved boards and stamped in gold on the spine. With a binder's error fold at the bottom of p. 191. In a complete dust jacket with some wrinkling to the bottom of the rear panel which features a photo of Mitford in a deerstalker hat and cape. A pleasant copy signed by her on the title page. MITFORD, Jessica The Making of A Muckraker (SIGNED COPY) Michael Joseph, London, 1979. 1st printing. 8vo in black faux cloth, gilt lettering to spine. 263pp. Inscribed and signed by Jessica Mitford on the front blank fly-leaf . [CONDITION: An ext (illustrateur).…