Ernest Withers: The Memphis Blues Again: Six Decades of Memphis Music Photographs
by Ernest Withers; Daniel Wolff
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Fine/Near Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0670030317
- ISBN 13
- 9780670030316
- Seller
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Kirkland, Washington, United States
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About This Item
175pp, first edition, first printing. Signed by author in black marker on ffep (see photos): "To Brenda and Jeff Bryer, My love to you, Ernest C. Withers." Printed in Japan on thick coated stock. Gorgeous photographs from the 50s, 60s, and 70s, taken primarily in Memphis. Withers photographed the clubs, dance halls, auditoriums, recording studios, churches and streets of Memphis, home to one of the most vibrant music scenes in America. Subjects include W.C. Handy, Ray Charles, B.B. King, Howlin' Wolf, Muddy Waters, Louis Armstrong, Count Basie, Duke Ellington, Dizzy Gillespie, Lionel Hampton, a young Elvis Presley, Sam Cooke, Otis Redding, Marvin Gaye, Al Green, James Brown, Charlie Pride, Rufus Thomas, Staples Singers, Bobby "Blue" Bland, Ike and Tina Turner, Isaac Hayes and many more. Incomparable collection of photographic images, beautifully presented. Out of print and rare signed copy. Barely noticeable curling at top of dust jacket necessitates dj rating of Near Fine.
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- Bookseller
- Books Northwest (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 2011
- Title
- Ernest Withers: The Memphis Blues Again
- Author
- Ernest Withers; Daniel Wolff
- Format/Binding
- Black boards with white lettering on spine
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First printing first edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0670030317
- ISBN 13
- 9780670030316
- Publisher
- Viking Studio
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 2001
- Pages
- 175
- Size
- 10.75" x12"
- Keywords
- African American musicians, Memphis, photographers
- Bookseller catalogs
- PHOTOGRAPHY / Individual Photographer;
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