John m lomax introduction (1 risultati)

Condizione: Very Good+. First Edition. Limited first edition, number 146 of 500 copies, signed and numbered by Townes Van Zandt on the second blank page in brown ink. v, 39 pp. Bound in publisher's pictorial cloth lettered in brown. Very Good+ with light toning, foxing and soiling to cloth. Light toning and foxing to contents. The scarce signed songbook for Van Zandt's studio album For the Sake of the Song. The Texas-born singer-songwriter struggled with mental illness, alcoholism, and drug addiction throughout his short life, dying at 52, with an erratic but often brilliant body of work that was heralded by his peers. His best known song is "Pancho and Lefty," which was a monster hit for Willie Nelson and Merle Haggard; it was included in this book before any other artist covered it. Signed.…