Verlag: St Martins Pr, 1992
ISBN 10: 0312078773 ISBN 13: 9780312078775
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Verlag: St. Martin's Press, 1991
ISBN 10: 0312059825 ISBN 13: 9780312059828
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Verlag: Cooper Square Press, 1991
ISBN 10: 0815410824 ISBN 13: 9780815410829
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Paperback. Zustand: UsedVeryGood. Softcover/as new remainder.
Verlag: New English Library 05/09/1991, 1991
ISBN 10: 0450561976 ISBN 13: 9780450561979
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Verlag: New English Library, 1991
Anbieter: STEVE BROWN, Lichfield, Staffordshire, Vereinigtes Königreich
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Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. First Edition. Hardcover.
Verlag: St. Martin's Press, New York, 1991
Anbieter: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, USA
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Softcover. Zustand: Fine. Uncorrected proof. Wrappers. Fine.
Verlag: New English Library,, 1991
Anbieter: lamdha books, Wentworth Falls, NSW, Australien
Octavo hardcover; black boards with gilt spine titling; 309pp., monochrome plates. Offsetting and scattered spotting to endpapers and mild spotting to text block edges; dustwrapper mildly rubbed. Very good with wrapper now professionally protected by superior non-adhesive polypropylene film. Postage quoted is for a standard format octavo book. Final charges may vary depending on size and weight. "Gourse's life of satin-voiced Nat King Cole has plenty of spring and grit. The tragedy of Cole's life lay in his very success as a singer of such lightly mystical pop ballads as Nature Boy, Mona Lisa, and even the title ballad here, Unforgettable. Before his vocalizing hit big in the mid-40's (today his voice trails behind only Frank Sinatra and Louis Armstrong in airplay), Cole was a pianist vastly respected in the jazz world as the sparkling rhythmic motor of The Nat King Cole Trio. He was always canny about money, and his sudden adulation as the world's top black singer, which made him a millionaire at 30, was too strong to turn down. At his death, from lung cancer, he had 175 unreleased tracks in inventory at Capitol Records, which the company was reluctant to release because they were too trite. It is still a tragedy that Cole's vocalizing has replaced the 300 or so jazz tracks his trio cut from the late 30's to 1946. Cole was a minister's son, and something spiritual infused his balladry. He was beyond scandal, even when he left his first wife Nadine for the mesmerically influential Maria Ellington (no relation to Duke), although his tax troubles with the IRS tracked some ink. It appears that the IRS - more interested in Cole having sneaked into a fine house in a fine white neighborhood than in the $150,000 he owed - watched the house rather than attach his royalties from Capitol Records. Cole later had bleeding ulcers from his anxieties. From a rural Alabama childhood to life at the top, with Sinatra as his pallbearer. The early jazz pages are magnetic, and Cole practically sits in the reader's lap throughout. And it's well researched, too." - Kirkus.
Verlag: St Martin's Press, 1991
Anbieter: Book Orphanage, McCrae, VIC, Australien
Hard Cover 310 pages With 33 b&w photographs, bibliography, discography, and index. An ex-library copy with some underlining in pen, and turned-down page corners. Ex library copy with usual stamps, stickers, barcode etc. GOOD book in GOOD unclipped dust jacket.
Verlag: Cooper Square Press, U.S.A., 2000
ISBN 10: 0815410824 ISBN 13: 9780815410829
Anbieter: CHAPTER TWO, Pinetown, KZN, Südafrika
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Soft cover. Zustand: Very Good. First. Pages xxi + 309 including index and bibliography. A few monochrome illustrations. (X-W-AY-Wa).
Verlag: St Martins, NY, 1991
Anbieter: Beasley Books, ABAA, ILAB, MWABA, Chicago, IL, USA
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Hardcover. First Edition. Signed and inscribed by the author. With a Typed Letter, signed from Gourse to John S. Wilson laid in. Fine in near fine dust jacket. Wilson was the New York Times jazz critic for decades.
Verlag: NEW ENGLISH LIBRARY
Anbieter: Book Cupboard, PLYMOUTH, DEVON, Vereinigtes Königreich
1991 1ST FINE /FINE12.00.