• For Your Consideration:
• A First Edition, First Printing in HARDCOVER of:
• “ROBERT JOHNSON: LOST AND FOUND”
(University of Illinois Press, 2003) (Hardcover, First Edition, First Printing)
• BY BARRY LEE PEARSON & BILL McCULLOCH
• “Even with just forty-one recordings to his credit, ROBERT JOHNSON (1911-38) is a towering figure in the history of the blues. His vast influence on twentieth-century American music, combined with his mysterious death at the age of twenty-seven, still encourage the speculation and myth that have long obscured the facts about his life. The most famous legend depicts a young JOHNSONmeeting THE DEVIL at a dusty Mississippi crossroads at midnight and selling his soul in exchange for prodigious guitar skills.
“BARRY LEE PEARSON and BILL McCULLOCH examine the full range of writings about JOHNSON and weigh the conflicting accounts of JOHNSON’s life story against interviews with blues musicians and others who knew the man. Their extensive research uncovers a life every bit as compelling as the fabrications and exaggerations that have sprung up around it.”
—THE PUBLISHER
• “By far the best book yet on JOHNSON.”
—DIRTY LINEN
• “I love this book…. It debunks a lot of the mysterious tales about JOHNSON but doesn’t take anything away from the man at all. There are still plenty of fascinating stories about JOHNSON here, and his artistry still shines as bright as ever. If you love the blues—especially country blues—you'll love this book, too.”
—CHARLIE MUSSELWHITE
• “An insightful, useful, and thoroughly convincing examination of a legendary musician. Instead of focusing on devils at midnight, deserted crossroads, and brimstone barter, the authors look closely at lived experience, illuminating the real life of a 'walking bluesman.’”
—STEPHEN WADE, ‘THE BEAUTIFUL MUSIC ALL AROUND US: FIELD RECORDINGS AND THE AMERICAN EXPERIENCE’
• “With careful research and informed historiography, PEARSON and McCULLOCH succeed in peeling the layers of testimony and mythmaking surrounding ROBERT JOHNSON. Their conclusions break away from the prevailing views of the critical mainstream, and they help the reader to realize a glimpse of the historical JOHNSON and his times.”
—EDWARD KOMARA, ‘100 BOOKS EVERY BLUES FAN SHOULD OWN’
• “A reminder that JOHNSON’s talent was enough; he didn’t need THE DEVIL’s help to become a legend.”
—LIBRARY JOURNAL
• “[PEARSON and McCULLOCH] traced the paper trail of the JOHNSON myth through the decades and found that white critics and promoters were telling tall tales about him while he was still alive. The authors tracked down misleading articles about him dating to 1937 and reconstructed the comical spread of JOHNSON’s Faust legend….”
—NEW YORK TIMES
• “PEARSON and McCULLOCH examine a number of the commentaries on JOHNSON since his death, tracing the origins of the various myths the better to deflate them….”
—NEW REPUBLIC
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• For other details about this book, please see below.
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SERIES: “MUSIC IN AMERICAN LIFE”
TITLE: “ROBERT JOHNSON: Lost and Found”
AUTHORS: BARRY LEE PEARSON & BILL McCULLOCH
COVER ART: KRISTA JONES
ILLUSTRATED: WITH A FEW BLACK & WHITE PHOTOS
TYPE: HARDCOVER
PAGES: 142+
PUBLISHER, LOCALE, & YEAR: University of Illinois Press (Urbana & Chicago), 2003
EDITION: First Edition, First Printing*
*RE: On the Copyright Page, this Number Row: “5 4 3 2 1.”
NOTE: This copy is NOT ex-library NOR a book-club edition.
ISBN: 0-252-02835-X
CONDITION OF DUST JACKET: VERY GOOD PLUS.
Per house style, not issued with price on DJ. Corners & spine tips are bumped. Light scratching & smudges on sides. ADVANCE PROOF sticker affixed to front. All else—bright & clean.
CONDITION OF BOOK: VERY GOOD PLUS.
Book is square. Boards are v. clean with lightly scuffed bottom corners & spine tip; other corners & tip are fine. have light discoloring at the edges—all else: clean & bright. Front board has slight upward tilt (“bowed”). Spine is tight & uncreased (& has bright lettering). Text-block edges & endpapers are fine. The pages are bright & clean with no writing, no underlining, no doodling, no stains, no tears, no foxing, etc. This copy is CLEARLY UNREAD.
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