HB#00209
Farga, F. Violins & Violinists. Theodore Brun Limited : London. (1950).
First Edition. Very Good / No Jacket. Full-Leather. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR. Octavo. xvi + 223 pp. Translated by Egon Larsen. With a chapter on English Violin-Makers by E. W. Lavender. Number 18 of 50 copies only. Top edge Gilt. Ribbon Marker. Editions de Luxe produced for The Collector's Book Club and issued simultaneously with the Rockliff First Edition. Signed by Farga on the half-title page. Unfortunately the front free end paper has been removed in a rather untidy manner. Limited Edition. € 50.00
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HB#00983
Hopkins, J. Bowie. Elm Tree Books : London. (1985).
First Edition. Good +/Very Good +. Cream Boards + Gilt Titles. Octavo. Hard Cover. 275 pp. Includes some black and white pictures. Textblock browned as per usual. Base of boards rubbed. Corners rubbed. Spinal lean. Dust-jacket is creased with some very minor closed tears. Unclipped. Not an easy title to find.
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David Bowie, born David Robert Jones on 8 January 1947) is an English musician, actor, and record producer. He has been active for five decades of popular music and has frequently reinvented both his music and his image, Bowie is widely regarded for the intellectual depth of his work. Although he released an album (David Bowie) and numerous singles earlier, he first caught the eye and ear of the public in the autumn of 1969, when the Apollo program-inspired "Space Oddity" reached the top five of the UK singles chart. After a three-year period of experimentation he re-emerged in 1972 during the glam rock era as the flamboyant, androgynous alter ego Ziggy Stardust, spearheaded by the hit single "Starman" and the album The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars. The relatively short-lived Ziggy persona epitomised a career often marked by musical innovation, reinvention and striking visual presentation.
In 1975, Bowie achieved his first major American crossover success with the number-one single "Fame", co-written with John Lennon, and the hit album Young Americans, which the singer identified as "plastic soul". The sound constituted a radical shift in style that initially alienated many of his UK devotees. He then confounded the expectations of both his record label and his American audiences by recording the minimalist album Low -the first of three collaborations with Brian Eno over the next two years. Arguably his most experimental works to date, the so-called "Berlin Trilogy" albums all reached the UK Top Five.
After uneven commercial success in the late 1970s, Bowie had UK number ones with the 1980 single "Ashes to Ashes" and its parent album, Scary Monsters (and Super Creeps). He paired with Queen for the 1981 UK chart-topper "Under Pressure", but consolidated his commercial-and, until then, most profitable-sound in 1983 with the album Let's Dance, which yielded the hit singles "Let's Dance", "China Girl", and "Modern Love".
In the BBC's 2002 poll of the 100 Greatest Britons, Bowie ranked 29. Throughout his career he has sold an estimated 136 million albums and ranks among the ten best-selling acts in UK pop history. In 2004, Rolling Stone magazine ranked him 39th on their list of the 100 Greatest Rock Artists of All Time. €13.50
