Great day @ the Recycling Center and the Booth Library Book sale in CT.  Of note in this list is the Mancini tome containing 3 seven inch 45s -gotta love the Peter Gunn theme and the rare Tin Pan Alley book with the classy subtext, “A Chronicle of the American Popular Music Racket.”  Already scanned that one.

• 80 English Folk Songs from the Southern Appalachians..   Cecil J. Sharp; Maud Karpeles.   (MIT Press; USA , —, paper; 109p., 1968) 
• A Twist Of Lennon. Cynthia Lennon (Avon; USA, 0380454505, paper; mass market; 190p.; Illustrated B&W photographs , 1980)  X
• Aretha, the Queen of Soul. . Franklin, Aretha: Various authors (Creative Concepts; USA , 1569220387 , cloth; Spiral bound; 96p.; Illustrated B&W Photographs , 1994) 
• Better Days Will Come Again. Travis Atria (Chicago Review Press; USA , 9780914090106 , Paper; 238p. , 2020 ) 
• The Biography of Geoff Tate: A Voice That Shaped Progressive Metal . Mendy Morris (Self-published, 9798298476676 , paper; 192p., 2005) 
• The Clash on the Clash: interviews and encounters . Sean Egan: editor (Chicago Review Press; USA , 9781613737453 , cloth; 376p., 2018 ) 
• Dirty Blvd.: The Life and Music of Lou Reed . Aidan Levy (Chicago River Press; USA , 9781613731062 , cloth; 406p.; Illustrated B&W Photographs , 2016 ) 
• The Essential Taylor Swift Fan Book . [No author listed] (Welbeck Children’s Books ; UK, 8781839352881 , cloth; 64p.; Illustrated Color Photographs , 2023)  For fans only…
• For a Cowboy has to Sing. . Jim Bob Tinsley (University of Central Florida Press; USA , 0813010527 , cloth; 314p.; Color illustrations; oversize. , ) 
• John Coltrane Solos . John Coltrane (Hal Leonard; USA, 0793527007 , Cloth; spiral bound; 144p., 1995) 
• Led Zeppelin on Led Zeppelin: Interviews and Encounters . Hank Bordowitz (Chicago Review Press; USA , 9781613747544 , cloth; 458p., 2014) 
• Linda Ronstadt : it’s so easy.. Mark Bego (Eakin Press; USA , 0890157758 , Paper; 212p.; Illustrated B&W photographs , 1990) 
• Miles Davis . George R. Crisp (Franklin Watts; USA , 0531113191 , cloth; 144p.; Illustrated B&W photographs , 1997) 
• More Myself: a journey . Alicia Keys; Michelle Burford (Flat Iron/Oprah; USA , 9781250153296 , cloth: 256p., 2020) 
• Salsa: guidebook for piano and ensemble. . Rebecca Mauleon (Sher Music Company; USA , 0961470194 , paper; spiral bound; 259p.; Illustrated B&W photographs , 1993)  Terrific overview.
• Selling Out. Bethany Klein (Bloomsbury; USA, 978501339318 , Paper; 193p.; 2020)  Academic publication
• Songs and Sketches of the First Clearwater Crew . Don McLean; Tom Allen (North River Press; USA, —, paper; 95p., 1970) 
• Songs of the Wild West.. Alan Axelrod; Dan Fox (Metropolitan Museum of Art / Simon and Schuster; USA , 0671747754 / 0870996118  , cloth; 128p.; Oversize; illustrated, Color Prints and Drawings., 1991) 
• Sonny Rollins. . Charles Girard (AMSCO Publications; USA , 0825640865 , paper; 72p,, 1980) 
• Sounds and Scores. Henry Mancini (Northridge; USA , —, Cloth; 245 p. , 1962) 
• Spiritual Graffiti: Finding My True Path. MC Yogi (Harper One; USA , 9780062572820 , Paper; 262p. , 2017 ) 
• Sonny Rollins; The Cutting Edge. Richard Palmer (Continuum; USA , 0826469167 , paper; 213p., 2004 ) 
• Strange Fruit; the biography of a song. David Margolick (Echo Press; USA , 0060959568 , Paper; 138p.; Illustrated b&W photographs. , 2001) 
• Tin Pan Alley. Isaac Goldberg (John Day Company; USA , Cloth; 341p., 1930 )  X
• That Thin, Wild Mercury Sound. Daryl Sanders (Chicago Review Press; USA , 9781613735473 , paper; 227p., 2018) 
• The Tanning of America: How Hip Hop Created a Culture That Rewrote the Rules of the New Economy . Steve Stoute (Gotham Books; USA , 97815924004810 , cloth: 290p., 2011) 
• Woody Guthrie; Born to Win. Robert Shelton, editor. (Macmillan; USA, cloth; 251p.; Illustrated B&W drawings. , 1966) 
• Yellow submarine and the Beatles (The White Album ). The Beatles (Hal Leonard; USA. , 0881889598 , paper; 174p., n.d.) 

That Blanche-Neige paperback in the pic is for b’s French Girl page, https://ouiouipulp.info/  and the Swear book is for his slang collection.  Other accumulated items includes 34 forty-fives, a stack of music CDRs, some yellow spiders, an African beaded statuette, and a pile of super hero comics for our next sale.  

Update, 7/14/2026.  The Booth Library folks, in their wisdom, on the final day of the sale, offer remaining books for free. So we added 82 more music books to our collection.