WHAT IS IT ALL BUT LUMINOUS-Autobiography-ART GARFUNKEL-Superb, SIGNED 1st HC DJ

Description: Hi! You're looking at a SUPERB, UNREAD and virtually FLAWLESS condition book which is OUT OF PRINT and a fascinating memoir by singer and actor ART GARFUNKEL, best known for his work with PAUL SIMON--the book is a collectible copy which is SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR on the upper right corner of the dustjacket and a STATED FIRST EDITION and a HARDCOVER with the ORIGINAL DUSTJACKET and is NOT a remainder copy and NOT price-clipped, with the original $27.95 price in the upper corner of the front inner flap. This book is in SUPERB, UNREAD and virtually FLAWLESS condition and the book itself has very slight dings on the spine tips but NO other significant flaws; the dustjacket has a couple of VERY slight creases on the upper half of the back surface, the author's autograph on the upper right corner of the front surface and just slight shelfwear otherwise but NO other significant flaws! The auction also includes the large ORIGINAL ADVERTISING FLYER for the Ithaca, New York State Theatre venue at which Garfunkel performed and signed this copy of the book which is in beautiful shape, with just neat folding and slight handling wear but no significant flaws. The book is AUTOGRAPHED by Art Garfunkel in purple ink on the upper right corner of the front surface of the dustjacket. The book is titled What is it all but luminous: notes from an underground man and it was written by ART GARFUNKEL; it was published by Alfred A. Knopf in 2017 and is a STATED 1st EDITION copy.From the golden-haired, curly-headed half of Simon & Garfunkel, a memoir (of sorts)—moving, lyrical impressions, interspersed throughout a narrative, punctuated by poetry, musings, lists of resonant books loved and admired, revealing a life and the making of a musician, that show us, as well, the evolution of a man, a portrait of a life-long friendship and of a collaboration that became the most successful singing duo in the roiling age that embraced, and was defined by, their pathfinding folk-rock music.In What Is It All but Luminous, Art Garfunkel writes about growing up in the 1940s and ‘50s (son of a traveling salesman, listening as his father played Enrico Caruso records), a middle-class Jewish boy, living in a redbrick semi-attached house on Jewel Avenue in Kew Gardens, Queens.He writes of meeting Paul Simon, the kid who made Art laugh (they met at their graduation play, Alice in Wonderland; Paul was the White Rabbit; Art, the Cheshire Cat). Of their being twelve at the birth of rock’n’roll (“it was rhythm and blues. It was black. I was captured and so was Paul”), of a demo of their song, Hey Schoolgirl for seven dollars and the actual record (with Paul’s father on bass) going to #40 on the charts.He writes about their becoming Simon & Garfunkel, ruling the pop charts from the age of sixteen, about not being a natural performer but more a thinker, an underground man.He writes of the hit songs; touring; about being an actor working with directors Mike Nichols (“the greatest of them all”), about choosing music over a PhD in mathematics.He writes of his ill-fated romance with actress Laurie Bird, and how a badly timed practical joke (the impish Garfunkel yanked Bird's dress top down to her waist, hit her in the face with a banana cream pie, smeared her exposed breasts with whipped cream, then dumped a vat of melted chocolate over her head at a dinner party attended by about twenty close friends) likely led to her tragic suicide in the apartment they shared the next evening.And he writes about his long-unfolding split with Paul, and how and why it evolved, and after; learning to perform on his own . . . and about being a husband, a father and much more. A fantastic find, and a beautiful copy of this book! Thanks for looking, and good luck if you're bidding! Also be sure to check out all of my other great books currently listed on ebay auctions--I can combine shipping for multiple purchases!

Price: 74.99 USD

Location: Williamsport, Pennsylvania

End Time: 2024-12-11T04:27:48.000Z

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