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DAVIS**, SHARON: : A GIRL CALLED DUSTY: An intimate portrait of Dusty Springfield

LONDON.ANDRE DEUTSCH/CARLTON PUBLISHING GROUP,2008.

ISBN 9780233002378.

UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.FINE+/FINE+.No owner inscrptn and no price-clip to dw/dj.Bright, crisp,clean,matt,subject's contemporary b/w portrait photographic illustrated dw/dj panels, with grey lettering; with negligible shelf-wear and creasing to edges and corners - no nicks, tears or splits present.Head of spine/backstrip of dw/dj,minisculely bumped with reciprocal creasing; virtually scoring/indent-free panels. Top+fore-edges bright and clean with no foxing/ spoting; contents bright,tight,clean - pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corner tipss,would appear unread - apart from my own collation.Bright crisp,clean,sharp-cornered, publisher's original plain black cloth boards with bright,crisp,blocked silver gilt letters to spine/backstrip and immaculate plain white endpapers.UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,illustrated,1st edn,v-xiipp+1-244pp [paginated] includesa Contents list/table,author's Introduction,a Dave Godin essay,13 chapters,8pp contemporary b/w+colour autobiographical photographs in 1 block,between pp116/17,a Bibliography and a list of author's other published books/titles and an Index; plus [unpaginated] half-title+title pages. Visually the exterior appearance is exceptional for a book of it's age,and even internally,the book is also in an exceptional condition/state of preservation and presentation for a book of its 15+ year-old age.It really is an exceptional copy for brightness and cleanliness. Dusty Springfield is a pop music legend. Goddess of the sixties,reluctant recluse of the seventies,icon of the eighties and nineties,she attracted a passionate following that has remained loyal to this day.She crossed the line into soul music,her first love,but never turned her back on pop music.A perfectionist in her work,she was a shy,awkward girl off stage. Misunderstood and misquoted,that was Miss Springfield.She had a lifestyle to envy,was the original "IT" girl and achieved,many believed, the height of decadence.But who really knew her? Who was the real lady behind the black mascara and backcombed hair? This is the story that she never had the chance to tell herself because, nearly two years after her first battle with breast cancer,the disease returned to take her life in 1999. When the end finally came,the music business descended into mourning,tributes flooded in from all over the world.The Daily Telegraph front page announced "Dusty Springfield dies on day she was to get OBE" and Her Majesty The Queen was reported to be "deeply saddened". Dusty Springfield was the very heart and soul of British music.Pet Shop Boy Neil Tennant,who was responsible for her return to chart success in 1987,believed that "she was the very essence of fabness". Please contact seller,for correct shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page! N.B. ALL buyers please note,stocks' actual shipping/P+p costs are adjusted and any difference is refunded,after order's receipt and before the order's despatch,especially if the item(s) are offered either P+p included/FREE. ** N.B. US/Canada customers please be aware: Standard US AIRMAIL to these destinations can now cost more than the price of the book! If speed is not of the essence,then Economy rate is recommended - at approx. anything from a 1/3rd to 1/2 of the standard US AIR quote/rate - sometimes arriving sooner than the 42 days - but not always. **

UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,illustrated,1st edn.
Not SIGNED.

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