London: Studio Vista, 1970. First edition. Softcover, 112pp., 8 x 5 inches.
Good. Clean, bright pages and tight spine. Some wear to spine and rear cover, as in photos, while front cover is slightly loose.
Guitarist John Fahey's biography of once overlooked Mississippi guitarist Charley Patton. Patton's songs, recorded in a spate of sessions in two short years (1929-1930), are legendary amongst blues aficionados. In Fahey's book, photographs, illustrations and reproductions of music notes tell the story. One of a series of monographs edited by Paul Oliver, each book in the series examined important blues singers and musicians and is extensively illustrated with historic photographs and ephemera.
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