Why No Beethoven? The Diary of a Vagrant Musician (Signed)
176pp. Brown cloth-covered boards, gilt titles on spine. Lightly bumped spine ends. Cocked. Text block edges starting to fox. Signed and inscribed by author with the inscription 'To Ron - Happy Birthday Humph' and with a hand-drawn picture of a trumpeter with a birthday candle. Internally neat, clean, bright and tight. Dust jacket has light shelf wear, chipping to edges, mirrors book damage, price clipped. 8vo. Humph chronicles his band's overseas tours to Poland and the Middle East, finding him and his colleagues checking into Hitler's Wartime Headquarters in Warsaw, birdwatching in Jeddah, riding on horseback in Petra and narrowly avoiding being shot in Beirut.