Nice Own Story by Wilson Brian Todd Gold (18 results)

Condition: Good. Original silver lettered half cloth, dust jacket, illustrated with b/w photographs, uncut, 8vo.

first edition. fine book, fine jacket,

Cloth. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First American Edition. Nice copy in its first printing. Autobiography of the genius behind the Beach Boys. Unmarked, tight and square. Crisp, unread copy. Price intact jacket has light crease and faint rubbing, else fine. In mylar. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Fine. Quarto in color pictorial jacket; xiii, 398 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates: illustrations, portraits; 25 cm. Includes index. "Insightful no-holds-barred autobiography of Beach Boys member Brian Wilson." / Contents: Fired! Money for drugs. The glass eye. Girls. The Pendletones. Goin' surfin'. Songwriters against the world. Surfin' USA. Marilyn, Diane, and Barbara. Meet the Beatles. All summer long. Fasten your seat belts. Lava lites, acid, and seeing God. The Beach Boys' party! Better than everything else. "God only knows". Good and bad vibrations. Psychedelicate. "Heroes and villains". Fatherhood. Cocaine and the wizard. Sold out. "Sail on sailor". Dad. Click click. Shrink to the stars. Therapy. Brian is back! or love gone bad. My first Christmas. Death at Christmas. Playgirl's Man of the Year. "Help me, Rhonda". The betrayal. The chemistry of the moment. Jumping off the Empire State Building. I almost die. Learning to walk. Starting to listen. Carolyn, no! Ghosts. Dennis, my brother. Outward bound. Little children. Demos. The love you make. Love and mercy. "Water builds up". Family fighting. Sweet insanity. Wouldn't it be nice. || Autobiographies, Beach Boys, Biographies, Musicians, American Biography, Musiciens rock ?tats-Unis Biographies, Rock musicians, Rock musicians United States Biography, United States, Wilson, Brian, 1942-, Additional Physical Form Entry:, Online version:, Wouldn't it be nice., Wilson, Brian, 1942-. Very fine in very fine jacket(not proce-clipped); now in archival mylar. As new Stated first ed. with number beginning at "2".

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. SIGNED and inscribed with personalization on half title. SECOND printing of the first edition--copyright page visible in photo. Jacket is price clipped, and has light rubbing. Book has light foxing to text blocks and fore edge, and a pair of 1/8 inch pressure dents to bottom edge of board--all is visible in photos. Inscribed by Author(s).

Hardback. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. SIGNED on the half-title page! "To Brian- Brian Wilson". Hardback book with dust jacket. The BRIGHT dj is NOT price-clipped and has some edgewear/rolling along the edges and a couple of tiny pin-holes on the cover. It looks very nice under the fresh mylar cover I've added. The book is sturdy, crisp & clean with spine ends crushed and a little edgewear. NO REMAINDER MARK! This is the 2nd printing of the STATED FIRST EDITION. Unique inscription since it's to "Brian"! Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 1st printing. Price-clipped DJ shows some edgewear; looks nice in Brodart cover. Inscribed by Wilson to p/o on half-title page. Uncommon signed. 398 pages + photos. Inscribed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine dust. First Edition. Book is in NF condition with trace edge wear noted, light bumping to spine ends else a bright & solid copy. Dust jacket is in NF condition with trace edge wear noted, light bumping to spine ends else bright, intact & whole. BSC 7/21; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition; First Printing. First edition. INSCRIBED by Brian Wilson to Santa Barbara author Cork Millner on half-title page. Fine in fine dust jacket. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 398 pages.

First edition of Brian Wilson's candid autobiography. Octavo, original half cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by Brian Wilson on the half-title page, "To Glen Brian Wilson", signed by Todd Gold on the title page and inscribed by Dr. Eugene Landy on the dedication page, "To Glenn Eugene E. Landy." The recipient, Glenn Goldman founded Book Soup in 1975, an independently owned bookstore on Sunset Strip in West Hollywood specializing in art, music, film, photography, design and fiction. American psychotherapist Dr. Eugene E. Landy was best known for his unconventional psychological treatments, especially for his treatment of Wilson in the 1970s and 80s in which he essentially took control of his life, monitoring him 24 hours a day with a team of assistants to keep him sober. The treatment was later deemed unethical by Californian courts and was later dramatized in the 2014 biographical film Love & Mercy, in which Landy is portrayed by Paul Giamatti. Wilson dedicated the present volume to Landy. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Suzanne Noli. Jacket photograph by Mark Hanauer. A unique example. Wilson's first memoir, Wouldn't It Be Nice not only documents the Beach Boys' rise to fame, but their founder's twenty year struggle with drug addiction, alcoholism, obesity, and mental illness. Filled with shocking revelations, the book reveals the inspiring story of one of the greatest musical geniuses of the 20th century.

Boards. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. A one-of-a-kind copy of Brian Wilson's 1991 autobiography: WILDLY INSCRIBED BY THE BOOK'S DEDICATEE, BRIAN WILSON'S PSYCHIATRIST DR. EUGENE LANDY, WHO HERE WRITES IN A BURST OF SURPRISING CANDOR: "FOR ASHLEY-- THIS BOOK TELLS WHAT & HOW I SPENT THE LAST 9 OR SO YEARS OF MY LIFE -- A GREAT CHALLENGE AND A WASTE OF TIME -- I MEET YOU RIGHT AFTER I LEFT -- I LOOK FORWARD TO OUR LUNCH LOVE EUGENE LANDY". In other words, the book's dedicatee appears to be renouncing in this inscription the work he did with Brian Wilson. A sharp, near-pristine copy to boot of the 1991 stated 1st edition. Tight and Near Fine to Fine in a crisp, price-intact, Fine dustjacket. Thick octavo, written with the assistance of Todd Gold.