Steve Allen's Songs: 100 Lyrics with Commentary [*SIGNED*]

Jefferson NC/London: McFarland & Company, Inc,. Fine. (c.1999). First Edition. Hardcover. (laminated pictorial boards; no dust jacket, as issued) [as-new book with no discernible wear]. (B&W photo frontispiece) INSCRIBED briefly to friends and SIGNED by the author on the title page, dated 1999. According to the polymathic author's Preface, he claims to have "written over 8,000 songs, of which I would think over a thousand have lyrics"; this selection, therefore, represents "only a small percentage of the total." He further claims, however, that that doesn't mean that these one hundred are necessarily "the best of the lot": with admirable (if possibly faux) modesty, he share his feeling that "there doesn't seem to be a great difference between my best work and that which is of a lower order." (NOTE that true to its title, the book contains only the lyrics to these songs, not the music.) .