Long Time Gone: The Autobiography of David Crosby.

CROSBY, David and Carl Gottlieb.

Item Number: 119490

New York: Doubleday, 1988.

First edition of David Crosby’s autobiography. Octavo, original boards, pictorial endpapers, illustrated with photographs. Presentation copy, signed by David Crosby and inscribed by co-author and screenwriter Carl Gottlieb on the half-title page, “For Glenn with great appreciation Carl Gottlieb.” 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. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket photograph by Jay Parti. Jacket photograph by Casey Koh.

Much more than the story of a rock 'n' roll legend, David Crosby's autobiography is a chronicle of the rise, fall, and resurrection of an American generation: those who grew up fighting authority, protesting the war in Southeast Asia, and drifting into the new "drug culture."