Invisible Republic: Bob Dylan's Basement Tapes.

New York:: Henry Holt and Company, 1997.. 1st Printing.. Hardbound . BINDING/CONDITION: two color binding -- beige with black at the spine; a Near Fine book, with a Near Fine dust jacket; publisher's price on the jacket flap is intact.. 8vo (8.5 inches tall) . Index. Description: The publisher's blurb reads: ''Invisible Republic is Greil Mar4cus's long-awaited book on the scores of legendary recordings Bob Dylan and the Band made near Woodstock, New York, in 1967, in the basement of a house called Big Pink -- music that remains as seductive and baffling today as it was thirty years ago. Starting with Dylan's historic rock 'n' roll debut at the 1965 Newport Folk Festival and Dylan and the Band's subsequent tour of the U.S. and Britain in 1966, Marcus re-creates the ferocity and outrage provoked by Dylan's supposed betrayal of folk music and folk value and makes it clear that the basement tapes, secret music never intended for release, were Dylan's response..''