Chronicles:  Volume One by Bob Dylan is a 293-page hardcover published by Simon & Schuster, 2004.  The dust jacket has very light shelf wear.  The hardbound cover is gilt embossed with faint bumping to the tail and slight shelf wear along the bottom edge.  There is some glue marks on the inside front pastedown and free endpaper.  The back flap of the dust jacket is glued to the back pastedown.  The pages are crisp, clean, unmarked and the binding is tight. 

Book Summary

"I'd come from a long ways off and had started a long ways down.  But now destiny was about to manifest itself.  I felt like it was looking right at me and nobody else."

So writes Bob Dylan in Chronicles:  Volume One, his remarkable book exploring critical junctures in his life and career.  Through Dylan's eyes and open mind, we see Greenwich Village, circa 1961, when he first arrives in Manhattan.  Dylan's New York is a magical city of possibilities--smoky nightlong parties; literary awakenings; transient loves and unbreakable friendships.  Elegiac observations are punctuated by jabs of memories, penetrating and tough.  With the book's side trips to New Orleans, Woodstock, Minnesota and points west, Chronicles:  Volume One is an intimate and intensely personal recollection of extraordinary times.

By turns revealing, poetical, passionate and witty, Chronicles:  Volume One is a mesmerizing window on Bob Dylan's thoughts and influences.  Dylan's voice is distinctively American:  generous of spirit, engaged, fanciful and rhythmic.  Using his unparalleled gifts of storytelling and the exquisite expressiveness that are the hallmarks of his music, Bob Dylan turns Chronicles:  Volume One into a poignant reflection on life, and the people and places that helped shape the man and the art.

ISBN:  0-7432-2815-4