It's Always Four O'Clock

New York: Random House. Near Fine in Very Good+ dj. (c.1956). First Edition. Hardcover. [nice tight clean copy, faint shelfwear only; the jacket is slightly faded at the spine, with some minor edgewear]. "The fast-paced story of a Los Angeles jazz combo -- piano, guitar and bass -- and a girl singer named Berte Evers," narrated by a 24-year-old guitar player from Chicago. It is also "the tragic story of Royal Mauch, a strange musical genius who is too romantic, too nervous, too sensitive to cope with reality." .