Pre-order Tav Falco’s history of Memphis from Creation Books

book-cover-mondo-memphisJust to get it out of the way: yes – when you add in shipping, Mondo Memphis comes to over $100. But … it’s actually two books about Memphis in one. The first part is written by rockabilly revivalist Tav Falco. Ghosts Behind the Sun is simultaneously a history of the great river city as written by one of its most fabulous residents, while also his musical autobiography.

Part two is Erik Morse‘s Bluff City Underground. It’s a piece of noir fiction, replete with “double crosses, double meanings and murder, all of which point to a centuries’ old secret society known only as the Memphi.”

The massive tome compiling both of these books is Mondo Memphis, and it’s limited to a hardcover run of 75 copies, “with a limited, personally signed and numbered photographic print by Tav Falco.” Both books will be released as separate paperbacks in the next year, with Falco’s book coming in November, and Morse’s in March of 2012.

Mondo Memphis is currently available for pre-order from Creation.