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AVEDON, Richard Portraits. With an Essay by Harold Rosenberg New York; Farrar, Straus and Giroux 1976 [25841]
FIRST EDITION. Small folio with photographic plates, many folding. Publisher’s cloth in dust jacket. A fine copy. Famous subjects include; Ezra Pound, Marilyn Monroe, Trueman Capote, Jean Genet, Andy Warhol, Groucho Marx and William Burroughs. £175
[BEATLES] Apple Corps. Promo Postcard for 3 Saville Row. UK; Apple Corps Ltd., 54 St James Street no date (1969) [26750]
1969 UK Apple promotional postcard featuring a black & white photograph of the Apple building with the company logo and address below. The card was produced to celebrate their move from Wigmore Street. The back has the normal 'POST CARD' text with the Saville Row Address at the bottom. Standard size, fine condition. A rare piece of Apple/Beatles memorabilia. Apple Corps Ltd. was the multi-armed multimedia corporation, founded in January 1968 by The Beatles, to replace their earlier company Beatles Ltd. and to form a conglomerate. Its chief division (and the only profitable one) was Apple Records, launched in the same year. Other divisions included Apple Electronics, Apple Films, Apple Publishing, and Apple Retail, whose most notable venture was the ill-fated Apple Boutique in London. Apple’s famous headquarters were 3 Savile Row, known as the Apple Building, which was also home to the Apple Studio and venue for the Beatles’ impromtu rooftop concert in January 1969; being the groups historic final live performance. £65
[BEATLES] Apple Corps. Promo Postcard. Draft postcard for 3 Saville Row (Artists proof). UK; Apple Corps Ltd., 54 St James Street no date (1969) [26749]
1969 UK Apple artists proof/mock up for the promotional postcard featuring a black & white photograph of the Apple building with the company logo and address below. The card was produced to celebrate their move from Wigmore Street. Unlike the issued version, this also has 'APPLE CORPS' text at the top and is printed on oversize card with printers markings to margin.Fine condition. A rare piece of Apple/Beatles memorabilia. Apple Corps Ltd. was the multi-armed multimedia corporation, founded in January 1968 by The Beatles, to replace their earlier company Beatles Ltd. and to form a conglomerate. Its chief division (and the only profitable one) was Apple Records, launched in the same year. Other divisions included Apple Electronics, Apple Films, Apple Publishing, and Apple Retail, whose most notable venture was the ill-fated Apple Boutique in London. Apple’s famous headquarters were 3 Savile Row, known as the Apple Building, which was also home to the Apple Studio and venue for the Beatles’ impromtu rooftop concert in January 1969; being the groups historic final live performance. £85
[BEATLES] BENSON, Harry. Once There Was a Way. Photographs of the Beatles. London, Thames and Hudson Ltd. 2003 [24615]
Small Folio. Pp 112. Hardback in dustwrapper. As new. Award-winning photojournalist Harry Benson's work is an extraordinary testament to an extraordinary time. He chronicled the amazing excesses of Beatlemania during a two-and-a-half-year relationship with the band, which took him all over the world and ended with their last tour in 1966. Includes the famous shoot of the fab four messing with ‘The Greatest’ Muhammad Ali. £35
[BEATLES] DAVIES, Hunter The Beatles. The Authorised Biography London, Heinemann 1968 [26551]
FIRST EDITION, with photographic plates. Purple cloth in glossy psychedelic jacket. Very good, but with the usual edge spotting and a few nicks to spine. £48
British author Hunter Davies (born 1936) was the Beatles' only authorized biographer and ‘The Beatles’ is a portrait of the group at the peak of their creative powers; granted extraordinary access to the band, Davies was at Abbey Road studios for many of the Sgt. Pepper recordings and sat in on several Lennon-McCartney songwriting sessions; he also spent many hours documenting, for the first time, the individual Beatles’ own recollections. Released in 1968, when the band’s future still seemed limitless, the book was an engaging and surprisingly honest first-hand account. Although he has added illuminating postscripts to subsequent editions, Davies never ‘finished’ the book, sparing readers the excruciating details of the Beatles’ disintegration. It remains the most enjoyable of all Beatle biographies, and the core from which all others have been constructed.
[BEATLES] DAVIES, Hunter The Beatles. The Authorised Biography London, Heinemann 1968 [27614]
FIRST EDITION, with photographic plates. Purple cloth in glossy psychedelic jacket (slightly edgeworn). Very good indeed, without the usual edge spotting. A clean example of a popular (widely read/used) book. British author Hunter Davies (born 1936) was the Beatles' only authorized biographer and ‘The Beatles’ is a portrait of the group at the peak of their creative powers; granted extraordinary access to the band, Davies was at Abbey Road studios for many of the Sgt. Pepper recordings and sat in on several Lennon-McCartney songwriting sessions; he also spent many hours documenting, for the first time, the individual Beatles’ own recollections. Released in 1968, when the band’s future still seemed limitless, the book was an engaging and surprisingly honest first-hand account. Although he has added illuminating postscripts to subsequent editions, Davies never ‘finished’ the book, sparing readers the excruciating details of the Beatles’ disintegration. It remains the most enjoyable of all Beatle biographies, and the core from which all others have been constructed. £65
Bag OneLENNON, John. Bag One. Amsterdam; Laurens a.danne N.V. 1970 [26566]
The famous Bag One portfolio, Dutch issue, in card folder. Originally conceived as a wedding gift from Lennon to Yoko Ono. The portfolio comprises title page, the Alphabet Poem, six portrait prints in black, and seven erotic prints in sepia tone, with printed signature of Lennon. Each sheet measure 51 x 37 cms. The English issue was exhibited in the London Art Gallery at 22 New Bond Street on 15th January 1970 for two weeks but was raided by Police on the second day and 8 of 14 items displayed were confiscated on the grounds of obscenity. This portfolio is from the Dutch exhibition; a very good set with the usual handling/entrance wear to the folder and inner tray. £1,200
Lennon was a visual artist before he picked up his first guitar, penned his first song or entered into partnership with the artist Yoko Ono. From 1957-60 he studied at the prestigious Liverpool Art Institute; later he would not only write but also illustrate three books: In His Own Write, A Spaniard In The Works and Skywriting By Word of Mouth (published posthumously). In 1969, as a wedding gift for Yoko, he began working on a series of drawings called Bag One a chronicle of their wedding ceremony, honeymoon and their plea for world peace ‘The Bed-In’.
Both the ‘Wedding’ and ‘Bagism’ themes would soon be immortalised in song; firstly in ‘The Ballad of John and Yoko’ by the Beatles; Drove from Paris to the Amsterdam Hilton, talking in our beds for a week. The newspapers said, "Say what you doing in bed?" I said, "We’re only trying to get us some peace"” and then with the lyric ‘Ev’rybody’s talking about Bagism, Shagism, Dragism, Madism, Ragism, Tagism, This-ism, that-ism...’ from Give Peace A Chance by Lennon’s Plastic Ono Band.
The ‘Bagism’ theme reappeared in the extravagant LP package ‘The Wedding Album’ which contained obscure artefacts and a plain white vinyl bag!; ‘Bags’ (physically or conceptually) have been associated with John & Yoko ever since.
[BEATLES] LENNON, John. In His Own Write. London, Jonathan Cape. 1964 [25178]
Lennon’s first book. FIRST EDITION. Small 8vo., pp. 78 + 1. Publisher’s laminated blue covers, rubbed at joints and spine ends. Illustrated by Lennon in his own amusing and unique style. £85
[BEATLES] NORMAN, Philip Shout. The True Story of The Beatles. London, Hamish Hamilton / Elm Tree Books 1981 [26552]
FIRST EDITION, with photographic plates. Red cloth in glossy dust jacket featuring the Robert Freeman ‘With The Beatles’ LP photograph. Wrapper with some light rubbing else fine. £35
Sunday Times Correspondent Philip Norman’s Shout was a ground-breaking biography of the Beatles and a bestseller in both Britain and the US. Norman had a close personal relationship with each of the protagonists, having interviewed them many times as a journalist since 1965; he observed at first hand the events that led to the split during 1969-70 and his resulting book contains unique insights into the rise of the Beatles, their final years, the chaos of Apple and the collapse of hippy idealism. Although he resists classification as a ‘rock biographer’, a musical theme pervades almost all of Philip Norman's work and he has also written the definitive lives of Sir Elton John and Buddy Holly.
[BEATLES] NORMAN, Philip Shout. The True Story of The Beatles. London, Hamish Hamilton / Elm Tree Books 1981 [26610]
FIRST EDITION, with photographic plates. Red cloth in glossy dust jacket featuring the Robert Freeman ‘With The Beatles’ LP photograph. Slightly bumped, wrapper sunned to spine else a near fine copy Sunday Times Correspondent Philip Norman’s Shout was a ground-breaking biography of the Beatles and a bestseller in both Britain and the US. Norman had a close personal relationship with each of the protagonists, having interviewed them many times as a journalist since 1965; he observed at first hand the events that led to the split during 1969-70 and his resulting book contains unique insights into the rise of the Beatles, their final years, the chaos of Apple and the collapse of hippy idealism. Although he resists classification as a ‘rock biographer’, a musical theme pervades almost all of Philip Norman's work and he has also written the definitive lives of Sir Elton John and Buddy Holly. £35
[Psychedelic Art] BIG BROTHER & THE HOLDING COMPANY, QUICKSILVER MESSENGER SERVICE Family Dog Presents... USA, 1966 [26567]
Original poster (FD14) by Stanley Mouse and Alton Kelly, announcing the two bands’ appearance at the Avalon Ballroom, San Francisco, June 24th-26th, 1966. Approx. 20 x 14 inches featuring the Zig Zag rolling papers and product logo. This is the rare variant printed in gold ink whose existence was unconfirmed until 1999! It now appears only a handful of copies were produced in gilt, perhaps as a trial, which was rejected in favour of the silver version. Small pin-holes to corners else a near fine example.
A scarce, early and desirable piece of Psych Art, which, unlike a dazed performance, hits all the right notes. £2,000
Bond Is Back[MOVIE TEASER] The World Is Not Enough UK; United Artists 1999 [26101]
Original movie teaser print /mini poster for the 1999 James Bond film, starring Pierce Brosnan, Sophie Marceau, Robert Carlyle, Denise Richards, Robbie Coltrane and Judi Dench.
Poster is flmegirl version, strictly promotional with simply the 007 ‘gun’ logo and release date 26/11/99 but no film title or details.
Overall dimensions approx. 11 x 16 inches, portrait. Fine condition, archivally backed on card. £45
[MARC BOLAN] Ian Dickson. 20th Century Boy. Original Photographs of Marc Bolan (Brighton): Self-published, 2006 [29031]
SIGNED by the photographer. From Ian Dickson’s ‘Collector's Series’; a range of handmade box sets, each title containing seven hand-printed images in signed mounts; offered in Standard, Digital or DeLuxe (best) edition.
‘20th Century Boy’ comprises six silver gelatine prints and one colour digital print of Glam-Rock legend Marc Bolan live on stage; this is the superior DeLuxe edition which uses fibre-based prints (instead of resin-coated), in hinged archival mounts (instead of standard mounts). The DeLuxe is the only issue to be signed both on the mount and the reverse of print. This is copy no.3 of an unspecified edition number (perhaps fewer than 10 examples), the series now having been discontinued by the publisher due to production costs and time constraints.
The mounted photographs are contained in archival quality polyester sleeves with a frame dimension of 11 x 14 inches. Housed in a custom-made, illustrated clamshell box with a numbered certificate affixed to the underside of the lid. The highly individual cover art is by famed cartoonist/illustrator Ray Lowry and a short but entertaining biography of the photographer ‘Hired Gun’ (also with Lowry-designed cover) completes the attractive package. A fine copy. Chameleon songwriter and guitarist Marc Bolan, like his friend and contemporary David Bowie, went through various personas and images, but is best remembered as a pioneer of the Glam-rock era of the early-mid ‘70s. His music career, like Bowie, began in the mid-sixties, as a troubadour folk singer under the guise ‘Toby Tyler’. he then joined the cult proto-punk band ‘John’s Children’ in early ‘67, who were a notorious live act but sold few records. He and their drummer Steve Peregrin Took created Tyrannosaurus Rex, a psychedelic-folk rock acoustic duo, playing Bolan's deceptively melodic songs—complete with J. R. R. Tolkien-influenced lyrics.
This edition of Tyrannosaurus Rex released three albums and four singles, flirting with the charts, and getting airplay from Radio 1 DJ John Peel. A highlight of this era was playing at the first free Hyde Park concert in 1968. Mickey Finn then replaced Took after their first American tour when Bolan wanted to chnge direction- A rock’n’roller at heart (at first he played skiffle and worshipped Gene Vincent and Chuck Berry), Bolan began bringing amplified guitar lines into the duo's music, buying a vintage Gibson Les Paul guitar for an authentic sound (the same guitar later featured the ‘T.Rex’ LP sleeve, 1970). Suitably equipped, he let the electric influences come forward even further on ‘A Beard of Stars’, the final album to be credited to Tyrannosaurus Rex. It closed with a song, "Elemental Child", featuring a long electric guitar break influenced by Jimi Hendrix. Next, with producer Tony Visconti, Bolan wrote and recorded "Ride A White Swan", dominated by a rolling, backbeat and fuzzy, spiky electric guitar, the name was edited to ‘T.rex’ and the single became an overnight success and largely (and, in many ways, unwittingly) invented the style that would become glam rock and helped restore a brash and exciting feel, when rock bands had grown increasingly self-important. With his corkscrew hair and boyish good looks, Bolan's emergence heralded the start of a new era of British music which could be appreciated by both serious rock fans and pop-loving kids. The band grew to a quartet, with added bass and drums, and T.Rextasy took hold, with their simple, catchy, boogie- based rock producing a string of classic singles such as ‘Get It On’, ‘Telegram Sam’, ‘Metal Guru’, ‘Children Of The Revolution’, ‘20th Century Boy’ and ‘The Groover’.
Ian Dickson has been photographing rock stars since 1972 and his work has appeared in Disc, Record Mirror, New Musical Express, Sounds, Vox, Mojo, Q, Rolling Stone and elsewhere. His first exhibition was in London in 1992 and several successful European shows followed. In 1994, a selection of his work was shown at the MTV Awards in Berlin, at the Brit Awards at Alexandra Palace, and at the World Music Awards in Monte Carlo and Copenhagen.
A feature on his portfolio was published in the March 1995 issue of Q magazine and in August that year, he was recognised by the 'Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum' who included his famous Rod Stewart 'pyjama' portrait; this was followed by an Eric Clapton and a Muddy Waters portrait, added in February 2000. £750
BOWIE, David. ROCK, Mick. Blood & Glitter. Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2005 [25760]
Photographic archive of celebrated music photographer Mick Rock, with a foreword by David Bowie. Folio hardback in dustwrapper, in publisher’s slipcase, with accompaying poster. A fine study, subjects include Queen, Pink Floyd, Mick Jagger, Blondie, The Ramones, Lou Reed, Iggy Pop... Provided with fine colour poster, approximately 30 x 40 inches, folded condition, Fine. £175
[The Clash, Ramones, Jam, Siouxsie and the Banshees, Shane McGowan, Damned, Sex Pistols] Ian Dickson. A Box of Punks. Original Photographs. (Brighton): Self-published, 2006 [29029]
SIGNED by the photographer. From Ian Dickson’s ‘Collector's Series’; a range of handmade box sets, each title containing seven hand-printed images in signed mounts; offered in Standard, Digital or DeLuxe (best) edition.
‘A Box of Punks’ comprises seven silver gelatine prints of punk bands; the images contained within the box set are all original handprinted photographs made from negatives taken for ‘Sounds’ magazine at the height of the punk-rock movement, November 1976-October 1977; this is the superior DeLuxe edition which uses fibre-based prints (instead of resin-coated), in hinged archival mounts (instead of standard mounts). The DeLuxe is the only issue to be signed both on the mount and the reverse of print. This is copy no.12 of an unspecified edition number (perhaps fewer than 20 examples), the series now having been discontinued by the publisher due to production costs and time constraints.
The mounted photographs are contained in archival quality polyester sleeves with a frame dimension of 11 x 14 inches. Housed in a custom-made, illustrated clamshell box with a numbered certificate affixed to the underside of the lid. The highly individual cover art is by famed cartoonist/illustrator Ray Lowry and a short but entertaining biography of the photographer ‘Hired Gun’ (also with Lowry-designed cover) completes the attractive package. A fine copy. Ian Dickson has been photographing rock stars since 1972 and his work has appeared in Disc, Record Mirror, New Musical Express, Sounds, Vox, Mojo, Q, Rolling Stone and elsewhere. His first exhibition was in London in 1992 and several successful European shows followed. In 1994, a selection of his work was shown at the MTV Awards in Berlin, at the Brit Awards at Alexandra Palace, and at the World Music Awards in Monte Carlo and Copenhagen.
A feature on his portfolio was published in the March 1995 issue of Q magazine and in August that year, he was recognised by the 'Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum' who included his famous Rod Stewart 'pyjama' portrait; this was followed by an Eric Clapton and a Muddy Waters portrait, added in February 2000. £750
CLAPTON, Eric. The Man & his Music. 1pp. SIGNED. London. ca.1979-1980 [23208]
Large single sheet, printed both sides, glossy, measures approx 12 x 9 inches. Titled ‘Eric Clapton. The Man & His Music’ with column of notes and full colour photo of Clapton in concert to one side, performance dates for 1980 tour printed on reverse. Possibly a page from a brochure or a tour promo leaflet etc. Fully SIGNED by Eric Clapton accross his photo. A clear image of the subject, ideal for framing. £375
Ex-Christies South Kensington.
[CLAPTON, Eric, and others] Eric Clapton 1996. FULLY SIGNED concert programme, fine association copy. Winterland Productions 1996 [25156]
Concert programme, 11 x 11 inches, 28pp.Fine condition throughout. With photographs and biographies of all the band members. Inscribed on the title page ‘To Alphi with Love Eric Clapton ‘96.’ Additionally signed and inscribed to Alphi by all ten of Clapton’s band, including Amen Corner founder and regular sidekick Andy Fairweather-Low and former Joe Cocker/Greaseband pianist Chris Stainton.
East-end bruiser Alphi O’Leary, the ‘gentle giant’, was not only Eric Clapton’s bodyguard and later security manager, he was a close friend of the legendary guitarist (he was an usher at EC’s wedding to Patti Boyd; the former Mrs George Harrison) and held the position of personal assistant to Clapton for over twenty years. Formerly the chauffeur / minder of T.Rex star Marc Bolan, O’Leary was employed by Clapton from 1973-1996, and died in 2002. This is his presentation copy programme for very last Eric Clapton tour he would work on.
£375
Ex-Christies South Kensington.
World's greatest blues guitarist - ‘Clapton Is God’CLAPTON, Eric. BLAKE, Peter, Derek TAYLOR [BEATLES] 24 Nights / Twenty Four Nights. Genesis Press, Guildford 1991 [26142]
Slim Quarto. Colour plates and illustrations. Book and scrapbook, with additional material. Original green morocco boards, gilt edges, together with a laminated stage pass, guitar picks, and a pack of guitar strings, plus limited double c.d ‘24 Nights’, the whole contained in custom-made clamshell box with card tray. A fine production, as expected from Genesis, the pioneers of high quality art-rock publications. 24 Nights is a unique collaboration between Eric Clapton, Peter Blake, Derek and Derek Taylor. Issued to commemorate Eric Clapton's record 24-night performance at the Royal Albert Hall in 1991.
Peter Blake's scrapbook is a collection of pencil sketches, charcoal drawings and montages showing Eric and the band during rehearsals and performances. Blake was the Associate Artist of the National Gallery and is probably best known for his graphic cover of The Beatles' 'Sergeant Pepper' album cover. A vast selection of original memorabilia from the concert tour including back stage passes, hotel room lists, polaroid photographs, seating plans, set lists, laminates and sheet music are reproduced in the scrapbook, many of them tipp-ins pasted in by hand.
The scrapbook is accompanied by a commentary book by Derek Taylor. Taylor attended rehearsals in Dublin, performances at the Royal Albert Hall and the after-show party. His account provides a unique insight into the backstage and on-the-road world of Eric Clapton and his band. A former publicist for the Beatles’ Apple Corps (as well as the Mamas and Papas, The Beach Boys and The Byrds), Taylor was one of the most influential music industry professionals of the time. His commentary offers the reader a rare opportunity to experience an insider's perspective on the man who is universally recognised as the world's greatest blues guitarist, labelled ‘God’ during his time with John Mayall, Cream, and Blind Faith in the mid to late sixties.
£975
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CORBIJN, Anton. Famouz Munich, Schirmer/Mosel. 2002 [23306]
FIRST EDITION: Publisher’s black cloth with embossed title. Original dustwrapper.In near fine condition, only traces of denting to verso. Fine collection of rock ‘n’ roll portraits, subjects including David Bowie, Brian Eno, Lou Reed, Morrissey (The Smiths), Miles Davis, Roy Orbison, Van Morrison, Johnny Rotten / John Lydon (Sex Pistols), U2, Debbie Harry (Blondie), Julian Lennon, James Brown, Elvis Costello, Captain Beefheart etc. £50
DAHL, Roald. Kiss Kiss, Eleven Fine New Stories by the Author of Someone Like You. London, Micheal Joseph. 1960 [23356]
FIRST EDITION: Publisher’s boards in fine and bright pictorial dust wrapper, with a couple of tiny chips. An unusually clean copy. With photograph of the author to rear panel by Eli Wallach!, cult actor and star of ‘The Good, The Bad and the Ugly’, ‘The Misfits’, ‘Baby Doll’, ‘The Magnificent Seven’, ‘Mystic River’, ‘The Godfather pt.III’ etc. £150
DYLAN, Bob. Self Portrait Great Britain; published by B.Feldman & Co 1970 [26773]
Original 1970 UK 72-page songbook featuring the words and music to every track on the album ‘Self Portrait’, arranged for piano, guitar and vocal, with chord diagrams plus many great colour and black & white pictures. Superb glossy colour cover featuring Dylan’s famous self portrait arwork, as used on the album sleeve. Trivial handling. A fine copy.
£65
[FLEMING, Ian] Eon Productions Tomorrow Never Dies. Premiere style/ Advance Film Programme and Ticket. United International Pictures 1997 [26291]
For the Multi Medial Advance Screening on Weds. 3rd December 1997 at the Odeon Leicester Square, London, comprising full colour numbered postcard ticket (no.1194) with promotional film stills to front and printed details to rear, housed in a glossy die-cut folding programme, 4-pages, wallet-form with photographic stand-up cover and full production credits to rear. Approximate dimensions 12’’ by 7’’. Very fine/unused condition. An uncommon piece of Bondiana
£95
HARRISON, George. Songs by George Harrison, Volume 1. Guildford, Genesis Press 1987. [23187]
SIGNED LIMITED EDITION. Slim Quarto. Colour plates and illustrations. Original black half-morocco boards, gilt edges, with limited edition c.d ‘Songs’, the whole contained in custom-made clamshell box with card tray. Limited to 2500 copies, signed by the former Beatle. A fine production, as expected from Genesis, the pioneers of high quality art-rock publications. With foreword by Jeff Lynne (ELO, Travelling Wilburys), middleword by Elton John, and backword by George Harrison.
CD recording of the following tracks included:
Sat Singing (Recorded March 1980).
Lay His Head (Recorded April 1980).
For You Blue (Recorded live in Washington DC, December 1974).
Flying Hour (Recorded March 1978). £1,875
HARRISON, George. TAYLOR, Derek. Fifty Years Adrift Guildford, Genesis Publications Ltd. 1984. [26638]
SIGNED LIMITED FIRST EDITION. 544pp. Quarto. Original brown half calf with gilt device to boards, gilt edges, red title label. Near fine condition showing light handling, in near fine (lightly marked) publisher’s slipcase. Superbly illustrated throughout with facsimiles of concert posters, tickets, photographs, contracts, letters, handbills etc., printed in colour and black and white.
Written by Beatles’ publicist and confidante Derek Taylor and edited and annotated by guitarist George Harrison, it is a lasting testament to the genius, wit and insight of two great men. An early working title had been 'And We All Shine On' but the title was finally taken from a Liverpudlian expression. The wealth of memorabilia reproduced was painstakingly excavated from a batch of large streamer trunks containing Derek's assorted possessions. This copy is No.1955 of 2,000 examples, each autographed by George Harrison, Derek Taylor and by ex-Bonzo Dog member Larry Smith, who created the end papers. Fifty Years Adrift was the subject of glowing reviews including a fabulous one in The New York Times, while The Beatles Book Monthly described it as, 'Probably the best Beatles-related volume ever'. The book was launched in Australia at The Sydney Opera House with both Derek and George in attendance, before traveling on to New Zealand for further promotion.
The book is now one of Genesis Publications’ ‘Hall of Fame’ titles with the publisher stating ‘As a result of the publicity tour in the Southern Hemisphere, half the edition was sold down there which makes it extremely hard to find in the North! If you find one hold on to it: it's a gem, and has never been published in any other form.’
£3,750
HARRISON, George, & SHANKAR, Ravi. Concert Programme, 1974. Artisan Press, Los Angeles 1974 [26510]
Original programme for 1974 tour, oblong format 9x11 inches, 22-pages sepia toned, with printed insert/errata sheet, with attractive colour ‘Flower’ cover. Includes lyrics, photographs and biographies of all the support musicians (including Billy Preston). An uncommon item. An early benefit concert tour, following the succesfull Concert For Bangladesh; proceeds from these 1974 dates went to the Appalachian Hospitals. £65
HORNBY, Nick 31 Songs. London, Viking 2003 [26616]
FIRST EDITION. SIGNED by the author. From the author of Hight Fidelity. Hornby’s short-takes on thirty one songs that are significant to him, from artists such as Teenage Fanclub, Ian Dury & the Blockheads, Richard & Linda Thompson, Patti Smith and Badly Drawn Boy. Fine in jacket. £45
[IGGY POP] Ian Dickson. The Idiot. Original Photographs. 5th March 1977. (Brighton): Self-published, 2006 [29030]
SIGNED by the photographer. From Ian Dickson’s ‘Collector's Series’; a range of handmade box sets, each title containing seven hand-printed images in signed mounts; offered in Standard, Digital or DeLuxe (best) edition.
‘The Idiot’ comprises seven silver gelatine prints of Iggy Pop live in concert; this is the superior DeLuxe edition which uses fibre-based prints (instead of resin-coated), in hinged archival mounts (instead of standard mounts). The DeLuxe is the only issue to be signed both on the mount and the reverse of print. This is copy no.3 of an unspecified edition number (perhaps fewer than 10 examples), the series now having been discontinued by the publisher due to production costs and time constraints.
The mounted photographs are contained in archival quality polyester sleeves with a frame dimension of 11 x 14 inches. Housed in a custom-made, illustrated clamshell box with a numbered certificate affixed to the underside of the lid. The highly individual cover art is by famed cartoonist/illustrator Ray Lowry and a short but entertaining biography of the photographer ‘Hired Gun’ (also with Lowry-designed cover) completes the attractive package. A fine copy. After the second breakup of the the proto-punk band ‘The Stooges’, frontman Iggy Pop was unable to control addictions and checked himself into a mental institution to clean up; David Bowie was one of his few visitors and he continued to support his friend and collaborator; in 1976, Bowie took him on the ‘Station to Station’ tour, Pop’s first exposure to large-scale professional touring, and he was impressed, particularly with Bowie's work rate. The pair relocated to West Berlin in an effort to kick drugs; Pop signed to RCA and Bowie helped write and produce ‘The Idiot’ and ‘Lust for Life’ (both 1977), Pop's two most acclaimed albums as a solo artist. Pop took ‘The Idiot’ on the road in March-April ‘77, with Bowie on keyboards and backing vocals. In return, Pop contributed vocals to ‘Low’, the first LP of Bowie’s Eno-produced ‘Berlin Trilogy’. The present photographs were taken on the first of two shows at London’s famed ‘Rainbow Theatre’ venue, being the last ‘Idiot’ UK dates- the tour then moved to Canada and America.
Ian Dickson has been photographing rock stars since 1972 and his work has appeared in Disc, Record Mirror, New Musical Express, Sounds, Vox, Mojo, Q, Rolling Stone and elsewhere. His first exhibition was in London in 1992 and several successful European shows followed. In 1994, a selection of his work was shown at the MTV Awards in Berlin, at the Brit Awards at Alexandra Palace, and at the World Music Awards in Monte Carlo and Copenhagen.
A feature on his portfolio was published in the March 1995 issue of Q magazine and in August that year, he was recognised by the 'Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum' who included his famous Rod Stewart 'pyjama' portrait; this was followed by an Eric Clapton and a Muddy Waters portrait, added in February 2000. £750
[Underground Music] (The International Times) BURROUGHS, William. Some of IT. London, Knullar Ltd 1969 [26626]
Anthology volume, with a special introduction by William Burroughs. Also includes interviews with Pete Townsend and the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi and a song by Kevin Ayers. Perfect bound in pictorial card covers, 176pp, iluustrated throughout. Fine. The International Times (it or IT), contemporary of the radical magazine OZ, was a London-based underground paper, which ran for 205 issues. IT was launched on 14 October, 1966 at The Roundhouse with a gig featuring Syd Barrett’s Pink Floyd and the Soft Machine. Contributors included underground writers Alex Trocchi; William Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg. avant-garde author Bill Levy, feminist critic Germaine Greer, poet and social commentator Jeff Nuttall, and cult DJ John Peel. £65
[THE JAM (Paul Weller, Rick Buckler, Bruce Foxton)] Ian Dickson. Modern World. Original Photographs of The Jam, June 13 1977 (Brighton): Self-published, 2006 [29026]
SIGNED by the photographer. From Ian Dickson’s ‘Collector's Series’; a range of handmade box sets, each title containing seven hand-printed images in signed mounts; offered in Standard, Digital or DeLuxe (best) edition.
‘Modern World’ comprises seven silver gelatine prints of legendary mod outfit The Jam live in concert and backstage. The images contained within the box set are all original handprinted photographs made from negatives taken for ‘Sounds’ magazine on 13.06.77 when the fledgling band played at Reading Top Rank, following the release of their debut 45 ‘In The City’; this is the superior DeLuxe edition which uses fibre-based prints (instead of resin-coated), in hinged archival mounts (instead of standard mounts). The DeLuxe is the only issue to be signed both on the mount and the reverse of print. This is copy no.3 of an unspecified edition number (perhaps fewer than 10 examples), the series now having been discontinued by the publisher due to production costs and time constraints.
The mounted photographs are contained in archival quality polyester sleeves with a frame dimension of 11 x 14 inches. Housed in a custom-made, illustrated clamshell box with a numbered certificate affixed to the underside of the lid. The highly individual cover art is by famed cartoonist/illustrator Ray Lowry and a short but entertaining biography of the photographer ‘Hired Gun’ (also with Lowry-designed cover) completes the attractive package. A fine copy. Ian Dickson has been photographing rock stars since 1972 and his work has appeared in Disc, Record Mirror, New Musical Express, Sounds, Vox, Mojo, Q, Rolling Stone and elsewhere. His first exhibition was in London in 1992 and several successful European shows followed. In 1994, a selection of his work was shown at the MTV Awards in Berlin, at the Brit Awards at Alexandra Palace, and at the World Music Awards in Monte Carlo and Copenhagen.
A feature on his portfolio was published in the March 1995 issue of Q magazine and in August that year, he was recognised by the 'Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum' who included his famous Rod Stewart 'pyjama' portrait; this was followed by an Eric Clapton and a Muddy Waters portrait, added in February 2000. £750
[LED ZEPPELIN] Ian Dickson. Earl’s Court, 1975. Original Photographs of Led Zeppelin in concert. (Brighton): Self-published, 2006 [29028]
SIGNED by the photographer. From Ian Dickson’s ‘Collector's Series’; a range of handmade box sets, each title containing seven hand-printed images in signed mounts; offered in Standard, Digital or DeLuxe (best) edition.
‘Earl’s Court’ comprises six silver gelatine prints and one colour digital print of legendary hard-rock outfit Led Zeppelin live on stage; in May ‘75, ‘The Biggest Band In the World’ played five highly successful, sold-out nights at the Earls Court Exhibition Centre in London, footage of which was released in 2003, on the Led Zeppelin DVD. This series of concerts could be considered as some of the best of the band's career [Lewis and Pallett] (and arguably the most famous gigs of the rock-era); the images contained within the box set are all original handprinted photographs made from negatives taken on the opening night, May 17th 1975; this is the superior DeLuxe edition which uses fibre-based prints (instead of resin-coated), in hinged archival mounts (instead of standard mounts). The DeLuxe is the only issue to be signed both on the mount and the reverse of print. This is copy no.7 of an unspecified edition number (perhaps fewer than 10 examples), the series now having been discontinued by the publisher due to production costs and time constraints.
The mounted photographs are contained in archival quality polyester sleeves with a frame dimension of 11 x 14 inches. Housed in a custom-made, illustrated clamshell box with a numbered certificate affixed to the underside of the lid. The highly individual cover art is by famed cartoonist/illustrator Ray Lowry and a short but entertaining biography of the photographer ‘Hired Gun’ (also with Lowry-designed cover) completes the attractive package. A fine copy. Ian Dickson has been photographing rock stars since 1972 and his work has appeared in Disc, Record Mirror, New Musical Express, Sounds, Vox, Mojo, Q, Rolling Stone and elsewhere. His first exhibition was in London in 1992 and several successful European shows followed. In 1994, a selection of his work was shown at the MTV Awards in Berlin, at the Brit Awards at Alexandra Palace, and at the World Music Awards in Monte Carlo and Copenhagen.
A feature on his portfolio was published in the March 1995 issue of Q magazine and in August that year, he was recognised by the 'Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum' who included his famous Rod Stewart 'pyjama' portrait; this was followed by an Eric Clapton and a Muddy Waters portrait, added in February 2000. £750
The Led Zeppelin Concert File, Dave Lewis and Simon Pallett,1997.
LENNON, Cynthia John. London, Hodder & Soughton 2005 [26624]
FIRST EDITION, SIGNED by Cynthia Lennon to publisher’s bookplate. Hardback cloth in jacket, with photographic plates. A very fine copy.
Cynthia’s long-awaited and revealing personal account of her life as the first and later former wife of one of the world’s most idolised men. “An extraordinary story about the man she never stopped loving”. £45
[LENNON, John] The Lennon Companion. Edited by Elizabeth Thomson and David Gutman London; Sidgwick and Jackson 2002 [25829]
FIRST EDITION thus. 273 pages, standard size, with photographic plates. Comprising twenty five years of comment from the likes of Tom Wolfe, Noel Coward, Kenneth Tynan, David Frost, Martin Amis, George Melly and Philip Larkin. Publisher’s cloth in dustjacket. Very fine. £20
LENNON, John. A Spaniard In The Works. London, Jonathan Cape. 1965. [26565]
FIRST EDITION. 140mm x 180mm, pp. 90 (+ v). A collection of writings, full of Lennon’s own quirky drawings. Publisher’s glazed photographic boards (cover shot and design by Robert Freeman). Nominal toning to endleaves else a very fine copy without the usual rubbing to joints. £120
LENNON, John, ONO, Yoko. ICA Event Pack; Articles, Prints, Ephemera and Autographs. London, Jonathan Cape. 1964 [26586]
LENNON, John and Ono, Yoko. ICA Event Pack. A complete pack of items as given out to the audience at a showing of Lennon and Ono’ art films at the New Cinema Club, Institute of Contemporary Arts, 10th September, 1969. The film's included Ono's "Bottoms" and Lennon's "Self-portrait" which detailed the rise (and fall) of his penis. The pack includes the wooden spoon and baking tray (noise makers), each of which has been signed by John and Yoko; Lennon has signed the tray as 'Jack Lennon', which he did rarely; autographs on the printed label are a little obscured. The signatures on the spoon are in black marker, Yoko’s autograph has faded slightly, but both are clear and legible. The pack also includes the 'Love and Peace' flyer, the Ono ‘Danger Box’ / Lennon ‘Build Around it’ perspex case, the
Lennon ‘fold it nine times’ paper sheet (creased where folded), the New Cinema Club booklet, ‘Love & Peace = Bagism’ postcard, the John Lennon Diary, a small Lennon chapbook 'You are Here', two promo photographs, the 'rape' flyer, 8-page promo booklet, and a single sheet giving the programme
schedule. 14 items in total, individually most are scarce, as a complete
collection this package is very rare; indeed it is the first such set we have
encountered.
Lennon was a visual artist before he picked up his first guitar, penned his first song or entered into partnership with the artist Yoko Ono. From 1957-60 he studied at the prestigious Liverpool Art Institute; later he would not only write but also illustrate three books: In His Own Write, A Spaniard In The Works and Skywriting By Word of Mouth (published posthumously). In 1969, as a wedding gift for Yoko, he produced a series of erotic lithographs, and throughout ‘69-‘70 the pair worked passionately on various avant-garde projects and themes which challenged the concepts of both art and music, often with a sexually explicit nature (the pornographic drawings, the nude films, the ‘Two Virgins’ LP, etc.), which suceeded in publicising certain issues, gained the couple a certain notoriety, and kept them in the headlines until their emigration to America in 1971. £7,500
LENNON, John. Imagine Parlophone / Capitol Records 2000 [26290]
Rare 2000 US promo-only press pack, includes 3-page press and media sheets, 2 pages of press cuttings and a 10" x 8" colour publicity photograph of John and Yoko taken by Peter Fordham at Tittenhurst Park circa 1970, all housed inside a custom 'Imagine' picture folder. Minor edgewear else fine.
£95
LENNON, John. Skywriting By Word of Mouth. London, Jonathan Cape /Pan. 1986 [26622]
FIRST EDITION. A collection of previously unpublished fiction and non-fiction written between 1968 and 1979 and illustrated by Lennon in his own inimitable style. Octavo, 200pp., publisher’s pictorial boards without wrapper as issued. A very fine copy. £45
LENNON, John. Real Love. London, Little Brown 1999 [26623]
FIRST EDITION. A collection of previously unpublished drawings and captions made with, and for, Lennon’s second son Sean., Oblong octavo, publisher’s pictorial boards in wrapper. A very fine copy. £15
[McCARTNEY, Paul] Coleman, Ray. Yesterday & Today. Surrey; Genesis Publications Ltd 1995 [32572]
LIMITED EDITION. 750 special copies full bound with padded vinyl boards, photographic print, all edges silver, housed in a marbled slipcase. Octavo, 191pp, with photographic illustrations, advertisement sheet for previous titles loosely inserted. Minor creasing to flyleaf else a fine copy. The late Ray Coleman’s study of one man and one song. Signed by the author. One of the publisher’s ‘Hall of Fame’ titles. Ray Coleman [1937–1996] was the former editor-in-chief of Melody Maker and a regular contributor to other music magazines including Disc, Black Music, Musicians Only, and Billboard. As a respected author and noted authority he was responsible for ten music biographies including the lives of Lennon, McCartney and Brian Epstein as well as co-writing Stone Alone (with Bill Wyman). £495
McCARTNEY, Paul. Blackbird Singing. Poems & Lyrics 1965-1999. London, Faber 2001 [26621]
FIRST EDITION. Publisher’s cloth in dustwrapper. A fine copy. “Wash out the name and fame- read these clear words and listen to them - decide for yourself. Paul is not in the line of academic poets or modernist poets. He is a popular poet”. Adrian Mitchell (from his introduction). £35
[THE NEW YORK DOLLS] Ian Dickson. The Rainbow Room. Original Photographs of New York Dolls at Biba's, 1973. (Brighton): Self-published, 2006 [29027]
SIGNED by the photographer. From Ian Dickson’s ‘Collector's Series’; a range of handmade box sets, each title containing seven hand-printed images in signed mounts; offered in Standard, Digital or DeLuxe (best) edition.
‘Rainbow Room’ comprises seven silver gelatine prints of legendary hard-rock outfit The New York Dolls live in concert. The images contained within the box set are all original handprinted photographs made from negatives taken at Biba’s ‘Rainbow Room’ restaurant, when the Dolls played to an invited audience in Novenber 1973; this is the superior DeLuxe edition which uses fibre-based prints (instead of resin-coated), in hinged archival mounts (instead of standard mounts). The DeLuxe is the only issue to be signed both on the mount and the reverse of print. This is copy no.3 of an unspecified edition number (perhaps fewer than 10 examples), the series now having been discontinued by the publisher due to production costs and time constraints.
The mounted photographs are contained in archival quality polyester sleeves with a frame dimension of 11 x 14 inches. Housed in a custom-made, illustrated clamshell box with a numbered certificate affixed to the underside of the lid. The highly individual cover art is by famed cartoonist/illustrator Ray Lowry and a short but entertaining biography of the photographer ‘Hired Gun’ (also with Lowry-designed cover) completes the attractive package. A fine copy. Influencial, mould-breaking rockers The New York Dolls found little commercial success during their existence, but prefigured much of the punk rock era and later; their outrageous crossdressing guided the ‘new wave’ look, and their shambling, sloppy but highly energetic playing style set the tone for many pub-rock groups, punk acts, ska, mod and garage bands.
Their big break came when Rod Stewart invited them to open for him in London, 1971. Shortly thereafter, drummer Billy Murcia became the band’s first rock‘n’roll fatality; his replacement Jerry Nolan died of a stroke in 1992, shortly after founding-member Johnny Thunders (guitarist) had fatally overdosed on heroin. The band was influenced by vintage rhythm and blues, early Rolling Stones, classic American girl group songs, and anarchic post-psychedelic bands such as the MC5 and the Stooges, as well as then-current glam rockers such as Marc Bolan. Thunder’s fuzzy guitar sound became a near-instant band trademark, as did Sylvain Sylvain's minimalistic rhythm guitar. They folded in ‘77 but reconvened in 2004 with three of their original members, two of whom, singer David Johansen and guitarist Sylvain, continue to record today. Original bassist Arthur ‘Killer’ Kane died in 2004.
Ian Dickson has been photographing rock stars since 1972 and his work has appeared in Disc, Record Mirror, New Musical Express, Sounds, Vox, Mojo, Q, Rolling Stone and elsewhere. His first exhibition was in London in 1992 and several successful European shows followed. In 1994, a selection of his work was shown at the MTV Awards in Berlin, at the Brit Awards at Alexandra Palace, and at the World Music Awards in Monte Carlo and Copenhagen.
A feature on his portfolio was published in the March 1995 issue of Q magazine and in August that year, he was recognised by the 'Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum' who included his famous Rod Stewart 'pyjama' portrait; this was followed by an Eric Clapton and a Muddy Waters portrait, added in February 2000. £750
OASIS [Noel Gallagher, Liam Gallagher and others] Promo Oasis Banner. No place, no date (1990’s) [26550]
Large blue and white shop type banner for promotional use, featuring the early Oasis logo, that was used throughout the nineties during the Creation Records period, to be replaced by a new design around the time the band launched their own label Big Brother Records. FULLY SIGNED by the present line-up (Noel & Liam, Alan White, Gem Archer, Zak Starkey and Andy Bell, and additionally signed by former guitarist Paul ‘Bonehead’ Arthurs and ex-bassist Paul Guigsy McGuigan.
Fine condition, framed. £400
OSBORNE, John [TUTIN, Dorothy]. The Entertainer. London: Faber and Faber, 1957. [21435]
FIRST EDITION, with Autographs. Publisher’s green cloth, in photographic dustwrapper by Anthony Armstrong Jones (Lord Snowdon). Minor wear, spine is toned, else a fine copy. Also included are two loose RSVP’s to the Royal Society of Arts 1975 annual dinner, one from the author, and one from his leading lady Dorothy Tutin.
John Osborne [1929-1994], was an anti-Establishment writer, one of the ‘angry young men’ and leading playwright of England’s post-war youth generation. As an actor he had several movie credits, notably appearing in the cult British films ‘Get Carter’ (1971, opposite Michael Caine) and Flash Gordon (1980, with Brian Blessed, Timothy Dalton, Peter Wyngarde and Max Von Sydow). This, his second play, was the follow-up to ‘Look Back in Anger’, and was chosen by the English Stage Company (founded in 1956 and housed in the Royal Court Theatre) as one of the new plays it wanted to produce. George Devine, a founder of the company, was a good friend of Lawrence Olivier, and it was through him that Olivier approached the idea of appearing in Osborne’s play. This move required considerable courage on Olivier’s part as it caused a good deal of furor. Olivier’s appearance in a non-Establishment play might have cost him the approval of his influential and highly placed friends... Nonetheless, Olivier was cast as Archie Rice and Dorothy Tutin starred opposite him as his daughter Jean. The play was directed by Tony Richardson, a comparatively young, inexperienced and unknown talent who had just directed Osborne’s debut and would go on to direct the movie of ‘The Entertainer’ (1960) (Olivier being Oscar-nominated in the role), and films including ‘The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner’ (1962 and ‘Tom Jones’ (1963), for which John Osborne wrote the Oscar-winning screenplay!
Dorothy Tutin [1930-2001], was a versatile leading British actress who won wide acclaim for her performances in plays by Shakespeare, Ibsen, Graham Greene and Harold Pinter, was awarded the CBE in 1967, and made a dame in 2000. Sir John Mills described her as ‘One of our greatest actresses who could play almost anything.’ £250
Let The Magic Begin...[MOVIE TEASER] Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone. USA, Warner Bros. 2001 [26096]
Original movie teaser print /mini poster for the 2001 Warner Bros. film. (British version, with UK title and .co.uk web address, although printed in USA). Image shows Hedwig delivering the Hogwarts letter, addressed to Harry Potter. Overall dimensions approx. 11 x 16 inches, portrait. Fine condition, archivally backed on card. £35
Based on the first novel in the popular fantasy series by J.K.Rowling; On his 11th birthday, young Harry Potter (Daniel Radcliffe) discovers the life he never knew he had, the life of a wizard. With the help of friendly giant and groundskeeper Rubeus Hagrid (Robbie Coltrane), he travels to Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry for his first years’ study, and meets his two best friends Ron Weasley (Rupert Grint), an expert at Wizard Chess, and Hermione Granger (Emma Watson), a girl with non-magic or ‘muggle’ parents. Harry learns the game of Quiditch and Wizard Chess on his way to facing a Dark Arts teacher who is bent on destroying him.
[Psychedelic Art] PINK FLOYD Cheetah Club Poster. USA, No Date [26747]
Smaller poster / window card style. Approx. dimensions 12 x 18 inches. Fine 1970's printing of this stunning concert poster, advertising the group’s appearance at The Cheetah Club in New York City, November 1967. Although many of the U.S. dates had been cancelled, this gig did take place, and proved to be the last date of this first US tour. Printed in Pink and Black. In rolled condition, virtually mint. £65
[ROLLING STONES] JAGGER, Mick, JONES, Brian, RICHARD(S), Keith, WATTS, Charlie, WYMAN, Bill. Publicity Postcard, ca. 1965. FULLY SIGNED UK, Fan Club [23733]
Publicity postcard with (early) photograph of the band to upper side, bordered, with group name, and printed facsimile signatures to reverse side. Fully signed by the classic line-up of Mick Jagger, Brian Jones (died 3/07/69), Keith Richards, Charlie Watts and Bill Wyman. All the printed signatures have been crossed through in blue ballpoint, with Mick and Brian clearly signing beside in blue, photograph side has the remaining autographs of Keith and Bill in black ballpoint, with Charlie signing in blue. Small area of tape mark (previously stuck in autograph book) to left hand border, not affecting image or text, else in fine condition. A fine set of autographs from the ‘Greatest Rock n Roll Band in the World’ £650
Mounted in clip-frame, with display xerox of concealed side
ROLLING STONES Time Is On My Side (Live). Fully Signed Single. [RSR-111] UK; EMI Records Ltd/ Rolling Stones Records. 1982 [26642]
FINE ASSOCIATION COPY. 7’’ Vinyl 45rpm single, backed with the Stones live version of Eddie Cochran’s ‘Twenty Flight Rock’. In photographic sleeve featuring the band live at one of the gigs on the ‘81 American tour, signed and inscribed in various pens to front ; Mick Jagger, Charlie Watts, both Keith Richards and Bill Wyman adding ‘love’ and Ron Wood signing ‘Cheers Woody’. Record appears unplayed, sleeve with some ringwear; a mint copy in very good cover. This copy was given to Arthur Collins, President of the Rolling Stones Record label, upon his parting with the band in 1982. Accompanying the record is an official letter of provenance from Collins on the Rolling Stones company stationery. £1,500
Arthur Collins [1953-2005] entered the music businees in 1975 as a promoter for Atlantic Records. In 1978 he moved to Rolling Stones Records, the group’s own label, where he worked as Vice-President, eventually becoming President. He travelled widely with the Rolling Stones and represented them both on the road and in the office. In 1982, Collins left to found Art Collins Management in New York City, his client list included Marianne Faithfull, Joe Jackson and Marshall Crenshaw, and from 1985 until he passed in Summer 2005 he managed his close friend Iggy Pop.
[ROLLING STONES] GUILIANO, Geoffrey Paint It Black. The Murder Of Brian Jones London, Virgin Books 1994 [26606]
FIRST EDITION. Publisher’s cloth in jacket, with eight photographic plates. Near fine. Author Guiliano is a respected authority on popular music and culture and this, his second Stones title, is a revealing account of the life and times of ‘Elmore’ Jones, otherwise known as Brian Lewis Hopkin-Jones from genteel Cheltenham, the blues-obsessed harp and slide player and founder of The Rolling Stones. Jones’ tragic death in his pool at his country retreat in 1969 is one of the most infamous events in rock history and for years has been shrouded in rumour. £25
[ROLLING STONES] Hotchner, A.E., & Steadman, Ralph. Blown Away. The Rolling Stones and the Death of The Sixties. London, Simon & Schuster 1990 [26609]
FIRST UK EDITION. Publisher’s cloth in jacket, with 16 photographic plates, dustwrapper desing by Ralph Steadman. Edges slightly tanned else a fine copy of this intelligent Stones Bio. £20
SIGNED LIMITED PHOTOGRAHIC ARCHIVE OF THE ROLLING STONES [ROLLING STONES] MANKOWITZ, Gered. i-contact UK, Genesis Publications [25759]
SIGNED LIMITED EDITION. Folio, spiral bound in heavy screen printed boards with specially produced linen tester magnifying glass, housed in a pictorial solander box, depicting a two-tone silver montage of the Stones. 208pp, masterprinted on 200gsm matt art paper with red acetate title page and bound in rich black cloth, silk-screened in silver. The format is A3 landscape (trimmed page size: 300mm x 420mm).
A photographic document of the band backstage, in performance and at the studio, during the classic period 1965-1968, with a fully participant Brian Jones, taken by the Stones photographer Gerald Mankowitz, successor to David Bailey (who shot the covers of the Stones first two LPs) The entire black and white Rolling Stones archive of celebrated Stones photographer Mankowitz is reproduced as 12" x 16" contact sheets. This unique edition forms the cornerstone of any serious Rolling Stones library. In allowing publication of his complete archive, Mankowitz requested that the number of copies in the edition be kept to an absolute minimum in order to preserve the exclusivity of his historic images. Therefore, the edition is strictly limited to only 950 numbered copies worldwide.
Fine copy (trivial wear to box), SIGNED by the photographer. This copy provided with additional loose advertisement print, 16x12 inches. £750
[ROLLING STONES] MANKOWITZ, Gered. The Stones ‘65-67. Together with The Stones ‘82. London, 2002 [23491]
SIGNED FIRST EDITION, LIMITED GALLERY EDITION. Folio, two volumes in publisher’s clamshell box. Large hardback. A photographic document of the band backstage, in performance and at the studio, during the classic period 1965-1967, with a fully participant Brian Jones, taken by the Stones photographer Gerald Mankowitz, successor to David Bailey (who shot the covers of the Stones first two LPs).
With the accompanying portfolio booklet of the later Stones, 1982, featuring Ronnie Wood as second guitarist.
Fine/ as new copy. Limited to 1000 copies, Signed by the photographer. £350
[ROLLING STONES] WATTS, Charlie. Ode to a Highflying Bird London; Beat Publications. 1964. [27502]
FIRST EDITION. Original white paper-covered boards, printed in black. 12mo. With colour illustrations. INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR. Shows some handling, and a little edgewear. Very good. Housed in a protective buckram case, titled in gilt to spine.
A decent copy of a particularly elusive book. (not to be confused with the 1991 facsmile which was issued in a CD boxset, identical to this first edition but for the imprint amended from ‘Beat’ to ‘UFO’). Rolling Stones’ drummer and Jazz afficianado Charlie Watts’ charming tribute to his hero, saxophonist Charlie ‘Yardbird’ Parker, which takes the form of an illustrated poem.
£2,250
Provenance; Ex- Bonhams. Sale13576, Lot 439.
[ROLLING STONES] WOOD, Ronnie. Wood On Canvas. Every Picture Tells A Story Forewords by Keith Richards, Mick Jagger and Charlie Watts. UK, Genesis Publications. 1998 [26287]
LIMITED EDITION, text and art by Ron Wood. 2500 copies only, SIGNED by the author. Pp.144, folio size, four-colour printed leaves, some folding-plates, quarter-bound in rich black cloth over blue art paper boards with colour title label, spine blocked in silver, housed in orange and blue silk-screened black cloth slipcase. As New. £295
A superb limited edition book covering the Rolling Stones’ guitarist Woody's prolific painting, from his early art-school beginnings to the present day. The collection includes portraits of The Stones, Jimi Hendrix, Bob Dylan, John Lennon, Muddy Waters, Ray Charles, The Sex Pistols, Rod Stewart and Keith Moon; many of them previously unseen, including several sketches Ronnie recently managed to draw in between shows on the Bridges to Babylon tour. Every piece of artwork has been hand-picked from his vast archive of sketch books and files.
In a text of over 8,000 words, Ronnie talks candidly about himself, his tremendous musical career spanning more than thirty years as one of the world's great guitarists and his second passion and talent in life, painting. He recalls the early days with his first band The Birds, followed by his apprenticeship on bass with The Jeff Beck Group, fun and games with The Faces and ultimately twenty-two years with the most popular and successful rock'n'roll band in the world - The Rolling Stones. Ronnie reveals to us his thoughts and feelings about being a Stone and his relationships with the other members of the band.
A superb production, containing an exclusive CD recording featuring Wood, Bob Dylan, Ian McLagan, Bobby Womack and The Edge, and provided with the original 4-page A4 advertising brochure form the publisher.
[ROLLING STONES] [Psychedeic Art] The Rolling Stones In Concert Raydell Publishing / Stone Productions 1969 [26289]
12 inch square full colour 16-page concert programme for the Stones’ Tour of America, in the autumn of 1969. With a glorious Psych cover designed by ‘Bird’ depicting a naked lady against a strapwork design with a moroccan flavour. Contents feature great colour photography plus the bands US dicography up mid-1969 (not including ‘Let It Bleed’). Very fine condition. A good survival of a fragile and decorative item. £175
The 1969 American shows were the first to feature former John Mayall’s Bluesbreaker Mick Taylor as second guitarist in place of the late Brian Jones and was a landmark tour for the group; playing in vast arenas to sell-out crowds; the lucrative stadium rock phenomenon of the following decade effectively started here. Some of the dates including Baltimore Civic Center, Boston Garden and New york’s Madison Square Gardens were recorded and later released as the quintessential live Stones sound ‘Get Yer Ya Ya’s Out’. Some recordings however had been bootlegged on Oakland as ‘Live R Than You’ll Ever Be’, which, (perhaps save for Bob Dylan’s ‘Great White Wonder’), became the most famous bootleg LP of the rock era. Although the tour was a great commercial success and artistically encouraging, it was marred by the notorious and isolated date at Altamont Speedway; a huge free concert near San Francisco starring Santana, the Grateful Dead, Jefferson Airplane, Crosby Stills Nash and Young, and the Flying Buritto Brothers, all headlined and sponsored by the Rolling Stones. For a variety of reasons it turned into one of the most violent days in rock history...
[ROLLING STONES] PUTLAND, Michael, TAYLOR, Mick Pleased to Meet You. DELUXE ISSUE; 100 copies only. Gensis Publications June 1999 [26346]
STRICTLY LIMITED, and SCARCE in DELUXE FORMAT; this was issued in the exclusive full leather binding (instead of quarter bound) and with an additional (large) Michael Putland print of the band SIGNED and numbered, on handmade paper.
A superb archive of images with accompanying text, from the Stones official tour photographer, the series of photos run from just before the 1972 world tour through to the 1986 Grammy awards. With a foreword by Mick Taylor. Full black goatskin, blocked in orange, with vignette portrait of the ‘Glimmer Twins’ to upper. Housed in a custom silk-screened solander box with die-cut window, printed in black and orange. A very fine copy. Signed by Author. £875
Putland’s archive documents the seventies which many consider the most interesting decade in the band's history, and beyond, resulting in a photographic history second to none; including shots of Mick Taylor in the line-up; the incredible It's Only Rock'n'Roll video shoot; the arrival of Ronnie Wood; the first pictures of Keith after his Toronto drug bust; backstage at the Palladium; and the fantastic 100 Club gig. Other musicians also photographed here include Paul McCartney and Billy Preston (The Beatles/Apple), Bob Marley and Peter Tosh (The Wailers), Roger Waters (Pink Floyd) Eric Clapton, Ian McLagan (Small Faces) and Van Morrison.
Unbelievably, Michael Putland's images have rarely been published, never exhibited, and never before presented in such an exquisite art form.
[ROLLING STONES] WYMAN, Bill, HAVERS, Richard. Rolling with the Stones. London, Dorling Kindersley. 2002 [26511]
SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Small folio Pp512. Publisher’s hardcover pictorial boards and dust wrapper. In fine condition. Signed by the former bass guitarist to half title. With over 3000 photos of the Stones on the Road, this is “a backstage pass to the fame and notoriety of the ‘greatest rock ‘n’ roll band in the world’”. £125
[ROLLING STONES] Ian Dickson. The Glimmer Twins: Jagger, Richards 1973-92. (Brighton): Self-published, 2006 [26649]
SIGNED by the photographer. From Ian Dickson’s ‘Collector's Series’; a range of handmade box sets, each title containing seven hand-printed images in signed mounts; offered in Standard, Digital or DeLuxe (best) edition.
The Glimmer Twins comprises six silver gelatine prints of Mick Jagger and Keith Richards live on stage in 1973 and 1976, and one colour digital print
of Keith Richards in concert, 1992; this is the superior DeLuxe edition which uses fibre-based prints (instead of resin-coated), in hinged archival mounts (instead of standard mounts). The DeLuxe is the only issue to be signed both on the mount and the reverse of print. This is copy no.11 of an unspecified edition number (perhaps fewer than 15 examples), the series now having been discontinued by the publisher due to production costs and time constraints.
The mounted photographs are contained in archival quality polyester sleeves with a frame dimension of 11" x 14". Housed in a custom-made, illustrated clamshell box with a numbered certificate affixed to the underside of the lid. The highly individual cover art is by famed cartoonist/illustrator Ray Lowry and a short but entertaining biography of the photographer ‘Hired Gun’ (also with Lowry-designed cover) completes the attractive package. A fine copy. £750
Ian Dickson has been photographing rock stars since 1972 and his work has appeared in Disc, Record Mirror, New Musical Express, Sounds, Vox, Mojo, Q, Rolling Stone and elsewhere. His first exhibition was in London in 1992 and several successful European shows followed. In 1994, a selection of his work was shown at the MTV Awards in Berlin, at the Brit Awards at Alexandra Palace, and at the World Music Awards in Monte Carlo and Copenhagen.
A feature on his portfolio was published in the March 1995 issue of Q magazine and in August that year, he was recognised by the 'Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum' who included his famous Rod Stewart 'pyjama' portrait; this was followed by an Eric Clapton and a Muddy Waters portrait, added in February 2000.
[PUNK] Sex Pistols. ‘God Save The Queen’ music sheet, SIGNED. No date, no place. [27774]
Set of three autographs on a single page, dimensions approx. 11 x 8.5 inches, leaf removed from a published music book; printed both sides with ‘God Save the Queen’ music and lyrics to recto (publishing credits to foot, composer credit top right), and Jamie Reid’s famous image of the Queen reproduced to verso. Pistol members Steve Jones, Glen Matlock and Johnny Rotten all signing across music score in various coloured felt pens. Fine condition. £375
[PUNK] Sex Pistols. Never Mind the Bollocks Here’s The Sex Pistols. Virgin Records, printed in Holland. (no date) [27778]
Digitally remastered CD recording of the legendary Punk band’s sole album, SIGNED by the original line-up. Autographs of Johnny Rotten (vocals), Glen Matlock (bass), Paul Cook (drums) and Steve Jones (guitar), in various coloured felt pens to front cover insert, which also doubles as a fold-out poster. Matlock has additionally inscribed ‘God HELP THE QUEEN’.
CD recording, all inserts and jewel case are in fine condition.
Signatures originate from the Filthy Lucre tour with the re-formed Pistols, 1996. £450
[PUNK] Sex Pistols. Never Mind the Bollocks Here’s The Sex Pistols. Virgin Records, London [27779]
Vinyl LP. EARLY UK PRESSING, issued on the blue Virgin label, with plain rear sleeve, without shrinkwrap or 45rpm single. SIGNED by the group; autographs of Steve Jones, John(n)y Rotten, Sid Vicious and Paul Cook in ballpoint to front of sleeve. Cook has additionally inscribed ‘Wanker’. Inside opening edge has date 25 !!!! 1977 hand-stamped in ink.
Both cover and LP show handling, sleeve is rubbed to extremities, some ringwear, vinyl with a few scuffs and marks. A good copy, housed in original die-cut paper liner. Although clearly well handled, fully signed copies such as this are scarce. £1,850
[PUNK] Sex Pistols. Signed expense accounts for the band. USA, [late 1977] [27770]
4 expense accounts; riders to the Pistol’s contract for their gig at the Winterland, San Fransisco, Jan. 14th 1978. Each sheet SIGNED by the respective musician; Johhny Rotten signing his real name John Lydon, Sid Vicious signing a fictitious (indecipherable) name ‘Earl Baloney?’. Jones and Cook autographed in full, Steve signing ‘Stephen Jones’. 4 sheets, roneo style, A4 size, signed in black ballpoint. Lightly handled; fine.
This gig was the last ever (bar the re-formed group dates, 1990s) and is secured as one of the legendary events in rock n roll history. Rotten closed the gig with a quip to the audience “Ever get the feeling you’ve been cheated?” The band was on its last legs. John was out with ‘flu, Sid was out on drugs and Cook and Jones fell out with John and Sid. John eventually walked the next day, after trying to get Jones to fire McLaren, and he was promptly abandoned in San Francisco, with no money. Sid went to New York and embarked on an ill-fated solo career managed by Nancy Spungeon, and Cook and Jones, with McLaren, went to Brazil to hang out with train robber Ronnie Biggs.
This set of riders therefore represents the last official signatures of the Sex Pistols. £5,500
[PUNK] Sex Pistols. (Glen Matlock) Autograph leaf. No date, no place. [27776]
Single page removed from an autograph book, SIGNED by Pistol’s bassist Glen Matlock, dated X-94. Ifdeal for framing. Londoner Glen Matlock, (b. Aug. 27, 1956) was the original bass player of legendary punk band The Sex Pistols. Drummer Paul Cook acknowledged Matlock came up with much of the music for the band's songs, while lead singer Johnny Rotten came up with the lyrics. Matlock is credited as a co-author on 10 of the 12 songs on Never Mind the Bollocks, Here's the Sex Pistols, the group's only LP. £50
[PUNK] Sex Pistols. (Glen Matlock and Steve Jones) Autograph leaf. No date, no place. [27777]
Single page measuring approx. 8x6 inches, SIGNED by Pistol’s bassist Glen Matlock, and lead guitarist Steve Jones. Matlock has additionally inscribed ‘Finsbury Park ‘96. Folded once, fine. Ideal for framing.
Londoner Glen Matlock, (b. Aug. 27, 1956) was the original bass player of legendary punk band The Sex Pistols. Drummer Paul Cook acknowledged Matlock came up with much of the music for the band's songs, while lead singer Johnny Rotten came up with the lyrics. Matlock is credited as a co-author on 10 of the 12 songs on Never Mind the Bollocks, Here's the Sex Pistols, the group's only LP.
In the documentary ‘The Filth and the Fury’ group founder Steve Jones recalled he grew up watching his parents steal from shops, and during his teens he racked up 14 criminal convictions., spending a year in a remand centre; he admitted that the Sex Pistols saved him from a life of crime or even prison.
The Finsbury Park show was in fact the infamous band’s third performance since breaking up in San Francisco in 1978. Prior to the London show, they did two warm-up gigs in Finland and Germany. The Finnish show was an unmitigated disaster, but, happily for the recording process (as ‘Filthy Lucre Live’ was recorded there), the Finsbury Park concert was the exact opposite, an emotional and musical triumph. £85
[PUNK] Sex Pistols. (Jones, Steve). Steve Jones’ Manuscript Notebook. No place, no date. [1970s] [27771]
Pistols guitarist Jones’ personal notebook, 6x4 inches approx, ruled lines style, lacking covers. Some handling, light browning to exterior, completed in various inks. Very good.
The notebook contains a few phone numbers, some minor jottings, a small sketch of a face, and handwritten lyrics for an unrecorded song “Once I was a Queen”, and handwritten lyrics for an unrecorded song “Sid My Hero”; a moving eulogy to Sid Vicious. The notebook consists of 24 pages, 14 of which are blank. The first page contains a short hand-written note to Jones from Helen Wellington Lloyd aka Helen of Troy (Great Rock n Roll Swindle) whom Malcolm Mclaren lived with following an argument with Vivienne Westwood, and who, rather than artist Jamie Reid, first developed the Pistol’s ‘ransom note’ lettering. Original manuscript and personal Pistol items seldom appear for sale, and intimate items such as this are rare. The ‘Sid’ song lyrics offer a further insight into the relationship between Jones and Vicious. Jones, described by Iggy Pop as the Robert Mitchum of punk, was a founding member of the band and gained notoriety (and the front-page headlines) in December 1976 when he called TV presenter Bill Grundy ‘a dirty fucking rotter’ live on his primetime show. Jones teenage career choice of kleptomania also provided the band with their earliest equipment; David Bowie lost microphones, and the Spiders From Mars lost their amplifiers; Rod Stewart had a couple of guitars go a.w.o.l., Ronnie Wood lost a fur coat, and Jones even helped himself to Keith Richards television set. £1,500
[SEX PISTOLS] Ian Dickson. Notre Dame / Sex Pistols 1976. (Brighton): Self-published, 2006 [27781]
SIGNED by the photographer. From Ian Dickson’s ‘Collector's Series’; a range of handmade box sets, each title containing seven hand-printed images in signed mounts; offered in Standard, Digital or DeLuxe (best) edition.
‘Notre Dame’ seven silver gelatine, hand-printed, photographic prints of the Pistols at the recording of their "No Fun" TV Special filmed at the Notre Dame Assembly Hall, in Soho, London on the 15th of November, 1976. The gig was set up to be filmed for Janet Street-Porter's London Weekend Show. The audience included Shane MacGowan, Joe Strummer, Toyah Wilcox, Poly Styrene, TV Smith, Siouxsie, Jamie Reid, Vivienne Westwood (who
danced on stage unaware that the gig was being filmed), and also, one Nancy
Spungeon. this is the superior DeLuxe edition which uses fibre-based prints (instead of resin-coated), in hinged archival mounts (instead of standard mounts). The DeLuxe is the only issue to be signed both on the mount and the reverse of print. This is copy no.7 of an unspecified edition number (perhaps fewer than 15 examples), the series now having been discontinued by the publisher due to production costs and time constraints.
The mounted photographs are contained in archival quality polyester sleeves with a frame dimension of 11" x 14". Housed in a custom-made, illustrated clamshell box with a numbered certificate affixed to the underside of the lid. The highly individual cover art is by famed cartoonist/illustrator Ray Lowry and a short but entertaining biography of the photographer ‘Hired Gun’ (also with Lowry-designed cover) completes the attractive package. A fine copy. £750
Ian Dickson has been photographing rock stars since 1972 and his work has appeared in Disc, Record Mirror, New Musical Express, Sounds, Vox, Mojo, Q, Rolling Stone and elsewhere. His first exhibition was in London in 1992 and several successful European shows followed. In 1994, a selection of his work was shown at the MTV Awards in Berlin, at the Brit Awards at Alexandra Palace, and at the World Music Awards in Monte Carlo and Copenhagen.
A feature on his portfolio was published in the March 1995 issue of Q magazine and in August that year, he was recognised by the 'Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum' who included his famous Rod Stewart 'pyjama' portrait; this was followed by an Eric Clapton and a Muddy Waters portrait, added in February 2000.
The last war on Earth won't be started by humans.[MOVIE TEASER] The War of the Worlds UK; United International Pictures 2005 [26102]
Original movie teaser print /mini poster for the 2005 Steven Spielberg film, starring Tom Cruise and Tim Robbins.
Poster is landscape format, with title and globe image, promotional version showing release date july 1 [2005].
Overall dimensions approx. 11 x 16 inches, portrait. Fine condition, archivally backed on card. £25
Loosley based on the Sc-Fi classic by H G Wells.
Ray Ferrier is a working class man living in New Jersey. He's estranged from his family, his life isn't in order, and he's too caught up with himself. But the unthinkable and, ultimately, the unexpected happens to him in an extraordinary sense. His small town life is shaken violently by the arrival of destructive intruders: Aliens which have come en masse to destroy Earth. As they plow through the country in a wave of mass destruction and violence, Ray must come to the defense of his children. As the world must fend for itself by a new and very advanced enemy not of this world, it's inhabitants must save humanity from a far greater force that threatens to destroy it.
TRAVELING WILBURYS [DYLAN, Bob, HARRISON, George, LYNNE, Jeff, ORBISON, Roy, PETTY, Tom] Recording contract for the single ‘End of the Line’ January 1989 [23200]
Recording contract for the second Wilburys single ‘End of the Line’ detailing royalty payments (quite clearly a George Harrison composistion, according to his cut!), signed by each group member, with the Late Big O’s widow signing in his place. Various sheets, typed, A4. Fine condition. The stellar line-up of Bob Dylan, former Beatle George Harrison, Roy Orbison, ‘Heartbreaker’ Tom Petty and Jeff Lynne (ex-The Move and Electric Light Orchestra), convened in 1988. Basically a good-time supergroup, each musician assuming the guise of a Wilbury ‘brother’ or ‘clan’ member. George Harrison, gave a profound insight into the formation of the band; "And so I just thought I'll just go into the studio tomorrow and do one (song), and it happened that Jeff was working with Roy and Roy wanted to come. My guitar was at Tom's house for some reason and I had to go round and get it. And the only studio that we could find available was Bob's".
The band release their first LP (volume 1!) in October 1988 which was a collection of ten songs, spawning the singles ‘Handle With Care’ (October 1988) and ‘End of the Line’ (February 1989). This contract is for the latter release, which was signed on 1st January 1989. Roy Orbison had tragically died of a heart attack in December. The remaining Wilburys recorded a second album (volume 3!) which was released in October 1990, as a tribute to their former colleague, also known as Lefty Wilbury’ £3,000
U2. [Bono, Adam Clayton, The Edge & Larry Mullens Jr.] How To Dismantle An Atomic Bomb. Island Records, 2004 [26507]
SPECIAL LIMITED EDITION Box set comprising hardback book of illustrations, paintings and photography by the Irish supergroup, together with the CD album within a book-pocket, plus the DVD entitled ‘U2 and 3 songs - a documentary" and 5 performances from U2 HQ’, housed in a separate die-cut sleeve; the whole contained within a custom slip-case with paper ‘obi’ strip (wraparound band). Fine condition throughout. £45
WAKER, Alexander. [KUBRICK, Stanley] Stanley Kubrick Directs. A Visual Analysis by Halcyon. New York, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich 1971 [28707]
First Edition (stated). Publisher’s cloth in pictorial jacket. INSCRIBED BY KUBRICK; To Jo, / Best Wishes/ Stanley Kubrick. Lightly handled and used; book has a light dampmark to flyleaves and similar damp to reverse side of jacket (with some bleed, unnoticeable from outer side), otherwise a near fine copy. Profusely illustrated with photographs, film stills and snapshots.
A fine contemporary photo-documentary of the legendary director responsible for such classic films as Lolita, Dr.Strangelove, 2001: A Space Odyssey and A Clockwork Orange. Signed or inscribed items form the reclusive filmaker are scarce. £2,100
SIGNED BY ANDY WARHOLWARHOL, Andy. Billy Squier. USA, Capitol Records 1982 [25763]
Advertising poster for recording artist Billy Squier, designed by Andy Warhol and SIGNED by the artist with full clear signature. Overall dimensions 20x30 inches, rolled condition. Boldly signed in black marker to top left of image panel. Fine. £475
WARHOL, Andy. CUTRONE, Ronnie. Andy Warhol; Hammer and Sickle. London, Haunch of Venison, 2004 2004 [26629]
FULL EXHIBITION CATALOGUE for the first UK showing of the Hammer & Sickle series of drawings, illustrations by the artist, with an essay by Warhol’s studio assistant Ronnie Cutrone. Unpaginated. Monochrome, two-colour and one colour photographic plates. Card covers in original dustwrapper. Fine. Complete with the six page list of exhibits and the single sheet press release which includes a small colour illustration (folded). First and only printing. £35
WARHOL, Andy. Exposures. London: Hutchinson & Co., 1979. [22534]
FIRST EDITION, INSCRIBED “To Stuart/Love”, SIGNED by Warhol with a sketch of a heart.Fine in publisher’s black cloth with silver titles to spine, in fine dustwrapper. £450
WARHOL, Andy. Exposures. London: Hutchinson & Co., 1979. [26620]
FIRST EDITION, INSCRIBED “To Candiece/Love”, Andy Warhol with an ORIGINAL SKETCH of a cookie. Additionally SIGNED on the jacket. publisher’s black cloth with silver titles to spine, in dustwrapper. Near fine £975
WARHOL, Andy, & HACKETT, Pat. POPism. The Warhol ’60s. New York; Harcourt Brace Jovanovich 1980 [26553]
FIRST EDITION, SIGNED TWICE by Warhol, once in full to flyleaf and again (‘Andy’) to jacket. With photographic plates, subjects including Dylan, Nico and Lou Reed. Bound in quarter black cloth, titled to spine, in pictorial dust wrapper. A fine copy. £495
You Can’t Argue with Your Scrapbook.WARHOL, Andy. The Philosophy of Andy Warhol (From A to B and Back again). New York, 1975. [22349]
Fine in near fine, price-clipped dustwrapper. Initialled by Andy Warhol on half-title. FIRST EDITION. “The Philosophy of Andy Warhol is an incredible potpourri: sublimely irreverent, unfailingly funny - above all, true.” £210
[WARHOL, Andy]. Wilcock, John The Autobiography and Sex Life of Andy Warhol.
by John Wilcock, with a cast of thousands. Other Scenes Inc., New York 1971 [28358]
FIRST EDITION, Photos by Shunk-Kender. Quarto sized volume Unpaginated. Richly illustrated in b/w. Original photographic softcovers. A near fine copy with a little corner creasing, this copy exported to UK with a £price ticket affixed to upper. An inside view of life at ‘The factory’; being a series of interviews with Warhol associates, lovers, and hangers-on including Lou Reed, Nico, Gerard Malanga, Paul Morrissey, Viva, Ultra Violet and Ronnie Travel. £75
SIGNED BY MAE WESTWEST, Mae [1893-1978] Inscribed Print of actress Mae West. n.d. [26100]
Original glossy colour print, Deco style, measuring 6 x 4.5 inches’’. No date, but probably 1970’s. INSCRIBED by subject to lower right hand corner To/ Michael/ from/ Mae West/ (flourish). The recipient is theatre/film mogul Michael J. Cooper of Michaelangelo Organisation Inc.,3571 Berry Drive, Studio City Ca. 91604, and was one of a large number of autographs and letters accumulated during his career. Some minor crazing else in fine condition, in common mount. £145
Mary Jane West was born, in Brooklyn, New York, on August 17, 1893 to parents involved in prize-fighting and vaudeville. Mae, herself, worked on the stage and in vaudeville from the time she was five years old. She never was academically inclined because she was too busy performing. She studied dance as a child and by the time she was 14, she was billed as "The Baby Vamp" for her performances on stage. Later Mae began writing her own plays. One of those plays, entitled SEX, landed her in jail for ten days on obscenity charges in 1926. Two years later her play, DIAMOND LIL, became a huge Broadway success.
Mae caught the attention of the Hollywood moguls and was given her first movie role with George Raft in 1932's NIGHT AFTER NIGHT. Although a small role, she was able to display a wit that was to make her world famous. Raft, himself, said of Mae, "She stole everything but the cameras." The movie going public fell in love with the first woman to make racy comments on film. She became a box-office smash hit breaking all sorts of attendance records. Her second film, SHE DONE HIM WRONG (1933), was based on her earlier and popular play that she had written herself. The film was nominated for an Academy Award as Best Picture. It also made Cary Grant a star. Her third film later that year was I'M NO ANGEL. These two films resulted in the Motion Picture Production Code which regulated what content could be shown or said in pictures. As a result of these codes, Mae began to double talk so that a person could take a word or phrase anyway they wished. This was so she could get her material past the censors. It worked. She really felt she had a vested interest because it was her written work being scrutinized. She had already written and performed these for the stage with the very material now being filmed. Her next film, BELLE OF THE NINETIES made in 1934 was an equal hit.
By 1936, with the films, KLONDIKE ANNIE and GO WEST YOUNG MAN, made her, at that time, the highest paid woman in the US. After the 1937 film, EVERYDAY'S A HOLIDAY, she didn't make another film until 1940, when she co-starred with W.C. Fields in another Mae West written movie, MY LITTLE CHICKADEE. It was well known she had little use for Field and his crude ways, even for her. After THE HEAT'S ON in 1943, Mae took a respite from the film world. The reason was the censors were getting stricter. She decided she would be able to have greater expression in her work if she went back to the stage. Mae continued to be a success there. When censors began to let up, she returned to film work in 1970 in MYRA BRECKINRIDGE.
Her last film was in 1978 called SEXTETTE (with former Beatle Ringo Starr!). Mae suffered a series of strokes which finally resulted in her death on November 22, 1980 in Hollywood, California and was buried in New York. She was 87. The actress, who only appeared in 12 films in 46 years, had a powerful impact on us. There was no doubt she was way ahead of her time with her sexual innuendoes and how she made fun of a puritanical society. She did a lot to bring it out of the closet and perhaps we should be grateful for that.
Ex-Bonhams.
WHO, The [Pete TOWNSEND, Ross Halfin]. The Who Live. The Greatest Rock ‘n’ Roll Band In the World. UK, Genesis Publications. 2000 [26708]
LIMITED EDITION, signed by photographer Ross Halfin. Strictly 1500 copies were available worldwide, this being copy number 262. This remarkable limited edition book charts the band's performances from the early days in the Sixties through to Pete Townshend's recent Lifehouse shows at Sadler's Wells in London, with emphasis on the legendary tours of the Seventies when the band were labelled the greatest live rock'n'roll band in the world. Accompanying the photographs are observations by Glyn Johns, Ross Halfin, Matt Kent, as well as the featured photographers. Includes a CD album of ‘THE WHO LIVE AT LEEDS’ pressed specially for this edition. Folio, bound in quarter black morocco with gilt-titled backstrip, over paper sides reproducing the cover art of the original 1970 LP which was designed to resemble a bootleg recording. Complete with errata slip. A fine copy, with 180 pages containing of over 400 images printed on acid-free 200gsm matt art paper, housed in a stylish and protective slipcase featuring a collage of images printed on luxurious Italian paper. A superb production. £375
The first of two ‘Who’ titles from Genesis, the pioneers of high quality art-rock publications; ‘Maximum Who’ followed in 2002.
WHO, The. Maximum Who; The Who in the Sixties
Compiled by Ross Halfin England; Genesis Publications Ltd. 2002 [26709]
LIMITED EDITION, SIGNED by photographer Ross Halfin. 1500 copies only, bound in publisher’s in quarter blue leather and red cloth, powder blue endpapers with all edges gilt. Folio volume on high quality 200gsm matt art paper; the images and text are printed in monochrome and full colour with image varnishing. Front board adorned with a silkscreen of the iconic Who logo and Mod target, and the volume is housed in a red cloth slipcase illustrated with a large ‘My Generation’-era photograph of the band to upper, plus a fine reproduction of the famous ‘Marquee Club’ poster to rear featuring guitarist Pete Townsend’s legendary ‘Windmill’ power chord.
A superb production from Genesis Publications, pioneers of high quality art-rock publications. £350
YOUNG, Neil. MAZZEO, James. Greendale. London, Sanctuary Publishing Ltd. 2004 [24616]
Hardback first editoin in pictorial dustwrapper. Fine/Fine. One of 1000 copies published, a lovely production fully bound in green cloth with illustration laid down to upper, with full colour illustrations by Mazzeo at the rear. Accompanies the 2004 film and soundtrack that Neil Young produced under this title. This copy signed in person by Young and Mazzeo in San Francisco on the occasion of this book's release, which and the only signing session held. Mazzeo has additionally inscribed ‘enjoy’ and has dated his signature (2004!).
Legendary singer-songwriter Neil Young’s first (and only) book, with the reclusive musician’s scarce signature. £295
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