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![The Animals] R 'n' B '64. The ANIMALS](/pictures/thumb/57012.jpg?v=1604770082)
[The Animals] R 'n' B '64.
1964. [Rock and Roll Tour Programme] ORIGINAL PROMOTIONAL BOOKLET. Large octavo (27 x 20cm), pp.[16]. Profiles of each artist / band in the line-up. Publisher's red and black illustrated soft covers, stapled twice, and priced at 2/6. Heavy ink doodling to 'The Nashville Teens.' Light wear to covers. Very good..... More
![The Animals] R 'n' B '64. The ANIMALS](/pictures/thumb/57785.jpg?v=1609174445)
[The Animals] R 'n' B '64.
1964. [Rock and Roll Tour Programme] ORIGINAL PROMOTIONAL BOOKLET. Large octavo (27 x 20cm), pp.[16]. Profiles of each artist / band in the line-up. Publisher's red and black illustrated soft covers, stapled twice, and priced at 2/6. Light wear to covers. Near fine. More
Guildhall Portsmouth Sunday, 18th April: A Concert in aid of the Lord Mayor's Special Appeal for the Sir Winston Churchill Memorial. Presented by Joe Collins and Mervyn Conn. With Manfred Mann, Dave Berry, the Ivy League.
Hastings: Hastings Printing Company, April 1965. [Concert Programme] RARE PAMPHLET (27 x 20cm), pp.12. Publisher's colour printed paper covers with two staples. Very light wear. Near fine. More
![Original Concept Artwork from 'Hawkeye and the Last of the Mohicans']. ANONYMOUS](/pictures/thumb/45766.jpg?v=1493310975)
[Original Concept Artwork from 'Hawkeye and the Last of the Mohicans'].
[ITC Entertainment] [c. 1957]. ORIGINAL WATERCOLOUR. On cardboard, backed and behind frame-less glass. Depicting three settlers with firearms. Card lightly browned, with black ink inscription 'Hawkeye P16' to top left. More
![Original Concept Artwork from 'Hawkeye and the Last of the Mohicans']. ANONYMOUS](/pictures/thumb/45767.jpg?v=1493310975)
[Original Concept Artwork from 'Hawkeye and the Last of the Mohicans'].
[ITC Entertainment] [c. 1957]. ORIGINAL WATERCOLOUR. On cardboard, backed and behind frame-less glass. Depicting a Native American wielding a tomahawk. Card lightly browned. More
Avedon: Photographs 1947-1977.
New York, NY: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1978. [Fashion Photography] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Quarto (37 x 28cm), unpaginated, with 162 black and white photographs. SIGNED and dated in the year of publication by the photographer in black ink to title page. Publisher's glossy photographic paper-covered boards. With the original clear..... More
Joan Baez Souvenir Brochure.
London: Harold Davison, [circa 1965]. [American Folk Music] ORIGINAL PROMOTIONAL BOOKLET. Large octavo (26 x 21cm), pp.[20]. An in-depth profile of the artist, including material from various interviews, illustrated with numerous black and white photographs. Publisher's yellow soft covers, stapled twice. Very light handling; almost as-new. Fine. More
Beady Minces.
London: Mathews Miller Dunbar and Bailey Co-Production, 1973. [Photography] FIRST EDITION. Quarto (31 x 22cm), unpaginated. Publisher's cream laminated boards, titles in black to spine, photographic dust-jacket. Profusely illustrated with black and white reproductions of Bailey's work. With an introduction by Terence Donovan. Internally clean, some toning to endpapers and..... More
Meet the Beatles. Star Special Number Twelve: An Informal Date in Words & Personal Album Pictures. Introduced by themselves.
Manchester: World Distributors, 1963. [Popular Music] ORIGINAL PROMOTIONAL BOOKLET. Large octavo (25 x 18cm), pp.[40]. Profiles of each band member and their manager Brian Epstein, plus general information about the band and their origins, and many contemporary black and white photographs. Publisher's colour-illustrated soft covers, stapled twice and priced at..... More
The Beatles by Royal Command.
London: The Daily Mirror Newspapers, 1963. [Concert Booklet] ORIGINAL PROMOTIONAL BOOKLET. Octavo (23 x 18cm), pp.[28]. A black and white photographic record of the band's progress through the day of the performance, including captions. One colour image at centre, and colour illustrated soft covers, stapled twice. Only very light rubbing..... More
The Lennon Play: In His Own Write.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1968. [Sixties Culture] FIRST EDITION. Small octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.35; [3], blank. Publisher's textured purple covers in a pictorial dust-wrapper, priced at 16s. A superb, fine copy. Book Collector No.287 (p32-62) 'The Sixties'. More
Postcards From The Boys.
Guildford, UK: Genesis Publications, 2003. LIMITED EDITION, DELUXE ISSUE SIGNED [TWICE] BY RINGO. No 21 of 350 numbered copies, not to be confused with the 'Collector' edition which was numbered up to 2500. Exquisite box set of reproduction postcards sent to Ringo from John Lennon, Paul McCartney and George Harrison..... More
The Best of Beaton. With notes on the photographs by Cecil Beaton. Introduction by Truman Capote.
London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1968. [Photography] FIRST EDITION. Quarto (31 x 24cm), pp.248. Profusely illustrated with mainly black and white photographs by Beaton. Publisher's black cloth with silver titles to spine, orange endpapers, dust-jacket. Edges toned with the occasional mark, cloth lightly handled. Jacket price-clipped, with extensive amateur repairs to..... More
It Gives Me Great Pleasure.
London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1955. [Biography] INSCRIBED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.[8]; 214; [2] blank. Publisher's green cloth, gilt titles to spine, dust-jacket designed by Beaton with printed price of 16s net. Photographic frontispiece and occasional in-text illustrations. Inscribed by the author to the flyleaf: "To dearest Enid..... More
Beyond the Fringe.
London: Souvenir Press, 1963. [Humour] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 13cm), pp.96. Publisher's dark blue cloth, orange titles to spine, photographic dust-jacket with printed price of 13s. 6d. With six double sided black and white photographic plates. Light spotting to edges. Wrapper slightly edge worn, some marking to rear panel..... More
![A Programme of Jazz by Mr. Acker Bilk and His Paramount Jazzband [Concert Programmes]. St....](/pictures/thumb/57849.jpg?v=1609174446)
A Programme of Jazz by Mr. Acker Bilk and His Paramount Jazzband [Concert Programmes]. St. George's Hall, Bradford, 24th January 1960 [and] The Gaumont Theatre, Bradford, 7th October 1960. Presented by P.J.P. Dennehy Ltd.
Bradford: John D. Marshall & Co. [and] Marlboro' Press, 1960. [Jazz Concert Programmes] TWO ORIGINAL PROMOTIONAL BOOKLETS. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.[4]; pp.[4]. Each programme featuring a list of numbers which the band would choose from on the night, plus a list of the artists scheduled to be playing with..... More
T.Rex. Marc Bolan - Electric Warrior.
no date [taken 1971]. [Glam rock] Original black and white photograpH. Printed by photographer Spud Murphy, titled signed and dated by him in ink to lower margin. In an elegant acid-neutral mount, glaze, and bespoke archival frame. Overall dimensions 37 x 46 cm. Fine. This classic shot shows the band..... More
Moonage Daydream: The Life and Times of Ziggy Stardust.
Guildford: Genesis Publications, 2002. [Rock/pop] SIGNED BY BOWIE AND ROCK. Deluxe Edition, number 171 of 350 copies bound in full leather, with additional photographic print, from a total run of 2500 copies. Folio (38 x 28cm), pp.346. Printed on fourteen different paper stocks, including clear acetate, trace leaves and a...... More
!["She" [Songsheet]. Recorded by The Monkees on Colgems Records. Tommy BOYCE, Bobby HART, born 1939](/pictures/thumb/57872.jpg?v=1604079545)
"She" [Songsheet]. Recorded by The Monkees on Colgems Records.
New York, NY: Screen Gems-Columbia Music, 1966. [Pop Songsheet] ORIGINAL SONGSHEET. Magazine format (28 x 22cm). Musical notation and words to the song 'She' by The Monkees. One large leaf of card, folded once, with a colour photograph to font cover. Price label partially removed to lower right corner of..... More
British Design from 1948: Innovation in the Modern Age.
London: V and A Publishing, 2012. [Art and Design] FIRST EDITION. Quarto (30 x 26cm), pp.400. Illustrated in colour throughout. Publisher's purple paper-covered boards with white titles to spine. Gold endpapers. With the illustrated dust-jacket priced at £40. A fine, as-new copy. From the library of the writer, media and..... More
Face of Fashion.
London: The National Portrait Gallery, 2007. [Exhibition Catalogue]. FIRST EDITION. Quarto (31 x 26cm), pp.232. Illustrated with colour and black and white images throughout. Publisher's photographic paper-covered boards with white and pink titles. Near fine with minor marks to boards. More
What's it all about? An Autobiography.
New York: Turtle Bay Books, 1992. First (US) Edition. SIGNED by Michael Caine to half title. Publisher's blue cloth spine with gilt titles, blue paper boards with author's initials in gilt to upper. Fine. In Fine dustwrapper. More
The Beatles Get Back. Photographs by Ethan A. Russell, Text by Jonathan Cott and David Dalton.
London: Apple Publishing, 1969. [Music biography] FIRST (and only) EDITION. Octavo (26 x 20cm), pp.160 (unpaginated). Illustrated with colour photographs throughout. Publisher's glossy black softcovers with white titles to spine and colour photographs to upper. Fine condition. A companion book issued with the earliest UK and Canadian copies of the..... More
![Cream 2005 [Tour Programme]. Cream Reunion 2005 at the Royal Albert Hall. CREAM, Eric Clapton,...](/pictures/thumb/57853.jpg?v=1604079544)
Cream 2005 [Tour Programme]. Cream Reunion 2005 at the Royal Albert Hall.
2005. [Rock and Roll Tour Programme] ORIGINAL PROMOTIONAL BOOKLET. Quarto (28 x 28cm), pp.[40]. Profiles of each artist, with the band history, and a full list of historical tour dates, fully illustrated with colour and black and white photographic images. Publisher's colour-illustrated soft covers, stapled twice. Light wear to edges..... More
American Prince: My Autobiography.
London: Virgin Books, 2008. SIGNED LIMITED EDITION. Octavo, pp.xv [3], 364 [2]. With occasional in-text photographic illustrations, and two sections of colour plates (eight double-sided plates in total). SIGNED by the author in blue ink to half-title, and hand-numbered 582 of 1000 copies produced in this special edition. In publisher's..... More