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My Thoughts Exactly.
London: Blink, 2018. [Memoir] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.[10] 344. SIGNED by the author in black ink to 'Special Signed Edition' leaf. With a suite of eight double-sided colour photographic plates at rear. Publisher's yellow cloth with black titles to spine and upper, priced at £20.00 (no..... 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
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[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
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[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
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
Mixed moments.
London: David Bailey/Olympus Optical Co., 1976. [Photography] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Folio (30x21cm), pp.142. With 160 images, being human studies, portraits and nudes. Hardcover in jacket. Photographer's pencilled autograph to flyleaf. A little bumping, top of spine slightly bumped and soiled, minor wear. Near fine. 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
David Beckham: My World.
London: Hodder and Stoughton, 2000. [Football] SIGNED LIMITED EDITION. Small quarto (27 x 21cm), pp.[2]; 224. A large collection of colour and black and white photographs by Dean Freeman, with accompanying text by Beckham (assisted by Cripps and Dickinson). Number 604 of 1500 copies Signed in black ink to limitation..... 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
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
Portrait Photograph of David Bowie.
no place, [2001]. Original hand-printed colour photograph. Numbered 16 of just 100 prints, SIGNED in pencil by both the subject David Bowie and photographer Mick Rock to lower margin. In an elegant mount, perspex, and simple moulded frame. Overall dimensions 60 x 45 cm. Often referred to as "The Man..... More
Ivon Hitchens.
London: Lund Humphries, 1973. [Art] FIRST EDITION. Large Quarto (31 x 28cm), pp.35; [23]. With 120 colour plates and 82 black and white illustrations, including a frontispiece portrait of the artist. In publisher's cream cloth with white titles to spine. With original pictorial dust-jacket. Slightly shaken, with some light external..... 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
So, anyway...
London: Random House, 2014. [Autobiography] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo, pp.[8]; 424. Publisher's black cloth with gilt titles to spine, dark blue endpapers, photographic dust-jacket priced at £20. With three photographic suites. Signed by the author on the title page. Fine/as new. Engaging memoir from the legendary Monty Python comedian, writer..... 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
Rolling Stones. An unauthorized biography in words, photographs, and music.
New York, NY: Amsco Music Publishing Company, 1972. [Rock] FIRST EDITION. Quarto (29 x 22cm), pp.352. Publisher's blue/grey cloth, titles in silver to spine and upper, dust-jacket with printed price of $9.95. Profusely illustrated throughout with black and white photography. Textblock toned, cloth lightly handled, slightly sunned to foot of..... More
Thanks a Lot Mr Kibblewhite.
London: Blink, 2018. [Rock] SIGNED UK FIRST EDITION. Octavo (25 x 17cm), pp.[6]; 346. Publisher's black cloth, titles in silver to spine, red and blue endpapers, photographic dust-jacket designed by Richard Evans with printed price of £20. Signed by Roger Daltrey directly to title page (most were signed via a...... More
X-Ray. The Unauthorised Autobiography.
New York, NY: The Overlook Press, 1995. [Popular Music] INSCRIBED FIRST US EDITION. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.[8] 420 [4]. INSCRIBED by the author 'To George' with a short indecipherable note in black ink to title page. Also with a loose progamme for 'An Evening with Ray Davies' (May 1996)..... More
Son of a Box of Punks. Original Photographs.
Brighton: [Self-published], 2006. 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 De Luxe (best) edition. 'Son of a Box of Punks' comprises seven silver gelatine prints of punk and..... More