"Always read something that will make you look good if you die in the middle of it."
— P.J. O'Rourke

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
Guildford: Genesis Publications, 1995. [Rock Music biography] LIMITED EDITION, SIGNED by Bob Gruen and Yoko Ono. Number 2160, of 3500 copies only. Folio. Illustrated throughout with photographs by Bob Gruen on matt art paper with traced overlays. Text by Yoko Ono and John Lennon. Original black leather over silkscreened aluminium..... More
London: Jonathan Cape, 1965. FIRST EDITION. Duodecimo (18 x 14cm), pp.96. Publisher's laminated printed boards. Profusely illustrated with Lennon's idiosyncratic drawings. Slight occasional foxing to the textblock and edges. Corners and spine ends slightly rubbed, usual laminate lifting to the joints, a few shallow scores to the boards. Very good..... More
London; Sidgwick and Jackson 2002. 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. More
London: Hodder and Stoughton, 2005. [Music autobiography] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (25 x 16cm), pp.xii; 404. SIGNED by Cynthia Lennon to publisher's bookplate on title page. Hardback cloth in dust-jacket, with photographic plates. A fine, as-new copy. Cynthia's long-awaited and revealing personal account of her life as the first wife..... More
London: Peter Owen, 1970. Originally published as a limited edition of 500 copies [Tokyo, 1964], this is the FIRST EDITION in the English Language, being the first with contributions from John Lennon. Issued simultaneously with the New York Sphere printing. Small, square octavo, publisher's white cloth hardcovers in dust-jacket. A...... More
Tokyo and London: Wunternaum Press and Peter Owen, 1964, 1970. An important archive relating to the British publication of Yoko Ono's Grapefruit, comprising the true first edition limited to 500 copies [Tokyo, 1964] used for setting the UK edition; the UK publisher's file copy, being the first English language edition..... More
[London]: NEMS Publications, 1964. [Rock and Pop music] ORIGINAL CONCERT PROGRAMME. Octavo (26 x 20cm), unpaginated. In soft paper covers, with cover illustrations by Lennon, showing various figures exchanging yuletide holly branches. Very light soiling to front panel otherwise a particularly crisp, fresh example. Programme for the second Beatles Christmas..... More
London: University of London Press, 1950. SIGNED FIRST EDITION, thus. Octavo, pp.160. Publisher's softcovers. SIGNED BY JOHN LENNON. An interesting school text-book borrowed by Lennon whilst a student at Quarry Bank School, Liverpool. Lennon has signed the lending stamp to the inside cover 'J[ohn] W[inston] Lennon, IVC', and dated this..... More