"Outside of a dog, man's best friend is a book. Inside of a dog, it's too dark to read."
— Groucho Marx

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, carefully dark-stored by ourselves since publication. Cynthia's long-awaited and revealing personal account of..... More
Amsterdam: Galerie Taveerne p.96 and Galerie Podulke N.V., no date [1970]. [Exhibition Catalogue] FIRST THUS. Square octavo booklet (15 x 17cm), pp.[28]. Fourteen lithographic images, with selections from Lennon's verse alphabet facing the plates. Publisher's glossy card covers with a black and white photographic image to the front, stapled twice..... 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. A little light wear to binding. Very good. More
London: Jonathan Cape, 1965. [Pop culture] UNCORRECTED PROOF COPY IN DUST-WRAPPER, with various differences to the published version. Duodecimo (18 x 14cm), pp.96. Printed sheets, sewn, with blank endleaves, in a proof-only dust-wrapper. Profusely illustrated with Lennon's idiosyncratic drawings. A lovely fine copy, inside and out. The most important and..... 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. Fine. 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: 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