Blinds and Shutters.

[THE BEATLES / ROLLING STONES, British Invasion, etc.] COOPER, Michael.

Guildford, UK: Genesis Publications / Hedley 1990. [Rock Music / Photography] LIMITED EDITION, No 2795 of 5000 copies, signed by various contributors including Bill Wyman, Spencer Davis and Graham Nash. Photographer Michael Cooper had a long-lasting friendship with both the Beatles and the Stones, and shot the covers for the classic 1967 albums 'Sgt Pepper's Lonely Heart's Club Band' and 'Their Satanic Majesties Request'. Introduced by Terry Southern, with Forewords by Mick Jagger and Keith Richards. Conceived by Bill Wyman, who has signed every copy (the only contributor to do so, among an otherwise random selection of autographs gathered within every book). Folio (38 x 27 x 6cm), pp.368. Original black morocco and yellow buckram, all edges tinted red. Housed in the publisher's silk-screened printed solander box with a sliding blind beneath which conceals a photograph of artist Peter Blake setting the figures for the Sgt. Pepper sleeve (each book contained a different photo). A fine, unread copy, in a near fine box (base of tray a little marked, one small bump). Fine/ as new. Item #50728

Price: £1,200.00