"A book should serve as the axe for the frozen sea within us."
— Franz Kafka
Pop Culture
Nirvana. Photographs.
London: Vision On, 2002. [Music biography] SIGNED LIMITED EDITION hardback, SIGNED on the limitation plate to pastedown by both photographers - one of 1000 copies published. Folio (34 x 26cm), pp.153 [7]. Publisher's clossy photographic covers housed in a black cloth clamshell box with silk-screen titles in white, with an..... More
Elvis: 10 Years After.
Heanor: Heanor Record Centre, 1986. SIGNED LIMITED EDITION. Small Quarto. pp. iii, 204. With many colour photographic plates and a flexi EP of the 1956 New Orleans interview. Number 1766 of 2000 copies SIGNED by the author and editor to a book plate pasted to the front free end-paper. In..... More
Bowie by O'Neill.
London: Iconic Images, 2016. [Photographic memoir] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Quarto (38 x 27cm), pp.288. Printed on Italian paper with over 180 photographs - many unpublished or rarely seen. Includes related articles reprinted from Melody Maker and Rolling Stone magazine. Housed in a luxury orange silk clamshell box decorated with a...... More
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[Material relating to] Grapefruit. Works and Drawings by Yoko Ono. Introduction by John Lennon.
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
Complete Diaries: The Python Years, 1968-1979: Halfway to Hollywood, 1980-1988; Travelling to Work, 1988-98.
London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 2006, 2009, 2014. [Comedy/travel] FIRST EDITION, three volumes, octavo (24 x 16 x 15cm), SIGNED by the author to final volume. First book includes a talking CD. Publisher's cloth hardcovers titled to spines, in pictorial dust-jackets. Each with photographic sections. A lovely fine, unread set... More
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[Mr Charlie Parker] To Bird with Love.
Poitiers: Editions Wizlov, 1981. [Jazz biography/photography] FIRST and ONLY EDITION. Folio (40 x 28cm), pp.409;[1]. Illustrated throughout with photographs. The accompanying text is written by Chan Berg [Parker], Bird's final partner and mother of his son. Text in French and English. Bound in burgundy vinyl-covered boards with inset printed address..... More
Stories We Could Tell.
London: Harper Collins, 2005. SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo, pp.[8] 309 [3]. SIGNED by the author in black ink to title page. In publisher's black cloth with white titles to spine. With original pictorial dust-jacket. A very fine, unread copy. A novel of sex and love and rock and roll (from..... More
Spectacles: a Memoir.
London: Michael Joseph, 2015. [Memoir] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 14cm), pp.[14] 377 [11]. SIGNED by the author in black marker to 'Exclusive Signed Edition' preliminary leaf. Publisher's black cloth with titles in blind to spine, and pink bespectacled endpapers. With the dust-jacket designed by Kate Barsby, priced at..... More
Cafe Lehmitz.
AB Tiprod, ETC, 1982. [Photography / Counter Culture] FIRST HARDCOVER EDITION. Text in Swedish. Oblong octavo (27 x 24cm). With 88 black and whiite photographs. White cloth hardcovers blocked in black, photographic dust-jacket. Book is fine, jacket near fine with a couple of small marks and tears. An attractive copy..... More
The Americans.
New York, NY: Grossman Publishers / Aperture, 1969. 83 Photographs by Robert Frank with an introduction by Jack Kerouac. Revised and Enlarged Edition of Frank's classic, moving photo-portrait of American life, from drive-ins, diners and Angels through cowboys, casinos and cocktails. Oblong octavo, unpaginated. Publisher's black cloth titled in gilt..... More
Jazz 1955-1959. 61
Amsterdam: Fragment Uitgeverij, 1991. First Dutch Edition, having previously published in Japan. Square octavo, with 190 photographic plates. Bound in publisher's printed softcovers with striking pictorial jacket. A clean, fine copy, with a signature to half-title 'Joost Divend'. Ed van der Elsken was a prolific Dutch artist, photographer, and filmmaker..... More
Inside Out. A Personal History of Pink Floyd.
Guildford, UK: Genesis Publications, 2004. [Music Autobiography] LIMITED EDITION, one of 500 copies SIGNED by Nick Mason. Illustrated throughout with photographs. Quarto (54 x 40cm in the case), bound in grey morocco blocked in silver with colour plate to front cover, all edges silver. With a all additional items as..... More
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[Elvis Presley] Souvenir Photo Album.
RCA Records, no date [1971]. [Concert Souvenir] ORIGINAL SOUVENIR ALBUM. Octavo booklet (28 x 22cm), pp.[20]. Colour photographic soft covers with black and white photographic images internally. Stapled twice. Fairly light rubbing to edges. Near fine. More
The Fundamental Pictures.
London: Alexander Roussos, 1997. SIGNED COPY. Oblong, pp.[48]. SIGNED by the artists in black ink to title page. Colour reproductions of art works. In publisher's card covers. A fine copy. Artwork encompassed by the title of the first piece, 'Spunk Blood Piss Shit Spit'. More
Autograph leaf.
no place, no date [1994]. [Music] Single page removed from an autograph book, SIGNED by Pistol's bassist Glen Matlock, dated X-94. Approximate dimensions 11 x 15cm. Ideal for framing. Fine. Londoner Glen Matlock, (b. Aug. 27, 1956) was the original bass player of legendary punk band The Sex Pistols. Drummer..... More
Never Mind the Bollocks Here's The Sex Pistols.
Virgin Records, printed in Holland. no date. Digitally remastered CD recording of the legendary Punk band's sole studio album, SIGNED by the original line-up. Autographs of Johnny Rotten (vocals), Glen Matlock (bass), Paul Cook (drums) and Steve Jones (guitar), in various coloured felt pens to front cover insert, which also..... More
Rankin Nudes.
London: Rankin Photography, 1999. [Photography]. UNPUBLISHED LIMITED EDITION. Quarto (36 x 31cm), pp.107 [5]. Colour and black and white photographs, with a short interview with Rankin about the shoot. One of 500 copies produced as a special hard-cover edition, but left un-published after the Publisher went out of business. 250..... More
Bob Dylan: European Concert Tour 1981.
London: Arena International Merchandising Services, 1981. ORIGINAL CONCERT PROGRAMME AND TICKET. Quarto (32 x 24cm), 12 leaves with colour photographs of Dylan in concert by David Redfern, with tour dates, a short biography and a few quotes. Stapled in original light yellow illustrated card covers with red titles. With original..... More
Shooting Stars.
London: BBC Books, 1996. [Game Show] MULTI-SIGNED COPY, the second printing. Tall octavo (29 x 15cm), pp.120. Illustrated in colour throughout, with audio CD attached to clear plastic pouch on front cover. SIGNED by all five members of the cast in blue marker to title page. Publisher's glossy illustrated paper..... More
Mandy.
London: Michael Joseph, 1980. [Biography] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.224. Publisher's black cloth, gilt titles to spine, dust-jacket featuring a photograph by David Steen. With a suite of double-sided black and white photographic plates. Neat ownership to flyleaf, some spotting to edges. Wrapper and cloth lightly handled. Very..... More
Dylan's Visions of Sin.
London: Viking, 2003. [Musical Criticism] FIRST UK EDITION. Octavo (24 x 17cm), pp.[6]; 517; [5]. Publisher's white cloth with silver titles to spine. Blue endpapers. With the white dust-jacket featuring a photo of the subject by Elliot Landy / Redferns, priced at £25. Toning to the textblock, more so to..... More
Herb Ritts Calendar 1994.
Boston, MA: Little, Brown and Company, 1993. INSCRIBED TO MEMBER OF LED ZEPPELIN. Small Quarto, unpaginated. With 28 black and white photographic images, subjects including Dizzy Gillespie, Madonna, Mel Gibson and David Bowie. Warmly INSCRIBED TO JOHN PAUL JONES by the artist in gold ink/paint to front free endpaper: 'To..... More
Psychedelic Renegades. With Photographs of Syd Barrett.
UK, Genesis Publications Limited. 2001. [Rock Photography] SIGNED LIMITED DELUXE EDITION. Folio (31 x 26cm), pp.160 with approximately 120 monochrome and colour images, some folding plates. Number 84 of 320 copies SIGNED by both Mick Rock and Syd Barrett, the former in black marker to limitation page, the latter to..... More
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Papillon [Film Brochure].
London: Sackville Publishing, 1973. [Prison-Break Film Brochure] ORIGINAL PROMOTIONAL BOOKLET. A4 magazine format (28 x 22cm), pp.[24]. A general introduction to the 1973 film based on the book by Henri Charrière, directed by Franklin J. Schaffner, and starring Steve McQueen, Dustin Hoffman, Victor Jory, Don Gordon and Anthony Zerbe, including..... More
There Must Be a Better Way (Knebworth Festival 1974-1979)
Cambridge: Bath Books, 2001. SIGNED COMMEMORATIVE BOX SET, LIMITED to 1500 copies. A folio-sized pale blue box containing 188-page hardcover text volume; two packs of reproduction programmes, tickets, and flyers; a box of forty-three 9 x 7 photographs with index card; VHS recording titled 'The Spirit Of Knebworth' being a...... More