"A book should serve as the axe for the frozen sea within us."
— Franz Kafka
Pop Culture
Hamburg Days. The Untold Story.
Guildford: Genesis Publications, 1999. [Rock photo-documentary] LIMITED COLLECTOR EDITION, Signed by photographer Astrid Kirchherr and artist Klaus Voorman. No 1177 of 2500 numbered copies printed portfolio limitation is SIGNED by the founder of Genesis Publications, Brian Roylance (1945-2005). Folio, 2 volumes (text/photos plus book of paintings). Foreword by George Harrison..... More
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 DeLuxe (best) edition. 'A Box of Punks' comprises seven silver gelatine prints of punk bands; the images contained..... More
Neat Damned Box. 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. 'Neat Damned Box' comprises six silver gelatine prints and one colour digital print of..... More
![The Dave Clark Five Show [Tour Programme]. The Hollies; The Mojos; Frank Berry; The Kinks; The...](/pictures/thumb/57847.jpg?v=1604079543)
The Dave Clark Five Show [Tour Programme]. The Hollies; The Mojos; Frank Berry; The Kinks; The Trebbletones; Mark Wynter; Frank Berry. Presented by Arthur Howes, Harold Davison and Leslie Grade.
Hastings: Hastings Printing Company, [1964]. [Rock and Roll Tour Programme] ORIGINAL PROMOTIONAL BOOKLET. Large octavo (27 x 20cm), pp.[16]. Profiles of each artist / band in the line-up with black and white photographic images. Publisher's purple soft covers, stapled twice. Almost as-new, with just a little creasing to spine. A...... More
![The Searchers [Tour Programme]. Alan Elsdon and the Voodoos; Tony Sheveton; Syd & Eddie; The...](/pictures/thumb/57852.jpg?v=1609174446)
The Searchers [Tour Programme]. Alan Elsdon and the Voodoos; Tony Sheveton; Syd & Eddie; The Isley Brothers; The Zombies; Dionne Warwick. Presented by Kennedy Street Enterprises in association with Tito Burns.
Hastings: Hastings Printing Company, [1964]. [Rock / Soul Tour Programme] ORIGINAL PROMOTIONAL BOOKLET. Large octavo (27 x 20cm), pp.[16]. Profiles of each artist / band in the line-up with black and white photographic images. Publisher's blue soft covers, stapled twice. One central crease to the whole booklet. Light handling, with..... More
Souvenir Booklet.
Blackpool: Valex, n.d. [1967]. SOUVENIR BOOKLET. Photographic booklet of the bands, octavo, pp.12. Small loss to the bottom and top spine edge of rear cover, some creasing and rubbing to covers, else very bright. A very good survival of a reasonably fragile production. More
![The Walker Brothers Show [Tour Programme]. The Quotations; Don Crockett; The Montanas; Dave Dee,...](/pictures/thumb/57854.jpg?v=1609174446)
The Walker Brothers Show [Tour Programme]. The Quotations; Don Crockett; The Montanas; Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick & Tich; Cloda Rogers; The Troggs.
Hastings: Hastings Printing Company, [1965]. [Rock / Comedy Tour Programme] ORIGINAL PROMOTIONAL BOOKLET. Large octavo (27 x 20cm), pp.[16]. Profiles of each artist / band in the line-up with black and white photographic images. Publisher's red soft covers, stapled twice. Moderate handling, with some rubbing to spine and marks and..... More
The Curse of Lono (with fine painting of Thompson).
Köln: Taschen, 2005. [Original artwork] FIRST EDITION THUS, trade issue, SIGNED BY THE ARTIST, with superb ORIGINAL PAINTING. Folio (39 x 30cm), pp.208. With numerous fantastical colour illustrations by Steadman, many double-paged. Publisher's white hardcovers screen-printed in black, colour-illustrated dust-jacket. To the half-title is a most personal painted caricature of..... More
Who I Am.
London: Harper Collins, 2012. [Rock Autobiography] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.538. Publisher's grey hardback cloth, photographic endpapers, pictorial jacket priced £20. Illustrated with two suites of photographic plates. With signature of Pete Townshend to title page, obtained at a book-launch signing session with the retailer's original 'Signed..... More
Twiggy. A Life in Photographs.
London: National Portrait Gallery, 2009. [Fashion Photography / Sixties Culture] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Slim quarto (28 x 23cm), pp.144. Publisher's glossy printed boards, dust-jacket. Signed by Twiggy to the title page. A fine copy. More
Liebe in Saint Germain des Pres.
Hamburg: Rowohlt Verlag, n.d. [1956]. FIRST EDITION. Quarto (27 x 20cm), unpaginated. Black and white photographs printed on clay paper with occasional German text. In publisher's black cloth with white titles to spine. With original photographic dust-jacket. Some rubbing to jacket edges and corners. Very good. More
Playboy Magazine. Vol. 13, no. 10.
Chicago, IL: HMH Publishing Company, October 1966. [Men's Magazine] ORIGINAL MAGAZINE. Quarto (28 x 21cm), pp.228. Illustrated throughout. Publisher's colour-illustrated paper covers, with two staples to the spine, priced at 75c. Light wear to covers. Very good. Including 'The Man in the Rorschach Shirt' by Bradbury; 'First Aid for Freddie'..... More
Playboy Magazine. Vol. 16, no. 11.
Chicago, IL: HMH Publishing Company, November 1969. [Men's Magazine] ORIGINAL MAGAZINE. Quarto (28 x 22cm), pp.298. Illustrated throughout. Publisher's colour-illustrated paper covers, with three staples to the spine, priced at $1. Fairly light general handling, with some scraps of cloth glued to rear cover, as well as a few patches..... More
Playboy Magazine. Vol. 21, no. 12.
Chicago, IL: HMH Publishing Company, December 1974. [Men's Magazine] ORIGINAL MAGAZINE. Quarto (28 x 22cm), pp.338. Illustrated throughout. Publisher's colour-illustrated paper covers, with three staples to the spine, priced at $1.75. Light wear to covers, with additional rubbing and bumping to spine. Very good. Including an interview with Robert Redford;..... More
Playboy Magazine. Vol. 18, no. 11.
Chicago, IL: HMH Publishing Company, November 1971. [Men's Magazine] ORIGINAL MAGAZINE. Quarto (28 x 22cm), pp.286. Illustrated throughout. Publisher's colour-illustrated paper covers, with two staples to the spine, priced at $1. Light wear to covers, with a small chip to head of spine, and a little oxidation to staples. Very..... More
The Best from Playboy Number Five.
Chicago, IL: Playboy Press, 1971. [Anthology] ORIGINAL MAGAZINE. Large octavo (28 x 21cm), pp.196. Illustrated in colour throughout, with central folding plate. Publisher's illustrated soft covers, priced at $2.50. Some rubbing to covers, with spotting to preliminaries, and occasionally throughout. Very good. Another round-up of notable articles published in Playboy..... More
Playboy Magazine. Anniversary-Holiday Issue, vol. 13, no. 1.
Chicago, IL: HMH Publishing Company, January 1966. [Men's Magazine] ORIGINAL MAGAZINE. Quarto (28 x 21cm), pp.262. Illustrated throughout. Publisher's colour-illustrated paper covers, with two staples to the spine, priced at $1.25. Quite well-thumbed, with moderate wear to covers. Very good. Including 'The Wisdom of W. Somerset Maugham;' 'The Last Act'..... More
Playboy Magazine. Vol. 23, no. 9.
Chicago, IL: HMH Publishing Company, September 1976. [Men's Magazine] ORIGINAL MAGAZINE. Quarto (28 x 22cm), pp.214. Illustrated throughout. Publisher's colour-illustrated paper covers, with two staples to the spine, priced at $1.50. Light wear to covers. Near fine. Including an interview with David Bowie, articles on Watergate and the photography of..... More
Playboy Magazine. Vol. 26, no. 8.
Chicago, IL: HMH Publishing Company, August 1979. [Men's Magazine] ORIGINAL MAGAZINE. Quarto (28 x 22cm), pp.250. Illustrated throughout. Publisher's colour-illustrated paper covers, with two staples to the spine, priced at $2.00. Light wear to covers. Near fine. Including an excerpt from Sanchez's controversial book about life on tour with the..... More
Playboy Magazine. Vol. 21, no. 8.
Chicago, IL: HMH Publishing Company, August 1974. [Men's Magazine] ORIGINAL MAGAZINE. Quarto (28 x 22cm), pp.198. Illustrated throughout. Publisher's colour-illustrated paper covers, with two staples to the spine, priced at $1.25. Very light wear to covers. Near fine. Including a photographic article by Warhol, as well as the usual mixture..... More
Playboy Magazine. Vol. 14, no. 7.
Chicago, IL: HMH Publishing Company, July 1967. [Men's Magazine] ORIGINAL MAGAZINE. Quarto (28 x 22cm), pp.178. Illustrated throughout. Publisher's colour-illustrated paper covers, with two staples to the spine, priced at 75c. Light wear and a little spotting to covers. Very good. Including an interview with Michael Caine, and 'Uckridge Starts..... More
Master of The World.
Printed in USA [1961]. An original colour lobby card (no.7) for the 1961 science fiction-fantasy from Saxon Films, based on the novels by Jules Verne and starring Vincent Price and Charles Bronsan. Condition A- (slight handling), dimensions approx. 13x 10 inches, mounted ready for framing. Fine example. A fantasy adventure;..... More
Master of The World.
Printed in USA, [1961]. An original colour lobby card (no.8) for the 1961 science fiction-fantasy from Saxon Films, based on the novels by Jules Verne and starring Vincent Price and Charles Bronsan. Condition A- (slight handling), dimensions approx. 13 x 10 inches, mounted ready for framing. Fine example. A fantasy..... More
Screening History. The William E. Massey Sr. Lectures in the History of American Civilisation.
Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1992. SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (24 x 17cm), pp.96; [1]. Publisher's black paper boards over a red paper spine. Pictorial dust-jacket shows image of Vidal in a movie theatre, titles in red and white. Signed by Vidal, actor Cliff Robertson, and one other. With two..... More
Warhol: Red Books.
Göttingen: Steidl / Pace/MacGill Gallery, New York, 2004. [Photography Exhibition Catalogue] FIRST EDITION. Twelve small ring-bound booklets, including one in black covers containing the introduction and index, and eleven containing reproductions of Warhol's photographs, all in red covers. All housed in a red box with white titles (9 x 17..... More