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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. Publisher's red and black illustrated soft covers, stapled twice, and priced at 2/6. Heavy ink doodling to 'The Nashville Teens.' Light wear to covers. Very good..... More
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. Publisher's red and black illustrated soft covers, stapled twice, and priced at 2/6. Light wear to covers. Near fine. More
London: Harold Davison, [circa 1965]. [American Folk Music] ORIGINAL PROMOTIONAL BOOKLET. Large octavo (26 x 21cm), pp.[20]. An in-depth profile of the artist, including material from various interviews, illustrated with numerous black and white photographs. Publisher's yellow soft covers, stapled twice. Very light handling; almost as-new. Fine. More
Manchester: World Distributors, 1963. [Popular Music] ORIGINAL PROMOTIONAL BOOKLET. Large octavo (25 x 18cm), pp.[40]. Profiles of each band member and their manager Brian Epstein, plus general information about the band and their origins, and many contemporary black and white photographs. Publisher's colour-illustrated soft covers, stapled twice and priced at..... More
London: The Daily Mirror Newspapers, 1963. [Concert Booklet] ORIGINAL PROMOTIONAL BOOKLET. Octavo (23 x 18cm), pp.[28]. A black and white photographic record of the band's progress through the day of the performance, including captions. One colour image at centre, and colour illustrated soft covers, stapled twice. Only very light rubbing..... More
Bradford: John D. Marshall & Co. [and] Marlboro' Press, 1960. [Jazz Concert Programmes] TWO ORIGINAL PROMOTIONAL BOOKLETS. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.[4]; pp.[4]. Each programme featuring a list of numbers which the band would choose from on the night, plus a list of the artists scheduled to be playing with..... More
no date [taken 1971]. [Glam rock] Original black and white photograpH. Printed by photographer Spud Murphy, titled signed and dated by him in ink to lower margin. In an elegant acid-neutral mount, glaze, and bespoke archival frame. Overall dimensions 37 x 46 cm. Fine. This classic shot shows the band..... More
Guildford: Genesis Publications, 2002. [Rock/pop] SIGNED BY BOWIE AND ROCK. Deluxe Edition, number 171 of 350 copies bound in full leather, with additional photographic print, from a total run of 2500 copies. Folio (38 x 28cm), pp.346. Printed on fourteen different paper stocks, including clear acetate, trace leaves and a...... More
New York, NY: Screen Gems-Columbia Music, 1966. [Pop Songsheet] ORIGINAL SONGSHEET. Magazine format (28 x 22cm). Musical notation and words to the song 'She' by The Monkees. One large leaf of card, folded once, with a colour photograph to font cover. Price label partially removed to lower right corner of..... More
London: Apple Publishing, 1969. [Music biography] FIRST (and only) EDITION. Octavo (26 x 20cm), pp.160 (unpaginated). Illustrated with colour photographs throughout. Publisher's glossy black softcovers with white titles to spine and colour photographs to upper. Fine condition. A companion book issued with the earliest UK and Canadian copies of the..... More
2005. [Rock and Roll Tour Programme] ORIGINAL PROMOTIONAL BOOKLET. Quarto (28 x 28cm), pp.[40]. Profiles of each artist, with the band history, and a full list of historical tour dates, fully illustrated with colour and black and white photographic images. Publisher's colour-illustrated soft covers, stapled twice. Light wear to edges..... More
London: Blink, 2018. [Rock] SIGNED UK FIRST EDITION. Octavo (25 x 17cm), pp.[6]; 346. Publisher's black cloth, titles in silver to spine, red and blue endpapers, photographic dust-jacket designed by Richard Evans with printed price of £20. Signed by Roger Daltrey directly to title page (most were signed via a...... More
London: Heinemann, 1968. [Music biography] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.374. With four suites of four black and white photographic plates. Publisher's purple cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the laminated psychedelic jacket designed by Alan Aldridge, with printed price of 30s net. Heavy wear to jacket, with..... More
New York, NY: The Overlook Press, 1995. [Popular Music] INSCRIBED FIRST US EDITION. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.[8] 420 [4]. INSCRIBED by the author 'To George' with a short indecipherable note in black ink to title page. Also with a loose progamme for 'An Evening with Ray Davies' (May 1996)..... More
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. 'Son of a Box of Punks' comprises seven silver gelatine prints of punk and..... More
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. '20th Century Boy' comprises six silver gelatine prints and one colour digital print of Glam-Rock..... More
London: Simon and Schuster, 2004. [Music Autobiography] FIRST UK EDITION. Octavo (22 x 14cm), pp.[8] 293 [5]. Publisher's black cloth with silver titles to spine. With the dust-jacket designed by Coco Shinomiya, priced at £16.99. Light spotting and browning to top edge; some light handling. Near fine. More
New York, NY: Alfred A. Knopf, 1976. [Popular Music] FIRST EDITION. Quarto ring-binder (34 x 26cm), pp.384. Words set to musical notation. Publisher's colour-illustrated waxed cloth over boards, with silver titles to spine, white ring-binding, and grey endpapers. With the matching slipcase priced at $19.95. Some wear to ring-binding, but..... More
1960 - 1964. [Concert Programmes] ORIGINAL PROMOTIONAL BOOKLETS. Various sizes from 21 x 13 to 26 x 21cm. Various iterations of the 'Adam Faith Show' in Margate and London. Publisher's paper covers, some in colour, some stapled. Some rubbing to all programmes - more so to the smaller bi-folds. Blue..... More
London: George Newnes, 1964. ORIGINAL PHOTOGRAPHY COLLECTION. Quarto (31 x 31cm), with 12 leaves of black and white photographs of the band by Freeman. Stapled in original purple card covers with green titles. Rubbing and creases to cover edges; covers detached. Good. More
Hastings: Hastings Printing Company, [1966]. [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 red soft covers, stapled twice. Moderate handling, with some rubbing and creasing to spine. Near..... More
London: The Bodley Head, 1967. [Photography/Sixties Culture] FIRST EDITION. Folio (35 x 27cm), unpaginated. With black and white photographs throughout. Bound in crimson half morocco over red cloth sides, gilt-lettered title panel to spine, black endpapers. Leaves had a tidemark (reducing throughout) to top corner else contents fine, in a...... More
Guilford, England: Genesis Publications, 2004. LIMITED EDITION, DELUXE ISSUE no.43 of 350 copies; the remainder of the 1400-copy print run are designated 'collector' copies. SIGNED by the author, the photographer and guitarist Joe Perry. Folio (33 x 25cm), pp.292. Quarter-bound in fine-grain purple leather with silk-screened aluminium boards, prismatic silver..... More
Milwaukee, WI: Backbeat Books, 2012. [Rock Music] FIRST EDITION, SIGNED by Compiler by Janie L. Hendrix. Square folio (32 x 32cm), with colour photographs throughout, in publisher's photographic covers. Autographed inscription 'Enjoy / Janie Hendrix' to first blank. Signed at the London Pop-Up Exhibition, with loose accompanying material. A fine..... More
London: Viking, 2003. [Popular Music] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Small octavo (19 x 14cm), pp.[12]; 196. Illustrated throughout in black and white. SIGNED by the author in thick blue ink to title page. Publisher's red cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the dust-jacket designed by Hatch Show Print, priced at..... More