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The Half: Photographs of Actors Preparing for the Stage.
London: Faber and Faber, 2010. [Photography] FIRST SOFTCOVER EDITION. Quarto (28 x 21cm), pp.xii; 308. Black and white photographs throughout. With the black and white soft covers, priced at £20.00. A fine as-new copy. From the library of the writer, media and film executive Edward Milward-Oliver. More about The Half: Photographs of Actors Preparing for the Stage
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[Architecture /Arch Construction Plans].
[c. 1930's]. THIRTY FOLDING PLANS. A2 plans folded twice, each numbered and stacked in A4-sized black cloth-covered card box reinforced with duct tape. Key to numbered plans pasted to box lid. Plans are as follows: Roman Arch; Segmental Arch; Gothic Arch (Lancet, the Drop and Equilateral); Semi-Gothic Arch; Bull's-Eye or..... More about Architecture /Arch Construction Plans
Guildhall Portsmouth Sunday, 18th April: A Concert in aid of the Lord Mayor's Special Appeal for the Sir Winston Churchill Memorial. Presented by Joe Collins and Mervyn Conn. With Manfred Mann, Dave Berry, the Ivy League.
Hastings: Hastings Printing Company, April 1965. [Concert Programme] RARE PAMPHLET (27 x 20cm), pp.12. Publisher's colour printed paper covers with two staples. Very light wear. Near fine. More about Guildhall Portsmouth Sunday, 18th April: A Concert in aid of the Lord Mayor's Special Appeal for...
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[Original Concept Artwork from 'Hawkeye and the Last of the Mohicans'].
[ITC Entertainment] [c. 1957]. ORIGINAL WATERCOLOUR. On cardboard, backed and behind frame-less glass. Depicting three settlers with firearms. Card lightly browned, with black ink inscription 'Hawkeye P16' to top left. More about Original Concept Artwork from 'Hawkeye and the Last of the Mohicans'
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[Original Concept Artwork from 'Hawkeye and the Last of the Mohicans'].
[ITC Entertainment] [c. 1957]. ORIGINAL WATERCOLOUR. On cardboard, backed and behind frame-less glass. Depicting a Native American wielding a tomahawk. Card lightly browned. More about Original Concept Artwork from 'Hawkeye and the Last of the Mohicans'
David Bailey's Rock and Roll Heroes.
London: Thames and Hudson, 1997. [Rock Photography] FIRST PAPERBACK EDITION, with an invitation to the exhibition preview. Folio (37 x 27cm), pp.112. Mainly black and white photographs; a few in colour. Text by Spencer. Publisher's glossy photographic card covers with titles to spine and front cover in red and black... More about David Bailey's Rock and Roll Heroes
Beady Minces.
London: Mathews Miller Dunbar and Bailey Co-Production, 1973. [Photography] FIRST EDITION. Quarto (31 x 22cm), unpaginated. Publisher's cream laminated boards, titles in black to spine, photographic dust-jacket. Profusely illustrated with black and white reproductions of Bailey's work. With an introduction by Terence Donovan. Internally clean, some toning to endpapers and... More about Beady Minces
Mixed moments.
London: David Bailey/Olympus Optical Co., 1976. [Photography] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Folio (30x21cm), pp.142. With 160 images, being human studies, portraits and nudes. Hardcover in jacket. Photographer's pencilled autograph to flyleaf. A little bumping, top of spine slightly bumped and soiled, minor wear. Near fine. More about Mixed moments
The Beatles. The Authorised Biography.
London: Heinemann, 1968. [Music biography] FIRST EDITION, with photographic plates. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.374. With four suites of black and white plates. Purple cloth in glossy psychedelic jacket designed by Alan Aldridge with printed price of 30s net. Very good, but with the usual edge spotting and a few... More about The Beatles. The Authorised Biography
The Lennon Play: In His Own Write.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1968. [Sixties Culture] FIRST EDITION. Small octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.35; [3], blank. Publisher's textured purple covers in a pictorial dust-wrapper, priced at 16s. A superb, fine copy. Book Collector No.287 (p32-62) 'The Sixties'. More about The Lennon Play: In His Own Write
David Beckham: My World.
London: Hodder and Stoughton, 2000. [Football] SIGNED LIMITED EDITION. Small quarto (27 x 21cm), pp.[2]; 224. A large collection of colour and black and white photographs by Dean Freeman, with accompanying text by Beckham (assisted by Cripps and Dickinson). Number 604 of 1500 copies Signed in black ink to limitation... More about David Beckham: My World
The Warlock of Love.
No place [Printed in Plymouth]: Lupus Music, 1969. [Psychedelic verse] FIRST EDITION. Slim octavo (22 x 14cm), pp.64. Publisher's photographic hardcovers in dust-jacket. A notoriously fragile production- this copy has a little dustiness to top edge but is essentially fine. Uncommon thus. Chameleon songwriter and guitarist Marc Bolan went through... More about The Warlock of Love
T.Rex. Marc Bolan - Electric Warrior.
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 about T.Rex. Marc Bolan - Electric Warrior
Moonage Daydream: The Life and Times of Ziggy Stardust.
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 about Moonage Daydream: The Life and Times of Ziggy Stardust
Portrait Photograph of David Bowie.
no place, [2001]. Original hand-printed colour photograph. Numbered 16 of just 100 prints, SIGNED in pencil by both the subject David Bowie and photographer Mick Rock to lower margin. In an elegant mount, perspex, and simple moulded frame. Overall dimensions 60 x 45 cm. Often referred to as "The Man... More about Portrait Photograph of David Bowie
David Bowie - The Jean Genie.
(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. The Jean Genie comprises six silver gelatine prints and one colour digital print of David... More about David Bowie - The Jean Genie
The Band: A Musical History.
Hollywood, CA: Capital Records, 2005. [Roots Rock] FIRST EDITION. Quarto (30 x 25cm), pp.112. Complete with five CD's and a DVD. Photographically illustrated throughout. Publisher's illustrated cloth with titles in red and white to spine. Red endpapers. Light rubbing. A near-fine copy. All about the Canadian-American Roots Rock band which... More about The Band: A Musical History
British Design from 1948: Innovation in the Modern Age.
London: V and A Publishing, 2012. [Art and Design] FIRST EDITION. Quarto (30 x 26cm), pp.400. Illustrated in colour throughout. Publisher's purple paper-covered boards with white titles to spine. Gold endpapers. With the illustrated dust-jacket priced at £40. A fine, as-new copy. From the library of the writer, media and... More about British Design from 1948: Innovation in the Modern Age
Face of Fashion.
London: The National Portrait Gallery, 2007. [Exhibition Catalogue]. FIRST EDITION. Quarto (31 x 26cm), pp.232. Illustrated with colour and black and white images throughout. Publisher's photographic paper-covered boards with white and pink titles. Near fine with minor marks to boards. More about Face of Fashion
What's it all about? An Autobiography.
New York: Turtle Bay Books, 1992. First (US) Edition. SIGNED by Michael Caine to half title. Publisher's blue cloth spine with gilt titles, blue paper boards with author's initials in gilt to upper. Fine. In Fine dustwrapper. More about What's it all about? An Autobiography
Promotional photograph, SIGNED by the recording artist.
[1989]. Black and white portrait of the guitarist, boldly SIGNED across image in marker pen (dated '89), with printed details below. Approx. dimensions 5 x 4 inches, in professional window mount, ready for framing. From the collection of Alphi O'Leary, Eric Clapton's head of security 1973-1996. East-end bruiser Alphi O'Leary... More about Promotional photograph, SIGNED by the recording artist
American Prince: My Autobiography.
London: Virgin Books, 2008. SIGNED LIMITED EDITION. Octavo, pp.xv [3], 364 [2]. With occasional in-text photographic illustrations, and two sections of colour plates (eight double-sided plates in total). SIGNED by the author in blue ink to half-title, and hand-numbered 582 of 1000 copies produced in this special edition. In publisher's... More about American Prince: My Autobiography
Thanks a Lot Mr Kibblewhite.
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 about Thanks a Lot Mr Kibblewhite
Son of 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 De Luxe (best) edition. 'Son of a Box of Punks' comprises seven silver gelatine prints of punk and... More about Son of a Box of Punks. Original Photographs
20th Century Boy. Original Photographs of Marc Bolan
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 about 20th Century Boy. Original Photographs of Marc Bolan