"Everything in the world exists in order to end up as a book"
— Stephan Mallarme
Pop Culture
Lady Sings the Blues.
London: Barrie Books, 1958. [Jazz Autobiography] FIRST UK EDITION. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.[6] 226. With two double-sided black and white photographic plates. Publisher's red cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the photographic dust-jacket priced at 16s. Moderate toning to text block. Jacket spine toned, with rubbing and light..... More
The Beatles Anthology 3 DISC 1; 1 A Beginning, 2 Happiness is A Warm Gun, 3 Helter Skelter, 4 Mean Mr. Mustard, 5 Polythene Pam, 6 Glass Onion, 7 Junk, 8 Piggies, 9 Honey Pie, 10 Don't Pass Me By,11 Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da, 12 Good Night, 13 Cry Baby Cry, 14 Blackbird, 15 Sexy Sadie, 16 While My Guitar Gently Weeps, 17 Hey Jude, 18 Not Guilty, 19 Mother Nature's Son, 20 Glass Onion, 21 Rocky Raccoon, 22 What's The New Mary Jane, 23 Step Inside Love/Los Paranoias, 24 I'm So Tired, 25 I Will, 26 Why Don't We Do It In The Road, 27 Julia. DISC 2; 1 I've Got A Feeling, 2 She Came In Through The Bathroom Window, 3 Dig A Pony, 4 Two Of Us, 5 For You Blue, 6 Teddy Boy, 7 Medley: Rip It Up/Shake, Rattle And Roll/Blue Suede Shoes, 8 The Long And Winding Road, 9 Oh! Darling, 10 All Things Must Pass, 11 Mailman, Bring Me No More Blues, 12 Get Back, 13 Old Brown Shoe, 14 Octopus's Garden, 15 Maxwell's Silver Hammer, 16 Something, 17 Come Together, 18 Come And Get It, 19 Ain't She Sweet, 20 Because, 21 Let It Be, 22 I Me Mine, 22 The End.
Apple Corps Ltd/EMI Records Ltd. 1996. [Music] SIGNED. DOUBLE JEWEL CD CASE (12 x 14cm), Containing 2 DISC, inner booklet SIGNED by RINGO. Photographic front sleeve, and rear track list. Cover design by Klaus Voormann. Jewel case in fine condition, CDs look unplayed. Fine. This Compilation features 50 tracks, of..... More
In Our Time.
New York, NY: Criterion Music Corp. no date [1966]. [Music Advertisement] SIGNED POSTER (29 x 20cm). Green photographic poster advertising the sheet music publication of the Single 'In Our Time,' SIGNED by Nancy Sinatra in black marker, with a red star stamp. With a thick cream card mount; total dimensions..... More
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["The Seed"] The Amazing Charlatans, direct from San Francisco: The Limit of the Marvelous. At the Red Dog Saloon, Opening June 21, Virginia City, Nev.
1990. [Psychedelic Concert Poster] LIMITED REPRINT (442 x 317mm). Number 30 of just 50 copies printed for Europe. Some light rubbing and thumbing to margins. Near fine. A limited reprint of one of the most important music posters of the modern era, designed by Ferguson and Hunter for their run..... More
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
Complete Rockbooks Series: The Who; The Drifters; Buddy Holly; Motown.
London: Studio Vista, 1971. [Rock & Pop] COMPLETE FIRST EDITIONS. Four volumes. Octavo (21 x 13cm), pp.112; pp.112; pp.111 [1]; pp.110 [2]. Each volume extensively illustrated with black and white photographs. Publisher's black cloth with silver titles to spines. Each with the dust-jacket designed by David Goard, priced at £1.40..... More
Snowdon – A Life in View.
New York, NY: Rizzoli, 2014. [Photography] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Folio (35 x 27cm), pp.375 [1]. Heavily illustrated in black and white, and occasionally in colour. SIGNED 'Best Wishes | from | Snowdon' in black ink to half-title (above facsimile signature). Publisher's blue cloth with gilt titles to spine and upper..... More
Fifty Years Adrift.
Guildford: Genesis Publications, 1984. [Beatles] FIRST EDITION, an out-of-series review copy. Large Octavo (26 x 18cm), pp.x; 541 [3]. Publisher's brown half calf with gilt titles to red morocco label, and further gilt decoration to spine. Brown cloth over boards, with a red and gilt device to upper, and a...... More
James Dean: photographed by his friend Sanford Roth.
Corte Madera, CA: Pomegranate Artbooks, 1983. [Photography] FIRST EDITION. Folio (41 x 27cm), pp.116. Black and white photographs, with several central leaves of commentary by Beulah. Publisher's plain glossy white soft covers with black titles to spine, silver titles to upper, and a price of $24.00 Rubbing, marks and some..... More
Now These Days Are Gone.
Guildford: Genesis Publications, 2006. [Rock/pop]. SIGNED LIMITED EDITION, DELUXE ISSUE, number 296 of 350 copies. Large quarto (32 x 28cm), pp.256. Printed in Milan on 200gsm matt-art paper, illustrated throughout with photographs reproduced in duotone with image varnishing. Elaborately bound in full scarlet hide, blocked in gold and white to..... 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
A Little History: Photographs of Nick Cave and cohorts 1981-2013.
Crows Nest, NSW: Allen & Unwin, 2014. [Rock and Roll Photography] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Quarto (29 x 22cm), pp.[6] 154. Colour and black and white photographs by Butcher throughout. SIGNED by NICK CAVE in black marker to p.64. Also with a ticket to a Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds..... More
Avedon: Photographs 1947-1977.
New York, NY: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1978. [Fashion Photography] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Quarto (37 x 28cm), unpaginated, with 162 black and white photographs. SIGNED and dated in the year of publication by the photographer in black ink to title page. Publisher's glossy photographic paper-covered boards. With the original clear..... More
Philippe Halsman A Retrospective: Photographs from the Halsman Family Collection.
London: Pavilion, 1998. [Celebrity Photography] FIRST UK EDITION. Quarto (34 x 27cm), pp.212. Black and white photographs throughout. Publisher's black cloth with silver titles to spine and brown endpapers. With the photographic dust-jacket priced at £40. Some light markings to jacket and little creasing to endpapers. Near fine. Iconic photos..... More
Chromes.
Göttingen: Steidl, 2011. [Photography] FIRST EDITION. Three volumes. Quarto (34 x 33cm), pp.728. Publisher's blue, red and yellow cloth with black titles to spine. With the grey cloth-covered slipcase titled in yellow and orange, still in the original shrink wrap. A fine, as-new copy. William Eggleston's standing as one of..... More
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
Stuart. The Life and Art of Stuart Sutcliffe
Guildford, England: Genesis Publications, 1996. SIGNED LIMITED EDITION, one of 2000 copies. Quarto (28 x 25cm), pp.232. Illustrated throughout with photographs. Elegantly bound in black leather over screen-printed cloth sides. The box set contains two superbly printed books; the main, definitive illustrated biography plus facsimile reproduction of one of an..... More
The Songs of Bob Dylan from 1966 through 1975.
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
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
That's the way I see it.
London: Thames and Hudson, 1993. [Modern Art] FIRST EDITION. Quarto (27 x 23cm), pp.248. With 365 illustrations, most in colour. Publisher's blue cloth with yellow titles to spine and a yellow illustration to upper board. Illustrated endpapers. With the photographic dust-jacket. A little rubbing to cloth; jacket edges bruised. Near..... 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
Ode to a Highflying Bird.
London: Beat Publications, 1964. [Illustrated] FIRST EDITION. Original white paper-covered boards, printed in black. Duodecimo, (19 x 13cm) pp.[32]. With colour illustrations. Shows some handling and bumping to corners. Some losses to head and tail of spine. Very good. A decent copy of a particularly elusive book (not to be..... More
Rolling Stones: Out of Their Heads.
Berlin: Schwarzkopf and Schwarzkopf, 2006. [Rock Music Photography] SIGNED LIMITED EDITION. Folio (40 x 30cm), two volumes in publisher's slipcase, 640 pages, large hardback. Autographed by the photographer. As new, in shrinkwrap, within original card case with colour printed label and carry handle. A beautifully presented selection of over 1000..... More
The Who Live. The Greatest Rock 'n' Roll Band In the World. With a foreword by Pete Townshend, Compiled by Ross Halfin.
Guildford: Genesis Publications, 2000. [Rock Music] LIMITED EDITION, DELUXE ISSUE SIGNED BY PETE TOWNSHEND and photographer Ross Halfin No 90 of only 250 copies, fully bound in leather and additionally signed by the legendary Who songwriter. Includes a Gold CD of THE WHO LIVE AT LEEDS pressed specially for this..... More
Sometime in New York City.
Guildford: Genesis Publications, 1995. [Rock Music biography] LIMITED EDITION, SIGNED by Bob Gruen and Yoko Ono. Number 2160, of 3500 copies only. Folio. Illustrated throughout with photographs by Bob Gruen on matt art paper with traced overlays. Text by Yoko Ono and John Lennon. Original black leather over silkscreened aluminium..... More