"There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we spent with a favourite book."
— Marcel Proust
Pop Culture
The Kinks All Day and All of the Night. Day-by-day concerts, recordings and broadcasts, 1961-1996.
San Francisco, CA: Backbeat Books, 2004. [Pop Music] SIGNED BY THE KINKS. Quarto (28 x 22cm), pp.352. Illustrated with occasional black and white photographs. SIGNED by Ray Davies, Mick Avory, Jim Rodford, and Ian Gibbons in black and blue marker to inside front and rear covers. Publisher's photographic soft covers..... 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 Printed on Italian paper with over 180 photographs - many unpublished or rarely seen.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
Wobbly Sounds: A Collection of British Flexi Discs. Four Corners Irregulars No. 6.
London: Four Corners, 2019. [Sound Recordings] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (23 x 17cm), pp.160. Illustrated in colour throughout. Publisher's glossy colour-illustrated soft covers, with illustrated endpapers, priced at £10. Also with a publisher's bookmark loose to preliminaries. A fine, as-new copy. 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
Starlight Rendezvous 1961; Bernie Clifton in the Bernie Clifton Show 1977; Startime at the King's Theatre, Edinburgh 1968; The Bachelors in Holiday Startime 1965; The Helen Shapiro Show 1963; The Four Pennies Show; "Once Upon a Fairy Tale" 1965; The Bachelors Show 1963; Herman's Hermits Show 1965; Good Timing 1960; The Brian Hyland and Little Eva Show 1963; An Evening with Engelbert Humperdinck 1967 [Souvenir Programmes].
Lowestoft: Lowestoft Printing Company; Hastings: The Hastings Printing Company, 1960; 1961; 1963; 1965; 1967; 1968; 1977. [Pop Concert Programmes] ORIGINAL PROGRAMMES AND TICKETS. Twelve individual programmes of varying sizes (27 x 21cm to 21 x 13cm). Programmes all stapled with colour paper covers. One programme signed by each member of..... More
Arthur Fox presents Cliff Richard 1958; The Shadows Here, There, and Everywhere 1964; Cliff Richard and the Shadows 1963; Arthur Howe presents Paul and Paula 1963 [Souvenir Programmes].
Hastings: Hastings Printing Company, 1958; 1963; 1964. [Pop Concert Programmes] ORIGINAL PROGRAMMES. Four individual programmes of varying sizes (27 x 21cm to 23 x 18cm). Programmes all stapled with colour paper covers. Light handling, with some heavier rubbing to 'Paul and Paula,' and ink notes in several places. Very good..... More
![The Big Star Show 1962; 1963; 1964; 1965 [and] The Mammoth Star Show 1962 [and] The Sunday Big...](/pictures/thumb/58944.jpg?v=1615570563)
The Big Star Show 1962; 1963; 1964; 1965 [and] The Mammoth Star Show 1962 [and] The Sunday Big Beat Show 1964; 1965 [and] Your Lucky Stars 1963; 1964 [and] The Marty Wilde Show and the Big Beat Show 1959 [and] The Joe Brown - Tommy Bruce Show "Idols on Parade" 1960 [and] The Marty Wilde Show 1959 [and] Tom Arnold's Summer Revue 1965 [Souvenir Programmes].
Hastings: Hastings Printing Company, 1959; 1960; 1962; 1963; 1964; 1965. [Pop Concert Programmes] ORIGINAL PROGRAMMES AND TICKETS. Fifteen individual programmes of varying sizes (28 x 21cm to 18 x 12cm), and two tickets, one for a Joe Brown show, the other for a Billy Fury show. Programmes all stapled with..... More
![Star Scene 65 [Pop Concert Poster]. Lionel BLAIR, THE ALAN ELSDON BAND, THE MARIONETTES, KLAUS...](/pictures/thumb/58945.jpg?v=1615484103)
Star Scene 65 [Pop Concert Poster].
London: Converta, 1965. [Pop Concert Poster] ORIGINAL POSTER (119 x 28cm), folded in concertina fashion to 20 x 28cm, printed to both sides. Light handling, with pin marks to corners. A small loss to top right corner. Near fine. More
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Tommy Steele at the Windmill Theatre, Great Yarmouth [and] Hans Andersen, at the London Palladium [Souvenir Programmes].
Great Yarmouth, and London: Theatreprint, 1961 and 1974. [Concert and Theatre Programmes] ORIGINAL PROGRAMMES. One showing the line-up for the Windmill Summer Show of 1961, including Tommy Steele and Frankie Howerd, stapled in photographic paper covers (24 x 18cm), pp.[8]; the other a London Palladium theatre programme for the production..... More
John.
London: Hodder and Stoughton, 2005. [Music autobiography] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (25 x 16cm), pp.xii; 404. SIGNED by Cynthia Lennon to publisher's bookplate on title page. Hardback cloth in dust-jacket, with photographic plates. A fine, as-new copy. Cynthia's long-awaited and revealing personal account of her life as the first wife..... More
Mr Fantasy. The Lyrics of Jim Capaldi
Guildford, UK: Genesis Publications, 2012. LIMITED EDITION, No.63 of 900 copies. SIGNED by Signed by Steve Winwood, Aninha Capaldi and Robert Plant (on the same sheet- later copies have autographs separated). Handwritten lyrics, jottings and doodles reproduced in facsimile. Quarto (27 x 21cm), pp.176. Full-bound in Milan with silkscreen artwork..... 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
Now These Days Are Gone.
Guildford: Genesis Publications, 2006. [Rock and pop] SIGNED LIMITED EDITION, number 476 of 2500 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 scarlet hide over red Assuan canvas sides, blocked in..... More
i-contact.
Guildford, UK: Genesis Publications, 1998. [Rock Photography] SIGNED LIMITED EDITION, DELUXE ISSUE being number 50 of just 100 copies, in full leather with additional mounted photo of Charlie Watts, signed by Mankowitz. Folio, pp.208. Masterprinted on 200gsm matt art paper with red acetate title-page and bound in rich black cloth..... 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
From Hamburg to Hollywood.
Guildford: Genesis Publications, 1997. [Music / Film Photography] LIMITED EDITION. Quarto (31 x 22cm), pp.130. No 1026 of 1750 copies SIGNED by Jurgen Vollmer. Foreword by Sir Paul McCartney. 140 illustrations from photographs. Quarter bound with gilt-stamped covers, all edges silver, housed in a Kodak-style lid and tray box. With..... More
The Beatles Get Back. Photographs by Ethan A. Russell, Text by Jonathan Cott and David Dalton.
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. Some rubbing and general handling to covers. A hint of laminate shrinkage. Near fine. A...... More
![Four Billy J. Kramer Concert Programmes, and a Signed Duplicate]. Billy J. KRAMER, born 1943](/pictures/thumb/57009.jpg?v=1612373705)
[Four Billy J. Kramer Concert Programmes, and a Signed Duplicate].
1963. [Concert Programmes] ORIGINAL PROMOTIONAL BOOKLETS, one SIGNED. Various sizes from 22 x 14 to 28 x 22cm. Various concerts played by Billy J. Kramer, including one SIGNED by Kramer and other artists in ink to inside cover. Publisher's paper covers, some in colour, some stapled. Signed programme in truly..... More
![The Kinks [Tour Programme]. Gerry and the Pacemakers; Gene Pitney; Marianne Faithfull; Bobby...](/pictures/thumb/57787.jpg?v=1612286881)
The Kinks [Tour Programme]. Gerry and the Pacemakers; Gene Pitney; Marianne Faithfull; Bobby Shafto; Mike Cotton Sound; the Roofraisers; Bryan Burdon. Presented by Arthur Howes and Brian Epstein.
Hastings: Hastings Printing Company, no date [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. Well-thumbed, with some toning to edges. Moderate wear..... More
Playboy Magazine. Vol. 13, no. 6.
Chicago, IL: HMH Publishing Company, June 1966. [Men's Magazine] ORIGINAL MAGAZINE. Quarto (28 x 21cm), pp.200. Illustrated throughout. Publisher's colour-illustrated paper covers, with two staples to the spine, priced at 75c. Light rubbing to covers. Very good. Including a large feature on the actor Humphrey Bogart, "Here's Looking at You..... More
Playboy Magazine. Vol. 13, no. 2.
Chicago, IL: HMH Publishing Company, February 1966. [Men's Magazine] ORIGINAL MAGAZINE. Quarto (28 x 21cm), pp.192. Illustrated throughout. Publisher's colour-illustrated paper covers, with two staples to the spine, priced at 75c. Some rubbing and creasing to covers. Very good. Including an interview with film director Frederico Fellini, a feature on..... More
Show Souvenir of Britain's Foremost Artists and Groups. The Walker Brothers | Roy Orbison.
Blackpool: Valex Products, no date [circa 1965]. [Pop Music Show Souvenir] ORIGINAL PROMOTIONAL BOOKLET. Large octavo (28 x 22cm), pp.[8]. Black and white photographs of Rock and Pop acts of the moment. Publisher's black and blue soft covers, priced at 2/6. Heavy rubbing and creasing to covers, with heavy chipping..... More
Miss Dynamite! Brenda Lee.
March 1963. [Pop Music Tour Programme] ORIGINAL PROMOTIONAL BOOKLET. Large octavo (27 x 20cm), pp.[12]. Profiles of each artist / band in the line-up. Publisher's purple and blue soft covers, stapled twice. Moderate rubbing and creasing to covers. Very good. A tour programme for Brenda Lee's 1963 UK tour, also..... More
The Searchers | Dusty Springfield | Big Dee Irwin | Bobby Vee.
12th March 1963. [Pop Music Tour Programme] ORIGINAL PROMOTIONAL BOOKLET. Large octavo (27 x 20cm), pp.[8]. Profiles of each artist / band in the line-up. Publisher's pink and black soft covers, stapled twice, with a ticket taped inside. Tape burns to covers and first page. Some rubbing and creasing to..... More
![The Rolling Stones in Concert. [Exile on Main Street 'American Tour' Programme]. ROLLING STONES](/pictures/thumb/57001.jpg?v=1612286879)
The Rolling Stones in Concert. [Exile on Main Street 'American Tour' Programme].
Sundays Promotions Inc., 1972. [Rock and Roll Tour Programme] ORIGINAL PROMOTIONAL BOOKLET. Oblong octavo (23 x 31cm), with eight leaves of black and white photographs of the band on Tour, in publisher's black and white card covers, stapled twice. Very light rubbing to edges, with some creasing to spine. An..... More