"A book should serve as the axe for the frozen sea within us."
— Franz Kafka
Pop Culture
Only Fools and Stories.
London: Century, 2017. [Autobiography] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (25 x 17cm), pp.326. Publisher's black cloth with gilt titles to spine, in photographic dust-jacket by Colin Bell. Signed by the author to the title page. Minor bump to foot of spine. Signed sticker to the dust-wrapper. Fine. Sir David Jason follows-up..... More
Always Look on the Bright Side of Life. A Sortabiography.
London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 2018. [Biography] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (25 x 17cm), pp.[16]; 289; [1]. Publisher's orange cloth, gilt titles to spine, yellow endpapers, dust-jacket with printed price of £20. Signed by the author in black ink. With a suite of colour photographs plus occasional in-text black and white..... More
Birds of Great Britain.
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
British Pop.
Bilbao: Museo de Bellas Artes de Bilbao, 2005. [Pop Art] INSCRIBED EXHIBITION CATALOGUE. Quarto softcover (27 x 20cm), pp.474 [2]. SIGNED by the artist Peter Blake in black ink, and additionally INSCRIBED by Livingstone in blue ink: 'For Edward | Marco Livingstone | 16.IV.09.' Both to title page. Text in..... 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
America.
New York, NY: Harper and Row, 1985. [American Culture / Photography] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Quarto (28 x 22cm), pp.224. Black and photographs to every page with commentary by Warhol. SIGNED by Warhol in marker pen to the front cover, and again to the blank facing the contents page, also with..... More
Magne F, Payne's Gray.
Ostfildern-Ruit: Hatje Cantz Verlag, 2004. [Art / Pop Music] INSCRIBED FIRST EDITION. Square quarto (31 x 31cm), unpaginated. Publisher's printed cloth covered boards, black endpapers. Illustrated throughout. Signed and inscribed by the author to the first blank: "To Jane | M F | 13.04.12". Uncommon in any state, particularly so..... More
Cafe Lehmitz.
AB Tiprod, ETC, 1982. [Photography / Counter Culture] FIRST HARDCOVER EDITION. Text in Swedish. Oblong octavo (27 x 24cm). With 88 black and whiite photographs. White cloth hardcovers blocked in black, photographic dust-jacket. Book is fine, jacket near fine with a couple of small marks and tears. An attractive copy..... More
The Who Live. The Greatest Rock 'n' Roll Band In the World.
Guildford: Genesis Publications, 2000. [Rock Music] LIMITED EDITION, SIGNED by photographer Ross Halfin. Foreword by Pete Townsend. Strictly 1500 copies were available worldwide, this being copy number 1233. Includes a CD album of 'THE WHO LIVE AT LEEDS' pressed in gold especially for this edition. Folio, bound in quarter black..... More
November Girl.
New York, NY: Madison Square Press, 1967. [Cult photography book] FIRST EDITION. Folio (35 x 28cm), unpaginated. Publisher's cream coloured cloth in original dust-wrapper priced at $9.95. Photographed throughout in black and white. Some moderate handling, jacket frayed at crown, few small scratches to rear. Very good. More
Days of Hopes and Dreams: An Intimate Portrait of Bruce Springsteen.
New York: Insight Editions, 2003. [Rock / pop photography]. SIGNED LIMITED EDITION, DELUXE ISSUE, number 421 of 450 copies. Large quarto (34 x 26cm), pp.136. Illustrated throughout with photographs. Publisher's hardcover in glossy jacket housed in a black cloth clamshell with black and white portrait of the subject laid down..... More
Rankin Nudes.
London: Rankin Photography, 1999. [Photography]. UNPUBLISHED LIMITED EDITION. Quarto (36 x 31cm), pp.107 [5]. Colour and black and white photographs, with a short interview with Rankin about the shoot. One of 500 copies produced as a special hard-cover edition, but left un-published after the Publisher went out of business. 250..... More
Five Girls.
New York, NY: Crown Publishers, 1962. [Fashion Photography / Sixties Culture] Landmark photography book. FIRST US EDITION. Publisher's salmon cloth hardcover in original dust-wrapper priced at $10. Folio, unpaginated. Photographed throughout in black and white. One or two tiny marks to jacket, small chip at crown, soft crease to flaps;..... More
Wyman Shoots Chagall.
Guildford: Genesis Publications, 1998. [Music / Art] LIMITED EDITION, number 321 of 1500 copies, Signed by the author. A superb archive of images with accompanying text, documenting an unlikely meeting between two artists who had achieved greatness in their respective fields; the Stones' bass player and sometime photographer and band..... More
Desert Vivant.
Paris: Societe Francaise Du Livre, 1954. [Film] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Quarto. A fine copy, respined in cloth to style. Inscribed by the great and powerful Mr. Disney in customary flamboyant style to the verso of the half title. A sumptuous photographic collection of the animals and scenery of the Living..... More
Mandy.
London: Michael Joseph, 1980. [Biography] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.224. Publisher's black cloth, gilt titles to spine, dust-jacket featuring a photograph by David Steen. With a suite of double-sided black and white photographic plates. Neat ownership to flyleaf, some spotting to edges. Wrapper and cloth lightly handled. Very..... More
Sex and Seditionaries.
London: First Edition Publishing, 2006. [Punk Fashion] CD ROM LIMITED EDITION. Folio (35 x 25cm), unpaginated, with introductory essays by MacLaren and Easton, followed by a full-colour catalogue of some items later sold to the artist Damien Hirst, and disputed as fakes by MacLaren. With the CD ROM also containing..... More
I Me Mine.
Guildford: Genesis Press [Genesis Publications], 1980. [Music autobiography] SIGNED LIMITED FIRST EDITION (No.482). Quarto (25 x 18cm), pp.404; [2], blank. With sepia plates and illustrations. Original half brown morocco with 'guitar' gilt-stamped to boards, gilt edges, in original slipcase. Number 482 of 2000 copies only, signed by the late former..... More
The Magic Christian.
London: Andre Deutsch, 1969. [Satire] FIRST EDITION, thus, with new jacket art. SIGNED BY RINGO STARR Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.148; [2], blank. Publisher's red cloth titled in gilt, with the pictorial dust-jacket. A fine reissue/reprint of the book first published in 1959, jacket states second impression; this edition with..... More
It Gives Me Great Pleasure.
London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1955. [Biography] INSCRIBED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.[8]; 214; [2] blank. Publisher's green cloth, gilt titles to spine, dust-jacket designed by Beaton with printed price of 16s net. Photographic frontispiece and occasional in-text illustrations. Inscribed by the author to the flyleaf: "To dearest Enid..... More
Another Beatles Christmas Show.
[London]: NEMS Publications, 1964. [Rock and Pop music] ORIGINAL CONCERT PROGRAMME. Octavo (26 x 20cm), unpaginated. In soft paper covers, with cover illustrations by Lennon, showing various figures exchanging yuletide holly branches. Very light soiling to front panel otherwise a particularly crisp, fresh example. Programme for the second Beatles Christmas..... More
Arthur Howes and Brian Epstein Present The Beatles Show. Souvenir Programme.
UK: Printed by Hastings Printing Company, St Leonards on Sea, 1965. [Rock and Pop music] ORIGINAL CONCERT PROGRAMME. Oblong octavo (17 x 25cm), unpaginated. Paper covers with cartoon illustration to front panel. One tear to cover near spine, some minor creasing/handling; very good. A programme for The Beatles final UK..... More
X-Ray. The Unauthorised Autobiography.
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
Crossfire Hurricane.
Guildford, UK: Genesis Publications, 1997. [Rock photo-documentary] LIMITED EDITION, SIGNED by Photographer Bob Gruen. Folio (30 x 24cm), pp.136. Bound in three-colour silk-screened fabric cover, featuring Mick Jagger on the front board and Keith Richards on the back, with a four-colour screen printed slipcase featuring the band. A superb production..... More
Life.
London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 2010. [Rock Biography / Autobiography] SIGNED LIMITED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.654. Hardcover with black and white plates, original dust-jacket. One of an unspecified limited number autographed by Keith Richards on a specially-printed 'exclusive signed edition' leaf, following the half title. A fine, unused..... More