Rolling Stones through minor royalty and fashion- conscious aristocrats to film stars, couturiers, and gangsters; each portrait is accompanied with a note by Francis Wyndham, then-editor of Queen magazine. The mode of publication also hints at a new democratization. The printing is of lovely quality but photomechanical which meant the cost could be kept down to just three guineas. This is the sole printing: there was no American edition, largely due to the influence of Lord Snowdon, who objected to the inclusion of the portrait of the notorious Kray twins. Complete sets of the publication in the original box with both packing inserts are scarce. Original card clamshell box (38 × 33 cm), containing 36 loose prints; each a full-page half-tone photographic portrait with biographical details of the sitters on the verso. With loose sheet of brown paper and stamped cardboard insert, as issued. Housed in a custom black clamshell box. A few brown marks to lid of the box, edges lightly rubbed and corners split; still an extremely bright copy in original condition much better than usually encountered, all prints in excellent condition. £20,000 [155041] 7
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6 BAILEY, David. Box of Pin-Ups. London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, [1965] The definitive images of key figures in London during the Sixties First edition of this seminal collection of portraits by Bailey – one of the great iconic representations of the Swinging Sixties in London. The subjects typify the new social elite, ranging from the Beatles and the
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BALLARD, J. G. Crash. London: Jonathan Cape, 1973 THE FIRST GREAT NOVEL OF THE UNIVERSE OF SIMULATION
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