In the summer of '64, hearts and souls across America were captivated by the music, charm and wit of The Beatles, whose songs assaulted the US charts as a backlog of records took over the top positions. Beatlemania had touched down in the American heartlands, and it seemed that everyone wanted to touch, or be touched, by this new phenomenon.
In 1964 Astrid Kirchherr and Max Scheler travelled from Hamburg to London to photograph The Beatles. Astrid already knew The Beatles well and had photographed them when they'd lived and worked, honing their craft, in the Hamburg clubs.
The son of a farm labourer, James Cook lacked every worldly requisite of a successful naval career in the eighteenth century. His rise to eminence owed all to merit. In one decade, he opened up the Pacific, discovery and charting hitherto unknown land and seas with masterly flair and judgement.
Signed by: Nick Mason and Storm Thorgerson
Contributors: Storm Thorgerson
Derek Taylor's colourful autobiography, packed with glorious pieces of memorabilia from his early days as a journalist, to his term as Beatles publicist and great friend and beyond.
For the first time ever, the entire black and white Rolling Stones archive of celebrated Stones photographer Gered Mankowitz is reproduced as 12" x 16" contact sheets.
This magnificent large format book is on the life and work of the Austrian artist Eugene Von Guerard.
The journal of botanist Joseph Banks, who travelled aboard the HMS Endeavour on Captain Cook's first voyage to the South Pacific.
2 volumes, octavo. Original red cloth, title gilt to spines. With the dust jackets. Coloured frontispiece to each and 14 other similar plates. 80 black and white plates, 8 sketch-maps to the text, all but 2 full-page, folding track-chart.
Elvis & the Birth of Rock documents the extraordinary music bus tours that travelled the States during the fifties, often presenting several legendary performers in a single billing.
A rare limited edition book of Bob Gruen's photography of The Rolling Stones taken from 1972 to 1997, documenting the band's touring career and also their solo appearances, both official and impromptu, and alongside other rock 'n' roll legends such as John Lennon, Bob Dylan and Chuck Berry.
A facsimile reproduction made from the original manuscript in Dickens' hand, published as a limited edition of 250 copies and signed by Monica Dickens, great granddaughter of Charles Dickens.
Collage is Sir Jackie Stewart’s account of an incredible racing career, as told through the unseen archive of the Stewart family albums. Originally compiled by Sir Jackie’s wife, Lady Helen Stewart, the albums began in the early sixties with a few press cuttings donated by Lady Helen’s mother-in-law. They grew into 17 volumes.
"I grew up in Hamburg, not Liverpool." – John Lennon
The Arc: The Grand History of the Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe is a remarkable leather-bound limited-edition book, and a milestone in racing publishing. This large-format, exquisitely printed 400-page volume recounts, for the first time, the running of every Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe from its inauguration in 1920 through to the race of 1997.
