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Each book is individually numbered and signed by Jimmy Page.

This large format book is over 500 pages and reproduces more than 650 photographs and illustrations. It is fine-screen printed and image varnished on to heavyweight art paper (size: 280mm x 330mm).

The limited edition books are hand-bound in morocco leather and laser-cut Perspex. The translucent front and back boards are screen-printed with two of of the author's favourite portraits.

The book is presented in a hand-crafted slipcase that is bound in a 'midnight hue' silk. Blocked in gold leaf, the slipcase also features a morocco leather trim.

Limited to 2,500 copies, worldwide.

Price: 1350.00 NZD

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The Official limited edition book, signed by Jimmy Page

Jimmy Page's first official published work. This photographic autobiography is a visual history of his career as one of the world’s most iconic guitar players. A leather and perspex-bound book, with its own silk and leather slipcase. Each hand-crafted volume is signed by Jimmy Page.

The collection represents the work of more than 70 different photographers including some of the greatest names in rock photography – Ross Halfin, Kate Simon, Gered Mankowitz, Neal Preston, Dominique Tarlé, Pennie Smith, Jim Marshall and Jean Pierre Leloir to name but a few.

With incredible attention to detail, Jimmy Page has chosen photographs representing the most significant moments in his career: from a schoolboy with a rock-a-billy quiff through his extensive work as a session musician; from The Yardbirds through Led Zeppelin, ARMS, The Firm, Outrider, Coverdale & Page and Page & Plant; playing with Roy Harper and The Black Crowes; collaborating with P. Diddy and performing with Leona Lewis at the closing ceremony of the 2008 Beijing Olympics.

Jimmy Page has officially put pen to paper about his career for the first time in this limited edition. His words take the form of extended captions, which describe and document pivotal moments and events. He has also included visas, photos and stamps from his own passports.

Jimmy's own words, combined with his hand-picked photographic selection make this limited edition an historical document and a definitive visual record of a remarkable life of music.

'The book tells the story of my life as a musician. It's designed to show where my passion for music started and how it evolved. But at the same time, I wanted it to be evocative. I looked for pictures that had subtle connections and little points of referene that you won't notice straight away but will pick up on after repeated viewings. Truth it, nobody else could have made this book. This project was several years in the making; hopefully people will have a good time viewing it.' Jimmy Page in Guitar Aficionado

'I've been approached on quite a number of occasions to do an autobiography, which I've never really wanted to do, because to sell a book you can bet your life that it's stoked up in a sensational furnace. But, you know, I've had a substantial career and I thought it would be interesting to doa photographic autobiography. I wanted a book that would show the career, rather than concentrate on lots of hearsay and people's colourful stories.' Jimmy Page in Sunday Times Magazine

Jimmy: 'I wanted to expand and develop the acoustic, electric and experimental themes that I had explored in The Yardbirds. In order to channel these ideas I decided to form and produce my own group.'

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