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‘The Punk’
by
Gideon Sams

Meet Adolph - and encounter a world of new wave, flick-knives, lurex socks and someone else's girl.

Gideon Sams wrote ‘The Punk’ in 1977 at the age of 14. It was originally a school project, marked with red biro in an old exercise book. It ended up in a bin, where it was retrieved by his mother, who saw the work as a chance of social redemption.

“Gideon Sams epitomised the punk experience with this book.” - Gaz Mayall

“A great first novel. Even romance rears its ugly head.” - Phil Daniels

Edition of 1000
shrinked-wrapped

price: £8.99 - UK only (R.o.W. email for rate).

Jamie Reid
‘The Illustrated Ape’

Issue 15 - Limited Edition.
6 pull-out posters.
shrink-wrapped
size: A4

price: £30 - UK only (R.o.W. email for rate).

Vague
‘The Great British Mistake’

Using a detail of Jamie Reid's ‘Anarchy In The UK’ torn flag image, ‘The Great British Mistake’ could also be called ‘Vagues Greatest Hits’, being the edited highlights of all Vagues between 1977-1992, it does exactly what it says on the tin.

“A fourteen and a half years' struggle against lies, stupidity, and cowardice : a reckoning with the destroyers of the Punk Rock movement” as the cover states.

Or, as Stewart Home puts it in his introduction, “Vague is the ultimate in hip reading for armchair terrorists”, with lashings of Jamie Reid graphics.

Long out of print, artbeatz have secured a limited number of mint copies from the original run of this seminal 80's counter-culture manual.

Size: A4, 114 pages

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‘King Mob Echo
Vol.1’

King Mob Echo
Vol.2
by Tom Vague

Sub-titled ‘English Section of the Situationist International’, Vague 31 is a collection of obscure (and now highly sought-after) and fascinating (mainly) British political counter-culture from the 1960s.

Reproduced, are ‘Rebel Worker’ (American anarchist publication), the legendary ‘Heatwave’ (1+2), and the near-mythical ‘King Mob Echo’ (1-6), with contributions from Chris ‘Leaving the 20th Century’ Gray, and other notables from the various pre-punk anarchist punk gangs of Britain, who put the ‘sub’ into ‘version’.

A rare glimpse at some of the radical political thinking that was to surface later in the Suburban Press, Sex Pistols, other works by artist Jamie Reid.

The accompanying volume, sub-titled ‘From Gordon Riots to Situationists to Sex Pistols’, the intrepid Tom Vague plunders the archives of history, exploring the Gordon Riots (they won't teach you this in skool, kids!), then fast-forwarding rough-shod through the centuries to almost present-day to draw parallels.

The Gordon Riots were initially an anti-Catholic uprising, as the ‘Mob’ laid siege to Parliament. This soon morphed into “attack the rich”; it was a genuine manifestation of Anarchy In The UK.

The opening scenes of the film, ‘The Great Rock'n'Roll Swindle’, echo these important events, as the ‘Mob’ lynch the Cess Pit Holes.

King Mob of the 1960s took their name from the original Gordon Rioters, who scrawled “His Majesty King Mob” on the gates of Newgate prison, before releasing the prisoners (á la the storming of the Bastille).

Tom Vague's relentless journey weaves the various strands into this witty presentation of some secret history.

History; but history's the new rock'n'roll, with Tom Vague as the new John Lenin!

Out of print, artbeatz have secured a limited number of both volumes in pristine condition.

Size: A5
Vol.1 : 130 pages
Vol.2 : 82 pages

price: £15 for 2 volume set. - UK only (R.o.W. email for rate).

Vague 22
‘Media Sickness’

Jamie Reid (and Joe Ewart)-designed front and back cover, featuring Margi Clark wearing a Reid-designed scarf on national television.

This issue has features on the Situationist International show at the Pompidou/ Jamie Reid and Margi Clark interview/ Ralph Rumney interview/ Sniffin' Ralgex/ England's Dreaming - extracts and out-takes from Jon Savage's definitive book on the Sex Pistols, and all things Punk Rock, and lashing of Jamie Reid artworks.

Long out of print, artbeatz have secured a limited number of mint copies from the original run of this seminal 80s counter-culture manual.

Size: A4.
74 pages

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Vague 23
‘God Told Me To Do It’

Looks like Vogue, but it's called Vague! Issue 23 has a feature (and loads of graphics) by the band God Told Me To Do It (who took-over the Libyan Embassy in London, if my memory serves me)/ Hype meets Vague/ Twin Peaks Diaries/ Performance - Donald Cammell/ Jon Savage interview/ Richard ‘Skinhead’ Allen by Stewart Home.

Long out of print, artbeatz have secured a limited number of mint copies from the original run of this seminal 80s counter-culture manual.

Size: A4
74 pages

price: £12 - UK only (R.o.W. email for rate).

‘Anarchy In The UK - The Angry Brigade’
by
Tom Vague

Moving effortlessly into more heavy-duty territory, psychogeographer extraordinaire, Tom Vague investigates one of the few armed terrorist groups to emerge in mainland Britain.

The Angry Brigade, who planted a bomb at 70's hippy-chic superstore Biba in trendy Kensington, and also made their mark on the modern world by bombing the Post Office Tower, part of the London skyline synonymous with ‘Swinging London’, hadn't reckoned on the talents of Situationist copper, Cremer.

Attributed as Vague 27, this diary of events covers the cause and consequences, but not the solution!

Out of print, artbeatz have secured a limited number of mint copies from the original print run, part of the Vague psychogeography series.

Size: A5
162 pages

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Vague 21
‘Cyberpunk’

Issue 21, with classic Jamie Reid front and back covers; front shows a well-known former record company head (sic.) in a rapist mask.

Features include The Music Terminator/ Cyberpunk/ William Gibson/ London's Outrage - Jon Savage interview/ Style Sucks - Jamie Reid/ Class War/ Culturcide.

Lots of Jamie Reid graphics, plus Situationism, and various assorted Pistols.

Long out of print, artbeatz have secured a limited number of mint copies from the original run of this seminal 80s counter-culture manual.

Size: A4
114 pages

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Vague 20
‘Televisionaries’

Great cover yet again, this issue is largely devoted to the Baader Meinhof/ Red Army Faction, some of the contents of which were to appear later as the A5 book, also titled ‘Televisionaries’.

Also contains features on God Told Me To Do It/ Alternatives To Terrorism/ cartoons/ graphics (one by Jamie Reid), and lashings of creamy subversion.

Long out-of-print, artbeatz have secured a limited number of mint copies from the original run of this seminal 80s counter-culture manual.

Size: A4
98 pages

price: £12 - UK only (R.o.W. email for rate).

Vague 18/19
‘Control Data Manual’

Another fine issue of the cult underground magazine from the enigma that is Tom Vague.

The ‘Control Data Manual’ carries features on Plagiarism + Nihilism/ Programming Phenomena/ Worldwide Alienation/ Bildeberg Group/ Illuminati Papers/ Occult Roots Of Nazism/ various other conspiracy articles, served-up with lashing of general subversion.

Long out of print, artbeatz have secured a limited number of mint copies from the original run of this seminal 80's counter-culture manual.

Size: A4
146 pages

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Vague 16/17
‘The 20th Century And How To Leave It’

What began as a fanzine for (early) Adam + the Antz, Southern Death Cult, et al, in the late 70s, by the enigmatic Tom Vague, had, by issue 16/17 turned into a Situationist anti-music magazine.

Excellent cover featuring Malcom McDowell from the film ‘If’, this issue has articles on Instructions For Taking-up Arms/ The Boy Scouts Guide To Situationism/ Psychic TV/ Decoder/ Nothing Short Of Total War/ Muzack/ Cut-Ups/ Burroughs/ Genesis P.Orridge, plus a Tom Vague travelogue of Berlin (before fall of Wall), and lashings of other submersive elephants, including the Angry Brigade.

Long out of print, artbeatz have secured a limited number of mint copies from the original run of this seminal 80's counter-culture manual.

Size: A4
122 pages

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‘Che: Images of a Revolutionary’

Features nearly 400 photographs, many never previously published. The book follows Che's life from early childhood to his career as a political activist. Writings by Che, including a number of his speeches and examples of the literature written about him by Fidel Castro, Allen Ginsberg and others, complement the visually stunning photographic collection.

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‘On The Road With The Ramones’

Pioneers of punk and Rock 'n' Roll Hall of Famers, at the peak of their 2,263 live-show career they were arguably the greatest band on the planet.

Monte A Melnick saw it all : the arrests, the ODs, the fights, the breakups, the makeups, the girlfriends, the hotels and the binges. As the band's tour manager from their CBGB debut on Aug 16th, 1974 to their final show in LA on Aug 6th 1996, Monte was indeed the fifth Ramone. This is his story.

A truly fantastic array of pictures and punk graphics too. You'll keep this forever!

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‘Up They Rise - The Incomplete Works of Jamie Reid’

This book - only marginally more incomplete than the artist himself - embraces the whole range of his paintings, graphics and drawings, from ‘The Cat Book’ to ‘Leaving The Twentieth Century’, and from ‘Anarchy In The UK’ to ‘Letter To Brezhnev’. The accompanying text shows Reid as irreverent, vunerable, witty and perceptive. “Media sickness”, one montage proclaims, is “more contagious than Aids”.

Over 140 pages of pix & text. Words by Reid and John Savage. A Sex Pistol arty student must have!!

Edition: Rare First
PB only.
condition: very good

price: £100 - UK only (R.o.W. email for rate).

‘Sex Pistols File - Ray Stevenson’

Rare 1st. edition copy of Ray Stevenson's early photographs of the band, capturing the Cess Pit Holes from early gigs such as St.Albans and the Nashville, through the Anarchy Tour, and up to their American tour and ultimate demise. This book has been republished and revised on numerous occasions (with green and yellow title text); on offer is the first edition to be published by Omnibus in 1978. Excellent condition.

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‘Leaving the 20th Century’ by Christopher Gray

Subtitled ‘The Incomplete Work of the Situationist International’ this is a rare opportunity to acquire a first edition copy of Gray's English translation, published by Freefall in 1974.

This is the ‘missing link’ between Jamie Reid's work with Situationism, the Suburban Press (he did the graphics for this publication) and his later work with the Sex Pistols.

               

Reid's ‘Nice Drawing’ (later featured as the back sleeve for the ‘Holidays in the Sun’ single), and the ‘beach scene’ (which appeared on the second version of the ‘Holidays’ promotional poster), and several Suburban Press graphics are featured in this rare work, which had an initial print run of only 4000 copies.

Crease to upper right cover and some wear to outer cover, otherwise excellent condition for its age. Still has Compendium Books sticker intact on verso with quote from John Berger.

price: £200 - UK only (R.o.W. email for rate).

‘The Philosophy of Andy Warhol (From A to B & Back Again)’

Andy Warhol SIGNED, accompanied with C.O.A.

First edition (New York): Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1975. A Warhol potpourri. This copy, signed by Warhol (initialled as usual). Condition is very good. Dust jacket condition is very good and bears original price of $7.95.

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‘The Man Of Fashion - Peacock Males And Perfect Gentlemen’

A designed and illustrated celebration of men throughout the ages who have dressed extravagantly in order to show their power, to express their sexuality, to set themselves apart from the conformist herd - or simply out of joie de vivre. The author charts the male's stylish and self-confident course through history, from the medieval knights, with their lavish heraldic dress, to the stuffed and codpieced Elizabethans, the fops, incroyables, bucks, dandies and swells, to the aesthetes, zooties, mods, hippies and punks of the 20th-century.

The metamorphosis of the late 20th-century fashionable man is considered, with reference to the influence of fashion photographers and the influence of gay culture. It also looks at the new generation of menswear designers - Versace, Armani, Lauren and Gaultier.

Entertaining, informative and endlessly surprising - will prove to be an indispensable volume for historians and students, as well as fashion enthusiasts. With more than 250 Illustrations, 99 in colour.

First Edition: 1997 Hardback
condition: excellent

price: £40 - UK only (R.o.W. email for rate).

‘Dear Boy: The Life of Keith Moon’

‘Dear Boy’ is the best selling biography of Keith Moon, rock's greatest drummer and wildest character. In researching a life now disorted by myths of debauchery and comic anarchy, author Tony Fletcher interviewed over 120 of Moon's friends, family and associates. The result is a searingly personal portrait of a total incorrigible yet uniquely generous boy who never grew up, and who changed the lives of all who knew him.

“One of rock's greatest biographies” - Record Collector
“Horrific, and terrific, reading…” - Q Magazine
“Extraordinarily thorough…” - The Times
“Richly anecdotal…a terrific read.” People Mag
“Explosive and entertaining…” - Vanity Fair
“…yeah, all that and more!!” - Artbeatz

Edition: Paperback
1999
578 pages
condition: very good


price: £12 - UK only (R.o.W. email for rate).

‘Kurt Cobain and Courtney Love - In Their Own Words’

Courtney Love - rock chick, rock mother, rock star and rock widow - and Kurt Cobain - Nirvana lead singer - have been misquoted and misunderstood. This book, telling their story in their own words, aims to set the record straight. It includes hundreds of quotes and extracts from their interviews as they talk about her band, Hole, their child Frances Bean, Kurt's feelings about his music and his increasing isolation and depression, and Courtney's feelings about his suicide. The book is illustrated with pictures from all stages of their respective careers.

If you're looking for a book which is full of quotes from Kurt and Courtney then this is the book for you, but don't be fooled because it was not written by them, it is simply a bunch of statements they made, and in this format, it is the closest you could possibly get. Fascinating.

Condition: very good
edition: Paperback 1996

price: £12.50 - UK only (R.o.W. email for rate).

‘Rotten: No Irish No Blacks No Dogs’ - The Autobiography

First edition hardback of John(ny) Rotten's / Lydon's autobiographical account of his version (with literary assistance from Keith and Kent Zimmerman).

An intense character in every way, and an icon to a generation at his peak (1977), he was there, he was part of it, he was VERY influential, but it wasn't ALL him.

Personally, I found myself reaching for the salt at numerous points; this is the gospel according to Saint John… not gospel, but it's very close to the source.

A Rotten's-eye view of the rise and fall of the Sex Pistols, this increasingly hard to find book proclaims the truth loudly - the true secret history is but a whisper…

Condition: excellent

price: £25 - UK only (R.o.W. email for rate).

‘Bob Marley’
by
Adrian Boot & Chris Salewicz

US first-edition hardback, published by Viking Studio in 1995.

Subtitled ‘Songs of Freedom’, this 288 page book features more than 500 photographs, mainly by Adrian Boot (Marley's photographer for many years). With text by Chris Salewicz, and an introduction by Rita Marley, it covers the early years of the Wailers, up to Marley's untimely death aged 36.

Long out of print, this excellent volume is packed to the gills, authoritative and skankin'.

Slight crease to dust jacket, otherwise near excellent condition.

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‘John Barry - A Sixties Theme’
by
Eddi Fiegel

First-edition softcover biography of one of the most influential composers / musicians of the 1960s, published by Boxtree in 1998.

Subtitled ‘From James Bond to Midnight Cowboy’, with personal recollections from Barry, Michael ‘Harry Palmer’ Caine, Jane Birkin (his ex-wife), Adam ‘Budgie’ Faith, and John ‘need no intros’ Schlesinger. Plus 18 pages of photographs.

John Barry is a cultural icon, and inspiration to a generation of musicians.

Long out of print, and in excellent condition.

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‘Quincy Jones’
by
Raymond Horrocks

Long out of print first-edition, subtitled ‘From Sinatra to Thriller, a Life of Music’, was published by Omnibus in 1986.

Spanning jazz to pop, Quincy's been there, and done it long before most everyone. A true giant in many areas.

Includes a select but in depth discography.

Some wear to edges of cover, otherwise very good condition, with no loose pages.

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‘The Essential Lenny Bruce’
edited by
John Cohen

Satirist, and obscenicist extraordinaire, Lenny Bruce can rightly be claimed to be the catharsis for modern comedy.

Containg transcripts of some of his more infamous routines.

“Lenny Bruce made obscenity a fine art and it killed him” - The Times

This edition, published by Panther in 1975, has slight cover wear, otherwise in very good condition.

For further info on his life, check Dustbin Hoffman's performance in ‘Lenny’, or Bruce's classic book ‘How To Talk Dirty and Influence People’.

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‘Fever Pitch’
by
Nick Hornby

Hardback copy of the fan's eye view of supporting Arsenal, full of drama, and Hornby's trademark observations and witicisms.

Published in 1992 by Victor Gollancz, this is a seventh impression hardback.

You've seen the film, now read the book, which is in excellent condition, with only minor wear to the dust jacket.

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‘The Face’
Fresh Electro issue

Volume 1, no.49 issue of the seminal 80's British style bible, the Face, published in May 1984.

This issue has a good news/intro section, and has features on Fresh Electro (Afrika Baambaata, Arthur Baker, Run DMC, etc.), Quincy Jones, Madness, Germaine Greer, Ken Livingstone, fashion, and much more.

Besides slight surface marking to front cover, the magazine is in excellent condition.

Price: £10 - UK only (R.o.W. email for rate).

‘Stuart Sutcliffe’
by
Pauline Sutcliffe

First edition hardback biography of the mythical fifth Beatle, Stuart Sutcliffe, written by his sister, Pauline Sutcliffe.

Sub-titled ‘The Beatles Shadow and his Lonely Hearts Club Band’, it's the fascinating real-life story of the ‘first’ of the Beatles (mop top 'n' jacket), who is lucky to be remembered as the fifth.

The story begins in Liverpool (where else!), with Sutcliffe's meeting, and friendship with John Lennon, covers the Beatles' famous residencies in Hamburg, and ends tragically with his premature death in the same city.

Most controversial moments are his alleged homosexual experience with Lennon, and, without any finger-pointing, or bitterness, a probable explanation of the cause of his death.

Heartfelt without being overly sentimental, honest, balanced, and well-written.

Condition: mint

price: £15 - UK only (R.o.W. email for rate).

‘Stone Roses’
by
Dave Simpson

Out of print ‘Stone Roses (The Illustrated History)’ goes from the early days, through the highs of Spike Island, Baggy, and the ‘paint incident’, through to the departure of Jon Squire in 1996, and the bands' ultimate demise.

80 page softback, slightly bigger than A4 with lots of words and pictures.

Condition: excellent

Price: £9.00 - UK only (R.o.W. email for rate).

‘Quadrophenia’
by
Alan Fletcher

Alan Fletcher's first edition paperback novel of the film of the novel of the film…

Out of print for beards, it's the classic Mod teen love angst pill-poppingly paranoid style and dancing and scuffling with Rockers tale in very good condition.

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‘Stoned’
by
Andrew Loog Oldham

First edition hardback autobiography of one of the most intriguing characters of the 1960s. The reclusive Andrew Loog Oldham (he now lives in Bogota, Columbia), writes (fairly) candidly, with contributions from various others. Working with Mary Quant - Fab, press officer for the Beatles - Swinging, managing the Rolling Stones - Stoning, and Phil Spectoring about in the studio - er, Groovy!

Highly readable account of what, and who made London Swing in the sixties, and an insight into the world of the Stones during their glorious heyday.

Condition : excellent

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‘One of the Lads’
by
Anne Coddington

Subtitled ‘Women Who Follow Football’, this first edition paperback was first published by Harper & Collins in 1997.

From soccer-mad mothers, to pioneering journalists, from players' wives, to football landladies…

Does exactly what it says on the tin.

Minor cover wear, otherwise very good condition.

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‘Jimi Hendrix’
by
Curtis Knight

Long out of print paperback of the life of Jimi Hendrix. This account is by Curtis Knight, who played and recorded with Hendrix the year before Chas Chandler whisked-him-off to London in 1966. Lots of “I remember him telling me”'s, but interesting nontheless. All pages are intact, though spine has been broken twice; otherwise VG.

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‘The Good, The Bad, The Ugly’
by
Joe Millard

First edition paper back, published by Tandem in 1967, it's the classic spaghetti tale, with Clint lookin' cool as (and half his age!) on the cover.

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‘A Clockwork Orange’
by
Anthony Burgess

Anthony Burgess' classic tale of ultraviolence, my little droogs and only friends. Still in print, this copy has the all-important glossary, which you can viddy at the back. Current editions do not include the glossary, which is enough to give you a pain in the gulliver.

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