- The Penguin Book Of Interviews

found: 2 books

Lennon, John; Joe Orton; Pete Shotton and Nicholas Schaffner; Harry Castleman and Walter J. Podrazik; Jann Wenner; Allan J. Wiener; Doug Sulpy

A Lot of Seven (7) Beatles-Related Items: The Penguin John Lennon; Up Against It: A Screenplay for the Beatles; the Beatles: Lennon and Me--the Intimate Insider's Book; All Together Now: The First Complete Beatles Discography 1961-1975; Lennon Remembered: The Rolling Stone Interviews; the Beatles: The Ultimate Recording Guide; the 910's Guide to the Beatles' Outtakes, Part One

, , . . . Size: 12mo 7" - 7. A lot of seven (7) items related to the Fab Four. 1) The Penguin John Lennon (Middlesex, England: Penguin Books, 1966), a Very Good condition copy bound in the original wraps, pictorial, a First Edition Thus exemplar. 160 pp. and replete with John Lennon's poetry and short prose pieces. The work combines John Lennon In His Own Write, and A Spaniard In The Works, with Lennon's own somewhat Thurberesque, fanciful line-drawings. Unpaginated, but roughly 90 pp.; 2) Joe Orton, Up Against It: a screenplay for the Beatles (New York: Grove Press, 1979), an apparent First Edition Thus, with an Introduction by John Lahr; 70 pp. plus six-pages of bibliography; Very Good condition trade paperback; 3) The Beatles: John Lennon and Me--the intimate insiders book (New York: Stein and Day, 1983), an apparent First Edition Thus exemplar of a mass market paperback, part-biography, part-autobiography, with 399 pp. and in Good condition pictorial wrappers, clean and unmarked interior, and stuffed with black-and-white photographs and illustrations galore; 4) Harry Castleman and Walter J. Podrazik, All Together Now: discography 1961-1975 (New York: Ballantine Books, 1976), a stated Second Printing of a large, oversized trade paperback format in illustrated softcover wraps, with 386 pp. and tons of black-and-white illustrations including of publicity stills, album covers and stock tour photos; "Ever song they ever recorded . . . Every movie they ever appeared in . . . Every book ever written by, for, or about them . . . "; 5) Jann Wenner, Lennon Remembers: the Rolling Stone interviews (San Francisco: Straight Arrow Books, n.d., but probably 1979), a Fine condition short octavo hardcover format tome, blue cloth over boards, gilt lettering to spine, with a Very Good pictorial card-stock dust wrapper, replete with the Rolling Stone interviews to 1971, reedited and illustrated profusely; 6) Allen J. Wiener, The Beatles: the ultimate recording guide (New York: Facts on File, 1992), a Fine condition Imperial octavo hardcover format in a like dust jacket, pictorial. Black cloth over boards, silver lettering to spine. 291 pp., a complete guide to the U.S. and U.K. discographies, bootlegs, special releases, unreleased songs, solo recordings, CDs, videocassettes, and laser discs; 7) Doug Sulpy, The 910's Guide to The Beatles' Outtakes, Part One, Fourth Edition (Jackson, New Jersey: the 910, 2001), SIGNED by the author at title page, in nearly As New condition, 264 pp. All in, an uber-valuable set of reference books for Beatles everywhere, of all ages.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Very Good/Very Good,