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Vendor:Red Planet Books
Cover Stories: Five Decades of Album Art - 1977-2019 (Rare signed copies)
Bill Smith Hardcover | 30.5 x 30.5 x 1.6 | 128 pp Red Planet Books | 2021 | 9781912733170 All copies signed by Bill Smith Bill Smith and his Studio have been designing record covers since 1976. In those five decades they have worked...- £25.00
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Vendor:Paul Stolper Gallery
ARCHIVUM: Vintage Joy Division Prints by Kevin Cummins
Kevin Cummins & Paul Stopler Softcover | 24 x 1.3 x 28 | 144 pp Paul Stolper Gallery | 2022 | 9781916023345 ARCHIVUM shows for the first time in book form more than 50 unique black-and-white prints of Kevin Cummins's photographs of the...- £17.50
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Vendor:Motorbooks
The Who & Quadrophenia
Martin Popoff Hardcover in slipcase | 26.64 x 2.49 x 27.13 cm | 176 pp Motorbooks | 2023 | 9780760379271 Take a deep dive into one of the best-selling albums ever with this beautifully produced and authoritatively written slipcased edition. Veteran rock critic Martin Popoff leaves...- £22.50
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Vendor:Hachette
The Ox: The Authorised Biography of the Who's John Entwistle
Paul Rees Hardcover | 16.64 x 3.56 x 23.75 cm | 352 pp Hachette | 2020 | 9780306922855 Unearth a piece of music history with this definitive, no-holds-barred biography of John Entwistle, The Who's legendary bass guitarist. It is an unequivocal fact that in terms...- £12.00
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Vendor:White Rabbit
Futuromania : Electronic Dreams, Desiring Machines, and Tomorrow's Music Today (Non-mint)
Simon Reynolds Softcover | 13 x 3.4 x 19.6 cm | 416 pp White Rabbit | 2024 | 9780306833786 Futuromania is a celebration of music that feels like a taste of tomorrow: the vanguard genres and heroic innovators who prefigure and shape pop music's future. It...- £12.50
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Vendor:Omnibus Press
The Best of Jamming!: Selections and Stories from the Fanzine That Grew Up, 1977–86
Tony Fletcher & Billy Bragg Softcover | 20.96 x 2.54 x 30.48 cm | 288 pp Omnibus Press | 2021 | 9781913172305 One of Britain’s best-loved and most successful fanzines, Jamming! documented the musical landscape as it evolved between 1977 and 1986. An immensely evocative read...- £10.00
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Vendor:Backstage Books
Feeling Supersonic: From Madchester to Britpop
Simon Spence Softcover | 11.1 x 2.3 x 17.8 cm | 204 pp Backstage Books | 2024 | 9781739477936 Available in two editions, with cover photographs by Jill Furmanovsky and Roger Sargent. Feeling Supersonic is a compendium, a celebration and a roadmap to the remarkable...- £8.50
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Vendor:Faber & Faber
Richard Thompson: Beeswing - Fairport, Folk Rock and Finding My Voice 1967–75
Richard Thompson Softcover | 12.9 x 1.8 x 19.8 cm | 290 pp Faber & Faber | 2022 | 9780571376988 The memoir of international music icon Richard Thompson, co-founder of the legendary folk rock group Fairport Convention. Richard Thompson came of age during an extraordinary...- £7.00
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Vendor:Omnibus Press
Don Letts: There and Black Again
Hardcover | 15.88 x 3.3 x 23.5 cm | 320 pp Omnibus Press | 2021 | 9781913172091 Don Letts - filmmaker, musician, DJ, broadcaster, social commentator, husband and father - has always defied conformity. A British-born son of Windrush parents, he seamlessly pivoted between...- £15.00
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Vendor:MIT Press
Rhythm Science by Paul D. Miller aka DJ Spooky That Subliminal Kid (Rare edition)
Paul D. Miller Softcover | 14 x 0.8 x 19 cm | 130 pp MIT Press | 2004 | 9780262632874 Includes free CD - Rhythm Science: Excerpts and Allegories from the Sub Rosa Archives Rare & Collectible Paul D. Miller, known as DJ Spooky...- £20.00
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Vendor:Nine Eight Books
Bee Gees: Children of the World
Bob Stanley Hardcover | 16.2 x 3.6 x 24 cm | 392 pp Nine Eight Books | 2023 | 9781788705417 Everyone has their favourite era of the Bee Gees' career, but so much is still unclear about this celebrated but often misunderstood band. This...- £10.00
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Vendor:Allen & Unwin
Alan McGee: How to Run an Indie Label
Alan McGee Hardcover | 15.2 x 3 x 24.2 cm | 320 pp Allen & Unwin | 2024 | 9781838957988 From founding Creation Records to discovering Oasis, How to Run an Indie Label offers a no-holds-barred rampage through gigs, clubs, boardrooms, drugs and booze that...- £9.00
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Vendor:Doubleday
Thurston Moore: Sonic Life - A Memoir
Thurston Moore Hardcover | 16.38 x 3.99 x 23.88 cm | 467 pp Doubleday | 2023 | 9780385548656 From the founding member of Sonic Youth, a passionate memoir tracing the author's life and art—from his teen years as a music obsessive in small-town Connecticut, to...- £15.00
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Vendor:Smith Street Books
A Field Guide to Grunge
Steve Wide Hardcover | 17.78 x 1.55 x 21.72 cm | 96 pp Smith Street Books | 2021 | 9781922417190 In A Field Guide to Grunge, Steve Wide explores the dynamic scene that sprung from the ashes of punk and underground metal in America’s Pacific...- £7.50
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Vendor:Smith Street Books
A Field Guide to Britpop
Steve Wide Hardcover | 17.7 x 1.55 x 21.67 cm | 96 pp Smith Street Books | 2022 | 9781922417206 A Field Guide to Britpop explores a scene fuelled by north–south rivalries, tribal fashion and a good cup of tea. Author Steve Wide documents...- £7.50
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Vendor:Dog 'n' Bone
Music's Cult Artists: 100 artists from punk, alternative, and indie through to hip-hop, dance music, and beyond
John Riordan Hardcover | 17.02 x 2.29 x 20.96 cm | 160 pp Dog 'n' Bone | 2020 | 9781912983285 Featuring 100 of the coolest artists from the last five decades, A Guide to Music's Cult Artists reveals the influencers and tastemakers who have helped to shape...- £7.50
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Babble On An' Ting: Alex Paterson's Incredible Journey Beyond The Ultraworld with The Orb
Kris Needs & Alex Patterson Softcover | 15.88 x 2.54 x 23.5 cm | 352 pp Omnibus Press | 2021 | 9781787602335 Always steered by Alex Paterson, The Orb were the mischief-making pioneers of the late 80s acid house revolution. Inventing "ambient house", they took...- £10.00
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Vendor:Nine Eight Books
Tomorrow's Here Today: Lightning Seeds, Football and Cosmic Post-Punk
Ian Broudie Hardcover | 16.3 x 3.3 x 24.3 cm | 352 pp Nine Eight Books | 2023 | 9781788709026 Few musicians have lived a musical life as rich as the songwriter and producer Ian Broudie. From recording the glorious uplifting psychedelic pop of his band...- £10.00
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Pandamonium!: How Not to Run a Record Company
Simon Williams Softcover | 12.7 x 1.6 x 19.7 cm | 328 pp Nine Eight Books | 2022 | 9781788707312 As a one-time NME journalist, former Xfm radio presenter, toilet-circuit promoter and the founder of enduring homespun British record label Fierce Panda, Simon Williams...- £6.50
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Never Understood: The Jesus and Mary Chain (Non-mint)
William & Jim Reid Hardcover | 23.4 x 3 x 15.4 cm | 304 pp White Rabbit | 2024 | 9780306835513 For five years after they'd swapped sought-after apprenticeships for life on the dole, brothers William and Jim Reid sat up till the early hours...- £12.00
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