Buy this book on-line THOMSON, ELIZABETH AND GUTMAN, DAVID - Edited by: : THE LENNON COMPANION - Twenty-five Years of CommentLONDON.SIDGWICK & JACKSON,2002. ISBN 0283063769.
UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.[Originally and first published (UK),The Macmillan Press,1987.This edition by SIDGWICK & JACKSON,2002,so 1st edn by this publisher.Complete number line 9 - 1 descending.] FINE/FINE. No owner inscrptn and no price-clip to dw/dj.Bright,crisp,clean,glossy, wrap-around mauve background with subject's b/w portrait photographic part-illustrated front panel with red+white capitalised lettering, similarly lettered spine/backstrip and rear panel too.Negligible shelf-wear,bumping,creasing to edges and corners - no nicks,tears or splits present.Minimal,superficial,light and faint scoring to rear panel,minisculely bumped with reciprocal creasing to head of spine/backstrip and a small,approx. 1.5cm oblique production wrinkle to rear,lower edge.Top+fore-edges bright and crisp and without foxing/ spotting; contents bright,tight,clean,solid and sound - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corner tips - appears unread,other than my own collation. Publisher's bright,crisp,unblemished,sharp-cornered,original plain black cloth boards with bright,crisp,blocked silver gilt lettered spine/ backstrip and immaculate plain white endpapers. UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,v-xxiiipp+5-273pp [paginated] includes contents list/table, acknowledgements,copyright permissions,joint co-authors' introduction,Notes,8 chapters/sections with various contributions,commentaries etc., 24pp contemporary b/w photographs and illustrations in 3 blocks of 8pp apiece,between pp72/3,120/21 and pp184/85 respectively,some songs' b/w musical notation examples,a 10pp selective bibliography,an 8pp discography and an Index.Plus [unpaginated] half-title+title pages, and to the rear 6pp blanks.
Visually the exterior appearance is exceptional for a book of it's age, and even internally,the book is also in an exceptional condition/state of preservation and presentation.It really is an exceptional copy for brightness and cleanliness. Bringing together the best historical and contemporary writing about John Lennon's life and work,this collection of commissioned articles and reprints of important criticism and commentary from the 1960s to the present covers the Beatles',as well as Lennon's own,career and music.
The book is a documentary portrait of Lennon as a singer,performer, composer,artist and writer, and includes articles from contributors as diverse as Joshua Rifkin, Philip Larkin, George Melly, Gloria Steinem, David Frost, and Martin Amis.There is international coverage from leading British, American, Russian and Italian writers of Lennon's lifestyle,marriage,politics and peace campaigning.
This edition includes a comprehensive bibliography and a list of the original issues of Lennon's recorded works.
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