Guy Juke (4 results)

Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. Guy Juke (illustrator). First edition. First Edition: May 2006 (stated), first printing (full number line). Kinky's "Little Red Book" of hilarious one-liners. American wit and humor.

Softcover. FN+; No.1 has mild creasing and edge wear to cover and bumping to corners, mild stress marks to spine (and old price sticker on front cover); No.2 also has minor creasing to cover (plus some minor moisture spotting) and minor wear to spine, minor wrinkling/creasing to a few pages. 1340712. Special Collections.

Condition: Very Good +. Austin, TX: Void of Course Publishing Co., 1980. First Edition. Folio (31cm); unpaginated. Publisher's stiff illustrated wrappers. Illustrations abound. Wraps lightly bumped; spine faded. Binding sound. Textblock, endsheets, and interior pages clean. Very Good or better. Signed "To Dwight from Juke" at front wrapper verso with phone number and address scrawled below. An array of concert posters by Austin-based artist Guy Juke (pseudonym of William De White). Several advertise shows at Armadillo World Headquarters, a venue in downtown Austin that flourished in the 70s. Performers blended country and rock music, pioneering a genre that became known as "The Austin Sound." At its peak, the venue held the superlative of selling the second-greatest quantity of Lone Star beer in the state bested only by the Houston Astrodome. The 'Dillo closed its doors in 1980.

Atlas folio. 8.9 x 21.9 in. broadside poster, printed in yellow, olive, gray & black (minor age toning, spotting to lower fore-edge, slight creasing, 1 tiny paper repair at fore-edge), still a VG bright copy, Juke's name printed in lower corner of illustration. First edition of this original rock poster created by Guy Juke for the famed Armadillo concert by Dire Straits just three weeks after their groundbreaking third studio album, "Making Movies." With frontman and guitarist Mark Knopfler, the band achieved superstardom by the early 1980's. The Armadillo club had opened in Austin, TX just after the closing of the Vulcan Gas Company, and the legendary rock music venue offered an electic range of performers including Bruce Springsteen, Ravi Shankar, AC/DC, Willie Nelson, and Stevie Ray Vaughan. If not for the Armadillo, Austin may never have called itslef the "Life Music Capital of the World," and would close New Year's Eve, Dec. 31, 1980 just 8 weeks after this concert. Armadillo World Headquarters was actually revived in Feb., 2024 as a pop-up venue for the SIMS Foundation. Juke (b. 1951) is an Austin, TX graphic artist, and musician, well known for his memorable posters created for the Armadillo World Headquarters, and known as one of the "Armadillo Art Squad" creating sharp-edged figures on geometric settings. See Dave Dalton Thomas, Going Home With the Armadillo: Can a 1970s Venue for HIppies and Rednecks Survive in the New Austin?, Texas Monthly (March 6, 2025).