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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Hardback. Folio 52 x 34 x 11cms.416 pages. Full black leather with embroidered eagle patch and silkscreened page edging. The hand crafted solander box features a full colour silkscreen image of the 'Starship' (Stones Tour Plane) and silver stars. Images of the Stones appear in the aircraft's cut away windows (lenticular). 141 of 235 copies (de lixe edition) signed by Rudge and Sykes in the blue printed draw string bag. - a collection of every piece of tour memorabilia imaginable - including backstage passes and even hotel room keys + and a signed numbered print of Mick Jagger.The tour 'Access Backstage' silk armband serves as a pull ribbon. As the tour's official chronicler, it was access all areas for Christopher Simon Sykes. Massive, heavy and fascinating 27,000 word narrative to accompany his many hundreds of photographs. Running throughout the book there are also tour schedules, set lists, budgets, daily newsletters from tour manager Peter 'Commander' Rudge, personnel lists, sight-seeing tickets, night club passes, Rolling Stone magazine articles, letters home and postcards - the perfect accompaniment to the diary's words and photographs. An enormous archive of largely unseen photographs, a wonderfully descriptive diary etc., Ê ISBN: Ê0904351955 Book fine. Slight wear at spine of slip- case, toe bag slightly faded. Signedes.