First Edition Signed
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.
Published by Guildford: Genesis Publications Limited, 2006, 2006
Seller: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, United Kingdom
First Edition Signed
Signed limited edition, number 61 of 2,500 copies signed by the photographer Christopher Simon Sykes and the Rolling Stones tour manager Peter Rudge; this is one of 350 deluxe copies bound in full leather (the rest of the edition bound in quarter leather), with an additional photographic print of Mick Jagger signed by Sykes and a facsimile of the "Starship" 12-page promotional booklet describing the features of the Boeing 707-22 aircraft commissioned for the tour. In 1975, the Rolling Stones brought in their trusted friend and confidante Christopher Sykes to document in its entirety their mammoth 40-show Tour Of The Americas. The vast archive of photographs Sykes took on the tour - most of which were before seen - are here reproduced in this lavish edition. Quarto. Original full black leather, multi-threaded woven cloth onlay to front cover, titles to spine in red and yellow, all edges sikscreened in three colours. Two replica hotel room keys from the tour in a small draw-string cloth bag. 40 backstage passes providing access to various tour venues. Housed in a solander buckram box, featuring a silkscreen image of the 'Starship' with silver foil blocking and lenticular images of the Stones appearing in the cut away windows. All housed in the original printed cloth draw-string bag. Photographs by Christopher Simon Sykes. Small split to lower part of top hinge of box otherwise all in fine condition.
Published by Guildford: Genesis Publications Limited, 2006, 2006
Seller: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, United Kingdom
First Edition Signed
Signed limited edition, number 318 of 2,500 copies signed by the photographer Christopher Simon Sykes and the Rolling Stones tour manager Peter Rudge; this is one of 350 deluxe copies bound in full leather (the rest of the edition bound in quarter leather), with an additional photographic print of Mick Jagger signed by Sykes and a facsimile of the "Starship" 12-page promotional booklet describing the features of the Boeing 707-22 aircraft commissioned for the tour. In 1975, the Rolling Stones brought in their trusted friend and confidante Christopher Sykes to document in its entirety their mammoth 40-show Tour Of The Americas. The vast archive of photographs Sykes took on the tour - most of which were before seen - are here reproduced in this lavish edition. Quarto. Original full black leather, multi-threaded woven cloth onlay to front cover, titles to spine in red and yellow, all edges sikscreened in three colours. Two replica hotel room keys from the tour in a small draw-string cloth bag. 40 backstage passes providing access to various tour venues. Housed in a solander buckram box, featuring a silkscreen image of the 'Starship' with silver foil blocking and lenticular images of the Stones appearing in the cut away windows. All housed in the original printed cloth draw-string bag. Photographs by Christopher Simon Sykes. All in fine condition.
Published by Guildford: Genesis Publications Limited, 2006, 2006
Seller: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, United Kingdom
First Edition Signed
First edition, first priting. Number 1,043 of 2,500 copies signed by the photographer Christopher Simon Sykes and the Rolling Stones tour manager Peter Rudge. In 1975, the Rolling Stones brought in their trusted friend and confidante Christopher Sykes to document in its entirety their mammoth 40-show Tour Of The Americas. The vast archive of photographs Sykes took on the tour - most of which were before seen - are here reproduced in this lavish edition. Quarto. Original quarter black leather with blue and red cloth boards, eagle to front cover in blue, lettering to spine in silver, all edges silver. Two replica hotel room keys from the tour in a small draw-string cloth bag. 40 backstage passes providing access to various tour venues. Housed in a solander buckram box, featuring a silkscreen image of the 'Starship' with silver foil blocking and lenticular images of the Stones appearing in the cut away windows. All housed in the original printed cloth draw-string bag. Photographs by Christopher Simon Sykes. All in fine condition.