Never Understood. The Jesus and Mary Chain. Signed by the Authors in Orange Slipcase. First Printing. RARE

Reid, William and Jim

ISBN 10: 1399604104 / ISBN 13: 9781399604109

Published by White Rabbit/The Orion Publishing Group, London, 2024

About this Item

London. White Rabbit/The Orion Publishing Group. 2024. Hard Cover in orange slipcase. First Edition/First Printing (full number line including 1) to the copyright page. Medium 8vo 9½" x 6 ?. 281 pp. Textured wraparound boards with black titles to the spine and modern art design. Orange slipcase with black titles and star to the front. The book is square and firmly bound. No previous ownership inscriptions or remainder marks. The boards are clean and unfaded, the corners and spine ends sharp. The pages and closed page edges are clean. The colours are bright, fresh and unfaded, corners and spine ends are sharp. No wear to book or slipcase. Both are new. Endpapers in duotone showing band members. Also to verso of half title and recto of rear blank page. Colour, sepia and monochrome glossy plates in the text.

Signed by both authors to the first title page without dedication. 'Signed by the Authors' printed to the page.

For 5 years after they'd swapped sought-after apprenticeships for life on the dole, brothers William and Jim Reid sat up till the early hours in the front room of their parents' East Kilbride council house, plotting their path to world domination over endless cups of tea, with the music turned down low so as not to wake their sleeping sister. They knew they couldn't play in the same band because they'd argue too much, so they'd describe their dream ensembles to each other until finally they realised that these two perfect bands were actually the same band, and the name of that band was The Jesus and Mary Chain. More than 40 years later, William and Jim tell the full story of one of Britain's greatest guitar bands for the very first time - a wildly funny and improbably moving chronicle of brotherly strife, feedback, riots, drug and alcohol addiction, eternal outsiders and extreme shyness,

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Never Understood. The Jesus and Mary Chain. Signed by the Authors in Orange Slipcase. First Printing. RARE
• Publisher: White Rabbit/The Orion Publishing Group, London
• Publication Date: 2024
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1399604104
• ISBN 13: 9781399604109
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition, Limited Edition
• Printing: 1st Printing
• Condition: New
• Dimensions: 3W x 23H x 15D centimeters 3 centimeters width by 23 centimeters height by 15 centimeters depth
• Weight: 600 grams
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)