TRANSFORMER (SIGNED BY LOU REED AND MICK ROCK)

First Edition. Hardback. Large 4to. 39 by 29 cms. Circa 200 pages Copiously illustrated in colour and black and white throughout. Signed (by Lou Reed and Mick Rock) deluxe edition in full black leather binding numbered '57' out of 350, from the larger edition of 2,000 , comprising contact sheet, album artwork and picture disc, contained within its cloth-bound box and printed cardboard mailing box as issued. Also 8 page publicity booklet for the 'Transformer Series'. The total edition was 2,000, but Reed died before he could sign all the 1,650 non-deluxe copies, he only did a few hundred, the later copies (not this) only bear his facsimile signature alongside Rock's signature. Illustrated in colour and in black and white throughout. Original full black gilt and white illustrated leather covers, spine lettered in gilt, cover design after the original album art, pictorial endpapers, gilt edges. Also enclosed is a vinyl with the tracks "Walk on the Wild Side" and "Coney Island Baby", and a print signed by Mick Rock in a black envelope. Housed in the original black cloth folding illustrated solander box, within the cardboard box as issued. A fine, as new copy, still in the original bespoke faintly used card mailin cardboard box. Lou Reed's 1972 album Transformer established his reputation as a solo artist, with Mick Rock providing the photograph used as the cover art. Rock continued to photograph Reed throughout the 1970s, and the present book gathers these photographs alongside commentary and recollections by Reed and Rock. Fine.…