Isbn: 9780224043229 - all dressed up: sixties and the counterculture (3 Ergebnisse)

Hardback. Zustand: Very Good. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

Hardcover. 8vo. Pp: xiv, 482. First edition First Printing. Publisher's colour-illustrated dust jacket with black and white lettering. Publisher's black boards lettered in gilt at spine. ISBN: 9780224043229 Very good plus in very good plus dust jacket. Some toning to paper. Faint stain [approx. 6cm long] to bottom of rear board. Touch of edge wear to dust jacket.…

Original Wraps. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket, as Issued. First Edition. Rare pre-publication uncorrected book proof of the true first edition, with 'Dresed' mis-typed on the spine. The first edition of this book was withdrawn and pulped. ***Very good in pink, black printed thin card wrappers, very slightly rubbed and creased at the edges. Top edge of front wrapper very slightly faded. No inscriptions. Pages bright. Spine tight. ***472 pages. 206 mm x 135 mm. ***Jonathon Green's oral history of the sixties 'underground', Days in the Life, has been until now the most complete account of that celebrated (and much maligned decade). In All Dressed Up he expands on that book to provide a fascinating and controversial overview of the cultural and political events of the decade. ***Green's Sixties begins with the invention of the 'teenager', with the Teds, the Beats and CND; it ends with the Oz trial and with two of the decades' most lasting legacies: the women's movement and gay politics. In between, his focus is on the whole panoply of that extraordinary decade, from sex, drugs and rock 'n' roll to student protest, the anti-Vietnam movement and the radical social legislation - on abortion, obscenity, homosexuality and capital punishment - pioneered by Roy Jenkins. The underground press, the Arts Lab, 'Swinging London', anti-psychiatry, the hippy trail, the festivals, the drugs busts---' ***(Quote from rear wrapper blurb). ***The first edition was the source of litigation, from The Beatles' George Harrison and the artist Caroline Coon, and the first edition was withdrawn and pulped. ***Rare pre-publication uncorrected book proof copy of the first impression of the true first edition. ***Of interest to collectors of counter-culture and the sixties rare first editions. ***Scarce. ***For all our books, postage is charged at cost, allowing for packaging: any shipping rates indicated on ABE are an average only: we will reduce the P & P charge where appropriate - please contact us for postal rates for heavier books and sets etc.…