DAVIES, Hunter
 
The Beatles: The Authorised Biography. Published by William Heinemann Ltd, London in 1968. Octavo.
 
Description
 
Original purple cloth, spine lettered in gilt. With the pictorial dust jacket designed by Alan Aldridge. Institutional library stamp of the University of Nottingham (Wortley Hall Library) to the front free endpaper. Spine slightly cocked, minor creasing and light wear to head of spine, boards bright. A very good copy in an unclipped dust jacket with minor creasing to the spine panel and an area of adhesive residue at the foot from a removed label (without paper loss or structural damage to the laminate beneath), panels bright and fresh.
First edition, first impression, of the only authorised biography of the band written during their active career.
Davies spent eighteen months embedded with the group during 1967 and 1968, gaining unprecedented access to their creative process during the recording of Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band and The Beatles (The White Album). The definitive first-issue dust jacket features Alan Aldridge’s iconic, vivid psychedelic design and retains the original "30s net" price. Copies are increasingly scarce with the delicate plastic lamination intact and free from the ubiquitous clipping or heavy surface peeling.