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Punk.
NY: Urizen Books, 1978. First US edition, enlarged and re-titled from the original UK edition, “Not Another Punk! Book”, published by Aurum Press earlier in the same year. 4to. Wrps., 128pp. Pink wrappers printed in black. Imaginatively designed by the art director for British Vogue, Terry Jones (later co-founder of i-D), and copiously photo-illustrated, with distinctive typography and striking graphics.
Additional text by Dike Blair and photographs on the American punk scene (32pp.), including images by Marcia Resnick of members of the Contortions, Teenage Jesus and The Jerks, the Cramps; Joey Ramone and Iggy by Bobby Grossmam; Legs McNeil by John Holmstrom; Television, Suicide, Richard Hell and the Ramones by Roberta Bayley; Patti Smith, Lydia Lunch and Stiv Bators by Beate Nilsen; Talking Heads and the Diodes by Jimmy de Sana; the Heartbreakers by Gary Green; Crime, Dils, Screamers and the Avengers by James Stark; the Nuns and Weirdos by Jonathan Postal; more.
Publisher’s original price sticker to lower wrapper, o/w a tight, Very Good plus copy of one of the earliest and best photo-documentaries of the punk era.
