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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 Terry Jones (then art director at British Vogue, later co-founder of i-D), with distinctive typography and striking graphics; copiously photo-illustrated.
This edition has an additional text by Dike Blair and photographs of the American punk scene (32pp.), among them images by Marcia Resnick of Teenage Jesus and The Jerks, members of the Contortions, and the Cramps; Joey Ramone and Iggy by Bobby Grossman; 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; and the Nuns and Weirdos by Jonathan Postal.
Slight lower corner bump; spine slightly rubbed; o/w a tight, Very Good plus copy of one of the earliest and best photo-documentaries of the punk era.