Playboy Interviews by John Lennon, First Edition (12 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. First printing. Appears unread. Dust jacket in protective cover.

Hardcover. Condition: VG+. Dust Jacket Condition: VG+. 1st Edition. Burgundy 1/4 cloth, gray paper-covered boards, lettered in gold foil. Front cover shows slight scaling (surface loss) along top and bottom edges, top rear corner slightly bumped, slight soiling along text block fore-edge. Dust jacket is mildly tanned, with corner crease to front flap, slightly rubbed top corners, now in mylar. 1st ed. xiv,193 pp. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Book.

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Mass Market Paperback. A fine copy in pictorial wraps. 1st Berkley printing with no additional printings listed. The covers have some minor general wear. Usual age toning to the page block. A nice tight copy with no spine reading creases and no names or markings. Illustrated. 12mo; 256 pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First edition stated. 5 3/4 x 8 1/2 Book; binding tight, straight boards have mild soiling with minor bumping to bottom edges; mild soiling to edges with three ink letters and two numbers with small damp stain spot to front free end page else text free of marks, appears gently read. Price clipped dust jacket has mild bumping and chipping with small paper loss to mostly spine and flap fold ends, 1" closed tear to top spine and two 1/2" closed tears to bottom spine with clear tape backing to spine ends and to top rear and bottom front flap fold ends. Color sharp. Under archival quality mylar cover. Several photographs. Photos upon request. Packed well and shipped in a sturdy box.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Conducted by David Sheff. Edited by G. Barry Golson. Black and white photographs. Stated first edition. Very good in a very good, price clipped dust jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. very nice copy of the first edition.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Mike McIver ( jacket design) (illustrator). Stated First Edition. Foreword by Executive Editor dated 1981 at New York. Introduction by David Sheff sets the stage for the actual interview. Book is divided into three parts: Part One - 9 chapters : Part Two - 10 chapters; Part Three - 19 B/W photographs, chapters 21 to 30.Plus Epilogue. Book has 1/2 burgundy cloth spine with gilt text, gilt text on front panel as well. Book has light ends of spine wear, text block is as new. Price clipped DJ has edge/shelf wear with closed tear/chip at top rear corner and 1/4" closed tear at front head of spine. The actual interview was on the newsstands when John was shot. Bookseller's Inventory # 242178.

First Edition, First Printing. The book contains interviews which were completed just two months before John Lennon was killed in a period of time when he and Yoko Ono were returning to public life and creating a great body of work, both artistic and musical. Also included is LennonÕs song-by-song analysis of his music. Illustrated. Near fine copy in a very good lightly handled dust jacket with a couple of very tiny tears.

Cloth. Condition: Fine. First Edition. Fine in fine dj.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. LoPrete, Tere (book design) (illustrator). 1st Edition. Fine unread condition light gray boards, maroon cloth spine, and gold spine lettering contained in a fine condition non price-clipped photographic dust jacket. Includes Foreword; Introduction and Epilogue. Illustrated with a section of black-and-white photographic plates. A stamped letter "P" at the lower page edge and two tiny 1/16th inch indents at lower board edge. (see photographs). All pages are in very fine unmarked condition and the spine/binding is in extremely tight and square unread condition (see photographs). "Just two months before John Lennon was shot on December 8, 1980, he and his wife, Yoko Ono, had completed what would become the most exhaustive and thorough interview sessions of his life. The couple had been retired from public life for five years, and had reemerged in a burst of creativity to record some new music - and with much to say. It was during these long sessions with Playboy interviewer David Sheff that Lennon decided to review his personal and professional life in full - often movingly, sometimes bitingly, and always honestly. The magazine version of the interviews was on the newstands as the tragedy took place in the archway of the Lennons' apartment building. Playboy's twenty million readers therefore had the inteview in their hands when the news was announced and durring the days of vigil and remembrance that followed. As Los Angeles Times art editor Charles Champlin would later write, "David Sheff's sympathetic questions evoked so much of the Beatle past and of Lennon's intellectual past and present and future plans that the interview would hardly have been less engrossing and important even if it were not illuminated by tragedy." But even though Playboy's interviews are noted for their length, only a portion of the over twenty hours of conversation could be published that month. There remained many more hours of unpullished thoughts, memories, and insights from th brilliant mind that helped to shape a generation. These have now been transcribed and integrated into the original magazine interview to provide readers with what is undoubedly the autobiography Lennon would never write. Those close to Lennon called th magazine interview his "final testament," so this book represents perhaps the "complete testament," as nearly two-thirds of the material here has never been published before. In his own words, Lennon thrashes out his feelings about the Beatles, recalls the insanity of sex and drugs and hero worship during the Sixties, becomes lyrical about the love and tranquility of his family life, triggers his own choked memories of his mother and his childhood, analyzes the excitement about the future and a life that "begins at forty," and, for the first time, comments on virtually every song he wrote with and without Paul McCartney. Throughout, Yoko Ono also speaks movingly about what it was like to be the one accused of breaking up the Beatles, about her own life and work since, and about the rigors of being married to a legend. For those who loved John Lennon, and for those curious about his life and his art, this is the one, indispensable source book." - from the inner front and rear jacket flaps.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. First Edition. Dust jacket in acceptable condition. First edition, first printing. Shelf and handling wear to cover and binding, with general signs of previous use. New York: Playboy Press, 1981. Pages unmarked. Small indentation at front board. Dust jacket scuffed along spine; in mylar. Stated First Edition. Price unclipped. Slight discoloration at front board Secure packaging for safe delivery. 0.86.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. Dust jacket in good condition. First edition, first printing. Shelf and handling wear to cover and binding, with general signs of previous use. Light creasing and chipping to the boards. Fading and light bowing to the boards. Tight binding. Clean interior pages. New mylar added to the dust jacket. Secure packaging for safe delivery. 0.86.