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- PublisherCorgi Childrens
- Publication date1970
- ISBN 10 0552984345
- ISBN 13 9780552984348
- BindingPaperback
- LanguageEnglish
- Number of pages240
- EditorKroll A.
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Goodbye Baby & Amen - A Saraband for the Sixties
Seller: eclecticbooks, BOLTON, United Kingdom
Seller rating 5 out of 5 stars
Soft cover. Condition: Fair. David Bailey (Photographs) (illustrator). Cover has become separated from text block,previous owner had sellotaped them together so old sellotape marks.Used,reading wear,spine creased,green marks to bottom of some pages,contents clean,numerous b/w photographs. Please note this book weighs 1Kg and would require extra shipping if posted outside the UK. Seller Inventory # 027189
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Goodbye Baby and Amen
Seller: Amnesty Bookshop - Brighton, Brighton, United Kingdom
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Soft cover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. It was said that if you can remember the Sixties you weren't there fortunately David Bailey, with his Leica, and the journalist Peter Evans were around to record images of the Swinging Sixties in London (and some in New York, as well). According to the publisher, they were not so much a decade as 'a very long happening.' Filled with mainly full-page b/w photos of almost every sixties icon you can think of. Condition: sound - includes some edgewear; plus creasing along the spine. Please note there is some tanning and foxing throughout. (The latter also features on the book's edges). However, most of the internal tanning is confined to the margins so that the impact of any discolouration is less than might otherwise be expected pp.237 (followed by the Cast of Characters/Acknowledgement pages /8vo - imperial octavo. First thus. Please note that, depending on destination, we may request a payment to cover any extra shipping/postage charges. Proceeds to Amnesty International. Abe2513. Seller Inventory # ABE-1742894123636
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Goodbye Baby & Amen
Seller: Rotary Charity Books, Albert Park, VIC, Australia
Seller rating 5 out of 5 stars
Hardcover. Condition: Fine. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Condition of Large Hardback Book: Fine The Dustjacket is missing. The first book produced by the magazine publisher Condé Nast, Goodbye Baby & Amen: A Saraband for the Sixties, is a monumental publication. A sturdy hardback, twelve by fifteen inches, wrapped in a black paper jacket decorated with an image of a dolled-up stone angelthe work of Swinging London's house illustrator Alan Aldridgeits ambition was to put a full stop to that city's '60s. The author, the journalist Peter Evans, was alert to the problem of pinning down a period that was dominated by "butterflies" and in 1969, still in its death throes. His tone is self-mocking, yet portentous. Describing his subject as "the original cast of characters, the stars and near-stars, the bit players, the punters, the winners and the terrible losers," he imagined a future in which they are "ageing swingers" wearing that "epithet like leg-irons" and watching "their hour slip away." A quote from Michael Caine suggests the actor felt similarly about the profundity of having been quite so superficial. "From the very start of the Sixties," said Caine, "I could see myself at seventy-five on television telling people about that time. It was the time of my time, I will never have so much fun again, ever." The David Bailey portraits reproduced in the book are of the same mood. They are fleeting images, often partly out of focus, with their subjects blurred or doubled or washed out by light or drowned in shade, yet they are printed in the deepest and darkest of black inks. While Bailey's sitters appear to be caught in flight, their features are all but engraved on the page. Forty-four years on, the book still seems to have that deliciously poisonous ink smell. That copious use of ink turned out to be more than a matter of style. Condé Nast went on to make a fortune from its books, but not from Goodbye Baby & Amen. It was the ink that did it: too much and too black. The book cost so much to print that each copy was sold at a loss. Like Peter Saville's cover for New Order's 12-inch single Blue Monday, another design that cost more to produce than its cover price, Goodbye Baby & Amen was a critical triumph and an economic disaster. In charge of the book's editing and production was Alex Kroll (19162008), a Russian Jewish émigré who had moved to Berlin in the late 1920s and escaped Nazi Germany for London a decade later. Kroll had been allowed to come to Britain to take up a place at the Reimann School, a Berlin art school that had relocated to London and at which his older sister Natasha had a teaching post. In 1942 Kroll began working for Condé Nast, first as an art editor at Vogue and later as art director and finally deputy editor of House & Garden. Kroll's particular talent was editing imagesduring the war he was entrusted with the dispatches of Lee Millerand it was that ability that prompted him to suggest that Condé Nast mine its picture archive to make books. Kroll lived on Fulham Road, very close to the heat and light of the 1960s King's Road, but he was not a party animal. Married with two sons, he escaped as often as he could to a house on the Oxfordshire-Berkshire border. That said, his grandson William Kroll describes him not as a "designer," but as a man whose work was all about sociability and working with a network of talented peers. That quality is evident in the editing of Goodbye Baby & Amen. The book is expansive and generous. Rollicking along, it frequently shifts in style and tone but is all the better for that. It is like a very good party, and apparently the launch was just such. A breakfast at the Club dell'Aretusa on the King's Road (the location of John Lennon's first public appearance with Yoko Ono a year earlier), it was, according to Kroll's son Simon, who was then seventeen, as if the book had come to life. Christine Keeler jostled Jean Shrimpton and the few who couldn't make it sent sincere regrets. 237pp. Seller Inventory # 1637
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Goodbye Baby & Amen. A Saraband for the Sixties
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Corgi Books, LONDON, 1970
ISBN 10: 0552984345
ISBN 13: 9780552984348
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Seller: STUDIO V, San Marcos, CA, U.S.A.
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Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Issued Without DJ. 1st Edition. FRONT COVER CREAST. Seller Inventory # 007034
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Goodbye Baby & Amen. A Saraband for the Sixties
Seller: Arty Bees Books, Wellington, New Zealand
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Paper Cover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. First Paperback. A good copy of this paperback edition. Cover has darkened with age, particularly on spine. Bottom right corner of front has chipped with small piece missing. Binding is tight. Previous owner's name on pre title page. Previous owner has put small mark in pen by the names of the Rolling Stones in the Cast of Characters at rear of book. Seller Inventory # 22594
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Goodbye Baby & Amen
Seller: HPB-Diamond, Dallas, TX, U.S.A.
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paperback. Condition: Very Good. Connecting readers with great books since 1972! Used books may not include companion materials, and may have some shelf wear or limited writing. We ship orders daily and Customer Service is our top priority! Seller Inventory # S_411211125
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Goodbye Baby & Amen. A Saraband for the Sixties
Seller: Arty Bees Books, Wellington, New Zealand
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Paper Cover. Condition: Good +. No Jacket. First Paperback. A good copy of this paperback edition. Spine is sunned. Binding is tight. No inscriptions. Touch of foxing at rear of book. A nice copy. Seller Inventory # 22885
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