WORLD COUNTDOWN 1966-1967 brand new hardback book
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Jersey80
Well worth owning.
March 2026
Jersey80
Very pleased with this.
March 2026
Jersey80
Excellent buy.
March 2026
Moyshe58
Perfect! Many thanks.
March 2026
Jazzybeatz2
Tremendous
March 2026
borge
Perfect!!!
August 2025
zoothorn
Another amazing Lansdowne book. Looking forward to further volumes
May 2025
leaf_hound
great book. and it is .... huge ... and heavy ... 403 pages of very informative content. put on a record & enjoy :-)
December 2024
zoothorn
Another amazing book, great work Richard Packaging perfect, postage all good!! We need part 2
December 2024
CherrywoodL
The best book on the british jazz scene in the 1960s and early 1970s that i own and i have quiet a few.
December 2024
Description
World Countdown was an enigmatic music newspaper that appeared fortnightly in California between August 1966 and July 1969. It offers the most vivid window possible onto the rapid evolution of the Californian music scene in those fabled days – but original copies are very rare and expensive.
Lansdowne Books is therefore delighted to be able to preserve and share its wondrous contents in this huge volume, created with the blessing of founding editor Charles Royal’s family and including a detailed introduction by Richard Morton Jack, setting out its fascinating history with further imagery.
A lavish limited-edition hardback, World Countdown contains high-quality reproductions of every page from its remarkable first year: sixteen issues spanning the end of the Beatles’ performing career and the full flowering of underground rock with the Monterey International Pop Festival.
Packed with counter-cultural ads and ephemera, as well as imagery and information about acts both celebrated (Buffalo Springfield, Big Brother and the Holding Company, Quicksilver Messenger Service, Love, Jefferson Airplane) and lesser-known (the Daily Flash, the Charlatans, the Wildflower, Kaleidoscope, the Sons of Adam and many more), this book is essential for lovers of 60s rock and graphics.
Limited edition large-format hardback, quarter-bound in cloth, 384pp.
All orders will be shrinkwrapped and double-boxed for maximum protection.
BONUS MONTEREY POSTER WITH THE FIRST 150 ORDERS
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