REVOLVER 50: BIRTH OF AN ICON. Grammy Anniversary Edition.

First edition. Limited 'Collectors' edition. Signed by Klaus Voorman. With a signed original mounted pencil drawing by Voorman and an illustrated 'Grammy Anniversary Edition' commemorative booklet. Publisher's original white buckram with black and white illustrations to the upper and lower boards, titles in gilt and black to the spine. All edges gilt. Illustrated throughout with artwork and photographs, mostly in black and white. Housed in a white card box which has an illustration and titles in black and gilt to the top panel. A fine copy.

Limited edition of 500 copies of which this is numbered 470 and signed by the author in blue ink on the limitation page. Numbers 1-67 were bound in leather as the 'Deluxe Edition', the remaining 437 copies, numbered 68 to 500 (as here) were issued as the 'Collectors Edition'. Klaus Voorman created the cover artwork for The Beatles' seminal album 'Revolver', which became the first rock and pop album to win a Grammy Award for Best Cover in 1967. This beautifully bound and presented book contains images from Voorman's graphic novel about the creation of the album artwork as well as his own photographs and recollections of the experience.