The Boy Looked at Johnny the Obituary of Rock and Roll by Burchill Julie Parsons Tony, First Edition (7 results)

Softcover. Condition: Good. First US Edition. 95pp; Covers slightly age-toned, front cover & a few pages have small bit chewed off at top corner, pages slightly age-toned, stain to one page, text unmarked, binding is tight, Good condition. Two music journalists on speed insult, provoke, skewer, inflame, put down and dismiss the punk movement and its rock stars. Illustrated with photos. Introduction by Lenny Kaye.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. First Edition. True first edition, first printing. Published in London in 1978, nine years before the first US edition was published! There are no markings in the book, the dedication leaf is loose but present, spotting to outer page edges, some tears to rear cover and spine rubbed. Uncommon in any edition, rare in this first edition.

Original Wraps. Condition: Very Good+ in Wraps. First Edition/Second Impression. First Edition/Second Impression. Original Wraps. From the Collection of Jenny Lens. The classic takedown of the bloated state of rock n roll music in the late 1970s written by two NME staff writers, who praise instead the then-ascending punk movement. Light shelfwear around edges, toning, else tight, bright, and unmarred. Glossy color pictorial wrappers. 8vo, 337pp.

1st ed. thus softback with stiff wrappers Very Good tall octavo 96pp., b/w pls., Bookseller's stamp & rear cover sl. crinkled o/w nice copy of a scarce title.

1st ed. thus softback with stiff wrappers Near Fine small octavo 96pp., b/w pls., Bookseller's stamp & rear cover sl. crinkled o/w nice copy of a scarce title.

First edition. 96 pages. Inscribed to the front endpaper: "From Johnny Xmas 1978". Somebody has added "Signed by Julie B" in pencil, but Parsons seems more likely. The book is firmly bound in the original illustrated wraps, the covers are slightly rubbed and marked and the spine is a little faded. The text block is slightly toned and foxed.

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. The classic takedown of the bloated state of rock'n'roll music in the late 1970s written by two NME staff writers, who praise instead the then-ascending punk movement. First edition, published by Pluto Press in 1978. A Fine copy.