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Two items related to Paul D. Grushkin’s The Art of Rock: Posters from Presley to Punk, comprising the first edition of the landmark rock-poster survey and a signed limited-edition poster featuring Wes Wilson’s cover artwork. They are as follows:
The Art of Rock: Posters from Presley to Punk. First edition. New York: Abbeville Press, 1987. Hardcover with dust jacket, 10 x 12, 516 pages, featuring Wilson’s colorful artwork on the front cover. An extensive visual history of rock poster art from the 1950s through 1987, illustrated with over 1,500 color reproductions of posters, handbills, tickets, backstage passes, and other music memorabilia. The title page credits the artworks as photographed by Jon Sievert, and the book was produced in cooperation with the Bay Area Music Archives in San Francisco. In fine condition. Accompanied by its original Abbeville Press shipping box.
Original 1986 limited-edition color 23 x 29 offset lithograph reproducing Wilson’s cover artwork for The Art of Rock, numbered 412/500 and signed in the lower left in pencil by the artist, “Wes Wilson.” The colorful design depicts a blue-faced figure with flowing red and yellow hair against a purple field, with “THE ART OF ROCK” prominently printed above and “A SPECTACULAR VISUAL AND ORAL HISTORY” along the upper border. The lower portion identifies the image as being from The Art of Rock: Posters from Presley to Punk by Paul Grushkin and notes the book’s forthcoming fall 1987 publication by Abbeville Press. In fine condition, with trivial marks and edgewear.
