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SLATTERY, JAMES - Edited by: : MOUSE & KELLEY

UK.LIMPSFIELD,SURREY.PAPER TIGER/DRAGON'S WORLD LTD. IMPRINT,1979.

ISBN 0905895304.

UK,slim Qrto wraps,s/back Original,1st edn.[Paperback original denotes the first format and its first appearance in print of the book/title.Paperbacks usually follow on from the HB edn,but can be published at the same time as the HB edn, but p/back originals are published prior to any other format.] FINE.No owner inscrptn and no price removal from cover. Bright,crisp,clean,generally sharp-cornered,glossy black background with psychedelic fantasy colour illustration of winged beetle and an eyeball to front with colour outlined red letters,white lettered spine/backstrip,rear panel with colour cartoonesque mouse and duck vignette; with negligible shelf-wear, bumping,creasing to edges and corners - no nicks,tears or splits present.Top+fore-edges coloured; contents bright,tight, clean,solid and sound - unusually with this title,there is no text block pulling away from the spine/backstrip - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners - appears unread,apart from my own collation.UK,slim Qrto S/back Original,1st edn,128pp [unpaginated - includes free endpapers] of repeated colour illustration from front cover to title page; contents list/table,subjects' thumbnail colour portrait photographs and biographies,6 sections: Posters,Publications,Collage, Album Covers,Posters,and T-shirts,all in/with b/w+colour illustrations. Stanley Miller (b. October 10,1940), better known as 'Mouse' and Stanley Mouse, is an American artist,notable for his 1960s psychedelic rock concert poster designs for the Grateful Dead and Journey albums cover art,as well as many others. Travelling to San Franscico, with a group of art school friends in 1965, Mouse and friends settled initially in Oakland.Here, Mouse met Alton Kelley. Kelley, a self-taught artist,had recently arrived from Virginia City, Nevada,where he had joined a group of hippies who called themselves the Red Dog Saloon gang.Upon arrival in San Francisco Kelley and other veterans of the gang renamed themselves The Family Dog,and began producing rock music dances.In 1966,when Chet Helms assumed leadership of the group and began promoting the dances at the Avalon Ballroom,Mouse and Kelley began working together to produce posters for the events.Later the pair also produced posters for promoter Bill graham and for other events in the psychedelic community. From September 1967 through to December 1967,Mouse and Kelley created psychedelic posters for shows at Helms’ The Family Dog Denver. In 1967,Mouse collaborated with artists Kelley,Rick Griffin,Victor Moscoso and WesWilson creating the Berkeley Bonaparte Distribution Agency.Mouse and Kelley also worked together as lead artists at Mouse Studios and The Monster Company,producing album cover art for the bands Journey and Grateful Dead.The Monster Company also developed a profitable line of T-shirts, utilizing the four-colour process for silk screening. The psychedelic posters Mouse and Kelley produced were heavily influenced by Art Nouveau graphics,particularly the works of Alphnse Mucha and Edmund Joseph Sullivan. Producing posters advertising for such musical groups as Big Brother and the Holding Company,Quicksilver Messenger Service,and Grateful Dead led to meeting the musicians and making contacts that were later to prove fruitful. The pair resumed their partnership in 1971,producing commercial artwork related to the Grateful Dead and later to Journey. The pair are credited with creating the skeleton and roses image that became the Grateful Dead's archetypal iconography,and Journey's wings and beetles that appeared on their album covers from 1977 to 1980.In 1977,Mouse,with Kelley,created the intriguing Styx album cover for The Grand Illusion with a stylistic homage to painter Renee Magritte.Mouse and Kelley continued to work together on rock memorabilia until 1980. Mouse continued to produce album cover art and other music-related graphics through the 1980s.Early in the decade,he moved to New Mexico where he began producing fine art in a variety of media. Please contact seller,for correct shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas customers - BEFORE ordering through the order page! ** N.B. ALL buyers please note,stocks' actual shipping/P+p costs are adjusted and any difference is refunded,after order's receipt and before the order's despatch, especially if the item(s) are offered either P+p included or postage FREE.That offer available UK only,unless indicated otherwise. ** N.B. US customers please be aware: US Standard AIRMAIL postage from UK to USA can now cost more than the price of the book! If speed is not of the essence,then Economy rate is recommended - at approx. anything from a 1/3rd to 1/2 of the standard US AIR quote/rate - sometimes arriving sooner than the 42 days - but not always.

UK,slim Qrto S/back Original,1st edn.
Not SIGNED.

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