Birds of Britain
London, The Bodley Head, 1967 (first edition).
Large quarto, [144] pages with numerous illustrations (from photographs by Green).
Cloth; a fine copy with the fine price-clipped dustwrapper.
'This book presents a phenomenon. She is the new London girl. She is Julie Christie and Sandie Shaw, and Sibylla, and Susannah York, and fifty more in the book, five thousand outside. She is a novel animal, and she is a crucial part of a new scene, that extravaganza of modern London, which has surprised itself almost as much as observers in the outside world' (publisher's blurb). Anthony Haden-Guest wrote the five-page introduction and the numerous lengthy 'captions'; the photographer was John d Green and the art director was David Tree. 'The Green Tree happening is just one year old. This luminous book is their first combined opus.... Like good jazz musicians, they seem to counterpoint each other cool and true, while the ideas slide together - clicketty click! - smooth as tongue and groove boarding' ('Profiles by June Skrine', on the rear flap).
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