Pictures of Purple People de Marc Bolan - 1996

Newhaven, East Sussex: The Bolan Society, 1996. Limited Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Limited edition of 500 copies. At least two sets of manuscripts for Pictures of Purple People exist, both dated May 1966. The first is an eight-scene story, handwritten on 27 pages of an exercise book and signed Marc Bolan This exercise book is believed to have been sold through Christies Auctioneers during the early 1980s, after having been split into separate lots. Reprinted here are the second set of manuscripts which were typewritten on fourteen sheets of thin paper, stapled together, and contain two versions of Pictures of Purple People. The first is a twelve scene plot, the second, an extended eight scene version of the plot, reprinted here from a carbon copy. Both of these versions were typed by Mike Pruskin, a freelance publicist who managed Marc between 1965 and 1966. The collection also includes two other pieces from the same period, Electronic Musik and Signs.