STUPENDOUSLY BEAUTIFUL FROM GENESIS. DELUXE NO 103.

Hundreds of unseen images, taken by Ringo and from his personal collection, come together for the first time in the photo album of his life.

Ringo's lens captures John, Paul and George in pensive and playful moments, portraying them from the point of view of an insider, friend and skilled photographer. These intimate portraits are joined by landscape compositions, taken on Ringo's travels as part of the biggest band in the world. Ringo's photography documents his adventures across the decades, with early archival material, beautiful black and white photographs, psychedelic special effects, stunning colour shots and polaroids.

In creating this book, Ringo discovered mementos his mother had saved throughout his life, and shares them here for the very ?rst time. Letters home are truly personal, while promotional posters and newspaper clippings take you back to the beginnings of a musical legend.

'My mum loved every second of my life, and remembered every second of my life. She was such a hoarder. When she died, I just took her boxes and put them in our attic; I didn't really look at them. When we opened them up, we found some incredible stuff.'

Copies 1 to 350, are 'Deluxe' copies. Fully bound in Italian leather with gilt tooling and page edging and signed by Ringo Starr. Also included; a numbered 8"x10" Giclée print of a contact sheet from Ringo's archives, not printed within the book. Shot in 1963, the contact sheet shows The Beatles during a stay in Paris's George V hotel. Ringo captures John as he plays guitar; Brian Epstein talks on the phone; George checks the charts in Cash Box magazine; Ringo gets a piggy-back from Paul - but Paul and Mal's later attempt, shown in the Photograph book, is more successful! Cn be enjoyed framed, or can be kept in the lined archival solander case, which houses the Deluxe book and print set.

Mint in original shipping box and very hard to acquire & impossible at this price. A rare treasure to be cherished.