The First Island Book of Records. Rare and collectable.

	£		36
	$		48

Is this the rarest book in the known universe? I can’t even find a reference to it on Google – try it for yourself if you don’t believe me. I can only guess that it was a short run publication given away free with selected Island albums in 1971. I would also guess that most owners would have eventually thrown their copies away because of a fault in the printing process. The book was perfect bound using lousy glue and then, to compound the error, they put a flick page cartoon on the bottom right hand pages. I ask you, what is going to make the pages fall out quicker than that? Luckily this book has been locked away in trunk for the past 35 or so years. All the pages are there in perfect condition, but they are ready to drop out – so the new owner will have to treat it with utmost respect or be prepared to re-glue the pages back in; not a very arduous task as it’s only 4” by 3”.

Mini-Book Format 4" x 3"

There are 7 pages of intro then it’s straight into the album section. Each page has a full colour picture of the album cover, the name of the artist, title of the album, track listing and serial number. No more, no less. Then there’s a few pages on Singles, Cassettes and Cartridges (yes, 8-track cartridges) Here’s what’s in the Album section:

The Alan Bown – Listen

The Amazing Blondel – Evensong

The Amazing Blondel - Fantasia Lindum 

Blodwin Pig – Ahead Rings Out

Blodwin Pig - Getting to this

Bronco – Ace of Sunlight

Cat Stevens – Mona Bone Jakon

Cat Stevens – Tea for the Tillerman

Clouds – Scrapbook

Clouds – Watercolour days

Colosseum – Colosseum Live

Emerson, Lake and Palmer – self titled

Emerson, Lake and Palmer – Tarkus

Fairport Convention – What we did on our holiday

Fairport Convention – Unhalfbricking

Fairport Convention – Liege and Lief

Fairport Convention – Full House

Fairport Convention – Angel Delight

Fotheringay – self titled

Free – Tons of sobs

Free – self titled

Free – Fire and water

Free – highway

Free – Free Live

Heads, Hands and Feet – self titled

If – self titled

If – If2

Incredible String Band – Be glad for the song has no ending

Jethro Tull – This was

Jethro Tull – Stand up

Jethro Tull – Benefit

Jethro Tull – Aqualung

Jimmy Cliff – Another Cycle

John Martyn – London Conversation

John Martyn – The Tumbler

John & Beverley Martyn – Stormbringer

John & Beverley Martyn – The Road to Ruin

Juicy Lucy – get a whiff’a this

King Crimson – In the court of the crimson king

King Crimson – in the wake of Poseidon

King Crimson – Lizard

Mick Abrahams – a musical evening with

Mike Heron – smiling men with bad reputations

Mott the Hoople – self titled

Mott the Hoople – Mad Shadows

Mott the Hoople – Wildlife

Mountain – Nantucket Sleighride

Nick Drake – Five leaves Left

Nick Drake – Bryter Layter

Paladin – self titled

Procol Harem – Broken Barricades

Quintessence – In Blissful Company

Quintessence – self titled

Quintessence – Dive Deep

Renaissance – self titled

Spencer Davis Group – The Best Of

Spooky Tooth – It’s all About

Spooky Tooth – Spooky Two

Spooky Tooth – The Last Puff

Spooky Tooth with Pierre Henry – Ceremony

Tir Na Nog – self titled

Traffic – Mr Fantasy

Traffic – self titled

Traffic – Last Exit

Traffic – Best of

Traffic – John Barleycorn

White Noise – An Electric Storm

Bumpers – A double Album Sampler

El Pea – Various Artists

Nice Enough To Eat – Various Artists

This Is Blues - Various Artists

This Is Sue - Various Artists

You Can All Join In - Various Artists

Bronco – Country Home

McDonald and Giles – self titled

Printed and made by the E.J. Day Group.

Oh, and if the site computer is reading this, I do not want to put this in the book section so please allow me to list it in the LP section where it is more relevant and of more interest to more bidders. Thank you.