Fifty Years Adrift. Edited, Foreword And Annotations By George Harrison. Harrison, George - Taylor, Derek.

First edition, number 1,743 of a limited edition of 2,000 copies signed by George Harrison, Derek Taylor (the Beatles' publicist), and the illustrator Larry Smith. Fifty Years Adrift is the autobiography of Taylor and is "the companion volume to I Me Mine" (prospectus). "Taylor was many things: an elegant writer who could flip into the crudest, earthiest language; a press officer who would go beyond the call of duty at the same time as he placed advertorial copy in the pop magazines of the time; a Beatle intimate taking remedial acid trips with John Lennon at the same time as he was an employee, if not a servant. He defined and extended what it was to be a PR at the same time as he retained a cool, journalistic eye. In the end, he preserved what was best about the high Sixties for future generations. Taylor had remained close to George Harrison, who contributed addenda to 1984's Fifty Years Adrift, a limited-edition book that expanded the Sixties' coverage of As Time Goes By" (Savage). Jon Savage, "The fifth Beatle, Derek Taylor", GQ. Quarto. Original half calf, red morocco spine label, spine lettered and ruled in gilt, compartments stamped in blind, sides and corners trimmed with single gilt fillet, brown cloth sides, vignette on front cover in red and gilt, rear cover with Derek Taylor's signature stamped in gilt, illustrated endpapers from a design by Larry Smith, edges gilt, original red silk ribbon and colour concert ticket bookmark. Housed in the publisher's brown slipcase with paper title label. Colour frontispiece with tissue guard, lavishly illustrated with Beatles memorabilia and half-tones from photographs. Book near fine in fine slipcase.