JENNY FABIAN AND JOHNNY BYRNE. — Groupie. A novel. (INSCRIBED)

New English Library Ltd., London, 1st Edition, Inscribed by Author(s), First Edition (first printing). A presentation copy, inscribed by the co-author on the half-title: "Dedicated to the Sterne Jones not the right flavour but part of the same crew Yrs & love Johnny [Byrne]". 8vo. 220pp. Red cloth lettered in gold at the spine. Printed on slightly sub-standard paperstock which now exhibits a little toning to the margins, yet still a very good copy in non-price-clipped dust wrapper, which is a little rubbed, chafed, and frayed at the extremities with two short closed edge-tears. An important work of 1960s counterculture, fictionalising the efforts of Jenny Fabian ('Katie' in the novel) to ascend the highly competitive groupie hierarchy, and responsible for introducing scores of alternative words into the common lexicon. In 2006 'The Observer' nominated the novel as one of "the 50 greatest music books ever". Quite uncommon, and here nicely enhanced with Byrne's dedication (at that point Byrne was a travelling poet and literary editor; and also a key player in the hedonistic underground culture of the sixties)., Very Good, Very Good