A UNIQUE piece of Beatles memorabilia is to go on sale, with the original printing plates for John Lennon's first book up for auction.
The metal plates were used to print text and illustrations by the Beatle in the 1964 book John Lennon: In His Own Write.
The lot up for sale includes 35 of the 40 printing plates used to produce the book.
Featuring a photo of Lennon taken by Robert Freeman, the book included an introduction by Paul McCartney detailing how the band first got together in Liverpool and contained Lennon’s short stories, poems and line drawings, often surreal, whimsical and nonsensical. The book has been reprinted many times, but first-run copies are rare.
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