Thanks for Coming!

Haynes (Jim)

Thanks for Coming!

An Autobiography.

Description: FIRST EDITION, various illustrattions throughout, pages a little toned, pp. 290, [46], crown 8vo, original lurid pink wrappers, some light handling, very good

Publication Details: Faber and Faber, 1984

Notes: Inscribed by the author on the half-title: 'Susan - any friend of Poland is always welcome chez moi - Jim, 24.II.'87, Paris'. His memoir of adventures in the counterculture: having come to Scotland with the US Air Force and remaining there, Haynes began to make things happen - first in Edinburgh, where he opened 'Britain's first paperback-only bookshop' and organised the International Writers' Conference in 1962, and then London, where he was one of the founders of both the International Times and Suck magazines. The cover lists some of the company he kept - including John and Yoko, Mick Jagge...moreInscribed by the author on the half-title: 'Susan - any friend of Poland is always welcome chez moi - Jim, 24.II.'87, Paris'. His memoir of adventures in the counterculture: having come to Scotland with the US Air Force and remaining there, Haynes began to make things happen - first in Edinburgh, where he opened 'Britain's first paperback-only bookshop' and organised the International Writers' Conference in 1962, and then London, where he was one of the founders of both the International Times and Suck magazines. The cover lists some of the company he kept - including John and Yoko, Mick Jagger, Heathcote Williams, Kenneth Tynan, Germaine Greer, Vangelis, et al., as well as, less expectedly, Mrs Gandhi and Mary Whitehouse. HIDE

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