In the Gutter - Val Hennessy, 1978

In the Gutter - Val Hennessy, 1978
Quartet Books London, First Edition. 3 sidor saknas

1ST EDITION FROM 1978 BY QUARTET BOOKS,VAL HENNESSY AUTHOR,96 PAGES OF TEXT AND FULL PAGE PICTURES OF THE ORIGINAL PUNK MOVEMENT LIKE THE BROMELY CONTINGENT ETC,SOME KNOWN FACES,VERY EARLY BOOK ON PUNK MIGHT EVEN BE THE FIRST

Från underground-england.com,
One of the best books in the Underground library has to be In the Gutter by Val Hennessy.
Published in 1978, it is a real-time account of Punk as it happened. ?As a newspaper columnist, Val Hennessy presented a series of TV shows which were labelled as a “chaotic disaster”. Entitled “Punk and Acne Go Together”, his iconic programme encapsulated the anger and the pathos of punk. ?? The book drew on that programme and Hennessy to describe the punk movement, often through the words of the “punk fans”.

Från punk77.co.uk,
In The Gutter was published in May 1978 by Quartet and is arguably the earliest Punk book to claim some sort of educational classification. It’s described as a ‘Sociology’ title though reading it it’s hard to determine how serious that’s intended.
The book itself contrasts London street & club photos of various punks with photos of tribal people from an image library and stock punk band photos and claims that while looking at tribal pictures the publishers were struck with the similarity with the punk look.