A Spaniard in the Works. Drawings by John Lennon, Design by Robert Freeman. London: Cape, 1965. First Edition, First Printing. Pp, 93. Publisher’s laminated pictorial boards with photograph by John Freeman. A fine copy.

Lennon’s second book, a collection of nonsensical stories with drawings by the author. It went through four reprints in as many months. 

‘I wrote A Spaniard in the Works with a bottle of Johnny Walker. That’s why I didn’t write any more. Because I thought if it takes a bottle for Johnny Walker every night ­- not a whole bottle, I mean, but having a bottle to loosen up, then it’s not working like it did before.’ (John Lennon, 1980).