RARE David Bowie Five Years 1969-1973 Vinyl Box Set Signed by Photographer

$

970

Collectible out-of-print DAVID BOWIE Five Years 1969-1973 Box Set (Vinyl Version) released in 2015 shortly before Bowie's passing.
Ten vinyl albums (13 LPs) + hardbound book. Lead-in 1969 portrait of Bowie in book, as it was presented in the 1969 Humble Pie UK tour souvenir program, is signed by the photographer Alec Byrne.
The box itself, the book, the jackets and records are all in close-to-perfect condition with ONE exception: the Re:Call 1 sleeve has a slight ding, front lower right (see photo). I'm happy to send other photos on request.
The records have never been played. Check Discogs for track list.
Alec Byrne recalls his Sept. '69 shoot with Bowie:
"I was expecting him to be some kind of withdrawn, arty guy, but David was warm and easy to be with that day. We were both south London boys and we clicked right away. His star was rising, but he didn’t arrive with an entourage of publicists, makeup artists, and hangers-on the way an artist would today. When we met at the park gates he was on his own. I didn’t rush into taking pictures right away. I’d been a rock photographer in London since the age of seventeen, and in those three years I’d learned how important it was to put people at their ease before the camera came out. So we walked and talked. I remember telling him “Space Oddity” felt like a movie within a song to me: Major Tom trapped out in space, having left the wife he loved very much she knows back home on Earth. David seemed to like that, telling me he saw music and theater as interlinked; one fed the other.
"Shortly after the photo session I got a call from Bowie’s office saying they would like to use one of the pictures from the park as his publicity shot in the program for the Humble Pie tour. Fast-forward to 2015, and I got word that the same photo, pulled from an old copy of the program, was to be the lead image for the book accompanying Bowie’s new box set, Five Years (1969–1973). Nearly fifty years on, and out of all the incredible photos that had been taken of him over the years, I was humbled to think he still liked that one from the park. And, just a few months later, when I heard the sad news of Bowie’s passing in January 2016, I thought back to that afternoon we’d spent together and was reminded of how lucky I was to have been in that place, at that time.”