THE PET SHOP BOYS VERSUS AMERICA. Photographs by Pennie Smith

London: Viking Press, 1993. First edition. Hardcover. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. An English synth-pop duo, formed in London in 1981 and consisting of Neil Tennant and Chris Lowe. Pet Shop Boys have sold more than 100 million records worldwide, and are listed as the most successful duo in UK music history by The Guinness Book of Records. No other pop group in recent years has faced celebrity with such intelligence, humour and prudence as the Pet Shop Boys Nowhere else is celebrity more glorious or more preposterous than in America. So when the Pet Shop Boys met America head-on, it was always going to be a fascinating collision. 250 pages filled (truncated) with great black and white photographs that document, with precision, the tour as it unfolds. (Inventory #: 14330)