8292 - Jim Morrison Signed 'The New Creatures' Privately Printed First Edition - Inscribed to Doors Photographer Paul Ferrara

Jim Morrison Signed 'The New Creatures' Privately Printed First Edition - Inscribed to Doors Photographer Paul Ferrara Rare signed book: The New Creatures. First edition, privately printed as a limited issue of 100 copies. Self-published, with printing by Western Lithographers, Los Angeles, 1969. Hardcover with green cloth spine and rust-colored boards, gilt-lettered on the front cover, "The New Creatures / James Douglas Morrison," 5.5 x 8.75, 88 pages. Inscribed on the front free endpaper, opposite the title page, in blue ballpoint, "Paul + Georgie, Jim." The copyright page reads "© James Douglas Morrison 1969 All Rights Reserved," and the dedication page reads "To Pamela." In fine condition, with a light circular glass stain on the front cover. Accompanied by a handwritten letter of provenance from Ferrara, dated February 21, 2022, in full: "I was the Door's photographer. In 1969 (approx.) Jim gave me a copy of 'The New Creatures' one of a 100 private edition books of poetry he had. He gave it to me right out of the box it came from the printers. This took place at the Doors office on Santa Monica blvd." Ferrara attended UCLA film school with Ray Manzarek and Jim Morrison. In 1968, the Doors hired him to photograph the band and create their first official concert program, and he went on to shoot footage for their film Feast of Friends and later for Morrison’s unreleased film HWY. His work with the band had begun in July 1967 with a chance meeting with Pamela Courson, Morrison’s girlfriend, whom he photographed as she modeled for a Los Angeles clothing shop; Courson is the “Pamela” of this book’s dedication. Ferrara also took the cover photograph for the Doors album Waiting for the Sun in Laurel Canyon.