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Gary Burden's Personal & Working Sketchbook 13 and Sketchbook 15 featuring designs for Crosby, Stills & Nash, Stephen Stills, Crosby & Nash, David Cassidy, Bernie Leadon, Marcy Levy, Jimmy Webb, 38 Special, and America, Gary Burden (American, 1933-2018), circa 1977 & circa 1980, 2 image 1
Gary Burden's Personal & Working Sketchbook 13 and Sketchbook 15 featuring designs for Crosby, Stills & Nash, Stephen Stills, Crosby & Nash, David Cassidy, Bernie Leadon, Marcy Levy, Jimmy Webb, 38 Special, and America, Gary Burden (American, 1933-2018), circa 1977 & circa 1980, 2 image 2
Gary Burden's Personal & Working Sketchbook 13 and Sketchbook 15 featuring designs for Crosby, Stills & Nash, Stephen Stills, Crosby & Nash, David Cassidy, Bernie Leadon, Marcy Levy, Jimmy Webb, 38 Special, and America, Gary Burden (American, 1933-2018), circa 1977 & circa 1980, 2 image 3
Gary Burden's Personal & Working Sketchbook 13 and Sketchbook 15 featuring designs for Crosby, Stills & Nash, Stephen Stills, Crosby & Nash, David Cassidy, Bernie Leadon, Marcy Levy, Jimmy Webb, 38 Special, and America, Gary Burden (American, 1933-2018), circa 1977 & circa 1980, 2 image 4
Gary Burden's Personal & Working Sketchbook 13 and Sketchbook 15 featuring designs for Crosby, Stills & Nash, Stephen Stills, Crosby & Nash, David Cassidy, Bernie Leadon, Marcy Levy, Jimmy Webb, 38 Special, and America, Gary Burden (American, 1933-2018), circa 1977 & circa 1980, 2 image 5
Gary Burden's Personal & Working Sketchbook 13 and Sketchbook 15 featuring designs for Crosby, Stills & Nash, Stephen Stills, Crosby & Nash, David Cassidy, Bernie Leadon, Marcy Levy, Jimmy Webb, 38 Special, and America, Gary Burden (American, 1933-2018), circa 1977 & circa 1980, 2 image 6
Lot 77

Gary Burden's Personal & Working Sketchbook 13 and Sketchbook 15 featuring designs for Crosby, Stills & Nash, Stephen Stills, Crosby & Nash, David Cassidy, Bernie Leadon, Marcy Levy, Jimmy Webb, 38 Special, and America,
Gary Burden (American, 1933-2018), circa 1977 & circa 1980, 2

20 – 30 June 2025, 12:00 PDT
Online, Los Angeles

Sold for US$1,280 inc. premium

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Gary Burden's Personal & Working Sketchbook 13 and Sketchbook 15 featuring designs for Crosby, Stills & Nash, Stephen Stills, Crosby & Nash, David Cassidy, Bernie Leadon, Marcy Levy, Jimmy Webb, 38 Special, and America,

Gary Burden (American, 1933-2018), circa 1977 & circa 1980,
both sketchbooks with approx. 100 pages each with most worked on, with additional pages, stickers, tracing paper and cut-outs, showing designs for typography, single and album cover designs, stationary designs, vinyl labels, posters, tour merchandise, promotional material, and concept ideas, in pencil and pen,
both 10 x 7 1/2in (2)

Footnotes

In order, key pages for Sketchbook 13 include:
1. Crosby, Stills & Nash backstage pass and t-shirt designs. Followed by album designs for CSN (1977), showing Burden's sketches of Crosby's boat used on the cover. A collection of numbered designs displayed - with number 6, labelled in pink, most similar to the final design used.

2. Crosby & Nash Live album designs, one in red and green.

3. Pencil sketches for the Clockworks Co..

4. James Vincent album designs titled Joy, followed by logos.

5. Stephen Stills Midnight Rider page with logo sketches followed by album designs. More intricate drawings on tracing paper.

6. Sketches for The Best of David Crosby and Graham Nash.

7. David Cassidy logo designs.

8. A Twin Peaks pencil sketch.

9. Sketch of Young Sam Bass, the American outlaw.

10. Logo designs for Bernie Leadon, member of the Eagles and the Flying Burrito Brothers.

In order, key pages for Sketchbook 15 include:
1. Marcy Levy album design and logos, who famously co-wrote the 1977 Eric Clapton hit Lay Down Sally.

2. An album plan for Jimmy Webb, likely for Land's End released in 1974.

3. 38 Special album cover front and back with color.

4. Sketches for Carrie Snodgrass & Ray Millard 1980 Movie The Attic.

5. David Crosby sketches titled Might As Well Have Been A Good Time, the unreleased 1980 album.

6. Sketches and designs for America.

7. Notes and sketches for UFOria movie, released in 1985.

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