Looking back: How to Disappear by Colin Greenwood

How to Disappear deluxe edition by Colin Greenwood

We have now sold out of the deluxe edition of How to Disappear by Colin Greenwood.

Following an initial limited-time run on Radiohead's own website, Special Edition Books had the privilege of accepting 44 limited copies of this very special edition.

How to Disappear features two decades of behind-the-scenes photography from Radiohead's bassist Colin Greenwood.

Signed photographic prints of members of Radiohead

The deluxe edition presented Colin's photography in a stunning clamshell presentation case, and included bonus photography, and phenomenal collector's items in the form of five prints featuring the members of Radiohead, individually selected and hand-signed by Colin Greenwood, Thom Yorke, Jonny Greenwood, Phil Selway and Ed O’Brien.

The edition's full features were as follows:

  • A 136-page fully-illustrated cloth-bound hardback of How to Disappear, with an exclusive cover.
  • This included 97 behind-the-scenes photographs, most of which were previously unseen, and a 10,000-word essay by Colin about life in Radiohead. 
  • Printed on a mixture of 135 gsm Gardapat 13 Kiara and 120 gsm Magno Natural. Cover printed with Cialux real cloth.
  • Accompanied by the 32-page Lights, featuring photographs by Colin not included in the Standard Edition.
  • Housed in a protective clamshell case with a numbered sticker.
  • An exclusive set of five black and white photographs, one each of Colin Greenwood, Thom Yorke, Jonny Greenwood, Phil Selway and Ed O’Brien, individually chosen and signed by each of them.
  • The photographs were Museum/Archive Quality Pigment Prints on Hahnemuhle Photorag Pearl cotton-based paper, and each were a numbered edition of 300, held in a protective case.
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