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American Folk & Blues Festival Frankfurt Germany 1968 Gunther Kieser Poster

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 Original 1st United States edition (printed in March/April of 1969 by Darien House of New York, it is the 2nd "official" printing) 33 x 47" European "kiosk"-style concert poster for the seventh edition of the American Folk Blues Festival, held at Kongresshalle in Frankfurt, (West) Germany on 10/2/1968.

 Acts listed include: John Lee Hooker, Jimmy Reed, T-Bone Walker, Big Joe Williams, Curtis Jones, Eddie Taylor and more.

 Design by Gunther Kieser, medium flat vellum stock poster is in good to very good (B to B/B+) condition; there are tack holes in all four corners, along with a fairly serious curl to the paper, a series of small tears along the top/bottom margins, a moderate to heavy amount of creasing/crunching along the left/right margins, a series of thin stress/handling dings scattered throughout the poster and a few other little minor issues (pin-prick smudges, corner-tip creasing) here and there, otherwise OK.

 Most of the conditional issues on this one are either limited to the outer edges or fairly well-camouflaged within the image area; from a presentation standpoint it looks pretty good, especially considering the MASSIVE dimensions of the poster.

 Check out a clip of John Lee Hooker performing his classic "Boom Boom" (backed by the Eddie Taylor Band) from the 10/18 Koln stop HERE:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LPf9MVTFUrA