Three vintage Rolling Stone magazines from 1971, issues #82, #97, and #98, all from the coveted sub-100 run.
Interior pages feature period advertisements, including Led Zeppelin IV and Rolling Stones Sticky Fingers promotions.
Interior pages feature period advertisements, including Led Zeppelin IV and Rolling Stones Sticky Fingers promotions.
Interior pages feature period advertisements, including Led Zeppelin IV and Rolling Stones Sticky Fingers promotions.
Front covers include counterculture figures and major cultural moments of the early 1970s.
Interior pages feature period advertisements, including Led Zeppelin IV and Rolling Stones Sticky Fingers promotions.
Front covers include counterculture figures and major cultural moments of the early 1970s.
Interior pages feature period advertisements, including Led Zeppelin IV and Rolling Stones Sticky Fingers promotions.
Interior pages feature period advertisements, including Led Zeppelin IV and Rolling Stones Sticky Fingers promotions.
Interior pages feature period advertisements, including Led Zeppelin IV and Rolling Stones Sticky Fingers promotions.
Interior pages feature period advertisements, including Led Zeppelin IV and Rolling Stones Sticky Fingers promotions.
Interior pages feature period advertisements, including Led Zeppelin IV and Rolling Stones Sticky Fingers promotions.
Visible wear throughout consistent with age, handling, and original newsprint production.
Visible wear throughout consistent with age, handling, and original newsprint production.
Front covers include counterculture figures and major cultural moments of the early 1970s.
Visible wear throughout consistent with age, handling, and original newsprint production.
Visible wear throughout consistent with age, handling, and original newsprint production.
Front covers include counterculture figures and major cultural moments of the early 1970s.

Rolling Stone Issues 82 97 98 1971 Led Zeppelin IV Sticky Fingers Ads

$55.00

Offering: Rolling Stone. 3 Issues (#82, #97, and #98). San Francisco: Straight Arrow Publishers, 1971.

Good only. All three issues show typical age-related wear: toning to newsprint, edge wear, creasing, and handling marks. Mailing labels present. Corners show curling and small losses; edges are worn and fragile. Pages are intact but delicate; issues have not been fully opened or examined page-by-page to avoid damage to brittle paper. Sold as complete but carefully handled vintage magazines. Each issue measures approx. 11 x 15 inches (27.9 x 38.1 cm).

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Description

These issues come from Rolling Stone’s formative San Francisco years, when the magazine was still closely tied to the counterculture it documented. Sub-100 issues remain among the most collectible, and while this is not a consecutive run, it offers a strong cross-section of late 1971 editorial voice—music, film, and cultural reporting all in transition. Features include coverage tied to figures like Peter Fonda and Dennis Hopper, alongside reporting on emerging and controversial cultural movements.

What makes this group especially compelling are the interior advertisements and visual material. Period ads for major releases—most notably Led Zeppelin IV (I almost cut that out and framed it) and The Rolling Stones’ Sticky Fingers—capture the exact moment these now-classic albums entered the world. These full-page ads, along with bold photography and typography throughout, function as standalone artifacts of design and music history, making the issues as appealing visually as they are editorially.

Early Rolling Stone issues under #100 continue to grow harder to source, particularly in honest, unrestored condition. This lot offers a strong mix of cultural content and display-worthy material from one of the magazine’s most important periods.

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Weight 1 lbs
Dimensions 14 × 17 × 1 in

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