Born in New York, Ruby Ray migrated to San Francisco in the mid-'70s. She entered the underground scene while working at Tower Records in North Beach.  As a fixture on the first wave punk scene, Ray photographed with a stark intimacy. There are candid shots of the Sex Pistols' fateful trip to San Francisco, Darby Crash slashed and bloodied, Exene Cervenka sitting amongst discarded tires like tombstones, and The Avengers' Penelope Houston writhing on stage. From the Edge of the World comes with a 16-song bonus CD that compiles some of bands photographed in the book: Germs, The Zeros, The Dils, The Avengers, Crime, The Screamers, Chrome, The Bags, Mutants, Factrix, The Sleepers, Negative Trend, Noh Mercy, Pink Section, The Offs, and Z'EV. Ray accurately prophesied that her scene's art would endure and strove to depict it precisely as it was breathtaking.