edited martin bax (18 Ergebnisse)

Softcover. Zustand: Very Good. Periodical. Small quarto. Black and white illustrations. Glossy pictorial wrappers. Toning the front cover and some light toning, very good. Include poems by D.M. Thomas, Alan Brownjohn and Pete Reading, and others.

Original Wraps. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. Michael Foreman, Laura Knight et al (illustrator). First Edition. Ambit Number 127, published in 1992. Illustrated throughout in monochrome. ***Very good in textured card monochrome-illustrated outer wrapper over thin white card covers. The edges of the outer wrapper are slightly rubbed. The top of the spine is slightly creased. No tears. Internally also very good with no inscriptions. Pages clean. Spine tight. ***244mm x 176mm. 96 pages. ***Contents: James Laughlin: Poems, Robert MacAulay; Vanessa Jackson: Drawings; Ann Gray: Poems; Martin Bax: Le Magasin des Gants, David Remfy; Rosemary Norman: Poems; Adrian Mitchell: Poems; Michael Foreman; Judith Kazantzis: The Glass Avenue, Laura Knight; Andzej Klimowski: The Story So Far; Josephine Wilson: Poems; Lomas / Eisa Sterberg: Money Doesn't Stink; E.A. Markham: Madeline; Elizabeth Smith: The Tzar, Lenin & Picasso; Lois Beeson: Poems; Jim Burns: Reviews; David Grubb: Poems; Sue Flynn: Disabled Vows; Ian Pollock: Drawings; Liz Dearden: Cut Woman Poems; Linda Sutton: Etchings; Anthony Edkins: Poems; Lomas / Belbin: Reviews; Ambit Nights Out; Felicity Napier: Poems; Richard Dyer: Poems / Pictures. ***'In the sixties AMBIT became well known for testing the boundaries and social conventions and published many anti-establishment pieces, including an issue with works written under the influence of drugs. Edwin Brock was poetry editor, and J. G. Ballard became fiction editor alongside, later, Geoff Nicholson. Henry Graham and Carol Ann Duffy joined Edwin Brock as poetry editors. Michael Foreman was art editor for 50 years. Across the magazine's history, Derek Birdsall (Omnific), Alan Kitching, John Morgan Studio and Stephen Barrett were notable designers.' (Wiki) ***'AMBIT started in '59; there were various impulses behind it. I'd been interested in the writer John Middleton Murray, who was married to Katharine Mansfield. He had run a magazine from about 1910 onwards for two or three years called Rhythm that attracted writers like D.H. Lawrence, and Katharine Mansfield of course. What was striking about it - you could look at it in the V&A library - was that Murray, who really knew nothing about art, had met a Scottish artist called Ferguson who was sending over from Paris artwork by "young" artists like Picasso, Miro, etc. They looked quite startling in this 1910 magazine. And the idea, that Murray never developed, of trying to produce a magazine that had literary and visual material really working together, came to me out of that. But the other initiatives were more simple. There weren't many magazines about then because the possibility of what everybody can do now -- produce a magazine from a 'desktop' in quite small numbers and for not very much money -- didn't exist. But electronic things were just starting to happen, and the first number of Ambit we partly set ourselves on a machine called a variotyper. It enabled us to paste down visual work of which we had some good drawings from an Australian artist, Oliffe Richmond, in this first number and enabled us to begin the notion of producing an arts magazine rather than the traditional poetry or Eng. Lit. magazine. I'd say there's still no magazine in the country that combines high class artwork, produced and found by Mike Foreman over the years, alongside writers who I think are exciting.' (Martin Bax interview with 3:AM magazine) ***An early 90s edition of the magazine in very nice, collectable condition. Of interest to collectors of AMBIT and poetry magazines in general. ***For all our books, postage is charged at cost, allowing for packaging: any shipping rates indicated on ABE are an average only: we will reduce the P & P charge where appropriate - please contact us for postal rates for heavier books and sets etc.

Original Wraps. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. Michael Foreman, Laura Knight et al (illustrator). First Edition. Ambit Number 126, published in 1991. Illustrated throughout in monochrome. ***Very good in textured card monochrome-illustrated outer wrapper over thin white card covers. The edges of the outer wrapper are slightly rubbed. The top corner of the page block is slightly creased. No tears. Internally also very good with no inscriptions. Pages clean. Spine tight. ***244mm x 176mm. 96 pages. ***Contents: Jim Burns: Poems; Justine Rivers: Skin; Robert MacAulay; Judy Gahagan: Poem; John Emanuel: Drawings; Elaine Randell: Poem; Jonathan Treitel: Quest; Ken Cox: Drawings; Elaine Randell: Storm Damage; Laurie Preece: Pitures; Donal Atkinson Poems; Charles Shearer: Drawings; John Gower: Lillian; Mike Foreman; Edward Lowbury; Mary Knight: The Girl with the Unicorn; David Remfry; Herbert Lomas: Reviews; Florence Elon: From Frieda & William; Pop Art Retrospective from Ambit: Hockney / Paolozzi / Caulfield / Donaldson / Jones / Blake / Anuand / Donaldson; Joel Lane: The Death of the Witness; Laura Knight; Jeff Nuttall: Eyes IV; Jacqueline Lucas: Poems; William Hampton: To a Man Who Became a Storyteller; Ann Born / Vernon Scannell: Reviews; Duncan Chambers: Poems; Eric Mathieson: Reviews; Robert Magowan: Looking for Binoculars; Kevin Crossley-Holland: Poem. ***'In the sixties AMBIT became well known for testing the boundaries and social conventions and published many anti-establishment pieces, including an issue with works written under the influence of drugs. Edwin Brock was poetry editor, and J. G. Ballard became fiction editor alongside, later, Geoff Nicholson. Henry Graham and Carol Ann Duffy joined Edwin Brock as poetry editors. Michael Foreman was art editor for 50 years. Across the magazine's history, Derek Birdsall (Omnific), Alan Kitching, John Morgan Studio and Stephen Barrett were notable designers.' (Wiki) ***'AMBIT started in '59; there were various impulses behind it. I'd been interested in the writer John Middleton Murray, who was married to Katharine Mansfield. He had run a magazine from about 1910 onwards for two or three years called Rhythm that attracted writers like D.H. Lawrence, and Katharine Mansfield of course. What was striking about it - you could look at it in the V&A library - was that Murray, who really knew nothing about art, had met a Scottish artist called Ferguson who was sending over from Paris artwork by "young" artists like Picasso, Miro, etc. They looked quite startling in this 1910 magazine. And the idea, that Murray never developed, of trying to produce a magazine that had literary and visual material really working together, came to me out of that. But the other initiatives were more simple. There weren't many magazines about then because the possibility of what everybody can do now -- produce a magazine from a 'desktop' in quite small numbers and for not very much money -- didn't exist. But electronic things were just starting to happen, and the first number of Ambit we partly set ourselves on a machine called a variotyper. It enabled us to paste down visual work of which we had some good drawings from an Australian artist, Oliffe Richmond, in this first number and enabled us to begin the notion of producing an arts magazine rather than the traditional poetry or Eng. Lit. magazine. I'd say there's still no magazine in the country that combines high class artwork, produced and found by Mike Foreman over the years, alongside writers who I think are exciting. (Martin Bax interview with 3:AM magazine) ***An early 90s edition of the magazine in very nice, collectable condition. Of interest to collectors of AMBIT and poetry magazines in general. ***For all our books, postage is charged at cost, allowing for packaging: any shipping rates indicated on ABE are an average only: we will reduce the P & P charge where appropriate - please contact us for postal rates for heavier books and sets etc.

Zustand: Very Good. 1977. Paperback. Fine copy showing minor shelf wear. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

Softcover. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Near Fine. Magazine. Cover by Coleman Dowell. Quarto. 96pp. Perfectbound. Black and white illustrations. A small crease on the rear wrapper else fine in a near fine dustwrapper with light foxing and rubbing. Notable contributors include Jim Burns, Peter Redgrove, Jeff Nuttall, Geoffrey Holloway, and others.

Paperback. Zustand: Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Good. Some tanning to covers. Light rubbing to extremities. Corners a little creased.

Softcover. Zustand: Near Fine. Number 46. Small quarto. 48pp. Illustrated. Stapled wrappers. Wraps lightly tubbed and with a few creases, corners gently bumped, about near fine. Includes contributions by Gavin Ewart, Asa Benveniste, Fleur Adcock, Pete Morgan, and others.

Softcover. Zustand: Very Good. First edition. Small quarto. Black and white illustrations. Glossy pictorial wrappers. Foxing on wraps with a small nick at the crown, very good. Contributors include Ivor Cutler, Barbara Riddle, Miles Burrows, Arturo Laskus, Sue Jackson, Gavin Ewart, John Mole, and more.

Softcover. Zustand: Near Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. Magazine. Cover photo of Euphoria Bliss by O.T. Quarto. 96pp. Perfectbound. Black and white illustrations. Some pages creased with foxing along the page edge, near fine in a very good dustwrapper with foxing. Notable contributors include Ian Watson, George Macbeth, Peter Blake, Ralph Steadman, Gavin Ewart, David Hockney and ohers.

Zustand: Very Good. 1977. Paperback. Fine copy showing minor shelf wear. . . . .

Original Wraps. Zustand: Near Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: No Jacket, as Issued. Andrew Lanyon, John Parsons, Stevie Smith et al (illustrator). First Edition. Ambit Number 28, published in 1966. Illustrated throughout in monochrome. Includes "A Dream", "How Cruel is the Story of Eve" and "The Ass" - poems written and illustrated by Stevie Smith, and a four-page spread of street photos by Andrew Lanyon. ***Near fine in glossy card stapled covers. The covers are just very slightly rubbed. No bumps or creases. No tears. Internally also near fine with no inscriptions. Pages clean. No marks. Spine tight. ***250mm x 185mm. 48 pages. ***Contents - work by: Martin Bax; Stevie Smith; Jack Marriott; Stuart Mills; John Parsons; Gavin Ewart; Christopher Ounsted; J. Bronowski; Andrew Lanyon; John Pudney; Michael Jamieson; Paul Wilks; Anthony Edkins; Jim Burns; Barry Cole; Dannie Abse. ***'In the sixties AMBIT became well known for testing the boundaries and social conventions and published many anti-establishment pieces, including an issue with works written under the influence of drugs. Edwin Brock was poetry editor, and J. G. Ballard became fiction editor alongside, later, Geoff Nicholson. Henry Graham and Carol Ann Duffy joined Edwin Brock as poetry editors. Michael Foreman was art editor for 50 years. Across the magazine's history, Derek Birdsall (Omnific), Alan Kitching, John Morgan Studio and Stephen Barrett were notable designers.' (Wiki) ***'AMBIT started in '59; there were various impulses behind it. I'd been interested in the writer John Middleton Murray, who was married to Katharine Mansfield. He had run a magazine from about 1910 onwards for two or three years called Rhythm that attracted writers like D.H. Lawrence, and Katharine Mansfield of course. What was striking about it - you could look at it in the V&A library - was that Murray, who really knew nothing about art, had met a Scottish artist called Ferguson who was sending over from Paris artwork by "young" artists like Picasso, Miro, etc. They looked quite startling in this 1910 magazine. And the idea, that Murray never developed, of trying to produce a magazine that had literary and visual material really working together, came to me out of that. But the other initiatives were more simple. There weren't many magazines about then because the possibility of what everybody can do now -- produce a magazine from a 'desktop' in quite small numbers and for not very much money -- didn't exist. But electronic things were just starting to happen, and the first number of Ambit we partly set ourselves on a machine called a variotyper. It enabled us to paste down visual work of which we had some good drawings from an Australian artist, Oliffe Richmond, in this first number and enabled us to begin the notion of producing an arts magazine rather than the traditional poetry or Eng. Lit. magazine. I'd say there's still no magazine in the country that combines high class artwork, produced and found by Mike Foreman over the years, alongside writers who I think are exciting.' (Martin Bax interview with 3:AM magazine) ***A collectable 1960s edition of the magazine in near fine condition - this issue of particular interest for collectors of the poetry and illustrations of Stevie Smith, who features, and for collectors of AMBIT and poetry magazines in general. An uncommon issue of the magazine. ***For all our books, postage is charged at cost, allowing for packaging: any shipping rates indicated on ABE are an average only: we will reduce the P & P charge where appropriate - please contact us for postal rates for heavier books and sets etc.

Original Wraps. Zustand: Near Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Near Fine. Peter Blake, Michael Foreman, Vanessa Jackson et al (illustrator). First Edition. Ambit Number 100, published in 1985. Illustrated throughout in monochrome and occasional colour. Cover artwork by Peter Blake. ***Near fine in textured card monochrome-illustrated outer wrapper over thin white card covers. The edges of the outer wrapper are just slightly rubbed. No bumps or creases. No tears. Internally also near fine with no inscriptions. Pages clean. Spine tight. ***248mm x 176mm. 192 pages. ***Contents: please see scan of back cover. ***'In the sixties AMBIT became well known for testing the boundaries and social conventions and published many anti-establishment pieces, including an issue with works written under the influence of drugs. Edwin Brock was poetry editor, and J. G. Ballard became fiction editor alongside, later, Geoff Nicholson. Henry Graham and Carol Ann Duffy joined Edwin Brock as poetry editors. Michael Foreman was art editor for 50 years. Across the magazine's history, Derek Birdsall (Omnific), Alan Kitching, John Morgan Studio and Stephen Barrett were notable designers.' (Wiki) ***'AMBIT started in '59; there were various impulses behind it. I'd been interested in the writer John Middleton Murray, who was married to Katharine Mansfield. He had run a magazine from about 1910 onwards for two or three years called Rhythm that attracted writers like D.H. Lawrence, and Katharine Mansfield of course. What was striking about it - you could look at it in the V&A library - was that Murray, who really knew nothing about art, had met a Scottish artist called Ferguson who was sending over from Paris artwork by "young" artists like Picasso, Miro, etc. They looked quite startling in this 1910 magazine. And the idea, that Murray never developed, of trying to produce a magazine that had literary and visual material really working together, came to me out of that. But the other initiatives were more simple. There weren't many magazines about then because the possibility of what everybody can do now -- produce a magazine from a 'desktop' in quite small numbers and for not very much money -- didn't exist. But electronic things were just starting to happen, and the first number of Ambit we partly set ourselves on a machine called a variotyper. It enabled us to paste down visual work of which we had some good drawings from an Australian artist, Oliffe Richmond, in this first number and enabled us to begin the notion of producing an arts magazine rather than the traditional poetry or Eng. Lit. magazine. I'd say there's still no magazine in the country that combines high class artwork, produced and found by Mike Foreman over the years, alongside writers who I think are exciting.' (Martin Bax interview with 3:AM magazine) ***A mid 80s edition of the magazine in very nice, collectable condition - this being a bumper-sized double issue. Of interest to collectors of AMBIT and poetry magazines in general. ***For all our books, postage is charged at cost, allowing for packaging: any shipping rates indicated on ABE are an average only: we will reduce the P & P charge where appropriate - please contact us for postal rates for heavier books and sets etc.

Original Wraps. Zustand: Near Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Near Fine. Peter Blake, Michael Foreman, Vanessa Jackson et al (illustrator). First Edition. Ambit Number 100, published in 1985. Illustrated throughout in monochrome and occasional colour. Cover artwork by Peter Blake. ***Near fine in textured card monochrome-illustrated outer wrapper over thin white card covers. The edges of the outer wrapper are just slightly rubbed. No bumps or creases. No tears. Internally also near fine with no inscriptions. Pages clean. Spine tight. ***248mm x 176mm. 192 pages. ***Contents: please see scan of back cover. ***'In the sixties AMBIT became well known for testing the boundaries and social conventions and published many anti-establishment pieces, including an issue with works written under the influence of drugs. Edwin Brock was poetry editor, and J. G. Ballard became fiction editor alongside, later, Geoff Nicholson. Henry Graham and Carol Ann Duffy joined Edwin Brock as poetry editors. Michael Foreman was art editor for 50 years. Across the magazine's history, Derek Birdsall (Omnific), Alan Kitching, John Morgan Studio and Stephen Barrett were notable designers.' (Wiki) ***'AMBIT started in '59; there were various impulses behind it. I'd been interested in the writer John Middleton Murray, who was married to Katharine Mansfield. He had run a magazine from about 1910 onwards for two or three years called Rhythm that attracted writers like D.H. Lawrence, and Katharine Mansfield of course. What was striking about it - you could look at it in the V&A library - was that Murray, who really knew nothing about art, had met a Scottish artist called Ferguson who was sending over from Paris artwork by "young" artists like Picasso, Miro, etc. They looked quite startling in this 1910 magazine. And the idea, that Murray never developed, of trying to produce a magazine that had literary and visual material really working together, came to me out of that. But the other initiatives were more simple. There weren't many magazines about then because the possibility of what everybody can do now -- produce a magazine from a 'desktop' in quite small numbers and for not very much money -- didn't exist. But electronic things were just starting to happen, and the first number of Ambit we partly set ourselves on a machine called a variotyper. It enabled us to paste down visual work of which we had some good drawings from an Australian artist, Oliffe Richmond, in this first number and enabled us to begin the notion of producing an arts magazine rather than the traditional poetry or Eng. Lit. magazine. I'd say there's still no magazine in the country that combines high class artwork, produced and found by Mike Foreman over the years, alongside writers who I think are exciting.' (Martin Bax interview with 3:AM magazine) ***A mid 80s edition of the magazine in very nice, collectable condition - this being a bumper-sized double issue. Of interest to collectors of AMBIT and poetry magazines in general. ***For all our books, postage is charged at cost, allowing for packaging: any shipping rates indicated on ABE are an average only: we will reduce the P & P charge where appropriate - please contact us for postal rates for heavier books and sets etc.

Original Wraps. Zustand: Near Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. Michael Foreman, Errol Lloyd, Ray Povey et al (illustrator). First Edition. Ambit Number 91, published in 1982. Caribbean Special issue. Illustrated throughout in monochrome. Cover design by Alan Kitching. ***Very good in textured card monochrome-illustrated textured wrappers over thin white card covers. The edges of the outer wrapper are slightly rubbed and there are a few light foxing marks. No bumps or creases. No tears. Internally near fine with no inscriptions. Pages clean. Paper stock just slightly tanned. Spine tight. ***245mm x 180mm. 96 pages. ***Contents - work by: Linton Kwesi Johnson; Sam Selvon; Edward Kamau Brathwaite; Ray Povey; Grace Nichols; Lynda Nkem Chinaka; Amryl Johnson; E. A. Markham; Elyse Dodgson and Company; S. E. Ashman; A. L. Hendriks; Michael Foreman; John Agard; Edgar White; Les Johnson; Andrew Salkey; Peter Fraser; James Berry; Errol Lloyd; Howard Fergus; Lynford French; Caryl Phillips; John La Rose; Charles Shearer; John Figueroa; David Nathaniel Haynes. ***'In the sixties AMBIT became well known for testing the boundaries and social conventions and published many anti-establishment pieces, including an issue with works written under the influence of drugs. Edwin Brock was poetry editor, and J. G. Ballard became fiction editor alongside, later, Geoff Nicholson. Henry Graham and Carol Ann Duffy joined Edwin Brock as poetry editors. Michael Foreman was art editor for 50 years. Across the magazine's history, Derek Birdsall (Omnific), Alan Kitching, John Morgan Studio and Stephen Barrett were notable designers.' (Wiki) ***'AMBIT started in '59; there were various impulses behind it. I'd been interested in the writer John Middleton Murray, who was married to Katharine Mansfield. He had run a magazine from about 1910 onwards for two or three years called Rhythm that attracted writers like D.H. Lawrence, and Katharine Mansfield of course. What was striking about it - you could look at it in the V&A library - was that Murray, who really knew nothing about art, had met a Scottish artist called Ferguson who was sending over from Paris artwork by "young" artists like Picasso, Miro, etc. They looked quite startling in this 1910 magazine. And the idea, that Murray never developed, of trying to produce a magazine that had literary and visual material really working together, came to me out of that. But the other initiatives were more simple. There weren't many magazines about then because the possibility of what everybody can do now -- produce a magazine from a 'desktop' in quite small numbers and for not very much money -- didn't exist. But electronic things were just starting to happen, and the first number of Ambit we partly set ourselves on a machine called a variotyper. It enabled us to paste down visual work of which we had some good drawings from an Australian artist, Oliffe Richmond, in this first number and enabled us to begin the notion of producing an arts magazine rather than the traditional poetry or Eng. Lit. magazine. I'd say there's still no magazine in the country that combines high class artwork, produced and found by Mike Foreman over the years, alongside writers who I think are exciting.' (Martin Bax interview with 3:AM magazine) ***An early 80s edition of the magazine in very good condition - this being a special Caribbean issue. Of interest to collectors of AMBIT and poetry magazines in general. An uncommon issue of the magazine. ***For all our books, postage is charged at cost, allowing for packaging: any shipping rates indicated on ABE are an average only: we will reduce the P & P charge where appropriate - please contact us for postal rates for heavier books and sets etc.

Original Wraps. Zustand: Near Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: No Jacket, as Issued. Eduardo Paolozzi, Robin Ray, Stevie Smith, Michael Foreman et al (illustrator). First Edition. Ambit Number 40, published in 1969. Illustrated throughout in monochrome. Cover illustration by Eduardo Paolozzi, with the cover Robin Ray. With a seven-page poem "The House of Over-Dew" written and illustrated by Stevie Smith, and an eight-page spread entitled "Why We Are In Vietnam" by Eduardo Paolozzi. ***Near fine in glossy card stapled covers. The covers are just very slightly rubbed. No bumps or creases. No tears. Internally also near fine with no inscriptions. Pages clean. No marks. Spine tight. ***250mm x 185mm. 60 pages. ***Contents - work by: Stevie Smith; John Horder; Oswell Blakeston; Gavin Ewart; Juan-Agustin Palazuelos; Jim Burns; Eduardo Paolozzi; James Raimes; Boleslaw Tabotski; Martin Bax; David Trotter; Peter Angeles; Henry Graham; Mike Foreman; Henry Woolf; Stella Coleman; Taner Baybars; Oliver Stallybrass. ***'In the sixties AMBIT became well known for testing the boundaries and social conventions and published many anti-establishment pieces, including an issue with works written under the influence of drugs. Edwin Brock was poetry editor, and J. G. Ballard became fiction editor alongside, later, Geoff Nicholson. Henry Graham and Carol Ann Duffy joined Edwin Brock as poetry editors. Michael Foreman was art editor for 50 years. Across the magazine's history, Derek Birdsall (Omnific), Alan Kitching, John Morgan Studio and Stephen Barrett were notable designers.' (Wiki) ***'AMBIT started in '59; there were various impulses behind it. I'd been interested in the writer John Middleton Murray, who was married to Katharine Mansfield. He had run a magazine from about 1910 onwards for two or three years called Rhythm that attracted writers like D.H. Lawrence, and Katharine Mansfield of course. What was striking about it - you could look at it in the V&A library - was that Murray, who really knew nothing about art, had met a Scottish artist called Ferguson who was sending over from Paris artwork by "young" artists like Picasso, Miro, etc. They looked quite startling in this 1910 magazine. And the idea, that Murray never developed, of trying to produce a magazine that had literary and visual material really working together, came to me out of that. But the other initiatives were more simple. There weren't many magazines about then because the possibility of what everybody can do now -- produce a magazine from a 'desktop' in quite small numbers and for not very much money -- didn't exist. But electronic things were just starting to happen, and the first number of Ambit we partly set ourselves on a machine called a variotyper. It enabled us to paste down visual work of which we had some good drawings from an Australian artist, Oliffe Richmond, in this first number and enabled us to begin the notion of producing an arts magazine rather than the traditional poetry or Eng. Lit. magazine. I'd say there's still no magazine in the country that combines high class artwork, produced and found by Mike Foreman over the years, alongside writers who I think are exciting.' (Martin Bax interview with 3:AM magazine) ***A collectable 1960s edition of the magazine in near fine condition - this issue of particular interest for collectors of the poetry and illustrations of Stevie Smith, who features, and for collectors of AMBIT and poetry magazines in general. An uncommon issue of the magazine. ***For all our books, postage is charged at cost, allowing for packaging: any shipping rates indicated on ABE are an average only: we will reduce the P & P charge where appropriate - please contact us for postal rates for heavier books and sets etc.

Original Wraps. Zustand: Near Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: No Jacket, as Issued. Max Cannon, Barry Hall, Friere Wright (illustrator). First Edition. Ambit Number 20, published in 1964. Includes a two-page illustrated spread of "Martin's Mag" by William Burroughs - plus Anselm Hollo's long poem sequence "Heads to Appear" illustrated by Barry Hall, and Zulfikar Ghose reviews Philip Larkin's "Whitsun Weddings" + B. S. Johnson reviews books by Brian Higgins, Jeremy Robson & Keith Wright. Illustrated throughout in monochrome. ***Near fine in glossy card stapled covers. The covers are just very slightly rubbed. No bumps or creases. No tears. Internally also near fine with no inscriptions. Pages clean. No marks. Spine tight. ***222mm x 165mm. 56 pages. ***Contents - George Macbeth "The Ski Murders"; Colin Ward "Two Poems"; Max Cannon "Transition Down Under"; Samuel Bingham "The Death Ash Movement"; Taner Baybars "Four Poems"; Oswell Blakeston "Retrospect 12"; Keith Musgrove "Some People"; William Burroughs "Martin's Mag"; Anselm Hollo "Heads to Appear"; Barry Hall "Upon Stands"; Friere Wright "Three Drawings"; Robin Harland "Reviews MacNiece"; Zulfikar Ghose "Reviews Larkin" (B. S. Johnson doesn't appear in the Contents). ***'In the sixties AMBIT became well known for testing the boundaries and social conventions and published many anti-establishment pieces, including an issue with works written under the influence of drugs. Edwin Brock was poetry editor, and J. G. Ballard became fiction editor alongside, later, Geoff Nicholson. Henry Graham and Carol Ann Duffy joined Edwin Brock as poetry editors. Michael Foreman was art editor for 50 years. Across the magazine's history, Derek Birdsall (Omnific), Alan Kitching, John Morgan Studio and Stephen Barrett were notable designers.' (Wiki) ***'AMBIT started in '59; there were various impulses behind it. I'd been interested in the writer John Middleton Murray, who was married to Katharine Mansfield. He had run a magazine from about 1910 onwards for two or three years called Rhythm that attracted writers like D.H. Lawrence, and Katharine Mansfield of course. What was striking about it - you could look at it in the V&A library - was that Murray, who really knew nothing about art, had met a Scottish artist called Ferguson who was sending over from Paris artwork by "young" artists like Picasso, Miro, etc. They looked quite startling in this 1910 magazine. And the idea, that Murray never developed, of trying to produce a magazine that had literary and visual material really working together, came to me out of that. But the other initiatives were more simple. There weren't many magazines about then because the possibility of what everybody can do now -- produce a magazine from a 'desktop' in quite small numbers and for not very much money -- didn't exist. But electronic things were just starting to happen, and the first number of Ambit we partly set ourselves on a machine called a variotyper. It enabled us to paste down visual work of which we had some good drawings from an Australian artist, Oliffe Richmond, in this first number and enabled us to begin the notion of producing an arts magazine rather than the traditional poetry or Eng. Lit. magazine. I'd say there's still no magazine in the country that combines high class artwork, produced and found by Mike Foreman over the years, alongside writers who I think are exciting.' (Martin Bax interview with 3:AM magazine) ***A collectable 1960s edition of the magazine in near fine condition - this issue of particular interest for collectors of the work of William Burroughs, who features, and for collectors of AMBIT and poetry magazines in general. An uncommon issue of the magazine. ***For all our books, postage is charged at cost, allowing for packaging: any shipping rates indicated on ABE are an average only: we will reduce the P & P charge where appropriate - please contact us for postal rates for heavier books and sets etc.

Original Wraps. Zustand: Near Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: No Jacket, as Issued. Max Cannon, Barry Hall, Friere Wright (illustrator). First Edition. Ambit Number 20, published in 1964. Includes a two-page illustrated spread of "Martin's Mag" by William Burroughs - plus Anselm Hollo's long poem sequence "Heads to Appear" illustrated by Barry Hall, and Zulfikar Ghose reviews Philip Larkin's "Whitsun Weddings" + B. S. Johnson reviews books by Brian Higgins, Jeremy Robson & Keith Wright. Illustrated throughout in monochrome. ***Near fine in glossy card stapled covers. The covers are just very slightly rubbed. No bumps or creases. No tears. Internally also near fine with no inscriptions. Pages clean. No marks. Spine tight. ***222mm x 165mm. 56 pages. ***Contents - George Macbeth "The Ski Murders"; Colin Ward "Two Poems"; Max Cannon "Transition Down Under"; Samuel Bingham "The Death Ash Movement"; Taner Baybars "Four Poems"; Oswell Blakeston "Retrospect 12"; Keith Musgrove "Some People"; William Burroughs "Martin's Mag"; Anselm Hollo "Heads to Appear"; Barry Hall "Upon Stands"; Friere Wright "Three Drawings"; Robin Harland "Reviews MacNiece"; Zulfikar Ghose "Reviews Larkin" (B. S. Johnson doesn't appear in the Contents). ***'In the sixties AMBIT became well known for testing the boundaries and social conventions and published many anti-establishment pieces, including an issue with works written under the influence of drugs. Edwin Brock was poetry editor, and J. G. Ballard became fiction editor alongside, later, Geoff Nicholson. Henry Graham and Carol Ann Duffy joined Edwin Brock as poetry editors. Michael Foreman was art editor for 50 years. Across the magazine's history, Derek Birdsall (Omnific), Alan Kitching, John Morgan Studio and Stephen Barrett were notable designers.' (Wiki) ***'AMBIT started in '59; there were various impulses behind it. I'd been interested in the writer John Middleton Murray, who was married to Katharine Mansfield. He had run a magazine from about 1910 onwards for two or three years called Rhythm that attracted writers like D.H. Lawrence, and Katharine Mansfield of course. What was striking about it - you could look at it in the V&A library - was that Murray, who really knew nothing about art, had met a Scottish artist called Ferguson who was sending over from Paris artwork by "young" artists like Picasso, Miro, etc. They looked quite startling in this 1910 magazine. And the idea, that Murray never developed, of trying to produce a magazine that had literary and visual material really working together, came to me out of that. But the other initiatives were more simple. There weren't many magazines about then because the possibility of what everybody can do now -- produce a magazine from a 'desktop' in quite small numbers and for not very much money -- didn't exist. But electronic things were just starting to happen, and the first number of Ambit we partly set ourselves on a machine called a variotyper. It enabled us to paste down visual work of which we had some good drawings from an Australian artist, Oliffe Richmond, in this first number and enabled us to begin the notion of producing an arts magazine rather than the traditional poetry or Eng. Lit. magazine. I'd say there's still no magazine in the country that combines high class artwork, produced and found by Mike Foreman over the years, alongside writers who I think are exciting.' (Martin Bax interview with 3:AM magazine) ***A collectable 1960s edition of the magazine in near fine condition - this issue of particular interest for collectors of the work of William Burroughs, who features, and for collectors of AMBIT and poetry magazines in general. An uncommon issue of the magazine. ***For all our books, postage is charged at cost, allowing for packaging: any shipping rates indicated on ABE are an average only: we will reduce the P & P charge where appropriate - please contact us for postal rates for heavier books and sets etc.

Softcover. Zustand: Fine. Number 91. Small quarto. 93 [3] pp. Illustrated in black and white. Fine in unprinted wrappers and lightly foxed, near fine pictorial dust jacket. Filled with Caribbean art, poems, and short stories. Ambit, founded in 1959, is still published today.