peter blake et al (12 Ergebnisse)

Zustand: Fair. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has soft covers. Book contains pencil markings. In fair condition, suitable as a study copy. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,600grams, ISBN:9780781752534.

Paperback. Zustand: Good +. 9 x 9 in. Paper wraps. Condition is GOOD+ ; covers clean, froint has a diagonal crease, minor edge wear. Binding tight, text unmarked. Art. Stax.

Paperback. Zustand: Good +. 9 x 9 in. Paper wraps. Color plates. Condition is GOOD+ ; covers clean but rubbed with a faint crease to front, mild wear to corners. Binding tight, text unmarked. Art. Stax.

Hardcover. 8vo. pp xiii, 416, [4]. Colour illustrated dust jacket. Publisher's black buckram lettered in white at spine. Illustrations in black and white.ISBN: 9780300176629 Near fine, only light shelfwear at spine ends. In very good dust jacket, little rubbed at corners.

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.

SOFTCOVER. Zustand: Near FINE. 1st Edition. 4to in colour printed stiff glossy card covers, 36pp on glossy art paper, b/w plates etc . [CONDITION: A well preserved near FINE clean and tight unmarked copy (cover edges a little tanned and faintly edge rubbed) ] . . . We always ship in STRONG PROTECTIVE CARD PARCELS.

Soft cover. Zustand: Very Good. 1st Edition. 8° - unpag - b/w photographic reproductions. Catalogue of works exhibited at the British Exhibiton of the Mustermesse Basel, Switzerland, in 1975. First edition. Very good condition.

White Cloth. Zustand: Near Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Good. Walt Disney Et Al (illustrator). First Edition. 458 Immaculate Pages, 763 Illustrations, 351 Plates In Color. Original 1973 Edition With Mounted Image Of Mickey Mouse On Front Cover. Near Fine, No Markings Or Inscriptions. Original Printed Acetate Dj With Small Chips And Tears At Edges, Some Waviness Top And Botom Of Rear Panel.

Paperback. Zustand: Good in wraps. First Edition. 16 x 20cm good paperbackk, a minor oilstain to top, right of front wrapper which has led through to a couple of pages. With an essay by Jasia Reichardt leading to black and white reproductions and a small description of each artist.

Softcover. Zustand: VG+. First Edition. 4to. both volumes Unpaginated. Printed wraps. Numerous Colour and Black & White plates. Cult publication Deluxe only ran for 2 issues but came to somehow define british street fashion at the fag end of the seventies. Aside of the Peter Blake/Allen Jones etc. what makes this of interest is the Seditionaries (Vivienne Westwood) presentation by Ku Khanh, which was the first Seditionaries shoot in a magazine and the brilliant 'Wild on the Side Walk', shot by Newman and styled by the great Caroline Baker. The other important shoot is the 'Streetwalking Shocking' shoot by Norrie Maclaren, and its ace. Plus inside out', featuring Westwood, Quant etc. (amazing), 'Wet Dream' featuring YSL, Bill Gibb, Mr. Fish, and shot in Brighton (also amazing), Brian Eno on strange records, Allen Jones, Man Ray, Suze Randall, Lunch with Quentin Crisp and Arnold Schwartzenegger (yes really), Pasolini, lots of Westwood and some other great shoots by Newman, Baker et al. Such a good magazine, ultra glam (its the seventies), but beginning to foreshadow the street culture later epitomised by the likes of i-D a few years later. A key piece of British fashion history.

Hardcover. Zustand: Near Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Near Fine. 1st Edition. A First UK printing published by Latimer, UK in 1971. The BOOK is in near FINE condition. The WRAPPER is complete and in near FINE condition with some mild tanning as usually encountered. The Sir Peter Blake wrapper artwork looks striking in the removable Brodart archival protector. Illustrations and photographs by Michael Tyzack, Sir Peter Blake, Adrian Henri, P.G. Findlay & R. Elson, Jeff Cloves, Patrick Hughes, Shepard Sherbell, Gabi Nasemann, Michael Horovitz, Michael Bloom, Paul Kaplan, John Furnival, Bob Godfrey, Pete Morgan, Jeff Nuttall, David Oxtoby, Adam Ritchie, Colin Self, John Furnival, Richard Hamilton, Stephen Morris, Jeff Goldner, Nick Roberts, Marigold Hodgkinson, Mike Francis, Ron Sandford, David Hockney, Michael Foreman, Feliks Topolski, Gabi Nasemann, Mal Dean, Tom Phillips, Mike McInnerney. This is number '75' of only 100 special numbered copies signed by the author and all of the 30 the contributors including Hockney, Blake & Hamilton. The publisher's errata slip is present as issued. The book is an extraordinary collection of British art luminaries of the age. Very scarce with such attributes. More images available on request. Ashton Rare Books welcomes direct contact. Inscribed by Author(s).