Bax Martin Ballard Carol Ann (5 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Small 4mo perfect bound white card covered book, no writing, covered in illustrated card dustwrapper in blue and black to front board. A litle rubbing and sunning, clean , bright no inscriptions or annotations. 96 pages. 2 David Gascoyne / Breton / Soupault The Magnetic Fields Michael Foreman Drawings 9 Carol Ann Duffy Poems Laura Knight Drawings 14 Vanessa Jackson Drawings 19 Giulano Dego / Gramigna / Finzi Poems Steve Abdellah Drawings 25 Derek Wynand / Artmann From Green Sealed Messages 28 Michael Kruger / Agnes Stein Poems 30 Humphrey Evans Conversation Piece 32 Eugene Dubnov Poems 33 Helen Ctuidwick Images 40 John Basset The Burroughs Workshop 44 Earle Birey Poems 47 Michael Moorcock Hollywood Letter Michael Foreman Drawings 55 Wes Magee Poems 58 David Tipton Poems 60 Deborah Levy Tango Through the Green Tanks Clare Jarrett Drawings 70 Terence Heywood Slow Coach 71 Herbert Lomas et al. Reviews 74 Gerda. Mayer Poems 76 Charles Roff Landscapes 80 Michael Roche Poems 82 Adrian Henn Reviews 88 Henry Graham Overdrawn 89 Charles Shearer Landscapes 92 Robert Calvert Poems 94 Ron Sandford Christopher Logue 96.

Soft Cover. Condition: Very Good. 96 pp, illustrated in b/w, contributed to by J G Ballard and Norman Ackroyd and Carol Ann Duffy Small 4to Magazine / Journal.

Soft Cover. Condition: Very Good. Steadman , Ralph (illustrator). 96 pp, illustrated in b/w, contributed to by J G Ballard and Carol Ann Duffy.and Peter Blake Small 4to Magazine / Journal.

Original Wraps. Condition: USED_NEARFINE. Dust Jacket Condition: 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. Condition: USED_NEARFINE. Dust Jacket Condition: 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.