Edited Mike Weaver (8 results)

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. 476pp, photographs, some in colour. Covers have slight shelf wear, light corner crease on the rear cover. Internally, clean & unmarked. Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

Colour Illustrated Paperback. Condition: VERY GOOD ( AVERAGE). No Jacket. Illustrated with Black & White Photographs (illustrator). .please e-mail for further details. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾". Not Signed or Inscribed.

First edition As new and bright blue boards with gilt titles in like pictorial dustjacket with crisp bright text throughout. Exquisite edition. Gift quality.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. design by David Weaver and Patrick Smith (illustrator). Stapled magazine with scuffed spine. Creases on base corner of front cover affecting first few pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. xvii, 189 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 26 cm. First edition, first printing. Burgundy cloth boards, unclipped dust jacket. Slight shelf wear to edges, no inscriptions, tight and square binding. Photographs available on request. All books dispatched same or next working day in robust packaging.

Softcovers. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. 1965. First edition. [i], 20pp. This is a Special Number of Extra Verse, a poetry magazine edited by the South African-born Scottish poet and psychoanalyst David Black (born 1941). Extra Verse was a quarterly publication that he edited while at Edinburgh University in the 1960s. This edition is devoted to Ian Hamilton Finlay (1925-2006), a Scottish poet, writer, artist and gardener, and contains two critical essays and examples of Finlay's poetry. The book is staple-bound in the original card covers with black titling on the front cover. The book is in very good condition with shelf wear and some soiling on the covers. The rear cover has some staining and patches of lifting to a thin layer of the card. The contents are secure and clean and the title-page has been inscribed "David Black July 21".

Softcover. Condition: Near Fine. No. 10. Oblong small quarto. 36pp. Illustrated, with a cover image by Rodchenko. Stapled self-wrappers. Light general wear and first few leaves with a small area of creasing and a tiny tear in the bottom margin, just about near fine. Prints "Structuralism & Literary Criticism" by Gerard Genette; "The Aesthetic of Ian Hamilton Finlay" by Simon Cutts; poems by Jiri Valoch and R. C. Kenedy; "Art in Crisis" by Charles Biederman; "Skullshapes" by Charles Tomlinson; and material regarding the little magazine *LEF*. Steadman designed and published 10 issues of *Form* between 1966 and 1969. His purpose, as stated in the first issue, was "to publish and provoke discussion of the relations of form to structure in the work of art, and correspondences between the arts. Emphasis is to be placed in particular on the fields of kinetic art and concrete poetry.".

Paperback. Condition: Very Good + / Near Fine. 1st Edition. FORM MAGAZINE. Complete set: Issues 1-10. (Summer) 1966- (October )1969.The most significant British magazine of the 60s concentrating on pure abstraction and through this art theory, architecture, avant-garde magazines et al. Interest in FORM itself has grown in recent years: while studying for his Ph.D. the Portuguese architect Joaquim Moreno made a particular study of the magazine, contending that it is essentially a magazine about little magazines of the avant-garde. Moreno was part of the research group that produced 'Clip Stamp Fold' (M + M books, Princeton, 2011), which features interviews with Bann and Steadman. Issues often include a Great Little Magazines section. Each issue is about 9.5 inches square, illustrated, with 32pp (apart from one issue with 36pp). Number 1: Contents includes Film as Pure form by Theo Van Doesburg (first translation of 1929 essay), The Activity of Structuralism by Roland Barthes, Experimental Aesthetics by Carlyn Cumming, essay on Fernand Leger, Great Little Magazines No.1 : Secession with work by William Carlos Williams, Hans Arp Yvor Winters / Number 2: Contents includes Le Parc and The Group Problem by Frank Popper; A Little Night Music by Charles Tomlinson; Articles by Gillo Dorfles; Poem by Charles Tomlinson; William Carlos Williams on Emanuel Romano. Great Little Magazines No.2: Blues with work by Gertrude Stein, Sidney Hunt, Parker Tyler, Kenneth Rexroth, Charles Henri Ford./ Number 3: Contents includes Poems by Ian Hamilton Finlay, Ernst Jandl, Paul de Vree, Kenneth Robinson. Articles on and by Charles Biederman and 'The Electrical -Mechanical Spectacle' by El Lissitzky. Great Little Magazines No 3: 'G' with work by Kurt Schwitters, Theo van Doesburg, Mies van der Rohe, Miklos Bandi./ Number 4: Contents includes: Brighton Concrete Poetry Exhibition , notes, map & full review (exhibition organised by Form's editors), Black Mountain College, Albers 'Graphic Tectonics', 'What is Kentetism' ? Two essays by Charles Biederman, Poems by Anselm Hollo. Review of Mecano magazine in Great Little Magazines No.4 (therefore discussion of Van Doesburg) - which includes translation of Van Doesburg text. / Number 5: Contains Hans Jaffes - De Stijl and Architecture, features on Bernard Lassus and Raul Hausmann, and in the Black Mountain Series John A. Rice, George Zabriskie and designs for college buildings by Walter Gropius and Marcel Breuer. Great Little Magazines No.5 'RAY' with work by Sidney Hunt, I. K. Bonset ( Theo Van Doesburg) and Kurt Schwitters./ Number 6: The contents include essays on Russian unofficial art, and on the work of Laszlo Moholy Nagy; John Evarts and Jean Charlot writing on Black Mountain; and poems by David Chaloner. Great Little Magazines No.6 'De Stijl' (Part 1). / Number 7: March / 1968. Contents include Kinetic Art in Czechoslovakia, Cinema and Semiology, by Peter Wollen, new American Photography, Abraham Moles on Vasarely. Airfields by Simon Cutts. Great Little Magazines No.6 'De Stijl' (author index part 2). / Number 8: The contents include Russian Exhibitions 1904 to 1922, Xanti Schawinskys - Spectodrama, and a feature on Pierre Albert-Birot with Barbara Wrights translations from - Grabinoulor. Great Little Magazines No.7 'SIC' with work by Apollinaire, Tristan Tzara, Pierre Albert-Birot. / Number 9: Contents includes articles by Hans Richter, Joost Baljeu, H. H. Stuckenschmidt. 'Notes on Theatre at Black Mountain College (1948-1952)' by Mark Hedden. 'Theo van Doesburg is of Today' by Maurice Agis and Peter Jones. Great Little Magazines section No 8: 'Kulchur' with work by Robert Indiana./ Number 10: The Aesthetic of Ian Hamilton Finlay by Simon Cutts. Art in Crisis by Charles Biederman, Structuralism & Literary Criticism by Gerard Genette. Great Little Magazines : LEF by Richard Sherwood & articles from LEF by Brik, Arvatov, Mayokovsky. Together with printed letter from the editor, Philip Steadman, sent to contributors when the magazine finished & flier for Form subscriptions. Condition: Some light toning and halding to covers. Overall very good+/near fine.