[ARTISTS' BOOKS] -- [ASPEN MAGAZINE]. JOHNSON, Phyllis, editor. Aspen the Magazine in a Box. COMPLETE RUN. NY, 1965-1971. A SCARCE COMPLETE SET OF ASPEN MAGAZINE WITH ALL ITEMS AS ISSUED. RARE.
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$4,000
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Lot Description
[ARTISTS' BOOKS] -- [ASPEN MAGAZINE]. JOHNSON, Phyllis, editor. Aspen the Magazine in a Box. COMPLETE RUN: Numbers 1, 2, 3, 4, 5&6, 6A, 7, 8, 9, and 10. New York: Roaring Ford Press & Aspen Communications Inc., 1965-1971.
10 volumes, various 4to, 8vo, 12mo and 16mo or smaller sizes. Each issue with loose material laid in as issued. (Some light toning, scuffing or chipping to a few numbers.) Original boxes, envelopes or cases for each issue, including the rare unflattened boxes for nos. 1-5/6 and 7 (some light soiling or creasing to a few).
CONTENTS:
No. 1. LOIS, George et al, designers. [The Black Box]. 1965. With subscriber envelope laid-in (not mentioned in other copies).
No. 2. KIRK, Frank et al, designers. [The White Box]. 1966.
No. 3. WARHOL, Andy et al. designers. [The Pop Issue]. December 1966.
No. 4. McLUHAN, Marshall et al. [The McLuhan Issue]. Spring 1967.
Nos. 5 & 6. O'DOHERTY, Brian et al, editors and designers. [The Minimalism Issue]. Fall & Winter 1967.
No. 6a. HENDRICKS, Jon, editor. [The Performance Art Issue]. Winter 1968-1969.
No 7. AMAYA, Mario et al. [The British Issue]. Spring-Summer 1970. Without item 15, which was printed on the box in error, as usual.
No 8. GRAHAM, Dan et al. [The Fluxus Issue]. Fall-Winter [1970-1971].
No 9. MacLISE, Angus et al, editors. [The Psychedelic Issue]. Winter-Spring [1971]. (Lacking item 14 as usual.)
No. 10. [The Asia Issue]. Summer [1971]. Lacking item 13 as in UbuWeb and most copies.
A SCARCE COMPLETE SET OF ASPEN MAGAZINE WITH ALL ITEMS AS ISSUED.
Beginning as a luxury lifestyle magazine focused on Aspen's art and culture scene, Aspen Magazine quickly branched out to incorporate a wide range of artistic styles and movements. Contributors included Peter Blake, William S. Burroughs, John Cage, Marcel Duchamp, Philip Glass, David Hockney, Jasper Johns, John Lennon, Sol LeWitt, Claes Oldenberg, Yoko Ono, Robert Rauschenberg, and Carolee Schneemann. Issues include a wide variety of objects laid-in, including "flexidiscs," flipbooks, mazes, postcards, posters, recordings, reels of super-8 film, and other ephemera. Issue number 5/6 includes first publication in English of Roland Barthes "Death of the Author.” (For a list of materials and inserts, see UbuWeb, ubu.com/aspen/). RARE: According to online records, only one other set of Aspen Magazine, presumably incomplete in only 9 volumes, has sold at auction in the last 45 years.
No 7. AMAYA, Mario et al. [The British Issue]. Spring-Summer 1970. Without item 15, which was printed on the box in error, as usual.
No 8. GRAHAM, Dan et al. [The Fluxus Issue]. Fall-Winter [1970-1971].
No 9. MacLISE, Angus et al, editors. [The Psychedelic Issue]. Winter-Spring [1971]. (Lacking item 14 as usual.)
No. 10. [The Asia Issue]. Summer [1971]. Lacking item 13 as in UbuWeb and most copies.
A SCARCE COMPLETE SET OF ASPEN MAGAZINE WITH ALL ITEMS AS ISSUED.
Beginning as a luxury lifestyle magazine focused on Aspen's art and culture scene, Aspen Magazine quickly branched out to incorporate a wide range of artistic styles and movements. Contributors included Peter Blake, William S. Burroughs, John Cage, Marcel Duchamp, Philip Glass, David Hockney, Jasper Johns, John Lennon, Sol LeWitt, Claes Oldenberg, Yoko Ono, Robert Rauschenberg, and Carolee Schneemann. Issues include a wide variety of objects laid-in, including "flexidiscs," flipbooks, mazes, postcards, posters, recordings, reels of super-8 film, and other ephemera. Issue number 5/6 includes first publication in English of Roland Barthes "Death of the Author.” (For a list of materials and inserts, see UbuWeb, ubu.com/aspen/). RARE: According to online records, only one other set of Aspen Magazine, presumably incomplete in only 9 volumes, has sold at auction in the last 45 years.
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