Edited Laura Foreman (3 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Photographs (illustrator). 1st Edition. G/none, used hc, 143 pages. Three-quarter color illustrated paper over boards with gilt text on upper and spine. This book is part of the Library of Curious and Unusual Facts series. Interior pages are clean, unmarked, no highlighting. The chapters include information on Pomp and Circumstance, Curious Corpses, Odd Exits, and The Last Word. Binding is tight.

Original Wraps. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: 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.

Original Wraps. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: 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.