[JOHNSON, Phyllis (editor).]. ASPEN 7 SPRING SUMMER 1970 BRITISH BOX.

[JOHNSON, Phyllis (editor).] ASPEN 7 SPRING SUMMER 1970 BRITISH BOX. New York: Roaring Fork Press. Spring-Summer 1970.

4to. 12 items in the original square cardboard box (25 x 25 cm); box slightly worn and rubbed to edges; internally fine.

First and only edition, very rare and complete, of ASPEN No. 7 - BRITISH BOX in 15 sections.

Published between 1965 and 1971, Aspen Multimedia Magazine was the brainchild of editor and publisher Phyllis Johnson. Of her initiative, she would say; "We wanted to get away from the traditional magazine format, which we regarded as too closed, too restrictive…". Each number had a different editor and designer, and contained materials produced in all formats, as demonstrated by the diverse contents of this first and only British edition designed by Richard Smith and John Kosh.

The contents are separated into three sections as follows:

Essay and Short Story
J.G. Ballard, Crash!
Christopher Finch, Communicators
Michael Instone, London Subcultures
David Robinson, New British Cinema
Edward Lucie-Smith, British Poetry Now

Records (both discs in original glassine envelope and have clearly never been removed or played)
Yoko Ono, Song for John, No Bed for Beatle John
John Lennon, Radio Play
Christopher Logue, New Numbers
John Tavener, Three Surrealist Songs

Objects
Peter Blake, Two Souvenirs
Ian Hamilton Finley, Wave/rock, Concrete Poem
John Furnival, Europa & Her Bull Typographical Triptych
David Hockney,Notes on Rumpelstiltskin
John Lennon,London Diary 1969
Eduardo Paolozzi,.The Gay Atomic Colouring Book
Ossie Clark,British Knickers

Aspen Content form on the inside of the box which was never unfolded.

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