Robin Gavin Et Al (3 results)

Hardcover. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: New. 1st Edition. IN ORIGINAL SHRINK WRAP; COUPLE OF SMALL TEAR IN SHRINK WRAP, BACK, NOT AFFECTING DJ; SHIP FREE, MEDIA MAIL, USA.

Original Wraps. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket, as Issued. First Edition. Ambit Number 40, published in 1969. Illustrated throughout in monochrome. Cover illustration by Eduardo Paolozzi, with the cover Robin Ray. With a seven-page poem "The House of Over-Dew" written and illustrated by Stevie Smith, and an eight-page spread entitled "Why We Are In Vietnam" by Eduardo Paolozzi. ***Near fine in glossy card stapled covers. The covers are just very slightly rubbed. No bumps or creases. No tears. Internally also near fine with no inscriptions. Pages clean. No marks. Spine tight. ***250mm x 185mm. 60 pages. ***Contents - work by: Stevie Smith; John Horder; Oswell Blakeston; Gavin Ewart; Juan-Agustin Palazuelos; Jim Burns; Eduardo Paolozzi; James Raimes; Boleslaw Tabotski; Martin Bax; David Trotter; Peter Angeles; Henry Graham; Mike Foreman; Henry Woolf; Stella Coleman; Taner Baybars; Oliver Stallybrass. ***'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 collectable 1960s edition of the magazine in near fine condition - this issue of particular interest for collectors of the poetry and illustrations of Stevie Smith, who features, and for collectors of AMBIT and poetry magazines in general. An uncommon issue of the magazine. ***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. Eduardo Paolozzi, Robin Ray, Stevie Smith, Michael Foreman et al (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. The set of three vols of Gavin Maxwell's 'Ring of Bright Water' trilogy. All are first editions, first impressions. 'Ring' (pub 1960, 211pp), 'Rocks' (pub 1963, 186pp), 'Raven' (pub 1968, 211pp). All have some edge wear, chipping, short closed tears and creasing to tops and bottoms of jackets and spine, corners rubbed and bruised, some slight spotting to page fore edges, 'Ring' has previous owner's name to second ffep, 'Rocks' and 'Ring' have no inscriptions, all are price clipped, all are internally clean tight and squareish, overall a vg+ set. Fifty years ago Gavin Maxwell (1914-69), a Scottish naturalist, traveller and author, went to live in an abandoned house on a shingle beach on the west coast of Scotland. A haven for wildlife, he named his home Camusfearna and settled there with the otters Mij, Edal and Teko. 'Ring of Bright Water' chronicles Gavin Maxwell's first ten years with the otters and touched the hearts of readers the world over, brilliantly evoking life with these playful animals in this natural paradise. Two further volumes followed bringing the story full circle telling of the difficult last years and the final abandonment of the settlement. Gavin Maxwell is widely credited with saving the otter as a species in the UK and their subsequent conservation and protection. Scarce in these first impressions. Three heavy hardbacks, extra postage will be required. Illustrations by the author, Peter Scott, Michael Ayrton, Robin McEwen, James Millar Watt et al (illustrator). …