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Aspen Magazine #7 - The British Issue (The British Box) Published Spring-Summer 1970 published by Roaring Fork Press, NYC. Edited by Mario Amaya, designed by John Kosh.
This extremely RARE issue features a record by John Lennon and Yoko Ono, John Lennon's Diary (1969) and art by David Hockney, among other treasures. Aspen was a multimedia magazine published on an irregular schedule by Phyllis Johnson from 1965 to 1971. Described by its publisher as "the first three-dimensional magazine," each issue came in a customized box or folder filled with materials in a variety of formats, including booklets, "flexidisc" phonograph recordings, posters, postcards and reels of super-8 movie film. The British Box includes 14 numbered items (though the box states that this issue comprises fifteen sections, section number 15 apparently does not exist) and no advertisements, as follows: 1 Box - Hinged box, 10 by 9-1/2 by 1-1/4 inches - designed by Richard Smith. (The box shows some signs of wear in the corners and edges.) 2 British Knickers - Sewing pattern by Ossie Clark. 3 Aspen order form, 5-1/2 by 8-1/2 inches. 4 The Gay Atomic Coloring Book - drawings by Eduardo Paolozzi. 5 Twenty-four page book featuring five essays and one fiction work: The "London" Decade - Mario Amaya London Subcultures - Michael Instone Communicators - Christopher Finch New Names in British Cinema - David Robinson British Poetry Now - Edward Lucie-Smith Crash! (excerpt) - J. G. Ballard 6 Souvenir no. 1 - Kitsch found by Peter Blake. 7 Souvenir no. 2 - Kitsch found by Peter Blake. 8 The Lennon Diary 1969 - Diary of the future by John Lennon. Facsimile pocket diary for 1969, written November 1968. 9 Lyrics - Folder enclosing items 10 and 11 (see below), printed with text of Ono, Lennon and Tavener phonograph recordings. 10 Phonograph recording - John Tavener / Christopher Logue. Side A: Three Songs for Surrealists by John Tavener, words by Edward Lucie-Smith. Side B: Christopher Logue Reads "New Numbers." 11 Phonograph recording - Yoko Ono & John Lennon. Side A: Song for John and No Bed for Beatle John by Yoko Ono. Text printed in item 9. Side B: Radio Play by John Lennon. 12 Europa & Her Bull - Typographical triptych by John Furnival. 13 Wave/rock - Concrete poetry by Ian Hamilton Finlay. 14 Notes on Rumpelstiltskin - Drawings by David Hockney. 
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