ASPEN MAGAZINE NRS. 5 - 6. CONCEPTUAL ISSUE. DOUBLE ISSUE

New York: Aspen Communications/Roaring Fork Press (editor & publisher: Phyllis Johnson), Winter, 1967.
Designed by Brian O'Doherty.  20 x 20 x 25cm white card box split in two sections. Contents: table of contents, booklet with texts by Roland Barthes, George Kubler & Susan Sontag (20cm sq., wrappers), flexi-disc 'Text  for Nothing #8 (1958)' by Samuel Beckett (read by Jack MacGowen/'The Realistic Manifesto (1920)' by Naum Gabo, flexi-disc: excerpts from 'Nova Express' by William S. Burroughs & excerpts from 'Jealousy' by Alain Robbe-Grillet, flexi-disc 'The King of Denmark' by Morton Feldman & 'Fontana Mix' by John Cage, 'Maze Module' (eight-part sculptural-multiple to be assembled) + 'The Maze' (16 pp., b/w illustrations, self-wrappers)  by Tony Smith, flexi-disc: 'Space, Time and Dance'/'Further Thoughts' (interview) by Merce Cunningham, flexi-disc: 'The  Creative Act (1957)'/'A'Linfinitif (1912 - 1920)' by Marcel Duchamp/four poems from 'Phantastiche Gebete (1916)', 'The Russian Desert' by Douglas Macady (broadside), 'Repair' by Michel Butor. Trans.
From the French by Michael Benedikt  (20 x 100cm
broadside printed on both sides; recto with Butor's 'Conditionnment' in the original French), 'POEM, March 1966' by Dan Graham (20 x  40cm pagework multiple), 'Serial Project No.1, 1966' by Sol Lewitt (20cm sq. bookwork-multiple. Photo-illustrated.), 'Seven Translucent Tiers' by Mel Bochner (pagework assemblage,  20 x 40cm sheet folded and enclosing seven translucent, printed sheets.), 'Structural Play #3' by Brian O'Doherty (20 x 100cm: text-leporello), 'The King of Denmark' by Morton Feldman (score),  'Fontana Mix' by John Cage (score + two opaque printed sheets  and one translucent), 'Jealousy' Robbe-Grillet (20cm  sq., self- wrappers.) and a folder containing various adverts, including a Something Else Press checklist. What is missing from this set is the Super Eight film (as almost always) and the item is priced thus. The most ambitious and intermedial issue of Aspen. All contents fine in a very two-part box with only some minor wear and grubbiness.