Aspen: The Magazine in a Box (Vol. 1, No. 3)

$1,500.00

How do we describe this? Let’s just copy and paste from the Smithsonian’s website before Elon Musk and DOGE get rid of it:

This FAB detergent box in dayglo colors is actually the cover of Aspen: The Magazine in a Box, Volume 1 Issue 3, December 1966. It is one of six issues[...] and was designed by Andy Warhol and David Dalton [a founding editor of Rolling Stone magazine]. As with all the Aspen volumes, this issue has many components in the box, including a flip-book based on Warhol's film Kiss, and Jack Smith's film Buzzards Over Bagdad, a flexidisc by John Cale of the Velvet Underground, and a “ticket book” with excerpts of papers delivered at the Berkeley conference on LSD by Timothy Leary and others. This issue is multimedia magazine in a box since it also contains a record taped at an Aspen 1964 Jazz Party. Each issue was intended to be a time capsule, capturing the culture and events of the late 1960s. It is a symbol of revolutionary multimedia publishing.

Too cool and not too common. Here’s a complete inventory of everything in the box. It’s not our finest example of typesetting, but it’ll have to do.

  • Editor: Phyllis Johnson
  • Size: 9.5 × 12.5 inches (box); All items enclosed of various sizes
  • Pages: Hmm. Too complicated to figure. See the inventory linked above.
  • Binding: Box with various inserts inside
  • Condition: The box is in very good condition with minor cracking along the spine and some scuffing here and there. All items inside are very good. It does have a slight mildew smell, but we’ve been handling this for hours now, and our hands don’t smell. Some items do shines of spotting, but they just add to the speed-induced charm.
  • Publisher: Roaring Fork Press, December 1966