Praxis. Nos. 1-6, all published

Chicago, Jackson Gray, 1979-1980. Complete run of the short-lived art, music, and design magazine with a New Wave and Punk aesthetic, hardly distributed outside Chicago. Released in six issues, each in a different format, with great cover design. Includes some inserts with flexidiscs, a vinyl record, and a pouch with blue hair. Features interviews and articles on bands such as the Gang of Four, 8- Eyed Spy, the Buzzcocks, B-52s, Roxy Music, Pere Ubu, the Cramps, Robert Fripp, Jonny III, Tuxedo Moon, and fashion designers Elio Fiorucci and Thierry Mugler. Contributions by poets and photographers including Jerome Sala, Elaine Equi, Gerard Malanga, Bill Edmundson, Alan Bass, and Jim Elliott.

(1) No. 1, June 1979. Staplebound, 30.5 x 30.5 cm, 50 pp. Mild rubbing to cover. (2) No. 2, Aug./ Sept. 1979. Staple-bound, 25.5 x 25.5 cm, 60 pp. Moderate spine wear, sheets loose from binding. Includes a flexidisc. (3) No. 3, Dec. 1979. Softcover, 20 x 30.5 cm, 96 pp. With flexidisc by Robert Tripp and a small pouch of blue punk hair. Housed in original transparent plastic bag with sticker. (4) No. 4, n.d. (end of 1979). Colour offset poster, printed both sides, 88 x 112 cm, folded to 28 x 22 cm. Titled 'Decade Dispatch. Homewreckers Calender, Road Map to 1980'. Rubbing to folds, else crisp. (5) No. 5, March 1980. Staplebound, 35.5 x 27.5 cm, 60 pp. with four inserts. (6) No. 6, Nov. 1980. White card portfolio, 28 x 21.5 cm, housing 96 loosely inserted sheets, a vinyl 45 rpm record (Big Clock Music), and flexidisc. Moderate spine wear, else good. Extremely rare set. (total 6)