Edinburgh: The Richard Demarco Gallery, 1972. Folio (40.5 × 29.5 cm). Original staple-stitched photo-illustrated self-wrappers; [52] pp. In English and Polish. Illustrations throughout. Very good. A catalog for an exhibition of avant-garde Polish art presented by The Richard Demarco Gallery in 1972, held as part of the Edinburgh International Festival..... More

Prague: SČSVU, [1966]. Octavo. Original staple-stitched printed wrappers; [8] pp. Numerous reproductions of Ovčáček’s work, including concrete poetry, on the wrappers and throughout. Very good. Scarce catalog of an exhibition held in Prague in early 1966, apparently the first solo exhibition of Ovčáček’s work. Born 1933, Ovčáček was one of..... More

Unpaginated artist's book from the poet and painter associated with the British Poetry Revival and Fluxshoe, the UK offshoot of Fluxus, containing an abstract mix of poetry, notes on printing methods, lists, graphs, illustrations, diagrams, and collage, primarily mimeographed in red and blue ink and blue and white paper stock..... More

Łódź: Wolna drukarnia MSW, [1988]. Single sheet, xerox-printed to recto, measuring 36 × 25.5 cm. About very good; old creases. Apparently unrecorded poster for a series of “manic” political happenings slash performances held at the Galeria Działań Maniakalnych in Łódź, a branch of the Pomarańczowa Alternatywa (Orange Alternative), an originally..... More

Prague: Československý spisovatel, 1967. Octavo (19.5 × 10 cm). Original pictorial wrappers; 249, [5] pp. About very good; wrappers beginning to detach from text block. Important anthology of post-war text on the arts and avant-garde, published shortly before the Prague Spring and the Soviet Invasion of 1968, which would significantly..... More

20 leaves, printed recto and verso, presenting text by Uta Johanna (a pseudonym for Egmont Hesse) with facing reproductions of boldly executed drawings, printed in offset lithography, by Hegewald. 8vo. Orig. printed wrpps., very sl. soiled. Dresden (Leitwolfverlag) 1989. One of only 100 copies. Signed in pencil by both Johanna..... More

Warsaw: Galereia sztuki wspołczesnej, 1975. Octavo (20.5 × 15 cm). Original decorative xeroxed wrappers; 14, [1] pp. Illustrations. Very good. An exhibition catalog of Polish graphic art featuring 50 works by 14 artists including major figures of the Polish abstract art and Neo-avantgarde, such as Halina Chrostowska, Stanislaw Fijalkowski, Roman..... More

[Prague]: Jazzová sekce (Jazz Section), [1982]. Quarto (29.4 × 21.2 cm). Original staple-stitched photo-illustrated self-wrappers; 35, [1] pp. Black-and-white reproductions on nearly every page, printed on better quality stock. Some toning to wrappers; still very good. This privately published samizdat catalog was apparently the first work about a site-specific installation..... More

Liberec: Severočeské nakladatelství, 1966. Quarto (× cm). Original black cloth; embossed title to front board; decorative dust jacket; 65, [3] pp. Signed and inscribed by the author. Very good. A striking, large-format work by another of the leading concrete poets active in Czechoslovakia. Overall design and binding by Milan Janáček..... More

Prague: Svoboda, 1965. Quarto (24.5 x 17 cm). Gatherings loose in printed wrappers; 42, [2] pp. Introductory text in Czech. Very good; small tear to front panel; two unidentified signatures to flap. A distinguished Czech artist and poet, Kolář (1914–2002) was the co-founder of the existentialist post-war group “Skupina 42”..... More

Johns. 195 pp. monograph incl. text on the painter and his views on art, notes, bibliography, and 143 plates (41 in color tipped in). Fore-edge sl. soiled. Obl. 4to. Orig. dec. cloth, d.j. New York (Abrams) 1968. Freitag 5753. More

Łódź: 1981. Original poster, with hand-written text in green marker on a single repurposed red leaf measuring 90 × 67 cm. Two small perforations from push pins to bottom corners, adhesive marks to upper extremity. Vertical and horizontal creases from folding. Still about very good. A five-point manifesto, with text..... More

Wroclaw: Państwowa Wyższa Szkoła Sztuk Plastycznychwe Wrocławiu, 1972. Octavo 19.7 × 15.9 cm). Original decorative yellow wrappers with black abstract decoration; 7 leaves of text and [75] leaves primarily of reproductions from photographs. Light browning and foxing to cover; small tears at top and bottom of spine; overall very good..... More