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: Odeon, 1967. Square octavo (15.5 × 15.5 cm). Embossed white cloth, original printed dust jacket; 265, [2] pp. About very good; dust jacket with small tears. Unsurpassed Czech anthology of experimental, mostly concrete, poetry from all over the world, with design and typography by Oldřich Hlavsa. Includes work by..... More

Unpaginated artist's book (462 pp.) by the German Mail Art and Fluxus artist, comprised of random newspaper clippings, with certain blocks at times repeated. Profusely illustrated from newspaper photographs.16mo. Original illustrated wrpps. Very minor sunning and fading, overall very good. Oldenburg, Germany (Art Agency) 1969. With small signed statement by..... More

Prague: MERLIN, 1986. Quarto (30.5 × 22 cm). Original side-stapled green blind wrappers; xerox-printed pictorial title followed by mimeographed typescript and occasional drawn illustration, with pagination as follows: [6], AI-AIII, [3], BI-BIII, [2], CI-CIV, DI-II, EI-EVIII, FI-FIII, GI-GVI, HI-HIII, CHI-III, II-III, JI-JII, KI-IV, LI, MI-MVI, NI-NV, 001-005, [2] and one..... More

Leporello-style artist’s book, printed recto and verso, from Iannone’s exhibition of the same name at Haus am Lützowplatz in Berlin, containing an introductory essay by Karl Ruhrberg, a poem by Ben, quotes and blurbs from Mary Harding, Dr. Wolfgang Becker, Dr. Franz Meyer, Dr. Dieter Koepplin, Konrad Klapheck, Robert Filliou..... 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

(Title from cover.) Unpaginated (circa 120 pp.) catalogue for an exhibition featuring the early works of prominent contemporary Swiss artists, including Balz Burkhard, Gianfredo Camesi, Luciano Castelli, H. Huber, Herbert Lienhard, Urs Lüthi, Dieter Meier, Gérald Minkoff, Markus Raetz, P.B. Stähli, and Aldo Walker, heavily illustrated throughout (many full-page). Small..... More

Two works of concrete poetry from the late 1960s by Jean-Claude Moineau, comprising an undated 12-page unrecorded work of Concrete Poetry done in collaboration with Christiane Frougny, "Textes à tester (Texts to Test)", and a 1968 work "Orléans mai-juin 1968 / La Bibliotheque Universitaire est occupee". Typed and mimeographed pages..... More

Small unpaginated volume collecting 24 black-and-white photographs of works by Oppenheim dating to 1968 and 1969 executed in New York City, Brooklyn, Paris, and Finsterwolde, Holland, including "Lead Pipe", "Steel Stake", "Steel Bar", "Steel Cable", "Steel Pipe", "Wood", "Glass Disks", "Canvas", "Cement Brick", "Rubber Tube", "Brick", and "Mud", with text..... More

Opava: Svaz protifašistských bojovníků, 1963. Octavo (20.5 × 14.5 cm). Original pictorial wrappers by Eduard Ovčáček; 48, [4] pp. Very good. Regional publication about the terror of the German occupation during World War II, with an attractive cover design by Eduard Ovčáček (born 1933), an artist and writer whose work..... More

[Brno, 1987]. Original print in three colors, a meditation on the number 8, signed below by the artist. Measures 19.6 × 14.5 cm. Very good. Ovčáček was one of the foremost practitioners of concrete poetry and lettrism in Czechoslovakia. "Ovčáček endeavoured to achieve a revitalization of the language, based on..... More