Ostrava, 1980. Small quarto (24 × 21 cm). Original staple-stitched pictorial wrappers; [29] pp. Printed on coated stock, with forty reproductions, some full-page. Very good. Scarce provincial catalog of an exhibition of Ovčáček’s visual works, including graphic art, painting, and sculpture, structured around letters and words. Held in Ostrava, Czechoslovakia..... More
A compendium of original works by Finkelstein including one 8-minute video cassette, one photo screened canvas (27 cm x 27 cm), nine black and white photographic prints 30 cm x 40 cm each, one b&w print 15 cm x 22 cm, and a photo-grid consisting of ten identical photographic prints..... More
![Várovní znamení [Warngedichte; Warning signs]. Erich Fried, designer Milan Grygar](/pictures/thumb/P4607_1.jpg?v=1591722733)
Prague: Nakladatelství Svoboda, 1969. Slim octavo (24 × 10 cm). Original pictorial dust-wrappers designed by Milan Grygar, over blind wrappers; 78, [1] pp. Light wear and toning to edges of dust-wrappers, else about very good. First editon of these translations into Czech by Jiří Gruša of poems by Erich Fried..... 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
![Galeria Krytykow. Pracownie sztuk plastycznych [Gallery of Critics. Fine Arts Studios]. Galeria...](/pictures/thumb/50444_1.jpg?v=1591722721)
Warsaw PSP (Pracownie sztuk plastycznych), 1980 or 1981? Octavo. Original three-panel folder, with printed text in English and Polish; laid in are 4 pp. of reproduced typescript, stapled to upper left corner. Very good. Issued for an exhibition of the Critics’ Gallery (Galeria Krytykow, still active as Galeria Krytykow Pokaz)..... More
![Experimentální poezie [Experimental poetry]. Anthology of Czech and international concrete...](/pictures/thumb/P004020_1.jpg?v=1590767882)
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
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
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
50 pp. catalogue, in German and Dutch, of an exhibition of works by artists based in the city of Mulheim in the Ruhr area of western Germany, all working in various manifestations of neo-Expressionism, with introd. text by Frans Haks, interviews with the artists by Wolfgang Max Faust, and altogether..... 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
![Co se slovy všechno poví [All that we use words to tell]. Illustrated by Věra and Pavel...](/pictures/thumb/50321_1.jpg?v=1590758883)
[Prague]: Státní nakladatelství dětské knihy, 1964. Small octavo (17 × 11 cm). Decoratively printed white synthetic wrappers; 45 pp. Numerous full-page illustrations in color and two-color letterpress designs set by Josef Doležal. Very good. Strikingly designed children’s book, a playful exploration of word-based games children play on a train ride..... More
Unpaginated (altogether 65 pp.) artists' book reproducing handwritten love letters, songs, and free verse by Iannone and Harding, followed by reproductions of the same in German (translated by Dieter Schwarz), bound in pictorial concertina boards portfolio together with two audio cassettes of the artists reading to one another, in English..... 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
Leipzig: Galerie Eigen+Art, 1985–1987. Text volumes quartos, portfolios folio-size and measuring ca. 55 × 41.5 × 5 cm. Text volumes cloth boards, portfolios in black and white linen cassettes, artworks loose as issued. One image with partial adhesions from tissue paper overlay, some very minor soiling and rubbing to portfolios..... More
![Pohledná poezie [Handsome poetry]. Emil Juli&scaron](/pictures/thumb/P004199_1.jpg?v=1591976645)
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
Czech Republic: 1977–2000. Various book objects consisting of the artist's binding and leaves of thick hand-made paper, sometimes with boards and pastedowns of the same paper. The book objects in various sizes, ranging from ca. 18.6 × 12.5 to 30 × 20.2 cm. Very good. This group brings together five..... More
![Gersaintův štít [Signboard for Gersaint]. Jiří Kolář](/pictures/thumb/P003817_1.jpg?v=1590786088)
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
![Galeria Wigury 15. Chaos – Faza 3 [Wigura Gallery. Chaose - Phase 3]. Sławomir Kosmynka](/pictures/thumb/50818_1.jpg?v=1607527383)
Lodz: 1988. Large folio (42 × 30 cm). Original decorative side-stapled self-wrappers; 8 pp. Light wear to wrappers, else very good. A samizdat artistic manifesto written by Sławomir Kosmynka, which announces the iconoclastic position of the Chaos – Faza 3 Gallery. Kosmynka studied typography and painting at the State College..... 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
![Havraní stříbro [Raven silver: poems]. Jaroslav Mazač, Eduard Ovčáček](/pictures/thumb/P003227_1.jpg?v=1590786086)
Ostrava: Profil, 1965. Octavo (20 × 13.3 cm). Original printed tan cloth with illustrated dust wrapper by Ovčáček; 45 pp. Illustrations throughout by Ovčáček. Signed and inscribed by the author in 1968. A very good copy, with a few small tears (one closed tear) and one nick to dustjacket. A..... 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
Unpaginated (32 pp.) psychedelically illustrated children's book with lithographed illustrations and text by Claire Moore, which tells ths story of a little spaceman who comes to Earth and experiences food, drink, and interactions with humans and animals. 4to. Original lithographed wrpps., very light soiling to covers. New York (Children's Underground..... More
Artist's book, unpaginated, published in conjunction with Oursler's 1975 exhibition of the same name, held at Rome's Galleria's Internazionale d'Arte Moderna, with foreword by Italo Mussa in Italian and English, the exhibition catalogue comprised of reproductions of appropriated black and white photographs, each accompanied by a reproduced handwritten caption in..... More
![Poslední výstřely [The last shots]. Eduard Ovčáček, František Čvanda](/pictures/thumb/P002343_1.jpg?v=1591003803)
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