[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

Various sizes; overall very good. Andrzej Partum (1938–2002) was a seminal figure of Polish Neo-Avant-Garde, a “non-official” artistic movement in Poland in the 70s and 80s. A self-taught artist, Partum’s heterogeneous work includes musical compositions, concrete poetry, mail art, installations and performances, putting him in the Conceptualist tradition even as he disapproved..... More

Unpaginated (ca. 116 pp.) artist's book pairing enigmatic prose poems with the author's translations of the same into highly imaginative rebus-like compositions incorporating mathematical symbols, the Hebrew alphabet, musical notation, erotic doodles, sign language and other figurative and non-figurative characters. Paper a bit browned, some minor scattered soiling. 4to. Illustrated..... More

Unpaginated set of texts (printed recto only on 27 loose-leaf sheets of monogrammed "Fluxus" cardstock) providing a chronological overview of events in Holland from 1960 to 1969 directly linked to George Macunias and the Fluxus organization in New York, housed together with 24 related items, including facsimile reproductions of historical..... More

Neues Museum Weserburg Bremen, 1997 (printed in Antwerp). Square octavo (21 × 21 cm). Original staple-stitched gray printed wrappers; [24] pp. About very good; private owner stamp inside front wrapper. A conceptual artist book-cum-catalog, conceived for an exhibit jointly curated by Jiří Valoch and Guy Schraenen, containing work by Valoch..... More

New York: Snuffalong Publishing, 1969. Folio (tabloid style) Original pictorial wrappers; 24 pp. Richly illustrated from photographs. Very good. The premier issue of this New York pornzine, under the editorial direction of Mark Sherwood, published at a moment when the distribution of pornography was about to enter the mainstream, including..... More

Unpaginated (16 pp.) exhibition catalogue, with an introduction by Tommaso Trini and an essay titled "Flux-us/ing Xmutica or the anti-productive activity of Gianni-Emilio Simonetti" by Daniela Palazzoli, with texts in Italian, French, English, and Portuguese, together with a brief biography of Simonetti and a short prose piece by Simonetti titled..... More

Presentation of 34 catalogues and leaflets, ranging between 1 and 5 pp., produced in conjunction with exhibitions organized by the Movimient Artistico del Mediterraneo which featured the work of individual artists (including Enrique Brinkmann, Vicente Castellano, Armando Cardona Torrandell, Isabel Villar, Hsiao Chin, and Armando Cardona Torrandell among others) and..... More

Toronto: Ganglia Press, January 1969. Oblong folio (11 × 14 cm) on yellow paper stock; [24] pp. Very good. Canadian edition of eight concrete “sonnets” by the Czech concrete poet Valoch, in which words have been replaced with monotone typewriter marks. The collection is subtitled “I have forgotten the song..... More

London: Writers Forum , 1971. Octavo (21 × 14.6 cm). Original side-stapled xeroxed wrappers; xeroxed text on Chinese-style folded leaves; [19] pp. Very good. English edition of “poems in the language ga realisated (sic!) especially for this collection, dedicated to bob cobbing ladislav novak henri chopin barnard heidsieck francois dufrene..... More

Portfolio with 8 original color woodcut prints (each approx. 15" x 22") by Vennekamp, in his own original Pop style with Surrealist undertones, showing erotic imagery in bold, densely colored and compositionally striking formats, including stylized abstractions of genitalia, playfully seductive vignettes, the integration of numbers and letters into the..... More

Binder of approximately 30 original items related to Wolf Vostell, including handwritten signed letters, invitations to exhibitions and openings, exhibition catalogs and programs, small sketches, postcards, and other printed material, together with a 13 pp. introductory essay on the artist in Spanish by José Antonio Agúndez García. Some illustrations. Various..... More