Altogether 8 issues: I. A complete run of the 6 issues (16-24 pp. each) of Le Torchon Brûle ("The Sparks Fly"), directed by Marie Dedieu, which acted as an organ of the M.L.F. which held its first meeting at the Université de Vincennes in the Spring of 1970, with articles..... 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
![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
Prague: Trigon, 1995. Square octavo (23 × 21 cm). Original decorative wrappers; 269, [2] pp. Very good. This volume represents the first publication of various concrete and visual poetry cycles created in the 1960-90s by Eduard Ovčáček (born 1933), which could not be published during the Czech Normalization-period of the..... More
![PF 1988 [New year’s greeting for 1988]. Eduard Ovčáček](/pictures/thumb/P004194_1.jpg?v=1591976643)
[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
Lublin, Poland: Labyrinth Gallery, 1980. Double-sided offset-printed broadside. Very good; old creases; one small puncture; signed and inscribed at bottom of Polish side to Natalia LL (Lach-Lachowicz), a leading figure of Polish unofficial art and co-founder of the PERMAFO group. Scarce broadside reproducing Partum’s “Animal Manifesto” in English and Polish..... 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
Wrocław: Galeria Permafo, 1972. Quarto (30 × 21 cm). Original decorative wrappers on yellow stock; 6, [142] leaves of text and illustrations, printed to rectos only. Light wear to spine extremities, else very good. An important early catalog of the Permafo Gallery founded in 1970 by the eponymous neo-avant-garde PERMAFO..... More
Bohrmann. Unpag. presentation of poetry by Pessoa accompanied by 17 striking original color graphic works by Bohrmann. Large 4to. Cloth. Hamburg (Maximilian Gesellschaft) 1991. Limited edition. Signed on the colophon page by the artist. 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 (81 plastic sleeves, some filled both recto and verso and some filled recto only, some with several items per sleeve) presentation of letters, drawings, photographs, chronologies, newspaper clippings, flyers, and other ephemeral materials, printed on various types of paper stock so as to best capture the feel of the..... 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
Sandberg. 15 pp. introduction to a presentation of 16 plates (many printed in red and black) by the German draughtsman and caricaturist (1908-1991) showing politically charged themes based on Marx and Engels' treatise. Small folio. Text and plates loose as issued and housed in cloth portfolio, hinges torn. Berlin (Henscheverlag)..... 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
Johns. 211 pp. monograph devoted to Johns' drawings, introductory text, notes, biography, list of exhibitions, index, 152 illustrations (50 color plates, one folding). Large 4to. Cloth, d.j. New York (Abrams) 1984. Freitag 5755. 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
![Il corpo il suo d'intorno, anche [The body is also around]. Gianni-Emilio Simonetti](/pictures/thumb/50256_001.jpg?v=1588707543)
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
[Poland, ca. 1975]. Gelatin silver print measuring 14.75 × 9 cm, with address and inscription in ballpoint pen and felt pen to verso, stamped. Very good. A postcard-sized print from the series "Goalkeeper" by leading representatives of the Polish neo-avant-garde, Zdzisław Sosnowski (b.1947) and Teresa Tyszkiewicz (1953-2020). The print was..... More
![Edice Situace [Situations], nos. 1–15 (all published). Karel Srp](/images/noimage.png)
[Prague]: Jazzová sekce (Jazz Section), 1979–1983. Quartos (30 × 21 cm). Original staple-stitched wrappers; 19, [1] pp. per issue. Numerous black-and-white reproductions per issue, printed on better quality stock. Very good. The complete run of these fifteen catalogs of unofficial, conceptual Czechoslovak art from the Normalization era, semi-legally printed by..... More
![Malarstwo [Painting]. Andrzej Szewczyk, Galerie Foksal](/pictures/thumb/50439_1.jpg?v=1591722710)
Warsaw: Galeria Foksal PSP Books, 1978. Quarto (29.5 × 21 cm). Original photo-illustrated wrappers; [8] pp. Inventory label to front wrapper and rubber “withdrawn” stamp; else about very good. Cataog of an exhibit held at Foksal Gallery in Warsaw in September 1978. The gallery was founded in 1966 by contemporary..... More
Baarlo, Netherlands: X-Press, 1971. Oblong 12mo. (10 x 22.5 cm). Original illustrated cardboard covers; 92 pp. Limited edition of 100 copies, hand-signed and numbered to front cover by Tajiri. Some slight rubbing and soiling, very small tear to binding along spine, overall very good. Shinkichi Tajiri (1923-2009) was a Japanese-American..... 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
[Czech Republic], 1977. Nine cards with offset-printed typewritten haiku, laid into original white card folder, measuring 14.5 × 10.2 cm. Signed and numbered by Valoch. Fine. Collection of eight “haiku drawings” consisting of all possible combinations of the two verbalized colors green and yellow (e.g. “green / green / yellow”..... 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
![Orientované texty. PF 70 [Oriented texts. Pour feliciter 70]. Jiří Valoch](/pictures/thumb/P5505_1.jpg?v=1591102876)
[Brno: self-published], 1969. Octavo (21 × 15 cm). Original printed card folder, with four letter-press printed leaves of text to rectos loosely laid in, as issued. Signed and inscribed on folder flap by Valoch, in German, and with red pen drawing to front wrapper, presumably also by Valoch. Very good..... More