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of various concrete and visual poetry cycles created in the 1960-90s by Eduard Ovčáček (born 1933), which could not be published during the Czech Normalization-period of the.....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
![Obraz a písmo [Image and Letter]. Exhibition catalog on Czech concrete poetry and visual art...](/pictures/thumb/P004277_1.jpg?v=1590786089)
Prague: Svaz čs. umělců v Praze, [1966]. Octavo (21 × 15 cm). Original staple-stitched pictorial self-wrappers; [16] pp. Front and rear wrappers with illustrations to rectos and versos; numerous illustrations throughout. Very good. Uncommon catalog of an exhibition of Czech concrete poetry and narrative art at the famous Galerie Václava..... More
![Biuro poezji. Galeria Pro/La 1978. [Andrzej Partum exhibition catalog]. Andrzej Partum, Galeria...](/pictures/thumb/50779_1.jpg?v=1591374066)
Warsaw: Biuro Poezji Andrzej Partum, [1978]. Octavo (24 × 17 cm). Original staple-stitched photo-illustrated wrappers; [8] pp. Printed on coated stock. Very good. An exhibit catalog of for the work of Andrzej Partum (1938–2002), a seminal figure of the Polish Neo-Avant-Garde. The catalog shows his manifestos, installations and mail art..... 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
![Prezentacja [Presentation]. Listopad 1978 [November 1978]. Wroclaw. Seminarium Marksizm w...](/pictures/thumb/50443_1.jpg?v=1591722718)
Wroclaw: SZSP Ogólnopolska Rada Nauk Społecznych, 1978. Octavo. Original staple-stitched pictorial wrappers; 16 pp. Illustrations from photographs throughout. Very good. Scarce catalog of an exhibition of neo-avantgarde art in Wroclaw, held on three days in November 1978 in Wroclaw, Poland, under the title “Presentation.” The gallery, Galeria sztuki najnowszej (Gallery..... 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
Tokyo: Tensei Shuppan, 1968-1969. The only four issues published (each approx. 200 pp.) of a periodical (mostly in Japanese, with some French translations) devoted to stretching the boundaries of human sexuality and gender identity, exploring sexual customs, mores, and deviance cross-culturally, including analysis of Shunga and other Ukiyo-e prints, Marquis..... 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
Lublin: Galeria Sztuki LDK Labirynt, [1976]. Quarto (30 × 21 cm). Single folded leaf of coated stock, illustrated to rectos and versos with reproductions from photographs; six-page text part (reproduced typescript) laid in. In Polish and English. About very good. An illustrated exhibition announcement for a show of Zdzisław Sosnowski..... 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
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
Various sizes and formats. Very good. Original envelope by the A.R.T. - ART Recycling Terminal, Waregem (Belgium), a project organized by the Belgian mail artists Johan van Geluwe (born 1929), who is also the curator of the Museum of Museums. Contains a compilation of various original pieces of mail art..... 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
[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