Single sheet requesting participants for a musical event, outlining instructions for how to participate, with a facsimile letter from Jones and instructive diagram, facsimile signature and date to lower righthand corner. 4to., folded across the center. Some toning and sunning, otherwise good. Reggio Emilia (Edition Pari and Dispari) 1976. The..... 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
Posters for three Kaprow happenings from the late 1960s, including Fluids at the Pasadena Art Museum, 1967; Moving at the Musuem of Contemporary Art in Chicago, 1967; and Homemovies, a happening held in celebration of the marriage of Catherine and Daniel Schmidt, July 11, 12, and 13, 1969. All three..... 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
Altogether many hundreds of pages of material, housed in 9 loose-leaf binders, including exhibition catalogues, biographical material, reviews, announcements, press releases, reproductions of photographs, and other documentation of hundreds of exhibitions, both group and one-person, held in the museum, with a wealth of material on many scores of European and..... More
Single sheet offset lithograph flyer advertising a Fluxus music performance held at 80 Wooster Street in Soho, on March 24, 1975, with participation from many well-known Fluxus artists, utilizing the harpsichord in new and unusual ways, with graphic design by George Maciunas reproducing an antique engraving. 4to. Lithograph on green..... More
Two leaves of photocopied photographs and typescript, measuring 28.5 × 19 cm, both dated November 1971 and intended as a kind of promotional leaflet. Marcolla's sheet is titled "Oferta" and reproduces eight photographs by the artist. Sosnowski's sheet shows twelve photographs mostly showing the artist shaving and is captioned (in..... More
Pop art musical score, consisting of a seven-page hand-colored leporello with three musical staves per page, extending the length of the volume, with colorful geometric shapes, chevrons, and lines and dots in place of traditional musical notes, with measure or time markings in groups of 60. Square 4to., approx. 10..... More
Unpaginated (approximately 20 leaves) mimeographed artist's book described in another publication by the BGP as "strange doodles and spaghetti visions", containing abstract and avant-garde doodles, sketches, and diagrams, some with brief lines of text integrated into the images. Oblong 8vo. Tape-bound wrpps., some spotting to tape, slight browning to covers..... 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
Unpaginated (32 pp.) psychedelically illustrated children's book with lithographed illustrations and text by Claire Moore, which tells the 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
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
7 pp. booklet, printed recto only, comprised of hand-etched stenciled drawings and a short text telling the story of a fantastical, surrealist, post-apocalyptic death of a figure named Banner, printed on varioud colors of paper stock. Small 4to. Original cardstock wrpps. with hand-painted and mimeographed newspaper to front cover. Very..... More
Unpaginated book consisting of a 37-pp. experimental fiction text by Nations, printed recto only, the typed pages interspersed with 14 full-page illustrations by Felipe Ehrenberg, all pages mimeographed. Oblong 8vo. Original wrpps., some very minor staining to front cover, extremely minor creasing, overall very good. Collumpton, Devon, England (Beau Geste..... More
Complete set of sixteen postcards published to accompany Oldenburg's exhibition, "Photo-Log, May 1974-August 1976" held in November 1976 at Leo Castelli Gallery in New York, held together with original brown craft paper belly band, each postcard titled and captioned to verso, some captions including name of photographer or site of..... More
Warsaw: Galeria Foksal, 1992. Quarto (29.5 × 21 cm). Original printed staple-stitched wrappers; [8] pp. including 4 full-page reproductions of works by the artist. Block very lightly warped to right margin, else very good. Cataog of an exhibit held at Foksal Gallery in Warsaw in 1992. he gallery was founded..... 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
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
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