[Rosenheim, 1984]. Quarto (29.6 × 20.5 cm). Original spiral-bound card wrappers; title in marker to front wrapper; [53] leaves of xeroxed content to rectos and versos. Signed and inscribed by the editors to Natalia LL. Very good or better. Catalog of postcards and other forms of mail art entered in..... More

Warsaw: Galeria Foksal PSP Books, 1971. Quarto (29.5 × 21 cm). Single leaf, printed to recto. Old horizontal fold, else very good. Exhibition announcement for an anonymous group show at the Foksal Gallery in Warsaw, with a poem printed in English and Polish. Foksal Gallery was founded in 1966 by..... More

Prague: SČSVU, [1966]. Octavo. Original staple-stitched printed wrappers; [8] pp. Numerous reproductions of Ovčáček’s work, including concrete poetry, on the wrappers and throughout. Very good. Scarce catalog of an exhibition held in Prague in early 1966, apparently the first solo exhibition of Ovčáček’s work. Born 1933, Ovčáček was one of..... More

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: Mladá fronta, 1966. Octavo (20.5 × 15 cm). Original printed cloth over card wrappers; 218, [4] pp. Very good. This important anthology of Havel’s plays also contains his Antikody (Anticodes), a collection of concrete poems in a more political vein than that practiced by his contemporaries, as well as..... More

Warsaw: Galeria Foksal PSP Books, 1970. Quarto (29.5 × 21 cm). Single leaf, printed to bottom recto and embossed with braille along top edge. Fine. Announcement for an exhibition of Braille-inspired works by Alain Jacquet (1939-2008), the French-born painter associated with the Pop Art movement. Foksal Gallery was founded in..... More

Warsaw: Galeria Foksal PSP Books, 1976. Quarto (29.5 × 21 cm). Original staple-stitched printed wrappers; 35 pp. Fine. Scarce volume about Kantor's technique of the "emballage," published to coincide with an exhibition of these works at Whitechapel Gallery, London (September 1976). With an introduction on the history of the "emballage"..... More

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

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

[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

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

[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

[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