[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

’s-Hertogenbosch: Museum Het Kruithuis, 1978. Octavos. Original saddle-stitched wrappers printed in black and white; 32 pp. each (consecutive pagination). Very good; light wear to covers and faint staining to rear wrapper of second volume. A complete set of these two exhibition catalogs focusing on concrete poetry from Eastern Europe. Issued..... More

Ostrava, 1980. Small quarto (24 × 21 cm). Original staple-stitched pictorial wrappers; [29] pp. Printed on coated stock, with forty reproductions, some full-page. Very good. Scarce provincial catalog of an exhibition of Ovčáček’s visual works, including graphic art, painting, and sculpture, structured around letters and words. Held in Ostrava, Czechoslovakia..... More

Prague: Československý spisovatel, 1967. Octavo (19.5 × 10 cm). Original pictorial wrappers; 249, [5] pp. About very good; wrappers beginning to detach from text block. Important anthology of post-war text on the arts and avant-garde, published shortly before the Prague Spring and the Soviet Invasion of 1968, which would significantly..... More

[Prague]: Státní nakladatelství dětské knihy, 1964. Small octavo (17 × 11 cm). Decoratively printed white synthetic wrappers; 45 pp. Numerous full-page illustrations in color and two-color letterpress designs set by Josef Doležal. Very good. Strikingly designed children’s book, a playful exploration of word-based games children play on a train ride..... More

Moscow: DOOS, 1995. Octavo (21 × 15 cm). Original staple-stitched printed wrappers; [12] pp. Laid in is a xerox-printed advertising leaflet for the group's seven-part portfolio, of which this pamphlet constitutes one part. Very good. Scarce individual manifesto by three core members of DOOS, the “Voluntary association for the defense..... More

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

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

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

Kolín: Muzeum v Kolíně, 1966. Octavo (21 × 15 cm). Original pictorial wrappers; [32] pp. Folding front and rear wrappers with illustrations to rectos and versos; numerous illustrations throughout. Near fine. Uncommon catalog of an exhibition of Czech concrete poetry and narrative art at the Museum in Kolín, outside of..... More