[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

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

Warsaw: Galeria Foksal PSP, 1976. One sheet, measuring 42 × 60 cm, printed to recto and verso, and folded twice to create a catalog. Fine. Exhibition catalog for an event entitled "On Nothing,"inspired by John Cage's lecture, and held at the famous Galeria Foksal in Warsaw. Gostomski (1932-2017) was a...... More