Verona: Edizioni Factotum-Art, 1977-1986. Quartos (most approximately 26.5 x 21 cm), various paginations. Some light soiling, minor edgewear, etc, overall very good. Isaia Mabellini, working under the name Sarenco, was a visual poet and member of the Gruppo 70 in Italy. Their most well-known creation was 'Lotta poetica', a leftist..... More

Double-sided poster containing: the program of the festival, taking place through May, June, and July of 1965; lists of participants which included Mario Bucci, Sylvano Bussotti, Giuseppe Chiari, Emilio Isgrò, Lucia Marcucci, Lamberto Pignotti, Aldo Rossi, Adriano Spatola, Luigi Tola, Antonio Bueno, Silvio Loffredo, Elio Marchegiani, Luciano Ori, Dick Higgins..... More

Ostrava: Český fond výtvarných umění v Ostravě, 1965. Octavo (20.3 × 14.5 cm). Original pictorial wrappers; [20] pp. Twelve reproductions. Very good; a few underlined words on p. 18. Scarce catalog of an exhibition of Czech concrete poetry and narrative art held in Ostrava, Czechoslovakia, in May 1965. With an introductory..... More

Prague: Odeon, 1967. Square octavo (17.5 × 15.5 cm). Original pictorial dust-wrapper over printed paper wraps; pictorial end-papers; 133, [3] pp. Very good. First Czech translation of Bense’s structuralist approach to texts, which became one of the first theoretical works of concrete poetry. The text was edited and expanded for..... 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

Budapest: Artpool, 1980. Quarto (31.5 × 22.5 cm). Original two-panel stiff brown card folder, silk-screened in dark brown to front and back. Loosely inserted, as issued, are fifty-three unbound sheets, mostly A4-sized, printed on various paper stock using methods including Xerox, silk screen, offset, and rubber stamping. Twenty-seven works are..... More

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

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

Antwerp: Archive for Small Press & Communication, 1977. Various sizes, duodecimo to quarto, envelope size 31 x 24 cm. Loose sheets executed in offset, mimeograph, and rubber stamp, with original rubber-stamped envelope with printed title sheet affixed to front. Introductory sheet with table of contents and eighteen total items, including..... 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