bloknoot 6: 2e serie nr. 4
arnhem: bloknoot, 1971. First edition of 150 of which this is no. 129. Side-stapled 4to in orange wrappers printed in black with dark orange book cloth covering spine. Pages printed on various paper types, some of which are mimeographed, and others offset printed. Includes several tipped in items, among them a stapled in small brown kraft envelope containing lose cards, glassine envelope with receipts, blank index card, postcard, gold sticker, small square black sheet of paper, and a stapled in rubber band among other items. To which is added a side stapled square 8vo in self-wrappers printed in black throughout on rectos. Unpaginated [12 pp.] Text mostly in Dutch, some English. Three contributions signed in ink.
One of the earliest assembling publications edited by Ruud van Aarsen, Robert joseph, and G. J. de Rook. This issue with contributions by J. C. van Shagen, Peter Finch, Klaus Groh, Geurt van Dijk, Jan van der Hoeven, Michael Gibbs, Rob Goswin, W. Kröber, J. Nikkel, Jan-Derk Plenter, R. R. van der Leest, Robert Filliou, Ton Luiting, Peter Meijboom, Jirí Valoch, Toon Verstappen, Miroljub Todorovic, Pier van Dijk, Dries Munnik, Eldert Willems, Vlada Stoiljkovic, Ruud van Aarsen, Robert Joseph, and G. J. de Rook.
A few contributions of note include a typestract concrete poem by Peter Finch, a small pasted in sheet printed with the words ‘ORIGINALOBJEKT AUFLAGE 10 000’ by Klaus Groh signed in black ink, a pasted in blank index card titled ‘10 Blue, 1 Red’ by Michael Gibbs, a Morse code concrete poem by R. R. van der Leest, a tribute to Eugen Gomringer’s iconic concrete poem ‘schweigen’ by Peter Meijboom, a small black square piece of paper pasted at middle of page titled ‘attention’ by Jirí Valoch, a partially torn page that’s been stapled back together along the top margin titled ‘white poem’ also by Jirí Valoch, an ALGOL computer language poem by Miroljub Todorovic, a small brown envelope with cards inside it titled ‘EI-BOEKJE gedicht’ by Pier van Dijk, a sheet of blue graph paper with a hand drawn concrete poem in blue lettering by Robert Joseph alongside two other pages signed in red ink, a stapled in rubber band titled ‘playpoem’ by G. J. de Rook, a glassine envelope with receipts also by de Rook, and a laid in artists’ book titled ‘ZONWERING’ by Pier van Dijk among several other contributions.
Artifact Vibration Standard Score: 8.5
Trace amounts of rubbing to covers, including an area of horizontal sunning along bottom margin, bumps to corners, and darkening along text block extremities. With additional toning to tipped in items printed on more inferior paper, such as the brown kraft and glassine envelopes, which have created additional areas of toning to adjacent pages. One of the pasted in postcards with a small diagonal fold line at lower left corner. Stapled in rubber band has become tacky over time and is now affixed to preceding page. Very good. The laid in book with trace amounts of offset rubbing to covers. Very good or better.
Ref. Perneczky, Géza, ed.: ‘ASSEMBLING MAGAZINES 1969–2000.’ Budapest, Árnyékkötök Foundation, 2007, p. 181. Item 1191.
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