Paris: Editions Agentzia, 1969. Clear flat vinyl bag 21.9 x 27.8 cm in size with black printed text. An empty bag from Gerz’ 1969 – 1970 performance art piece titled ‘Is there life on earth?’ in which 800 empty bags were mailed to friends, strangers in the Paris phone book.....
Köln: Verlag M. DuMont Schauberg, 1970. 29.7 x 42 cm (11.7 x 16.5") poster printed in black and white on recto and verso on thin white card stock. Text in German. Signed by the artist. A signed example of a two-sided colophon promoting Kriwet’s seminal concrete poetry piece ‘Sehtexte: Rundscheiben’.....
Pollenza MC, Altro: La nuova foglio, Magma Editrice, 1971. Black card stock 4to slipcase with white silkscreen printing on both sides housing a white card stock portfolio with folded flaps containing a title page, one double-folded signature, and five tri-folded signatures all laid loose inside the cover. All signatures, including.....
Luxembourg: Abracadabra & Authors, 1977 – 1981. Softcover 8vos in saddle-stapled wraps, offset printed in black and white. Unpaginated. Text mostly in English, with some in French, Italian, and Dutch. A complete and collated run of this seminal Italian publication published in Luxembourg featuring a cross pollination of some of.....
Neuwied, Berlin: Luchterhand, 1968. First edition. Softcover 8vo in printed purple covers wrapped in publisher’s original clear plastic jacket, with inside pages offset printed in black and white. 96 pp. Text mostly in German, with some in English. Inscribed, signed, and dated by the artist. A handsomely typeset book of.....
Np: Contexte and Editions Gallery Number 10, 1967. Square 8vo in stiff wrappers. Unpaginated. Text in French. An elegant and striking work of concrete poetry exploring the graphic nature of language and its subsequent breakdown. Through visually dynamic layouts that take advantage of scale, repetition, typography, and fragments of images.....
Belgium: Imschoot, 1987. 8vo softcover in pink wrappers and pages with silver text. Unpaginated. A minimalist conceptual two-color artists’ book in which Barry explores poetic silver phrases on pink pages. The phrases are printed in various locations on each spread forcing the reader to consider three-dimensional space as part of.....
Stuttgart: Edition Hansjörg Mayer, 1973. One of a 100 limited deluxe copies, this being no. 12. 8vo softcover in plain white paper wrappers with a yellow dust jacket offset printed in black and white. Inside pages printed in black, brown, green, red, and blue. Unpaginated. Inscribed by the artist on.....
Paris: K Éditeur, 1948. First edition. 8vo softcover in printed red wraps. Inside printed in black and white. 144 pp. Text in all French. One of the most beautiful books ever to come out of France. Designed by Pierre Faucheux, each character in the play has been assigned an icon.....
Paris: Yvon Lambert, 1972. 8vo in white softcover wraps printed in black and white. Unpaginated. A conceptual artists’ book consisting of two halves, where the first half explores adjectives that may be, and the second adjectives that may not be. The minimalistic layout, typeset in Helvetica, features a single adjective.....
Iowa: X Press, 1978. Stab-stapled 8vo in parchment paper wrappers rubber-stamped in red and blue ink. Unpaginated. Signed by the author. A conversational and at times absurd work of visual and concrete poetry by Joyce Holland which was a pseudonym invented by the poet Dave Morice. Using only a typewriter.....
New York: Future Press, 1977. First edition of 1,000. Small horizontal 8vo in blue softcover wraps offset printed in black and white. Unpaginated. Through a simple yet powerful combination of eloquently typeset Futura and past tense grammar, this minimalistic piece of fiction documents a one-night stand gone sideways. At times.....
Bremen: Neues Museum Weserburg, 2001. First edition. Large softcover 4to in stiff gray card stock wrappers printed in red, with pages printed in black and white. Housed in a dust jacket printed in black and red. 255 pp. A catalogue in the form of an artists’ book based on Schraenen’s.....
’s-Hertogenbosch: Museum Het Kruithuis, 1978. Two saddle-stapled 8vos approximately the same size in wraps with printed in black and white throughout. Vol. 1 paginated 1 – 32, and vol. 2 paginated 33 – 64. To which is added two stapled and folded set of letter-sized sheets printed in black and.....
Düsseldorf: Galerie Niepel, 1967. Saddle-stapled 4to in printed wraps, with pages printed in black and white, some in color. Unpaginated (28 pp.) Text in German. Catalog issued on the occasion of Kriwet’s 1967 exhibition at Galerie Niepel, featuring poem-paintings, buttons, signs, and flags created 1966–1967, including the Rundscheibe series. Designed.....
Np: Np, 1975. First edition of 50, of which this is no. 21 and no. 25. Two 209 x 300 mm (8.23 x 11.8”) sheets lithograph printed in black and pale orange, and black and red on off-white card stock on recto side only. Both dated, signed, and numbered in.....
Woodchester Gloucestershire, England: Openings Press, Rooksmoor House, 1969. 14 x 18.9 cm (5.5 x 7.4") card printed in black and orange on recto and black on verso on card stock. Small broadside in the form of an artists’ card by Jirí Valoch, featuring a concrete poem dedicated to Henri Chopin.....
Stuttgart: Edition Hansjörg Mayer, 1967. First edition of 1,200. Folded 16 x 24 cm broadside, which unfolds to 64 x 48 cm, letter pressed in black on recto side only. Text in French and German. Issue no. 18 in the ‘futura’ broadside series published by Hansjörg Mayer 1965–1968. This one.....
Kersey: Stereo Headphones, 1976. First edition of 500 numbered copies, of which this is no. 361. Large softcover 8vo in wrappers printed in red and black, with pages printed in black and white. 52 pp. Issue no. 7 of Nicholas Zurbrugg’s magazine, of which there were 10 published. Billed as.....
Providence, RI: Joglars, 1966. Side-stapled 4to in white wrappers printed in black and white throughout. Unpaginated. Very good or better showing only rust stains around staples along spine and trace amounts of age toning. An unusually bright and well-preserved copy. Issue no. 3 of Clark Coolidge’s magazine Joglars, featuring a......
London: Location Press, Nd. Side-stapled 4to with leaves printed in various colors on recto sides only. 16 pp. including covers. To which is added a smaller subscription flyer. Book very good with faint staple indentations along spine, a bend to top staple, age toning to leaves, two library stamps, and.....
Blackburn: Location Press, Nd. Side-stapled 4to with leaves duplicated in black and white on both sides. 16 pp. including covers. Very good with faint staple indentations and rust stains along spine, and age toning to leaves. Issue no. 15 of Cavan McCarthy’s experimental poetry journal, of which there were 22.....
Leeds: Location Press, Nd. Side-stapled 4to with leaves duplicated in black and white on both sides. 20 pp. including covers. To which is added a single smaller flyer duplicated on recto side only. Book very good with faint staple indentations and rust stains along spine, trace amounts of soiling at.....
Leeds: Location Press, Nd. Side-stapled 4to with leaves duplicated in black and white on both sides. 14 pp. including covers. Very good with faint staple indentations and rust stains along spine, and age toning to leaves. Issue no. 13 of Cavan McCarthy’s experimental poetry journal, of which there were 22.....
Leeds: Location Press, Nd. Side-stapled 4to with leaves duplicated in black and white on both sides. 22 pp. including covers. Very good with faint staple indentations and rust stains along spine, and age toning to leaves. Issue no. 12 of Cavan McCarthy’s experimental poetry journal, of which there were 22.....