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...
Lisboa: Edições do Autor, 1966. Narrow 4to cardboard folder silkscreened in orange, black, and silver containing thirteen sheets letter pressed in black and white and folded into thirds, a title card letter pressed in black on verso with a list of participating artists thermography printed in dark gray on recto...
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...
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...
Stuttgart: Edition Hansjörg Mayer, 1965. Edition of 1,200. 16 x 24 cm folded broadside which unfolds to 64 x 48 cm letter pressed in black on recto side only. Text in German. Issue no. 3 in the ‘futura’ folded broadside series published by Hansjörg Mayer 1965 – 1968 featuring a....
Roma: Studio d’Arte Contemporanea, 1976. 22 x 16 cm (8.7 x 6.3") folded card stock portfolio containing nineteen loose cards printed in black and white on recto and verso with blue ink to one card, alongside a smaller postcard, an introductory essay, a list of participating artists, and an English...
Milano: MEC, 1971. Square 4to (25 x 23 cm) in saddle-stapled wraps. Unpaginated (24 pp.) Offset printed in green and pink. The second issue of Mec with concrete and visual poetry contributions by Maurizio Spatola, Henri Chopin, Jochen Gerz, Heinz Gappmayr, Ugo Locatelli, J. F. Bory, Clemente Padín, Kitasomo Katué...
Np: Collection Xeros 2600/Éditions Nepe, Nd. Saddle-stapled 4to in printed wrappers. Unpaginated (32 pp.) Text in French. A Xerox-influenced work of concrete poetry with a title that translates into ‘Let punctuation have zero (0)’ which features enlarged details of punctuation, beginning with a period, followed by a colon, ellipse, exclamation...
Np: [Privately printed], [1968]. Saddle-stapled 12mo in printed wrappers. Unpaginated [16 pp.] A political artists’ book by the influential concrete and visual poet utilizing illustrative elements of the French flag and other abstractions. A poignant read, and the first in a series of political artists’ books by Blaine, which also...
Np: Cold Mountain Publishing Co. 1968. First edition. 7 x 5.5" folded card printed in blue and black on grey card stock. Signed on verso by the artist. A sparse and constructivist concrete poem by one of the founders of the Mimeo Revolution. Interior silkscreened by Tom Kryss (uncredited). Very...
Middelburg: Podio del mondo per l’arte, 1976. A4 Xeroxed leaflet in black and white with two binder holes punched along the left margin and a rubber-stamped name and address block in red. In French, Dutch, and Italian. An artists’ leaflet featuring an image of an engraved marble plaque in the ground...
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...
Paris: Éric Losfeld Editeur, 1970. Large softcover 8vo in printed wraps offset printed in black and white. Unpaginated. Text in French, with an English translation of the Post Script essay. Much like Bory’s other work, this suite of 13 chapters explores the visual aspect of language and pushes the idea...
Paris: Approches, 1968. First edition. Softcover 8vo in printed wrappers containing a small loose card, a circular die cut to three pages, and a mirror substrate pasted onto one of the pages. 206 pp. Text in French, German, and English. Issue Nº. 3 of the French concrete and visual poetry...
Paris: Approches, 1965. First edition. Softcover 12mo in printed wrappers. 120 pp. Text in French, some English. Issue Nº. 1 of the French concrete and visual poetry journal edited by Jean-François Bory and Julien Blaine, of which there were only four published between 1965 – 1969. With contributions by Pierre...
New York: Dell Publishing Co. 1971. First printing. Softcover 8vo in silver printed wraps. 320 pp. A comprehensive guide to concrete poetry featuring the work of Vito Acconci, Arakawa, Bob Cobbing, Ian Hamilton Finlay, John Furnival, Davi Det Hompson, Jasper Johns, Lucy R. Lippard, Tom Ockerse, Tom Phillips, Aram Saroyan...
Stuttgart: Edition Hansjörg Mayer, 1966. Edition of 1,200. 16 x 24 cm folded broadside which unfolds to 64 x 48 cm letter pressed in black on recto side only. Text in German. Issue no. 8 in the ‘futura’ folded broadside series published by Hansjörg Mayer 1965 – 1968 featuring five concrete...
Stuttgart: Edition Hansjörg Mayer, 1965. Edition of 1,200. 16 x 24 cm folded broadside which unfolds to 64 x 48 cm letter pressed in black on recto side only. Text in German. Issue no. 2 in the ‘futura’ folded broadside series published by Hansjörg Mayer 1965 – 1968 featuring a....
Stuttgart: Edition Rot, 1969. Edition of 500. Square 8vo (15 x 15 cm) in printed wraps with a strip cloth spine and French fold signatures. Unpaginated. Text in German. Issue no. 40 of the Rot series largely devoted to concrete poetry and the exploration of language and letterforms. This issue...
Stuttgart: Edition Rot, 1964. Edition of 500. Square softcover 8vo (15 x 16 cm) in printed wraps with French fold signatures. Unpaginated. Text in German. Issue no. 14 of the Rot series largely devoted to concrete poetry and the exploration of language and letterforms. This issue with a German translation...
Roma/Houston: Arco d’Alibert edizioni d’arte & Kiko Galleries, 1966. First edition. 4to in printed red hardcovers with red cloth strip spine, a white die cut circle pasted onto the cover, and French fold binding. Unpaginated. Inside front and rear covers features two tipped in green envelopes, the first of which...
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...
Torino: Edizione il punto, 1970. Edition of 1,000, of which this is no. 0756. Small 8vo in printed card stock wrappers. Unpaginated (ca. 30 pp.) Text in French and Italian. A small program containing concrete poetry and artwork for an imagined art festival that never actually took place. Organized by...
Malmö: Malmö Konsthall, 1981. Softcover 4to in pictorial wrappers. 103 pp. Text in Swedish and English. An illustrated catalog published on the occasion of an exhibition held March 5 – 20, 1981 at Malmö Konsthall featuring sculptures, collages, writings, concrete poetry, photographs, and bios of eighteen artists as influenced by...
Amsterdam: De Bezige Bij, 1973. 8vo softcover in printed green wraps with glassine endpapers. Inside pages offset printed in red, brown, green, and yellow with tipped in strings of yarn on one page, and a double-edged razor blade sealed in wax paper on another. Unpaginated. Text in Dutch. A profusely...