Poor Old Tired Horse (POTH) Nos.14, 20 and 21

Group of 3 issues (out of 25 published in total) of POTH, the famous concrete poetry journal, edited by Ian Hamilton Finlay, produced under his own venture The Wild Hawthorn Press in Edinburgh/Stoneypath. Includes: (1) POTH No.14, 1965. Visual - Semiotic - Concrete. Loose printed paper, 4 pp. and three loose printed sheets, 24 x 17 cm. Printed blue and black. Contributions by Pierre-Albert Birot, Ian Hamilton Finlay, John Furnival, Pedro Xista, Mary Ellen Solt, and Heinz Gappmayr. One of the harder numbers of POTH to find, very good condition.

(2) POTH No.20, 1966. Staplebound, 24.5 x 17.5 cm, 8 pp. Text by Hamilton-Finlay (in facsimile handwriting) and drawings by Peter Lyle. Printed in black and yellow. Slight foxing around margins, small corner bumps, fine copy. (3) POTH No.21, 1967. Staplebound, 23 x 16.5 cm, 8 pp. printed red on white stock. Features hand-drawn concrete poems by the Brazilian poet and physicist Edgard Braga, introduction by Augusto de Campos, and typography/lay-out by Nigel Sutton. (total 3)