Bruno Munari, An unreadable quadrat-print

Een onleesbaar Kwadraat-Blad. Steendrukkerij De Jong en Co., Hilversum, 1964, unpag., loosely inserted pages in original folded printed wrapper, as issued, printed with green text...

Diter Rot, Daily Mirrors

Kwadraat-Blad, Steendrukkerij De Jong en Co., Hilversum, 1965, 60 sheets in typo-pictorial design printed via offset on Daily Mirror rectos and versos, unpag., loosely inserted...

Concrete poetry anthologies

Paul de Vree, Poezie in Fusie. De Bladen Voor de Poezie, Lier Belgium, 1968. Softcover, 128 pp. Text in Dutch. Cover has small added pen marks, slight fraying around cover edge, else very good.

Emmett Williams

Emmett Williams (ed.), Anthology of Concrete poetry. New York / Stuttgart, Something Else Press / Edition Hansjörg Mayer, 1967. Hardcover, 342 pp. The first major international...

Italian Visual Poetry, lot of 5

Gianni Bertini, MEC No. 2. Milan, 1971. The second and final issue of the short-lived artists' magazine dedicated to concrete, visual and sound poetry. With contributions and works...

Bollettino Tool No. 1, April 1968

Milan, Edizione Tool, 1968. Artists' assembling magazine on concrete poetry founded by Ugo Carrego (3, all published between 1968-1970). 29.5 x 21 cm, 23 unnumbered sheets mimeographed...

Jiri Kolar, Poem R

Copenhagen, self-published, 1965. Stapled softcover, 28.5 x 21 cm, 12 pp. First edition of 100. Artists' book by Jirí Kolár featuring typescript concrete poems consisting of the...

Bohumila Grögerová, Josef Hiršal, Ctyri Basne 1965

Prague, UB (Alois Chvála), 1965. Two concrete poetry booklets with the same design by Josef Hiršal (1920-2003) and Bohumila Grögerová (1921-2014) who are considered the 'parents'...

Konkrete Poezie uit Tsechoslowakije

Amsterdam, nd (1970). Tall dark brown paper portfolio 28.2 x 35.5 cm with eleven silkscreens and a single sheet of toilet paper stamped M:erde. Concrete poetry collection by Czech...

Jirí Valoch, lot of 2

Signed card, 15 x 21 cm, thick sheet folded in 2. The interior features a concrete poem and signature on left side, and text pf'68 and address information of Valoch on right side....

Konkrete Poesie = Poesia Concreta

One of the earliest European publications on the subject published by Eugen Gomringer in Frauenfeld from 1960 to 1964 (11 all published). Each issue 21 x 15 cm, with orange paper...

Freewheel. An exhibition of graphics and poetry organised by John Furnival & dsh

(Dom Sylvester Houédard). Arts Council of Great Britain, 1968. Stapled b/w ill. wrapper, 18 x 18 cm, 14 pp. Catalogue for the exhibition at the Midland Group Gallery, Nottingham,...

7 Plakat cards published by Openings Press, 1966-67

Openings Press was a concrete poetry publisher founded by John Furnival and dom sylvester houédard (dsh) in Woodchester, Gloucestershire in 1964. A total of 10 Plakats were issued,...

4 silkscreen prints by John Furnival

Includes: Tours de Babel Changees en Pont, screen printed pink on white gloss stock. 30 x 29 cm. Not dated (c. 1966). Brown stain 9 x 3 cm along top left corner (not on image)...

Robert Lax, Sea Poem. Dunsyre, Wild Hawthorne Press, 1966

Four sheets with original white plastic slide binder (now loose). 28 x 44 cm. Purple cover features a black felttip drawing of waves.

Robert Lax Eschenau Summer Press lot of 2

Artists' book by Robert Lax published by Herman de Vries' Eschenau Summer Press & temporary travelling press. Includes No.39, More Scales, 1997. 30.5 x 21.5 cm, 16 sheets, loose...

British concrete poetry cards and ephemera, lot of 8

Contains: dsh xmas poem 1964, roundwood press. Text on yellow paper 16 x 15 cm folded in 2. + Flyer Opening No. 7, 152/500, John Furnival (ed.). +Announcement sheet Arlington 2,...

Henri Chopin, Revue OU No. 32, Revue OU, cinquième saison

Paris, Henri Chopin, 1967. Three stapled sheets, printed both sides. 21 x 27 cm. Published on the occasion of François Dufrêne, Gil J Wolman and Henri Chopin's participation in...

Henri Chopin: 29 novembre 74. Portrait des 9: 29 novembre 74

Antwerp, Guy Schraenen, 1975. Softcover, stiff black wrappers with letterpress-title in red, 30 x 21 cm, 16 pp. Concrete poetry printed in black and red. Copy from an edition of...

Henri Chopin, three publications by Edizioni Morra, Naples

Includes: Le homard cosmographique / La crevette amoureuse, 1994. Softcover, 31 x 22 cm, 150 pp. Text in French. + Ou la puissance de l'utopie / I filtri dell'alfabeto e dell'€...

Henri Chopin, +& -

Signed copy of the artists' book published by Voix (Richard Meier) in Montigny, 1993. Softcover, 20.5 x 13 cm, ills, text in French. From an edition of 185 (205), signed and numbered...

Donato Cinicolo, Domo

St. Albans, Liberis editions, 1972. Artists' book with typewriter poems. Paper covered boards with title gilt-stamped on spine, 25.5 x 18 cm. Print run of 100. Rare complete copy...

Various concrete poetry publications

Includes the second issue of Pages (of 3, all published), 1970. Art and visual poetry magazine edited by David Briers, with contributions by Richard Demarco (on Strategy: Get Arts...

In Concreto. Posters Objekte Projekte. Ausstellung visueller Poesie

Paris, Agentzia,1968. Concrete poetry postcards published on the occasion of the exhibition in Zurich and Freiburg organized by Jochen Gerz in 1968. Slipcase with 12 b/w cards...

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Klankteksten. Konkrete Poëzie. Visuele Teksten. Sound Texts. Concrete Poetry. Visual Texts

Akustische Texte. Konkrete Poesie. Visuelle Tekste. Amsterdam, Stedelijk Museum, 1971. Catalogue for the travelling exhibition of visual and sound poetry organized by the Stedelijk...

Transit Translation Transformation, Volume 3

Beuningen, Stichting Brummense uitgeverij van luxe werkjes, 1975. Marbled hardcover, 29.5 x 21.5 cm, 244 pp. Edition of 150, handnumbered in pencil 'this is number 59'. Luxurious...

Bloknoot, 2 issues

Bloknoot yr 1 No. 4. Periodical for visual poetry, edited by Ruud van Aarssen, Robert Joseph, gj de rook. Duiven, Poëziehuis, 1970. 35 x 25 cm, 50 pp. held by metal clip in blue...

Dutch visual poetry

Herman Damen, Langer Vers, Taal mobiliseren 1966-1972. Bill bread. Mobilizing language. Utrecht, 1973, 183 pp. Extensive survey on the Dutch artist with over one hundred examples...

XPRMNTL PTRY

by g.j. de rook. Nijmegen, Exp/ Press, 1971. 64 pp. Very good copy. + Historische anthologie visuele poëzie, edited by g.j. de rook. Brussels, Rijkscentrum Hoger Kunstonderwijs,...

Specimen 1

Edited by Marten Hendriks, published by de Rook. Utrecht, Exp/press, Nd.1974. Softcover, 29.5 x 21 cm, 54 pp. Artists’ book with contributions by Felipe Ehrenberg, G. J. de Rook,...

Gerrit Jan de Rook, Dutch Railway System

Utrecht, self published, 1971. Stiff silver colour wrappers, 29 x 20.5 cm. Remarkable artists' book in which 26 train trajectories in The Netherlands are caught on paper in notations...

Herman Damen, Zintuigtaal

Utrecht, Exp/press, 1973. Black plastic covered cardboard ringbinder with title printed in white. 24 x 20 x 4 cm, containing a folded title-sheet and 22 file orders.

Vers Univers 3, 4, 5 and 6

Four issues of the first series of the magazine for 'Evolutive' poetry issued in Rotterdam between 1966-1967 (total 6). Published by Frans Vanderlinde and the editorial team of...

Herman Damen, AH No. 5

AH Tijd-schrift voor verbaal-plasticisme/Review for verbal-plasticism. Utrecht, Self-published, October 1967. 30 x 21 cm. Ill. envelope containing title page with approx. 60 loose...

Hans Clavin, Subvers document, No. 1 1/2 and 3 & 4

Assembly of 7 stapled pp. stamped 'Subvers' with rubber stamped texts, hand drawn signs, a collage, a text by Julian Blaine and a contents sheet titled 'Subvers August 1970'. Rare...

herman de vries, lot of 4

Metz & Co. Amsterdam, herman de vries Objekten, 1963. 4 stenciled stapled pp. in Cardboard wrapper. Includes bio, pricelist, text by Henk Peeters and herman de vries and artist's...

herman de vries ed, Revue Integration 1, January 1965

29.5 x 21 cm, 18 pp. This first issue of revue integration is also the exhibition catalogue of 'aktuell 65', Galerie Aktuell, Bern. Co-editors: Ganzevoort (Antwerp), Goepfert (Frankurt),...

herman de vries ed, Revue Integration 10 & 13/14

Includes No. 10, November 1967. 29.5 × 21 cm. Hand numbered 315/ 320. First page includes torn sheet (as issued) in memoriam Ad Reinhardt. Contributions by Valoch, Blaine, Ulrichs,...

herman de vries random shapes

Amsterdam, Stedelijk Museum, 1975. Artists' book. Stiff paper portfolio, 26.5 x 20.5 cm, contains text on leporello (6 pp.) and an envelope with 10 different pieces of white cardboard....

herman de vries werken 1954-1980

Groningen, Groninger Museum, 1980. Softcover, glassine dustwrappers with a dry tree-leaf laid in, loose as issued. 29.5 x 21 cm, 206 pp. Text in Dutch and German with plates in...

herman de vries, on the beach, morocco 2006

's-Hertogenbosch/Tokyo, Luiscius/Limart, 2007. Cardboard box, 22.5 x 33 cm which encases a book in Japanese binding, 21 x 32 cm, with 33 original colour photos tipped-in on every...

herman de vries - to be all ways to be

Amsterdam/ Eschenau, Nrc-handelsblad/ herman de vries, 2015. Edited by Colin Huizing et al. Cardboard box with title along the edges and a gold-leaf point to the front, 44 x 31...

Hans Waanders, Bloody Tracks. Traces Sanglantes.

Ísland 1984. Eire 1985. Cabo de São Vicente 1986. Maas 1984-1987. 's-Hertogenbosch, self published, 1987. Hardcover, cloth over boards, 18 x 25.5 cm. Title page and 11 pp. each...

Hans Waanders, Birds & Planes

's-Hertogenbosch, self published, 1989-1990. Hardcover, half cloth with illustrated paper-covered boards, 26 x 33.5 cm. 9 leaves with tipped-in watercoloured plates, stamped envelopes,...

Hans Waanders, Mobile. Easy-To-Make Card Sculptures

's-Hertogenbosch, self published,1991. Hardcover, half cloth with paper-covered boards, 21 x 15.5 cm, 68 pp. with colour stamps and ills. Edition of 25 copies. Signed and numbered...

Hans Waanders, Kingfisher Album: Lines & Silhouettes/The Parts/Water

's-Hertogenbosch, self published, no date. Three volumes encased in cloth-covered cardboard slipcase. Hardcover books with half cloth ill. paper-covered boards, 25 x 22 cm.

Jacques Palumbo, poster 0804197219H21

Québec, unknown publisher, undated ca. 1971. 61 x 50 cm, printed on one side only, signed by the artist in pencil in lower right. Folded three times for mailing purposes. Postage...

Hansjörg Mayer, lot of 3

Includes: openingnisolc no. 8 (opening closing). Rooksmoor House, Openings Press, c. 1966. Broadsheet measuring 48 x 48 cm, folded to 24 x 12 cm, letter pressed in black on recto...

Hansjörg Mayer Typoaktionen and Ludwig Gosewitz Typogramme 1

Hansjörg Mayer Typoaktionen. Frankfurt, Typos Verlag, 1967. Edition of 500, this is No. 220, signed by artist in colophon. Horizontal leporello consisting of fourteen panels, 12...

Hansjörg Mayer, Alphabet Square print

by the famous German typographic designer, book publisher and visual poet. 48 x 48 cm on thick offwhite paper. Artists' proof copy (ap), signed and dated 1966 on the back in pencil.

Hansjörg Mayer, Alphabet Square print

48 x 48 cm on thick offwhite paper, signed by the artist, numbered 6/13 and dated 1966 on verso in pencil.

Hansjörg Mayer, Alphabet Square print

48 x 48 cm on thick offwhite paper, signed by the artist and dated 1966 in pencil on verso.

Selection of 9 silkscreened posters from 1965-1967 made by Hansjörg Mayer

Features announcements of exhibitions taking place at the Studium Generale of the Technische Hochschule Stuttgart. Text (in helvetica) printed black on thick paper of various colours, 50 x 50 cm.

Jacques Damase, Revolution Typographique depuis Stéphane Mallarmé

Geneva, Editions galerie Motte, 1966. Stiff colour ill. wrappers with flaps, 168 pp. Text in French. Prof. b/w illustrations at the crossroads of typography and concrete poetry....

Mezinarodni prehlidka plakatu a propagacni grafiky

International Exhibition of Poster and Advertising Art. Brno, Galerie Moravska, 1970. Softcover, 21 x 16 cm, 248 pp. Exhibition catalogue on the 4th biennale of Graphic Arts in...

Klaus Burkhardt large lot Affiche posters and colliskarten

Eleven issues of Affiche, Klaus Burkhardt's series of folded posters of which 23 were made between 1960-1961. Unfolded 62 x 48 cm, folded to 24 x 15.5 cm. No. 7,8,12,15, 16,17,19,...

Tetrad Pamphlets, lot of 3

London, Tetrad Press, 1969-1973. Broadside poems, each a single folded sheet, with a full page colour screen print, facing the poems. 30 x 25 cm (folded). One of 500 copies, not signed and numbered.

Wolfgang Schmidt, Buch 6 Zeichenfelder

Frankfurt am Main, Typos Verlag, 1965. 26 x 26 cm. Ring bound artists' book with 24 double folded thick pages silkscreened black on white.

Vormen van de kleur. New shapes of colour

Amsterdam, Stedelijk Museum, 1967. Catalogue issued on the occasion of the exhibition focusing on trends in abstract art 1956-1966, with Albers, Judd, Stella, Vasarely, Struycken and others.

Paul Ibou, Metamorphosis, illegible colour variation book

Antwerp, Monas, 1968. Gold and silver wrappers in spiral binding 27.5 x 28.5 cm. Housed in original silver coated cardboard box lined with purple velvet at the interior. Two texts...

Environment, Studium Generale Rijksuniversiteit Utrecht, 1968

Catalogue in the form of an 'Electro' game, graphic design by Swip Stolk. Box, 31.5 x 22.5 x 4 cm, containing a 36 page softcover catalogue with revolving table on front leaf and...

Early 70s museum giftshop bags

Two MoMA New York paper bags 40.5 x 33 cm. printed black on white, unspecified designer + One used plastic bag produced by the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, printed blue on white....

Raul Marroquin, Marroquin Font

Rotterdam, Zeger Reijers' Multiples, 1991. Cardboard box with letterpress-title 'Marroquin Font' on lid, 31.5 x 21.5 x 3 cm. Contains a colophon leaf, signed, numbered 8 from an...

Hans Koetsier, Sequence (1962-1980): 25 Silkscreen Prints edition 40

Amsterdam, Vrij Nederland, 1982. Cardboard portfolio with 3 black cords, letterpress title recto, bibliography and photo verso, 56 x 56 cm. Contains 25 embossed screenprints in...

The Large Shower Curtain

By Victor Bouillon and Su, after Marcel Duchamp (1887-1968). Published by Hobbyhorse Projects, New York, 1987. A clear plastic tube containing a rolled up shower curtain printed...

Emmett Williams and David Robilliard

Emmett Williams, The boy and the bird. Stuttgart, Hansjörg Mayer, 1979. Softcover, 223 pp. text with b/w plates. Edition of 2000 copies. This copy contains a small drawing in pen...

Wolfgang Hainke, Jurgen Olbrich and Emmett Williams, Comedial Harmonies

mit Trutsch und Troll. Cologne, self published, 1989. Original classic office ringbinder, 32 x 29 x 4 cm, containing a translucent title-page, 15 cardboard sheets showing full-colour...

Collages by Aubertin, Niotou and Adamus

Marvelllous all red tiny artwork by Bernard Aubertin consisting of red painted envelope (7 x 10 cm) housing a mini painting with red square and thumbtack. In original (white) envelope...

Visual poetry/mail art contributions by Zabala, Endre Tot, Crozier, Todorovic, Missmahl

Miroljub Todorovic, A4 sheet with original felttip drawing, stamp of international review Signal Belgrade on verso. + Horacio Zabala, card 18.5 x 8 cm, stamped with artist name,...

Mail art lot with Ray Johnson, General Idea and others

Two photocopied lists of the New York Correspondence School Spit for Dadaland, one with drawings by Ray Johnson, 1972 + Image Bank flyer 'The Marcel Duchamp Fan Club 1972' , in...

Mail art lot Bay Area Dadaists

Includes Quoz magazine The West Bay Dadaist is Dead, 1974. Contributions by A.M. Fine, Horacio Zabala, Ray Johnson, Clemente Padin et al + NYCS Weekly Breeder Vol. 3 No. 3 & Vol....

Stempelplaats, Paolo Bruscky and Karimbada 1

Rare artists' book by Brazilian artist Paolo Bruscky produced by Stempelplaats in Amsterdam, 1978. Untitled,14.5 x 20 cm. 7 thick grey sheets profusely rubber stamped in black...

Four Stempelplaats publications

Diter Rot, Rubber Vol. 2 No. 5 May 1979. 16 pp. with rubber stamp contributions by the artist. + Dadaland Stampbook. Stapled booklet 16 pp. handstamped red and black on thick white...

Mail Art Italy

Three publications by Guglielmo Achille Cavellini published by Edizioni Nuovi Strumenti, Brescia. 30 x 21 cm. Includes Cimeli (1974), Continuo la Serie (1975), Nemo Propheta in...

Kriwet 1-401, collector's edition of 30

Cologne, Stefan Schuelke Fine Books, 2012. Edited by Stefan Schuelke and Karlheinz Deutzmann. Silver coloured cardboard cassette (44 x 31.5 x 5.5 cm) with gilt-stamped title, which...

Audio works by concrete poets. Kriwet, Henri Chopin, Peter Finch

Ferdinand Kriwet, Hörtexte - radiotexts. Edition RZ, 2007. Six radio texts by German concrete poet and multimedia artist Kriwet in a deluxe box containing 3 LP picture discs and...

Sarenco

"Avanguardia 70". Edizioni Amodulo, Brescia (2x) + Antonio Caldera. Seven squares in the square 12 variazioni cromatiche. Galleria S. Chiara. 6 p. + from the same series: Mary...

John Furnival, The Fall of the Tower of Babel

No place, Openings Press, 1963. Silkscreen on paper, 61 x 25.5 cm. Very good clean copy of iconic Furnival work.

Openings Press, Rooksmore House

Various silkscreened concrete poem cards published by John Furnival's Openings Press in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Includes 7 copies from the Card Series by Furnival, Maurizio...

Paul de Vree, Verbaal Gelaat

Antwerp, De Tafelronde, 1969. Very rare portfolio containing six silk-screen prints of several visual poems by renown Belgian poet and artist De Vree (1909-1982). Published in...

John Furnival et al, Dorothy.

Catalogue for a group exhibition in the summer of 1970 in the Bear Lane Gallery, Oxford. Softcover, 16pp. stapled, with some amazing blue colour prints.

John Furnival, Ceolfrith 14

Sunderland, Ceolfrith Press, 1971. Grey ill. portfolio, 43 x 31.5 cm. Contains a 16 pp. booklet published on the occasion of a retrospective exhibition of Furnival's work, and...

Henri Chopin, Mieux que Picabia, 1971

Serigraph in black, white and orange, 68 x 27 cm. From a numbered edition of 66, this is No. 46/66.

Herman Damen, Cellage Nr. 6, 1969

Poster, printed black on offwhite sheet, 64 x 46 cm, folded in 4. Titled, signed and dated on lower right, in black ink.

Hans Clavin, Visuele Poëzie, 1973

Small poster with original wool object affixed, 46 x 28 cm. Announcement for an exhibition of visual poetry by Clavin at De Engelbewaarder, Amsterdam in 1973.

Four posters by Jochen Gerz

Included are: Footing. Paris, self published, 1968. Offset printed black on yellow, 36.3 x 61 cm. Tiny crease on one corner, else very good. Cat. raisonné 734 + Alle-All-Tous-Tutti,...

Jochen Gerz, ABC Des Lesens Revolution

Heidelberg, Edition Tangente, 1971. Poster, colour silkscreen in black, red and yellow, 47 x 61.5 cm. Published in an edition of 120.

Four issues of und, concrete poetry publication

Kassel, Edition & Verlag Boczkowski, 1969–1970. A set of 4 stapled booklets out of 8 all published, 17 x 13.5 cm. Each number is devoted to a specific artist, text mostly in German, some English.

Poesia Visiva, lot of 3

Antipiugiu 4, edited by Arrigo Lora-Totino in Turin, 1966. Softcover with extraordinary typescript cover, 22 x 16 cm, 190 pp. Typewriter and other text contributions by Bohumila...

Victor Vasarely, Wild Hawthorn Press, 1966

Lithograph, 58 x 44 cm, consisting of 2 printed melanine sheets on top of each other. The top layer has a see through melamine image printed on it, making the assembling work as...