eight haiku drawings pf ’78
First edition of 50, of which this is no. 17. Nine 10 x 14.8 cm cards printed in black on rectos on card stock. Housed in a two-panel folder also printed in black on card stock. Signed and numbered in pencil by Jirí Valoch on last card. Artists' book by Jirí Valoch in the form of eight unbound plates that can be rearranged featuring a collection of haikus on the colors green and yellow with the ninth and final plate being the colophon. One in a series of new year's cards published by Valoch. At time of cataloguing, WorldCat locates no holdings. Rare. Trace amounts of age toning along folder extremities and offset rubbing to versos to a few of the cards. Else near fine.
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APPROCHES Nº 3
Bory, Jean-François, Julien Blaine, eds., Mary Ellen Solt, Gianni Bertini, Jochen Gerz, Paul de Vree, John Furnival, Edgardo Antonio Vigo, Timm Ulrichs, et al. First edition. Softcover 8vo in wrappers printed in black and red with pages printed in black. Contains a small loose card laid in and circular die cuts to three pages. 206 pp. Text in French, German, and English. Issue no. 3 of this French experimental, sound, and visual and concrete poetry journal edited by Jean-François Bory and Julien Blaine, of which there were four issues published between 1965-1969. With contributions by Mary Ellen Solt, Adriano and Maurizio Spatola, Thomas A. Clark, Ken Friedman, Gianni Bertini, Jochen Gerz, Carrega, Bob Cobbing, Franco Vaccari, Paul de Vree, John Furnival, Edgardo Antonio Vigo, Timm Ulrichs, among others. A richly illustrated anthology of both known and unknown concrete poets of the late 1960s from Europe, Japan, Russia, South America, and United States. This example lacking the small mirror substrate that is supposed to be pasted onto one of the pages. Otherwise very good with rubbing, bumps, and faint creasing to front and rear covers, darkening along spine including a small stain at middle front cover going over spine, single reading crease along spine, and trace amounts of age toning throughout.- $220
- $220
zimprovisaties
de vree, paul First edition of 300, of which this is no. 20. Horizontal softcover 4to in white wrappers printed in black, with pages mostly printed in black, one in color, and one tipped in print in color. 105 pp. Text in Dutch. Signed in black ink by Paul de Vree on colophon page. Artists' book by Paul de Vree featuring an expansive collection of experimental poetry divided up into six chapters, including audio visual poetry, concrete poetry, typograms, visual poetry, explosivities, and texts. Very good with a lightly cocked spine, trace amounts of age toning, scattered staining affecting the front cover and top of spine, and bumps to cover corners. Inside pages bright and clean. Priced accordingly.- $220
- $220
LIMITS
gibbs, michael First edition of 200, of which this is no. 169. Saddle-stapled softcover 4to with a strip cloth spine in white wrappers printed in black throughout on rectos. Unpaginated. Artists' book by Michael Gibbs featuring a series of letterform constellations. Very good with darkening and age toning to upper half affecting most pages and a small stain affecting three pages.- $110
- $110
VERS LA POÉSIE / LOOKING FOR POETRY / TRAS LA POESIA
CARRIÓN, ULISES Second edition of 200. Invisible bound softcover small 8vo printed in red and purple on dark orange paper. Housed in dust jacket printed in red and purple on white glossy stock. Unpaginated (60 pp.) Parallel text in French, English, and Spanish. Artists' book by Ulises Carrión featuring a series of text works consisting of individual words parallel printed in three languages. This second edition was published by Éditions Héros-Limite who also reissued other scarce titles by Carrión. The first edition was co-published by Beau Geste Press and In-Out Centre in Amsterdam in an unknown edition in 1973 and featured only two languages in English and Spanish. Both editions scarce. Trace amounts of age toning to dust jacket, including light creasing along upper right front cover margin. Else near fine.- $660
- $660
program 4: KULTURNÍ MESÍCNÍK ÚSTÍ N. L. DUBEN 1967 (signed by Jirí Valoch)
Moravec, Rídí Milan, ed., Jirí Valoch, R. M. Rilke, G. Meyrink, G. K. Chesterton, Josefa Jíry, et al. First edition. Saddle-stapled horizontal 8vo in pictorial wrappers printed in black throughout on tan paper. 22 pp. Text in Czech. Signed by Jirí Valoch in green marker on second page. Monthly cultural program issued in 1967 in former Czechoslovakia featuring a selection of poetry, concrete poetry, and literary and movie reviews. With a few early and notable contributions by Jirí Valoch, including two concrete poems and a three-page essay titled ânová poezie' written when he was only twenty-one years old. Essay provides Valoch's philosophical perspective on the evolution of language and concrete poetry with references to Piet Mondrian, Eugen Gomringer, Ugo Carrega, F. T. Marinetti, Pierre Garnier, and the Noigandres among others. Essay closes with a mention of Valoch's first collective exhibition ever opening the same month as the publication of the program at the Music Theater in Ústí nad Labem. This example signed by Valoch. At time of cataloguing, this is the only publication of the ânová poezie' essay we have been able to locate online. Very good with age toning throughout, additional toning to first and last page on account of the high acidity in the covers, and faint scattered spotting to back cover.- $220
- $220
