Concrete Poetry (13 results)

Original Wraps. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Cage, John(concrete poetry?) (illustrator). Second Edition. Very good in original wraps, some handling, minor soiling wraps, page edges. Second printing. 218p., indescribable avant garde musings, poetry, word salads and concrete poetry constructions by the incomparable composer and experimental artist.

Large 8vo, soft cover, 81 p., first edition numbered and signed by Dautzenberg (this is nr. 431). Concrete poetry In fine condition. K3.

Condition: Very Good+. Folder a little rubbed and sunned. Contents lightly foxed; Folder of loose leaf works by five English concrete poets Kenelm Cox, Tom Edmonds, John Furnival, Dom Sylvester Houdard and Bob Cobbing ; Square 8vo 8" to 9" tall; GLOUP (GLOUcestershire grouP) - name given by Jonathan Williams to the group of concrete-kinetic poets living in the west of England, mainly in Gloucestershire - Including Dom Silvester Houedard, John Furnival and Kenelm Cox. WOUP (Westminster grOUP) - name given by Bob Cobbing and Peter Mayer to the group they founded in 1969 of concrete-kinetic poets living in London, mainly in the City of Westminster - Tom Edmonds was a member.

(Kapellen), Banana Press N.V., (1974), (3),17,(1) lvs., illustrations, original spiralbound wrappers, 27,2 x 16 cm.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. Slim quarto, a collation with different contributors contributing 8 1/2 x 11 sheets, collated and staple-bound in publisher's pictorial wrappers (toning, soiling and wear, especially to corners, else good or better).

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Sq.12mo. original paper covers designed by Tony Stokes. Essay by dsh, works by Ken Cox, Ian Hamilton Finlay, John Furnival, dsh, Sue Hudson, Hansjorg Mayer, Tom Phillips, Tony Stokes etc. From the library of Muriel St. John Wilson with her ownership inscription and her extensive ink annotations to catalogue list with prices, list of books avaialble with sales, artists' contact details, numbers (room assignments?). Muriel was born in South Wales in 1933, to artist Alfred J Lavender and Ida Winter, both from Gateshead, Northumberland. She studied for a BA at the Courtauld Institute of Art 1951-4, and was involved with the Independent Group at the ICA and their seminal 1956 exhibition This is Tomorrow at the Whitechapel Art Gallery, before beginning her career in the Museum Service in Birmingham. She took up fencing as a sport and was a keen member of the London Thames Fencing Club for many years.At the Courtauld, she met tutor and architectural critic Reyner Banham; he and his wife Mary became lifelong friends, and introduced her to her husband, the architect Colin St. John Wilson. After marrying, they lived next to the Banhams in Primrose Hill, until moving to Cambridge. Muriel worked for the Arts Council in a Cambridge gallery, and Sandy was appointed a professorship at the Cambridge School of Architecture; Muriel was like a University Aunt to some devoted and subsequently famous students there. Muriel s younger sister Gillian Meller and her nieces Claire and Tracy Meller are also architects, and architecture was an abiding area of passionate interest for her.After her divorce in 1971, Muriel moved to London and joined the British Council, working her way to becoming Curator of the British Council Collection, and eventually Director of Visual Arts. She was instrumental in introducing many important overseas artists to UK audiences, and UK artists to the world; she brought Anish Kapoor to the UK for the first time, and took Richard Long to the Venice Biennale in 1976 (helping to shift his large pile of stones from a barge!).

4to, informal request for corrections, 213 p. In good condition. K13.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Poster. 420x580mm. A little thumbed Designed by James Mellor.

X, 342 S., Orig.-Karton. Erste Ausgabe des Standardwerkes zur Konkreten Poesie in der Paperback-Ausgabe.- Mit Texten von Achleitner, Bense, C. F. Claus, Gomringer, Heissenbüttel, Jandl, Diter Roth, Spoerri, Rühm u.v.a.- Gutes Exemplar.

Both items are in good condition, on lightly-aged paper. Each is in its original envelope, with typed address to Cobbing at 262 Randolph Avenue, London. First Letter: 1p., 8vo. He does not 'object to the publication of "Descartes metamorphosis': 'I am looking forward to the record and some other news. What will be the price of were [sic] not high, I should buy another specimen for my friends from my royalties.' Striking bold 13 x 16 cm design in black at foot of page, somewhat like a melted anthropomorphic letter H. Letter Two: 1p., folio (42 x 21 cm). He is sorry that 'news from Wyoming is not one of the gayest'. He thanks Cobbing for 'the tcheque', and hopes that 'after certain procedures it will be payed'. He would like to 'send some tape [sic] for the exhibition to Amsterodam [sic] /probably visual poems of mine will be exhibited there/'. At present he has 'no possibility to work with the stereo-technique', but will send something if he manages to make it. If he cannot get to Amsterdam, he would like to go to Stockholm. 'What are you preparing now?' Striking 19 x 18 cm textpiece in blue ink at foot of page, its 'melting' lettering reading 'DEAR BOB / SINCERE / GREETING'. With Jiri Kolar and Josef Hirsal formed the first Czech Group of Experimental Poetry.

Johannesburg, Uitgewery Pannevis, 1980, 1st ed., (4),93,(2) pag., printed in 1000 copies, design and original card wrappers photographed by Ennio Calvani, quarto (28,7 x 21,2 cm.).= "Is dit visule poësie, konkjrete digkuns, lettrisme of tekenverse? Willem weet nie. Wie wil ook weet as dit so lekker is om na Afrikaans te kyk." (author on backwrapper). Kykafrikaans is an anthology of concrete poetry published in 1980 by Uitgewery Pannevis. This publishing house was founded by Markus de Jong and, during its short existence, focused on the publication of alternative Afrikaans literature. Originally only a thousand copies were printed, Few conceptual poems have ever been written in Afrikaans and Kykafrikaans is arguably the only full anthology of such divergent poetry to have been published in this language.Some nicks and creasing to card wrappers; foot of spine a bit bumped.

First edition, the scarce cloth issue. This was the first comprehensive American anthology on the international movement of concrete poetry, anthologising works of 77 poets across 20 countries. Octavo. Illustrated throughout. Original white cloth, titles to spine in bronze and green, green endpapers, top edge green. With dust jacket. Spine a little toned, ends lightly bumped, else bright and fresh. A near-fine copy in the slightly toned jacket, sharp with just a touch of rubbing and the occasional nick.

First Edition. Regular Issue (published simultaneously with a limited issue of 100 copies with an original composition). Slim quarto (30cm); beige sheets with text hectographed in purple ink (rectos), interleaved with three sheets offset printed in black and saddle stapled into grayish-green pictorial card covers; [23]pp. Subtle fading to wrapper extremities, else internally clean and complete; Near Fine. A well-preserved copy of this early collection of concrete poems by this influential German conceptual artist, sculptor, poet, and performance artist (a self-described "total artist"). This artist's book was printed in conjunction with an exhibition of his work - Timm Ulrichs: Immagini e Testi Visuali - at Galleria Alpha in Modena, Italy (5-15 February, 1967). OCLC notes 9 holdings; of these, only 2 in U.S. institutions (MoMA, The Getty). 87804.