Dsh, First Edition (13 results)

Soft cover. Condition: As New. 1st Edition.

Paperback. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Book. Issue 4 of the poetry periodical edited by Thomas A Clark. (Note there is thought to be no issue 2) published between 1967-68. First Edition 8vo. 12 pp., stapled. Condition - a very fresh clean copy, some (unobtrusive and expected) creasing to the tissue pages laid in before the first & after the last page, otherwise fine. Overall near fine.

Paperback. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Book. 20pp colour illustration softback. Artist and poet whose famous Three Graces floating sculpture was installed at sea (& later destroyed in a storm) at the Brighton Concrete Poetry Festival, 1967. Texts from the artist, Thomas A Clark, Dom Sylvester Houedard (dsh). Published by the Ken Cox family, Glos, England, 2007.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Wraps. Small oblong 8vo exhibition catalue. Black Illustrated wraps (by Tony Stokes). 12 pages. Not illustrated, lists some of the exhibits with good intro by DSH. Concret Poetry etc.,Very Good.

Condition: Fine. John Furnival (illustrator). 260 x 260mm. 'Un et Une' print from the dsh Openings 92 portfolio, no edition size given, less than 25 copies printed. Printed red and blue on cream card stock. Condition: fine.

Paperback. Condition: Very good +/Near fine. Dom Sylvester Houedard (dsh) with Charles Verey (ed.), CEOLFRITH 15, Ceolfrith Arts Centre, Sunderland, England, July 1972. 226 x 189mm. 92pp. Catalog, black on white stock, invisible bound in printed wraps. Edition of 600 copies. Published on the occasion of the dsh retrospective at the Laing Art Gallery in Newcaste-upon-Tyne, organised by Ceolfrith Arts Centre in conjunction with the Victoria and Albert Museum. Edited by Charles Verey, with design and layout by Donata Cinicolo 3. An excellent resource including a biography (or 'chronobiography/autozoography'), bibliographies and exhibition lists, black and white typestract illustrations and a variety of dsh texts reprinted from other catalogues and periodicals, as well as critical essays on dsh by Antony Everitt, Ana Hatherley and Charles Verey. Condition: some toning to wraps, internally fine. Overall: very good+/near fine.

No Binding. Condition: Very Good +. 1st Edition. Postcard. Dom Sylvester Houedard L'Amour Nowel postcard, Openings Press, 1972. DSH reversal poem, red screen print on white (note d/h printed signature employed by the artist during this period). Condition: 20mm band of toning to bottom edge, minor wear to edges otherwise fine. Overall Very Good+.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 129 x 99 mm (folded). dsh : Mini-posters. Concertina / paper sculpture. Early dsh publication with a sculptural quality (see images). Condition vg - foxing to covers and handling to covers, verso handling with blue finger prints, yellowed with age, some wear and light spotting creased spine (to be expected). But being printed black & white on thick card the booklet is a very acceptable copy of a scarce publication, No. 172 of 200. Condition: Some toning and soiling to covers, the occasional mark and some light foxing internally, no tears or writing. Covers: Very Good, Internally: Very Good+.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 129 x 99 mm (folded). dsh : Mini-posters. Concertina / paper sculpture. Early dsh publication with a sculptural quality (see images). Condition vg - foxing to covers and handling to covers, verso handling with blue finger prints, yellowed with age, some wear and light spotting creased spine (to be expected). But being printed black & white on thick card the booklet is a very acceptable copy of a scarce publication, No. 123 of 200.

No Binding. Condition: Very Good +. 1st Edition. Book. dsh - Dom Sylvester Houedard Visual Poetries. Concertina publication, 299 x 105mm folded, 299 x 524mm unfolded. Cover features portrait of the artist by John Furnival, essay on the artist by Guy Brett, dsh on concrete poetry, selected extracts from critical writings, bibliography and list of 50 works. Essential reference information for dsh. Features portrait of dsh by Furnival illustration - please see our listing of this poster/print ('portrait of dsh'). Condition: Some spotting and toning at the top edge on both sides, otherwise very good.

The doctoral dissertation of the eminent physician, polymath, and UN delegate Davidson Nicol. Inscribed from the author to his Cambridge mentor Frederick Sanger on the front free endpaper, "To Fred Sanger, with many thanks for your help and inspiration over this work, from, Davidson Nicol. Return address: University College of Sierra Leone, Freetown". With a handful of small manuscript corrections and insertions of special characters by Nicol. Nicol was born in Freetown, Sierra Leone, and became the first African to graduate with First Class Honours from Cambridge and the first African elected Fellow of a Cambridge college. He went on to earn a medical degree from St. Bart's and then returned to Sierra Leone where he worked as a university administrator. Nicol served as Sierra Leone's chief United Nations delegate from 1969 to 1971, was president of the Security Council, and later became the Under Secretary General and head of Unitar, a UN institute that teaches diplomacy, negotiation, and economic and social development to diplomats from developing countries. A prolific author, he wrote both fiction and works on international politics, and in later life was president of the World Federation of United Nations Associates. Tall quarto. 27 tipped-in plates, tables in the text. Original black cloth, spine lettered in gilt. Typescript, text on the rectos only. Some dampstain to cloth also affecting portions of contents, particularly the gutter and upper edges of early leaves, some spotting and tanning, browning of adhesive used for plates, a very good copy.

No Binding. Condition: Very Good. Edward Wright (illustrator). 1st Edition. Print. Double-sided screenprint/ lithograph, 57x50.3cm. Dom Sylvester's memorial to the artist Ken Cox, who died in November 1968 after a tragic accident. This double-sided print was printed at the Compton Press, Salisbury, in orange and green on white stock. Recto features silkscreen in three colours together with the title and date. Verso, printed in black, contains the full length title "Ken Cox Memorial/Sun-Cheese wheel-ode, a double-rolling-gloster memorial for kencox" and the complex workings of Houedard's Consonant and Vowel System as well as acknowledging Semi-Bold Flaxman by Edward Wright. The letters K- E- N- C- O- X are missing from the composition - reflecting the loss of the artist. Circa 300 prints were produced on white, pink and yellow stock. This copy being on white. Condition: vg. some toning to edges, light ding to bottom right corner, general handling. Handling and staining to verso. A historic print - the concrete poetry movement mourning the loss of their most prominent sculptor.

No Binding. Condition: Good. Edward Wright (illustrator). 1st Edition. Print by dsh. Double-sided screenprint/ lithograph, 57x50.3cm. Dom Sylvester's memorial to the artist Ken Cox, who died in November 1968 after a tragic accident. This double-sided print was printed at the Compton Press, Salisbury, in green and orange on yellow stock. Recto features silkscreen in two colours together with the title and date. Verso, printed in black, contains the full length title "Ken Cox Memorial/Sun-Cheese wheel-ode, a double-rolling-gloster memorial for kencox" and the complex workings of Houedard's Consonant and Vowel System as well as acknowledging Semi-Bold Flaxman by Edward Wright. Circa 300 prints were produced on white, pink and yellow stock. This copy being on yellow stock. The letters K- E- N- C- O- X are missing from the composition - reflecting the loss of the artist. Condition: fine A historic print - the concrete poetry movement mourning the loss of their most prominent sculptor.