Stamped Indelibly. A Collection of Rubberstamp Prints.

4to. (292 x 225 mm). [14 unnumbered leaves with 19 mounted leaves recto and / or verso]. Leaf with title, list of contents verso and following recto, verso with Robert Creeley's 'Kate's' text and illustration recto and / or verso on following leaves (see below), final leaf with justification recto; nineteen mounted sheets with rubberstamp text or illustration in various colours by various artists; print size: c.243 x 166 mm; sheet size: 283 x 216 mm. Original publisher's coarse-weave oatmeal cloth as issued. An excellent presentation copy - to Robert Duncan and Jess - of William Katz's assemblage of rubberstamps by various poets and POP artists. From the edition limited to 225 numbered copies with each print signed by the artist (the Warhol and Red Grooms prints with stamp signatures as issued); only the first 110 copies were for sale, available through Multiples, Inc. The presentation is in pencil to the front free endpaper: 'for Robert and Jess / With our love, / Bob [Creeley] / and In Friendship / Bill (Katz) / 3 Jan '72'. 'Stamped Indelibly' contains 19 rubberstamps (including the title, two leaves of contents and the justification) as well as the poems and artworks, each individually signed by the artist or poet. Those represented include: Robert Creeley (the poem 'Kate's' signed and dated in pencil), Tom Wesselmann (signed and dated in pencil), Red Grooms and Kenneth Koch (signed in the plate), Marisol (signed and dated '1967' in ink), Robert Indiana (two contributions: the poem 'Pelvic and Bright' signed and dated '67' in pencil and print signed, inscribed '55555' and dated '67' in pencil), Josef Levi (print signed and dated '67' in pencil), Gerard Malanga (the poem 'The Second Staircase' signed in the plate), Allen Jones (print signed and dated '67' in pencil), Peter Saul (print signed 'SAUL' and dated '67' in pencil), Andy Warhol (signed in the plate), Claes Oldenburg (print initialled 'CO' and dated '67' and the poem 'BOOM' also initialled and dated in pencil) and Allen Ginsberg (the poem Primrose Hill Three' dated 'July 4 '67' and signed in pencil. The inclusions by Malanga, Warhol and Red Grooms are always stamp-signed as here. 'William Katz, who began publishing books in 1964 as a college student, wanted to create a book using as modest and simple a technique as possible. He asked his Pop artist and writer friends to design commercially made rubber stamps, which he then handprinted to create this book. (?Stamped Indelibly? contains Warhol?s first cow print and Oldenburg?s first drum pedal print.) Robert Indiana, an instructor whom Katz met at college, offered him space in which to work, thus Indianakatz became the imprint of this book. Katz later founded Bouwerie Editions to publish books of poetry with prints .'. (Elizabeth Phillips and Tony Zwicker in 'The American Livre de Peintre'). [The American Livre de Peintre 56].…