First edition. Square hardcover 8vo bound in white cloth foil stamped in black and green at front cover and spine. With front endpapers printed in green, pages mostly printed in black, some in black and green, and a gatefold at rear endpaper. Housed in dust jacket printed in black and green. 265 pp. Text mostly in Czech, some French, English, and German. Artists' book in the form of an international anthology of experimental, visual, and concrete poetry. With contributions by Pierre Albert-Birot, Guillaume Apollinaire, Alain Arias-Misson, Konrad Bayer, Carlo Belloli, Max Bense, Mirella Bentivoglio, Jean-François Bory, Edgard Braga, Claus Bremer, Augusto de Campos, Haroldo de Campos, Ugo Carrega, Henri Chopin, Bob Cobbing, Theo van Doesburg, Paul de Vree, Herman de Vries, Reinhard Döhl, Öyvind Fahlström, Heinz Gappmayr, Pierre Garnier, Mathias Goeritz, Eugen Gomringer, Bohumila Grögerová, Isidore Isou, José Lino Grünewald, Ian Hamilton Finlay, Yasuo Fujitomi, Raoul Hausmann, Dick Higgins, Josef Hirsal, Dom Sylvester Houédard, Ernst Jandl, Hiro Kamimura, Katué Kitasono, Jirí Kolár, Ferdinand Kriwet, Maurice Lemaître, Arrigo Lora-Totino, Stéphane Mallarmé, Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, Hansjörg Mayer, Franz Mon, Edwin Morgan, Maurizio Nannucci, Seiichi Niikuni, bp Nichol, Ladislav Novák, Décio Pignatari, Diter Rot (Dieter Roth), Gerhard Rühm, Aram Saroyan, Kurt Schwitters, Edward Lucie Smith, Mary Ellen Solt, Adriano Spatola, Vagn Steen, Shohachiro Takahashi, André Thomkins, Timm Ulrichs, Milos Urbásek, Wolf Vostell, and Emmett Williams among others. Includes an introduction by Milos Juzl. Book design by Czech designer and typographer Oldrich Hlavsa, whose understanding of the movement is evident through the design of the book which is approached as a work concrete poetry in its own right. One of our most favorite visual and concrete poetry anthologies. Book with trace amounts of rubbing and light bowing to boards, previous owner's bookplate affixed to inside left cover, including a small stain at upper margin which has created a small area of ink loss to the green endpapers and first page, a few pages with light diagonal fold lines at upper right tips, and trace amounts of age toning to pages. Very good. Dust jacket now housed in a mylar jacket with trace amounts of age toning, faint spotting, and a few small closed tears along margins. Very good.
