Ed. Jochen Gerz and Jean-François Bory. Narrow 4to. Stapled wrps., bound dos-à-dos. Unpaginated. Illustrated. Texts in French, German and English. Contributors not stated. The first issue, described in an Editions Agentzia catalogue (item #103) as “An attempt at a collective and therefore anonymous work. The medium as a means of expression” (McLuhan is quoted in one of its pages). Minor corner wear only. Together with the original printed mailing envelope addressed to The Wormwood Review in Connecticut (postmarked Basel, January 27, 1968). More about AGENTZIA #1 (Paris: nd. [c. 1967/68

London: 1966. Ed. Criton Tomazos. Foolscap, duplicated sheets (7pp. and 19pp.), stapled. First issue printed rectos only. Illustrated, with cut-outs to some pages (much like My Own Mag), hand-colouring to one page, and occasional plain black card sheets of varying sizes. Contributors include Bob Cobbing; Bill Butler; Jeff Nuttall; Keith Musgrove; Calvin C. Hernton; Dick Wilcocks; Heather Richardson; Barry Cole; John Keys; John Rowan; and the editor, who devotes 4pp. in the second issue to his ‘Project Cage’, an environmental installation that was exhibited in the basement of Better Books between October 18-November 11, 1965. Slight..... More about AMARANTH #1-2 (all published

Catalogue to the exhibition of concrete, intermedia and related work organised by Kenelm Cox, John Furnival, Dom Sylvester Houédard and Charles Verey which took place at Arlington Mill, Bibury, Gloucestershire, between July and September 1966. Sq. 8vo. Wrps., bound with green string. Four digit ink inscription to back cover, o/w Very Good plus. More about ARLINGTON-UNE

Paris: Editions Galérie Denise Davy, nd. (1968). Sm. sq. 8vo. Wrps. Illustrations and text printed on red and cream paper, with circular die-cut windows throughout showing multiple layers. The artist-poet’s second book. Near Fine. More about Essai Sur La Sculpturale ou à la recherche de l'intégralité du: 0. Opus 1

Sq. quarto wrappers with sewn binding. Unpaginated, uncut pages, with “love”, an original work by Ian Hamilton Finlay printed in blue and black on pale yellow thin card stock loosely inserted (25 sq. cm.). This issue is largely devoted to the sound poetry sessions held during the fourth Paris Biennale and features contributions (texts or illustrations) by François Dufrêne; Gabriel Paris; Dora Feilane; Henri Chopin; Jean-Jacques Lévêque; Serge Béquier; Gianni Bertini; Françoise Saint-Thibault; Laura Sheleen; John Giorno and Brion Gysin (“Subway Sound”); Bernard Heidsieck; Les Aëlys; Paul Armand Gette; Jean-Clarence Lambert; Alain Jouffroy; and Rodolfo Krasno... More about REVUE OU Cinquième Saison #25 (Paris: 1965

Double issue of Chopin’s Revue OU, the third published in England. Various inserts contained in gatefold card folder (27x26cm.), supported by two wooden blocks (the cover prints “Mr Ugly” [Richard Nixon] and “Mon Computeur Poem”, two artworks by Chopin). The inserts comprise a 33rpm 10” vinyl record featuring sound poetry by Henri Chopin, Bengt Emil Johnson, Sten Hanson and Jacques Bekaert, and original prints in various formats and sizes by Marcelle Cahn; Henri Chopin (including a poster silkscreened in gold and blue titled “Is a virus perhaps simply very small units of Sound and Image”, based on William..... More about REVUE OU #38-39 (Ingatestone, Essex: February 1971

The penultimate issue of Chopin’s Revue OU and the fourth published in England. Various inserts contained in a printed gatefold card folder (28x26cm.), supported by two wooden blocks. Mounted black thermoformed plastic relief (“Portrait of Ernest”) by Hansjörg Gisiger on front cover. The inserts comprise a 33rpm 10” vinyl record featuring “Valentine Day Reading” by William Burroughs and audio-poems by Brion Gysin, Henri Chopin, Bernard Heidsieck and J.A. da Silva, and original prints in various formats and sizes by Joseph Lacasse, Jochen Gerz, Alice Hutchins, Francis Themerson, Cozette de Charmoy, François Norguet, Henri Chopin, and Jacques Costine (the..... More about REVUE OU #40-41 (Ingatestone, Essex: March 1972

Ingatestone, Essex: 1974. 33rpm 10” LP record containing contributions from Brion Gysin (“Poems 1960-62”); William Burroughs (“Valentine Day Reading”, The American Theatre for Poets, New York, February 14, 1965); Henri Chopin; Bernard Heidsieck; and J.A. da Silva. Most copies were issued with the complete periodical; this is one of approximately 75 copies released separately. Unplayed, in (creased) cellophane inner sleeve and (slightly marked) plain white card outer sleeve which has been titled and SIGNED by Henri Chopin. More about OU Revue-Disque 40-41

Ingatestone, Essex: 1974. 33rpm 10” LP record featuring a reading by William Burroughs (a second excerpt from “Valentine Day Reading”), and sound poetry by Åke Hodell, Charles Amirkhanian, Ladislav Novák, Arthur Rimbaud, and Henri Chopin. Originally issued as part of the final issue of Revue OU, this is one of a small number of copies released separately by Chopin. Unplayed, in cellophane inner sleeve and unprinted white card outer sleeve. More about OU Revue-Disque 42-43-44

Sm. 4to. Illustrated wrps., unpaginated (37pp.). Catalogue published to accompany the Henri Chopin Retrospective held at the Ceolfrith Arts Centre in Sunderland between May 12 and June 10, 1972. Contents include three photographs; a poem by Raoul Hausmann; an essay by Alicia Drweski; essays, poems (including three printed in black and red), and two letters from 1955 to André Breton by Chopin; a bibliography; exhibition details and a list of contents. Near Fine. One of 525 “ordinary” copies from a total edition of 601. More about CEOLFRITH #18 (Sunderland: Ceolfrith Press, 1972

Ijmuiden, Holland: The Subvers Press, October 1970. 8vo. Perfect bound wrps., with orange-printed cover by Paul Höhner. Contributors to this inaugural issue include Paul de Vree; Ugo Carrega; Edgardo a Vigo; Jean-François Bory; Clemente Padín; Jiří Valoch; Adriano Spatola; the editor; and Genesis Megson (Genesis P-Orridge/Neil Megson). Megson’s contribution is a typographically arranged poem titled “Death”, dated 1969, and his location is given on the contents page as Salop, an alternative name for both Shropshire and Shrewsbury, where he was living at the time with his parents. It was probably written shortly before his return to..... More about Subvers 1 tijdschrift voor (onder meer) konkrete poëzie

Stuttgart: Edition Hansjörg Mayer, 1967. First edition (Futura 19). Broadsheet folded in four, as issued (64x48cm. when unfolded; 24x16cm. folded). SIGNED and inscribed by Cobbing on the rear panel: “best wishes Bob Cobbing 8 Sept 67”. Slight age-toning to rear panel, o/w Very Good plus. More about Chamber Music

Printed inkblot card, with pencil addition (14.8x21cm.). SIGNED, titled and dated on the verso by Cobbing (‘Xmas 1975’). Near Fine. More about Sketch for page for Poems for the Northwest Territories

London: Slimvolume, 2014. First edition thus. 4to. Perfect bound yellow card wrappers, 134pp. (printed on blue and white paper stock). 95 b/w illustrations. Introduction by William Cobbing, Rosie Cooper, Andrew Hunt and Fraser Muggeridge. In it, they provide a brief account of the book’s complex gestation and eventual publication - the authors began work on it in 1971, but it was not published by Writers Forum until 1978, though various unauthorised, usually photocopied versions of the work in progress appeared in the intervening years. This facsimile edition by Fraser Muggeridge Studio was published to coincide with ‘Bob Jubilé’..... More about Concerning Concrete Poetry

University of British Columbia, Vancouver: The Fine Arts Gallery, 1969. Catalogue to the exhibition curated by Alvin Balkind which took place in Vancouver between March 28-April 19, 1969. Consists of a stiff paper quarto-size portfolio containing three folders and 25 loose leaves. The first (orange) folder contains essays by Michael Rhodes (on concrete poetry), Ian Wallace, Ian Hamilton Finlay (quotations from Finlay with a commentary by Stephen Scobie), and a typographical essay by Edwin Varney. The second (blue) folder contains ‘24 Letter Drawings’ by Michael Morris printed on 6 panels of a folded sheet..... More about CONCRETE POETRY: AN EXHIBITION IN FOUR PARTS

Paris: Thierry Agullo, 1981. First edition. Small 8vo. Printed wrps., 213pp. Features biographical and bibliographical information on each of the artists, illustrated with examples of their work, and 56 photographs, including a group shot of Brion Gysin, Bernard Heidsieck, Allen Ginsberg, Gregory Corso, Gérard-Georges Lemaire and others by François Lagarde. Also includes a bibliography of visual and concrete poetry. Faint age-toning to upper wrapper, o/w Near Fine. More about Le Geste a la parole: entretiens avec Julien Blaine, Jean-Luc Parant, Bernard Heidsieck, Michèle...

Fourteen holograph pages, rectos only, including SIGNED title sheet. Blue ink on textured thin Japanese paper. Each sheet measures 28x21.8cm. The title page bears a quotation from Giosuè Carducci, both in the original Italian and Finlay’s translation. Each sheet has been either initialled or signed by Finlay, and where applicable its periodical appearance noted (Origin, New Saltire, TLS, POTH, Fish-Sheet, etc.). Due to a lack of funds the collection was never published, though by 1963 Finlay hadn’t given up hope (see item #139), and one of the manuscript pages is a poem dated from that year (love's). The..... More about Manuscript for an unpublished collection titled “Whistling in the Dark: Poems of 1961”

i) Edinburgh: Partisan Gallery, 1963. Gallery handout for an exhibition of work by Peter Stitt, printing a poem each by Ian Hamilton Finlay and Jerome Rothenberg. Single sheet printed in black on recto only. Two vertical folds. Measures 23.7x36cm. unfolded. Illustrated with a drawing by Stitt. Lists the works exhibited, one of which was lent by Finlay. Stitt was subsequently featured by Finlay in Poor Old Tired Horse issues #8 and #9, after which he moved to London. Light handling wear. ii) TLS from Finlay to Fred Hunter, originally sent with the gallery handout..... More about Partisan Gallery Handout. Paintings-Etchings by Peter Stitt + typed letter signed from IHF

Edinburgh: Wild Hawthorn Press, nd. (1964). First edition. Plain card wrps., stapled, in printed dw. 32pp. Finlay’s first published kinetic booklet-poem. Near Fine in dustwrapper with some spotting to lower right section of upper panel. More about Canal Stripe Series 3

223 words. Written at Gledfield House, Ardgay, shortly after Finlay had moved from Edinburgh, and just before he moved into the farmhouse on the estate, the first of his garden retreats, where he was to live for the following year: “We are not yet quite settled for we are in the basement of the ‘Big House’ till we get in the farmhouse in some 2 weeks… We still feel upheavaled… The farmhouse looks very nice, especially as it has a real sluice beside it, making a sound of running water. There is quite a large, and quite a wild, garden..... More about Typed Letter Signed to Fred Hunter, dated June 6th, 1965

Edinburgh: Wild Hawthorn Press, 1966. First edition. Plain card wrappers, stapled, with illustrated dw. 24pp. Linocuts by Zeljko Kujundzic. Hand printed at the Salamander Press. A few spots of foxing to cream wrappers, o/w Very Good plus in lightly spotted dw. More about 6 Small Songs In 3’s

Edinburgh: Reaktion Books, 1985. First edition. 4to. Blue cloth. 246pp. Introductory notes and commentaries by Stephen Bann. SIGNED and briefly inscribed by Finlay on the front free endpaper. Features more than 370 illustrations, many in colour (including a series of photographs of the Stonypath garden), bringing together a wide range of rarely seen printed texts, most of which were originally published in limited editions, or as individual cards and prints. Bibliography. Fine in dw. More about Ian Hamilton Finlay: A Visual Primer

(Woodchester, Glos.): Openings Press, 1964. First edition. Large broadside (58.5x29.9cm.), screenprinted in blue on white card. SIGNED in black ink by the artist: “John Furnival 1964 Openings Press”. Stain affecting upper left margin; slightly dust soiled; overall, Very Good plus. An early offering from the Openings Press, which was founded by Dom Sylvester Houédard and John Furnival with Edward Wright in 1964. More about Tower of Pisa

Frauenfeld, Switzerland: Eugen Gomringer Press, 1962. Sq. 8vo. First edition. Wrps., with integrated flaps. Unpaginated (75pp.). Prints 71 poems by Gomringer, and includes four texts by him dating from between 1954 and 1960 (4pp., in German) printed in red on yellow paper at the end of the book. A few tiny indentations to upper wrapper and some rubbing to lower wrapper, o/w a tight, Very Good plus copy. More about Die Konstellationen; les constellations; the constellations; las constelaciones

London: Writers Forum (WF Quartos No. 2), October 1966. First edition. 4to. Stapled wrps., duplicated and offset litho, with cover design and endpaper by Bob Cobbing. Cobbing also edited the book, which was issued at the time of Group H’s thirty-sixth exhibition held at the Drian Galleries near Marble Arch between October 5-23, 1966. Seventeen members of Group H each contribute a page, among them John Latham; Barry Flanagan; Jeff Nuttall; Criton Tomazos; Islwyn Watkins; Jeff Cloves; Franciszka Themerson; Bob Cobbing; Jennifer Pike; John Rowan; Kenneth Swain; Hannah Swain; and Gabi Weissmann. Introduction by John Rowan..... More about GROUP H

Ed. Décio Pignatari. Sm. 4to. Dark magenta wrappers, printed in black. Perfect bound, 118pp. Four pages printed in various combinations of black, red and blue inks, and three tipped-in inserts: Augusto de Campos’ ‘LUXO’; ‘Organismo’ by Décio Pignatari; and ‘Cr$isto é a solução’ (an enlarged, altered and folded US dollar bill printed in black on white paper), also by Pignatari. Most texts in Portuguese (one of them translated into English by Edwin Morgan). SIGNED and inscribed to International Times on the first leaf by Augusto de Campos: “To the life of IT [signature] augusto de campos 1968”... More about INVENÇÃO: Revista de Arte de Vanguarda No. 5 (São Paulo, Brazil: December 1966-January 1967

London: Writers Forum, 1971. 4to. Stapled wrps., 64pp. Ed. Dom Sylvester Houédard. Front cover by Bob Cobbing and Peter Mayer (both of whom were also involved editorially). The second issue of this sound poetry magazine, from a total of four issues published between 1971 and 1976. Includes work by Cobbing; Raoul Hausmann; Kurt Schwitters; Antonin Artaud; Francois Rabelais; Peter Mayer; Neil Mills; Charles Verey; Hugo Ball; Gino Severini; Theo van Doesburg; Eugen Gomringer; Pierre Albert-Birot; Michel Seuphor; Henri Chopin; and Man Ray. Very Good. More about KROKLOK TWO

Paris: Centre de Créativité, 1967. First edition. Oblong 8vo. Wrps., with double dustwrapper, as issued. SIGNED and inscribed by Lemaître on the front free endpaper to Jean Rollin (then a young filmmaker): "Pour Jean Rollin, cinéaste qui se dit 'le génie' et qui le deviendra sans doute lorsqu'il comprendra mieux le sens de ce mot Cordiallement Lemaître 68". First four leaves slightly loose from glue binding, o/w Very Good. More about De Gaulle et le Sexe: Roman Hypergraphique Poly-automatique, Cryptographique, Infinitésimal,...

Semi-gloss cream card printed in black, recto only. The second in a series of 10 quarto-size cards issued by Dom Sylvester Houédard and John Furnival’s Openings Press. Loncraine, originally a sculptor, later became a film and television director; his first feature film, ‘Slade in Flame’ (1975), featured Slade playing versions of themselves. Near Fine (tiny top corner crease). More about Rhythm Machine. Plakat 2 (Woodchester, Glos: Openings Press, 1965

Single sheet designed by Peter Bevan. 12x47cm. folded to 14cm. parallelogram. Near Fine. One of 500 numbered copies. More about OPENING 4: 48 Hours of Cloud by Melvin Clay (Woodchester, Glos: Openings Press, May 1965

Broadside folded down to 12x24cm., printed in black on recto and verso (48x48cm. unfolded). The recto explores the relationship between the words ‘opening’ and ‘closing’ and their backward spellings ‘gninepo’ and ‘gnisolc’. The verso features the same words overprinted numerous times forming a dense block of optical art. Near Fine. One of 600 numbered copies. More about OPENING 8: Openingnisolc No 8 by Hansjörg Mayer (Woodchester, Glos: Openings Press, 1966

Seattle, WA: Poets. Painters. Composers., 1986. Audio cassette tape. The fourth issue of “Seattle’s authentic arts journal” and the first in this format (each issue appeared in a different format). Contributions from Bernard Heidsieck; Jean-Paul Curtay; Clifford Burke; Esther Sugai; Richard Kostelanetz; Linda Dowdell; René Fabre; Jeff Morris; Henri Chopin; and Joseph Keppler. Fine in plastic case with printed inlay card. One of 300 numbered copies. More about POETS. PAINTERS. COMPOSERS. No. 4: The Tape Issue

B/w offset, folded. 4pp. Contributors: Robert Garioch; Jonathan Williams; Guillaume Apollinaire (trans. Dave Ball); César Lopez Nunez (trans. Jim Haynes); Veng; Larry Eigner; R. Crombie Saunders; Libby Houston; Edwin Morgan; Giacomo Leopardi (trans. Edwin Morgan); and Lawrence Ferlinghetti. Near Fine. More about POOR. OLD. TIRED. HORSE. Number Three (Edinburgh: The Wild Hawthorn Press, [1962

B/w offset, folded. 4pp. + inserted sheet (folded) printing a poem by William McGonagall and a linocut by Alexander McNeish. Contributors: Andrei Voznesensky (trans. Edwin Morgan); e.e. cummings; Alan Riddell; Vasko Popa (trans. J.F. Hendry); Pete Brown; Tao Chien (trans. Cid Corman); Armand Schwerner; Hans Arp (trans. Jerome Rothenberg); Pablo Neruda (trans. Jerome Rothenberg); Theodore Enslin; Pekka Lounela (trans. Anselm Hollo); Robert Garioch; and Marvin Malone. Small splash marks to first page, o/w Very Good plus; insert Fine. Contemporary Peace News subscription leaflet laid in. More about POOR. OLD. TIRED. HORSE. Number Five (Edinburgh: The Wild Hawthorn Press [c. December 1962

B/w offset, folded. 4pp. + inserted sheet. Contributors: Kurt Schwitters (trans. Lesley Lendrum); Paul Celan (trans. Helmut Bonheim); Robert Creeley; Piero Heliczer (“Epilogue”); Mario Trufelli (trans. Cid Corman); Andrei Voznesensky (trans. Edwin Morgan); Crombie Saunders; Paul Blackburn; Richard Huelsenbeck (trans. Jerome Rothenberg); Robert Simmons; Hamish McLaren; Bud Neill; Fernano Lemos; and Alexander McNeish. Faint central horizontal crease to first page, o/w Fine, with brief name and address written out in ink in Ian Hamilton Finlay’s hand to upper margin. More about POOR. OLD. TIRED. HORSE. Number Seven (Edinburgh: The Wild Hawthorn Press [c. Spring 1963

B/w offset, stapled. 8pp. Contributors: Jeffrey Steele; Paul de Vree; Mary Ellen Solt; Edwin Morgan; Dom Sylvester Houédard; J.F. Hendry; Ian Hamilton Finlay; Ernst Jandl; and Lewis Carroll. Fine. More about POOR. OLD. TIRED. HORSE. Number Twelve (Edinburgh: The Wild Hawthorn Press [1964

Two-colour offset, folded. 4pp. + three inserted sheets. Contributors: Pierre-Albert Birot; Ian Hamilton Finlay; John Furnival; Pedro Xista; Mary Ellen Solt; and Heinz Gappmayr. Loss to lower right corner of last page; lower left corner crease, also affecting three inserts; o/w Very Good. More about POOR. OLD. TIRED. HORSE. Number Fourteen (Edinburgh: The Wild Hawthorn Press [c. March 1965

Two-colour offset, stapled. 8pp. Contributors: Ian Hamilton Finlay and Peter Lyle (drawings). Very Good plus. Winter 1966/67 list of Wild Hawthorn Press publications loosely inserted. More about POOR. OLD. TIRED. HORSE. Number Twenty (Coaltown of Callange, Ceres, Fife: [October 1966

Berlin: Tochnit Aleph, 2019. LP record (TA 145). Limited edition of 300 copies. A selection of sixteen short audio pieces made between 1961 (actually 1962) and 1987. An insert prints Rühm’s notes in German and English (translated by Peter Gebert). Mint in sleeve. More about Ausgewählte Kurze Hörstücke (1961-1987

Audio cassette (C60). Duration 30’ 26. A tape recording made by Fred Hunter of John Sharkey’s sound piece “Playday”, c. 1966, “originally written… for Situation Theatre Group with incidental music by Cornelius Cardew and his group AMM”. Voiceovers by J. Maguire, Paul Keeler and John Sharkey. The tape is subtitled “A Play Away Day or A Crap First Take”, and at least one other version was produced, possibly with a “choir cluster”, but without AMM’s instrumental accompaniment. Documentation on the piece is scarce, and although a basic title sheet printed by Fred Hunter is included with..... More about Playday

No place (London?): no publisher stated (Fred Hunter?), no date (1965?). Each sheet measures 20.4x33.1cm. Furnival’s contribution, ‘Lexical Key’, first appeared in Poor Old Tired Horse #14 (item #182). Slight corner creasing and light handling wear, o/w Near Fine. (3 items). More about Three cream-coloured quarto-size sheets of paper printed offset-litho in black on rectos only,...

Berkeley, CA: 1750 Arch Records, 1974. LP record (Stereo 1752). Produced by Charles Amirkhanian. Twelve tracks featuring sound poems by Clark Coolidge; John Cage; John Giorno; Anthony Gnazzo; Brion Gysin (“Come to Free the Words”); Charles Dodge; Robert Ashley; Beth Anderson; Liam O’Gallagher; Aram Saroyan; and Charles Amirkhanian. Printed 4pp. insert present. Disc Mint in slightly ringworn sleeve with slight wear along spine seam and 5cm. split along upper seam. More about 10 + 2: 12 AMERICAN TEXT SOUND PIECES

London: Writers Forum (WFF 13), March 1973. Ten quarto-size cards (+ colophon sheet), duplicated, contained in manila envelope with lilac colour cover sheet pasted-on designed by Bob Cobbing and the author. Michelene Wandor’s second publication, following “The Body Politic: Women’s Liberation in Britain, 1969-1972”. Minor corner wear to envelope; contents Fine. More about Lilac Flinder

NY: Something Else Press, 1967. First edition. Cloth. 342pp. The first collection of importance to be published in America, assembling 77 poets from 20 countries and including a foreword by its editor, Emmett Williams (“one of the founders of the movement”), in which he provides a brief historical introduction and a partial definition of concrete as opposed to visual poetry. Includes work by Ernst Jandl; Dom Sylvester Houédard; Ian Hamilton Finlay; Brion Gysin; Al Hansen; Edwin Morgan; Bob Cobbing; Mary Ellen Solt; Daniel Spoerri; Aram Saroyan; Diter Rot; Jackson Mac Low; Ladislav Novák; Václav Havel; Henri..... More about An Anthology of Concrete Poetry

Paris: Galerie Schmidt, 1968. Flyer announcing the exhibition of Wolman’s work at Galerie Valérie Schmidt, held between September 26 and October 22, 1968. Single sheet, 22.3x22.9cm. Illustrated with a photograph by André Morain of a ‘Scotch art’ piece by Wolman. Faint lower left corner crease, o/w minor handling wear only. More about Art Scotch. Dissolution et Reconstitution du Mouvemont