Collector's Editions: Concrete, Dada & Visual Poetries
jwcurry, editor : : Industrial Sabotage 26 : : Cover by bp Nichol. Short poems by Basmajian, Beining, Bennett, curry/Laba, Duggan, Gorman ,McKinnon, Nettelbeck, Power, Smith and Truhlar 6.5 x 4.75 28 pp. Concrete, dada & visual lpoetries CURVD H&Z Toronto 1984 cut envelope Good $ 17
Huelsenbeck, Richard, Hg. : : Dada: Eine literarische Dokumentation
: : Introductions and samples of the printed art of 45 daDAs by one of its grandfathers,
completed in 1964. Auf Deutsch, naturlich. Contains 28 page bibliography 5 x
7.5 301 pp. Concrete, dada & visual poeties Rowohlts Taschenbuch Hamburg
1987 perfectbound fine $ 28
Aguiar, Fernando and Gabriel Rui Silva, organizadores : : CONCRETA.. EXPERIMENTAL.
VISUAL : : Subtitled, ""Poesia Portuguesa 1959-1989" this
sampler anthoology emphasizes its radical vectors through that time such as
the visual poet, Ana Hatherly 7.75 x 10.75 72 pp. Concrete, dada & visual
poetries ICALP Lisbon 1989 perfect w/wrapper Fine $ 25
And, Miekal : : L=I=N=K=A=G=E : : Concrete take on language poetry. Big leaded
typesetting. Xexoxial first edition in purple covers 7 x 8.5 28 pp. Concrete,
dada & visual poetries Xexoxial Editions Madison WI 1987 staplebound As
New $ 13
Andre, Michael : : It as It : : Illustrations by Brian Buzak au verso, blown-up
text au recto. Brian died of AIDS in 1987. Published as Unmuzzled OX, Volume
XIII 8.25 x 10.75 30 pp. Concrete, dada & visual poetries Unmuzzled Ox New
York 1990 staplebound good $ 15
Andrews, Bruce : : Factura : : L=A Poetry take on concrete. Stressing phonemic
displacement. Cover art by Bruce Pavlow. Grey x black cover with brown endpapers
8.5 x 11 46 pp. Concrete, dada & visual poetries Xexoxial Editions Madison
WI 1987 perfectbound As New $ 17
Arp, Hans and Yves Troendle : : The Swallow's Testicle : : Invention at the
typesetter stage into 20 of Arp's French poems,translated into English by Troendle,
plus 2 poems by Troendle. 10 different page designers 8.5 x 11 68 pp. Concrete,
dada & visual poetries Nietzsche's Brolly Toronto 1987 perfectbound As New
$ 15
Baker, Carlyle : : Momentvm : : Photocopy overlays and overwriting with Buddhist
prayer papers as ends. Finely done 8.75 x 8.5 8 pp. Concrete, dada
& visual poetries CURVD H&Z Toronto 1997 hand-sewn Fine $ 22
Basmajian, Shaunt : : Boundaries Limits and Space : : Typewriter concrete encounters
seriality. Brown matte cover features a poem of this type 7 x 7 52 pp.
Concrete, dada & visual poetries Underwhich Editions Toronto 1980 perfectbound
Good $ 17
Basmajian, Shaunt and Brian Johnston, editors : : bfp(h)aGe : : An Anthology
of Visual Poetry and Collage; bpNichol, jwcurry, Greg Evason & Daniel f.
Bradley included 6 x 9 63 pp. Concrete,
dada & visual poetries Sober Minute Press Toronto 1989 perfectbound Good
$ 17
Bayard, Caroline and Jack David, editors : : OUT-POSTS / AVANT-POSTES : : Printed
both ends towards the centre with samples of concrete and visual poetry texts
from Anglophone and Francophone Canadians 6 x 9 204 pp. Concrete, dada
& visual poetries Press Porcepic Erin ON 1978 perfectbound Fine $ 19
Behar, Henri : : Le Theatre Dada et Surrealiste : : Texte en francais -away
from naturalism or symbolism into the play of surprisechance and the marvellous
as begun by Alfred Jarry's "Ubu Roi" 4.25 x 7 443 pp. Concrete, dada
& visual poetries Gallimard Paris 1979 perfectbound Fine $ 19
Beining, Guy R. : : PASS AGE : : 8 broadsheet BOLD collages housed in a white
envelope. Comprises Metal farm number 6 8.5 x 11 9 pp. Concrete, dada &
visual poetries Pangen Subway Ritual Toronto 1991 enveloped Fine $ 12
Beining, Guy R. : : Unwrapping Spheres of Clouds & Skulls : : Collages,
2 with colour sections pasted and photocopied and printed recto only.Many facial
sketches also included. First edition signed by the author 8.5 x 11 102 pp.
Concrete, dada & visual poetries O!!Zone Houston 1994 cerlox-bound fine
$ 22
Beining, Guy R. : : Upper and Lower Translation of Text from Beige Copy : :
Pages split into 4 quadrants and an interpretive etymology of Indo-European
radicals developed across them 8.5 x 10 24 pp. Concrete, dada & visual poetries
Nietzsche's Brolly Toronto 1991 staplebound As New $ 10
Beining, Guy R. : : Beige Copy II & III : : The Indo-European translations
continued: 25 - 72. Poet's cover collage on the front is black on beige, whlie
back is a half-tone reproduction of the coloured first volume cover 8.5 x 11
48 pp. Concrete, dada & visual poetries Nietzsche's Brolly Toronto 1997
staplebound As New $ 10
Beining, Guy R. : : No Subject But A Matter : : Lines of poetry that tenaciously
dig at the roots of ambiguity towards a language of broader meanings. Great
graphics as endpapers 5.5 x 8.5 20 pp. Concrete, dada & visual poetries
Pangen Subway Ritual Toronto 1991 staplebound As New $ 13
Bennett, John M. : : Lost & Found Times 20 : : Dazar, Miskowski, Baroni,
Winter-Damon, Byrum, Grumman, Evason, Huttinger and more. Slight fade to purple
covers 5.5 x 8.5 36 pp. Concrete, dada & visual poetries Luna Bisonte Pods
Columbus OH 1987 staplebound fine $ 10
Bennett, John M. : : Lost & Found Times 40 : : Casey Bush, Jim Leftwich,
LeRoy Gorman, Valory Bannister, Michael Basinski, Guy R. Beining, Don Hilla
and more. Some fade to violet paper covers 5.5 x 8.5 60 pp. Concrete, dada &
visual poetries Luna Bisonte Pods Columbus OH 1998 staplebound Fine $ 12
Bennett, John M. : : The the poems : : Poems as series of labels. Cover titles
a graphic of handwritten letters in Bennett's 'ganglialy' script' 4.25 x 5.25
32 pp. Concrete, dada & visual poetries CURVD H&Z Toronto 1987 staplebound
fine $ 11
Bergius, Hanne : : Das Lachen Dadas : : Subtitled," Die Berliner Dadaisten
und ihre Aktionene". All text auf Deutsch with entries on 79 participants.
Full bibliography; red, black & mammoth 9 x 11.75 430 pp. Concrete, dada
& visual poetries anabas Gissen 1989 Cloth Fine $ 97
Bertola, Carla & Alberto Vitacchio, editors : : Oferta Speciale, Volume
1, #1, Vini d'annata : : bpNichol, jwcurry, Anna Guillot, Federica Manfredini,
Dick Higgins and many others 6.25 x 9.25 56 pp. Concrete, dada & visual
poetries C. Bertola and A. Vitacchio Turino 1988 perfectbound As New $ 25
Bertola, Carla & Alberto Vitacchio, editors : : Offerta Speciale: gioie
della mensa : : Meant as one-off anthology, before magazine of same name.
Includes bpNichol, Carla Bertolla, Henri Chopin and many other visual poets
6.25 x 9.25 64 pp. Concrete, dada & visual poetries C. Bertola and A. Vitacchio
Turino 1987 staplebound As New $ 33
Bertola, Carla & Alberto Vitacchio, editors : : Offerta Speciale, Volume
1 #2, mail art project : : Silver printed cover, all graphic issue printed on
vellum; invitation enclosed. Addresses of 103 participants at back 6.25 x 9.25
56 pp. Concrete, dada & visual poetries C. Bertola and A. Vitacchio Turino
1988 staplebound Fine $ 25
Bertola, Carla & Alberto Vitacchio, editors : : Offerta Speiale, Volume
1 #4, Breakfast : : Includes contributions from Michel Corfou, Guillermo Deisler,
Fernando Aguiar, Cesar Espinosa etc. Covers printed crimson on white. Lower
front corner shows stress 6.25 x 9.25 64 pp. Concrete, dada & visual poetries
C. Bertola and A. Vitacchio Turino 1989 staplebound good $ 20
Bertola, Carla & Alberto Vitacchio, editors : : Offerta Speciale, Volume
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Turino 1990 staplebound As New $ 30
Bertola, Carla & Alberto Vitacchio, editors : : Offerta Speciale, Volume
3 #6, Picnic : : Includes Hatherly, Seguy, a performance-dialogue texte with
Hans Arp by Berrard Heidsieck, Altagor, Bertola, Vitacchio eand others."
6.25 x 9.25 56 pp. Concrete, dada & visual poetries C. Bertola and A. Vitacchio
Turino 1990 staplebound Fine $ 25
Bertola, Carla & Alberto Vitacchio, editors : : Offerta Speciale, Volume
4 #7 Stuzzichini : : Includes work by Henri Chopin, Maria Lai, Luciana Abbizzani,
jwcurry, Sha(u)nt Basmajian, Vittorio Fava and others. Front upper corner is
bunged 6.25 x 9.25 56 pp. Concrete, dada & visual poetries C. Bertola and
A. Vitacchio Turino 1991 staplebound Good $ 25
Bertola, Carla & Alberto Vitacchio, editors : : Offerta Speciale, Volume
5 #9, Plume Cake : : Work by Deisler and Altagor, Heidsieck's Neruda, as well
as collaborations by Daniel f. bradley & Greg Evason and wharton hood &
Bob Grumman among others 6.25 x 9.25 56 pp. Concrete, dada & visual poetries
C. Bertola and A. Vitacchio Turino 1992 staplebound As New $ 28
Bertola, Carla & Alberto Vitacchio, editors : : Offerta Speciale, Volume
4 #8, Cin Cin : : Altagor, Deisler, jwcurry, Polkinhorn, Damian Lopes, Bobillot
and especially Luigi Dell'Orbo. Front cover shows slight upper corner stress
6.25 x 9.25 56 pp. Concrete, dada & visual poetries C. Bertola and A. Vitacchio
Turino 1991 staplebound fine $ 27
Bertola,Carla,editor : : Busta Sorpressa 7 : : Unbound assemblagel includes
fine visual work by Henri Chopin, Fernando Aguiar, jwcurry and a lettriste knockout
piece by Greta Schodlas well as other fine surprises 8 x 10.25 14 pp. Concrete,
dada & visual poetries Offerta Speciale Turino 1990 Custom envelope Fine
$ 135
bissett, bill : : Animal Uproar : : Full colour repro of bill's painting, 'swallow'
graces the laminated front cover. This is a major collection of his underground
breath 5.75 x 8.75 128 pp. Concrete, dada & visual poetries Talonbooks Vancouver
1987 perfectbound Good $ 20
bissett, bill : : TH COMBIND BLEWOINTMENT OPEN PICTURE BOOK ND TH NEWS : : Anthology
of collaged work and debris including stuff by Susan Newlove, bertrand lachance,
ken west, Judith Copithorne, margaret atwood, bill himself and George Bowering
9 x 12 36 pp. Concrete, dada & visual poetries blewointmentpress Vancouver
1972 staples/glued wrap Fine $ 65
bissett, bill, editor : : The Last Blewointment Anthology, Volume II, LI-ZO
: : All the invisible suspects from the alphabet's backside but notable for
bpNichol's rant of an introduction 8.5 x
11 78 pp. Concrete, dada & visual poetries Nightwood Editions Toronto 1986
perfectbound Fine $ 20
Black, Bob : : Sources of the Knee Hill : : As Bob says, "Some people say
'Anarchy won't work.' That's not an argument against anarchy, it's argument
against work." 6 x 9 30 pp. Concrete, dada & visual poetries Sources
of the Nihil Boston 1982 enveloped fine $ 20
Blagaj, Darinka and Helen Orr, editors : : SIDD1 : : 2 collaged narratives,
one of making a book, one of making toast converge at its rope-tied centre.
Brutish and chic and wristy 9 x 8.5 28 pp. Concrete, dada & visual poetries
Sidd Magazine Toronto 1986 tied rope Fine $ 35
Bradley, Daniel f. : : GG : : A Lettriste relational deteriorating over 7 rectos.
Edition of 25 copies, some wear showing to the front of mine 8.5 x 11 10 pp.
Concrete, dada & visual poetries Pangen Subway Ritual Toronto 1990 staples/glued
wrap Good $ 10
Bradley, Daniel f. : : NfB : : Not exactly a Flim Board. Concrete howl of toner,
pig-meant it black! Effervescent cover by e. Roldan, dream of an intrduction
by Scott Bowering 8.5 x 11 24 pp. Concrete, dada & visual poetries Nietzsche's
Brolly Toronto 1991 staplebound Mint $ 10
Bradley, Daniel f. : : the next worst thing to being here. : : 17 collages including
the cover's, usually involving newsprint, mounting the broken icons of the West
with the splice marks left in. Colophon manque on back cover 5.5 x 8.5 16 pp.
Concrete, dada & visual poetries SAWNEY BEANE Toronto 1988 staplebound As
New $ 17
Byrum, John : : rImage : : rImage = mIrage = Imager; mosaics for rotation through
bold and plain faces. Water stress to back cover 6.75 x 8.5 34 pp. Concrete,
dada & visual poetries Tsunami Editions Vancouver 1994 staplebound good
$ 12
Casselman, Barry : : Paper Play: Language, A Magical Enterprise, The Body :
: Introspections on the soundlessness of our language becoming the torpor of
our bodies. We can't go on. Words go for us 6.75 x 6.75 12 pp. Concrete, dada
& visual poetries Lingua Press La Jolla CA 1977 staplebound Fine $ 13
Champion, Miles : : Sore Models : : Long lined poems just the minimalist side
of surrealism. Oil derrick cover sleeve opens to yellow endpapers
5.75 x 5.75 38 pp. Concrete, dada & visual poetries Sound & Language
Suffolk UK 1995 staplebound Fine $ 12
cobbing, bob : : sensations of the retina / grOnk IS 15 : : A water-poem,
all caps, some twisted typewritten overlays, some photocopy progressions. Put
out by bpNichol 8.5 x 11 16 pp. Concrete, dada & visual poetries grOnk Toronto
1978 folded acetate sheet As New $ 25
Copithorne, Judith : : Sum / Sun : : Wildly 4-colour printed on two-tone green
cover opens to 5 radical and discrete b x w concrete poems. All contain print
or cursive Roman type. Handwritten colophon 8.5 x 11 12 pp.
Concrete, dada & visual poetries No Publisher Listed Vancouver 1990 stapled
Good $ 22
Deisler, Guillermo and Jorg Kowalski, editors : : wortBILD: Visuelle Poesie
in der DDR : : Rich anthology of poets from the former East Germany. Contains
an auf Deutsch afterword by the editors on 'Zeichen-Sprache', an iindex and
firm cellophane wrappers 6 x 8 163 pp. Concrete, dada & visual poetries
Mitteldeutscher Verlag Halle und Leipzig 1989 Sewn-cloth As New $ 30
Deisler, Guillermo, editor : : UNI/vers(;) 33 / Visual and Experimental Poetry
: : Assemblage of hand-crafted collages by over 50of the world's greatest language
artists. String locked cardboard seal has been broken and discarded. Contents
as new 6 x 8.75 110 pp. Concrete, dada & visual poetries UNI/vers(;) peacedream
project Halle 1995 Custom board box Fine $ 200
Depero, Fortunato, Pasquale Verdicchio, translator : : Futurism and Advertising
: : Translation of ""Il futurismo e l'arte pubblicitaria""
introduced by its translator, . Added are 6 pages of graphic ads Depero designed
and his 1930 "ABC of Italian Futurism" 4.5 x 7 24 pp. Concrete, dada
& visual poetries The Figures Boston 1990 saddlestitched Good $ 13
Di Palma, Ray : : Genesis : : Spare and light rotations of toner and geotypes
through a high-wire of pages. Covers show the wear of the ages 8.5 x 10.75 44
pp. Concrete, dada & visual poetries Underwhich Editions Toronto 1980 staplebound
good $ 12
Duchamp, Marcel, Yves Arman, translator : : plays and wins / joue et gagne :
: Dual-language throughout. Photos of Duchamp's work ""serve as a
catalogue"" for Gallerie Yves Arman exhibition in New York, March
of 1984. Texts by Robert Lebel and Arturo Schwartz as well, Inkmarked 5.25 x
8.25 191 pp. Concrete, dada & visual poetries Galerie Yves Arman New York
1984 perfectbound fine $ 37
Espinosa, Cesar & Nucleo Post-Arte, editors, Harry Polkinhorn, translator
: : Corrosive Signs : : Essays on 'Experimental Poetry' from Italy, Portugal,
Spain, South America and Mexico. Double-columned prose /visuals, texts by Noigandes,
Boso, Hatherly and Aguiar, e.g. 6 x 9 129 pp. Concrete, dada & visual poetries
Maisonneuve Press Washington 1990 perfectbound fine $ 22
Essary, Loris : : Anthology Essary : : Xexoxial reprint of the original Xerox
Sutra of 1982. Overprinted photo of a ship glued on violet paper card for front
cover. Excellent Essary 11 x 8.5 40 pp. Concrete, dada & visual poetries
Xexoxial Editions Madison WI 1990 perfectbound As New $ 27
Essary, Loris and Mark Loeffler, editors : : Interstate 15 : : Concrete and
lyric poetries finely juxtaposed. David Arnold, Grady Hillman, jwcurry
and Karl Kempton among them Usual wear to a large format white-covered magazine
8.5 x 11 48 pp. Concrete, dada & visual poetries Noumenon Foundation Austin
TX 1982 staplebound Good $ 13
Essary, Loris and Mark Loeffler, editors : : Interstate 16 : : Concrete and
lyric poetries finely juxtaposed. Susan Bright, Ernie Ernst, jwcurry and
George Myers, Jr. among them. Some .foxing to green cover though graphic clear
5.5 x 8.25 90 pp. Concrete, dada & visual poetries Noumenon Foundation Austin
TX 1984 perfectbound Good $ 15
Evason, Greg : : biting my lip : : (Dark) pen drawings of everyday outrage savagely
executed. Bold black hand-print on pink covers, dated "April 2,1992"
and stapled down on front 8.5 x 11 16 pp. Concrete, dada & visual poetries
Evason Editions Toronto 1992 stapled As New $ 23
Evason, Greg : : Letters to Doctor Canteen ( a selection) : : Some of Evason's
best concrete ever; here printed on white cardstock, one side only, all contained
in a sidefold envelope with titles pasted on outside, white on black inside
9 x 12 24 pp. Concrete, dada & visual poetries Pangen Subway Ritual Toronto
1989 enveloped Good $ 25
Evason, Greg : : Nothing : : Stencil-screened printing on cover to a collection
of rather minimalist Evason; pen-ink drawing, cropped-photor paste-ins and overwriting
8.25 x 11 62 pp. Concrete, dada & visual poetries Runaway Spoon Press Port
Charlotte FL 1991 stapled/glued wrap Good $ 19
Evason, Greg : : The Red Blind : : Fictive 'crete and the semiosis of the fictive.
Or could be called 'concrete prose'. All bold. Watermarks to the high, narrow
red covers. Nice trim job. Pink Dog Volume 2 #6 4.25 x 11 26 pp. Concrete, dada
& visual poetries Pink Dog Press Toronto 1991 staplebound Good $ 13
Evason, Greg : : I Used to Be a Vegetarian But Fuck That : : Sexual fantasy
poems with waterstains to the bottom right pages throughout. Very humorous and
still surprising 5.5 x 8.5 12 pp. Concrete, dada & visual poetries The Zelot
Press Toronto 1987 staplebound good $ 10
Evason, Greg : : a journey toward the end in the shape of air : : Short
poems from a sequence, "Symptoms of Collage", with colour cover collage
and those b x w inside by Lillian Necakov. Glossy covers lifting off 4.25 x
6.25 48 pp. Concrete, dada & visual poetries Gesture Press Toronto 1987
staplebound Fine $ 24
Evason, Greg : : Serious Series 1 : : Poem on the front cover, spare pen-ink
line drawings within. Small stains, fraying to the edges. Colophon rubber-stamped
green on white front page 7 x 8.5 18 pp. Concrete, dada & visual poetries
Guardian Angel Press Guelph ON 1990 stapled Good $ 10
Evason, Greg : : Shaunt's Funeral & Others : : Grief and anger. Black on
orange printed cover; drawings, collage, poetry,hardcore prose and a memoir
within. "10 copies" printed on the back cover beneath the black ghost
8.5 x 11 24 pp. Concrete, dada & visual poetries Evason Editions Guelph
ON 1992 stapled As New $ 19
Evason, Greg : : Xerolage 12, The Greg Evason Issue, edited by Miekal And :
: This is the Xexoxial Evason, spanning the range of his work through 1987,
complete with an ink-pen, wraparound drawing for print on orange covers 8.5
x 11 24 pp. Concrete, dada & visual poetries Xexoxial Editions Madison WI
1987 staplebound Fine $ 18
Evason, Greg : : Venezuela book one : : Epical concrete. a 'Finnegan's Wake'
where the dream rides on collage and anger rather than the lyrical and folk
melodies. Original ms. and first ed. have been lost. 8.5 x 11 124 pp. Concrete,
dada & visual poetries Nietzsche's Brolly Toronto 1997 perfectbound As New
$ 85
Evason, Greg, editor : : After the End Number 3 : : jwcurry, Crag Hill, Randall
Brock, bill bissett, Nik Reger, Bill DiMichele, Mark Axelrod, Wharton Hood,
John Bennett; strong work, stains to covers 5.5 x 8.75 16 pp. Concrete, dada
& visual poetries Guardian Angel Press Toronto 1985 staplebound Good $ 17
Evason, Greg, editor : : After the End 8 : : Water damage to page bottoms but
an excellent issue devoted to an interview with Guy R. Beining. Poems by Bradley,
Johnston, Basmajian and Le Goaix as well 8.5 x 11 28 pp. Concrete, dada &
visual poetries Guardian Angel Press Guelph ON 1990 stapled good $ 12
Evason, Greg, editor : : After the End Seven : : Strong visual poems by Peggey
lefler, Pavel Rudolph, John M. Bennett, Jake Berry and Shaunt Basmajian. Work
by bp Nichol, Greg Evason and Guy R. Beining also. Stained top 8.5 x 11 32 pp.
Concrete, dada & visual poetries Guardian Angel Press Toronto 1988 stapled
Good $ 17
Fencott, Clive : : Non Hysteron Proteron : : "Not the above, the reverse"";
a concrete treatment of the Knossos excavations. Fonts and typefaces added to
the heap. 5.75 x 8.25 130 pp. Concrete, dada & visual poetries Underwhich
Editions Toronto 1984 perfectbound Fine $ 15
Gaburo, Kenneth : : Paper Play: A Non-Scatological Set of Preliminary Remarks
for NMCE IV : : Collaged cover. Contents are stage directions for addressing
the UCSD_Rockefeller Project for Music Experiment of 1972. A few blemishes 6.75
x 6.75 12 pp. Concrete, dada & visual poetries Lingua Press La Jolla CA
1976 staplebound Good $ 10
Gaburo, Kenneth : : Paper Play: Extraction : : Extractions of text of "Paer
Play" from the left side: definitions, from the right: instructions,. .Reprinted
from a 60's lecture 6.75 x 6.75 12 pp. Concrete, dada & visual poetries
Lingua Press La Jolla CA 1976 staplebound fine $ 10
Gordon, Mel, editor : : Dada Performance : : DaDA playbook with an editor's
intro as spare and to the forehead as any of included texts; such as "The
Mute Canary" by Georges Ribemont-Dessaignes. Reprint of a PAJ # 6 x 9 165
pp. Concrete, dada & visual poetries PAJ Publications New York 1993 perfectbound
Fine $ 17
Gorman, LeRoy, Daniel f. Bradley, Marshall Hryciuk : : Idioms of 'Krete : :
Three very different styles of idiomorphic concrete poetyr,20 pages each bound
in one volume. Blue on white cover reproduces fax noise 6.25
x 10.75 66 pp. Concrete, dada & visual poetries Nietzsche's Brolly Toronto
2000 perfectbound As New $ 20
Goss, Rosalind : : A Crossing Place : : I.e. the leaf's gutter. Conceptually
tight with handwritten title embossed on slate boards. Slate printing. #150-J
of 150 8.75 x 12 60 pp. Concrete, dada & visual poetries Underwhich Editions
Toronto 1985 Sewn-cloth Fine $ 35
Gumpel, Liselotte : : Concrete Poetry from East and West Germany : : Subtitled,
""The Language of Exemplarism and Experimentalism"" contrasts
the 'collective' east with the' idiomorphic' west. White on black visual poem
printed on jacket 5.5 x 8.5 268 pp. Concrete, dada & visual Poetries
Yale University Press New Haven CT 1976 Sewn-cloth Fine $ 25
Higgins, Dick : : The Journey: eight colored scenes : : Scenarios for performance.
Printed black on white, in spite of subtitle. Fluxus collage on the cardstock
cover contains a tear 8.5 x 11 32 pp. Concrete, dada & visual poetries Left
Hand Books Barrytown NY 1992 staplebound good $ 12
Higgins, Dick : : Storm Riders : : Scenarios for performance in high mimetic.
4 pages of brown on bright yellow collages flash centrestage. Bright, shiny
fun 5 x 7 74 pp. Concrete, dada & visual poetries Left hand Books Barrytown
NY 1998 perfectbound Fine $ 16
Higgins, Dick : : Buster Keaton Enters Into Paradise : : Scenarios sprung
from Games of 'Scrabble' begun with 'Buster Keaton' at centre. 11 games,11 scenes.
Alison Knowles & Briyan McHugh also played
7 x 10 68 pp. Concrete, dada & visual poetries Left Hand Books Barrytown
NY 1994 perfectbound As New $ 20
Hill, Crag : : Kaldron 19 : : Contributors include: 9.5 x 17 17 pp. Concrete,
dada & visual poetries Kaldron Halycon CA 1985 folded tabloid Fine $ 18
Hill, Crag, editor : : Score : : Miekal And, Hill, William Di Michele &
Laurie Schneider included. Bingo board cover cover design by Sylvia Pacheco.
Clamp binding becoming loose 8.5 x 14 54 pp. Concrete, dada & visual poetries
Score Berkeley CA 1987 stapled & clamped good $ 17
Hinz, Colin, editor : : 10-22-38 ASTORIA : : Assemblage to celebrate 50 years
of photocopying. Whole different set of contributors from other Assemblings.
Startling green cover printed off-centre black 8.5 x 11 68 pp. Concrete, dada
& visual poetries the ASFI Press Orillia ON 1986 perfectbound As New $ 18
Hryciuk, Marshall : : The Galloping Syntaxi Strands 1 - 60 : : Volume 2 of the
'No Holds Bard' series. All visual/concrete, copied from typewriter originals.
Titles printed sideways make up the cover graphic printed on white cardstock
8.25 x 11 64 pp. Concrete, dada & visual poetries Runaway Spoon Press Port
Charlotte FL 1992 perfectbound Good $ 33
Hryciuk,Marshall, editor : : October is Dada Month : : 90 concrete/visual poems,
37 in full colour, by the likes of jwcurry, Guy R. Beining, Daniel f. Bradley,
Karen Sohne & Gus Morin. Red and grey gloss covers 8.5 x 11 102 pp. Concrete,
dada & visual poetries Nietzsche's Brolly Toronto 2009 perectbound As New
$ 100
Huidobro, Vicente, Gilbert Alter-Gilbert, translator : : Manifestos Manifest
: : Poetics formulated by the poet; his term 'Creationism'. Green Integer #20.
Poet's cover photo by Hans Arp. 10 pieces, stainless 4.25 x 6 119 pp. Concrete,
dada & visual poetries Green Integer Kobenhaven & Los Angeles 1999 perfectbound
As New $ 13
Joy, Elissa : : Love Letters to Madmen : : Print graphics, paste-in graphics
and collages punctuate a postmodernist picaresque of a romance. Totes its own
pharmacy prescription bag 4.25 x 7 54 pp. Concrete, dada & visual poetries
pas de chance Toronto 1993 perfect & bagged Mint $ 22
jwcurry : : Boxwood Mazes for Me to Get Lost In : : Brown paper card folded
with poem inside printed black on green. Cover art by Barbara Caruso 5.5
x 8.5 1 pp. Concrete, dada & visual poetries CURVD H&Z Toronto 1986
folded As New $ 13
jwcurry : : Can't Afford No Kodak, Instamatik, instamatik : : Title records
the instance of this poet crashing in 1980 on the photocopying cost for his
first full colour collages. So rare was it was thought to be only a rumour
8.5 x 11 6 pp. Concrete, dada & visual poetries CURVD H&Z Toronto 1980
staplebound Fine $ 33
jwcurry : : Can't Afford No Kodak, Instamatik, instamatik, Vol.2 : : The major
collection of curry's visual poems. 11 in full colour Photograph of 2 'H's in
a hooked rug originally intended for bp Nichol glued on to the Granada
black coverstock 8.5 x 11 56 pp. Concrete, dada & visual poetries Nietzsche's
Brolly Toronto 1990 perfectbound Mint $ 150
jwcurry : : jack Nr. 729a : : First issue of ""jack"",
a single contributor magazine begun by Greg Evason. ""Hort""
and ""Hashish"" are here. Substantial kick in the macula
8.75 x 11.25 18 pp. Concrete, dada & visual poetries Guardian Angel Press
Toronto 1987 stapled & taped Fine $ 33
jwcurry : : SCORE 6:4 4 JWCURRY : : Begins with a David Aylward piece, then
follows with 4 concrete sequences by Curry, 'Line 1','Line 4', 'Allusions' and
'Ich'. Bold red and black printed on brown card cover 8.5 x 11 42 pp. Concrete,
dada & visual poetries Score San Francisco 1990 staplebound As New $ 25
jwcurry and Peggy lefler, editors : : Industrial Sabotage 41 : : Cover by Mark
Laba, haiku and haiku like conents by,e.g. Duggan, Troendle, Hryciuk, Gorman,
Beining, Evason, Brock,& Hill 5.5 x 4.25 24 pp. Concrete, dada & visual
poetries CURVD H&Z Toronto 1988 stapled & glued Fine $ 18
jwcurry, editor : : Spudburn 1 : : The first of the wholly 'handwritten-by-author
series Bennett, Brock, curry, Dedora, Duggan, Gilbert, Gorman, Power, Ross,
Smith, Swde, uu, Venright. Stains to cover only 6.25 x 9 14 pp. Concrete, dada
& visual poetries Psycho Potatao Press Toronto 1985 glued ribbon Good $
125
jwcurry, editor : : Spudburn 7 : : With 'holographic' contrbutions by Baker,
Barwin, Bennett, Bradley, curry, Hood & Hryciuk. Back of a CP Package Express
waybill notes the four year lull between issues 7 x 9 9 pp. Concrete, dada &
visual poetries Psycho Potato Press Ottawa 1997 folded over As New $ 65
jwcurry, editor : : Spudburn 6 : : Hand-sewn assemblage of handwritten work
including a piece by Carla Bertola. More preparation of the papers by contributors
than previous issues 5.25 x 8.25 28 pp. Concrete, dada & visual poetries
Psycho Potato Press Toronto 1992 Sewn through front Fine $ 95
jwcurry, editor : : Spudburn 8 : : Rich assemblage; Ball, Bennett, Bertola,
Books, Bradley, Caruso, Curry, Hood, Hryciuk, Morin, Power & Venright have
hand-graphed work included 5.25 x 8.25 28 pp. Concrete, dada & visual poetries
Psycho Potato Press Ottawa 1999 perfectbound Fine $ 115
jwcurry, editor : : Spudburn 9 : : Different, folded-over sleeve format allowing
various shapes and sizes of contents. Brian Dedora and 'Out to Lunch' are the
new contributors to this issue 6.25 x 9 22 pp. Concrete, dada & visual poetries
Psycho Potato Press Ottawa 2001 folded over card As New $ 75
jwcurry, editor : : Spudburn 10 : : Even numbers are strictly bound. Here, Barlow,
Stroud and Turnbull are the new contributors . Gustave Morin's piece is a stunner
of graphite virtuosity 5 x 8 32 pp. Concrete, dada & visual poetries Psycho
Potato Press Ottawa 2007 perfectbound As New $ 90
jwcurry, editor : : Industrial Sabotage 42 : : Gala issue to celebrate the 200th
issue of the 1CENT; 40 language artists, 13 never before in a 1CENT. Wraparound
cover graphic by M.Peach 4.25 x 5.5 28 pp. Concrete, dada & visual poetries
CURVD H&Z Toronto 1988 staplebound Fine $ 23
jwcurry, editor : : Industrial Sabotage 50 : : Covers by Evason and Peach, appearances
of Coleman, Baker, Dutton and Tzara (translated by Troendle) 8.5 x 11 16 pp.
Concrete, dada & visual poetries CURVD H&Z Toronto 1990 stapled and
taped Fine $ 18
jwcurry, editor : : Industrial Sabotage 52 : : Covers by Hryciuk and Johnston.
Contributions by Aylward, Barwin, Bok, Nichol, Copithorne, lopez, Deveaux, Vieira
/18 in all 7 x 8.5 20 pp. Concrete, dada & visual poetries CURVD H&Z
Toronto 1991 stapleound As New $ 20
jwcurry, editor : : Industrial Sabotage 51 : sights for sore ears : : The muic
issue. Graphic pieces by John Vieira, April Haggart, Greg Evason and Pavel Rudolf
and a collaborative one by jwcurry/Bev Daurio 8.5 x 11 12 pp. Concrete, dada
& visual poetries CURVD H&Z Toronto 1991 folded over card fine $ 19
jwcurry, editor : : Industrial Sabotage 29: Blue Issue : : Vertical issue too.
Healthy selections of MB Duggan, Mark Laba and bp Nichol. Chester Baker did
the cover photo for this lift-up number printed on aqua-blue paper 8.5 x 14
24 pp. Concrete, dada & visual poetries CURVD H&Z Toronto 1994 stapled
and taped Fine $ 23
Keith, Bill : : Pictographs : : Picture-writing in a collection that draws attention
to its link with West-African visual traditions. The implied sound is music 7
7 x 9 48 pp. Concrete, dada & visual poetries Left Hand Books Tarrytown
NY 1986 perfectbound fine $ 17
Kempton, Karl, editor : : Innovations !: Visual Language One / Crossing Borders
: : Radical departure from the already 'off-off mainstream' presentation of
concrete. Fiction, theory and visuals; e.g. Bill Smith's photo of Marcel Duchamp
and John Cage playing chess,eg." 11 x 8.5 185 pp. Concrete, dada
& visual poetries Innovations Press Maple City MI 1991 perfectbound Fine
$ 23
Learn, Beth, editor : : Language & Structure in North America : :
Curated by Richard Kostelanetz, this after many delays was the first large,
definitive survey of North American language art 6 x 9 80 pp. Concrete, dada
& visual poetries Kensington Arts Association Toronto 1974 perfectbound
fine $ 23
Lewis, Ken : : THESE! Encampments : : Found poems, acetate overlays-in--rotation
and explosions of toner surge in and out these sequences against the vast torrents
of stupefaction 7 x 8.5 80 pp. Concrete, dada & visual poetries
Quarry Press Kingston ON 1992 perfectbound Fine $ 20
Littlefield, Angleika : : The Dada Period in Cologne : : Catalogue to an Art
Gallery of Ontario exhibition in Toronto. Startling black and red matte card-stock
covers with matching vellum end-papers 8.5 x 12 36 pp. Concrete, dada &
visual poetries The Art Gallery of Ontario Toronto 1988 staplebound Good $ 15
McCaffery, Steve : : Carnival, The Second Panel, 1970-75 : : The dialogic tumult
catapults; less narrative, more air in the trave; the signifiers are leaving
the building. Ganglious 8.5 x 11.25 46 pp. Concrete, dada & visual poetries
Coach House Press Toronto 1977 taped & stapled As New $ 66
McCaffery, Steve : : a Section from Carnival : : Published in the grONK series
5 while 'Carnival' was in progress. "The total idea is for a phonetic semantic
allegory". 8.5 x 7 2 pp. Concrete, dada & visual poetries Ganglia Press
Toronto 1972 folded over card fine $ 27
McCaffery, Steve : : Broken Mandala : : Photocopier concrete composed entirely
on a Xerox published as grOnk 1S2; eyes, spirals and Neanderthals radiating
8.5 x 11 28 pp. Concrete, dada & visual poetries Ganglia Press Toronto 1974
staplebound Fine $ 28
McCaffery, Steve : : Sound Poetry: A Catalogue : : Catalogues the 11th Annual
Sound Poetry festival held in Toronto November of 1978. Transcription or visual
samples from 29 language-artists or artist-groups 5 x 8.75 112
pp. Concrete, dada & visual poetries Underwhich Editions Toronto 1978 perfectbound
Fine $ 23
Mody, P. : : P. Mody's Dada Archive : : Visual poetry; ranging from the dirty
to the opaque in its plotted overlays. Llaunched to commemorate the performance
of Alfred Jarry's Ubu Roi 15 x 8.5 104 pp. Concrete, dada & visual poetries
stained paper archive Windsor ON 1997 metal clasp As New $ 75
Morgan, Edwin : : The Second Life: Selected Poems : : Seriality the backbone
to even the 'trad' poems here. Big golden sunflower with eyelashes on the cover.
Some humidity warp 7.25 x 9 89 pp. Concrete, dada & visual Poetries University
of Edinburgh Press Edinburgh 1968 perfectbound good $ 17
Morin, Gustave : : A Penny Dreadful : : Cinematic focus through surreal collage
to dada attitude. Cleaner transparency of line than Morin's previous work. Cover
printed orange on teal, text in sepia-brown 5.75 x 7 160 pp. Concrete, dada
& visual poetries Insomniac Press Toronto 2003 perfectbound Mint $ 47
Nations, Opal Louis : : The Hats and Stockings of Great Heroes who Sang for
Six Months : : Serial fictions, serial poems, performatif texts. What
writing from the outside (Spicer) might still be about. Red on yellow cover
looks like strawberry & french-vanilla ice-cream 5.25 x 8.5 24 pp. Concrete,
dada & visual poetries Proper Tale Press Toronto 1985 staplebound Fine $
20
Nichol, bp : : Theory 1-4 : : 4 vocalic investigations distilled by our favourite
language-alchemist. Wrecking Ballzark # 63; with some peeling-back of the tape-binding
8.5 x 11 8 pp. Concrete, dada & visual poetries CURVD H&Z Toronto 1984
stapled and taped fine $ 27
Nichol, bp : : Dreamed Anthology : : What follows are a collection of writings
that came to me in my dreams" -as written by other people! -from the poet's
preface. Very simple, thin paper production 5.5 x 8.5 12 pp. Concrete, dada
& visual poetries The Front Toronto 1988 staplebound As New $ 24
Nichol, bp : : The Year of the Frog : : Green ink drawings and handwritten texts;
#3 in Ganglia's concrete series. 'For Margaret Avison, mistress of whimsy' on
title page. Printed on fragile paper, still intact 5.5 x 8.5 14 pp. Concrete,
dada & visual poetries Ganglia Press Toronto 1967 staplebound Fine $ 44
Power, Nicholas : : WELLS : : Poem-series,, "a cryptographic translation
of journal writing"" printed Navy-blue on grey paper with cardstock
blue covers 4 x 5.25 30 pp. Concrete, dada & visual poetries Underwhich
Editions Toronto 1983 staplebound As New $ 13
Riddell, John : : Transitions : : Ingressive stylizations of 12 modes of concrete
extirpation, 3 of them in colour. Fingerprint reproduction used as a whorl is
the cover design. Some foxing and soot stains 6 x 8 147 pp. Concrete, dada &
visual poetries Aya Press Toronto 1980 perfectbound good $ 21
Riddell, John : : Criss-Cross : : Concrete treatment of fictions; with acetate
contortions, flecks of comic stripping from one half of the cosmic chef. Only
slightly foxed of spine" 6 x 8 182 pp. Concrete, dada & visual poetries
Coach House Press Toronto 1977 perfectbound Fine $ 22
Riddell, John : : WAR (Words at Roar) Volume One: s'words/s Games : : Discursive
texts of questioning, thwarting complacency flung out in a concretic manner.
Exponentially disturbing. Acetate cover, big black words 9 x 11 60 pp. Concrete,
dada & visual poetries Underwhich Editions Toronto 1981 cerlox-bound As
New $ 22
Sayej, Nadja : : For the Few : : Collages of the cube as a kind of slinky toy
printed throughout on blue paper; endpapers as covers 7 x 8.5 20 pp. Concrete,
dada & visual poetries No Publisher Listed Toronto 1981 staplebound Good
$ 15
Schraenen, Guy, editor : : in octavo : : Assemblage: 10 textual artists, Chopin
& Kolar among them, 8 pages from each contributor, folded over and slid
into a cardboard box. Box has a few tears 6 x 8 80 pp. Concrete, dada &
visual poetries Guy Schraenen, editor Antwerpen 1990 stapled and boxed fine
$ 115
Schroeder, Jerry : : Matrix : : Very rigourous typewriter concrete printed with
inconsistent toner. There is some foxing to the beige cover 8.5 x 11 30
pp. Concrete, dada & visual poetries Wave 7, Press Vancouver 1989 stapled
good $ 15
Swift, Jonathan and Mary Ellen Carroll : : A Modest Proposal / A Modist Prepozel
: : Homolinguistic translation of Swift's, 'A Modest Proposa'l with photoshots
o fwords on quilts and a commentary by Frank T. Boyle. Brown paper wrap over
hard cloth covers 5.75 x 8.75 79 pp. Concrete, dada & visual poetries
Press Endemique New York 1994 Sewn-cloth As New $ 35
Troendle, Yves : : The Blue Marble Certainty : : Language poetry with Dada intent,
e.g., "Struck by lightning, saved by shoes, appalled". Patch of marble-paper
pasted on cover 8.5 x 8.5 62 pp. Concrete, dada & visual poetries Gesture
Press Toronto 1988 plastic clamp fine $ 15
Truhlar, Richard : : Moon Dice : : Taut, titled poems are homolinguistic translations
of Giraud's ""Pierrot Lumaire""that was set to music by
Arthur Schoenberg 5.25 x 5.5 24 pp. Concrete, dada & visual poetries Underwhich
Editions Toronto 1982 staplebound As New $ 17
Truhlar, Richard, editor : : Kontakte Series 3 No.1 : : Strongly-defined
visual work from Bruce Andrews, jwcurry and bp Nichol 8.5 x 11 28 pp. Concrete,
dada & visual poetries Kontakte Toronto 1986 stapled and taped Fine $ 22
Was, Elizabeth : : The Parisian Winter Ensemble: A Dance : : Covers in black
velvet holed for the title and bound by wing-nut rivets in reverse. Print and
meteoric brushstrokes throughout 8.5 x 3.75 118 pp. Concrete, dada & visual
poetries Xerox Sutra Editions Madison WI 1983 rscrewed windnuts As New $ 23
Wernisch, Rudolph, Pavel Rudolph, Jiri Hula and Vaclav Vokolek : : Sonety 3
: : 3 Slovakian poets and a painter push the sonnet form to its semantic vanishing
point.Work by Rimbaud & Baudelaire abused along the way 7.75 x 11 88 pp.
Concrete, dada & visual poetries No Publisher Listed Bratislava 1973 folded
wraparound good $ 18
Wershler-Henry, Darren : : Torque 1.4/1.5: commodified dissent for the disgruntled
few : : Vertical
shaped printed on newsprint; with cointributions by Andrews, Barlow, Bok,, Cain,
Dewdney, Leftwich ,lopes, McCaffery, Panhuyzen, Sutherland and Wilcox"
17 x 5.5 8 pp. Concrete, dada & visual poetries Torque Toronto 1995 staplebound
good $ 13
Zeller, Ludwig et alii : : Zeller Sueno Libre - Zeller Free Dream : :
Surrealist texts and collages in Spanish & English, b x w & in colour
by Zeller, E.Brittain, S.Wald & J.Wheeler 8.5 x 11 94 pp. Concrete, dada
& visual poetries Mosaic Press Okville ON 1991 perfectbound As New $ 18
And, Miekal : : The Elimination Considerati : : Triumph of overstamping and
overcopying as well as fluid warping. Wide format, much rude ink, hot pink cardstock
covers 11 x 4.25 70 pp. Concrete, dada & visual poetries Xexoxial Editions
Madison WI 1984 perfectbound Good $ 23
And, Miekal, editor : : the quotes of rotar storch : : With an introduction
by Crag Hill and a Hyper Zaum Manifesto of the underground Russian persona.
Very cheek-to-tongwa. Grey frontcover printed upside-down blue 8.5 x 11 52 pp.
Concrete, dada & visual poetries Runaway Spoon Press Port Charlotte FL 1989
perfectbound As New $ 15
UU, David : : Sound Cycle : : Print version of a script (with pencil-drawn illustrations
of scenes interspersed) performed in Vancouver-area schools in 1972 5.5 x 8.5
26 pp. Concrete, dada and visual poetries Underwhich Editions Toronto 1986 staplebound
Fine $ 15