32.3 x 334cm, unpaginated (40pp french folds) cover and florescent dust jacket. Letterpress. Spiral bound. The title translates into English as "Just Using The Alphabet". Individual works internally use extreme typography and positioning to create visual poems.

This is one example aside from the 200 signed and numbered copies which is signed in ink by Mons on the colophon page. It is in excellent condition internally but the wrappers have some small wear and tear along the margins with one small paper lack on the front and very minor grubbiness at the bottom and sides - else the colour is very bright with no significant fading. Scarce.

Six separate numbers - a complete run (although Vostell did later add an exhibition catalogue and designate it as De/collage 7 despite it being somewhat different in content to these copies) of this assmblage/artist's journal that predated vTRE and other Fluxus related artist publications.

The collection here consists of:

Decoll/age 1

Koln: Decoll/age (Vostell): June 1962

26 x 22cm, 32pp double fold out pages plus card covers with folds. The first number of the series with original contributions by Arthur Köpcke, George Maciunas, Benjamin Patterson, Nam June Paik, La Monte Young, Volf Vostell and others. Slight wear to the right hand side of the folded wrappers else VG+. 

Decoll/age 2

Koln: Decoll/age (Vostell): November 1962

30 x 21cm, 42pp plus paper wrappers. Internal pages are mimeographed and stapled. Edited by Dick Higgins - the whole consisting of his "The Broadway Opera" translated into German. The front cover is a b/w photograph of the poet/artist outside a German cinema. With original publisher's wrap-around band - which is torn but complete and with original scotch tape closure still there but the glue has lost its adhesion. Very rare number from the series especially with the band.

Inserted: subscription leaflet for Decoll/age 1 and 2.

Decoll/age 3

Koln: Decoll/age (Vostell): December 1962

27 x 21.8cm, unpaginated (108pp plus 12pp) and wrappers. Internal pages include a transparent sheet and several folders, stapled, blank cover, printed jacket. Contributions by C. Caspari, Christo, Jed Curtis, Henry Flint, Dick Higgins, Gyogy Ligetti, Nam June Paik, Jan Voss, Vostell, F. Mon, Pera, F. Crowbridge, JP Wilhelm. The internal sheets include various types of printing: offset, mimeograph, screen printing. Illustrated throughout. VG+ although some wear/minor emerging tears along spine of the wrappers. 

Decoll/age 4

Koln: Decoll/age (Vostell): January 1964

27 x 21.8cm, unpaginated (132pp) and wrappers. A "Special Happenings" number with contributions by  Georges Brecht, Stanley Brouwn (including his USE THIS BROUWN stamped paper bag stuck to the third blank page - a rare edition), Allan Kaprow, Higgins, Paik, Jean Jacques Lebel, Tomas Schmit, Claes Oldenburg, Al Hansen and others. Most pages are double folded.  Very scarce.

Decoll/age 5

Koln: Decoll/age (Vostell): February 1966

Happenings / Stücke / Partituren

28 x 23 x 4cm (approx) outer card portfolio. The most important of the  series with many object multiples and print editions included in the publication. This consists of 22 multiple-elements including the first ever object multiple by Joseph Beuys: "Zwei Fraulen mit lenchtendem Brot" consisting of a block of painted chocolate fixed on a strip of printed paper and tipped on scroll. Other works are by René Block, Claus Bremer, Henning Christiansen, Hans Joachim Dietrich, Ludwig Gosewitz, Dick Higgins, Bernhard Höke, Allan Kaprow, Franz Mon, Benjamin Patterson, Eckart Rahn, Gerhard Rühm, Vagelis Tsakiridis, Ben Vautier, Wolf Vostell, ZAJ Group (which is signed). The Vostell work is a sealed sheet of printed paper with yellow dust/sand inside the sealed plastic and is complete and undamaged here. VG+ overall although the portfolio card folder is a little damaged as the internal uneven sheets have put pressure on the outer card. This is a scarce item to find in good condition and the Beuys contribution is particularly prized. 

Decoll/age 6

Koln: Decoll/age (Vostell): July 1967

29 x 21.7cm, unpaginated (174pp), plus card wrappers (reproducing the front page of Le Figaro from September 6, 1954). Texts in German and English. Contributions by Higgins, Maciunas, Vostell, Gustav Metzger, Milan Knizak, Vautier, Hansen, Kaprow, Paik, Franz Mon, Daniel Spoerri, Charlotte Moorman, Jean-Jacques Lebel, and Alison Knowles. Also laid into the pages is the original multiple of Diter Rot "das Blaue Geheul" a hand written card. 

There are very few complete runs of this journal available online and this is the cheapest we know of.

21 x 21cm, 18pp plus card covers. Exhibition catalogue for a significant exhibition of visual poetry which was curated and edited by Eugen Gomringer with reproductions of works by Eugen Gomringer, Claus Bremer, Ernst Jandl, Ferdinand Kriwet, Hansjorg Mayer, Franz Mon, Diter Rot, Ditier Roth, Gerhard Ruhm, Daniel Spoerri, Andre Thomkins, Timm Ulrichs, Oswald Wiener and others. Texts by Max Bense, F.T. Marinetti and Gomringer, VG+. Scarce.

60 x 42cm, 1pp  typographic broadside/poster issued during the one of the earliest concrete poetry exhibitions in 1961  organizsed by Verlag Kalender, the publishing house of Bernd Ebeling and Hansjoachim Dietrich who published several important art and Fluxus books and documents in the 1960’s.

There are visual poetry works by Franz Mon, Raoul Haussmann, Carl Friedrich Claus, Eugen Gomringer, Diter Roth, Carlo Belloli and Claus Bremer.  Some faint handling creases and minor browning, and folded twice (as issued) else VG+.

A rare and very early concrete poetry item.

10.5 x 15cm, 2pp typographic announcement card for a group show of concrete poetry with works by Cholin, Nekrasssow, Sapgir, Mon and Ruhm. VG+.

15 x 21cm, 2pp printed black on white announcement card for a sound poetry and sound works museum show with contributions from Bernard Heidsieck, Bob Cobbing, Francoise Dufrene, Franz Mon, Gerhard Ruhm, Henri Chopin, Maurizio Nannucci and others. VG+.

10 x 2w1cm, 2pp typographic design for a visual poetry and Fluxus show with contributions from Beuys, George Brecht, Joa Brossa, John Cage, Henry Chopin, Jean Dupuy, Henry Flynt, AL HAnsen, Dick Higgins, Hannah Hoch, dsm (Dom Sylvester Houedard), Ernst Jandl, Ray Johnson, Kazou Katase, Alison Knowles, Jiri Kolar, Ferdinand Kriwet, La Monte Young, Franz Mon, Charlottte Moorman, Vik Muniz, Ladislav Novak, Jurgen O. Olbrich, Nam June Paik, ben Patterson, Gerhard Ruhm, Andre Thomkins, Endre Tot, Ben Vautier, Jacques de La Villegle, Emmett WIlliams and others. VG+.

15 x 10.5cm, 2pp. Announcement printed black on grey -  influenced by Eric Satie, the card promotes a live performance of a "horspeil" by Higgins performence by Joshua Sleman. Other works on the programme were Jerome Rothenberg, Malcolm Goldstein, Sorrel Hays, Jackson Mac Low, Gerhard Ruhm and Franz Mon. The front of the card has a drawing of Erik Satie (by Jean Ferry?). . VG+.<BR><BR>