Carl Andre.
Eleven Poems.
Torino, Italy: Sperone Editore, 1974.
Staple-bound softcover.
24 pages.
Edition of 1000.
Good.
Insect damage to covers.
Foxing, minor edge wear and creasing.
Bottom left corner creased upward.
Roughly 7/16th of an inch tear bottom of spine
and approximately 14/16 of an inch tear to top of spine.
Images unaffected by foxing.
An overall presentable copy of this scarce artists' book
with a sturdy binding and clean contents.
Artist’s book, its illustrated cover depicts the titles of the eleven poems,
11 b/w plates reproducing the original manuscript of each poem
except for one whose original was lost and here appears as a recreation.
The poems are characterised by the lack of punctuation
and by the irregular letters orientation; the texts are mainly organised
in the shape of a rectangle, but some of them groups of words
compose more complex geometrical shapes.
