The Wayzgoose Press; Duke, Jas H.

DADA KAMPFEN UM LEBEN UND TOD. A prose poem [cover title].

Long single sheet, printed and decorated in various colours on one side only and folded concertina-style to form 24 pages (last colophon); within a printed paper wrap-around inner sleeve which is contained in a red, yellow & black cloth and paper portfolio with shoelace side-tie and printed paper title label; [accompanied by] two separate essays: Jas H. Duke the Dadaist, by fellow poet Pi O; and A Concise Gloss on Dadaism by Mike Hudson, both printed in red & black in a smaller concertina format, and housed together in a compartmented printed paper pocket on verso of upper board; within solander box, which is a trifle marked; a little light foxing; The Wayzgoose Press, Katoomba, NSW, 1996. Edition limited to 34 numbered copies, signed by Mike Hudson and Jadwiga Jarvis; this being one of 24 copies thus bound. *With the original prospectus (slightly foxed) loosely inserted. A typographic rendering, designed by Mike Hudson, of a work by the Melbourne performance poet Jas H. Duke, who died in 1992. The title translates as Dada fight for life and death. 'The text in all its graphic arrangements ran from top to bottom for an uninterrupted eight metres . . . A verbal description of Dada Carpenas impossible'. Jadwiga Jarvis, The Wayzgoose Affair. Item #172349

Price: $15,000.00