Sports and Divertissements.

Urbana: Finial Press (1969). First US edition. [40 pp]. Fine in bright yellow-gold boards with stamped and gilt designs on the front cover. Text illustrated with drawings by Tom Kovacs. One of 171 numbered copies on Shinsetsu paper SIGNED by Johnson and Kovacs. First published in Scotland by Finlay’s Wild Hawthorn Press, “Sports” is a series of found poems “made from Erik Satie’s notes, in French, to the piano pieces SPORTS AND DIVERTISSEMENTS.” This is copy 171.