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New York: Harry N Abrams Inc., 1996. Large oversized and very heavy hardcover, w jacket. 296 pages, richly illustrated. Text in English. Unobtrusive mark to bottom edge, else fine excellent clean copy. First edition. - "With a career that took him from pre-1914 Berlin to Amsterdam, Paris, and New York, Erwin Blumenfeld (1897-1969) was one of the outstanding figures in the history of twentieth-century photography. From the late 1930s to the 1960s, at such influential magazines as Harpers' Bazaar and Vogue, he transformed fashion into high art, and his pictures were in such demand that by the mid-1950s he had become the most highly paid fashion photographer in the world. He photographed the greatest couture creations of the day - designs by Chanel, Balenciaga, Piguet, Dior, and Charles James. Yet his very success in that glamorous world has until now obscured a far more complex and eclectic talent and personality.In Blumenfeld: Photographs, William A. Ewing explores the life and work of this extraordinary and multitalented man. Blumenfeld took up photography almost by chance in the 1920s, beginning with portraiture and the nude. His highly original and visionary work was a seamless blend of the negative and the positive: taking the picture in the studio and making it in the darkroom. Highly inventive, he developed his own idiosyncratic language, using solarization and negative printing, double and multiple exposures, and a host of hybrid techniques. His interests soon expanded to include architectural subjects, landscapes, and works of art, but photographing "Woman" - or capturing the "eternal feminine," as Blumenfeld described it - would remain his chief obsession throughout his life. This book is the first complete retrospective examination of Blumenfeld's work. It brings together the diverse achievements of this brilliant photographer in more than 235 images in both color and black-and-white, providing a thorough representation of his drawings, collages, and photographs."

Desclee de Brouwer et Cie, Paris, 1937. 4to in original hardcover. 54 pages, with illustrations mainly in color and some full page by Elisabeth Ivanovsky. Text in French. Foxing to edges else clean inside and ovrall a fine well preserved clean copy. Elisabeth Ivanovsky was an emigre from Moldavia, arriving in Brussels in 1932. She illustrated some fabulous children’s books, working for a number of publishers, in particular Desclee be Brouwer & Co in Paris. This dates from 1937 and is lithographed without using the black. For lovers of bears everywhere. Scarce first edition. Finely printed children's book about a brown bear in Canada, with colour plates. Attractive copy.

Venise (Venice / Venedig): Alfieri editore, 1975. Tall 8vo ( 27,5 x 14,5 cm) in original stiff wrappers (no jacket). 236 pages, illustrated. Text in both French and German. Name stamp of previous owner to innercover. Clean inside. Overall a near fine copy. 1st edition of the legendary catalogue for the 'Junggesellenmaschinen' exhibition curated by Szeemann for Venice Biennale 1975 and Malmö Konsthall 1976.

Copenhagen: Edition Copenhagen / World House Editions, 2008. Large landscape 4to in black hardcover, no jacket as issued. 45pp on thick art paper, colour plates (two folding), etc. Text in English throughout. Fine copy. First edition.

Japan, 1990. Square 4to in wraps as issued. 66 pp. Illustrated richly. Text in Japanese and English. Some edgewear else fine. Three-dimensional wind driven kinetic sculptures by Japanese kinetic sculptor, Mr Yoichi Takada - moving sculptures that feed on wind and air currents.

Odense: Brandts, 2010. 4to. Original wrappers with jacket as issued. 112 pp. Short text in both Danish and English. Profusedly illustrated. Fine copy.

JRP Ringier, 2007. 8vo hardcover. 160 pages, richly illustrated. Text in English. Clean and well preserved, fine copy. 1st ed. Exhibition catalogue published in conjunction with show held at Musée de la Musique, Paris, March 9 - June 24, 2007. Traveled to Australian Center for the Moving Image, Melbourne, November 15, 2007 - February 3, 2008. Essays by Jean-Pierre Criqui, Emma Lavigne, Rosalind Krauss, Peter Szendy, Philippe-Alain Michaud. Includes a conversation between Michael Snow and Christian Marclay and an appendix containing biography, bibliography, and discography.

John Calder 1993. 8vo in publishers hardcover with gilt title and well preserved dustjacket. XX, 241 pp. Fine clean copy in protected jacket. First UK edition, 1st printing, with introduction by John Calder and Eoin O'Brien. Samuel Beckett’s first novel. Written in English over the summer in Hotel Trianon in Paris in 1932 when Beckett was only 26 and living in Paris, the clearly autobiographical novel was rejected by publishers and shelved by the author. The novel was eventually published in 1992, three years after the author's death. The title parodies Tennyson's "A Dream of Fair Women" and the term "fair to middling," applied to agricultural products. Three fragments from the book were published during Beckett's lifetime: "Text" and "Sedendo et Quiescendo" were actually published before he started working on the book and subsequently became part of it, whilst "Jem Higgins' Love-Letter to the Alba" was published in 1965. Beckett refused to allow the entire novel to be published during his lifetime, on the grounds that it was "immature and unworthy": his biographer Deirdre Bair believes that his reluctance to make it available to the reading public was to avoid offending lifelong friends whom Beckett satirised in the book. The novel is set in the town of Kassel, Germany, where 17-year-old Peggy Sinclair, a cousin of Beckett, lived with her parents. Beckett made several visits in Kassel 1928–32. The main character Belacqua, a writer and teacher, is very similar to Beckett himself, though a character named "Mr. Beckett" also makes an appearance in the book. Belacqua's name is taken from the character created by Dante. Influences on the novel include Geoffrey Chaucer's The Legend of Good Women, Alfred Tennyson's "A Dream of Fair Women" and Henry Williamson's The Dream of Fair Women.

Gyldendal 1936. Ubeskåret i det originale illustrerede omslag. 160 sider. Godt rent eksemplar, egnet til indbinding. Historien om en lille københavnerpige, Lotte. En dag rejser fru Gormsen, som ejer en „Skibsekvipering" i Nyhavn klos op ad et værtshus, til Aalborg i nogle dage, mens sønnen Anton derhjemme vinder penge i en krydsordskonkurrence. Og nu inviterer børnene hele ejendommens beboere og gode venner til et brag af en fest!

Copenhagen: Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek, 1981. Tall slim 8vo. App. 100 pages, illustrated throughout with drawings, collages and photographs. Very good clean copy. First edition. Rare Danish photobook / artist book by Rikke Diemer.

Hatje Cantz, 2006. Large 4to in hardcover w jacket. 203 pages. Richly illustrated. Text in English. Fine clean and well preserved copy. First edition, published in conjunction with the Exhibition "Günther Uecker. Zwanzig Kapitel" at the Martin-Gropius-Bau, March 10 - June 6, 2005 and at the Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin, April 19 - May 16, 2005. With essays by Kazuhiro Yamamoto and others.

Forlaget Fahrenheit, 2013. 200 & 240 sider, gennemillustreret. Pænt rent sæt.

University of Chicago Press, 2014. Tall heavy large 8vo in hardcover, no jacket as issued. 319pp. Illustrated. Collection of Scheerbart's essays, stories and illustrations including the full text of 'Glass Architecture'. Rubbing to cover but solid and clean inside. From the Goodiepal collection, with his signature name to titlepage. 1st ed thus.

Published by Hatje Cantz 2008 for Schirn Kunsthalle and Fundacion Juan March. Publishers clothed hardcover, no jacket as issued. 423 pages, richly illustrated. Bilingual English German text. Light wear cover edges, mainly lower right corners, else fine and clean copy. First edition. On Grisha Bruskin; Erik Bulatov; Ilya Kabakov; Aleksandr Kosolapov; Boris Michailov; Andrei Monastirsky; Leonid Sokov; Vadim Zakharov among others.

Tübingen: Max Niemeyer Verlag, 1995 (1971). 5th reprint. 8°. Hardcover, mit OU. VIII, 237 Seiten. Name. Einige Anstreichungen mit Bleistift und Kugelschreiber. Auf seinem Denkweg hat sich Martin Heidegger immer wieder mit Schellings Denken auseinandergesetzt. Mehrere Vorlesungen und Seminare sind diesem Thema gewidmet. Im Zentrum stand dabei stets Schellings Abhandlung »Philosophische Untersuchungen über das Wesen der menschlichen Freiheit und die damit zusammenhängenden Gegenstände«. Das vorliegende Buch bringt im Hauptteil den Text der Vorlesung von 1936 und ergänzend dazu in einem Anhang ausgewählte Stücke aus der Vorlesung von 1941 und einzelne ausgesuchte Seminarnotizen der folgenden Jahre. Für die zweite Auflage wurde der Text gründlich durchgesehen, Druckfehler wurden korrigiert und Abweichungen gegenüber dem Originalmanuskript berichtigt.

New Haven / London : Yale University Press, 1988. Publishers hardcover, w fine jacket. XV, 425 pp. With illustrations. Fine clean copy. First edition, attractive copy.

Princeton University Press, 1982. Publishers hardcover, with somewhat worn jacket. IX, 290 pp. Very good clean copy. First edition, published as part of "Princeton Library of Asian Translations".

New York: Pantheon Books, 1999. 8vo in publishers hardcover with unclipped protected jacket. 278 pages. Well preserved clean copy. First US edition, 2nd printing.

Copenhagen: Arnold Busck, 2016. 4to in original very heavy hardcover. 199 pages, richly illustrated. Binding with a minor dent else very good clean copy. First edition.

Hannover: Kestner-Gesellschaft, 1981. Square 8vo in wraps as issued. 90 pages, illustrated throughout with photographs. Short text in German. Minor wear to cover else clean and overall a bvery good copy. First edition. Beautiful photobook: "This was the oldest cultivated region in the world, almost unaltered for six thousand years. The Garden of Eden, where time stood still. A land between two rivers, the waters of the Euphrates and the Tigris, which made agriculture possible in the wilderness. In 1980, at the outbreak of war between Iraq and Iran, Ursula Schulz-Dornburg photographed the marsh country in the lower reaches of the Tigris, the amphibious realm of the Ma'dan, one of the most ancient civilisations still existing in the world at that time. A realm of water, sky, horizon and reeds. On small islands in the water, woven out of reeds and set in among the reeds, stand the muhdif, light nomad constructions of which it is hard to say whether they are boats that have come to a temporary halt or houses that are about to cast off. At any moment more reeds can be added, in a living process in which they endure by virtue of their transitory nature. The beauty and skill that they reveal are the direct result of the simplicity and functionality of their woven construction. The enduring existence of the dwelling and its temporary nature are closely bound together in the architecture of the muhdif, as also are absoluteness and provisionality, isolation and openness. These reed structures were engraved as images on old stone stele that are now five thousand years old. In the Sumerian epic of Gilgamesh, one of the most ancient texts in human history, the origins of which go back to about 2100 B.C. and which, like the muhdif, was kept alive for thousands of years, a god, not being able to impart a warning directly to men, addresses it to the house made out of reeds: "Reed-hut, reed-hut! Wall! Wall! / Reed-hut, hearken! Wall, reflect! / Man of Shuruppak, son of Ubar-Tutu, / Tear down [this] house, build a ship! / Give up possessions, seek thou life. / Despise property and keep the soul alive! / Aboard the ship take thou the seed of all living things."

The MIT Press, 2016. 4to in wraps as issued. 274 pages. Richly illustrated. Text in English. Very good clean copy. The Whole Earth Catalog was started by Stewart Brand following his summer 1968 tour of communes across the Southwest with mathematician Lois Jennings. Their Dodge pickup, laden with samples of goods for sale, became known as the Whole Earth Truck Store, and Brand's first Catalog, its cover adorned with a colour photograph of the Earth seen from space, promised 'Access to Tools' and famously asserted that "We are as gods and might as well get good at it." Rather than selling anything directly, he intended it to function as both countercultural toolkit and as a manifesto for alternative lifestyles. He organised it in several sections, most of them rooted in his road trip, including Understanding Whole Systems, Shelter and Land Use, Nomadics, Communication, and Community, each category providing detailed information on how to obtain a vast array of artifacts and merchandise. Influenced by the ideas of Buckminster Fuller, Marshall McLuhan, and cyberneticists Norbert Weiner and Gregory Bateson, Brand arranged the Catalog according to the principles of systems theory, and while it embodied his vision of small-scale technology as a tool for personal liberation and social change, its contents generally eschewed overt politics in favour of do-it-yourself individualism. Brand began operating as a cultural entrepreneur at the Trips Festival, and his interdisciplinary attempt to connect distinct networks and resources in the Whole Earth Catalog used a similarly holistic approach, epitomised by the geodesic domes designed by Lloyd Kahn and others, a Catalog staple that bridged the gap between science and the counterculture. Computers were not often featured (PCs were still commercially unavailable), but Brand already envisioned them as a potentially revolutionary technology, democratising access to information and communication, and his Whole Earth Catalog, with its densely-packed references and peer-reviewed content, anticipated the hyperlinked World Wide Web that followed two decades later. he Whole Earth Catalog was a cultural touchstone of the 1960s and 1970s. The iconic cover image of the Earth viewed from space made it one of the most recognizable books on bookstore shelves. Between 1968 and 1971, almost two million copies of its various editions were sold, and not just to commune-dwellers and hippies. Millions of mainstream readers turned to the Whole Earth Catalog for practical advice and intellectual stimulation, finding everything from a review of Buckminster Fuller to recommendations for juicers. This book offers selections from eighty texts from the nearly 1,000 items of “suggested reading” in the Last Whole Earth Catalog. After an introduction that provides background information on the catalog and its founder, Stewart Brand (interesting fact: Brand got his organizational skills from a stint in the Army), the book presents the texts arranged in nine sections that echo the sections of the Whole Earth Catalog itself. Enlightening juxtapositions abound. For example, “Understanding Whole Systems” maps the holistic terrain with writings by authors from Aldo Leopold to Herbert Simon; “Land Use” features selections from Thoreau's Walden and a report from the United Nations on new energy sources; “Craft” offers excerpts from The Book of Tea and The Illustrated Hassle-Free Make Your Own Clothes Book; “Community” includes Margaret Mead and James Baldwin's odd-couple collaboration, A Rap on Race. Together, these texts offer a sourcebook for the Whole Earth culture of the 1960s and 1970s in all its infinite variety. [publisher's note].

Blank Forms Editions, 2020. 8vo thick heavy paperback. 300 pages. 138 Color and 86 B&W images. Very good copy. Edited by Lawrence Kumpf with Naima Karlsson and Magnus Nygren. Introduction by Lawrence Kumpf and Magnus Nygren. Text by Keith Knox, Rita Knox, Bengt af Klintberg, Iris R. Orton, Åke Holmquist, Pandit Pran Nath, John Esam, Michael Lindfield, Sidsel Paaske, George Trolin, Alan Halkyard, Moki Cherry, Don Cherry, Ben Young, Christer Bothén, Ruba Katrib, and Fumi Okiji. Interviews by Keith Knox and Rita Knox with Don Cherry, Terry Riley, and Steve Roney. Don Cherry and Moki Karlsson met in Sweden in the late '60s. They married and began to perform together, dubbing their mix of communal art, social and environmental activism, children's education and pan-ethnic expression "Organic Music." Their home in Tågarp became a locus of artistic production, attracting free-spirited musicians, poets, actors and artists with the promise of collective life. There, Keith Knox assembled Tågarp Publication Number One to document the collectivistic practices blooming under the Cherrys' guidance. Reproduced here, the text includes interviews with Terry Riley and Cherry, a piece on Pandit Pran Nath, a report on the Bombay Free School and a survey of the esoteric Forest University by Bengt af Klintberg.This book explores Don Cherry's work of the period through additional interviews by Knox, a piece on his Relativity Suite and an essay by Fumi Okiji. Moki Cherry's writings on her workshops are featured alongside full-color reproductions of her tapestries, used as performance environments by Don Cherry's ensembles. Cherry collaborators Bengt Berger and Christer Bothén contribute travelogues from the era.

Gestalten, 2009. In-8. Publishers hardcover, no jacket as issued and complete with CD ("features the 298 source files for each one of the printed patterns") in pouch. Fine clean copy. 2nd printing. "Grid index is a decisive visual dictionary on two-dimensional grids and geometric tilings" .

Forlaget Rhodos, 1997. Folio (meget stort format). Original halvlærred med dekoration. 432 pp. Rigt illustreret i farver. Ydre brugsspor (se foto). Første udgave.

London: Fourth Estate, 1999 (US 1998). Thick very heavy hardcover with dustjacket. XX, 745 pp. Only most minimal wear, a fine clean copy that has been taken well care of. First edition. ""Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human" is the culmination of Harold Bloom's life's work in reading, writing about, and teaching Shakespeare. It is his passionate and convincing analysis of the way in which Shakespeare not merely represented human nature as we know it today, but actually created it: before Shakespeare, there was characterization; after Shakespeare, there was character, men and women with highly individual personalities -- Hamlet, Falstaff, Iago, Cleopatra, Macbeth, Rosalind, and Lear, among them. In making his argument, Bloom leads us through a brilliant and comprehensive reading of every one of Shakespeare's plays. According to a "New York Times" report on Shakespeare last year, "more people are watching him, reading him, and studying him than ever before." "Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human" is a landmark contribution, a book that will be celebrated and read for many years to come. It explains why Shakespeare has remained our most popular playwright for more than four hundred years, and in helping us to understand ourselves through literature, it restores the role of critic to one of central importance to our culture."