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Zurich: JRP Ringier, 2007. 4to in hardcover. 131 pages, richly illustrated . Light superficial wear to cover, else very good copy. 1. ed.

New York: Anchor Books, 1979. Oblong 4to in softcover. pp. viii, [4], 92 and 68 b/w. photos. Cover rubbed, crease to back cover, and to lower front right corner with some interior pages creased. First edition, 3rd printing.

Politisk revy / Rævens Sorte Bibliotek, 1987 (1983). 159 pp. Hft. Med illustrationer. Diskret navnetræk ellers ren. Anden danske udgave, 1. oplag på godt papir.

Seventeen Magazine, 1952. Large magazine format in original wrappers. 128 pages. Complete magazine. Only minimal edgewear. Excellent copy. A rare original vintage Seventeen Magazine issue with cover photo by Blumenfeld. Plath's text is running over three pages throughout the magazine.

New York: Random House / Nonesuch Press, 1934. 8vo (12,5 x 19,5 cm). Publishers fine brown clothed hardcover with gilt title. XVIII, (2), 868 pages. Previous private owners name to innercover else clean and overall a very good solid copy. COMPLETE and UNABRIDGED edition in a fine handy volume. First edition thus.

Basel: Kunsthalle, 1976. 4to in wraps as issued. 52 pages. Text in both English and German. Without list of works. Light wear to cover, overall a very good copy. First edition. Edition of 800 copies. Catalogue Raisonné (1989), Catalogs no. 14.

Kunsthaus Hamburg, 2021. 8vo in clothed wraps as issued. 262pp w colour plates.Text in German, Bengali and English. Fine copy. 1. ed.

Borges Forlag / Plagiat Film, 2007. DVD in case. Complete with booklet. Total running time 54 minutes. Case with light shelfwear, dvd unplayed. 1. ed.

Berlin: Edition Ars Viva, 1980. Square 8vo in wraps as issued 21 x 21 cm. 275 Seiten. Mit s/w Abbildungen versehen. Sprache: Deutsch und Englisch. Kanten berieben, sonst sehr gut. First edition.

Munich: Prestel Verlag, 2014. 4to hardcover, no jacket as issued (29 x 25 cm). 208 pages, richly illustrated. Text in English. Fine. First edition.

Verlag fur moderne Kunst Nurnberg, 2012. Small red hardcover. 176 pages. Multilingual. With illustrations. Fine / as new copy. In 1932, Marcel Duchamp published Opposition and Sister Squares Are Reconciled, a collaboration with chess champion Vitaly Halberstadt on endgames in chess. Ernst Strouhal's illustrated study approaches this volume as an "almost utopian treatise on chess endgames" and as a trilingual artist's book. Strouhal playfully yet validly demonstrates how Opposition and Sister Squares are Reconciled by M. Duchamp & V. Halberstadt (1932) not only comprises a rare, almost utopian treatise on chess endgames but is also a unique chess book for artists and an artist’s book for chess players.

Profile Books, London, 2013. Publishers hardcover, with jacket. XV, 382 pp. Fine unread copy. Prehistoric drummers used natural acoustics to recreate natural sound. In classical Europe, orators turned the human voice into a lyrical instrument. In Buddhist temples, the icons' ears were exaggerated to represent their spiritual power. And in modern metropolises we are battered by the roar of sound that surrounds us. In the first narrative history of the subject which puts humans at its centre, and following the author's major BBC Radio 4 series Noise, acclaimed historian David Hendy describes the history of noise - which is also the history of listening. As he puts it: 'By thinking about sound and listening, I want to get closer to what it felt like to live in the past.'This unusual book reveals fascinating changes in how we have understood our fellow human beings and the world around us. For although we might see ourselves inhabiting a visual world, our lives are shaped by our need to hear and be heard.

Bloomsbury Paperback, 2017 (2016). Tall 8vo. XI, 282 pp. Fine clean, unread copy.

University of California Press, (1983). Original softcover. XXI, 441 pp. Minor edgewear.

Kleinheinrich Buch- und Kunstverlag, Münster, 1993. Broschur. 194 Seiten. OU am Rücken mit Handtierungsspuren sonst gutes Exemplar. Deutsche Erste Auflage von Del af labyrinten.

Kunstbogklubben, 1997. 4to. Original kartonbind med smudsomslag. 272 pp. Rigt illustreret i farver. Pænt eksemplar.

Faber and Faber, 1988. Publishers hardcover, with jacket. 358 pages. With illustrations. Very good copy. First edition thus.

New York: Grove Press, 1966. Publishers grey cloth hardcover with unclipped very good dustjacket. 253 pp. A discoloring to first blank page else very good overall and clean. First American edition, 1st printing (stated). "Blaise Cendrars’ last novel is an original and often very funny portrayal of the Parisian criminal underworld of the late 1940s that crackles with the fires of an abundant imagination. Yet To the End of the World is not total invention as, like all Cendrars’ works, it has some basis in real life. The narrative races between a Foreign Legion barracks in North Africa and the theaters, cafes, dosshouses, and police headquarters of postwar Paris. The central character in this roman à clef is Thérèse, a septuagenarian actress who was once the rival of Sarah Berhardt herself. Her passionate affair with a young deserter from the Foreign Legion (in which Cendrars himself served) is interrupted by the murder of a barman and the impact this event has on all their lives. With its bold and colorful supporting cast—a subterranean gallery of ex-legionnaires, theater types, black marketeers, dubious aristocrats, sexual adventurers, and freaks—entwined with numerous subplots and minor themes, To the End of the World amounts to a grandly picaresque adventure. When it appeared in France in 1956, it offered a ready antedote to the sense of negativity and existential futility that pervaded many novels of the era.""Without Cendrars, neither Miller nor Burroughs would have existed.!"

Copenhagen: Resonans, 2005. 8°. (144) pp.. Original wrappers. Illustrated with photographs throughout. 'Where everything coincides with its image, reality ceases' (Per Højholt). First edition.

New York: Grove Press / Bookthrift reprint (1963). Heavy hardcover, with worn jacket. XVIII, 983 pp. Foxing to endpapers and some wavyness to first pages else overall a solid and clean copy. Charming 1960's copy with jacket design by Roy Kuhlman. Komplet udgave af Frank Harris' erindringsværk 'My Life and Loves'. Værket var længe forbudt og skandaleombrust pga. de 'pornografiske' passager, hvor Harris beskriver sine elskerinder's og ikke mindst sine egne færdigheder som elsker. Reelt blev værket nok mest tilbageholdt pga. de skånselsløse beskrivelser af navngivne personer i den engelske overklasse, deres hor, stupiditet og uvidenhed. I dag står værket som et vigtigt og velskrevet erindringsværk fra det tidlige 20. århundrede.

Forlaget Politisk Revy, 2006. Heavy white hardcover. 591 pages and dvd i pocket at end. Surface marks to cover else fine copy. Text in Danish and English. Richly illustrated. Co-edited by Helge Krarup. First edition - . Conceptual, fluxus multimedia artist William Louis Sørensen (1942–2005) worked as an artists with various media and from 1990 he was working for The Danish National Art Museum SMK to collect a "sound archive" containing hundreds of hours of sound and images documenting sound art, light art and performance art in Denmark from the 1940s to 1990s.

Seattle: Real Comet Press, 1985. 4to in wraps as issued. 286 pages. Illustrated. Very good clean copy. "As mass culture spreads its web of dreams and illusions over the globe, creating a universal language of desire and belief, our universities and scholarly journals continue to teach and theorize about "art" as though it were some static object of "pure beauty" with no social or economic context or effect. The image of the artist as some isolated "gifted" seer off in an ivory tower persists, as does the ahistorical, nonmaterialist notion that "real art" can easily be distinguished from "mass art" by virtue of certain abstract qualities which, when studied closely turn out usually to be functions of social and historical conditions. Such ideas serve an important political function. They obscure and mystify an entire area of political reality. For as long as we view "art" as static, outside the realm of social forces, and by and large valuable in reverse proportion to its accessibility--the best art of course being produced in a distant past--we will fail to see what is happening under our noses. Such is the pervasiveness of this bourgeois way of thinking, that the activist left in this country (but certainly not in the third world) has rarely engaged in the kind of serious debate on artistic and cultural theory and strategy that the power of the media today demands. Art, for the left, still exists primarily as agitprop, as "entertainment" to be given as akind of light dessert after the serious business of political speeches. Cultures in Contention, which brings together a collection of writings by cultural activists in a variety of media and from countries across the world is no less than remarkable as a corrective to this sorry state of affairs. Its editors start from a theoretical position which is as radical as it is rich in implication. "Cultures in Contention," they say in the introduction, "seeks to reinstate an understanding of the preeminently social character of all cultural action." In so doing, it raises a variety of issues which are rarely discussed or understood. In fact, the book's greatest achievement may be to reveal the world of art production not only as collective, dynamic, and social, but also as theoretically and strategically informed."

New York: The Viking Press and Intrepid Trips Information Service, 1973. 4to. Softcover. XVIII, 238 pages. Light edgewear else very good clean copy. First edition. A Merry Prankster collection of essays and a play by the author of One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest and psychedelic bus riding bizarro Ken Kesey.

Aldershot, Ashgate Publishing, 2008 (2005). XIV, 427 p., Paperback. Like new.

Rotterdam: 010 Publishers, 1995 Original printed stiff wrappers as issued. 111 pages, illustrated. Text in both Italian, Dutch and English. Some wear to to wraps else a clean and very good copy. 1. ed.