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Toronto: Art Gallery of York University, 2007. 8vo. Original pictorial hardcover. 232 pages, illustrated with coloured and b&w photos. Fine and clean copy. 1. ed. "Exceptionally well designed, engaging and mysterious, Disassembling the Archive is a quasi-fictional correspondence with the Amsterdam-based, Indonesia-born artist Fiona Tan. It departs from interpretations of postcolonial identity issues in Tan's work to trace the implications of the archival housing of photographs and moving images. By way of a detour through Siegfried Kracrauer's writing on photography and Jacques Derrida's writing on the Freudian impression, we witness (...) the disintegrative and destructive effect of photography on the archive. This volume is printed on several papers and features full bleed video stills, mesmerizing archival portraits of young Asian girls in identical uniforms and a long text in the form of philosophical letters from Philip Monk--who curated the 2006 exhibition at Toronto's Art Gallery of York University on which this volume is based."

Leipzig: Lubok Verlag, 2009. 4to (30 x 22 cm) in stiff wraps as issued. 144 unpaginated pages, richly illustrated with text in both German and English by Werner Meyer, Maik Schlüter and Barbara Steiner. Fine copy. 1st edition. INSCRIBED in hand by Oliver Kossack to titlepage.

Corraini & Hangar Bicocca, 2011. Hardcover. 320 pages. Richly illustrated with text in both English and Italian. Light edgewear else clean very good copy.  The Terre Vulnerabili project takes the shape of an organic and polyphonic exhibition. Numerous artists interact around the “earth” as their place of belonging and to “vulnerability” as a positive concept to be contrasted with security. Terre Vulnerabili is an exhibition in progress, something which is germinating and organic, growing as it progresses. Articulated in four different stages, each given a different title – it lasts over a period of nine months. The underlying concept was that the work of each of the thirty international artists should not remain as it was at the start of each phase, but would continue to change and evolve throughout the duration of the show, with additions, corrections, changes of shape or place and interaction between the artists themselves. Behind it all lies the vision of a shared project that aimed to question traditional exhibition methods and show the way ahead, at a time when both our planet and the systems governing it and the conventions of contemporary art are showing serious signs of weakness and a need to be reconsidered. This book is a diary of the Terre Vulnerabili project, on show at the HangarBicocca in Milan, 21 October 2010 - 17 July 2011. In addition to an analysis of each of the works and participating artists, there is a behind the scenes view of how the project originated and became a changing object, comparable to a garden, a city or delicate land to be travelled every which way. Told through the photos of Agostino Osio, the story documents the passing of time, revealing how the installations altered over the nine-month period. There is also a personal reflection by Andrea Zanzotto on how the creative act is inevitably destined to damage what already exists – plus a conversation between Chiara Bertola, Andrea Lissoni and Hans Ulrich Obrist, a member of the HangarBicocca scientific committee and key figure in the contemporary art world, around the concept of an exhibition that creates itself by itself. The artists involved in the Terre Vulnerabili project: Ackroyd & Harvey / Mario Airò / Stefano Arienti / Massimo Bartolini / Stefano Boccalini / Ludovica Carbotta / Alice Cattaneo / Elisabetta Di Maggio / Rä di Martino / Bruna Esposito / Yona Friedman / Carlos Garaicoa / Alberto Garutti / Gelitin / Nicolò Lombardi / Mona Hatoum / Invernomuto / Kimsooja / Christiane Löhr / Marcellvs L. / Margherita Morgantin / Ermanno Olmi / Roman Ondák / Hans Op de Beeck / Adele Prosdocimi / Remo Salvadori / Alberto Tadiello / Pascale Marthine Tayou / Nico Vascellari / Nari Ward / Franz West.

Copenhagen: Arnold Busck, 1991. Small square 4to. Hardcover, with jacket. 126 pp. Illustrated. Full text in English and Danish. Fine copy. First edition.

Frankfurt am Main: Vittorio Klostermann 1998. 8°. Hardcover, mit OU. 435 Seiten. Name. Viele Anstreichungen mit Bleistift und mit roter Kugelschreiber. Erste Auflage.

Aros, Aarhus 2012. 4to. Large hardcover w jacket. 224 pages. Illustrated richly. Text in both Danish and English. Fine copy. 1st edition. NB: Foreign shipping for this heavy book will be extra, please inquire before ordering.

Basilisk, 2016. 207 pp. Hft. 1. oplag.

Leipzig: Insel Verlag, 1921 (1906). Original decorated slightly worn red papercovered decorated hardcover boards with pasted on title to front, title page printed in green and black. 189 pp. Spine darkened, front title with some scraping (see photos) and some minor soiling and foxing to edges and previous owners name in ink to inner cover front else clean, a few pages dog-eared, nonetheless overall a very good copy in the attractive original binding. Finely printed early edition with wide margins (16. - 19. T.).

Seventeen Magazine / Triangle Publications, Inc., 1952. Large magazine format in original wrappers. The story spreads over five pages, one page is the illustration to the story by Marjory Clark (see photo). Complete magazine, in all 112 pages. Cover is very worn rubbed and with pieces missing to edges and corners ((see photos), else inside a good solid copy, clean inside and the story is all bright and well preserved. A rare original vintage Seventeen Magazine issue with a rare first publication of Sylvia Plath's short story "Initiation". The story - at page 64 - that earned the author second prize in the magazine's Short Story Contest; includes a cameo portrait of the young Plath, and a short notice, "Sylvia Plath, reviewing her long friendship with us, says '...at fifteen and sixteen, I got rejection slips! Then, my first acceptance at the appropriate age of seventeen. Now the swan song in the form of a second prize!' A moral here, we think, for all contributors." Very scarce, early appearance from the poet and author.

Cambridge: The MIT press, 2010. 8vo in publishers hardcover, with jacket. X, 222 pages. Illustrated. A hint of wear to upper front corners else clean fine unread attractive copy. 1st edition. Michael Asher (born in 1943), one of the foremost installation artists of the Conceptual art period, is a founder of site-specific practice. - "The first book-length study of this influential artist's work, focusing on the participatory role of the human subject rather than the art object. Michael Asher doesn't make typical installations. Instead, he extracts his art from the institutions in which it is shown, culling it from collections, histories, or museums' own walls. Since the late 1960s, Asher has been creating situations that have not only taught us about the conditions and contexts of contemporary art, but have worked to define it. In Situation Aesthetics, Kirsi Peltomäki examines Asher's practice by analyzing the social situations that the artist constructs in his work for viewers, participants, and institutional representatives (including gallery directors, curators, and other museum staff members). Drawing on art criticism, the reports of viewers and participants in Asher's projects, and the artist's own archives, Peltomäki offers a comprehensive account of Asher's work over the past four decades. Because of the intensely site-specific nature of this work, as well as the artist's refusal to reconstruct past works or mount retrospectives, many of the projects Peltomäki discusses are described here for the first time. By emphasizing the social and psychological sites of art rather than the production of autonomous art objects, Peltomäki argues, Asher constructs experientially complex situations that profoundly affect those who encounter them, bringing about both personal and institutional transformation."

Struer, 1978. Original wrappers. 50 pages including covers. Illustrated throughout in colour. Text in Danish. Fine copy. Rare original commercial folder from Bang and Olufsen. First edition. Graphic design by Werner Neertoft.

London & NY, Oxford University Press, 1975. Publishers hardcover with dustjacket. viii, 507 p., [1] leaf of plates, 1 color illustration. Jacket priceclipped and a bit worn, a couple of feeble pencil notes, else a very good, copy. First Edition.

Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther Konig 2003. 8vo. Stiff wraps as issued. 208 pages. Richly illustrated. Fine clean copy. 1. edition.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1951. Original black cloth with gilt title, original only slightly worn now protected dustjacket. 861 pp. Previous owner's private bookplate to front free blank, front inner hinge enforced neatly. Else well preserved and overall a solid attractive very good copy. First edition, early printing of the trade edition, original price on flap is 4 dollar 50 but lacking the "A" on copyright page.

Forlaget Høst & Søn / Gyldendals Bogklub 1989. Stort format. 160 sider. Rigt illustreret. Indbundet, med smudsomslag (hardcover). Pænt eksemplar.

Gyldendal, 2001. 271 pp. Heftet, uden smudsomslag. Pænt rent eksemplar.

Routledge, (1993). X, 289 pp. Fine clean copy.

Bergs Forlag, 1973. Stort format. Hardcover. (34) sider. Illustreret i farver. Smuk bog, velbevaret. Første danske udgave.

Aarhus Universitetsforlag, 2007. 76, 67, 52 sider. Hft. Kassette med lidt slid og en del, heldigvis forsigtige, blyantsnoter, ellers alt i alt et godt sæt af denne smukke udgave.

Politikens Forlag 2005. Stort tværformat. Hardcover, med omslag. 135 pp. Gennemillustreret. Kun små ydre brugsspor. Pænt eksemplar. Første oplag.

Rævens Sorte Bibliotek, 1988. 208 pp. Hft. Illustreret. Første danske udgave.

London / New York: Continuum Paperback, 2007. X, 221 pp. Very good copy. Noise/Music" looks at the phenomenon of noise in music, from experimental music of the early 20th century to the Japanese noise music and glitch electronica of today. It situates different musics in their cultural and historical context, and analyses them in terms of cultural aesthetics. Paul Hegarty argues that noise is a judgement about sound, that what was noise can become acceptable as music, and that in many ways the idea of noise is similar to the idea of the avant-garde. While it provides an excellent historical overview, the book's main concern is in the noise music that has emerged since the mid 1970s, whether through industrial music, punk, free jazz, or the purer noise of someone like Merzbow. The book progresses seamlessly from discussions of John Cage, Erik Satie, and Pauline Oliveros through to bands like Throbbing Gristle and the Boredoms. Sharp and erudite, and underpinned throughout by the ideas of thinkers like Adorno and Deleuze, "Noise/Music" is the perfect primer for anyone interested in the louder side of experimental music.

London: Macmillan And Co., Ltd., 1972. Uncut in original hardcover with very good unclipped jacket. 318 pp. Clean well preserved copy. First edition thus.

Yale University Press & Tate Publishing, 2006. Softcover. 190 pages, richly illustrated in color. Text in English. Very good copy. An extensively illustrated survey is the first to examine in depth the contrasts and correspondences in the lives and works of two of Modernist's great pioneers. Featuring many seldom-seen works in a variety of media,including glass,sculpture,painting,film,photo-collage,photography and graphic and furniture design

London: Lorrimer Publishing Limited, 1967. 8vo. Wraps as issued. 96 pp with b&w photographic plates throughout. Fine tight and clean copy. 1. edition.