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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.

Poland: Warszawa: Wydawnictwo Artystyczno-Graficzne RSW "Prasa", 1964. Oblong 8vo in wraps as issued. 23,5x21,5 cm, 11 pages text in Polish and 36 full page plates, several with colors. Near fine clean copy with light edgewear. First edition. Scarce. - Mieczyslaw Berman was "one of the most outstanding and most consistent Polish photo montage artists. He began his graphic work in 1927, illustrating the works of revolutionary writers. In that same year, he coincidentally came across the photo montage work of his colleague, Zygmunt Kaminski. He was already familiar with the photo montages of Moholy-Nagy and the Soviet artists Lissicki, Rodczenko, and Klucis and he was an admirer of the work of Heartfield, whose work influenced him greatly".

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.

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

New York: Zone Books, 2011 ( 2008). Thick octavo paperback. 479 pages, with illustrations. Light edgewear only.

Primary Information, 2019. Small 8vo in wraps as issued. 575 pages. Light wear to cover. Essential writings from the downtown New York legend and polymath, pioneer of both structural film and drone musis. Tony Conrad (1940–2016) was a legendary multidisciplinary artist known for his groundbreaking contributions in experimental film, music, and video. Upon moving to New York City in 1962, he began making music with John Cale, La Monte Young and Marian Zazeela in the Theatre of Eternal Music, a group that helped shape what would come to be known as minimalist music. He later went on to perform with Lou Reed in a pre-Velvet Underground band called The Primitives and cut a classic 1972 record with the German Krautrock band Faust that set a new standard for drone music. In the 1960s and 1970s, Conrad was perhaps best known for his contribution to film, where he helped to redefine structural filmmaking with The Flicker and Yellow Movies. Conrad went on to create an extensive body of work in a variety of media such as installation, photography, and performance until his death in 2016. Throughout his life, Conrad also wrote prolifically on topics including his own work (and that of his peers), music, art, media theory and activism. Writings is the first book devoted solely to Conrad's writing, collecting 57 hard-to-find or previously unpublished texts from 1961 to 2012. These writings provide a critical lens into the artist's multitudinous identities and wide-ranging creative pursuits and, as with his diverse artistic output, consistently challenge and dismantle authoritarian notions of culture.

Gyldendal, 2008. Kvadratisk hardcover. 368 pp. Illustreret i s/h og farver. Nærmest som ny.

Duke University Press, 2016. Thick and heavy paperback. XXI, 578 pages. Light shelfwear, else a clean and unread copy. "For the last 20 years London-based author and party organiser Tim Lawrence has dedicated himself to excavating the history of New York City party culture and bringing some of the most powerful aspects of that culture to London’s dance scene, from where it has ricocheted around the world. Having conducted the first set of major interviews with David Mancuso, Lawrence started to put on Loft-style Lucky Cloud Sound System parties with David and friends in London in June 2003. In early 2004 he published Love Saves the Day: A History of American Dance Music Culture, 1970-79, which tracked the influence of the Loft on the wider New York DJ, dance and disco scene. In 2009 his biography of the iconic musician Arthur Russell became the first book to map the wider downtown music scene. These beautifully written and politically insightful histories have educated, inspired and celebrated the previously overlooked foundations of contemporary dance music. Lawrence’s most recent publication, Life & Death On The New York Dancefloor, 1980 – 1983, published in late 2016, shines a light on 'one of the most dynamic and creative periods in the history of New York City'. Falling between the more regularly celebrated sounds of disco, house and techno, the period produced a uniquely hybrid series of sounds that never acquired a settled name. This led them to be largely ignored by historians and even DJs, yet the power of the period’s music and the scenes it birthed, Lawrence argues, remains undeniable. Met with a rapturous response, Life and Death On The New York Dance Floor saw Lawrence on the road for most of the next year as he spread the word about the characters, the records, the clubs and the bands that shaped the post-Disco, post-Punk, and burgeoning Hip Hop landscapes of New York City during the early 1980s—a period when freedom still ruled."

Copenhagen: Informations Forlag, 1980. 4to. Original photoillustrated softcover as issued. 160 pages, illustrated throughout with high contrast black and white photographs by a large number of famous Danish photographers like Morten Bo, Henrik Saxgren and others. Not a very pretty copy: creased spine and discolorings to front cover edge (see photos), a contemporary bold gift inscription with red marker to inner cover. Else clean and overall a good, acceptable copy. First edition, 1st printing. "In late April 1980, the police first cleared the playground area Byggeren amid violent protests from residents and activists. This led to a time of unprecedented fighting between police and citizens in Nørrebro. Barricades were built on both Åboulevard and Nørrebrogade - and for several weeks the area was under a state of emergency. In 1980, Morten Langkilde was one of the younger members of Politiken's team of photographers and spent almost 24 hours in the conflict zone. "At the time, I had never seen anything like it. That kind of fighting. In Copenhagen. It was quite extreme," he says. Since then, the case of the Builder has often been called the start of the bz movement. At the time, the media was busy reporting that the fighting in Nørrebro was fought by 'spoilt leftists' and 'left-wing provocateurs'. But the truth was that it was the whole of Nørrebro that was fighting. Parents, educators, shopkeepers, even ordinary citizens. One was tired of the unplanned redevelopment and the decisions that were made. The actual fight took place around 1 May 1980. But in reality the fight already began on a Sunday in 1973, when a lorry drove into a building site. A very popular construction playground emerged. In June 1977, the municipality decided to close the six-year temporary institution in Todesgade. On 15 August 300 officers showed up. But they were stopped by 1,000 local residents. After several months of occupation, the residents reopened the institute. But on 10 January 1978 the police showed up even more numerous together with several craftsmen." (Luciano Zuccaccia)

Engeler Publishers 2020 (1974). Publishers hardcover, with jacket. 371 pages. Bilingual German-English edition. As new. First edition thus.

Copenhagen: Arnold Busck, 1986. Original blue glossy hardcover boards. 108 pp. + plates (a illustrated (handdrawn) catalogue of Per Lütken's production, unicas etc. from 1942 to 1986). Text in Danish. Spine sunned else fine clean copy. First edition.

Aarhus Universitet / Studenterforeningen, 1961. Slim 4to in wraps as issued. (28) pp. Illustrated b/w. Fine copy. 1. ed. Inklusiv Eugene Ionesco's tekst om Robert Jacobsen og et situationistisk "Manifest" , en version af Situationist Manifesto som den fremgik af Internationale Situationniste No. 4 fra 1960.

Occasional Papers, 2012. Tall 4to in glossy black wraps as issued. 304 pages, illustrated bw. Light edgwear to cover else fine clean copy.  1st ed. The first anthology of its kind, Graphic Design: History in the Writing (1983–2011) comprises the most influential texts about graphic design history published in English. Edited by a graphic design theorist and a practicing graphic designer, the book chronicles the development of the emerging field of graphic design history from 1983 to 2011, underscoring the aesthetic, theoretical, political and social tensions that have underpinned it from the beginning. Graphic Design: History in the Writing is a long-overdue sourcebook for students, teachers, curators and anyone else interested in the past and future of a field in rapid development. With texts by Jeremy Aynsley, Steve Baker, Andrew Blauvelt, Piers Carey, François Chastanet, Wen Huei Chou, Denise Gonzales Crisp, Brian Donnelly, Johanna Drucker, Steven Heller, Richard Hollis, Robin Kinross, Ellen Lupton, Victor Margolin, Ellen Mazur Thomson, Philip B. Meggs, Gérard Mermoz, Abbott Miller, Rick Poynor, Martha Scotford, Catherine de Smet, Teal Triggs, Massimo Vignelli and Bridget Wilkins.

Typolygon, Russia, 2003. 8vo in wraps as issued. 108 pages. Richly illustrated in color. Text in both Russian and English. Fine clean copy. NB: No cd's with this copy! First edition. Probably very rare. Since the 90s Arkhipov has been travelling around Russia and Europe, exploring people and collecting their self-made functioning objects - "thingumajigs". The objects he has found are made by everyday people, inspired by the desire to create something themselves because of their passion for the home-made or as a consequence of hard times.

Bonniers Bøger / Lindhardt & Ringhof, 1991. Indbundet i det originale helshirt (hardcover). 320 pp. Rigt illustreret. Pæn og ren.

Ordrupgaard, 2022. Stort format. Original hardcover. 143 sider. Rigt illustreret i s/h og farver. Som ny. 

University of Minnesota Press, 1971. Publishers hardcover, with fine jacket. IX, (1) 277 pp. Fine clean copy. First edition thus - uncommon. "For the last century and a half, Friedrich Schlegel (1772–1829) has enjoyed a reputation for being the critical grey eminence behind the coming to power of the Romantic Movement. It was Schlegel, in his three series of aphoristic fragments (Lyceum, Athenaeum, and Ideas), who actually first defined and employed the word "romantic" in the present sense; and it was he who in a chaotic, fragmentary, and often mysterious but forceful manner first proclaimed the doctrine that was to usher in the modern age in literature. He too was among the first to put his new program into practice in the shape of his unfinishedLucinde,a work variously denounced as pornography and heralded as a forerunner of modern novelistic experimentation, and probably the most famous novel to come out of German Romanticism. Both the Fragments and Lucinde,along with a brilliant tour de force, the "Essay on Incomprehensibility," are available now for the first time in a complete English translation in this volume, together with a brief scholarly introduction. This translation will enable non-German readers to examine at first hand the work of a man whom Rene Wellek has called "one of the greatest critics of history." ".

Jonathan Cape, London, 1952. Publishers red hardcover with the original priceclipped dustjacket, topedge red . 175 pages. Clean attractive copy with a protected jacket. First edition thus.

Hagerup, 1941. 406 pp. Uncut in the original wraps as issued. Clean and very well preserved. Very scarce, especially in such fine state.

Borgen, Vinyl, LP, Album 1987. Near mint / near mint. 

Small 8vo in original beige cloth hardcover with red titled spine. With somewhat worn but unclipped and now protected original jacket. 240 pp. Inside clean and overall a very good copy.- First edition from The Makers of Modern Literature Series. One of the first books to sum up the contribution of James Joyce. With frontispiece photograpy of James Joyce by Man Ray. Dustwrapper is designed by Alvin Lustig.

Corte Madera: Gingko Press, 2006. Large oversized very heavy hardcover (29,2 x 26,7 cm). 319 pages. Text in English. Very richly illustrated in color. Fine clean and tight copy.