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AA - Architectural Association Publications, 2003. 8vo in wraps as issued. 176 pages, illustrated in color. Text in English. Light wear to cover else clean and fine copy.

Laurence King Publishing, 2014. Large ehavy hardcover with dustjacket. In very good condition. 223pp. Illustrated. Clean fine copy.

China: Peking Foreign Language Press, 1967. 12mo in red vinyl binding as issued (13 x 9cm), pp.[10] 312, (2). Including Mao portrait frontis and Lin Biao (Piao) foreword with facsimile. Title page with red lettering in green frame. Light edgewear and a name stamp (from Milano) to free front endpaper. One page with a tear and notes in ink to last couple of pages. Acceptable copy. First Italian language edition, printed 1967 (stated) - Including the preface by Lin Biao, removed from copies after 1971.

Paris, November 1938. Original magazine wraps. 48 pages, illustrated richly in bw and color. Text in French. Near fine, very good copy. Original vintage magazine, complete. - Bon exemplaire du 258 ème numéro du Jardin des Modes créé par Lucien Vogel. La couverture représente un manteau de vison d'André Brun (photographer : Horst P. Horst).

Galerija suvremene umjenosti Zagreb 1975. Square 8vo in wraps as issued. Text in both Croatian and English by Davor Maticevic. 150 pp. Illustrated thorughout. Fine copy.  Dalibor Martinis (b. 1947) Croatian video, performance and conceptual artist. Graduated at Zagreb Academy of Fine Arts 1971. Exhibits since 1969, began working with video in the early 1970s. Taught at Zagreb Drama Academy from 1987-1991, and 1991 as a guest lecturer at Ontario College of Art in Toronto. He also works as a graphic designer. - The artworks in this book were not commissioned, he tells in an interview "I just produced them myself. They were imagined as an intervention in the wider urban space and into the sphere of city living that concerned everyone, not just me. They were in a sense an extension of my work on Counterfeits of 1973, collage interventions into the tram tickets of the time that contained a graphic display of the city’s layout of the time and the tramlines. There were small, hardly visible interventions and changes on the tickets that at the same time suggested big changes in the layout of the city. Qua document, such a ticket was a fake. In the making of the posters I also made use of graphic elements of tram tickets because it was then a generally recognised graphic portrait of the city, of life and movement around it, an image that every inhabitant recognised".

Vejle Kunstmuseum, 1984. 4to i original heftet omslag. 96 sider samt 438 skitser trykt med sort på gult papir. Velbevaret rent eksemplar. Af Gernes tilrettelagt meget smuk antologi udgivet i forbindelse med udstilling af samme navn, arrangeret af Vejle Kunstforening og Vejle Kunstmuseum, som viste en lang række forslag til udsmykning af Vejle.

Creation Books, 2001. Tall 8vo in softcover. 246 pages, many bw illustrations. One ink note else clean and well preserved.

Faber and Faber, 2009. Small hardcover, w jacket. 309 pages. Fine copy.

Serpentine Gallery and Koenig Books, London and New York, 2009. First edition. Hardcover. 95 pages. Exhibition catalog for a show that ran March 10 through April 19, 2009. Curated by Julia Peyton-Jones, Hans Ulrich Obrist and Kathryn Rattee. A hint of wear to top of spine else fine unread copy. Complete with obi. First edition. - The catalogue and monograph published on the occasion of the first major solo exhibition of Rebecca Warren’s work in the UK. Warren is known internationally for her exuberant, roughly-worked clay sculptures, bronzes and vitrines, containing carefully assembled objects collected by the artist. The show presented pieces from throughout Warren’s career and featured a selection of her best-known works, including the iconic Helmut Crumb (1998), The Mechanic (2000) and a selection of vitrines, alongside new work in steel made specifically for the exhibition. The artist engages with the history of figurative sculpture and her position within this predominantly male tradition. Warren’s shape-shifting sculptures in clay and bronze range from amorphous to more recognisable forms, which are sometimes sexually explicit, embracing both the formal and the grotesque. Warren says of her work: “Though my work evolves through a process of appropriation and reference, it is non-didactic, being closer to revelation and discovery.”

NY, Ballantin Books Paperback, 1970. 256 pp. Illustrated by Quentin Fiore. Date (1971) noted to top of first page and light wear to cover else well preserved and clean copy. First edition. Classic in modern book design from Quentin Fiore (famous also for his work for 'The Medium is the Massage').

Harvard University Press, Loeb Classical Library, 1958. Publishers red hardcover (s), no jackets. xvi, 456; xi, 496; viii, 532 pp. Near fine / fine clean copy (copies). The classic annotated Loeb edition of Seneca's Moral essays bilingual, English and Latin by John W. Basore. Loeb # 214, 254, 310. Hard to find with all three volumes complete.

New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, 1959. Publishers hardcover, w well preserved unclipped and protected jacket. XV, 270 pp. First edition. Jacket design by Ronald Clyne. A "glimpse into Merton’s inner life before entering monasticism, tracing his journey through Greenwich Village, Cuba, St. Bonaventure, and Harlem, culminating at the threshold of Gethsemani Abbey".

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.

Røde Hane, (1980). Aflang 4to i original heftet omslag med brugsspor. 32 sider. Illustreret med 14 helsides fotografier i s/h. 1. oplag. Fotobog for børn om kampen for Byggeren / "Hands of Byggeren" is a Danish photobook for children (!) on "The Fight for Byggeren". Byggeren was an empty plot of land in the middle of Copenhagen and was to be the site of large new housing blocks to replace the demolished buildings, but no one knew when. Fed up with the inactivity, the residents built an adventure playground for the local children in 1973. Byggeren, as it was called, soon gained the status of a state-run children's institution. In April 1980 the Majors Office with the Police moved in to clear the land and violent confrontations erupted and the police declared a state of emergency in Nørrebro. First and only edition. Scarce item.

Routledge, 1991. Hardcover, w jacket. XIII, 334 pages. Name and only a few feeble pencil notes else a vey good copy. First edition.

Arkmappen / Ark Edition, 2011. One sheet with white printed letters on black surface "Nothing Is Impossible" / Ben. Fine. First and only printing.

Semiotext (e), 1998. Paperback as issued. 413 pages. Light edgewear. A clean copy. From 1993-96, artist Rainer Ganahl held six reading seminars with six different bibliographies in six different countries and entitled this public project; "IMPORTED—A READING SEMINAR, Or How to Reinvent the Coffee Table: 25 Books for Instant Use (7 Different National Versions).” Imported – A Reading Seminar is an extension of that project and gathers together a collection of texts with the common theme of import. For this volume, Ganahl invited a series of authors who have an intimate relation with each country he visited to contribute texts or interviews addressing the consequences of (cultural) exchange, globalization, nationalism, multinationalism, Orientalism, Eurocentrism, tourism, languages, theory, desires, identity, and politics from a variety of perspectives. The interview between Kojin Karatani and Sabu Kohso, included in this volume, addresses important economical and political aspects along with its instrumentality in the construction of nations and of race consciousness; Bill Arning's text demonstrates how the author came to understand through his experience as a curator that sexuality always has a specific cultural context; Coco Fusco deals with issues of prostitution in socialist countries now in the process of transition to capitalism; dealing with displacement of collective identities and their representation, Sami Naïr asks the question: What is it to be Arab? And Sylvere Lotringer: How can one become a foreigner in a foreign country. The resulting volume includes texts in English, Japanese, Russian, German, and French by nineteen different authors. Knowledge of a foreign language helps, but is not necessary. Along with those already mentioned included are texts by Julia Kristeva, Gayatri Spivak, Edward Said, Zeigam Azizov, Lisa Adkins, Dan Bacalzo, Benjamin Buchloh, Karen Kelsky, Dana Leonard, Edward Soja, Victor Tupitsyn, Wulf Schmidt-Wulfen.

London: Everyman's Library 309, 2007. Publishers hardcover, w jacket. XXXIII, 787 pp. Fine clean and unread copy. "Flann O'Brien, was an Irish civil service official, novelist, playwright and satirist, now considered a major figure in twentieth-century Irish literature and a key figure in modernist and postmodern literature with novels, such as At Swim-Two-Birds and The Third Policeman. O'Brien's novels have attracted a wide following both for their unconventional humour and as prominent examples of modernist metafiction. As a novelist, O'Brien was influenced by James Joyce. He was nonetheless skeptical of the "cult" of Joyce, saying "I declare to God if I hear that name Joyce one more time I will surely froth at the gob".

University of Helsinki, Department of Anthropology 2002. 8vo in original wraps as issued. VI, 355 pages. With illustrations. Very good, well preserved copy. 1st edition. - " a study of religious knowledge and ritual practices among the Spiritual Baptists in Tobago. It explores the Spiritual Baptist belief system and religious practitioners' politics of self-definition and demarcation, and contrasts these to the ways religion and culture have been conceptualised in studies of AfroCaribbean religious syncretism. Creolisation is shown to spring from the cultural resourcefulness of Spiritual Baptists rather than simply from a synthesis of two or more "original" cultures. The inventiveness and indigenousness of the religion do not render it rootless, fragmented or teleologically constructed, however. An ethnographic analysis of the Spiritual Baptist cosmology and rituals demonstrates that the religion has a cohesive, if not bounded, structure, and that the cosmology is thoroughly rooted in the local world and materialised in bodily experiences and performances. The dynamic of structure and creativity, inherent to the religion, engenders the basic questions of the study." (diss.).

Skagen / Kbh. : Skagens Kunstmuseer; Den Hirschsprungske Samling, 2023. Stor tung hardcover. 303 sider. Rigt illustreret. Navn. Den Hirschsprungske Samling satte i efteråret 2023 fokus på kunstneren Marie Triepcke Krøyer Alfvén (1867-1940) i en større udstilling med hendes billedkunst, indretning og design, hertil dette katalog.

University of California Press, 1995. Small hardcover, with dustjacket. XIV, 271 pp. Illustrated b/w. Fine copy. Publisher's note: 'Smithson's pioneering earthworks of the 1960s and 1970s anticipated contemporary concerns with environmentalism and the site-specific character of artistic production. His interrogation of authorship, the linear historiography of high modernism, and the limitations of the museum prefigures key themes in postmodern criticism while underscoring the uniqueness of Smithson's own work as an artist, filmmaker, and writer. Gary Shapiro's elegant and incisive study of Smithson's career is the first book to address the full range of the artist's dazzling virtuosity. Ranging from Smithson's best known works such as "Spiral Jetty" and "Partially Buried Woodshed" to his photographs, films, and theoretical readings and writings, Shapiro's masterful book analyzes Smithson's art in relation to the legacy of American art of the 1960s and central philosophical themes in its contemporary reception.'

London: RidingHouse, 2014. 4to. Publishers hardcover, no jackjet as issued. 432 pages, illustrated throughout. Only minimal edgewear. Clean and overall a near fine to fine copy. First edition. - Published on the occasion of "Rose English: The Eros of Understanding". Edited by Martha Fleming and Doro Globus; text by Guy Brett, scripts by Rose English, and interviews by Anne-Louise Rentell. Rose English emerged from the Conceptual art, dance and feminist scenes of 1970s Britain to become one of the most influential performance artists working today. Her uniquely interdisciplinary work combines elements of theatre, circus, opera and poetry to explore themes of gender politics, the identity of the performer and the metaphysics of presence. English has mounted performances in ice rinks; at the Royal Court Theatre and Tate Britain, London and Franklin Furnace, New York; and collaborated with horses, magicians and acrobats. This comprehensive monograph documents English’s 40-year career to date, including legendary site-specific performances and large-scale spectaculars. Accompanying many rare archival photographs and performance scripts, a major essay by Guy Brett surveys the artist’s work and times alongside interviews with two of English's closest collaborators, Sally Potter and Simon Vincenzi.

Hundige, Denmark, Portalen, 1995. 88 pp. Illustrated throughout. 1. edition. Including original inserted SUPERFLEX 3,5-inch floppy disk in pocket at end!

Karma, 2012. Large 4to softcover with dustjacket as issued, 96 pages, 72 color images. Fine with only most minimal shelfwear. 1st edition. - Awarded "The Most Beautiful Swiss Book" 2012. - Drawings is a collection of digital drawings created between 2008 and early 2012 by the young Swiss artist Tobias Madison. The works are based on the gestural application of software chains of command. Madison uses this formal language as work material for exhibitions, textile applications and performances. A love-hate relationship with abstraction, emptied design codes of the past decades, as well as fragments and ruins of the digital culture are interwoven into the iconography of the images. Influenced by the fast, almost spastic transition into the digital culture, Madison continually questions authorship, medium and distribution. Without ever lapsing into the prevalent cultural pessimism, Madison, in his maximum aesthetic, articulates a biting commentary on the present.