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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.

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.

La Casa Encendida, 2008. Landscape format. 152 pages, finely printed and richly illustrated. Light wear to corners else clean. Includes a large very beautiful fold-out poster titled "A Vicious Undertow."

San Francisco: Dave Haselwood Books and City Lights, 1974 (1970). 210 pp. With illustrations. Paperback. Name to half title else clean and overall an attractive well preserved copy. Third printing. "travel diary by American poet Allen Ginsberg, first published by Dave Haselwood Books and City Lights Books in 1970.The journal is a collection of recollections, reflections, photographs, sketches, poems and associative ephemera from Ginsberg's journey in India with partner Peter Orlovsky between 1962 and 1963".

Espoo: Emma / Palace Editions, 2006. Small 4to hardcover as issued. 149 pages. Richly color illustrated, Well-documented exhibition catalogue. Bilingual publication (Finnish - English). Fine clean copy. First edition.

University of California Press, 1999. Square 8vo in white wraps, as issued. 113 pages, with illustrations. Near fine clean copy.

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

New York: The Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, 1984. Oblong 8vo in wraps, as issued. 88 pp.; Approx. 50 plates, mostly bw. Accompanied a 1984 exhibition; Includes a statement by the artist, as well as an interview with him by Linda Shearer, on the artists career long fascination with abstract architecture - the totality of which insley termed the opaque civilization.  1. ed. Will Insley (1929-2011) was an American painter, architect, and planner of utopian urban models, geometric abstraction paintings. A chapter is dedicated to Insley in the reference publication, “The New American Abstraction 1950-1970” by Claudine Humblet.

St. Paul, MN: Little Brown Mushroom, 2011. Small 8vo in stapled wraps as issued 5 1/2 x 8 1/2 inches. pp. [4], 5-60, [4]. Minor exterior fading. Very good copy. In acid-free archival plastic bag. 1st edition (not signed). Alec Soth's photo stories, with staged and found photography. Includes story by Jindrich Styrsk.

Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art, State University of New York, New Paltz, NY, 2001. 4to in wraps as issued. 46 pages, illustrations from Morris' drawings. Very good clean copy. First edition.

New York: Pantheon Books, 1979. Large 4to in original slightly worn but now protected jacket with $6.95 flap price. Unpaginated. Illustrated throughout. Discoloration and a little soiling to jacket else overall a good copy. 1st US edition, First Printing with complete number line.

London & New York: Routledge, 1999. Large heavy paperback. XV, 307 pages. With illustrations. Fine clean copy. First edition. "The most comprehensive volume on performance art from the Americas to have appeared in English, Corpus Delecti is a unique collection of historical and critical studies of contemporary Latin performance. Drawing on live art from the 1960s to the present day, these fascinating essays explore the impact of Latin American politics, popular culture and syncretic religions on Latin performance. On Body art, staged political protest, tropicalist musical comedies, contemporary Venezuelan performance art, the Chicano Art movement, queer Latino performance etc."

Centrum, 1989. 144 pp. Hft. Forlagsstemplet.

Da Capo Press, 2017 (2016). Publishers hardcover, w jacket. XIV, 412 pages. Fine clean copy. The gripping story of the rise of early drug culture in America, from the author of the acclaimed Can't Find My Way Home. With an intricate storyline that unites engaging characters and themes and reads like a novel, Bop Apocalypse details the rise of early drug culture in America by weaving together the disparate elements that formed this new and revolutionary segment of the American social fabric. Drawing upon his rich decades of writing experience, master storyteller Martin Torgoff connects the birth of jazz in New Orleans, the first drug laws, Louis Armstrong, Mezz Mezzrow, Harry Anslinger and the Federal Bureau of Narcotics, swing, Lester Young, Billie Holiday, the Savoy Ballroom, Reefer Madness, Charlie Parker, the birth of bebop, the rise of the Beat Generation, and the coming of heroin to Harlem. Aficionados of jazz, the Beats, counterculture, and drug history will all find much to enjoy here, with a cast of characters that includes vivid and memorable depictions of Billie Holiday, Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Jackie McLean, Allen Ginsberg, William S. Borroughs, Jack Kerouac, Herbert Huncke, Terry Southern, and countless others. Bop Apocalypse is also a living history that teaches us much about the conflicts and questions surrounding drugs today, casting many contemporary issues in a new light by connecting them back to the events of this transformative era. At a time when marijuana legalization is rapidly becoming a reality, it takes us back to the advent of marijuana prohibition, when the templates of modern drug law, policy, and culture were first established, along with the concomitant racial stereotypes. As a new opioid epidemic sweeps through white working- and middle-class communities, it brings us back to when heroin first arrived on the streets of Harlem in the 1940s. And as we debate and grapple with the gross racial disparities of mass incarceration, it puts into sharp and provocative focus the racism at the very roots of our drug war. Having spent a lifetime at the nexus of drugs and music, Torgoff reveals material never before disclosed and offers new insights, crafting and contextualizing Bop Apocalypse into a truly novel contribution to our understanding of jazz, race, literature, drug culture, and American social and cultural history.

Forlaget Rosinante, 2002. 68 pp. Hft. Forlagsstemplet. Navn, ellers ren og pæn.  Digte og prosastykker, som Eik sendte hjem til sin mor fra mange verdenshjørner inden han som 25-årig tog sit eget liv i Indien i 1968. Redigeret af hans søster.

Dansmuseet, 1993. 4to hardcover. 197 pages, richly illustrated, in b/w and color, with folding plates. Text in both English and Swedish. Light edgewear to the fragile cover else fine copy. First edition. Beautiful publication on the theater décor, costumes, backdrops and scenery made by the Russian avantgarde and construtivist artists like Alexandra Exter, Varvara Stepanova and others.

Faber & Faber 1971. Publishers hardcover, w jacket. 107 pp. Very good clean copy. The T. S. Eliot memorial lectures 1971.

Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2012. Publishers hardcover with jacket. XII, 319 pages. With illustrations. Fine clean attractive copy. Part of the series "Hopkins Studies In Modernism". First edition, 1st printing. - "Jeremy Braddock focuses on collective forms of modernist expression—the art collection, the anthology, and the archive—and their importance in the development of institutional and artistic culture in the United States. Using extensive archival research, Braddock's study synthetically examines the overlooked practices of major American art collectors and literary editors: Albert Barnes, Alain Locke, Duncan Phillips, Alfred Kreymborg, Amy Lowell, Ezra Pound, Katherine Dreier, and Carl Van Vechten. He reveals the way collections were devised as both models for modernism's future institutionalization and culturally productive objects and aesthetic forms in themselves. Rather than anchoring his study in the familiar figures of the individual poet, artist, and work, Braddock gives us an entirely new account of how modernism was made, one centered on the figure of the collector and the practice of collecting. Collecting as Modernist Practice demonstrates that modernism's cultural identity was secured not so much through the selection of a canon of significant works as by the development of new practices that shaped the social meaning of art. Braddock has us revisit the contested terrain of modernist culture prior to the dominance of institutions such as the Museum of Modern Art and the university curriculum so that we might consider modernisms that could have been. Offering the most systematic review to date of the Barnes Foundation, an intellectual genealogy and analysis of The New Negro anthology, and studies of a wide range of hitherto ignored anthologies and archives, Braddock convincingly shows how artistic and literary collections helped define the modernist movement in the United States."

Dia Art Foundation, New York, 2004. Small 8vo in wraps as issued. 220 pp., illus., bib. notes. Light edgewear else fine clean copy. The second in the series of the Robert Lehman Lectures on Contemporary Art. Artists discussed include Fred Sandback, Richard Serra, Jessica Stockholder, Dan Flavin et al.

Copenhagen: Forlaget Sommersko, 1977. 12mo. Original stiff wraps. Unpaginated pages with b/w illustrations. As often with considerable wear to cover. Some of the last pages of this copy dog-eared. "Wild Birds and Animals", an outstanding artist book by Jens Birkemose, maybe his best, illustrated throughout collaged photographs & drawings, mostly erotic. First edition.

Nieuw Amsterdam, 2014 (2009). Tall large 4to in wraps as issued. 127 pages. Illustrated throughout. Very good copy. 2nd printing of the first Amsterdam book by Rothuizen: "Amsterdam changes every day, in big and small ways. Jan Rothuizen witnesses these changes and portrays them like no other: personal, witty and enthusiastic. His book The Soft Atlas of Amsterdam has become a classic, which is reprinted annually. High time for a second part: City of Change Amsterdam, about the visible and invisible sides of the city. From a Saturday night on Leidseplein to the home of Jan's cleaning lady, from the two minutes of silence on Dam Square to a hair salon in a mosque. A tribute to the noise of Amsterdam life."

Zurich: Lars Müller Publsihers, 2015. Hardcover. 575 pp. Illustrated. Fine copy. First edition.

Arena, 1957. 129 pp. Original hæftet omslag. Omslag lidt slidt. 1ste udgave, første oplag. Hovedværk i dansk litteratur, een af de vigtigste danske romaner i det tyvende århundrede.

Charlottenborg, 1993. 4to. Original hardcover hellærred med smudsomslag. 259 sider. Rigt illustreret i s/h og farver. Pænt rent eksemplar.

New York : Carolina Nitsch Editions / D.A.P./ Distributed Art Publishers / Hatje Cantz / 2003. Oblong large 4to in fine clothed hardcover. 95 pages, illustrated throughout with intro in English. Fine copy. First edition. "A seminal book by one of the first artists of the Pictures generation to use set-up photography to create images with intensely psychological subtexts. it features the first comprehensive survey of Simmons' early black-and-white photographs, the importance of which Carol Squiers describes in her essay: "What Simmons did with domestic subjects was unique ... Her use and manipulation of miniaturized dolls, objects, and interiors gave the photographs the abstracted quality of a dream, which was markedly different from the cool ... images of other artists. By using objects that so clearly evoked childhood, she was also more directly referencing personal memory." This previously unpublished early work put Laurie Simmons on the forefront of a new generation of artists, predominantly women, whose use of the media as subject began a new dialogue on contemporary art. In Simmons' own words, "Re-examining the pictures, I became aware of a potential narrative and structure that hadn't been obvious to me during the years that I was shooting. I actually began to see a house with many rooms, as well as indoor and outdoor space. I also began to think about a female presence, both real and implied, and to formally locate a space that didn't exist in my mind originally when I was exploring the territory with my camera. The project that you see here took shape when hundreds of long-forgotten images were revisited with the notion of creating a home within In and Around the House.".