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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 This previously unpublished early work put Laurie Simmons on the forefront of a new generation of artists, predominantly women, whose use of the media as subject began a new dialogue on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.".

London: Arts Council of Great Britain / The Hayward Gallery 9 Nov 1983 - 5 Feb 1984.Oblong large 8vo in card wraps with fine jacket. 185 pages, richly illustrated. Fine copy. First edition.

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.

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.

Twin Palms Publishers, 2005. Large hardcover. 120 pp. Very good copy. First edition. Large book and extra shipping may apply - please inquire before ordering this item!

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.

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.

Dia Art Foundation & Yvon Lambert, 2006. Oblong 4to in wraps as issued. 76 pp. Illustrated in color. Fine clean copy. First edition. The Shape, the Scent, the Feel of Things was a performance by Joan Jonas, which responds to German art historian Aby Warburg’s essay about his visit to the American Southwest 1896 first staged 2005 / 2006 and here in bookform for the first time.

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.

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."

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.

Generalitat Valenciana, Valencia. Exhibition Catalogue. IVAM Centre del Carme 2.2.-23.4.1995. 4to in wraps as issued. 180 pages, illustrated, with text in Spanish and English translation at end. Very good clean copy. 1. edition. - Cildo Meireles (born 1948) is a Brazilian conceptual artist, installation artist and sculptor. He is noted especially for his installations, many of which express resistance to political oppression in Brazil. These works, often large and dense, encourage a phenomenological experience via the viewer's interaction. Meireles work shares a starting point with the works of Hélio Oiticica and Lygia Clark, artists that introduced him to the Brazilian Neo-Concrete movement. These artists, as well as Meireles, were all concerned with blurring the boundary between what is art and what is life, and responding to current political situations within their pieces

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."

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".

Copenhagen: Order in Chaos 2021. 8vo in wraps as issued. 196 pages. New copy. "A must-have for all film lovers. In a personal way it brings the reader very close to experience and understand the creative process of editing documentary films". First edition.

Hans Reitzels, 1969. 179 pp. Hft. Navn på inderomslag. Jesper Jensen og andre ønskede det daværende folkeskolesystem erstatttet af en målbevidst marxistisk undervisning og sammen med Bo Dan Andersen og Søren Hansen skrev han ”Den lille røde Bog for skoleelever”. Børnene skulle på den måde inddrages i den planlagte skolerevolution med idéer til aktioner og lignende. Udover politisk auktionistisk materiale rummer den lille røde også en række nyttige vejledninger, fx. i diverse sexuelle emner fra onani til abort, samt kapitler om hvordan de forskellige rusmidler, inkl. hvordan LSD virker.

Los Angeles, California Museum of Contemporary Art & D.A.P. / Distributed Art Publishers, New York, 2004. Large oversized heavy 4to hardcover w jacket. 208 pp., with 220 four-color, duotone and black-and-white illustrations. Richly illustrated. Text in English. Near fine / fine clean copy. First edition. Comprehensive monograph with essays by Jessica Bradley, Sara Krajewski, Lynne Cooke, Diedrich Diederichsen, Shepherd Steiner, Cornelia Butler and Grant Arnold. Includes a biography, exhibition history, bibliography and a list of works. Published on the occasion of an exhibition organized by the Art Gallery of Ontario, which traveled to numerous venues. - From the publisher: "One of Canada's most humorous conceptual artists--as witty as he is smart--Rodney Graham gets his first North American museum retrospective and accompanying catalogue. Rodney Graham: A Little Thought tracks the career of a brilliant, idiosyncratic artist whose work spans a range of media including photography, film, book works, installation and pop music. In this volume, amply illustrated with many never-before-seen images from early in his career as well as new photography of his most recent works, scholarly essays provide a broad context for viewing: Cornelia Butler looks at Graham's relationship to landscape and Canadian identity, Lynne Cooke examines the construction of the artist's persona in works such as City Self/ Country Self (2001), and Shep Steiner discusses the joke as a conceptual strategy for Graham. Diedrich Diederichsen considers the artist's oeuvre within the context of musical structure, and Sara Krajewski describes how Graham's video works unfold. Finally, Grant Arnold offers an in-depth illustrated chronology, tracing the range of activities that have occupied Graham since his early days on the Vancouver scene.".

Dokument Press w emancipatssionsfrugten, 2019. Small 4to in wraps with jacket. 110 pages, richly illustrated in color including folding plates. NEW COPY! 1. ed. Photobook documentating and introducing to the paintworks - or in Danish "bemalinger" - the site specific paintworks by Jonas Georg Christensen og Peter Olsen.

Philadelphia Museum of Art, 2008. Large quarto [9" x 11.75"] in stiff wraps. 252 pages, richly illustrated in color, text in English, DVD in pocket at rear. Front corners dented (see photos) else very good and clean copy. 1. ed. "James Castle (1899-1977) was an American artist born in Garden Valley, Idaho. James Castle was a self-taught artist who created drawings, assemblage and books throughout his lifetime. Castle was born profoundly deaf and for at least some time attended the Gooding School for the Deaf and the Blind in Gooding, Idaho, but it is not known to what extent he could read, write, or use sign language. Castle's artworks were created almost exclusively with found materials such as papers salvaged from common packaging and mail, in addition to food containers of all types. Castle mixed ink using soot from the woodstove with saliva and applied it with tools of his own making, including sharpened sticks, and other found objects. His drawings sensitively depict interiors, buildings, animals, landscapes and people based on his family's rural Garden Valley homestead as well as the architecture and landscapes of the places he lived and visited. His former home in Boise, Idaho is now a cultural center devoted to his work and includes an artist-in-residence venue."

Forlaget Cordelia og Grafisk Nutidskunst, 1982. Folio, stor bog i tværformat. Med farveafbildninger. 64 s. Heftet med tråd og med det originale omslag. Med teksten "Om litografi" af Hans Scherfig. Pænt eksemplar. 1. oplag.

New York: Scribner, 1997 (1997). Publisher's hardcover with dustjacket. 827 pp. Very good clean copy. First edition, 10th printing of DeLillo's modern classic, listed as one of the 3 most important books of the last 25 years by The New York Times.