Search Results

New York MacMillan / Free Press, 1990. Original boards with dustjacket. XVIII, 654 pp. With illustrations. Spine of jacket sunbleached else very fine, clean copy. First American edition, 1st printing.

Borgen, 1986. 222 pp. Hft. Illustreret. Navn, lidt brugsspor. Heri blandt de fire tekster af Yanagi oversat til dansk "Ornamentets Væsen", "Tanker om Te-ceremonien", "At se. At vide" og "Æstetikkens forkyndelse".

London: The Architectural Press, 1962 (1961). 8vo. Hardcover, with original jacket. 315 pages, richly illustrated. Jacket is unclipped with some chips and wear to edges. Book itself clean. Overall a very good copy. First edition, 2nd impression.

Max Niemeyer, Tübingen, 1971. Original Ganzleinen mit OU. 175 Seiten. Name auf Vorsatz, sonst sauberes und insgesamt schönes Exemplar.

Potsdam: Gustav Kiepenheuer, 1927. Small 8vo in publisher's red hardcover boards with original dustjacket, red topedge. 141 pp. Jacket worn but now protected and overall a very good copy with the extremely rare original jacket. Hier die erste Ausgabe des Theaterstücks mit der gedruckten Widmung an Erwin Piscator und Walter Mehring. - Zustand: Umschlag vorhanden, mit Läsuren und Randabrissen / First edition, 1st printing. Toller in the 1920's was Germany’s most popular playwright, a´Jewish writer who also lived the radical ideals he expressed in his plays and was imprisoned. In the spring of 1939, Nazi Germany invaded Bohemia and Moravia, the Spanish Republicans lost to Franco and, on May 22nd, in his room at the Mayflower Hotel in New York, the German Jewish writer and antifascist Ernst Toller, who was living in exile, took his life. Given to prescience, it’s possible he sensed what was coming. Toller was unique even in the highly political Weimar art scene, for living out his ideals, and their consequences, before his rise to fame as an artist. In 1919, the same year his first play debuted, he served six days as the president of the Bavarian Soviet Republic, an unrecognized socialist state in Munich. He was arrested and stood trial for high treason soon after. “He was very lucky to not be murdered by the paramilitary right wing as some of his comrades were,” said Drew Lichtenberg, a dramaturg who translated Toller’s 1927 play, Hoppla, We’re Alive! - Toller spent 1920 to 1925 imprisoned at a fortress in Niederschönenfeld. From there, he wrote expressionistic plays and poetry and became perhaps the most famous dramatist in Germany. Toller didn’t see his prison-penned work onstage until his release, but by then he’d been produced in other countries, too, emerging as the most internationally produced German playwright. Hoppla follows a group of revolutionaries jailed in the 1919 (the year of Toller’s arrest) and their lives eight years later (which was the present day at the time of the play’s premiere). Focusing on a protagonist, Karl Thomas, who was put away for years in a mental institution, the play drew from Toller’s experience with confinement and reflected his disillusionment with party doctrine after freedom. Thomas is a flawed hero, hewing to outdated ideals in the face of a modernizing Germany. - In 1927’s Hoppla, he depicted strains of antisemitism, and even has a character discussing a master race and forced euthanasia. “You feel this window cracks open where you can catch a kind of a whiff of history as it was,” said Lichtenberg.“He’s interested in the radicalization of young German people by the Nazis and he’s interested in how this cancerous ideology that goes back to the end of World War I among the right is festering and is becoming something warped and demonic.” But Toller was also skeptical of Communism. His refusal to fall into a party line led to a rift between him and the Marxist Piscator. Creative differences led each to staged different premieres of Hoppla, two days apart, with alternate endings. In a first, both endings are presented in Lichtenberg’s translation.Piscator’s Hoopla was a massive production that introduced many of the trademarks he’d go on to refine later in his career. The show made use of newsreel interludes, catching the attention of a young Bertolt Brecht, who would become Piscator’s dramaturg and major creative partner in developing a theory of Epic Theatre. With the Nazi rise to power, Toller escaped to London and then New York. He became a well-known antifascist lecturer, speaking on behalf of Spanish Republicans and raising money for their cause. In the spring of 1939, Piscator visited Toller in his Manhattan hotel. He was starting the Dramatic Workshop at the New School and wanted Toller to be on faculty. But Toller had sunk into a depression over the news of Franco’s victory and that his brother and sister were shipped to concentration camps. He hanged himself four months before the start of World War II.

Schirmer Trade Books, 2002. Original black half cloth, gilt lettered spine hardcover, with dustjacket. 209 pp. illustrated with b/w photographs. Text in English. Fine / as new copy. First edition. "In the 1950s, Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers introduced "hard bop," a blend of bebop, blues, gospel, and Latin music that has defined jazz mainstream ever since. Although Blakey?s influence as a drummer and bandleader was enormous, his greatest contribution may have been as a mentor to younger musicians such as Wayne Shorter, Freddie Hubbard, Lee Morgan, Jackie McLean, and Wynton Marsalis. Leslie Gourse chronicles Blakey?s colorful life and career, from his hardscrabble childhood in Pittsburg to his final years as an international jazz icon."

MacGibbon and Kee, London, 1966. Publishers hardcover with very good caramel colored dustwrapper, not price-clipped and protected. 234 pages. Clean, very well preserved copy. First UK edition. " William Carlos Williams’ loving and groundbreaking book about American history - (...) a modern classic that went generally unnoticed during the years after its publication in 1925. Yet it is “a fundamental book, essential if one proposes to come to terms with American literature” (Times Literary Supplement). William Carlos Williams was not a historian, but he was fascinated by the texture of American history. Beginning with Columbus’s discovery of the Indies and moving on through Sir Walter Raleigh, Cotton Mather, Daniel Boone, George Washington, Ben Franklin, Aaron Burr, Edgar Allan Poe, and Abraham Lincoln, Williams found in the fabric of familiar episodes new shades of meaning and configurations of character. He brought a poetic imagination to the task of reconstructing a live tradition for Americans, and what results is one of the finest works of prose to have been penned by any writer of the twentieth century."

Barrie & Rockliff: The Cresset Press, 1975. Square 4to in heavy publisheres hardcover with well preserved unclipped jacket. 228 pages, richly illustrated. Fine copy. 1. edition. "Classic study on vernacular architecture and how simple housing will be necessary in the future to "ensure sustainability in both cultural and economic terms beyond the short term".

Thunder's Mouth Press, New York, 1989. Paperback. XIX, 268 pages. Some handling wear to cover and edges, else clean and very good copy. Uncommon. First edition, softcover.

Denmark: Brøndums Forlag, 1970. Original promotional poster app. 50 x 70 cm. Pin holes at corners and tear to upper edge and minor edgewear. Rolled. Promotional poster printed on the occasion of the publication of the book of same name 1970. SIGNED by Trampedach.

New York: Norton & Co., 1988. In original red clothed heavy hardcover with gilt title and dustjacket. XX, 810 pp. With illustrations. Jacket somewhat edgeworn, inside clean and overall a very good copy. First US edition.

New York, NY: New Press, 1997. 8vo in wraps as issued. 328 pages, illustrated. Fine copy with only minor shelfwear. 1. ed.

New York: Spring Publications - Putnam, 2007. 8vo. Paperback as issued. 208 pp. Only light edgewear. Overall a very good and clean copy. The first complete collection of Klein's writings in English, including 'The Monochrome Adventure' and 'Chelsea Hotel Manifesto'.

London: Constable, 2009. Hardcover, w jacket. Index, 482 pp. Very good clean copy. First edition, 2nd printing.

London: Vermilion Paperback, 1982 (1981). XX, 250 pp. With illustrations. Very good clean copy. First UK edition.

Princeton Architectural Press, 2006. Tall heavy hardcover. 255 pages, richly illustrated. Text in English. Light surface marks to cover edges and spine tanned else clean and well preserved copy. 1st edition. "Do you really know what is under that new house you just bought? How about what lies beneath the neighborhood playground? Was that "big boxa retailer down your street built over a toxic site? These are just a few of the worrisome scenarios facing us all as our cities begin to redevelop old toxic waste sites a " places Alan Berger has coined "drosscapes.a Drosscape: Wasting Land in Urban America is your guide to this vast, hitherto largely ignored field of waste landscapes. Landscape architects must learn to accommodate these wastelands along with the more traditional challenges of site and construction. This will require a radical reconceptualization of thinking about landscape before potential solutions can be effectively addressed or devised. Ten cites are examined both visually and analytically through the use of aerial photography and geospatially derived maps, charts, and graphs. "

Koenig Books & Forlaget Vandkunsten, 2016. Hardcover without dustjacket as issued; 328 pages; in Danish and German. Light shelfwear and minimal rubbing to exterior; clean and crisp; no internal marks. 1. ed. STEINE IM FLUSS. Ein Leben als Frau und Künstlerin. Hrsg. von Ursula Reuter Christiansen, Frederikke Hansen & Kristina Ask. Texte von Ursula Reuter Christiansen. Köln 2016. 21,7 x 28,3 cm. 328 S. mit 210 (138 farb.) meist ganzseit. Abb., Chronologie, Leinen - Text in dt. & dän. Sprache. "Ursula Reuter versteht das eigene Leben als Material für ihr künstlerisches Schaffen. In diesem Sinne arbeitet sie expressiv mit sich selbst. In Texten und Bildern beschreibt sie, wie sich persönliche Geschichte und die Ikonen, mit denen sie sich auseinandergesetzt hat, zu großen, universalen Erzählungen über Leidenschaft, Betrug, Begehren, Liebe und Widerstand verschmelzen. Der Bericht über ihre 50jährige künstlerische Arbeit nimmt seinen spannenden Ausgangspunkt in den frühen Jahren in Deutschland nach dem 2. Weltkrieg, zutiefst fasziniert von Mythen, Märchen und Sagen der Romantik. Die Studienjahre i den 60 er Jahren bei Joseph Beuys und das Motto der Zeit "Leben ist Kunst und Kunst ist Leben" war von entscheidender Bedeutung für die Künstlerin. Es folgt die Reise gen Norden und ihre Ehe mit dem dänischen Komponisten und Fluxuskünstler Henning Christiansen. Die Werke, die ab den 70er Jahren im Umfeld des ländlichen und familiären Lebens auf der Insel Moen entstanden sind, erzählen von den Frauen- und Arbeiterkämpfen jener Jahre, von Augenblicken existentieller Erfahrungen mit Ehe, Karriere, Depression, Trotz und Einsamkeit - alles beherrscht von der Besessenheit als kreativer Mensch zu leben."

Puro Chile, 2006. Very heavy hardcover. 645 pages, throughout illustrated. Text in both Spanish and English. Only minor wear to cover. 1. ed. . Due to the extra weight of this item, please inquire about shipping prices before ordering! Copying Eden. Recent Art in Chile, presents and analyzes the evolution of contemporary art in Chile from 1973 to present days, edited by the renowned curator Gerardo Mosquera.It is the most extensive bibliographic source on contemporary Chilean art yet published. The book’s 650 pages and over 500 color images present work from 1973 to the present, featuring 74 artists, among them Gonzalo Díaz, Eugenio Dittborn, Juan Downey, Paz Errázuriz, Alfredo Jaar, Iván Navarro and Lotty Rosenfeld. It includes images of many other artists that illustrate an introduction by the editor and six essays by prominent critics and scholars like Nelly Richard and Adriana Valdés. The publication also includes the most comprehensive bibliography ever compiled on the subject, among other materials.

New York: New Directions, 1949. 8vo. Original hardcover w well preserved dustjacket, just a little edgeworn and protected in mylar.185 (1) pp. Clean inside. First American edition - Michaux visits India, the Himalayas, southern India, Ceylon, Malaya (from Malaysia to Bali), China, and Japan.

Copenhagen, Brondum, 1991. Publisher's printed wraps as issued. 117 pp. Full text in both English and Danish. Spine sunned (see photos) else fine well preserved copy. First edition thus.

Roskilde Museet for Samtidskunst, 1996. 8vo. 96 pages. Text in Danish and English. Illustrated. Fine. 1. edition. Book designed by Michael Jensen. Outstanding Danish book design object, text only and printed in blue on transparent plastic - after Duchamp, Queneau and Højholt.

Edition After Hand, 1973. 8vo in printed illustrated wraps as issued. (52) pp. Illustrated throughout. Cover discolored with some foxing. First edition. Rare concrete poetry item.

C &K Forlag, 2014. 119 pp. Hardcover med omslag. Første danske oplag.

Copenhagen, 1995. 8vo. Original wrappers. 30 pages. Richly illustrated. Complete and well preserved. 1. edition. Very rare item. SUPER ISSUE !! Art-Land International was a thin and glossy zine that is a humorous and serious commentary on the contemporary art scene of the ‘90s. Inc. A great state-of-the-nation time capsule of the 1990s.Included are articles and interviews with artists and an ongoing photography based comic strip called “Art Club”.

Gyldendal 2020. Original hardcover. 614 pp. Pænt eksemplar. "Ovids Elskovskunst. Håndbog i hor."