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Odense: Brandts, 2010. 4to. Original wrappers with jacket as issued. 112 pp. Short text in both Danish and English. Profusedly illustrated. Fine copy.

John Calder 1993. 8vo in publishers hardcover with gilt title and well preserved dustjacket. XX, 241 pp. Fine clean copy in protected jacket. First UK edition, 1st printing, with introduction by John Calder and Eoin O'Brien. Samuel Beckett’s first novel. Written in English over the summer in Hotel Trianon in Paris in 1932 when Beckett was only 26 and living in Paris, the clearly autobiographical novel was rejected by publishers and shelved by the author. The novel was eventually published in 1992, three years after the author's death. The title parodies Tennyson's "A Dream of Fair Women" and the term "fair to middling," applied to agricultural products. Three fragments from the book were published during Beckett's lifetime: "Text" and "Sedendo et Quiescendo" were actually published before he started working on the book and subsequently became part of it, whilst "Jem Higgins' Love-Letter to the Alba" was published in 1965. Beckett refused to allow the entire novel to be published during his lifetime, on the grounds that it was "immature and unworthy": his biographer Deirdre Bair believes that his reluctance to make it available to the reading public was to avoid offending lifelong friends whom Beckett satirised in the book. The novel is set in the town of Kassel, Germany, where 17-year-old Peggy Sinclair, a cousin of Beckett, lived with her parents. Beckett made several visits in Kassel 1928–32. The main character Belacqua, a writer and teacher, is very similar to Beckett himself, though a character named "Mr. Beckett" also makes an appearance in the book. Belacqua's name is taken from the character created by Dante. Influences on the novel include Geoffrey Chaucer's The Legend of Good Women, Alfred Tennyson's "A Dream of Fair Women" and Henry Williamson's The Dream of Fair Women.

Amsterdam, Art Data / Artimo / Gijs Stork, 2004. Large 8vo in wraps as issued. 296 pages, illustrated. Text in English. Stain to backcover but inside clean and overall a near fine / fine clean copy. 1st edition. Subtitled: 7 episodes on (ex)changing Europe.

Gyldendal 1936. Ubeskåret i det originale illustrerede omslag. 160 sider. Godt rent eksemplar, egnet til indbinding. Historien om en lille københavnerpige, Lotte. En dag rejser fru Gormsen, som ejer en „Skibsekvipering" i Nyhavn klos op ad et værtshus, til Aalborg i nogle dage, mens sønnen Anton derhjemme vinder penge i en krydsordskonkurrence. Og nu inviterer børnene hele ejendommens beboere og gode venner til et brag af en fest!

Moscow and Zurich: Strelka and Park Books, 2020. Tall 4to in wraps as issued. 548 pages, 470 color and 146 b/w illustrations. Text in English. Fine clean copy. Strelka Institute for Media, Architecture and Design is a non-profit international educational project, founded in 2009 and located in Moscow. Strelka incorporates an education programme on urbanism and urban development aimed at professionals with a higher education, a public summer programme, the Strelka Press publishing house, and KB Strelka, the consulting arm of the Institute. Strelka has been listed among the top-100 best architecture schools in 2014, according to Domus magazine. The Institute has been directed since 2013 by Varvara Melnikova. After the start of the Russo-Ukrainian war in 2022, Strelka suspended its operations (wiki). The New Normal (2017-2019) was a post-graduate program and Speculative Urbanism think-tank within Moscow’s renowned Strelka Institute of Media, Architecture, and Design. Directed by distinguished American social theorist Benjamin H. Bratton, the The New Normal conducted a collaborative research to investigate the impact of planetary-scale computation on the future of cities both in Russia and around the world. -The New Normal book, edited by Benjamin H. Bratton, Nicolay Boyadjiev, and Nick Axel, features twenty-two interlinked projects that were part of the research. Published alongside are seventeen lavishly illustrated contributions by international researchers and designers that outline the wider scope of The New Normal program's output, held together by concise thematic texts contributed by Benjamin H. Bratton. Contributors include many of the most influential contemporary designers, philosophers, architects, and artists, such as Yuk Hui, Liam Young, Anastassia Smirnova, Lydia Kallipoliti, Lev Manovich, Julieta Aranda, Trevor Paglen, Metahaven, Keller Easterling, Robert Gerard Pietrusko, Molly Wright Steenson, Ben Cerveny, Rival Strategy, Geoff Manaugh, Stephanie Sherman, and Patricia Reed. The fields of research include Speculative Megastructures, Human AI Interaction Design, Protocols and Programs, Synthetic Cinema, Alt-Geographies, Platform Econometrics, and Recursive Simulation.

Venise (Venice / Venedig): Alfieri editore, 1975. Tall 8vo ( 27,5 x 14,5 cm) in original stiff wrappers (no jacket). 236 pages, illustrated. Text in both French and German. Name stamp of previous owner to innercover. Clean inside. Overall a near fine copy. 1st edition of the legendary catalogue for the 'Junggesellenmaschinen' exhibition curated by Szeemann for Venice Biennale 1975 and Malmö Konsthall 1976.

Copenhagen: Edition Copenhagen / World House Editions, 2008. Large landscape 4to in black hardcover, no jacket as issued. 45pp on thick art paper, colour plates (two folding), etc. Text in English throughout. Fine copy. First edition.

Cambridge University Press, 1995. 8vo in publishers hardcover, w jacket. 316 pages. From the Danish-Faroese artist Goodiepal's collection with his name taggings to free front endpaper. Light surface marks to jacket else clean and overall a near fine very good copy. First edition. Published as part of the series The Music in the Twentieth Century, # 7.

Japan, 1990. Square 4to in wraps as issued. 66 pp. Illustrated richly. Text in Japanese and English. Some edgewear else fine. Three-dimensional wind driven kinetic sculptures by Japanese kinetic sculptor, Mr Yoichi Takada - moving sculptures that feed on wind and air currents.

Guggenheim Museum, 1971. 4to. Silver slipcase box with 43 page staple-bound softcover and 21 folded multi-sheets, one booklet per artist. Book & booklets are all near fine to fine. Some corner and surface wear to box (please see photos). Iconic exhibition catalog / artists book published in conjunction with show "Guggenheim International Exhibition 1971." Consists of boxed set of publications incorporating an exhibition catalogue with essays by Diane Waldman, and Edward F. Fry with extensive photographs and bibliography. Box also contains 21 folders - one each for each artists in the exhibition: Carl Andre, Daniel Buren, Victor Burgin, Hanne Darboven, Walter De Maria, Antonio Dias, Jan Dibbets, Dan Flavin, Michael Heizer, Donald Judd, On Kawara, Joseph Kosuth, Sol LeWitt, Richard Long, Mario Merz, Robert Morris, Bruce Nauman, Robert Ryman, Richard Serra, Jiro Takamatsu, Lawrence Weiner. Exhibition catalogue is housed within silver paper covered box, which is held within plain cardboard slipcase. Exhibition was infamous for the destruction, or removal, of the work by Buren before the opening of the exhibition.

London: Faber & Faber, 1968. Publisher's hardcover with suntanned and somewhat worn but unclipped and now protected dustjacket. (10), XI-XXVII, (2), 16, (12), XXXI-XXXVII pp. Illustrated with portraits and facsimile reproductions of the original manuscript. Namestamp from Bent Wiberg, the Danish Joyce translator. Overall a very good copy. First edition thus. Posthumously published, written in 1914, following the publication of Dubliners. In the free-form love poem, presented in the guise of a series of notes, Joyce attempts to penetrate the mind of a "dark lady", the object of an illicit love affair. "Giacomo" is the Italian form of the author's forename, James.

Published by Hatje Cantz 2008 for Schirn Kunsthalle and Fundacion Juan March. Publishers clothed hardcover, no jacket as issued. 423 pages, richly illustrated. Bilingual English German text. Light wear cover edges, mainly lower right corners, else fine and clean copy. First edition. On Grisha Bruskin; Erik Bulatov; Ilya Kabakov; Aleksandr Kosolapov; Boris Michailov; Andrei Monastirsky; Leonid Sokov; Vadim Zakharov among others.

Tübingen: Max Niemeyer Verlag, 1995 (1971). 5th reprint. 8°. Hardcover, mit OU. VIII, 237 Seiten. Name. Einige Anstreichungen mit Bleistift und Kugelschreiber. Auf seinem Denkweg hat sich Martin Heidegger immer wieder mit Schellings Denken auseinandergesetzt. Mehrere Vorlesungen und Seminare sind diesem Thema gewidmet. Im Zentrum stand dabei stets Schellings Abhandlung »Philosophische Untersuchungen über das Wesen der menschlichen Freiheit und die damit zusammenhängenden Gegenstände«. Das vorliegende Buch bringt im Hauptteil den Text der Vorlesung von 1936 und ergänzend dazu in einem Anhang ausgewählte Stücke aus der Vorlesung von 1941 und einzelne ausgesuchte Seminarnotizen der folgenden Jahre. Für die zweite Auflage wurde der Text gründlich durchgesehen, Druckfehler wurden korrigiert und Abweichungen gegenüber dem Originalmanuskript berichtigt.

Copenhagen: Forlaget Thaning & Appel, 1975. Small tall 8vo. Original photoillustrated wrappers. 142 pp. Text by Erik Nørgaard (in Danish) and illustrated with thirty very fine black/white portraits and nude studies by Jesper Høm. Only minor edgewear and clean and overall a very good copy of this increasingly hard-to-find photobook. 'Some call us filles de joie': Danish photo documentary with 30 interviews of female prostitutes from Copenhagen. Interviews by Erik Nørgaard and 30 photographs by Jesper Hom. High contrast black-and-white imagery, typical of the late 60's, early 70's scandinavian photography. First edition, first printing. Jesper Höm (1931-2000 - father to photographer Marc Hom), author of "Say Cheese and Cry".

Published by JICC Shuppankyoku 1990 (1986). Large 4to in original hardcover, w jacket 116 pp. Illustrated throughout with b/w photographs by Mapplethorpe. Introductory text by Joan Didion (in Japanese). Light edgewear, overall very good. Black-and-white nude photographs and portraits of models and stars: Isabella Rossellini, Susan Sarandon, Grace Jones, Brooke Shields, Melanie Griffith, Kathleen Turner, Laurie Anderson, Yoko Ono, Patti Smith among others.

Chaffeur Nyt, 1981. 4to. Softcover as issued. (79) pp. Illustrated throughout with photos. Short texts in Danish. Name to titlepage and some edgewear to backcover else a clean and fine copy.  First edition, 2nd printing in very good condition. Largely unknown Danish documentary photobook on truckers on the road in Denmark, down the European Autobahn and on a trip to Sicily

Wolke, 2024. Large 8vo in wraps as issued. 344 pages. Fine clean copy.

Copenhagen, 1999. Square 4to. Original wraps. 221 pp. Profusedly illustrated throughout. Text in both Danish and English. Excellent, clean copy. Comprehensive survey of the complete work's of Mertz.

Copenhagen: Galerie Mikael Andersen / San Francisco: Seems, 2009. 4to in wraps as issued. (32) pages including covers. Color illustrated throughout. Fine copy. Signed in hand with pencil to colophon page by Eddie Martinez. "Martinez's universe is populated by a colorful cocktail of stylized figures and abstract shapes. Exotic flowers, birds, sports equipment, and figures with exaggerated eyes as well as dots, lines, and patterns are fighting for space on the canvas. The compositions stress the plane and are expressive, playful, and dynamic. Old acquaintances are present. Boxing gloves, the large appealing eyes, and bananas are all part of the fixture in Martinez’s works, but the motives are tested and new variations created. Some places the banana is represented only by its yellow colour, and elsewhere an Amanita is reduced to red-white dot formations.The exhibition consists of both paintings and drawings of which the latter are constituted by a suite of four "dreamers." The painting Opponent of Dreams contrasts with the dreamy figures as the helmet-carrying guy equipped with boxing gloves and with his hands raised in defense takes a stand against the unrealistic dreamers. As suggested, peace and harmony do not stand alone. Several titles equip the works with dark undertones using martial metaphors, such as Up In Arms. This title clashes with the harmless table arrangement, and as the blue bird looks far more scared than prepared to fight the collision appears ironical. Martinez is not weighed down with seriousness; instead his works shine with irony and humour. The content, including the gallery of characters points at inspiration from comics as well as Warhol's pop art, in which the banana among others got the lead role. The boxing glove relates to an immortalized artistic clash in the ‘80s between Warhol and Basquiat dressed in boxing outfits. The legacy of Basquiat and Guston’s expressive figurative painting is also noticeable. Martinez is working diligently with the art historical reservoir which he explores and comments on. Classic genres such as still life and portrait painting are rethought refreshingly, and the expressive and naive brush gives 17th century flower piece a major boost. Eddie Martinez was born in 1977 and lives and works in Brooklyn. He has recently had solo exhibitions in New York, Stockholm and Seoul, but this is his first solo show in Denmark. Here Martinez is also showing a new suite of dry points and lithographs published by Fourth Estate, New York. On the occasion of the exhibition the book News and Updates with a text by Max Henry is published in collaboration with Seems Books, San Francisco."

Sweden: Malmö, 1980. Small 4to in original wraps as issued. 64 pages, illustrated, mainly in color. Bilingual in Swedish and English. Spine sunned else a fine copy. 1st edition. Book design by John Melin.

Spector Books, 2018. Oversized folio in wraps as issued. 290 pages. Text in English. Richly illustrated. Fine / as new. Second edition of this splendid prize winning study on John Cage. Highly recommended. Shipping might be extra - please inquire before ordering this item.

London, Mitchell Beazley, 2003. Large fine hardcover with jacket. 200 pages, photo-illustrated, partly in colour. Fine clean copy. 1st edition. Classic and useful reference work on the art of photography, building a collection, the photographic print, buying and selling photographs, displaying and caring for photographs; with a chronology of the art, glossary, key photographers, galleries & dealers, bibliography, useful index.

Copenhagen: Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek, 1981. Tall slim 8vo. App. 100 pages, illustrated throughout with drawings, collages and photographs. Very good clean copy. First edition. Rare Danish photobook / artist book by Rikke Diemer.

København, 1911 og 1912. 4to i originale, plastificerede omslag. Omkring 120 sider ialt. Illustreret. Flot tidsskrift i Skønvirke stil, med bidrag af Anna Ancher, Vilh. Andersen, L. Bramsen, Harald Branth, Max Bruhn, Chr. Dalgas, H. M. Fenger, Axel Gade, J. Hage, G. A. Hagemann, S. C. Hauberg, Poul Hertz, Helge Hostrup, Carl Jacobsen, Erna Juel-Hansen, Kloppenborg Skrumsager, Jakob Knudsen, H. Lüttichau, Moses Melchior, O. B. Muus, Jørgen H. Nielsen, H. Ploug, Ole Ricard, E. A. Tscherning, Harald Bing, Natalie Zahle og flere. Et par enkelte sider løse ellers ganske godt og velbevaret sæt. Originaludgave.

Desclee de Brouwer et Cie, Paris, 1937. 4to in original hardcover. 54 pages, with illustrations mainly in color and some full page by Elisabeth Ivanovsky. Text in French. Foxing to edges else clean inside and ovrall a fine well preserved clean copy. Elisabeth Ivanovsky was an emigre from Moldavia, arriving in Brussels in 1932. She illustrated some fabulous children’s books, working for a number of publishers, in particular Desclee be Brouwer & Co in Paris. This dates from 1937 and is lithographed without using the black. For lovers of bears everywhere. Scarce first edition. Finely printed children's book about a brown bear in Canada, with colour plates. Attractive copy.