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London: Omnibus Press, 2013. Hardcover, with jacket. XIV, 367 pages. Fine clean copy that appears unread. First edition.

Aristo, 2006. Folio. Hardcover, uden smudsomslag. 456 sider. Rigt illustreret. Om den danske arkitekt Nicolai Eigtveds (1701-1754) liv og karriere fra ung bondefødt gartnersvend til hofbygmester, oberst, akademidirektør og til en af Europas førende rokokoarkitekter, der som som hofarkitekt stod bag Marmorbroen, PrinsensPalæ, Eigtveds pakhus, Frederiksstaden og Amalienborg-palæerne.NB: Due to weight of this item extra shipping may apply. Please inquire before ordering this item.

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

Copenhagen: Informations Forlag, 1979. Small 4to in softcover as issued. 268 pp. Illustrated b/w and color. Text in Danish. Some edgewear and marks to cover, still above average copy. 1. oplag af BOGEN om Christiania - fint tilrettelagt i stil med Jacob Holdt's "Amerikanske billeder" / THE book on Freetown Christiania - in very similiar book design as American Pictures by Jacob Holdt. First edition.

Cambridge at the University Press, 1965. Two vols in publishers red clothed hardcovers with gilt titles. XI, 422, VIII, 248 pp. A bit of edgewear else a clean set, very well preserved, no stamps, notes or markings. First edition (s).

New York: Primary Information, 2006. 4to large paperback as issued. XVII, 313 pages, plus index. Upper spine with superficial wear, and lower right corner (s) a bit dog-eared else very good clean and tight copy. First printing thus. - "Writings and artists' projects from Real Life magazine, a seminal 1980s periodical edited by the artist, writer and curator Thomas Lawson and writer Susan Morgan. Published in 23 intermittent black-and-white issues from 1979-1994, Real Life was devoted to providing an outlet for a circle of artists who did not feel properly represented in the mainstream art world at the time--many of whom are now grouped with the Pictures and Post-Pictures artists. The anthology features both artists and art historians writing on art, media and popular culture--oftentimes infusing a new kind of humor into their cultural critiques--as well as original pictorial contributions. It includes writings by and about Eric Bogosian, Kim Gordon, Dan Graham, Barbara Kruger, Thomas Lawson, Allan McCollum, John Miller, Matt Mullican, Richard Prince, David Robbins, Michael Smith, Ed Ruscha, Jeff Wall and Lawrence Weiner, to name a few, as well as visual projects by Sherrie Levine, James Welling, Felix Gonzalez-Torres and Group Material, among others."

Published by Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin 2007. 8vo hardcover, no jacket as issued. 281 pp. Text in both German and English. Illustrated. Fine clean copy. 1st edition. Texts by Eric Andersen, Andrea Bátorová, György Galántai, Milan Knížák, Vytautas Landsbergis, Pavlína Morganová, Luiza Nader, Maria Anna Potocka, Tamás St. AubyPetra Stegmann & Emmett Williams.

Detroit: The Gilbert and Lila Silverman Collection & Roskilde Museum of Contemporary Art, 2008. Tall 4to in publishers stiff wraps as issued. 230 pages. Richly illustrated, partly in color. Text in English. As new copy. First edition. The catalogue includes new, original texts by Eric Andersen, Anna Dezeuze, Letty Eisenhauer, Yoko Ono, and Susanne Rennert, as well essays by Marianne Bech and Jon Hendricks. La Monte Young has written a separate text, to be published in conjunction with the exhibition. The exhibition included work by: Bengt af Klintberg, Eric Andersen, Arman, Ay-O, Joseph Beuys, Michael von Biel, George Brecht, Sylvano Bussotti, John Cage Giuseppe Chiari, Henning Christiansen, Philip Corner, Robin Crozier, Walter de Maria, Willem de Ridder, Marcel Duchamp, Nye Ffarrabas, Robert Filliou, Albert M. Fine, Fluxus Collective, Hi Red Center, Geoff Hendricks, Dick Higgins, Toshi Ichiyanagi, Terry Jennings, Yves Klein, Milan Knizak, Alison Knowles, Addi Køpcke, Takehisa Kosugi, Shigeko Kubota, Györgi Ligeti, Jackson Mac Low, George Maciunas, Yoriaki Matsudaira, Pierre Mercure, Heinz-Klaus Metzger, Yoko Ono, Robin Page, Nam June Paik, Benjamin Patterson, James Riddle, Terry Riley, Tomas Schmit, Dieter Schnebel, Paul Sharits, Mieko Shiomi, Daniel Spoerri, Karlheinz Stockhausen, James Tenney, Yasunao Tone, Ben Vautier, Wolf Vostell, Robert Watts, Emmett Williams, La Monte Young, George Yuasa and Marian Zazeela.

Koenig Books, London (Artforum Series 3), 2011. Square 4to in softcover, as issued. 168 pages, profusedly illustrated qith German/French/English text. Fine clean copy. Michael Riedel's artists book "Perlstein" continues the series of publications (Oskar, 2003; Tirala, 2006; Meckert, 2009; amongst others), which are published as independent works parallel to his exhibitions. His texts are often generated from unedited transcriptions of recordings that he frames through a set of predetermined circumstances. He labels these works text productions. Perlstein includes a transcript of a talk given by the artist at various venues between 2009 and 2011. His talk provides a broad overview of his publishing activities, beginning with the paper bag he wore during a lecture at the Städelschule, Frankfurt, in 1997 to his most recent catalogue The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog. Riedel s talk is given as a PowerPoint presentation, which lasts approximately 45 minutes and shows 370 images. The illustrations included in the book are screen shots taken during the PowerPoint presentation at intervals when the slides changed. The choice of the transitions took place automatically and randomly" . Riedel is born 1972 in Rüsselsheim, Germany, Prof. for painting and graphic at Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst Leipzig, Germany.

New York: Tudor Publishing Company, 1955. Octavo in publishers slightly worn but solid green hardcover, no jacket. XIX, 1036p. Name to pastedown else clean. “He that increaseth wisdom, increaseth sorrow.” Good vintage reprint of Burton's astounding compendium fully translated into English, a survey of melancholy in all its myriad forms. Edited by Floyd Dell and Paul Jordan-Smith.

Copenhagen: Kunsthal Charlottenborg, 2008. 4to in wraps as issued. 300 pages. Text in both Danish and English. Near fine copy. First edition. - "‘Action’ because both artists worked with actions, performances and works that in various ways encouraged active participation from the viewer. ‘Remains’ because what is left are the remains of these projects, performances and actions, but also because both of them employed the debris of the everyday in their production. Al Hansen and Arthur Køpcke shared era, colleagues and zeitgeist. They brought international currents to Denmark at a time when the Danish art scene felt far removed from the metropolises in Europe and the US, both physically and mentally. Both artists had an unpretentious and casual relationship with the audience, encouraging active participation – and thus helped create the bedrock of our contemporary art’s cross-medial works as well as interventions, performances and social design. An American, Al Hansen (1927-1995) primarily worked in New York but being an inveterate nomad he spent long periods of time in Denmark, Germany, Italy and the Netherlands. A seminal figure in the Fluxus network, he if any dissolved the boundaries between the life he led and the art he created. Hansen was Fluxus – always on the move and always with the materials for his works at hand. His works are a humorous and intelligent conglomerate of neo-Dada, Fluxus and pop art. Arthur Køpcke (1928 – 1977) was German, married a Dane and settled in Copenhagen. For half a decade, until 1963, he ran Galerie Køpcke in the city which, nourished by his radical innovation and driving force – became the centre of European avant-garde. Here came Robert Filliou, Diter Rot, Jean Tinguely, Daniel Spoerri, Piero Manzoni and others, and from the domestic art scene Albert Mertz, Gunnar Aagaard Andersen, Preben Hornung and others. An impressive array of exhibitions was presented at Galerie Køpcke but it was also a significant stomping ground for an alternative art practice that bloomed on the Fluxus scene in Copenhagen as well as abroad. The Al Hansen exhibition is concentrated on the works he ‘left’ in Denmark, supplemented by works from two pivotal collections in New York and Berlin. Curator is Maria Gadegaard, Kunsthal Charlottenborg. The Arthur Køpcke exhibition is the most comprehensive one of its kind to date, comprising works from more than forty collectors and six institutions in Denmark and Germany. Curators are artist Claus Carstensen and Helle Bøgelund, Kunsthal Charlottenborg. The bilingual catalogue has been produced for the exhibition, containing 300 pages with colour photographs of all the exhibited works, texts on the artists and their time as well as a list of works and CV’s. The writers are Helle Bøgelund, Maria Gadegaard, Simon Anderson, Morten Søndergaard, Claus Carstensen and Marianne Bech. The photographs are taken by Anders Sune Berg, and the graphic design is by Rasmus Koch Studio".

Thames & Hudson, 2010. Large thick and heavy 8vo hardcover, no jacket as issued. 1020, LXII pp. Illustrated richly. One barely visible small dent to lower back edge (see photo) else a very good and clean copy with only minor edgewear. First edition. - extensive volume documenting more than 700 works produced over twenty years, selected by the artist himself. A"lways in search of the essential nature of things, Creed uses the simplest materials to create a world in which reality appears transformed by conceptual rules, as well as by the unexpected breaking of those rules. His work is simultaneously subtle and spectacular, austere and playful whether it be a sheet of paper crumpled into a ball, a protrusion from the wall, a door opening and closing, the lights going on and off, or a soundtrack inside a moving lift. The book features a foreword by the artist and accompanying texts by Germaine Greer, Darian Leader, ColmTóibín and others, supplemented by an exhibition history, bibliography and biography" - HEAVY BOOK EXTRA POSTAGE MIGHT BE REQUIRED.

Paris: Eric Losfeld, 1967 (1966). Large4to. Original boards with dustjacket. Unpaginated (around 70 pp.) Illustrated throughout in colour. Dustjacket worn but now protected in professional acid-free jacket. Guy Peelaert (1934-2008), once called the 'Michelangelo of Pop Art' is famous for illustrating the dreams and fantasies of the rock and pop world. He made the cover for The Rolling Stones (It's Only Rock 'n' Roll) and David Bowie's Diamond Dogs album fx., later he also designed film posters for films like Taxi Driver, Short Cuts, Paris, Texas and Wings of Desire. Peelaert is influenced by pop art and psychedelic art of the 1960's, both clearly shown in this early work (his first). The protagonist, Jodelle, is modelled after french singer Sylvie Vartan (Peellart's second comic strip heroine, Pravda, made her debut in 1968 and was modelled after singer Françoise Hardy). Deuxième édition de 1967 (la première est de 1966).

New York: Harry N. Abrams 1988. Oversized tall large and heavy folio hardcover, bound in publisher's grey cloth, pictorial dustjacket. 397 pp. 685 illustrations and photographs including 100 plates in full colour. Fine.  'Verve' was issued periodically in France between 1937 and 1960. Each issue of 'Verve' is considered individually with excerpts from every edition. Very large and heavy item and extra shipping will apply. Please inquire before ordering!

Seventeen Magazine, 1954. Large magazine format in original wrappers. 192 pages. Complete magazine. Some edgewear, overall a good to very good copy. A rare original vintage Seventeen Magazin. This issue with a special on Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture

London: Blain Southern, 2011. Large heavy 4to grey clothed hardcover with red lettering, no jacket as issued. 224 pages, richly illustrated. Text in English. Some superficial wear to cover, else only light rubbing to front upper corner front (see photo). Overall a fine and clean copy. First edition. Large thorough monograph.

New York: Henry Holt and Company, 2006. Publishers hardcover, with dustjacket, unclipped and now protected. 306 (1 ) pp. Minor wavyness to last pages. Name (surname) of previous owner in ink to innercover front else clean. Signed in hand to titlepage. First edition, 1st printing.

Omnibus Press 2015. Publishers hardcover, w jacket. VIII, 327 pp. With illustrations. Fine clean, unread copy. First edition, hardcover. "Ultimately, Dream Baby Dream is a book about history, and a vital one given its subject. Suicide paved the way for so much, from punk to no wave to industrial, but are cited more often as an influence than an important band in their own right. How they survived through all the upheaval of New York over the past half-century, and how their music stayed so bracingly unique, had to be documented permanently. Needs has thus done a service, and in the process told a tale that anyone interested in unbreakable artistic dedication will find fascinating."

Institute for Research in Art, Tampa and Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Havana, 2003. (8th Havana Bienal). 4to in wraps as issued, jacket protected. 142 pages, illustrated in colour. Text in English and Spanish. Light wear to spine of jacket (see photo) else fine copy. 1st ed.

London: Kingfisher Books, 1984. Large oversized heavy book in the original decorated cloth in protected dustjacket (hardcover). 267 pages, color illustrated. Text in English. Some foxing to topedge and light wear to jacket (see photo). Overall a clean and very good attractive copy. First edition thus. Christines Picture Book is a beautifully bound scrapbook of 122 leaves, originally dating from 1859 meant as gift and not for publication. On the right-hand pages and some of the left-hand ones, more than 1,000 pictures of widely varying kinds have been pasted in, most of them printed in colour or hand-coloured. In many instances, amusing little hand-written captions or verses have been added. It was compiled by Hans Christian Andersen and his friend, a Danish magistrate named Adolph Drewsen, who is named on the first sheet as being Christine's grandfather. The occasion was her third birthday, 30 October 1859. Christine was the great-grandchild of Jonas Collin, a civil servant who had been of great support to the young Hans Christian Andersen, and to whose family Andersen became closely attached. Its 122 pages contain over 1,000 pasted-in pictures plus a few paper cuts, an art form at which Andersen was adept. The images were collected from all kinds of European publications, and the result offers a unique pictorial snapshot of European culture of the 1850s.

Copenhagen: Forlaget Rhodos, 2007. Large 4° hardcover with fine jacket. 159 pp. Richly illustrated in color. Text in Danish and English. First edition. Fine copy.

Sun & Moon Press, 1993. Very thick paperback. X, 1334 pp. Sunning and some wear to cover, with a crease to backcover, clean inside.

The MIT Press / An October Book, 2002 (2001). Large 8vo. Hardcover, w jacket. XXV, 492 pp. Very good clean copy.