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

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.

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

ATypI - Graphis, 2002. Tall slim 4to hardcover with jacket. X, 374 pages. Fine clean copy. 1. ed.

Copenhagen: SMK, Statens Museum for Kunst 2000. 4to in stiff wraps as issued. 231 pages, richly illustrated. Text in English. Fine clean, as new copy. First edition.

København: Forlaget Rhodos, 1971. Lille 8vo hardcover med originalt omslag. 86 pp. Bogen er smukt tilrettelagt af Michael Malling. Fint eksemplar. Første udgave i denne form / First edition thus.

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 Christines Picture Book is a beautifully bound scrapbook of 122 leaves, originally dating from 1859 meant as gift and not for publication.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.

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.

New York and London: Anyone Coporation & MIT Press, 1999. Quarto in french wraps as issued. 296 pages. Text in English. Illustrated. Fine clean copy. 1st ed. "Architects, artists, and intellectuals address architecture's relationship to space and time in this latest addition to the series that began with Anyone. Architecture functions between tradition and innovation, between historical archetypes and that which as yet has no form. This historicity and concurrent openness to futurity are two of the subjects discussed in Anytime, which probes architecture's relationships with space and time. After a section called "Beginnings," in which ten young architects address rupture, change, and movement, the book is organized into five sections: Trajectories, The Collapse of Time, (M)anytimes, Futures, and Rethinking Space and Time. Contributors: Akira Asada, Hubert Damisch, Peter Eisenman, Zaha Hadid, Arata Isozaki, Fredric Jameson, Rem Koolhaas, Bruce Mau, John Rajchman, Michael Sorkin, and Bernard Tschumi, as well as architects whose work many (...) readers will encounter here for the first time."

Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp Verlag, 1991. Hardcover, w protected jacket. 566, (2) pp. Minor wear to jacket - overall a very good well preserved clean copy. Erste Auflage.

Edinburgh : James Thin, 1891. 8vo in the original blue gilt-blocked cloth with untrimmed edges. 123 pages. Contemporary name in ink to free front endpaper else clean. Binding extremities lightly rubbed. Overall a very good attractive copy. First edition of one of the most classic renowned translations : Hymn to Hermes. Homeric hymns. Hymn to Apollo. Hymn to Aphrodite. Hymn to Dionysus. Hymn to Demeter. Hymn to Pan. Hymn to Zeus. Hymn to Athena. Hymn to Aphrodite (Homeric hymn 5). Hymn to Pan (Homeric hymn 19).

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

New York: Picture Box and ZieherSmith, 2008. Two small 8vos in hardcover, complete with obi. 128 pages in all. Illustrated in color. Fine set. First edition. - INSCRIBED by Chuck Webster with colored pencils to half title, dated 2011. - "This two-volume set features the psychedelic, expressionistic figuration of Eddie Martinez in one volume and the Thomas Nozkowski-esque abstractions of Chuck Webster in the other. Both Brooklyn-based artists, represented in New York by Zieher-Smith, are enamored with paint--both, in fact, embrace painting's historical baggage, its romantic and spiritual undertones. Martinez combines fearlessly expressive paint handling with a feel for cartoon imagery and personal symbology. Webster, on the other hand, makes Minimal talismanic works that are formally rigorous and impeccably polished. Together they present a friendly argument for the myriad possibilities of contemporary painting. An interview with the artists, who are old friends, and a selection of their collaborative drawings form a bridge between the books. First monographs for both artists, these volumes also include essays by Joao Ribas and Geoffrey Young."

Faber and Faber, London, in association with Opal Records Ltd., 1986. Large 4to in wraps as issued. 144 pages, richly illustrated. Text in English. Some scattered ink notes in text, and edgewear (see photos). Overall a good, acceptable copy of this sought after Eno item! First edition. " (...) the lyrics to Eno's songs, each accompanied by an artwork inspired by the song's lyrics by Mills. Most of the lyrics and artworks are accompanied by notes by Eno and Mills on the lyrics and the interpretation of them as used for the artwork. The book is arranged chronologically, with songs arranged according to the album on which they appeared. Each album forms a chapter and is introduced by a commentary by Rick Poynor, these commentaries are largely formed through interviews with Eno. The commentaries cover Eno and Mills's influences, working methods, biography and philosophies, and are illustrated with excerpts from Eno's working notebooks. The chapters – and the albums which they precede – are: The Prepared Observer (Here Come the Warm Jets), The Painted Score (Taking Tiger Mountain (By Strategy)); The Dynamics of the System (Another Green World);The Hidden Intention (Before and After Science); and The Words I Receive (this last chapter accompanies various collaborative songs)." The book was issued concurrently with the compilation albums More Blank than Frank and Desert Island Selection.

Editions du Griffon - Neuchâtel - Suisse, 1971. Portfolio with 10 loose prints as issued (27x27 cm / 11x11 inch each) printed in héliogravure on glossy paper. Printed in 1971. Impressive quality. Included in the catalogue raisonné. One plate with discoloring to paper edges else very good set. 1st edition.

Los Angeles, USA: The Guild Of Tutors Press, 1978. 4to in the original illustrated wraps, as issued. 120 pages. Text in English, with many black and white photographs by Magubane. Tanning to spine and minor wear to cover. Overall a very good tight copy of tis extremely rare publication. First edition, 1st printing. Poetry written by Zindzi Mandela, daughter of Nelson, inspired by the awful conditions endured by the inhabitants of apartheid-era South Africa's shanty towns. Accompanied by the stark black-and-white photos by Peter Magubane, whose career began at a time when, as a black person, he could be arrested simply for carrying a camera in public. With a foreword by American civil rights activist and politician Andrew Young, and rear cover praise from Kenneth Rexroth.

Copenhagen: Nikolaj 2010. Tall 8vo in original wraps as issued. 160 pp. Richly illustrated. Light wear to cover. 1. ed. "This book presents a series of original queer theoretical and artistic contributions relating the archive and writing of history to gender and sexuality. What gets forgotten in history writing, what has been forgotten in archives, and what is excluded from cultural canons? The book investigates how experiences and histories not shared and lived by the majority are remembered and told in an alternative language. The book contains 4 essays and the works of 13 contemporary artists. In the article "Lost and Found: Queerying the Archive" the curators Jane Rowley and Louise Wolthers discuss the challenge posed to traditional archives and history writing by analysing the works of 13 contemporary artists represented in the book and eponymous exhibition. Analysing the strategies of speculation, flirtation and confrontation, art historian Mathias Danbolt then maps the role of the archive in the text "Touching History: Archival Relations in Queer Art and Theory". In her text "Photographing Objects: Art as Queer Archival Practice", the American cultural theorist Ann Cvetkovich discusses the role of art as an 'archive of feelings' based on the artists Tammy Rae Carland and Zoe Leonard. And in "The Art of Losing" the American literary theorist Heather Love emphasises the importance of the inclusion of loss, pain, isolation and loneliness in queer history writing -- experiences so often excluded from mainstream narratives of homosexual liberation. Beautifully bound in two sections, the book also presents works by the artists Elmgreen & Dragset (DK/NO), Tejal SHah (IN), Conny Karlsson (SE), Cecilia Barriga (CHI), Flemming Rolighed (DK), Aleesa Cohene (CA), Mary Coble (US), Kimberley Austin (US), Al Masson (DK/FR), Heidi LUnabba (FI) and Benny Nemerofsky Ramsay (CA). The publication is interspersed with excerpts from I Remember (1970) by the American poet Joe Brainard. Published to accompany the exhibition of the same name curated by Jane Rowley and Louise Wolthers at Nikolaj Copenhagen Center of Contemporary Art in Copenhagen and Bildmuseet in Umeaa, Sweden."

Copenhagen: Charlottenborg, 1956. 4to in original spiral wraps. Unpaginated, illustrated throughout with tipped-in reproductions in black and white. Fine clean and well preserved copy. 1st edition. Outstanding book design by Aagaard Andersen with Ib Geertsen and Ole Schwalbe.

Uppsala, 1993. Large 8vo in slightly worn wraps. 263 pp. Illustrated. Inside clean and overall a very good copy from a private collection. First edition (Diss.). Presentation copy.

Kehrer Verlag, 2014. 8vo in softcover. 271 pages. Light edgewear else fine. The first book to explore the history of the Swedish electronic music studio EMS. Studio EMS was established in 1964 with the intent to create an international center for research in sound and sound perception, and to build one of the world's most advanced hybrid studios. The principal creators of the studio were rooted in Swedish modernism, and had the EMS-project shaped in accordance to the social democratic cultural policy of the time. This enabled the project to achieve continuous financial support, e.g., to purchase computers in 1969. Today EMS holds events and owns six studios and a library archive with a unique collection of books on electroacoustic music and sound art. The book includes a CD with diverse samples from EMS productions.

Alfred A. Knopf for Whitney Museum, 1978. Large square hardcover with jacket, now protected. 256 pages, very richly illustrated. Clean solid very good copy. The classic Steinberg monograph by the most important American art critic of the twentieth century: "Harold Rosenberg invites the reader to an in-depth exploration of one of the most fascinating artists of the 20th century. Steinberg's unique style, which fuses image and text, offers a playful yet thought-provoking dialogue that challenges traditional notions of art. With 274 illustrations, including 64 in full color, the book provides a comprehensive overview of his career, from early drawings to the iconic covers of The New Yorker magazine. Rosenberg, a respected art critic and professor of art history, delves into Steinberg's life and work. Through his biographical essay, he highlights key turning points in the artist's life and how these shaped his creative process. Rosenberg also analyzes the graphic techniques and imaginative elements that characterize Steinberg's art, such as personalized furniture and geometric shapes. This gives the reader a deeper understanding of the complex world that Steinberg created. - - One of the most interesting parts of the book is the pictorial journal section, where Steinberg himself has compiled drawings and photographs with his own comments. This provides a personal insight into his life and artistic reflections, allowing the reader to relate to his thoughts on everyday events and deeper philosophical questions. Here Steinberg's unique perspective on creation and memory emerges. - - "Saul Steinberg" is more than an art book; it serves as a tribute to an artist whose work continues to fascinate and inspire. Rosenberg's insights and Steinberg's creative expression make this book a valuable resource for anyone interested in art history. Whether you are an art lover, student, or just curious about the art world, this book offers an opportunity to deepen your understanding and appreciation of Steinberg's significant contributions to art. - - With its combination of richly illustrated material and in-depth analysis, "Saul Steinberg" stands out as an invaluable resource for both beginners and more experienced readers. The book is an invitation to discover and enjoy an artist who has left a lasting mark on art history." - First edition.

London and Los Angeles Royal Academy in collaboration with The Broad 2017. Large ocversized extra heavy square 4to hardcover with pasted on illustration to front. 264 pages, profusedly illustrated, mainly in color. Fine clean copy. 1st edition.

Bókagardur, 2009. Stort format. Hardcover, med omslag. 303 sider. Rigt illustreret i farver. Text in both English and Faroese. Stor flot monografi om Steffan Danielsen. Originaludgave / First edition.