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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.

Semiotext(e), USA, 2007 (1980). Tall hardcover in super octavo, illus heavy boards, yellow & lettering to spine, xvi + 300pp + unpaginated graphic novella to rear. Illustrated. Initials to free front endpaper, else clean and very good copy of this very hard to find publication. Semiotext(e) foreign Agents Series 1. Re-issue of the legendary examination of the Marxist Autonomism movement that emerged in Italy in the 1960s, "the only first-hand document and contemporaneous analysis that exists of the most innovative post-'68 radical movement in the West." Contributors include Toni Negri, Mario Tronti, Paolo Virno, Guy Debord, Felix Guattari, Gilles Deleuze etc.

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.

Paris: Onestar Press, 2003. Tall slim 8vo in glossy wraps as issued 140 x 225 mm. 150 pages. A little dent to top of spine else only minimal shelfwear, and clean and fine.  First edition, 1st printing, one of only 250 numbered copies (No. 127). Rare Artist's book by Lawrence Weiner incorporating texts and diagram drawings. Plays on maritime theme and passages. "That of which there is no trace does not enter into the equation,” reads one of the central panels in Deep Blue Sky Light Blue Sky. This is a book of traces – linguistic, symbolic, photographic – and the equations in which they arrange and rearrange themselves like so many limbs in a love triangle".

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.

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.

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.

Cologne: Studio DuMont Buchverlag, 1978. Large squarish 4to hardcover with dustjacket. Unpaginated with app. 80 photographs and an introductory text by Rudolf Knubel in German. Excellent fine attractive copy. First edition. Beautiful photobook in great graphic design by Tünn Konnerding. Ursula Schulz-Dornburg is exploring with camera and though her book publications the complex bonds between landscape and human civilization, exploring the construction of power though the built environment and its inevitable impermanence. By looking back at areas of past historical or political importance her images highlight how conflict, destruction, time and decay transforms the landscape. Many of Schulz-Dornburg’s projects derive from a relatively confined geographic location, encompassing ancient civilizations alongside areas of modern strategic importance. Historically referred to as both a gateway and a cross roads, or the ‘land in-between’, the area was often defined not by its content but by what lies on either side, between Europe and Asia, east and west, old and new. Over a thirty-year period, Schulz-Dornburg travelled to this region, visiting Armenia, Georgia, Iran, Iraq, Saudi Arabia and Yemen. Documenting ruins of the now abandoned Ottoman railway project in Saudi Arabia, decaying Soviet era bus stops in Armenia, and temporary marsh dwellings in Mesopotamia. Most recently, in 2010, she travelled to Syria to photograph the ancient city of Palmyra. Her images now form some of the last visual documentation of the area prior to its recent destruction. For this present book Ursula Schulz-Dornburg was visiting Pagan city in Burma 1976 - now Bagan, Myanmar - , where she was photographing the holy temples, both in their landscape form and inside. Bagan is an ancient city located in the Mandalay Region of Myanmar. From the 9th to 13th centuries, the city was the capital of the Pagan Kingdom, the first kingdom that unified the regions that would later constitute modern Myanmar. During the kingdom's height between the 11th and 13th centuries, over 10,000 Buddhist temples, pagodas and monasteries were constructed in the Bagan plains alone, of which the remains of over 2,200 temples and pagodas still survive to the present day. - A very tentative, beautiful book.

Carcanet, Manchester and New York, 1986. 8vo in publishers black clothed hardcover with gilt title and fine, well preserved priceclipped jacket. 256 pages. Fine clean copy. Very rare edition, attractive copy. 1st edition thus.

Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, October 27, 1977 - January 2, 1978. La Jolla Museum of Contemporary Art, January 27 - February 26, 1978. Seattle Art Museum. Large heavy hardcover with protected fine jacket. 111 pp. Illustrated. Fine. First edition, attractive copy. Catalog of the landmark exhibition, organized by John Beardsley, of contemporary earth works or land projects by artists such as Robert Smithson, Nancy Holt, Michael Heizer, Richard Long, Charles Ross, Charles Simonds and others.

Copenhague: Chez Claude Philibert, 1756. 4to. Unbound and uncut with wide margins, loose pages. 29,+ (1),+ 178,+ (2) pp. Complete with engraved vignette (see photos). Well suited for rebinding. First edition. Scarce seperate printing of the important supplement to the 1755 publication "Introduction à l'histoire de Dannemarc, ou l'on traite de la religion, des loix, des moeurs & des usages des anciens Danois".Jean-Henri Mallet wrote this book while he was living in Denmark. Heather O’Donoghue notes in Old Norse-Icelandic Literature: A Short Introduction that Mallet “had been commissioned by the king of Denmark to write a scholarly work specifically designed to counter existing views of Scandinavia as a backward country” ´. Topics: Mythology, Norse, Old Norse poetry, Icelandic literature, Edda. ”Monumens de la mythologie” contains the first French translation of the Edda of Snorre, ”L’Edda des Islandois ou mythologie celtique”, the first ever to a non-Nordic language. The importance of Mallet’s work grew even more with the English translation, with notes and preface by bishop Thomas Percy in 1770, ”Northern antiquities: or a description of the manners, customs, religion and laws of the ancient Danes, and other Northern nations; including those of our own Saxon ancestors. With a translation of the Edda, or system of Runic mythology.” Inspired by it Macphearson wrote his songs of Ossian.

Kehrer for BodhiBerlin and Volker Diehl galleries, 2008. Original silver colored hardcover, no jacket as issued. 176 pageswith 136 color illustrations. Text by Nancy Adajania, Shaheen Merali, Hans Ulrich Obrist, Julia Peyton-Jones in both German and English. Only minimal shelfwear to cover else clean and fine copy.  First edition. Shilpa Gupta (b.1976) creates artwork using interactive video, websites, photographs, objects, sound and public performances to probe and examine subversively such themes as desire, religion, notions of security on the street and on the imagined border. The book's title, "BlindStars StarsBlind", is particularly apt for an artist who uses language in a fragmented form to talk about regions, borders or territorial claims. This catalog of over 25 mostly recent works accompanies a two-part exhibition on view simultaneously at the BodhiBerlin and Volker Diehl galleries in Berlin".

New York: Praeger Publishers, 1971. Heavy hardcover with dustjacket. 268 pages, richly illustrated. Text in English. Fine clean copy. First edition.

Paul P. Appel, Publisher, Mamaronack, NY, 1963. Tall heavy 4to in original green clothed hardcover, no jacket as issued. 516 pages. Very light wear at corner tips and spine ends. Tight, sound and unmarked. Enclosed a SIGNED note from Clive Hart at end. Concordance of James Joyce's " Finnegans Wake".

Paris: Julliard (Les lettres nouvelles 26), 1962. 8vo uncut with untrimmed edges in printed wraps as issued. 228 pages. Only minor wear to cover else very good well preserved clean copy. Édition originale française, tirage spécial réservé aux amis, collaborateurs et abonnés des "Lettres nouvelles", notre exemplaire le n° 59 / First French printing. Translated to French by Georges Lisowski, limited edition, numbered copy ( # 59).

New York: Wildenstein Plattner Institute in association with Yale University Press, 2017. Oversized very heavy large hardcover with jacket. 335 pages, including 374 color and 17 b&w plates. A fine copy. First edition, clean and attractive copy. The most comprehensive and definitive study of Johns' work to date.

Iceland: Mumbling Eye, 2021. Small 8vo hardcover. (40) pages. Text in P-language, Icelandic and English. New copy. First edition, one of only 200 numbered and signed copies. Magnús Pálsson is one of Iceland’s premier artists; a national treasure. In 1978 he was instrumental in founding The Living Art Museum (Nýló). Sculptor, sound poet, performer and inspirational teacher, Magnús comes from a strong Fluxus background, where he and his clan forged the beginnings of conceptualism and concrete poetry. As a sculptor, Magnús dealt with enigma and touch by making casts of negative spaces and trapping ephemeral moments in solidifying plaster. His signature piece from that time is a cast of the space between the three wheels of a Sikorsky helicopter and its landing field, seconds before it actually touches down. Made in 1976, this work was exhibited in Venice in 1980 when Magnús represented Iceland at the 37th Biennale. Gradually he moved away from solid material into the more fluid realm of sound and action where recently he has made works for choirs, JCB earth diggers, ghosts and children.

Hatje Cantz Verlag, 2014. 8°. Complete set in original box, only opened for inspection. This copy was opened for inspection else fine. Artist's book by German photographer Ursula Shulz-Dornburg with nine notebooks with photographs printed on cardboard, a map and a large individual print on tissue paper, plus an essay and statements by Lawrence Weiner. This important photographer is finally reaching a larger audience with the exhibition and the prize-winning book published by Mack "The Land in Between" (2018). First edition, one of 1.500 numbered copies.

New York & London: Rizzoli, 2009. 8vo hardcover with jacket. 304 pages. Including cd. Fine clean copy. "Over the past century, an art form has emerged that draws from the worlds of visual art and music. Sound art’s roots can be found in the experimental work of Italian Futurism, Dada, and later the Fluxus group and the pioneering efforts of the American composer and artist John Cage. In the wake of this groundbreaking work, sound art began to mature into a movement, and artists explored the interactive possibilities of sound and in turn created entirely new modes of experiencing and engaging with art. In this volume, the complete story of sound art is told by one of the country’s leading critics and scholars. The author traces the history of this form of art–highlighting the convergence of the indie world bands such as Sonic Youth with the art world–looking at the critical cross-pollination that has led to some of the most important and challenging art being produced today, including work by Christian Marclay, LaMonte Young, Janet Cardiff, Rodney Graham, and Laurie Anderson, among many others. About the Author: Alan Licht is an American composer, guitarist, music writer, and a widely respected figure on the experimental music scene. He is not only responsible for important album reissues, but was a member of the cult classic NYC bands Love Child and Run On. He currently lives in New York City. Jim O’Rourke is an American musician and producer, and most widely known as a member of the rock band Sonic Youth. Considered an expert on experimental music, he has scored films for Werner Herzog and Olivier Assayas." - An essential guide to sound art with CD with pieces from Bill Fontana ('Harmonic Bridge'), Steve Roden ('Rust'), Jean Dubuffet ('Terre foisonnante'), Destroy All Monsters ('Jam Smear'), Anthony Burr et Charles Curtis ('Still and Moving Lines of Silence in Families of Hyperbolas' (1973-74) from Alvin Lucier) and Bernhard Gal ('57A').

London: Macmillan & Co., 1882. Original publisher's green cloth hardcover, spines and front covers lettered and decorated in gilt, brown endpapers, all edges gilt. Frontispieces with tissue guard, illustrated title pages printed in grey and green, 7 engraved plates, 96 b/w text illustrations, all engraved by J. D. Cooper after Randolph Caldecott. Inner hinges a bit week, but holding firm. Previous owners fine bookplate made by Povl Christensen (Else Fahnøe). Overall a very well preserved and very attractive copy. ""Old Christmas" (First published in a separately 1876 and identical to this copy) is a collection of five Christmas "sketches" by Washington Irving from his famous Sketch Book - A beautifully produced Christmas book which captures the essence of a Victorian Christmas. It describes Irving's experiences at the English country estate of Mr. Bracebridge during the "coaching days" of the early 19th century, focusing on the sights, sounds, smells and traditions of "Old" Christmas. In spirit it hearkens back to the Middle Ages -- before the "peasants" had learned to read newspapers or were talking politics at the local pub, when manner lords opened their halls for the local folk to feast in a show of gratitude, under the watchful stare of painted ancient family crusaders and armored statues. This wonderful account has a tangible sense of realism mixed with romanticism and the comforts of tradition.Drawings throughout are by Randolph Caldecott, a prolific and famous children's book artist of the 19th century. The pictures bring the book to life, we see the exact "physiognomy" and "countenance" of the many curious Dickens-like characters, the scenes of feasting and dancing, the old English kitchens, the stage coach, the dress and mannerisms of a "Coachy" - priceless details that effortlessly transport the reader back in time". - Washington Irving, one of the first Americans to achieve international recognition as an author, was born in New York City in 1783. His A History of New York, published in 1809 under the name of Diedrich Knickerbocker, was a satirical history of New York that spanned the years from 1609 to 1664. Under another pseudonym, Geoffrey Crayon, he wrote The Sketch-book, which included essays about English folk customs, essays about the American Indian, and the two American stories for which he is most renowned--"The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" and "Rip Van Winkle." Irving served as a member of the U.S. legation in Spain from 1826 to 1829 and as minister to Spain from 1842 to 1846.

Bolinas: Shelter Publications / Random House, 1978. Small 4to in wraps as issued. 224 pages, richly illustrated throughout. Text in English. Only minimal shelfwear, overall a clean and very well preserved tight copy. First edition. Lloyd Kahn, former shelter editor for the Whole Earth Catalog and publisher of Domebooks One and Two, travelled across America, Ireland and England over a two year period researching alternative ways to build, the results of which appear in the books Shelter and Shelter II, publications that made his reputation. Assembled with the assistance of numerous contributors it includes an historical survey of shelter and the evolution of simple building types: tents, yurts, timber buildings, barns, small homes, and domes, along with a section on building using natural materials, including heavy timber construction and stud framing, as well as stone, straw bale, adobe, plaster, and bamboo. Now regarded as a counterculture classic, and a forerunner of the contemporary interest in cabins, do-it-yourself building and off-grid living.

New York, 2004. 4to in original magazine wraps. Around 100 pages. Richly illustrated. Light edgewear but else clean and well preserved. Complete issue. BIDOUN: Arts and Culture from the Middle East, the first issue. "Since 2004, Bidoun has filled a gaping hole in the arts and culture coverage of the Middle East, pioneering a distinctive voice that is intelligent, critical, and original. From the beginning, Bidoun has served as a platform — for new questions, images, and ideas about the Middle East. Bidoun’s activities fall in three primary areas: publishing, educational, and curatorial. To date, our projects have included a range of pursuits: curatorial initiatives, educational programs, artist commissions, talks, tours, performances, books, an itinerant library, and an online archive of avant-garde media." - From foreword: "The landscape is changing; now institutional exhibitions are being outshined by smaller, independent productions. Young curators are being favored over the out of touch establishment and spontaneous art happenings preferred more than stuffy, formal functions. The Cairo Biennale, for example, was awash in the tired ideologies of identity and the “Role of the Arab” in today’s world — a theme that has been so overused that it has been pushed to the brink of irrelevance. Is this because Middle Easterners are tired of talking about who they are? No, it is because we are tired of other people telling us who we are. Instead of constantly being taken out of context by others, people are taking matters in to their own hands. From popular reality television shows like Arabic Big Brother to homegrown independent movies shot on DV, there is a whole movement of self-documentation. In this, our first issue, we try to bring together some of the people who are bringing these projects to the public. We Are Spatial because we are bringing the private into public space; because we are redefining the boundaries between inside and outside. We Are Spatial because we are transforming the spaces in which we work and live. We Are Spatial because, although we are spread all across the world, we try, in some small way, to come together here. Without judgment."

Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, Stuttgart, 1955. 8°. Schwarzes Original-Leinen mit goldgeprägtem Rücken- und Deckeltitel. 65 Seiten. Rücken verblasst. Widmung (1956) auf Vorsatz. Insgesamt sehr gutes Exemplar.

London: Macdonald, 1971. Publishers hardcover with dustjacket (see photos). XIV, 305 pp. Exteriorial wear and discoloring to endpapers else clean and overall a very good copy. From the Goodiepal collection, with his signature name to titlepage. First edition.- "A critical but well-researched survey of occult and spiritual thought and history from roughly 1820-1910 by Scottish historian James Webb (1946 - 1980). Webb argued, in this work and two later volumes, that there took place in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries a revolt against the Enlightenment, which manifested in the growth of occult and mystical groups, which he also saw as underpinning the rise of darker forces, like the Nazis."