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New York: Viking Penguin, 2007. Hardcover, with jacket - black cloth over mustard boards, with bright gold lettering on spine. 408 pages. Clean well preserved copy with only little shelfwear. First US edition, 1st printing of the first unexpurgated transcript.

MIT Press, 2010. 8vo thick hardcover, with jacket 500 pages with 62 b&w photos, 1 b&w illus, 15 halftones. Excellent clean copy. First edition, hardcover. How technologies, from the mechanical to the computational, have transformed artistic performance practices: " technology's influence on artistic performance practices in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. In Entangled, Chris Salter shows that technologies, from the mechanical to the computational—from a “ballet of objects and lights” staged by Diaghilev's Ballets Russes in 1917 to contemporary technologically-enabled “responsive environments”—have been entangled with performance across a wide range of disciplines. Salter examines the rich and extensive history of performance experimentation in theater, music, dance, the visual and media arts, architecture, and other fields; explores the political, social, and economic context for the adoption of technological practices in art; and shows that these practices have a set of common histories despite their disciplinary borders. Each chapter in Entangled focuses on a different form: theater scenography, architecture, video and image making, music and sound composition, body-based arts, mechanical and robotic art, and interactive environments constructed for research, festivals, and participatory urban spaces."

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.

Bratislava: A. Press, 1970. Square quarto in publisher's pictorial card wrappers with french flaps as issued. [16],99pp.; half-tone illustrations throughout, text by Pierre Restany et al in both Slovak, French, English and German. Extremities, mainly spine ends with wear (see photos) and upper right corner reinforced, else overall a clean, good and sound copy. First edition. Rare publication of the works produced by the avantgarde Slovak artist Stanislav Filko (1932-2015) between 1965 and 1969, including photographs, drawings, and sculpture. Catalogue design by Karol Rosmany. Filko was a key figure in the Slovak avant-garde, associated primarily with environment, installation, happening, and action

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.

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."

Montreal: Musee d Art Contemporain, 1978. Large oversized 4to in wraps as issued. 96 pages; in both English and French. Light wear to cover, but solid and inside clean. Complete with booklet with interviews and checklist. First edition.

Zone Books, 1986. Thick 8vo in original die-cut wraps. 468, (22) pp. Illustrated. Wrappers worn at edges (see photos). Overall a clean and acceptable solid copy. Essays on the The Contemporary City. Zone was a short lived, over-sized journal edited by Jonathan Crary, Michel Feher, Hal Foster, Sanford Kwinter and designed by Bruce Mau. Inaugural double issue of the serial publication ZONE examines the physical, political, and perceptual transformations redefining the contemporary city. These transformations are explored through historical studies of transformations in the urban system, through theoretical essays which map out the evolution of related social and economic structures (such as the state, the family, and the factory), and through experimental artist projects and critical dossiers: Jonathan Crary, Michel Feher, Hal Foster, Sanford Kwinter, Paul Virilo, Eric Alliez and Michel Feher, Marc Guillaume, Stanford Kwinter, Christopher Alexander, Jonathan Crary, Manuel De Landa, Gilles Deleuze, Félix Guattari, Anne Querrien, Didier Gille, Jean-POaul de Gaudemar, Annie L. Cot, Eric Alliez, Michel Feher, Timothy Druckrey, and Carol Squiers, John Baldessari, Dara Birnbaum, Keith Sonnier, Gretchen Bender, Françoise Schein, Justen Ladda, Dan Graham, Gordon Matta-Clark, Krenneth Frampton, William Labov, Michael Piore, Peter Cook, Marc Guillaume, Peter Eisenman, Richard Serra, Daniel Libeskind, Alice Aycock, Melvin Charney, Rem Koolhaas, Raimund Abraham, Rosemarie Haag Bletter, Jean-Marie Straub, Dennis Adams, Krzysztof Wodiczko, Félix Guattari, Herbert Muschamp, Sol Yurick. First edition, 2nd printing.

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').

MIT Press, 2016. Hardcover, w jacket. LII, 290 pages, with illustrations. Fine clean copy. First edition.

London: Leonard Hill, 1956 (1940). 2nd edition. Tall 4to hardcover with original dustjacket, slightly worn but now protected. 27x19. 220 pp. + 38 leaves with around 145 photos and perspective renderings including 22 full-page. More than 135 drawings and plans in the text. Text in English. Very good well preserved copy with a fine provenance. From the collection of Danish architect Kay Fisker, not signed but with the date ("4/7-56") handwritten by the architect to inner cover. Mendelsohn and Kay Fisker knew each other well and Fisker was influenced much by the German Modernism of Mendelsohn and Bruno Taut whom he both visited in Germany.

New York: Conde Nast, 1948. Magazine in original wraps as issued. Illustrated richly in b/w and color. Text in English. 200 pp. Some edgewear and wear to spine (see photos) else very good, clean inside, complete. Super Vogue issue with Liberman as art director and classic works by star photographers as Horst, many by Irving Penn, including the cover, Frances McLaughlin-Gill and John Rawlings among others. Also in this issue Steichen's "50 photographs by 50 photographers".

U.S.A., 1960's. Black and white nude photograph. Photo measure app. 9,5 x 12,5 inches (23,5 x 30 cm) and is pasted on to black cardboard. Somewhat worn, with a fold, surface marks and small tears to margins. Still overall an attractive print. Original Serge Jacques nude photograph from around 1960.

Galerie Wittrock, Düsseldorf & DuMont Reiseverlag, Ostfildern, 1992. Tall slim quarto in original hardcover with the original dustwrappers well preserved. 133 pages. With a short text in German by Dietmar Kamper. Illustrated throughout and finely printed. Only light wear to edges of jacket, now protected - see photos. Overall a fine attractive copy.  Subtitled "Acht Kalenderbauten auf dem Weg nach Santiago de Compostela" - Later reissued as "Medieval Heremitages along the Route to Santiago de Compostella" by Art Institute of Chicago, Washington 1996. This is the First edition. Scarce!

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."

Published by Steidl / Corcoran Gallery of Art, 2008. Large oversized very heavy hardcover with jacket. 295 pages, Illustrated throughout. Introduction Renata Adler. Essays Paul Roth and Frank Goodyear. Light shelfwear with only a hint of wear to corners, overall a fine clean copy.  1st edition. - Beautifully printed. Due to size and weight extra shipping will apply for this item - please inquire before ordering! "Richard Avedon, America's preeminent portraitist and fashion photographer, photographed the many faces of politics throughout his career. Portraits of Power brings together Avedon's political portraits for the first time. Juxtaposing images of elite government, media and labor officials with counter-cultural activists, writers and artists, as well as ordinary citizens caught up in national debates, it offers a five-decade taxonomy of politics and power by one of America's best-known artists. The book features several of Avedon's extended projects addressing these themes, including coverage of the civil rights debate in the early 1960s (published in 1964 in Nothing Personal); the American anti-war movement and the war in Vietnam from 1969-1971; portraits of the American power elite in 1976, produced for his groundbreaking Rolling Stone portfolio "The Family;" "Exiles: The Kennedy Court at the End of the American Century," a retrospective homage to the Camelot generation published in the New Yorker in 1993; and his final photo-essay, "Democracy," surveying the national mood during the politically fractious period prior to the 2004 presidential elections (published posthumously in the New Yorker in 2004). Richard Avedon (1923-2004) was the most successful fashion photographer and portraitist in America throughout a six-decade career. Serving in the Merchant Marines during World War II, Avedon was assigned to the photography unit and learned his trade making identification portraits. After the war, he found work as a photographer for Harper's Bazaar and Theater Arts and began a fruitful apprenticeship with legendary editor, designer and artist Alexey Brodovitch. Avedon invigorated the staid fashion photography of the time, staging fictional tableaux and developing an unprecedented theatrical style. Moving to Vogue in 1966 and the New Yorker in 1993, Avedon continued to innovate. Extraordinarily prolific throughout his career, he produced many books, among them Nothing Personal (1964), An Autobiography (1993) and The Sixties (1999)."

New York: United Federation of Teachers (UFT), 1969. 4to in original wraps as issued. v, 204 pages. Foxing to edges and outer margins, else minimal wear to cover. Overall a very good, very well preserved and clean copy. Very rare item. original first edition 1st printing, 1969.

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.

China: Peking Foreign Language Press, 1968. Tiny pocket version i red vinyl binding as issued - 3-5/8 inches high by 2-5/8 inches wide (94 x 70mm). Gilt lettering. [10] 312, (2). Including Mao portrait frontis and Lin Biao (Piao) foreword with facsimile. Title page with red lettering in green frame. Initials of previous owner to free front endpaper, and same name as a small sticker to free front endpaper, and some minor foxing to endpapers else clean and overall a well preserved copy. Pocket edition printed 1968, first edition thus. Including the preface by Lin Biao, removed from copies after 1971.

Published by MIT Press in the Writing Arts Series / An October Book, 2008. heavy 4to in publishers hardcover with fine protected dustjacket. xviii [2], 2-217 pp. Richly illustrated. Fine clean copy. First edition, 1st printing. Fine, handsome introduction to the works and philosophies of Mel Bochner via interviews between him and, in order, John Coplans, Frederic Valabreque, Joan Simon and James Meyer. Mel Bochner (born 1940) is an American conceptual artist. "As Richard Kalina wrote in Art in America in 1996, Bochner was one of the earliest proponents, along with Joseph Kosuth and Bruce Nauman, of photo-documentation work in which the artist "created not so much a sculpture as a two-dimensional work about sculpture." His 1966 show at the School of Visual Arts, "Working Drawings And Other Visible Things On Paper Not Necessarily Meant To Be Viewed As Art", is regarded as a seminal show in the conceptual art movement. Bochner photocopied his friends' working drawings, including a $3,051.16 fabricator's bill from Donald Judd. He collected the copies in four black binders and displayed them on four pedestals. Bochner began making paintings in the late 1970s, and his paintings range from extremely colorful works containing words to works more clearly connected to the conceptual art he pioneered".

London: Phaidon Press Limited, 2003. Large oversized very heavy hardcover w protected jacket. 520 pages, with numerous finely printed illustrations. Includes index. First edition. Attractive copy. " This big and beautiful book presents a comprehensive survey of the work of one of Japan's greatest and most influential artists, together with a collection of essays that focus on a key aspects of the master's career. The book opens with an introductory essay by Gian Carlo Calza presenting an overview of the changing world into which Hokusai was born and through which he lived. This is followed by a series of essays, composed by distinguished Western and Japanese scholars, that present new research on a range of crucial areas of interest in Hokusai studies. These form a context for the core of the book, which embodies a retrospective of Hokusai's entire career, divided into seven chapters. Each chapter provides a succinct account of a phase in Hokusai's life, followed by a series of the finest and most representative works of that period. Great care has been taken throughout to choose for reproduction the best-preserved original prints that reveal Hokusai's mastery of line and colour to full advantage. This magnificent pictorial survey of Hokusai's prints, paintings and drawings is the first publication in English to make such a rich selection widely available, and to demonstrate the extraordinary range and quality of Hokusai's achievement. The final component of the book is a detailed scholarly commentary on each illustration that provides not only the necessary technical information but also a revealing analysis of style, color, composition and motif." Due to size and weight extra shipping will apply for this item - please inquire before ordering!

Rotterdam: NAi Publishers, 2001. Oblong heavy 4to in hardcover, with jacket. 236, 4 pp. With many photographs and plans. Introduction by Rafael Moneo. Very good clean copy.

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Paris: Société Parisienne d'Editions Artistiques, s. d. (c. 1950). 4to in publisher's cardboard cover. 40 pages illustrated throughout in black and white and colour. Gravure printed. Light wear to jacket else overall a very well preserved copy. First edition. Andre de Dienes (1913-1985) was born in Transylvania, Romania in 1913. He left home at fifteen and travleled through Europe, before ending up in Tunisia, where he worked odd jobs, learned to paint, and bought his first camera. In 1933 de Dienes arrived in Paris. He made a living selling photographs to the communist newspaper La Humanite and the Associated Press until 1936, when the couturier Captain Molyneux encouraged him to become a fashion photographer. He came to America in 1938 as a young photographer with the help of Esquire Magazine. In New York he worked as a fashion photographer while photographing Harlem street life. He traveled throughout the country, fascinated by the grandeur of the western landscape and the Native American people, documenting their rich culture. In 1944 he moved to California where he photographed nudes in an outdoor setting, often incorporating his pioneering techniques of photomontage - among the young models was also Marilyn Monroe. Fascinated by the body builders and sun worshipers who congregated on Muscle Beach, he captured their exhibitionism and innocence. To support himself he freelanced for the studios and photographed Hollywood legends including Marlon Brando, Elizabeth Taylor, Henry Fonda, Fred Astaire, Ingrid Bergman, Ronald Reagan, Jane Russell, and Anita Ekberg.