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London: Thames and Hudson, 1995. Very large, very heavy 4to hardcover w jacket. 583 pages. Illustrations in b/w and colour. Minor edgewear to jacket else clean and overall a very good copy.  First UK edition. Heavy item - extra shipping charges may apply.

Published by Art Metropole, Toronto, 2011. 4to large format softcover with french flaps as issued. 386 pages, richly illustrated. Text in English. Light shelfwear to cover, inside clean and bright and overall a near fine / fine copy. First edition, first printing. "Commerce by Artists documents a fascinating and sweeping range of artists’ projects produced since the 1950s by Canadian and international artists who have sought to engage, rather than merely represent, the commercial world of which they are a part. Encompassing canonical works such as Yves Klein’s Zones of Immaterial Pictorial Sensibility (1958), Seth Siegelaub’s Artist’s Contract (1971), and Lee Lozano’s Strike Piece (1969) — as well as innovative and rarely-documented works like Keith Obadike’s Blackness for Sale (2001), Kelly Mark’s In & Out (1997-ongoing until 2032), and Ben Kinmont’s Sometimes a Nicer Sculpture Is to Be Able to Provide a Living for Your Family (1998-ongoing) — Commerce by Artists is a comprehensive document of artworks that take the form of transactions and exchanges of value". Edited by Luis Jacob with contributions by: agent.NASDAQ aka Reinhold Grether, Zeigam Azizov, Clegg & Guttmann, Carole Condé & Karl Beveridge, Isabelle De Baets and Hendrik Tratsaert, Jorge di Paola, Hu Fang, Elizabeth Ferrell, Gerald Ferguson, Andrea Fraser, Coco Fusco, Hans Haacke, Jens Hoffmann, Luis Jacob, Mary Kelly, Yves Klein, Jeffrey Kastner, Sina Najafi, Jane Crawford, Frances Richard, Richard Manning, Helen Molesworth, Keith Obadike, Hans Ulrich Obrist, Beatrix Ruf, Andrea Rosen, Martha Rosler, Reid Shier, Julian Stallabrass, Julia Steinmetz, Heather Cassils, Clover Leary, Neil Thomas, Calvin Tomkins, Mierle Laderman Ukeles, Cédric Villate et al.

Copenhagen: Eibes Forlag, 1853. Bound with "Faarekylling" (First Danish edition of "The Cricket On The Hearth") in a later, very fine brown morocco with gilt title. Only minimal brownspotting, overall clean and very well preserved. First Danish edition of '"A Christmas Carol" and First Danish edition of "The Cricket On The Hearth". Rare!

Delft IOS Press, 2014. 8vo in original boards. 1072pp, Illustrated. As new, unopened copy. Urban areas have been caught up in a turbulent process of transformation over the past 50 years and changes have been rapid, with issues such as mobility, nature, water management, energy use and public space featuring prominently.In each Olympic year since 1988, the Faculty of Architecture at Delft University of Technology has held an international conference focusing on the connection between research and design, exploring the field of tension between science, technology and art. This book presents the proceedings of the latest in this series of conferences: New Urban Configurations, held in Delft, the Netherlands, in October 2012 in collaboration with the European Association for Architectural Education (EAAE) and the International Seminar on Urban Form (ISUF). This edition of the conference discussed the role and critical potential of the architectural project in the transformation process of cities and territories that leads to new urban configurations.The publication contains all 140 accepted papers and a selection of the keynote lectures presented at the conference. The papers have been grouped into five main themes: innovation in building typology; infrastructure and the city; complex urban projects; green spaces, and delta urbanism. Four of these major topics are further divided into several subtopics. This book will be of interest to everyone involved in designing, building, thinking about as well as managing the urban landscape and territory.

New York: Grove Press, 1966. Two hardcover in original black clothed boards with gilt titles and purple endpapers in original slightly worn but solid slipcase with pasted on color illustration (see photos). LXIII, 2359 pp. Very good clean set. Complete reprint of the classic Victorian erotic autobiography, the longest ever published, in eleven volumes originally. The Grove Press reprint from 1966 was the first complete edition to be openly available, here offered in a very good second printing from 1966 complete with original slipcase. "My Secret Life, by "Walter", is the memoir of a gentleman describing the author's sexual development and experiences in Victorian England. It was first published in a private edition of eleven volumes, at the expense of the author, including an imperfect index, which appeared over seven years beginning around 1888. The work itself is enormous, amounting to over one million words. The text is repetitive and highly disorganised and the literary quality is negligible, but its frank discussion of sexual matters and other hidden aspects of Victorian life make it a rare and valuable social document. According to Steven Marcus, it is virtually the only source for information on London's houses of prostitution, in which Walter spent many hours. It has been described as "one of the strangest and most obsessive books ever written". In 1969 a British printer, Arthur Dobson, was sentenced to two years' prison for producing a UK reprint. It was not until 1995 that the work in its entirety was published openly in the UK. The identity of "Walter" is unknown. There is no scholarly consensus in favour of any of the candidates proposed.

Munich: Mahnert-Lueg, 1981. 4°. Publishers photo-illustrated wrappers with elongated French flaps as issued. App. 120 unpaginated pages illustrated throughout with b/w photos by Gelpke. Introduction in German by Allen Porter. A near fine / fine copy with only minimal shelfwear - more photos available upon request.  First edition 1st printing of Gelpke's first book, a study of Hamburg sex performers. André Gelpke (b 1947 ) is a German photographer living in Zurich, considered one of the most important photographers of post-war Europe. Gelpke studied photography with Otto Steinert at the Folkswangeschule in Essen. "8...) Andre Gelpke creates in his photographs vibrant, arresting images by offering an abundance of information. Precisely composed and perfectly framed for the composition at hand, his rich black-and - white pictures freeze time into intense images which, because of the absence of time and movement, can seem overwhelming, even alienating. Whether it is capturing a playground frozen into a timeless frieze of human and architectural forms or human subjects who are photographically transformed into virtual specters or automatons (such as the three swimmers presenting themselves for a mist-blurred lens in Kanalschwimmer, 1977 or the handshake and bow captured in Kunstverein Koln, 1979), Gelpke uses the unique technical language of photography to create evocative, emotional reflections of reality. Like all of the generation of contemporary Ger­man photographers, Gelpke, born in 1947, grew up in a divided Germany that faced huge chal­lenges of reconstruction after the war. He attended grammar schools in his hometown of Beienrode and in the industrial town of Rheydt, and second­ary schools in Rheydt and Krefeld. After various trade jobs and service in the military, and after developing an interest in photography, in 1969 he entered the Folkwangschule, Essen, where Otto Steinert, the instigator of the ''fotoform'' group which practiced a highly abstract form of pho­tography (more generally known as Subjective Photography), taught. It was under Steinert that Gelpke's style was formed, wherein vignettes of the world around him are excised and framed, so to speak. Within this style, Gelpke has produced rich and varied bodies of work. Series shown in exhibitions such as Sea Pieces, Plastic People, Sankt Pauli and published in books such as Sex­Theater, Fluchtgedanken, and the famous Der Schiefe Turm von Pisa demonstrate Gelpke works in the best documentary tradition, adding a dis­tinctive, intelligent visual rhetoric. In 1975, after working as a photojournalist for about a year, Gelpke was a co-founder of the Visum Photo Agency in Hamburg, now a leading stock photo and photographic agency. Andre Gelpke is a conservative in the pure sense of the word. Photography, however, is an immense store of forgotten and deeply hidden meanings. Because of its development throughout the entire culture, every photograph is full of symbol and meaning, which go unnoticed by most people in daily life. But the photographic work of Andre Gelpke is not merely a store of hidden emotional values; it also offers imaginative potential. This is why he at the same time is very much a progressive. He conserves and reminds us of not only the for­gotten or overlooked, but also creates, through his role as ''image designer,'' new worlds, some of them perhaps even utopias. The works in the series Fluchtgedanken, completed in 1983, for example, largely feature people shot, obviously posing, from behind, thus hiding their faces, or from angles where the hair obscures the face. Each image is myster­ious, but taken together, the series evokes a palp­able sense of otherness, despite the straightforward, recognizable imagery. Gelpke's early photographs are also often uniquely erotic, not in the conventional sense of depicting nudes or other accepted sensual material, but in his humanistic vision, which creates dense and evocative worlds within each of his compositions. Each series, moreover, is built up like a dream, where black and white shades, nuances of color, and intriguing compositional forms merge together and where one image spontaneously evokes another. In this sense, his work practice resembles that of the Old Masters, who were able to reproduce, in an enigmatic way, space, light, and depth in their paintings. Yet Gel - pke's work is unmistakably contemporary and often refers to the modern photographic masters. Gelpke has said about his work: In this visual age, when our consciousness of reality is increasingly permeated by the actualities of television, photography, and advertising, my aim is to present the photographic-bureaucratic fact collector with a selection of my reality clipping form an only apparent ''pseudo - reality'' and thereby to bring about a new questioning of reality. (Contemporary Photographers, St. James Press) At the end of the century, his work became more overtly erotic, and he has experimented with shooting in color, as in the series Fata Morgana. The series Amok and Familientag, while showing many of Gelpke's characteristic composition and fram­ing, have the additional formal attribute of often startling, oversaturated, but still realistic color. For Gelpke, experiences are memories, signs, symbols, levels, and geometric forms. As such, he cannot "do" much with them; they are "nothing." Only after the experiences become solidified in a photographic composition can he begin to change and modify them into a usable code system. He uses codification—spontaneously and impulsive­ly—to make the chaos of the world recognizable, converting chaos through his images into an elementary order. The Spanish photographer and writer Joan Fontcuberta wrote: Andre Gelpke tends to speak of two categories when referring to his work: the monologues (introspection) and the dialogues (relationships with the external). There is no opposition between them—they are complementary because they basically try to exercise two distinct types of vision upon the same reality: sensual vision and intellec­tual vision. (Contemporary Photographers, St. James Press) " (Johan Swinnen).

Boston: A Bulfinch Press Book / Little Brown andf Company 1997. Tall slim 4to in original hardcover with original, slightly discolored, obi wraparound band. 48 pages, with color illustrations. Complete. Light wear to exterior (please see photos). Overall a very good attractive copy. Originally 1959 in only 34 handmade copies with Suzie Frankfurt to poke fun at the then newly fashionable French haute cuisine for New York's beau monde. The camp, fanciful book, reproduced here in full, includes recipes for Gefilte of Fighting Fish and Roast Igyuana Andalusian, hand-lettered - mistakes and all - by Warhol's mother. This is the First edition (stated) and 1st printing in bookform.

London: Koenig Books 2013. 8vo in softcover. 279 pp. Illustrated. Text in English. Very good copy. 1st edition. - "Russia, 1917-A time of complex political upheaval that resulted in the demise of the Russian monarchy and seemingly offered great prospects for a new dawn of art and science. Inspired by revolutionary ideas, artists and enthusiasts developed innumerable musical and audio inventions, instruments and ideas often long ahead of their time-a culture that was to be cut off in its prime as it collided with the totalitarian state of the 1930s. Smirnov's account of the period offers an engaging introduction to some of the key figures and their work, including Arseny Avraamov's open-air performance of 1922 featuring the Caspian flotilla, artillery guns, hydroplanes and all the town's factory sirens; Solomon Nikritin's Projection Theatre; Alexei Gastev, the polymath who coined the term 'bio-mechanics'; pioneering film maker Dziga Vertov, director of the Laboratory of Hearing and the Symphony of Noises; and Vladimir Popov, the pioneer of Noise and inventor of Sound Machines. Shedding new light on better-known figures such as Leon Theremin (inventor of the world's first electronic musical instrument, the Theremin), the publication also investigates the work of a number of pioneers of electronic sound tracks using 'graphical sound' techniques, such as Nikolai Voinov, Evgeny Sholpo and Boris Yankovsky. From eavesdropping on pianists to the 23-string electric guitar, microtonal music to the story of the man imprisoned for pentatonic research, Noise Orchestras to Machine Worshippers, Sound sin Z documents an extraordinary and largely forgotten chapter in the history of music and audio technology."

Paris & Malmö 1979 / 1980. 4to. 28 loose pages offset with text and photographs in original worn envelope (see photos). Text sometimes in Swedish, sometimes French. Except envelope, a very good copy. Limitation not known, probably very rare. First edition. Gette returning to his investigation at the beach at Malmo in Sweden where he earlier has worked with identification of the various foliage and beach plants and photographed them. Much of Gette's early conceptual art involved the use of botanical science alongside sculpture and photography. Alice in Wonderland, documentation from earlier projects, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1975, 1976 etc. A proposal for an exhibition in Malmö.

Copenhagen: Husets Bogcafe, 1971. Large folio format in original photoillustrated stapled wraps (37 x 29 cm, about the same size as Whole Earth Catalog). Illustrated throughout with b/ w photographs. Wrappers somewhat worn with tears and lots of rubbing to edges and soiling to cover front but still tight. Inside overall clean, one page with a large tear, but no loss. Discoloring. Overall an acceptable copy of this very fragile item. More photos available upon request. 1. and only printing. Danish photobook documentary made as a celebration of the new free hippie society in the making in the north of Jutland in Denmark. Sweet counter culture! 1968 was the formation of Association of The New Society in Copenhagen. 1969 / 1970 John Lennon and Yoko Ono visted Nordenfjord World University (Verdensuniversitetet) part of the groups activity in Jutland. 1970 The association The New Society purchased of 40 - 47 acres in Han District, between Froestrup and Oesterild. Thylejren was also called Froestrup camp after the name of the nearest village, Froestrup, here they would try to live in a new way. In 1970, escalated the association's activities in a large-scale summer festival that not only lasted 3 days, as it is common for festivals, but the entire 10 weeks. The goal was to explore alternative ways of being together in order to find new models of society.The first festival had 3,000 participants and thousands of visitors and curious to visit over the summer. The present publication is the original documentation of that summer made in the format resembling The Whole Earth Catalog. Extremely scarce!"

MIT Press, 1993. 8vo in publishers hardcover with dustjacket. XVIII, 348 p. Illustrated. Fine clean copy. Book and jacket design by Jean Wilcox. First edition - attractive copy. "On the Museum's Ruins presents Douglas Crimp's criticism of contemporary art, its institutions, and its politics alongside photographic works by the artist Louise Lawler to create a collaborative project that is itself an example of postmodern practice at its most provocative. Crimp elaborates the new paradigm of postmodernism through analyses of art practices broadly conceived, not only the practices of artists--Robert Rauschenberg, Cindy Sherman, Marcel Broodthaers, Richard Serra, Sherrie Levine, and Robert Mapplethorpe--but those of critics and curators, of international exhibitions, and of new or refurbished museums such as the Staatsgalerie in Stuttgart and the Martin-Gropius-Bau in Berlin."

New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 2011. Large heavy clothed decorated hardcover with jacket. 12-1/4 inches high by 9-3/4 inches wide. 288 pages, profusely illustrated in color and black & white. Very good copy. First edition. "The artists associated with German Expressionism in the early decades of the twentieth century took up printmaking with a dedication and fervor virtually unparalleled in the history of the genre. The woodcut, with its coarse gouges and jagged lines, is the preeminent Expressionist medium, but the movement also revolutionized etching and lithography, to alternately vibrant and stark effect. This graphic impulse can be traced from the formation of the artist group Die Brücke in 1905 through the war years of the 1910s and into the early 1930s, when individual artists continued to produce compelling work even as the movement was winding down. This volume, published in conjunction with an exhibition at The Museum of Modern Art, showcases the Museum's outstanding holdings of Expressionist prints, enhanced by a selection of drawings, paintings, and sculptures from the collection. Featuring approximately 260 works by some 30 artists, the book presents a diverse array of individuals, including Max Beckmann, Erich Heckel, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Emil Nolde, Vasily Kandinsky and Oskar Kokoschka. Essays by Starr Figura, Associate Curator of Prints and Illustrated Books at MoMA, and Peter Jelavich, Professor of History, Johns Hopkins University, discuss the centrality of printmaking in German Expressionism and provide a sociocultural backdrop for the movement.".

London & New York: Quartet Books, 1987. 4to. Original boards with unclipped, very fine photoillustrated dustjacket. 135 pp. Profusedly illustrated with photos of Charlotte Rampling by Helmut Newton, Jeanloup Sieff among others. Text in English. A hint of wavyness to pages and lower corners lightly dented else overall a good, clean anbd attractive copy. The book was printed in a German, a French and an English version. This, the English is the most sought-after. First edition.

London, The Bodley Head, 1966 (1965). Folio oversized tall hardcover in orginal grey boards with unclipped dustjacket. Unpaginated. Illustrated throughout and printed in Switzerland with fine saturated gravure prints. Jacket with edgewear and minor tears to edges and spine (see photos). Inside clean and bright. Overall a very good well preserved attractive copy. One of the most coveted and influential photography books of the swinging '60s. Included in 'The Open Book' catalogue of important photo books, 'Book of Nudes' (196) and Auer (449). First edition, 3rd printing.

C. W. Stincks Boghandel, 1881. 26 x 34,5 med ramme. Ramme noget slidt men solid. Med ældre ophæng. Diverse brugsspor. Julegaven til forkælede børn (og voksne) anno 1881. - Første vers af sangen "Den lille Ole med Paraplyen" af Peter Lemche er gengivet nedenfor fotoet. Fotografen Christian Peter Lauritz Wismer, født 1843 i Helsingør, død 1891 i San Francisco.

Mexico: Casa Luis Barragan, 2002. 8vo in wraps with yellow dustjacket with orange lettering (25 x 19 cm). 120 unpaginated pages, mostly illustrations. First edition, fine copy.  Rare.

Harper's Bazaar, 1950. Large magazine format in original wrappers. 210 pages. Edgewear to cover, mainly back cover, and minor wear to spine (see photos) but complete and overall a very good well preserved attractive copy. A rare original vintage Harper's Bazaar issue from the Carmel Snow Era, an absolute Supermagazine with Alexey Brodovitch as the art director and Diana Vreeland fashion editor. Cover by Richard Avedon. Contents include The Winter Season. Dovima in elegant Balenciaga black taffeta evening cape; photo by Richard Avedon. Always leave them laughing (Charlotte Greenwood, Hermione Gingold, Josephine Hall, Lucile Watson); photographed by Richard Avedon . The sash plays a leading part: Balenciaga evening dresses. Bright mules and jeweled T-straps. The open coat. Gray after dark. Dresses for the dance. The black of evening. Copycat furs. Short story by Truman Capote - A Diamond Guitar. Pale tints, petal textures. Countess Bernadotte of Sweden. Beatelund, old country estate. Sweater dresses and tops. Here comes the holidays. Ben Rose, Kay Bell layout etc etc. Many photos by Richard Avedon, Louise Dahl-Wolfe, Karen Radkai, Evelyn Hofer, among others.

Lund / Lunds Konsthall: 1971. (7 x 17 cm). Double both side illustrated flipbook. [150] pp. Text in both Swedish and English. Somewhat worn but complete and solid copy. First and only edition of this rare and beautiful flipbook item by Shinkichi Tajiri, designed by Tajiri with Marianne Nanne-Bråhammar and Anders Österlin og John Melin. Photos by Violet Cornelius and Åke Hedström. Shinkichi Tajiri was born as Shinkichi George Tajiri on 7 December 1923 in Los Angeles. He was a versatile artist. Although he expressed himself in many disciplines, he made his contribution to Cobra as an experimental sculptor. In addition, he was a painter and also made photographs, films and computer drawings. With Tajiri, versatile also means internationally oriented: American because of his birthplace, Japanese because he was born to Japanese parents from an old aristocratic Samurai family, French because his artistic career started in Paris, and Dutch because he moved to the Netherlands in 1956. Innovative artists' book made in conjunction with exhibition at Lunds Konsthall, Malmö, during October, 1971. Functions as flip book, animating photographs of Tajiri blowing up a balloon alongside Swedish text. Reverse direction, contains hundreds of black and white photographs of Tajiri and his artworks alongside English captions. Tajiri was a Japanese-American artist who resided primarily in the Netherlands and was associated with Karel Appel and COBRA; this book also suggests a shared affinity with Fluxus.

Lepzig & Berlin, Teubner, 1930. Large tall 8vo uncut and still unopened unread copy in publishers wraps as issued. 27x19. XX+216 pp. + 78 plates with 120 reproductions and photos + 2 pp. book list. Printed wrappers, a sensational fine copy of the scarce first edition. First edition, 1st printing = Studien Der Bibliothek Warburg # 18.

New York: Grove Press, Inc., 1968. Paperback with all edges red as issued. 451 (1) pp. Only minor wear to extremities else clean and overall a very good well preserved copy. First edition, first paperback printing (stated) of Warhol's first novel, an experimental collection of four word-for-word transcriptions of tapes recorded by Warhol and Ondine between 1965 and 1967. "A Novel", Warhol's knowing response to James Joyce's Ulysses, follows an uninterrupted twenty-four hours in the life of Ondine, an actor who was famous mostly as a Factory fixture, Warhol film superstar and devoted amphetamine user. Warhol hired four typists (including Maureen Tucker, the drummer for the Velvet Underground and two high school girls) to transcribe audio tapes of conversations between him and Ondine between 1965 and 1967 and the book is a verbatim printing of the typed manuscripts, containing every typo, abbreviation and inconsistency that the typists produced from the twenty-four tapes (each chapter is named for its respective tape and side, from '1/ 1' to '24/ 2'). In his glossary for the 1998 edition of a, A Novel, Victor Bockris cites Billy Name, the book's editor, as the source for the title; "a" refers to both amphetamine use and as an homage to e.e. cummings. a, A Novel was the second of several publishing projects Andy Warhol produced in his lifetime. Warhol wanted to be a writer but much like his film work, spontaneous performances and an explicit lack of editing was used as a device. Warhol wanted to write a "bad" novel, "because doing something the wrong way always opens doors." Four typists were employed to transcribe the Warhol/Ondine tapes. Maureen Tucker, the drummer for the Velvet Underground was an expert typist. However, she refused to transcribe the swear words and left them out. Two high school girls were hired to work on some of the tapes. When one girl's mother heard what they were listening to she threw out the tape, losing several hours of conversation. All four hired typists transcribed the dialogue differently, some identifying the speakers, others not. The editor for a, A Novel, Billy Name, preserved the transcripts as is, with every typo and inconsistent character identification, and even moving from two column pages to single-column based on each typist's style. The final printed version was identical to the typed manuscripts. The book is a roman a clef, meaning that the fictional characters are thinly disguised actual persons. The "cast" is itemized in the glossary written by Victor Bockris in the 1998 paperback edition. A run-down of the major characters in the book are: Ondine is Robert Olivo, a Warhol superstar. Drella is Warhol himself (he was nicknamed by Lou Reed as "Drella" because Reed felt it fit both sides of Warhol's persona, being a combination of Cinderella and Dracula).Steve is Stephen Shore, a photographer who worked with Billy Name. Paul is Paul Morrissey, who had just joined the group and would eventually become the director of Warhol's later films. Lucky L is Paul America, newly popular in the Factory crowd for starring in My Hustler. Gerard Malanga was the star of many Warhol films, and is the only person whose real name is used in the book. Taxine or "Taxi," is Edie Sedgwick, the great female Warhol superstar. A, a novel was the beginning of the end of their relationship. Ingrid is Ingrid Superstar, a Warhol Superstar, who was brought to the Factory to "replace" Edie in late 1965. Rink or "Rink Crawl" is Chuck Wein, responsible for bringing both Edie and Ingrid to the Factory. Irving Du Ball is Lester Persky, a film producer. Moxanne is Genevieve Charbon, a French actress who Edie met in Paris that year. Rotten Rita is Kenneth Rapp, who, with Ondine and Billy Name, made up the "A-heads Trio." Rita was also known as the Mayor, like Ondine was known as the Pope. The Duchess is Brigid Polk, whose real name was Brigid Berlin. She would be Warhol's companion for the rest of his life, although he did not take part in her only conversation in the book. Billy Name is Billy Linich, a photographer who worked closely with Stephen Shore. He was also the designer of the Factory. Do Do or "Do Do Mae Doome," is Dorothy Dean. She worked at The New Yorker in the 60s. The Sugar Plum Fairy is Joe Campbell (actor) who starred in My Hustler and Nude Restaurant. Ron Via is Ronnie Vial, a member of the underground. Oxydol is Olympio Vasconzalez, who starred in Conquest of the Universe with Ondine. Lou is Lou Reed of the Velvet Underground, whose album cover Warhol created.

Copenhagen: Chr. Cato, 1932. 4to uncut in original stiff wraps. 48 pages, illustrated richly with color illustration to front and one very fine color print (fotoet). Cover by Arne Ungermann. Wrappers lightly worn at edges else an excellent copy. Erste Ausgabe. - Interessanter dreisprachiger Katalog (deutsch-englisch-französisch) mit reichem Abbildungsmaterial. Gezeigt werden dänisches Glas und Keramik, Möbel, Textilien, Metallarbeiten, Bucheinbände u. a. / Edition originale / First edition. Very rare indeed.

Osaka: Visual Arts, 1999. Tall 4to in wraps as issued, complete with original obi. 111 pages, illustrated throughout. Captions and intro in both Japanese and English. Excellent clean well preserved copy. FIRST EDITION, 1st pritning. - Born in Osaka, 1971, Arimoto currently lives and works in Tokyo, Japan. Graduated from Visual Arts Osaka in 1994, Arimoto received the 35th Taiyo Award in 1998 with his work Portrait of Tibet . In 2008, he founded the Totem Pole Photo Gallery. Arimoto published Tokyo Circulation with Zen Foto Gallery in 2016 and won the 26th Tadahiko Hayashi Award as well as the Photographic Society of Japan s Lifetime Achievement Award in 2017. His other publications include ariphoto selection (No. 1-10, Totem Pole Photo Gallery) and TIBET (Zen Foto Gallery, 2019). Actively presenting his work in and out of Japan, he held a solo show at Le Plac'Art Photo, Paris in 2017 and participated in the group exhibition Am Rand der Gesellschaft. Barlach Springer Arimoto at Museum Bautzen, Germany in 2019. "Arimoto ventured the Tibetan Culture Area that included parts of China, India and Nepal and took these fresh and vibrant works in monochrome as he shared meals and living space with the people he met in Tibet" (---) “In 1994, while still in my early 20’s and fresh out of photo school I went to India to photograph. Six months into my travels the backpack in which I was keeping my exposed film - over 150 rolls - was stolen. This incident ultimately signified a turning point in my understanding about photography which continues to this day. Soon after this I went to Nepal. In Kathmandu, I encountered a Tibetan family who were on a pilgrimage to Dharamsala. My relationship with this family grew as we shared meals and our living space. As the days passed I began to feel a strong desire to see their homeland with my own eyes. Soon after however, my neglected health caught up with me and I was hospitalized with hepatitis. A further examination diagnosed a heart condition and I was forced to return home to Japan. My condition improved after returning to Japan. Once I had recovered I found work as a day laborer to save money for a trip to Tibet. Reading up on the country and studying the language consumed me as the days passed. One year later, in 1996, I set foot in Tibet. I’ll never forget that thrill. Everything that had happened so far - every coincidence, incident, and tribulation, had brought me to this point. Looking back I realize that most of my twenties were spent with Tibet. Having started out as an empty vessel, it was Tibet and my experiences there that made me full.”

Gutenberghus - Egmont H. Petersens Fond, 1946. Indbundet i 3 private hardcover bind med alle omslag medindbundne. Rabat kuponer er klippet ud og krydsogtværs er løst ellers komplet og velbevaret sæt. Flere tusind sider. Rigt illustrerede. Enestående samling af, komplet fra det første nummer Oktober 1946 til og med December 1949. Initiativtager var direktøren for Gutenberghus, teatermanden og komponisten Dan Folke, og målet var at skabe en ny stil i ugebladenes verden og et blad, som "kunne fungere som en god veninde" for den selverhvervende, moderne kvinde. Ud over at underholde og holde læserne orienteret om det nyeste inden for mode, boligindretning, håndarbejde, madlavning osv. skulle bladet også give råd og vejledning — fx i forbindelse med kærlighed, ægteskab og børn (Danmarks Nationalleksikon).

Copenhagen: Povl Branner, 1933. 8vo. Uncut in original publishers wraps as issued. 195 pages, plus complete with all flipbook photos at end - 480 cinematographic illustrations arranged in flicker-book style. Minor exterior wear and foxing to mainly topedge, else a good to very good copy. With 50 plates and 480 so-called film-reels (flip-book images), with captions. First edition thus - published not long after the Dutch version. Van der Velde (1873-1937), a Dutch gynecologist and sexologist, made his fame by writing sexual "manuals", with for the time great frankness. This work deals with female body-culture, including a description of the sexual organs. The so-called film-stroken (film-reels) at end of volume, serve, when fanned quickly, "moving" pictures of the female [nude/sparsely clothed] body, a revolution in those days. Very scarce!

Published by The Cambridge Enchorial Press, 2005. Quarto large oversized hardcover with jacket. 280 pages, profusedly illustrated. Edgewear to jacket else a clean and overall very good copy. "Helmut Krone (1925-96) was a leading seditionary in the Creative Revolution (1954-64) that transformed graphic design and advertising, i.e., his campaigns for Volkswagen & Avis ("We try harder"). The book contains 800 illustrations: Krone's work, the work which influenced him, and the work his superceded. Relying on primary sources, the book incorporates Krone's portfolios, notes, and manuscripts; the records at Doyle Dane Bernbach; the contemporary trade press; and nearly 150 interviews with colleagues, competitors, and other seditionaries. The book is conceived as the definitive primer, not only on Krone, but on the arrival of modern advertising art direction; the thinking behind it and the questions which Krone asked himself in order to provoke new meanings from design, typography and photography -- methods which continue to stimulate new and relevant solutions today". Due to size and weight extra shipping will apply for this item - please inquire before ordering!