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The Shakespeare Head Press Edition, 1994. Publishers hardcover, w jacket. XXX, 442 pp. Spine of jacket sunned else fine clean copy. Edited by J. H. Stape with an Introduction. First thus.

Tate Gallery Publishing St Ives, 2006 / 2007. Small octavo in publishers orange clothed hardcover, no jacket as issued. 44 pages colour illustrated. Text in English. Fine clean copy. First edition.

Copenhagen, 1995. 8vo. Original wrappers. 32 pages,including covers. Richly illustrated. Text in English. Near fine. Inklusiv invitation til rejse-udstillingen "Kan Kunst Helbrede?" i Saga Basement, med deltagelse af blandt andet John Kørner, kendt for at bygge landingsbaner til UFOer, Olafur Eliasson og Ambient Techno-Duoen "Nature"... 1. edition. Art-Land International was a thin and glossy zine that is a humorous and serious commentary on the contemporary art scene of the ‘90s. Included are articles and interviews with artists and an ongoing photography based comic strip called “Art Club”. All in all, a great state-of-the-nation time capsule of the 1990s.

University of California Press, (1983). Original softcover. XXI, 441 pp. Minor edgewear.

Spector Books for HKW, 2015. Tall slim 8vo in wraps as issued. 218 pages. Text in English. Fine copy. 1st edition. "Ape Culture" traces the long cultural and scientific obsession with humanity’s closest relatives. In the Western historical representations of modernity, depictions of apes were traditionally used to show the absence of culture. Standing as a liminal figure separating humans and animals, the ape has, since ancient times, played a central role in the narrative of civilisational progress. This book, which appears in conjunction with the exhibition of the same nameseeks, however, to go beyond the mere examination of apes as signifiers of difference. The juxtaposition of artworks with documents taken from popular culture and the history of primatology gives the reader an insight into what the science historian Donna Haraway has termed the »primate order« — a hall of mirrors reflecting the scientific and cultural projections that turned the ape from an instrument of humanity’s self-definition into an integral element in testing out the possibility of reconstructing human »nature«. »Ape Culture« was shown at the Haus der Kulturen der Welt 2015.

Faber and Faber, 2021. Hardcover, with dustjacket. X, (4), 604 pages. Very good copy. First edition."Tony Wilson was a man who became synonymous with his beloved city. As the co-founder of the legendary Factory Records and the Hacienda, he appointed himself a custodian of Manchester's legacy of innovation and change, becoming a cultural pioneer for the North. To Paul Morley, he was this and much more: bullshitting hustler, flashy showman, inventive broadcaster, self-deprecating chancer, publicity seeker, loyal friend. It was Morley to whom Wilson left a daunting final request: to write this book.From Manchester with Love is the biography of a man who changed the world around him through sheerforce of personality. In the cultural theatre of Manchester, Tony Wilson broke in and took centre stage".

Borgen, 1982. 112 pp. Hft. Omslag lidt slidt ved hjørner. Indvendig ren. Alt i alt et ganske godt eksemplar. Første udgave.

Wivels Forlag, 1946. 4to. 35 sider med plancher i s/h. Smukt eksemplar indbundet i et privat halvpergament med forgyldt skindtitel. 1. udgave.

Corraini & Hangar Bicocca, 2011. Hardcover. 320 pages. Richly illustrated with text in both English and Italian. Light edgewear else clean very good copy.  The Terre Vulnerabili project takes the shape of an organic and polyphonic exhibition. Numerous artists interact around the “earth” as their place of belonging and to “vulnerability” as a positive concept to be contrasted with security. Terre Vulnerabili is an exhibition in progress, something which is germinating and organic, growing as it progresses. Articulated in four different stages, each given a different title – it lasts over a period of nine months. The underlying concept was that the work of each of the thirty international artists should not remain as it was at the start of each phase, but would continue to change and evolve throughout the duration of the show, with additions, corrections, changes of shape or place and interaction between the artists themselves. Behind it all lies the vision of a shared project that aimed to question traditional exhibition methods and show the way ahead, at a time when both our planet and the systems governing it and the conventions of contemporary art are showing serious signs of weakness and a need to be reconsidered. This book is a diary of the Terre Vulnerabili project, on show at the HangarBicocca in Milan, 21 October 2010 - 17 July 2011. In addition to an analysis of each of the works and participating artists, there is a behind the scenes view of how the project originated and became a changing object, comparable to a garden, a city or delicate land to be travelled every which way. Told through the photos of Agostino Osio, the story documents the passing of time, revealing how the installations altered over the nine-month period. There is also a personal reflection by Andrea Zanzotto on how the creative act is inevitably destined to damage what already exists – plus a conversation between Chiara Bertola, Andrea Lissoni and Hans Ulrich Obrist, a member of the HangarBicocca scientific committee and key figure in the contemporary art world, around the concept of an exhibition that creates itself by itself. The artists involved in the Terre Vulnerabili project: Ackroyd & Harvey / Mario Airò / Stefano Arienti / Massimo Bartolini / Stefano Boccalini / Ludovica Carbotta / Alice Cattaneo / Elisabetta Di Maggio / Rä di Martino / Bruna Esposito / Yona Friedman / Carlos Garaicoa / Alberto Garutti / Gelitin / Nicolò Lombardi / Mona Hatoum / Invernomuto / Kimsooja / Christiane Löhr / Marcellvs L. / Margherita Morgantin / Ermanno Olmi / Roman Ondák / Hans Op de Beeck / Adele Prosdocimi / Remo Salvadori / Alberto Tadiello / Pascale Marthine Tayou / Nico Vascellari / Nari Ward / Franz West.

London: Dent & Sons, 1954. Small 8vo in publishers hardcover w slightly worn and now protected jacket. 205 pp. Clean copy and overall well preserved. First British edition of "Løgneren". Introduction by Elias Breddsdorff. Translated From the Danish by John Jepson Egglishhaw.

Forlaget Multivers, 2018. Hardcover. 602 sider. Pænt eksemplar. Femte udgave, 4. rettede oplag.

Seattle: Real Comet Press, 1985. 4to in wraps as issued. 286 pages. Illustrated. Very good clean copy. "As mass culture spreads its web of dreams and illusions over the globe, creating a universal language of desire and belief, our universities and scholarly journals continue to teach and theorize about "art" as though it were some static object of "pure beauty" with no social or economic context or effect. The image of the artist as some isolated "gifted" seer off in an ivory tower persists, as does the ahistorical, nonmaterialist notion that "real art" can easily be distinguished from "mass art" by virtue of certain abstract qualities which, when studied closely turn out usually to be functions of social and historical conditions. Such ideas serve an important political function. They obscure and mystify an entire area of political reality. For as long as we view "art" as static, outside the realm of social forces, and by and large valuable in reverse proportion to its accessibility--the best art of course being produced in a distant past--we will fail to see what is happening under our noses. Such is the pervasiveness of this bourgeois way of thinking, that the activist left in this country (but certainly not in the third world) has rarely engaged in the kind of serious debate on artistic and cultural theory and strategy that the power of the media today demands. Art, for the left, still exists primarily as agitprop, as "entertainment" to be given as akind of light dessert after the serious business of political speeches. Cultures in Contention, which brings together a collection of writings by cultural activists in a variety of media and from countries across the world is no less than remarkable as a corrective to this sorry state of affairs. Its editors start from a theoretical position which is as radical as it is rich in implication. "Cultures in Contention," they say in the introduction, "seeks to reinstate an understanding of the preeminently social character of all cultural action." In so doing, it raises a variety of issues which are rarely discussed or understood. In fact, the book's greatest achievement may be to reveal the world of art production not only as collective, dynamic, and social, but also as theoretically and strategically informed."

New York: The Viking Press and Intrepid Trips Information Service, 1973. 4to. Softcover. XVIII, 238 pages. Light edgewear else very good clean copy. First edition. A Merry Prankster collection of essays and a play by the author of One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest and psychedelic bus riding bizarro Ken Kesey.

Copenhagen: Arnold Busck, 1991. Small square 4to. Hardcover, with jacket. 126 pp. Illustrated. Full text in English and Danish. Fine copy. First edition.

Aros, Aarhus 2012. 4to. Large hardcover w jacket. 224 pages. Illustrated richly. Text in both Danish and English. Fine copy. 1st edition. NB: Foreign shipping for this heavy book will be extra, please inquire before ordering.

Basilisk, 2016. 207 pp. Hft. 1. oplag.

Seventeen Magazine / Triangle Publications, Inc., 1952. Large magazine format in original wrappers. The story spreads over five pages, one page is the illustration to the story by Marjory Clark (see photo). Complete magazine, in all 112 pages. Cover is very worn rubbed and with pieces missing to edges and corners ((see photos), else inside a good solid copy, clean inside and the story is all bright and well preserved. A rare original vintage Seventeen Magazine issue with a rare first publication of Sylvia Plath's short story "Initiation". The story - at page 64 - that earned the author second prize in the magazine's Short Story Contest; includes a cameo portrait of the young Plath, and a short notice, "Sylvia Plath, reviewing her long friendship with us, says '...at fifteen and sixteen, I got rejection slips! Then, my first acceptance at the appropriate age of seventeen. Now the swan song in the form of a second prize!' A moral here, we think, for all contributors." Very scarce, early appearance from the poet and author.

Frankfurt am Main: Vittorio Klostermann 1998. 8°. Hardcover, mit OU. 435 Seiten. Name. Viele Anstreichungen mit Bleistift und mit roter Kugelschreiber. Erste Auflage.

Kleinheinrich Buch- und Kunstverlag, Münster, 1993. Broschur. 194 Seiten. OU am Rücken mit Handtierungsspuren sonst gutes Exemplar. Deutsche Erste Auflage von Del af labyrinten.

Kunstbogklubben, 1997. 4to. Original kartonbind med smudsomslag. 272 pp. Rigt illustreret i farver. Pænt eksemplar.

Faber and Faber, 1988. Publishers hardcover, with jacket. 358 pages. With illustrations. Very good copy. First edition thus.

New York: Grove Press, 1966. Publishers grey cloth hardcover with unclipped very good dustjacket. 253 pp. A discoloring to first blank page else very good overall and clean. First American edition, 1st printing (stated). "Blaise Cendrars’ last novel is an original and often very funny portrayal of the Parisian criminal underworld of the late 1940s that crackles with the fires of an abundant imagination. Yet To the End of the World is not total invention as, like all Cendrars’ works, it has some basis in real life. The narrative races between a Foreign Legion barracks in North Africa and the theaters, cafes, dosshouses, and police headquarters of postwar Paris. The central character in this roman à clef is Thérèse, a septuagenarian actress who was once the rival of Sarah Berhardt herself. Her passionate affair with a young deserter from the Foreign Legion (in which Cendrars himself served) is interrupted by the murder of a barman and the impact this event has on all their lives. With its bold and colorful supporting cast—a subterranean gallery of ex-legionnaires, theater types, black marketeers, dubious aristocrats, sexual adventurers, and freaks—entwined with numerous subplots and minor themes, To the End of the World amounts to a grandly picaresque adventure. When it appeared in France in 1956, it offered a ready antedote to the sense of negativity and existential futility that pervaded many novels of the era.""Without Cendrars, neither Miller nor Burroughs would have existed.!"

Cambridge: The MIT press, 2010. 8vo in publishers hardcover, with jacket. X, 222 pages. Illustrated. A hint of wear to upper front corners else clean fine unread attractive copy. 1st edition. Michael Asher (born in 1943), one of the foremost installation artists of the Conceptual art period, is a founder of site-specific practice. - "The first book-length study of this influential artist's work, focusing on the participatory role of the human subject rather than the art object. Michael Asher doesn't make typical installations. Instead, he extracts his art from the institutions in which it is shown, culling it from collections, histories, or museums' own walls. Since the late 1960s, Asher has been creating situations that have not only taught us about the conditions and contexts of contemporary art, but have worked to define it. In Situation Aesthetics, Kirsi Peltomäki examines Asher's practice by analyzing the social situations that the artist constructs in his work for viewers, participants, and institutional representatives (including gallery directors, curators, and other museum staff members). Drawing on art criticism, the reports of viewers and participants in Asher's projects, and the artist's own archives, Peltomäki offers a comprehensive account of Asher's work over the past four decades. Because of the intensely site-specific nature of this work, as well as the artist's refusal to reconstruct past works or mount retrospectives, many of the projects Peltomäki discusses are described here for the first time. By emphasizing the social and psychological sites of art rather than the production of autonomous art objects, Peltomäki argues, Asher constructs experientially complex situations that profoundly affect those who encounter them, bringing about both personal and institutional transformation."

Aldershot, Ashgate Publishing, 2008 (2005). XIV, 427 p., Paperback. Like new.

London & NY, Oxford University Press, 1975. Publishers hardcover with dustjacket. viii, 507 p., [1] leaf of plates, 1 color illustration. Jacket priceclipped and a bit worn, a couple of feeble pencil notes, else a very good, copy. First Edition.