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Olafur Eliasson, [Copenhagen], 2012. Large squarish 4to in wraps as issued. One of 1000 digitally numbered copies. Text in English. Fine copy. 1. edition.

London: Thames and Hudson (New York Harry Abrams), 2000. Oblong 4to hardcover, witn jacket. Dustjacket with minor wear, now protected. 204 pages with 323 illustrations of which 117 plates are in color. Text in English. Very good attractive copy. First UK edition.

Princeton University Press, 1982. Publishers hardcover, with somewhat worn jacket. IX, 290 pp. Very good clean copy. First edition, published as part of "Princeton Library of Asian Translations".

New York: Pantheon Books, 1999. 8vo in publishers hardcover with unclipped protected jacket. 278 pages. Well preserved clean copy. First US edition, 2nd printing.

Hannover: Kestner-Gesellschaft, 1981. Square 8vo in wraps as issued. 90 pages, illustrated throughout with photographs. Short text in German. Minor wear to cover else clean and overall a bvery good copy. First edition. Beautiful photobook: "This was the oldest cultivated region in the world, almost unaltered for six thousand years. The Garden of Eden, where time stood still. A land between two rivers, the waters of the Euphrates and the Tigris, which made agriculture possible in the wilderness. In 1980, at the outbreak of war between Iraq and Iran, Ursula Schulz-Dornburg photographed the marsh country in the lower reaches of the Tigris, the amphibious realm of the Ma'dan, one of the most ancient civilisations still existing in the world at that time. A realm of water, sky, horizon and reeds. On small islands in the water, woven out of reeds and set in among the reeds, stand the muhdif, light nomad constructions of which it is hard to say whether they are boats that have come to a temporary halt or houses that are about to cast off. At any moment more reeds can be added, in a living process in which they endure by virtue of their transitory nature. The beauty and skill that they reveal are the direct result of the simplicity and functionality of their woven construction. The enduring existence of the dwelling and its temporary nature are closely bound together in the architecture of the muhdif, as also are absoluteness and provisionality, isolation and openness. These reed structures were engraved as images on old stone stele that are now five thousand years old. In the Sumerian epic of Gilgamesh, one of the most ancient texts in human history, the origins of which go back to about 2100 B.C. and which, like the muhdif, was kept alive for thousands of years, a god, not being able to impart a warning directly to men, addresses it to the house made out of reeds: "Reed-hut, reed-hut! Wall! Wall! / Reed-hut, hearken! Wall, reflect! / Man of Shuruppak, son of Ubar-Tutu, / Tear down [this] house, build a ship! / Give up possessions, seek thou life. / Despise property and keep the soul alive! / Aboard the ship take thou the seed of all living things."

Cologne: Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, 2006. 8vo in wraps as issued. 272 pages. With 63 plates. Very good well preserved clean copy. With text by Alexander Alberro, Edit Andras, Ricardo Basbaum, Benjamin H.D. Buchloh, Sabeth Buchman, Thomas Crow, Helmut Draxler, Elizabeth Ferrell, Isabelle Graw, Helen Molesworth, Luiza Nader, Henrik Olesen and Gregor Stemmrich.

New Haven / London : Yale University Press, 1988. Publishers hardcover, w fine jacket. XV, 425 pp. With illustrations. Fine clean copy. First edition, attractive copy.

Seattle / Andover: University of Washington for Addison Gallery, 1993. Landscape 4to in wraps as issued (11.25" x 9" inch). 88 pages with essays by Jack Reynolds and Andrea Miller-Keller; Drawings in Progress and Drawings in Completed Exhibition, profusely illustrate in color and black-and-white, many full-page. Fine clean well preserved copy. First edition.

Wien / New-York Springer 1997. Heavy thick 4to in wraps as issued. 784 pages, richly illustrated. German-English text. Light edgewear. Overall a very good copy. Visual Poetry from Vienna. 1st edition.

Published by Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin 2007. 8vo hardcover, no jacket as issued. 281 pp. Text in both German and English. Illustrated. Fine clean copy. 1st edition. Texts by Eric Andersen, Andrea Bátorová, György Galántai, Milan Knížák, Vytautas Landsbergis, Pavlína Morganová, Luiza Nader, Maria Anna Potocka, Tamás St. AubyPetra Stegmann & Emmett Williams.

New York: Primary Information, 2006. 4to large paperback as issued. XVII, 313 pages, plus index. Upper spine with superficial wear, and lower right corner (s) a bit dog-eared else very good clean and tight copy. First printing thus. - "Writings and artists' projects from Real Life magazine, a seminal 1980s periodical edited by the artist, writer and curator Thomas Lawson and writer Susan Morgan. Published in 23 intermittent black-and-white issues from 1979-1994, Real Life was devoted to providing an outlet for a circle of artists who did not feel properly represented in the mainstream art world at the time--many of whom are now grouped with the Pictures and Post-Pictures artists. The anthology features both artists and art historians writing on art, media and popular culture--oftentimes infusing a new kind of humor into their cultural critiques--as well as original pictorial contributions. It includes writings by and about Eric Bogosian, Kim Gordon, Dan Graham, Barbara Kruger, Thomas Lawson, Allan McCollum, John Miller, Matt Mullican, Richard Prince, David Robbins, Michael Smith, Ed Ruscha, Jeff Wall and Lawrence Weiner, to name a few, as well as visual projects by Sherrie Levine, James Welling, Felix Gonzalez-Torres and Group Material, among others."

Cambridge at the University Press, 1965. Two vols in publishers red clothed hardcovers with gilt titles. XI, 422, VIII, 248 pp. A bit of edgewear else a clean set, very well preserved, no stamps, notes or markings. First edition (s).

Koenig Books, London (Artforum Series 3), 2011. Square 4to in softcover, as issued. 168 pages, profusedly illustrated qith German/French/English text. Fine clean copy. Michael Riedel's artists book "Perlstein" continues the series of publications (Oskar, 2003; Tirala, 2006; Meckert, 2009; amongst others), which are published as independent works parallel to his exhibitions. His texts are often generated from unedited transcriptions of recordings that he frames through a set of predetermined circumstances. He labels these works text productions. Perlstein includes a transcript of a talk given by the artist at various venues between 2009 and 2011. His talk provides a broad overview of his publishing activities, beginning with the paper bag he wore during a lecture at the Städelschule, Frankfurt, in 1997 to his most recent catalogue The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog. Riedel s talk is given as a PowerPoint presentation, which lasts approximately 45 minutes and shows 370 images. The illustrations included in the book are screen shots taken during the PowerPoint presentation at intervals when the slides changed. The choice of the transitions took place automatically and randomly" . Riedel is born 1972 in Rüsselsheim, Germany, Prof. for painting and graphic at Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst Leipzig, Germany.

Detroit: The Gilbert and Lila Silverman Collection & Roskilde Museum of Contemporary Art, 2008. Tall 4to in publishers stiff wraps as issued. 230 pages. Richly illustrated, partly in color. Text in English. As new copy. First edition. The catalogue includes new, original texts by Eric Andersen, Anna Dezeuze, Letty Eisenhauer, Yoko Ono, and Susanne Rennert, as well essays by Marianne Bech and Jon Hendricks. La Monte Young has written a separate text, to be published in conjunction with the exhibition. The exhibition included work by: Bengt af Klintberg, Eric Andersen, Arman, Ay-O, Joseph Beuys, Michael von Biel, George Brecht, Sylvano Bussotti, John Cage Giuseppe Chiari, Henning Christiansen, Philip Corner, Robin Crozier, Walter de Maria, Willem de Ridder, Marcel Duchamp, Nye Ffarrabas, Robert Filliou, Albert M. Fine, Fluxus Collective, Hi Red Center, Geoff Hendricks, Dick Higgins, Toshi Ichiyanagi, Terry Jennings, Yves Klein, Milan Knizak, Alison Knowles, Addi Køpcke, Takehisa Kosugi, Shigeko Kubota, Györgi Ligeti, Jackson Mac Low, George Maciunas, Yoriaki Matsudaira, Pierre Mercure, Heinz-Klaus Metzger, Yoko Ono, Robin Page, Nam June Paik, Benjamin Patterson, James Riddle, Terry Riley, Tomas Schmit, Dieter Schnebel, Paul Sharits, Mieko Shiomi, Daniel Spoerri, Karlheinz Stockhausen, James Tenney, Yasunao Tone, Ben Vautier, Wolf Vostell, Robert Watts, Emmett Williams, La Monte Young, George Yuasa and Marian Zazeela.

London: Hatchard and Son, 1843. Two uniform large 8vo in full blue calf, gilt richly decoration, all edges marbled. Spines suntanned and rubbed, and rubbing to edges and mainly the corners of binding. Name to titlepage with smearing to the free front enpaper. Armorial bookplate of Joseph Granville Stuart, Hale Park, a contemporary inscription to free front endpaper (Etonm Election, 1867). Foxing to endpapers else clean and bright and well preserved. Frontispiece, III, 519, (4), 606 pp. An attractive set. Rare first edition. - John Shore, the 1st Baron Teignmouth was the Governor of Bengal or the Presidency of Fort William from 1793 to 1797. Shore joined East India Company's service in the year 1769 at the secret political department. Shore was thereafter made the assistant to the board of revenue at Murshidabad in 1770, which provided Shore the opportunity to experience the horrors of the 1770 Famine at first hand. In the years following the famine Shore was a member of the revenue council in Calcutta and later appointed a seat at the committee of revenue by the Governor-General. Shore also served as the revenue commissioner of the districts in Dacca and Bahar. The profound knowledge that Shore acquired over the years, came in use in Cornwallis' revenue experiments, which ultimately took the shape of Permanent Settlement. Shore himself succeeded Cornwallis as the Governor of Bengal in 1793 and remained in office till 1797. In 1798 Shore was created Baron Teignmouth in the peerage of Ireland for his services. After retiring Shore became a member of the Board of Control and wrote a biography and memoir on his close friend Sir William Jones. The Memoir of the Life and Correspondences of Lord Teignmouth was compiled by his son Charles John Shore, who became the second Baron Teignmouth. A heavy set of books and foreign shipping will be extra, please inquire before ordering!

London: Collins Harvill, 1994. Publishers hardcover w jacket. XI, 285 pages. Dustjacket priceclipped else well preserved attractive clean copy First UK edition. A Void, translated from the original French La Disparition (lit. "The Disappearance"), is a French lipogrammatic novel, written in 1969 by Georges Perec, entirely without using the letter e, following Oulipo constraints. Perec would go on to write with the inverse constraint in Les Revenentes, with only the vowel “e” present in the work.

Amsterdam: Manifesta Foundation / Silvana, 2011. 8vo in wraps as issued. 112 pages. Richly illustrated. Fine clean and complete copy.

New York: Something Else Press, 1969. Publishers original hardcover with well preserved and unclipped dustjacket. Fine yellow endpapers and topedge in green matching the binding. XXIII,158 pages, with scores. Jacket faded else a fine, clean and well preserved copy. First edition of this beautifully made revised version. Since its original publication in 1930, Henry Cowell's New Musical Resources has become recognized as one of the few seminal technical studies to be written by a twentieth-century composer - "The purpose is to point out the influence the overtone series has exerted on music throughout its history" Cowell states in his introduction. Henry Cowell, in full Henry Dixon Cowell (1897-1965) American composer who, with Charles Ives, was among the most innovative American composers of the 20th century. Cowell grew up in poverty in San Francisco and on family farms in Kansas, Iowa, and Oklahoma. He acquired a piano at age 14, and the following year he gave a concert of his experimental piano compositions. At 17 he studied at the University of California with the influential musicologist Charles Seeger, who persuaded him to undertake the systematic study of traditional European musical techniques. He also urged Cowell to formulate a theoretical framework for his innovations, which he did in his book New Musical Resources (1919; published 1930), an influential technical study of music. While studying comparative musicology in Berlin with Erich von Hornbostel, Cowell became interested in the music of other cultures; he later studied Asian and Middle Eastern music, elements of which he absorbed into many of his own compositions. In 1923–33 Cowell undertook a series of tours of Europe as composer and pianist. Many of his concerts provoked uproar, but they also brought him to the attention of leading modern European composers. He taught at the New School for Social Research in New York City in 1932–52 and, from 1949, at Columbia University. From 1936 to 1940 he was incarcerated in San Quentin state prison on charges of homosexual conduct. He continued to write music while in prison, and in 1940 he was paroled to the custody of composer Percy Grainger. Cowell was granted a full pardon in 1942. Cowell’s innovations appear particularly in the piano pieces written between 1912 and 1930. Seeking new sonorities, he developed “tone clusters,” chords that on the piano are produced by simultaneously depressing several adjacent keys (e.g., with the forearm). Later he called these sonorities secondal harmonies—i.e., harmonies based on the interval of a second in contrast to the traditional basis of a third. These secondal harmonies appear in his early piano pieces, such as The Tides of Manaunaun (1912); in his Piano Concerto (1930); and in his Synchrony (1931) for orchestra and trumpet solo. Some of his other piano compositions, such as Aeolian Harp (1923) and The Banshee (1925), are played directly on the piano strings, which are rubbed, plucked, struck, or otherwise sounded by the hands or by an object. Cowell’s Mosaic Quartet (1935) was an experiment with musical form; the performers are given blocks of music to arrange in any desired order. With the Russian engineer Leon Theremin, Cowell built the Rhythmicon, an electronic instrument that could produce 16 different simultaneous rhythms, and he composed Rhythmicana (1931; first performed 1971), a work specifically written for the instrument. Cowell wrote numerous pieces reflecting his interest in rural American hymnology, Irish folklore and music, and non-Western music. In order to publish the scores of modern composers, he founded the New Music Quarterly in 1927 and was its editor until 1936. He also edited American Composers on American Music (1933) and with his wife, Sidney Cowell, wrote Charles Ives and His Music (1955). A number of well-known American composers, including John Cage, Lou Harrison, and George Gershwin, studied with and were influenced by Cowell.

London: Lisson Gallery / Galerie Yvon Lambert, 2003. Small 4to in stiff wraps as issued. 160pp. Profusely illus. mainly in colour. Fine, with only the most minimal edgewear. Complete with inserts. First edition.

London: The Hogarth Press, 1956, 1957, and 1958. 3 vols in the original uniform blue clothed hardcovers with gilt titles, no dustjackets. 454; 534, 536 pp. Clean solid set. Volume 3 is in first edition. In all a good to very good set. The great classic biography of Freud and his life, first surpassed by Peter Gay's work - and still respected by many, including Peter Gay himself. Extra shipping may apply - please inquire.

København, J.P. Madsen Linds Forlag,1912. Med 2 udfoldelige modeller. En del af tavle ligger løs (tarme) ellers velbevaret. Originaludgave.

Denmark: AS N.Olaf Møller, 1978. 4to. Original printed wraps as issued. (28) pp. Illustrated throughout with high contrast black and white photos. Only minior edgewear to cover, else fine copy. First edition. First and only edition, 1st printing.

Socle du Monde Herning, Denmark, 2004. 8vo. 15 booklets, illustrated with Danish and English texts by the artists. Complete. In original box. Well preserved. "This artist''s publication was put together at communications bureau IB&CO, Ikast. The project was organized by Jacob Fabricius for the 2004 edition of the art biennial ''Socle du Monde'' a tradition of artists collaborating with local industries, initiated by the shirt manufacturer Aage Damgaard who invited Piero Manzoni to work there in the 1950s. Herning Kunstmuseum still has one of the world''s finest Manzoni collections, including the Socle du Monde." -- artist''s statement. From the Goodiepal collection with the artists signature to box cover, see photos. Due to the weight and the fragility of the box for this publication additional shipping charges will be required for international orders.

London: Ivor Nicholson and Watson, 1936. Green clothed hardcover boards with titles to spine, no dustjacket. 350 pages. With plates. Binding a bit rubbed with a little soiling (see photo). Hinges a bit week, some foxing to topedge and endpapers. Overall a good acceptable copy. First edition. Elinor Glyn (née Sutherland 1864 –1943) was a British novelist and scriptwriter who specialised in romantic fiction, which was considered scandalous for its time Glyn pioneered risqué, and sometimes erotic, romantic fiction aimed at a female readership, a radical idea for its time. She became an upholder of women's right to explore and articulate their own sexuality. In her novel The Man and the Moment (1914), she coined the use of the word it to mean a characteristic that "draws all others with magnetic force. With 'IT' you win all men if you are a woman–and all women if you are a man. 'IT' can be a quality of the mind as well as a physical attraction." Her use of the word is often erroneously taken to simply be a euphemism for sexuality or sex appeal. She had intimate knowledge of the decor and haute couture of the courts of Europe and this was a part of the Glyn author persona which she cultivated and publicly projected. She had genuinely seen the courts of Russia, Spain, Britain and Egypt, and had circulated in high society in France and the United States. With such knowledge, Glyn was called on by radio presenters, magazine editors, chairs of women's associations and others to speak and entertain their audiences. She was asked to talk on etiquette and romance, on marriage and on beauty; her advocacy of sexual freedoms and discussions of marriage and divorce meant that she was a popular speaker. The press noted where she went, what she wore and what she was saying. Her opinions made the headlines. During World War I, Glyn became a war correspondent, working in France. At the signing of the Treaty of Versailles, 28 June 1919, Glyn was one of only two women present.

London: George Allen & Unwin, 1939 (1938). Publishers clothed hardcover with gilt title and red topedge. No dustjacket. VIII, 546 pp. From a private collection with the names of previous owners to inner front cover. Light wear to edges and a couple of feeble barely visible pencil notes to the first 20 pages else clean and overall a very good copy. Originally published in the US 1938 by Henry Holt: this is the first UK edition identical in content with the American first.