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London: Bloomsbury, 1998. Square 8vo hardcover w jacket. 224 pages, illustrated throughout. Near fine copy.

Museum Tusculanum, 1998. Lille hardcover. 125 pp. Nærmest som ny.

Chichester: John´Wiley and Sons, 2002. Softcover. X, 470 pp. Illustrated. Fine clean copy. "The 20th century was the most brutal and destructive hundred-year period in human history. More people were killed in its wars, large and small, than in any other century. At times, the will to destruction was so immensely overpowering that the very future of human life seemed to be threatened. Yet, at the same time, it was also the most civilising and creative of centuries. Cities everywhere have been the engines and the symbols of economic growth, intensifying production, distribution and consumption. Generally speaking, though, the richest nations of the world have also been those with the biggest proportions of their populations living in urban areas. It is not surprising therefore that, during the 20th century, the affluent nations devoted so much attention to ameliorating and, indeed, trying to perfect the city. The underlying aim was to reconcile its economic dynamism with its other roles as a social, cultural and political entity. By 1914, these efforts were sufficiently developed in most advanced capitalist countries to warrant being given a specific name, such as Städtebau, town planning, urbanisme, city planning, stedebouw, toshi keikatu or urbanismo. Of course, the notion of consciously shaping the physical form and disposition of the urban environment was not itself without historical precedent. What was new to the late 19th and, more especially, the 20th centuries, was the idea of making urban planning an integral part of capitalist urban development within broadly liberal and democratic societies. The story of how this happened forms the central concern of this book. It is, in other words, a wide and long survey of the development of urban planning in the advanced capitalist world",

New York: Harry Abrams 1999. Squarish 8vo in wraps as issued. 84 pages with 34 pages in Marden's Workbook, a 1987-88 travel sketchbook/visual diary. With an interview with the artist. 56 illus., 18 in full color, 38 duotone. Some shelfwear else fine and clean. 1st edition. This work presents fifty-two of Brice Marden's drawings ranging from his works in the 1960s in solid forms & muted tonalities through his later works ofcalligraphic imagery that culminates in his Cold Mountain series.

London: Vision Press Ltd., 1951. 8vo. Publishers hardcover with slightly worn but unclipped dustjacket. 89 pp. Illustrated with photographs, still from the movie. Very good copy. First edition. Da zdravstvuyet Meksika! is a film project begun in 1930 by Eisenstein (1898–1948) under contract to socialist author Upton Sinclair and other supporters in the United States. It would have been an episodic portrayal of Mexican culture and politics from pre-Conquest civilization to the Mexican Revolution. Production was beset by difficulties and was eventually abandoned. Jay Leyda and Zina Voynow call it Eisentein's "greatest film plan and his greatest personal tragedy". In the early 20th century, many intellectuals and artists associated with the European avant garde were fascinated by Latin America in general, and by Mexico in particular: for the French artist and leader of the Surrealist movement André Breton, for instance, Mexico was almost the incarnation of Surrealism. As film historian David Bordwell notes, "like many Leftists, Eisenstein was impressed that Mexico has created a socialist revolution in 1910". His fascination with the country dated back at least to 1921, when at the age of twenty-two "his artistic career started with a Mexican topic" as he put on a theatrical version of the Jack London story The Mexican in Moscow. Film scholar Inga Karetnikova details this production as a classic example of avant-garde aesthetics, an exercise in form rather than documentary realism; but "indirectly", she argues, "he did recreate the Mexican atmosphere". Above all, he saw in the Mexican revolution an instance of a "zealous idealism" that was also "close to Eisenstein, just as it was to the entire generation of Soviet avant-garde of the early 1920s". Some years later, in 1927, Eisenstein had the opportunity to meet the Mexican muralist Diego Rivera, who was visiting Moscow for the celebrations of the Russian revolution's tenth anniversary. Rivera had seen Eisenstein's film Battleship Potemkin, and praised it by comparing it to his own work as a painter in the service of the Mexican revolution; he also "spoke obsessively of the Mexican artistic heritage", describing the wonders of Ancient Aztec and Mayan art and architecture. The Russian director wrote that "the seed of interest in that country . . . nourished by the stories of Diego Rivera, when he visited the Soviet Union . . . grew into a burning desire to travel there". "It’s a really tragic film, because its ambitions were so great, it was spanning centuries of time, extraordinary resources were marshaled towards its production, and all we have is this ruin essentially, but it’s a glorious ruin." (Thomas Beard).

Arken Museum of Modern Art, 2015. 4to in stiff wraps as issued. 90 pp. Richly illustrated. Text in Danish. Fine copy. 1. edition.

Illustrationsforlaget, 1959. Original kartonbind med lærredsryg. (30) pp. Illustreret i farver. Småplettet i margin. Første udgave / First edition.

Forlaget KLIM 2018. To hardcover bind, det ene uden smudsomslag. 425, 448 sider. Godt sæt.

Edition Taube, 2022. 4to. Hardcover, thread bound, 56 pages, color, multicolored cut. Light denting to cover edges else clean and fine.  First edition. Artists book by Hank Schmidt in der Beek - a must-have for all lovers of Suprematism, Constructivism and … ice cream.

Viva Editions, 2011. Hardcover, with jacket. 241 pp. With illustrations. Fine copy. 1. ed.

Gyldendal, 2009. Hardcover. 364 sider. Pænt eksemplar. 1. oplag.

Antipyrine, 2018. 2018 pp. Hft. Rent eksemplar. Første udgave, 1. oplag.

Routledge, 2009. 12mo. 150 pages. Illustrated. Paperback as issued. Fine copy. From the "Thinking in Action" series. "There is no escaping landscape: it's everywhere and part of everyone's life. Landscapes have received much less attention in aesthetics than those arts we can choose to ignore, such as painting or music - but they can tell us a lot about the ethical and aesthetic values of the societies that produce them. Drawing examples from a wide range of landscapes from around the world and throughout history, Susan Herrington considers the ways landscapes can affect our emotions, our imaginations, and our understanding of the passage of time. On Landscapes reveals the enormous design work involved in even the most naturalistic of landscapes, such as Prospect Park in Brooklyn, and the ways in which contemporary landscapes are turning the challenges of the industrial past into opportunities for the future. These contemporary landscapes, such as a park in Germany that uses industrial relics as ruins and a playground in Japan built on a former landfill, signal a change in the way we think about nature and art. By inviting us to thoughtfully see and experience the landscapes that we encounter in our daily lives, On Landscapes demonstrates that art is all around us."

Stockholm: Fylkingen, 1994. Squarish 4to in publishers wraps as issued. 236 pp. Illustrated. With an English Summary at end. Fine, clean copy. Complete with CD. First edition. - Large richly illustrated monograph on Fylkingen - New Music and Intermedia Art is an artist-run venue and member based organization committed to the contemporary experimental performing arts field. Over 300 artists from various disciplines use the space to develop and present new work. Fylkingen is run by its members and an active board and production group. It also produce and distribute recorded material through its own label Fylkingen Records since 1966. The organization was established in 1933 in Stockholm, Sweden, then focusing on contemporary composers and a traditional repertoire. Over the years, the organization branched out into new forms. The first concert of electroacoustic music in Sweden was arranged by Fylkingen in 1952, together with the Swedish Radio. Since the 1960s Fylkingen represents a wide field of artistic practices. Fylkingens concerts of electronic music attracted the attention of composers worldwide for the high sound quality and unconventional presentation format. Promenade Concerts with electronic music, music simultaneously in several rooms with different acoustic conditions and landscape music in Stockholm parks heard the news. In the 1960s the association radicalized more and more art forms took place at Fylkingen; performance art, dance, choreography, happenings and text-sound compositions. At the time, many of Fylkingens arrangement took place at Moderna Museet, with a detour to other premises in Stockholm and around Scandinavia. The programs from the 1960s and 1970s are filled with performances by and with the international avant-garde: John Cage, David Tudor; Iannis Xenakis, Pierre Boulez, Morton Subotnick, Ravi Shankar, Terry Riley, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Nam June Paik, Henri Chopin, and La Monte Young, side by side with major Swedish composers such as Åke Hodell, Lars-Gunnar Bodin, Öyvind Fahlström, Sten Hanson, Folke Rabe and Catherine Christer Hennix and performing artists Margaretha Åsberg, Yvonne Rainer, Merce Cunningham, Antonin Artaud, Carolee Schneeman. Later, visiting artists have been, for example; Brian Eno, Kaffe Matthews, Genesis P-Orridge, Her Noise, Andre Stitt, Carsten Nicolai, Damo Suzuki, Tara Transistory, Gudrun Gut and many many more.

Copenhagen: Danske Bogsamleres Klub ( Ejler Wangels Forlag), 1949. Samtidigt halvlærredsbind (hardcover). 235 pp. Et par sider med æselører ellers rent og pænt eksemplar. Sjælden dansk udgave / Rare Danish edition: "The City and the Pillar is the third published novel by American writer and essayist Gore Vidal, written in 1946 and published on January 10, 1948. The story is about a young man who is coming of age and discovers his own homosexuality. The City and the Pillar is significant because it is recognized as the first post-World War II novel whose openly gay and well-adjusted protagonist is not killed off at the end of the story for defying social norms. It is also recognized as one of the "definitive war-influenced gay novels", being one of the few books of its period dealing directly with male homosexuality." (wiki).

MacGibbon and Kee, London, 1965 (1937). Publishers hardcover with very good dustwrapper, not price-clipped and protected. 266 pages. Name in ink to front inner cover else clean and overall a very well preserved copy. First UK edition. "White Mule is the first of a trilogy of novels by William Carlos Williams about the immigrant Stecher family in New York at the turn of the 20th century. The "White Mule" of the title refers to Flossie, the angry, assertive, uncompromising baby, who can kick like White Mule whiskey. White Mule is the story of Joe’s inner struggle between love of fine craftsmanship (he is a printer by trade) and Gurlie’s ambition to get ahead, to have him get “in the money.” But it also the story of the awakening consciousness of their children; the real heroine is the baby Flossie––she had a kick like “White Mule” whiskey––whose birth begins the book. Everything revolves around the baby and she is surely unique in literature. Dr. Williams was a pediatrician, and without sentimentality he makes of this little being, who cannot even talk, a full-scale, three-dimensional personality."

Gyldendal, 2017. Hardcover. Upagineret. Nærmest som ny. 1. oplag. L’usage du mot (Brugen af ord) er en digtsamling, på mestendels engelsk, fransk og tysk.

Roskilde: Museum for Samtidskunst, 1991. 8vo. Mappe med folder og 6 originale postkort med værker af bl.a. Henning Christiansen og William Louis Soerensen. Folder er på 24 sider. Illustreret. Text på dansk. Illustreret. Komplet med 6 postkort. Folder med brugsspor, se billede. 1. ed.

London: John Murray 1945. 4to in original wraps. 47 pp. Illustrated throughout. Very good copy.

London: Macmillan And Co., Ltd., 1961 (1955). Uncut in original hardcover with very good unclipped jacket. VII, 592 pp. Name of previous owner to innercover front else an attractive near fine copy. Finely printed edition with large typography and generous margins.

Kunsthal Aarhus, Aarhus, Denmark, 2016. First edition thus. Small softcover. 54 pages. This book was initially published in French in 2015 by éditions P as part of the Les contemporains series, based on a research project headed by Céline Flécheux and Magali Nachtergael since 2011. Text in English. A very near fine copy in wrappers. 1st edition - Scarce!

San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and University of California Press, 2002. Tall large 4to in publishers hardcover, with jacket. 94 pages. Text in English. Richly illustrated. Fine copy. First edition.

Forlaget Gjellerup, 1959. Kvadratisk 8vo i hardcover, med omslag. 262 pp. Illustreret. Godt eksemplar.

Antipyrine / OVO 2015. Small slim 8vos in wraps as issued. 46, 120 pp. Some discoloring to cover else a clean, fine, unused set. This is the first time Bishan Commune: How to Start Your Own Utopia, a notebook by the Chinese activist, editor, and curator Ou Ning, has been published in English. The notebook is a graphic montage piece, where comments, thoughts and short accounts from Ou Ning’s travels to Bishan are intertwined with drawings, clippings, color-coded text, handwritten notes, pictures and quotes. The publication consists of two books: the first volume contains a facsimile of Ou Ning’s original notebook in full color; the second volume is a translation of the notebook from the Chinese by Mai Corlin and Austin Woerner also including an interview with Ou Ning not previously published in English as well as Ou Ning’s 2012 text “Autonomy: Utopia or Realpolitik,” which lays out Ou Ning’s understanding of ongoing anarchist practices in a totalitarian, capitalist reality . - Ou Ning was born in rural Guangdong province in 1969. His practice covers a wide range of projects straddling the fields of art and politics. As a filmmaker, he directed the documentary Meishi Street (2006) concerning local acts of resistance against the demolition of an area in a central part of Beijing in relation to the 2008 Olympics. As curator he has headed the 2009 Shenzhen & Hong Kong Bi-city Biennale of Urbanism\Architecture, and from 2011 to 2013 he was chief editor of the literary bi-monthly Chutzpah!, a magazine that has dealt in-depth with issues such as agrarian communities in East Asia, revolution, queer literature and George Bataille. And these are just a few of Ou Ning’s undertakings.

London: The Folio Society 1995. Large tall 8vo, hardcover in slipcase. 234 pp. Illustrated. Light wear to case else clean and fine copy. 1st thus.