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New York: New Directions, 1949. 8vo. Original hardcover w well preserved dustjacket, just a little edgeworn and protected in mylar.185 (1) pp. Clean inside. First American edition - Michaux visits India, the Himalayas, southern India, Ceylon, Malaya (from Malaysia to Bali), China, and Japan.

Walther Koenig for Schirn Kunsthalle, 2005. 4to in white wraps as issued. 199 pages, richly illustrated. Text in both German and English. Very good, clean copy. First edition.

Poland: Warszawa: Wydawnictwo Artystyczno-Graficzne RSW "Prasa", 1964. Oblong 8vo in wraps as issued. 23,5x21,5 cm, 11 pages text in Polish and 36 full page plates, several with colors. Near fine clean copy with light edgewear. First edition. Scarce. - Mieczyslaw Berman was "one of the most outstanding and most consistent Polish photo montage artists. He began his graphic work in 1927, illustrating the works of revolutionary writers. In that same year, he coincidentally came across the photo montage work of his colleague, Zygmunt Kaminski. He was already familiar with the photo montages of Moholy-Nagy and the Soviet artists Lissicki, Rodczenko, and Klucis and he was an admirer of the work of Heartfield, whose work influenced him greatly".

Oslo: Nasjonalmusset, 2014. 8vo in stiff wraps as issued. 158 pp. Illustrated, with text in both Norwegian and English. Light surface marks to cover else a clean very good copy. 1st ed. "Aase Texmon Rygh introduced modern abstract sculpture into the Norwegian art scene as early as 1952. Since then she has uncompromisingly pursued the idea of abstraction and reduction, and has shown an unflagging commitment to the essence of sculpture and purity of form, as well as a firm belief in the integrity of the three-dimensional object. The catalogue presents, as did the exhibition, the broad range of the artist's production from the 1950s to the present. In addition to two articles the catalogue includes a large number of pictures and a wealth of documentation material."

Yale University Press & Tate Publishing, 2006. Softcover. 190 pages, richly illustrated in color. Text in English. Very good copy. An extensively illustrated survey is the first to examine in depth the contrasts and correspondences in the lives and works of two of Modernist's great pioneers. Featuring many seldom-seen works in a variety of media,including glass,sculpture,painting,film,photo-collage,photography and graphic and furniture design

Berlin: Edition Ars Viva, 1980. Square 8vo in wraps as issued 21 x 21 cm. 275 Seiten. Mit s/w Abbildungen versehen. Sprache: Deutsch und Englisch. Kanten berieben, sonst sehr gut. First edition.

Profile Books, London, 2013. Publishers hardcover, with jacket. XV, 382 pp. Fine unread copy. Prehistoric drummers used natural acoustics to recreate natural sound. In classical Europe, orators turned the human voice into a lyrical instrument. In Buddhist temples, the icons' ears were exaggerated to represent their spiritual power. And in modern metropolises we are battered by the roar of sound that surrounds us. In the first narrative history of the subject which puts humans at its centre, and following the author's major BBC Radio 4 series Noise, acclaimed historian David Hendy describes the history of noise - which is also the history of listening. As he puts it: 'By thinking about sound and listening, I want to get closer to what it felt like to live in the past.'This unusual book reveals fascinating changes in how we have understood our fellow human beings and the world around us. For although we might see ourselves inhabiting a visual world, our lives are shaped by our need to hear and be heard.

Copenhagen: Pork Salad Press, 2009. 4to in wraps as issued. 72 pages, 33 b/w photographic illustrations. From theSMK collection of Goodipal with his personal "signature". Fine copy. Rare artist book by Jens Haaning looking at the 33-year-old newspaper phenomenon in Denmark: the page 9-girl. The translations of the women’s individual profiles in Haaning’s 33 Page 9-girls are kept as close to the original Danish text as possible to retain the flavour of the journalistic approach to these women’s profiles. 

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.

London : Reaktion Books, 1999. Softcover, as issued. 323 p. With illustrations bw and color. Text in English. Minor discoloring to edges else clean. First edition.

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".

Bloomsbury Paperback, 2017 (2016). Tall 8vo. XI, 282 pp. Fine clean, unread copy.

Corraini Editions, 2017 (1956). 8vo hardcover. Unpaginated. llustrated richly with texts in both English and Italian. As new.  Munari classic!

Oxford University Press, 2007 (Atlantic Books 2005). Publishers hardcover, w jacket. VIII, 373 pp. Fine clean copy. A "biography-cum-discography that focuses in turn on fourteen major albums recorded by Miles Davis, using them as a jumping off point for an illuminating discussion of the turbulent life and work of the "Evil Genius of Jazz." Richard Cook, a veteran writer respected throughout the jazz world, looks at such landmark recordings as Birth of the Cool, Miles Ahead, Kind of Blue, The Complete Live at The Plugged Nickel, In a Silent Way, Bitches Brew, and Live at Montreux. Each of these recordings is considered in detail, illuminating their contribution to Davis's development as instrumentalist, group leader, and composer. But Cook goes well beyond these fourteen albums, evaluating all the trumpeter's recordings (official and bootleg), and relating them to events in Miles's life as well as to wider currents in contemporary music."

ART & STRIPES publications Mads Nørgaard, 2015. 8vo in wraps as issued.96 pages. Illustrated richly. Text in English. Near fine / fine clean copy.  1st edition. "In PLEASE BE HERE NOW, Dwelling #1: The Body, the main theme of exploration was the performers own, female body – as private, public and artistic material. Nana Francisca Schottländer lived for three days and nights, 72 hours, in the shop window of Nørgaard Store in central Copenhagen, where she performed everyday chores like sleeping, reading, eating, drinking, thinking – being. While being there she challenged the spectator’s gaze by looking as much at the people passing by and stopping, as they looked at her. The piece created a platform for shared reflections and encounters and was visited by people of all ethnicities, ages, social groups and background at all times of the day and night. During her stay, invited guests joined her in her dwelling to share their thoughts on the body as professional and personal point of reference." - The book incluides an interview by Michael Thouber, head of Kunsthal Charlottenborg with Nana Francisca Schottländer and Mads Nørgaard about the piece, an introduction by Torben Sangild and photos by Casper Sejersen, Alexandra Buhl, David Morrow and Georg Jagunov. Excerpts from the text generated throughout the piece are also included. Each book is numbered by hand and signed by the artist (# 364). 

Georg D.W. Callwey München, 1961. Small slim 8vo in publishers hardcover. 105 pp. Illustrated. Text in German. Very good clean copy. 1. edition. - Tessenow (1876-1950) is considered together with Bruno Taut, Erich Mendelsohn, Walter Gropius and Mies van der Rohe one of the most important personalities of German architecture."Tessenow's basic ideas were expressed in his text Hausbau und Dergleichen, a very didactic book in which he goes over the basic and permanent issues of architecture, as well as presenting his projected work until 1916. One of the basic ideas is not to subtract from architecture the dignity that it has gained over the years. This argument was shared by the Italian architects who, during the fifties and after, defended the primordial importance of tradition in architecture, of the effort accumulated during centuries of experience and the distrust versus the experimentalist rhetorics who seek the formal renewal of architecture. Another basic idea is that of identifying craftwork with traditional bourgeois values. This leads him to give importance to the aspiration for order, loyalty and rigour as fundamental bourgeois values. Order, simplicity and clarity are also related to repetition as instruments used by simple people. This makes him tend towards a sort of primitive functionalism, a minimalist architecture that seeks to produce a strong and rich impression by means of repetition. In his books and his work, Tessenow always defended a rigorous research task of the essential forms: "The simplicity to which we aspire can represent the greatest richness, just as the formal variety that we have at our disposal can reveal itself as very poor". (JOSEP MARIA MONTANER).

Guggenheim Museum, 2008. 8vo in publishers hardcover, no jacket as issued. 254 pages. Illustrated in color. Some edgewear to bootom edge and lower corners, else well preserved and clean copy. 1st edition. "During the 1990s a number of artists claimed the exhibition as their medium. Working independently or in various collaborative constellations, they eschewed the individual object in favor of the exhibition environment as a dynamic arena, ever expanding its physical and temporal parameters. For these artists an exhibition can comprise a film, a novel, a shared meal, a social space, a performance or a journey. Their work engages directly with the vicissitudes of everyday life, offering subtle moments of transformation. This catalogue, which accompanies a major exhibition at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, is the first in the U.S. to examine the dynamic interchange among a core group of these artists -- Angela Bulloch, Maurizio Cattelan, Liam Gillick, Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster, Douglas Gordon, Carsten Höller, Pierre Huyghe, Jorge Pardo, Philippe Parreno and Rirkrit Tiravanija -- a many-sided conversation that helped shape the cultural landscape of the 1990s and beyond." (publisher) With a plethora of illustrative essays.

Slagmark, 2017. Stor hardcover. 142 pp. Pænt eksemplar.

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

Leipzig: Insel Verlag, 1921 (1906). Original decorated slightly worn red papercovered decorated hardcover boards with pasted on title to front, title page printed in green and black. 189 pp. Spine darkened, front title with some scraping (see photos) and some minor soiling and foxing to edges and previous owners name in ink to inner cover front else clean, a few pages dog-eared, nonetheless overall a very good copy in the attractive original binding. Finely printed early edition with wide margins (16. - 19. T.).

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.

Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther Konig 2003. 8vo. Stiff wraps as issued. 208 pages. Richly illustrated. Fine clean copy. 1. edition.

Gyldendal, 2001. 271 pp. Heftet, uden smudsomslag. Pænt rent eksemplar.

London / New York: Continuum Paperback, 2007. X, 221 pp. Very good copy. Noise/Music" looks at the phenomenon of noise in music, from experimental music of the early 20th century to the Japanese noise music and glitch electronica of today. It situates different musics in their cultural and historical context, and analyses them in terms of cultural aesthetics. Paul Hegarty argues that noise is a judgement about sound, that what was noise can become acceptable as music, and that in many ways the idea of noise is similar to the idea of the avant-garde. While it provides an excellent historical overview, the book's main concern is in the noise music that has emerged since the mid 1970s, whether through industrial music, punk, free jazz, or the purer noise of someone like Merzbow. The book progresses seamlessly from discussions of John Cage, Erik Satie, and Pauline Oliveros through to bands like Throbbing Gristle and the Boredoms. Sharp and erudite, and underpinned throughout by the ideas of thinkers like Adorno and Deleuze, "Noise/Music" is the perfect primer for anyone interested in the louder side of experimental music.

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