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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.

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

Copenhagen: Resonans, 2005. 8°. (144) pp.. Original wrappers. Illustrated with photographs throughout. 'Where everything coincides with its image, reality ceases' (Per Højholt). First edition.

Rotterdam: 010 Publishers, 1995 Original printed stiff wrappers as issued. 111 pages, illustrated. Text in both Italian, Dutch and English. Some wear to to wraps else a clean and very good copy. 1. ed.

New York: St. Martin's Griffin (2016). Paperback. XV, 378 pp. Very good clean copy.

London: Macmillan And Co., Ltd., 1972. Uncut in original hardcover with very good unclipped jacket. 318 pp. Clean well preserved copy. First edition thus.

Hellerup: Skive Folkeblads Bogtryk / Offset, 1970. Oblong 4to (21 x 30 cm). Original photoillustrated wrappers. Unpaginated (32 pp). Photo book (let) on the rhythm of the city and its people. With a text - in both Danish, English and French by Jean Giono: "La joie panique, il est impossible de la garder pour soi. Elle nous est donnée par toute l’épaisseur de la vie. Celui qui l’a, s’il ne la partage, ne fait que la toucher et la perdre". Minor wear to cover, overall very good.  First (and only) edition.

London: Lorrimer Publishing Limited, 1967. 8vo. Wraps as issued. 96 pp with b&w photographic plates throughout. Fine tight and clean copy. 1. edition.

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.

Politisk Revy 1968. Stort format. Kuponer klippet ud af nummer tre ellers velbevaret sæt. Heri blandt Rebild, Abort (Abortpjecen, illustreret) m.m.

Forlaget Palomar, 2020. 337 pp. Hft. 1. oplag. Pænt eksemplar. "Gennem min barndom var jeg den eneste der vidste at hun skrev på et eller andet, og jeg gættede på at det var erindringer. Men det fortsatte år efter år, til tider kunne der gå flere måneder hvor jeg ikke så hende sætte sig ved bordet og åbne hæftet; og jeg havde allerede vænnet mig til at hendes skriveri var uendeligt, antog at det var en slags indre samtale der ikke var beregnet for en udenforstående læser. I slutningen af firserne blev bedstemor så syg, den ene lidelse afløste den anden, og i nogle år forsvandt hæftet med hendes manuskript et eller andet sted. Og det forsvandt tilsvarende fra mine tanker, jeg glemte det med den forhastede lethed hos teenageren der sluger dagene, den ene efter den anden; at tænke på manuskriptet var som trække et illusorisk, helt ubegrundet håb i langdrag.” Rusland august 1991: Et kup får landet til at vakle, Gorbatjov bliver afsat, Jeltsin overtager magten, og på afstand aner man allerede omridset af Putin. Landet falder fra hinanden. Den ene halvdel sælger råstoffer og kampvogne og bliver mangemillionærer, den anden halvdel synker ned i bitter armod. I dette klima af total omkalfatring finder jegfortælleren sin bedstemors dagbog og erkender at tavsheden om fortiden må brydes hvis Rusland skal have en fremtid. En højaktuel og spændende roman om det land der indtil for få år siden var en verdensmagt. ”Arvtager efter Solsjenitsyn forvandler nutidig russisk depression til en nærmest magisk læseoplevelse".

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".

Editions du Centre Pompidou, 2002. Small 8vo in wraps as issued. 160 pages, with illustrations. Text in French. Fine copy. First edition.

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

Copenhagen, 1995. 4to. Original wrappers. 32 pages, including covers. Richly illustrated. Text in English. Near fine. 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. Inc. A great state-of-the-nation time capsule of the 1990s.This issue with Paul Graham poster.

Berlin: Bom Dia Boa Tarde Boa Noite, 2015 / 2016. 4to. 200 pages. Illustrated throughout. Unopened in plastic as issued. Artist book. First edition. "Winckelmann’s book was published on the 100-year anniversary of the constitutional amendment of 1915 that allowed women as well as other ‘non-owning citizens’ to vote. The assemblages of one-handed tools resting on top of magazines for men, women, transgender, hetero, gay, etc., makes for a metonymic commentary on the underlying categorizations that allow political disenfranchisement – and at the same time points to the possibility of the unintended alliances that arise from such categorization. Consisting of 50 double-sided, unbound A3 sheets, the book can be dissembled and reassembled at will, making it into a malleable, shifting photographic multitude in red tinted and monochrome. "

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."

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.

Copenhagen 1963. Original photoillustrated wrappers. 142 pp. Richly illustrated with b/w photographs of the houses and their interiors. With plan drawings. Text in Danish with English translation at end of the technical terms used in the drawings. Very good copy. Number 1 in the series 'Danish Standard Houses'. Illustrated with fine photographs of houses and typical Scandinavian Modern interiors. First edition.