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New York: Harry N Abrams Inc., 1996. Large oversized and very heavy hardcover, w jacket. 296 pages, richly illustrated. Text in English. Unobtrusive mark to bottom edge, else fine excellent clean copy. First edition. - "With a career that took him from pre-1914 Berlin to Amsterdam, Paris, and New York, Erwin Blumenfeld (1897-1969) was one of the outstanding figures in the history of twentieth-century photography. From the late 1930s to the 1960s, at such influential magazines as Harpers' Bazaar and Vogue, he transformed fashion into high art, and his pictures were in such demand that by the mid-1950s he had become the most highly paid fashion photographer in the world. He photographed the greatest couture creations of the day - designs by Chanel, Balenciaga, Piguet, Dior, and Charles James. Yet his very success in that glamorous world has until now obscured a far more complex and eclectic talent and personality.In Blumenfeld: Photographs, William A. Ewing explores the life and work of this extraordinary and multitalented man. Blumenfeld took up photography almost by chance in the 1920s, beginning with portraiture and the nude. His highly original and visionary work was a seamless blend of the negative and the positive: taking the picture in the studio and making it in the darkroom. Highly inventive, he developed his own idiosyncratic language, using solarization and negative printing, double and multiple exposures, and a host of hybrid techniques. His interests soon expanded to include architectural subjects, landscapes, and works of art, but photographing "Woman" - or capturing the "eternal feminine," as Blumenfeld described it - would remain his chief obsession throughout his life. This book is the first complete retrospective examination of Blumenfeld's work. It brings together the diverse achievements of this brilliant photographer in more than 235 images in both color and black-and-white, providing a thorough representation of his drawings, collages, and photographs."

Desclee de Brouwer et Cie, Paris, 1937. 4to in original hardcover. 54 pages, with illustrations mainly in color and some full page by Elisabeth Ivanovsky. Text in French. Foxing to edges else clean inside and ovrall a fine well preserved clean copy. Elisabeth Ivanovsky was an emigre from Moldavia, arriving in Brussels in 1932. She illustrated some fabulous children’s books, working for a number of publishers, in particular Desclee be Brouwer & Co in Paris. This dates from 1937 and is lithographed without using the black. For lovers of bears everywhere. Scarce first edition. Finely printed children's book about a brown bear in Canada, with colour plates. Attractive copy.

London, Mitchell Beazley, 2003. Large fine hardcover with jacket. 200 pages, photo-illustrated, partly in colour. Fine clean copy. 1st edition. Classic and useful reference work on the art of photography, building a collection, the photographic print, buying and selling photographs, displaying and caring for photographs; with a chronology of the art, glossary, key photographers, galleries & dealers, bibliography, useful index.

Moscow and Zurich: Strelka and Park Books, 2020. Tall 4to in wraps as issued. 548 pages, 470 color and 146 b/w illustrations. Text in English. Fine clean copy. Strelka Institute for Media, Architecture and Design is a non-profit international educational project, founded in 2009 and located in Moscow. Strelka incorporates an education programme on urbanism and urban development aimed at professionals with a higher education, a public summer programme, the Strelka Press publishing house, and KB Strelka, the consulting arm of the Institute. Strelka has been listed among the top-100 best architecture schools in 2014, according to Domus magazine. The Institute has been directed since 2013 by Varvara Melnikova. After the start of the Russo-Ukrainian war in 2022, Strelka suspended its operations (wiki). The New Normal (2017-2019) was a post-graduate program and Speculative Urbanism think-tank within Moscow’s renowned Strelka Institute of Media, Architecture, and Design. Directed by distinguished American social theorist Benjamin H. Bratton, the The New Normal conducted a collaborative research to investigate the impact of planetary-scale computation on the future of cities both in Russia and around the world. -The New Normal book, edited by Benjamin H. Bratton, Nicolay Boyadjiev, and Nick Axel, features twenty-two interlinked projects that were part of the research. Published alongside are seventeen lavishly illustrated contributions by international researchers and designers that outline the wider scope of The New Normal program's output, held together by concise thematic texts contributed by Benjamin H. Bratton. Contributors include many of the most influential contemporary designers, philosophers, architects, and artists, such as Yuk Hui, Liam Young, Anastassia Smirnova, Lydia Kallipoliti, Lev Manovich, Julieta Aranda, Trevor Paglen, Metahaven, Keller Easterling, Robert Gerard Pietrusko, Molly Wright Steenson, Ben Cerveny, Rival Strategy, Geoff Manaugh, Stephanie Sherman, and Patricia Reed. The fields of research include Speculative Megastructures, Human AI Interaction Design, Protocols and Programs, Synthetic Cinema, Alt-Geographies, Platform Econometrics, and Recursive Simulation.

Venise (Venice / Venedig): Alfieri editore, 1975. Tall 8vo ( 27,5 x 14,5 cm) in original stiff wrappers (no jacket). 236 pages, illustrated. Text in both French and German. Name stamp of previous owner to innercover. Clean inside. Overall a near fine copy. 1st edition of the legendary catalogue for the 'Junggesellenmaschinen' exhibition curated by Szeemann for Venice Biennale 1975 and Malmö Konsthall 1976.

Copenhagen: Edition Copenhagen / World House Editions, 2008. Large landscape 4to in black hardcover, no jacket as issued. 45pp on thick art paper, colour plates (two folding), etc. Text in English throughout. Fine copy. First edition.

Japan, 1990. Square 4to in wraps as issued. 66 pp. Illustrated richly. Text in Japanese and English. Some edgewear else fine. Three-dimensional wind driven kinetic sculptures by Japanese kinetic sculptor, Mr Yoichi Takada - moving sculptures that feed on wind and air currents.

Odense: Brandts, 2010. 4to. Original wrappers with jacket as issued. 112 pp. Short text in both Danish and English. Profusedly illustrated. Fine copy.

John Calder 1993. 8vo in publishers hardcover with gilt title and well preserved dustjacket. XX, 241 pp. Fine clean copy in protected jacket. First UK edition, 1st printing, with introduction by John Calder and Eoin O'Brien. Samuel Beckett’s first novel. Written in English over the summer in Hotel Trianon in Paris in 1932 when Beckett was only 26 and living in Paris, the clearly autobiographical novel was rejected by publishers and shelved by the author. The novel was eventually published in 1992, three years after the author's death. The title parodies Tennyson's "A Dream of Fair Women" and the term "fair to middling," applied to agricultural products. Three fragments from the book were published during Beckett's lifetime: "Text" and "Sedendo et Quiescendo" were actually published before he started working on the book and subsequently became part of it, whilst "Jem Higgins' Love-Letter to the Alba" was published in 1965. Beckett refused to allow the entire novel to be published during his lifetime, on the grounds that it was "immature and unworthy": his biographer Deirdre Bair believes that his reluctance to make it available to the reading public was to avoid offending lifelong friends whom Beckett satirised in the book. The novel is set in the town of Kassel, Germany, where 17-year-old Peggy Sinclair, a cousin of Beckett, lived with her parents. Beckett made several visits in Kassel 1928–32. The main character Belacqua, a writer and teacher, is very similar to Beckett himself, though a character named "Mr. Beckett" also makes an appearance in the book. Belacqua's name is taken from the character created by Dante. Influences on the novel include Geoffrey Chaucer's The Legend of Good Women, Alfred Tennyson's "A Dream of Fair Women" and Henry Williamson's The Dream of Fair Women.

Gyldendal 1936. Ubeskåret i det originale illustrerede omslag. 160 sider. Godt rent eksemplar, egnet til indbinding. Historien om en lille københavnerpige, Lotte. En dag rejser fru Gormsen, som ejer en „Skibsekvipering" i Nyhavn klos op ad et værtshus, til Aalborg i nogle dage, mens sønnen Anton derhjemme vinder penge i en krydsordskonkurrence. Og nu inviterer børnene hele ejendommens beboere og gode venner til et brag af en fest!

New York: Aldfred A. Knopf, 1992. Oblong large and heavy hardcover with jacket. 208pp, 200 colour full-page drawings Oblong 4to xviii, 208 pp. 08 pp. Illustrated throughout in colour and black & white with Steinberg's remarkable drawings from The New Yorker etc. Very good clean and attractive copy.  First edition. - Heavy item and may require extra postage, please inquire.

Aristo, 2006. Folio. Hardcover, uden smudsomslag. 456 sider. Rigt illustreret. Om den danske arkitekt Nicolai Eigtveds (1701-1754) liv og karriere fra ung bondefødt gartnersvend til hofbygmester, oberst, akademidirektør og til en af Europas førende rokokoarkitekter, der som som hofarkitekt stod bag Marmorbroen, PrinsensPalæ, Eigtveds pakhus, Frederiksstaden og Amalienborg-palæerne.NB: Due to weight of this item extra shipping may apply. Please inquire before ordering this item.

Copenhagen: Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek, 1981. Tall slim 8vo. App. 100 pages, illustrated throughout with drawings, collages and photographs. Very good clean copy. First edition. Rare Danish photobook / artist book by Rikke Diemer.

Cambridge University Press, 1995. 8vo in publishers hardcover, w jacket. 316 pages. From the Danish-Faroese artist Goodiepal's collection with his name taggings to free front endpaper. Light surface marks to jacket else clean and overall a near fine very good copy. First edition. Published as part of the series The Music in the Twentieth Century, # 7.

Mondes Forlag, 1933. 8vo i original heftet omslag. 55 sider. Illustreret med fotografier og foto-collager. Noget slidt men acceptabelt eksemplar. Første udgave, 1. oplag. Meget indflydelsesrig og særdeles veludført "kunstnerbog" fra 30'erne. Bogen findes i et facsimile optryk men dette er den meget sjældne originaludgave

Guggenheim Museum, 1971. 4to. Silver slipcase box with 43 page staple-bound softcover and 21 folded multi-sheets, one booklet per artist. Book & booklets are all near fine to fine. Some corner and surface wear to box (please see photos). Iconic exhibition catalog / artists book published in conjunction with show "Guggenheim International Exhibition 1971." Consists of boxed set of publications incorporating an exhibition catalogue with essays by Diane Waldman, and Edward F. Fry with extensive photographs and bibliography. Box also contains 21 folders - one each for each artists in the exhibition: Carl Andre, Daniel Buren, Victor Burgin, Hanne Darboven, Walter De Maria, Antonio Dias, Jan Dibbets, Dan Flavin, Michael Heizer, Donald Judd, On Kawara, Joseph Kosuth, Sol LeWitt, Richard Long, Mario Merz, Robert Morris, Bruce Nauman, Robert Ryman, Richard Serra, Jiro Takamatsu, Lawrence Weiner. Exhibition catalogue is housed within silver paper covered box, which is held within plain cardboard slipcase. Exhibition was infamous for the destruction, or removal, of the work by Buren before the opening of the exhibition.

New York, Garden City: Doubleday and Co., (1958). 8vo. Hardcover with unclipped only slightly worn dustjacket, kept in protective mylar sleeve (see photos). 212 pages. Original $4.00 price intact on DJ flap. National Book Award sticker affixed to front cover of jacket. Clean and overall very good copy. First edition, 1st or early printing copy with correct price on DJ flap but no statement of 'First Edition' on copyright page. 

Copenhagen: Booktrader, 2003. 4to in wraps as issued. 304 pp. Illustrated with photos. Text in English. Minior shelfwear, else fine clean copy. 1st edition. Interviews with 27 South African jazz musicians. In English.

London: Faber & Faber, 1968. Publisher's hardcover with suntanned and somewhat worn but unclipped and now protected dustjacket. (10), XI-XXVII, (2), 16, (12), XXXI-XXXVII pp. Illustrated with portraits and facsimile reproductions of the original manuscript. Namestamp from Bent Wiberg, the Danish Joyce translator. Overall a very good copy. First edition thus. Posthumously published, written in 1914, following the publication of Dubliners. In the free-form love poem, presented in the guise of a series of notes, Joyce attempts to penetrate the mind of a "dark lady", the object of an illicit love affair. "Giacomo" is the Italian form of the author's forename, James.

Hatje Cantz, 2006. Large 4to in hardcover w jacket. 203 pages. Richly illustrated. Text in English. Fine clean and well preserved copy. First edition, published in conjunction with the Exhibition "Günther Uecker. Zwanzig Kapitel" at the Martin-Gropius-Bau, March 10 - June 6, 2005 and at the Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin, April 19 - May 16, 2005. With essays by Kazuhiro Yamamoto and others.

Forlaget Fahrenheit, 2013. 200 & 240 sider, gennemillustreret. Pænt rent sæt.

University of Chicago Press, 2014. Tall heavy large 8vo in hardcover, no jacket as issued. 319pp. Illustrated. Collection of Scheerbart's essays, stories and illustrations including the full text of 'Glass Architecture'. Rubbing to cover but solid and clean inside. From the Goodiepal collection, with his signature name to titlepage. 1st ed thus.

JRP Ringier, 2007. 8vo hardcover. 160 pages, richly illustrated. Text in English. Clean and well preserved, fine copy. 1st ed. Exhibition catalogue published in conjunction with show held at Musée de la Musique, Paris, March 9 - June 24, 2007. Traveled to Australian Center for the Moving Image, Melbourne, November 15, 2007 - February 3, 2008. Essays by Jean-Pierre Criqui, Emma Lavigne, Rosalind Krauss, Peter Szendy, Philippe-Alain Michaud. Includes a conversation between Michael Snow and Christian Marclay and an appendix containing biography, bibliography, and discography.

Wolke, 2024. Large 8vo in wraps as issued. 344 pages. Fine clean copy.

Copenhagen: Forlaget Thaning & Appel, 1975. Small tall 8vo. Original photoillustrated wrappers. 142 pp. Text by Erik Nørgaard (in Danish) and illustrated with thirty very fine black/white portraits and nude studies by Jesper Høm. Only minor edgewear and clean and overall a very good copy of this increasingly hard-to-find photobook. 'Some call us filles de joie': Danish photo documentary with 30 interviews of female prostitutes from Copenhagen. Interviews by Erik Nørgaard and 30 photographs by Jesper Hom. High contrast black-and-white imagery, typical of the late 60's, early 70's scandinavian photography. First edition, first printing. Jesper Höm (1931-2000 - father to photographer Marc Hom), author of "Say Cheese and Cry".