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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.

Köln: Walther König, 2008. Small 4to in flexiboards as issued. 160 pages, richly illustrated. Text in English. Fine clean copy. 1st ed. "The Cologne Progressives rejected the connection between art and radical politics embraced by other movements, such as the Neue Sachlichkeit, concurrently active in Weimar Germany. This collection examines the movement, which was declared degenerate during the Nazi period, with an essay by Lynette Roth and illustrations of more than 100 works, some never published before".

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!

Phaidon, 2005. Thick heavy 8vo in original flexi boards w jacket. 714 pages, illustrated. Text in English. Near fine and clean copy with only minor wear to exterior. First edition. "From highly established artists such as Louise Bourgeois and Alex Katz to midcareer masters such as Fischli and Weiss, Kusama and Jenny Holzer to the most exciting contemporary artists, the artists in pressPLAY work in every variety of media - from painting to video, sculpture to installation. In discussion with key art critics as well as fellow artists, novelists, musicians and theorists, together the players in pressPLAY explain in full what it means to be an artist today. Highlights include interview with Richard Prince, as well as Vija Celmins and noted sculptor Robert Gober in an intimate discussion on their differing art practices; longtime friends and fellow travellers for decades, Benjamin Buchloh and Lawrence Weiner recall 35 years of work in the definitive, career-long interview for this key conceptual artist; the late Sir Ernst Gombrich in a discussion with the UK's pre-eminent sculptor Antony Gormley, who confesses that it was Gombrich's Story of Art that first inspired him to become an artist; the taciturn, legendary Raymond Pettibon muses on the evolution of his work with noted novelist Dennis Cooper; musician-artist Christian Marclay discusses performance, music and art with Kim Gordon, etc. Full list: Vito Acconci -- Doug Aitken -- Uta Barth -- Christian Boltanski -- Louise Bourgeois -- Cai Guo-Qiang -- Maurizio Cattelan -- Vija Celmins -- Richard Deacon -- Mark Dion -- Stan Douglas -- Marlene Dumas -- Jimmie Durham -- Olafur Eliasson -- Peter Fischli and David Weiss -- Tom Friedman -- Isa Genzken -- Antony Gormley -- Dan Graham -- Paul Graham -- Hans Haacke -- Mona Hatoum -- Thomas Hirschhorn -- Jenny Holzer -- Roni Horn -- Ilya Kabakov -- Alex Katz -- Mike Kelley -- Mary Kelly -- William Kentridge -- Yayoi Kusama -- Robert Mangold -- Christian Marclay -- Paul McCarthy -- Cildo Meireles -- Lucy Orta -- Raymond Pettibon -- Richard Prince -- Pipilotti Rist -- Doris Salcedo -- Thomas Schütte -- Lorna Simpson -- Nancy Spero -- Jessica Stockholder -- Wolfgang Tillmans -- Luc Tuymans -- Jeff Wall -- Gillian Wearing -- Lawrence Weiner -- Franz West.

Published by Stelton, 2010. Large heavy hardcover with dustjacket. 197 pages, richly illustrated. Text in both Danish and English. Light wear to jacket else clean and fine. 1st edition. The classic Stelton book with the story behind iconic designs like Arne Jacobsen’s Cylinda-line and Erik Magnussen’s EM77 vacuum jug.

Denmark: Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, 2014. Stort format. Hardcover. 200 pages. Text in English. Illustrated with around 100 reproductions mainly in colour. Near fine clean copy. 1. ed.

Seventeen Magazine, 1954. Large magazine format in original wrappers. 192 pages. Complete magazine. Some edgewear, overall a good to very good copy. A rare original vintage Seventeen Magazin. This issue with a special on Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture

New York: Harry N. Abrams 1988. Oversized tall large and heavy folio hardcover, bound in publisher's grey cloth, pictorial dustjacket. 397 pp. 685 illustrations and photographs including 100 plates in full colour. Fine.  'Verve' was issued periodically in France between 1937 and 1960. Each issue of 'Verve' is considered individually with excerpts from every edition. Very large and heavy item and extra shipping will apply. Please inquire before ordering!

New York: The Merchants' Association of New York - Colton, G.W. & C.B. 1897. Tiny 16mo pocket booklet with folded map printed on both sides. 15 x 17 inches (38.1 x 43.2 cm. ). More photos available upon request. A late Colton pocket map that covers Manhattan to 109th Street, with parts of Long Island City, Brooklyn and New Jersey. This marketing map was provided compliments of "The Merchants' Association of New York." The very large inset at right "Plan of the Northern Portion of the City of New York" extends the main map up to Yonkers on a larger scale. The focus of the map is the extensive street transportation systems which are highlighted in red overprinting. Different line styles are used to delineate the Broadway Cable R.R., Surface Railroads, Elevated Railroads, and Steam Railroads. Railway stations are identified. The Brooklyn Bridge is clearly shown as "Suspension Bridge," the East River bridge is "under construction" and there is a "Proposed N.Y. & N.J. Bridge" aligned with West 59th Street. Stretching across Blackwell's Island is another bridge. On the verso is a same sized map "Map of New York City ("Greater New York")." Folds into printed wrappers (3.5 x 5.5"), titled "Guide Map of New York City issued by The Merchants' Association of New York." On the inside and back cover is a long list of hotels with addresses and rates (The Waldorf is $3 per night) and the names of 19 of New York's leading daily newspapers. With several fold splits and a smalltear to right margin (Rikers Island) but overall well preserved and the colors are not faded. A beautiful very decorative map of New York. Scarce.

New York: Picture Box and ZieherSmith, 2008. Two small 8vos in hardcover, complete with obi. 128 pages in all. Illustrated in color. Fine set. First edition. - INSCRIBED by Chuck Webster with colored pencils to half title, dated 2011. - "This two-volume set features the psychedelic, expressionistic figuration of Eddie Martinez in one volume and the Thomas Nozkowski-esque abstractions of Chuck Webster in the other. Both Brooklyn-based artists, represented in New York by Zieher-Smith, are enamored with paint--both, in fact, embrace painting's historical baggage, its romantic and spiritual undertones. Martinez combines fearlessly expressive paint handling with a feel for cartoon imagery and personal symbology. Webster, on the other hand, makes Minimal talismanic works that are formally rigorous and impeccably polished. Together they present a friendly argument for the myriad possibilities of contemporary painting. An interview with the artists, who are old friends, and a selection of their collaborative drawings form a bridge between the books. First monographs for both artists, these volumes also include essays by Joao Ribas and Geoffrey Young."

Edinburgh : James Thin, 1891. 8vo in the original blue gilt-blocked cloth with untrimmed edges. 123 pages. Contemporary name in ink to free front endpaper else clean. Binding extremities lightly rubbed. Overall a very good attractive copy. First edition of one of the most classic renowned translations : Hymn to Hermes. Homeric hymns. Hymn to Apollo. Hymn to Aphrodite. Hymn to Dionysus. Hymn to Demeter. Hymn to Pan. Hymn to Zeus. Hymn to Athena. Hymn to Aphrodite (Homeric hymn 5). Hymn to Pan (Homeric hymn 19).

New York: Tudor Publishing Company, 1955. Octavo in publishers slightly worn but solid green hardcover, no jacket. XIX, 1036p. Name to pastedown else clean. “He that increaseth wisdom, increaseth sorrow.” Good vintage reprint of Burton's astounding compendium fully translated into English, a survey of melancholy in all its myriad forms. Edited by Floyd Dell and Paul Jordan-Smith.

New York and London: Anyone Coporation & MIT Press, 1999. Quarto in french wraps as issued. 296 pages. Text in English. Illustrated. Fine clean copy. 1st ed. "Architects, artists, and intellectuals address architecture's relationship to space and time in this latest addition to the series that began with Anyone. Architecture functions between tradition and innovation, between historical archetypes and that which as yet has no form. This historicity and concurrent openness to futurity are two of the subjects discussed in Anytime, which probes architecture's relationships with space and time. After a section called "Beginnings," in which ten young architects address rupture, change, and movement, the book is organized into five sections: Trajectories, The Collapse of Time, (M)anytimes, Futures, and Rethinking Space and Time. Contributors: Akira Asada, Hubert Damisch, Peter Eisenman, Zaha Hadid, Arata Isozaki, Fredric Jameson, Rem Koolhaas, Bruce Mau, John Rajchman, Michael Sorkin, and Bernard Tschumi, as well as architects whose work many (...) readers will encounter here for the first time."

The MIT Press / An October Book, 2002 (2001). Large 8vo. Hardcover, w jacket. XXV, 492 pp. Very good clean copy.

London: Blain Southern, 2011. Large heavy 4to grey clothed hardcover with red lettering, no jacket as issued. 224 pages, richly illustrated. Text in English. Some superficial wear to cover, else only light rubbing to front upper corner front (see photo). Overall a fine and clean copy. First edition. Large thorough monograph.

New York: Henry Holt and Company, 2006. Publishers hardcover, with dustjacket, unclipped and now protected. 306 (1 ) pp. Minor wavyness to last pages. Name (surname) of previous owner in ink to innercover front else clean. Signed in hand to titlepage. First edition, 1st printing.

Suhail Academy Lahore, 2011. Thick hardcover, with jacket. LVII, 890 pp. Some insignificant shelfwear and wear to outer edges else clean and overall a very good copy. Heavy and extra shipping will apply. Islamic Spirituality - Classical, Early & Medieval Works on Islamic Mysticism (Sufism): Ibn al-Farid or Ibn Farid; (1181 – 1234) was an Arab poet. His name is Arabic for "son of the obligator" (the one who divides the inheritance between the inheritors), as his father was well regarded for his work in the legal sphere. He was born in Cairo to parents from Hama in modern Syria, lived for some time in Mecca, and died in Cairo. His poetry is entirely Sufic and he was esteemed as the greatest mystic poet of the Arabs. Some of his poems are said to have been written in ecstasies. The poetry of Shaykh Umar Ibn al-Farid is considered by many to be the pinnacle of Arabic mystical verse, though surprisingly he is not widely known in the West. (Rumi, probably the best known in the West of the great Sufi poets, wrote primarily in Persian, not Arabic.) Ibn al-Farid's two masterpieces are The Wine Ode, a beautiful meditation on the "wine" of divine bliss, and "The Poem of the Sufi Way", a profound exploration of spiritual experience along the Sufi Path and perhaps the longest mystical poem composed in Arabic. Both poems have inspired in-depth spiritual commentaries throughout the centuries, and they are still reverently memorized by Sufis and other devout Muslims today.Publishers note: "His prose and poetry reflect his profound knowledge of the intellectual heritage of mankind. His understanding of traditional symbolism hardly finds a parallel in our times. His being multi-lingual gives him direct access to the repositories of knowledge. His understanding of world spirituality deepens his own spiritual experience. Farid is one of the outstanding masterpieces of Saraiki mystical poetry and belongs to the rich and illustrious tradition of wisdom poetry, or contemplative poetry in the Islamic civilization. It reaches heights of poetic excellence. It has expanded the Kafi genre in both its vertical and horizontal dimensions. It has revealed the essence of poetry which is a passionate openness on to the Transcendent, a passion intimately linked with knowledge participating in Truth, Beauty and Love. Understanding arid is a sequel to Dr. Shahzad Qaiser’s earlier work of translating Khawaja Ghulam Farid whose original text and translations have been kept. The verses of the Diwan, in the current work, have been explained for fostering a plain understanding of the doctrines, without going deep into the technicalities of metaphysics and its realisation, to facilitate an understanding of Khawaja Ghulam Farid’s experience of ‘love and gnosis’ and thereby his attainment of ‘deliverance and union’ within the traditional matrix.".

Yale University Press, 2007. Large oversized and heavy hardcover with dustjacket, now protected. 183 pages, with 58 colour and 7 b/w illustrations. Fine copy. 1st edition. - "A stunning mid-career retrospective of an important and influential contemporary Afro-Cuban artist With a diverse oeuvre ranging from painting to mixed-media installations to performance, video, and photography, María Magdalena Campos-Pons is one of the most significant artists to emerge from post-Revolutionary Cuba. Her evocative works probe questions of race, class, cultural hybridism, and national identities in African diasporic communities. María Magdalena Campos-Pons: Everything Is Separated by Water is the first full-scale survey of the artists career. The title, borrowed from one of her works, evokes at once the dangerous sea crossings faced by her enslaved ancestors from Africa and her Cuban contemporaries seeking greater freedom in America, and the sense of dislocation felt when physical and geopolitical barriers divide family and friends, past and future. Lisa D. Freiman considers how Campos-Pons s practice, which is predicated on concepts of separation, memory, and fragmentation, developed and transformed from her artistic training and early production in Cuba in the 1980s through her move to the United States in 1991 and her subsequent recognition as a major figure in the international art world. Okwui Enwezor interprets Campos-Pons expressive materials--reassembled fragments of lost traditions and symbols, and memories of personal and collective history, religion, and mythology--within the context of post-colonial theory".

London: Kingfisher Books, 1984. Large oversized heavy book in the original decorated cloth in protected dustjacket (hardcover). 267 pages, color illustrated. Text in English. Some foxing to topedge and light wear to jacket (see photo). Overall a clean and very good attractive copy. First edition thus. Christines Picture Book is a beautifully bound scrapbook of 122 leaves, originally dating from 1859 meant as gift and not for publication. On the right-hand pages and some of the left-hand ones, more than 1,000 pictures of widely varying kinds have been pasted in, most of them printed in colour or hand-coloured. In many instances, amusing little hand-written captions or verses have been added. It was compiled by Hans Christian Andersen and his friend, a Danish magistrate named Adolph Drewsen, who is named on the first sheet as being Christine's grandfather. The occasion was her third birthday, 30 October 1859. Christine was the great-grandchild of Jonas Collin, a civil servant who had been of great support to the young Hans Christian Andersen, and to whose family Andersen became closely attached. Its 122 pages contain over 1,000 pasted-in pictures plus a few paper cuts, an art form at which Andersen was adept. The images were collected from all kinds of European publications, and the result offers a unique pictorial snapshot of European culture of the 1850s.

Paris: Gallimard: 1974. 8vo well preserved in publishers wraps as issued. 268 pp, 2 ff. Suntanning to cover (see photo) else fine. Name of Danish Joyce translator Bent Wiberg in ink to free front endpaper. Inside clean. Overall a very good copy. Nouvelle Traduites de l'Anglais par Jacques Aubert, Préface de Valéry Larbaud. First French edition.

Copenhagen: Forlaget Rhodos, 2007. Large 4° hardcover with fine jacket. 159 pp. Richly illustrated in color. Text in Danish and English. First edition. Fine copy.

Sun & Moon Press, 1993. Very thick paperback. X, 1334 pp. Sunning and some wear to cover, with a crease to backcover, clean inside.

ATypI - Graphis, 2002. Tall slim 4to hardcover with jacket. X, 374 pages. Fine clean copy. 1. ed.

Cleveland and New York: World Publishing Company, 1944. 8vo in original green hardcover with protected dustjacket. 203 pages. Clean, attractive well preserved copy. Hardcover, beautiful wartime copy, First Tower Books Edition (stated) with original dustjacket depicting Dick Powell, from the 1944 film.