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New York: Something Else Press, 1969. Publishers original hardcover with well preserved and unclipped dustjacket. Fine yellow endpapers and topedge in green matching the binding. XXIII,158 pages, with scores. Jacket faded else a fine, clean and well preserved copy. First edition of this beautifully made revised version. Since its original publication in 1930, Henry Cowell's New Musical Resources has become recognized as one of the few seminal technical studies to be written by a twentieth-century composer - "The purpose is to point out the influence the overtone series has exerted on music throughout its history" Cowell states in his introduction. Henry Cowell, in full Henry Dixon Cowell (1897-1965) American composer who, with Charles Ives, was among the most innovative American composers of the 20th century. Cowell grew up in poverty in San Francisco and on family farms in Kansas, Iowa, and Oklahoma. He acquired a piano at age 14, and the following year he gave a concert of his experimental piano compositions. At 17 he studied at the University of California with the influential musicologist Charles Seeger, who persuaded him to undertake the systematic study of traditional European musical techniques. He also urged Cowell to formulate a theoretical framework for his innovations, which he did in his book New Musical Resources (1919; published 1930), an influential technical study of music. While studying comparative musicology in Berlin with Erich von Hornbostel, Cowell became interested in the music of other cultures; he later studied Asian and Middle Eastern music, elements of which he absorbed into many of his own compositions. In 1923–33 Cowell undertook a series of tours of Europe as composer and pianist. Many of his concerts provoked uproar, but they also brought him to the attention of leading modern European composers. He taught at the New School for Social Research in New York City in 1932–52 and, from 1949, at Columbia University. From 1936 to 1940 he was incarcerated in San Quentin state prison on charges of homosexual conduct. He continued to write music while in prison, and in 1940 he was paroled to the custody of composer Percy Grainger. Cowell was granted a full pardon in 1942. Cowell’s innovations appear particularly in the piano pieces written between 1912 and 1930. Seeking new sonorities, he developed “tone clusters,” chords that on the piano are produced by simultaneously depressing several adjacent keys (e.g., with the forearm). Later he called these sonorities secondal harmonies—i.e., harmonies based on the interval of a second in contrast to the traditional basis of a third. These secondal harmonies appear in his early piano pieces, such as The Tides of Manaunaun (1912); in his Piano Concerto (1930); and in his Synchrony (1931) for orchestra and trumpet solo. Some of his other piano compositions, such as Aeolian Harp (1923) and The Banshee (1925), are played directly on the piano strings, which are rubbed, plucked, struck, or otherwise sounded by the hands or by an object. Cowell’s Mosaic Quartet (1935) was an experiment with musical form; the performers are given blocks of music to arrange in any desired order. With the Russian engineer Leon Theremin, Cowell built the Rhythmicon, an electronic instrument that could produce 16 different simultaneous rhythms, and he composed Rhythmicana (1931; first performed 1971), a work specifically written for the instrument. Cowell wrote numerous pieces reflecting his interest in rural American hymnology, Irish folklore and music, and non-Western music. In order to publish the scores of modern composers, he founded the New Music Quarterly in 1927 and was its editor until 1936. He also edited American Composers on American Music (1933) and with his wife, Sidney Cowell, wrote Charles Ives and His Music (1955). A number of well-known American composers, including John Cage, Lou Harrison, and George Gershwin, studied with and were influenced by Cowell.

Amsterdam: Manifesta Foundation / Silvana, 2011. 8vo in wraps as issued. 112 pages. Richly illustrated. Fine clean and complete copy.

Denmark: 1963. Squarish 8vo in photo illustrated wrappers, as issued. 72 unpaginated pages illustrated throughout with black-and-white illustrations, mostly full page Text in German, Danish, French and English by Gertie Wandel, Povl Christiansen et el. Minor shelf wear and crease to front corners (see photos). Interior unmarked and clean. In all a very good copy. Joint sales exhibition catalogue of hand-made furniture by members of the cabinet-makers guild 1963. 1st edition. Uncommon.

London: Lisson Gallery / Galerie Yvon Lambert, 2003. Small 4to in stiff wraps as issued. 160pp. Profusely illus. mainly in colour. Fine, with only the most minimal edgewear. Complete with inserts. First edition.

Strandberg Publishing, 2023. Hardcover. 316 pp. Richly illustrated. New, unopened copy. 1st ed. "Hailed as one of the most significant figures of early Modernism and at the same time condemned for his work and his moral – the discussion about Gauguin, his art and his character is still relevant today. Especially at a time where #MeToo is shedding new light on Gauguin’s relationship with adolescent girls and his share in colonialism in French Polynesia. ‘Gauguin – The Master, the Monster and the Myth’ is the first in-depth biography about the artist written by a Danish writer. The publication shares new insights about Gauguin – about his complex character as an artist and a human being. It challenges the traditional ideas we have about his life and work. Flemming Friborg unfolds the fascinating story about Gauguin’s life and the millieu of Impressionism that he was a part of but also at the same time distinguishing himself from. The book shows how his method and moral was bound in a carefully maintained, personal brand and therefore the master and the monster must be seen as inseparable – and therefore, as a result of this, Gaugain’s legacy and status as a genius artist remains unclear.". - Flemming Fribog (b. 1965) is an Art Historian and Associate Professor at CBS (Management, Politics and Philosophy). From 2002-17 he was director of Ny Garlsberg Glyptotek. He has been awarded several Danish and international orders such as the N.L. Høyen medal from the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts and the honourable order L’ordre ministériel des Arts et des Lettres presented by the French Ministry of Culture.

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.

Copenhague: Chez Claude Philibert, 1756. 4to. Unbound and uncut with wide margins, loose pages. 29,+ (1),+ 178,+ (2) pp. Complete with engraved vignette (see photos). Well suited for rebinding. First edition. Scarce seperate printing of the important supplement to the 1755 publication "Introduction à l'histoire de Dannemarc, ou l'on traite de la religion, des loix, des moeurs & des usages des anciens Danois".Jean-Henri Mallet wrote this book while he was living in Denmark. Heather O’Donoghue notes in Old Norse-Icelandic Literature: A Short Introduction that Mallet “had been commissioned by the king of Denmark to write a scholarly work specifically designed to counter existing views of Scandinavia as a backward country” ´. Topics: Mythology, Norse, Old Norse poetry, Icelandic literature, Edda. ”Monumens de la mythologie” contains the first French translation of the Edda of Snorre, ”L’Edda des Islandois ou mythologie celtique”, the first ever to a non-Nordic language. The importance of Mallet’s work grew even more with the English translation, with notes and preface by bishop Thomas Percy in 1770, ”Northern antiquities: or a description of the manners, customs, religion and laws of the ancient Danes, and other Northern nations; including those of our own Saxon ancestors. With a translation of the Edda, or system of Runic mythology.” Inspired by it Macphearson wrote his songs of Ossian.

Kehrer for BodhiBerlin and Volker Diehl galleries, 2008. Original silver colored hardcover, no jacket as issued. 176 pageswith 136 color illustrations. Text by Nancy Adajania, Shaheen Merali, Hans Ulrich Obrist, Julia Peyton-Jones in both German and English. Only minimal shelfwear to cover else clean and fine copy.  First edition. Shilpa Gupta (b.1976) creates artwork using interactive video, websites, photographs, objects, sound and public performances to probe and examine subversively such themes as desire, religion, notions of security on the street and on the imagined border. The book's title, "BlindStars StarsBlind", is particularly apt for an artist who uses language in a fragmented form to talk about regions, borders or territorial claims. This catalog of over 25 mostly recent works accompanies a two-part exhibition on view simultaneously at the BodhiBerlin and Volker Diehl galleries in Berlin".

Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, October 27, 1977 - January 2, 1978. La Jolla Museum of Contemporary Art, January 27 - February 26, 1978. Seattle Art Museum. Large heavy hardcover with protected fine jacket. 111 pp. Illustrated. Fine. First edition, attractive copy. Catalog of the landmark exhibition, organized by John Beardsley, of contemporary earth works or land projects by artists such as Robert Smithson, Nancy Holt, Michael Heizer, Richard Long, Charles Ross, Charles Simonds and others.

Cologne: Studio DuMont Buchverlag, 1978. Large squarish 4to hardcover with dustjacket. Unpaginated with app. 80 photographs and an introductory text by Rudolf Knubel in German. Excellent fine attractive copy. First edition. Beautiful photobook in great graphic design by Tünn Konnerding. Ursula Schulz-Dornburg is exploring with camera and though her book publications the complex bonds between landscape and human civilization, exploring the construction of power though the built environment and its inevitable impermanence. By looking back at areas of past historical or political importance her images highlight how conflict, destruction, time and decay transforms the landscape. Many of Schulz-Dornburg’s projects derive from a relatively confined geographic location, encompassing ancient civilizations alongside areas of modern strategic importance. Historically referred to as both a gateway and a cross roads, or the ‘land in-between’, the area was often defined not by its content but by what lies on either side, between Europe and Asia, east and west, old and new. Over a thirty-year period, Schulz-Dornburg travelled to this region, visiting Armenia, Georgia, Iran, Iraq, Saudi Arabia and Yemen. Documenting ruins of the now abandoned Ottoman railway project in Saudi Arabia, decaying Soviet era bus stops in Armenia, and temporary marsh dwellings in Mesopotamia. Most recently, in 2010, she travelled to Syria to photograph the ancient city of Palmyra. Her images now form some of the last visual documentation of the area prior to its recent destruction. For this present book Ursula Schulz-Dornburg was visiting Pagan city in Burma 1976 - now Bagan, Myanmar - , where she was photographing the holy temples, both in their landscape form and inside. Bagan is an ancient city located in the Mandalay Region of Myanmar. From the 9th to 13th centuries, the city was the capital of the Pagan Kingdom, the first kingdom that unified the regions that would later constitute modern Myanmar. During the kingdom's height between the 11th and 13th centuries, over 10,000 Buddhist temples, pagodas and monasteries were constructed in the Bagan plains alone, of which the remains of over 2,200 temples and pagodas still survive to the present day. - A very tentative, beautiful book.

Carcanet, Manchester and New York, 1986. 8vo in publishers black clothed hardcover with gilt title and fine, well preserved priceclipped jacket. 256 pages. Fine clean copy. Very rare edition, attractive copy. 1st edition thus.

New York: Praeger Publishers, 1971. Heavy hardcover with dustjacket. 268 pages, richly illustrated. Text in English. Fine clean copy. First edition.

Paul P. Appel, Publisher, Mamaronack, NY, 1963. Tall heavy 4to in original green clothed hardcover, no jacket as issued. 516 pages. Very light wear at corner tips and spine ends. Tight, sound and unmarked. Enclosed a SIGNED note from Clive Hart at end. Concordance of James Joyce's " Finnegans Wake".

Paris: Julliard (Les lettres nouvelles 26), 1962. 8vo uncut with untrimmed edges in printed wraps as issued. 228 pages. Only minor wear to cover else very good well preserved clean copy. Édition originale française, tirage spécial réservé aux amis, collaborateurs et abonnés des "Lettres nouvelles", notre exemplaire le n° 59 / First French printing. Translated to French by Georges Lisowski, limited edition, numbered copy ( # 59).

Bókagardur, 2009. Stort format. Hardcover, med omslag. 303 sider. Rigt illustreret i farver. Text in both English and Faroese. Stor flot monografi om Steffan Danielsen. Originaludgave / First edition.

Semiotext(e), USA, 2007 (1980). Tall hardcover in super octavo, illus heavy boards, yellow & lettering to spine, xvi + 300pp + unpaginated graphic novella to rear. Illustrated. Initials to free front endpaper, else clean and very good copy of this very hard to find publication. Semiotext(e) foreign Agents Series 1. Re-issue of the legendary examination of the Marxist Autonomism movement that emerged in Italy in the 1960s, "the only first-hand document and contemporaneous analysis that exists of the most innovative post-'68 radical movement in the West." Contributors include Toni Negri, Mario Tronti, Paolo Virno, Guy Debord, Felix Guattari, Gilles Deleuze etc.

Los Angeles, USA: The Guild Of Tutors Press, 1978. 4to in the original illustrated wraps, as issued. 120 pages. Text in English, with many black and white photographs by Magubane. Tanning to spine and minor wear to cover. Overall a very good tight copy of tis extremely rare publication. First edition, 1st printing. Poetry written by Zindzi Mandela, daughter of Nelson, inspired by the awful conditions endured by the inhabitants of apartheid-era South Africa's shanty towns. Accompanied by the stark black-and-white photos by Peter Magubane, whose career began at a time when, as a black person, he could be arrested simply for carrying a camera in public. With a foreword by American civil rights activist and politician Andrew Young, and rear cover praise from Kenneth Rexroth.

Copenhagen: Nikolaj 2010. Tall 8vo in original wraps as issued. 160 pp. Richly illustrated. Light wear to cover. 1. ed. "This book presents a series of original queer theoretical and artistic contributions relating the archive and writing of history to gender and sexuality. What gets forgotten in history writing, what has been forgotten in archives, and what is excluded from cultural canons? The book investigates how experiences and histories not shared and lived by the majority are remembered and told in an alternative language. The book contains 4 essays and the works of 13 contemporary artists. In the article "Lost and Found: Queerying the Archive" the curators Jane Rowley and Louise Wolthers discuss the challenge posed to traditional archives and history writing by analysing the works of 13 contemporary artists represented in the book and eponymous exhibition. Analysing the strategies of speculation, flirtation and confrontation, art historian Mathias Danbolt then maps the role of the archive in the text "Touching History: Archival Relations in Queer Art and Theory". In her text "Photographing Objects: Art as Queer Archival Practice", the American cultural theorist Ann Cvetkovich discusses the role of art as an 'archive of feelings' based on the artists Tammy Rae Carland and Zoe Leonard. And in "The Art of Losing" the American literary theorist Heather Love emphasises the importance of the inclusion of loss, pain, isolation and loneliness in queer history writing -- experiences so often excluded from mainstream narratives of homosexual liberation. Beautifully bound in two sections, the book also presents works by the artists Elmgreen & Dragset (DK/NO), Tejal SHah (IN), Conny Karlsson (SE), Cecilia Barriga (CHI), Flemming Rolighed (DK), Aleesa Cohene (CA), Mary Coble (US), Kimberley Austin (US), Al Masson (DK/FR), Heidi LUnabba (FI) and Benny Nemerofsky Ramsay (CA). The publication is interspersed with excerpts from I Remember (1970) by the American poet Joe Brainard. Published to accompany the exhibition of the same name curated by Jane Rowley and Louise Wolthers at Nikolaj Copenhagen Center of Contemporary Art in Copenhagen and Bildmuseet in Umeaa, Sweden."

Kehrer Verlag, 2014. 8vo in softcover. 271 pages. Light edgewear else fine. The first book to explore the history of the Swedish electronic music studio EMS. Studio EMS was established in 1964 with the intent to create an international center for research in sound and sound perception, and to build one of the world's most advanced hybrid studios. The principal creators of the studio were rooted in Swedish modernism, and had the EMS-project shaped in accordance to the social democratic cultural policy of the time. This enabled the project to achieve continuous financial support, e.g., to purchase computers in 1969. Today EMS holds events and owns six studios and a library archive with a unique collection of books on electroacoustic music and sound art. The book includes a CD with diverse samples from EMS productions.

Paris: Onestar Press, 2003. Tall slim 8vo in glossy wraps as issued 140 x 225 mm. 150 pages. A little dent to top of spine else only minimal shelfwear, and clean and fine.  First edition, 1st printing, one of only 250 numbered copies (No. 127). Rare Artist's book by Lawrence Weiner incorporating texts and diagram drawings. Plays on maritime theme and passages. "That of which there is no trace does not enter into the equation,” reads one of the central panels in Deep Blue Sky Light Blue Sky. This is a book of traces – linguistic, symbolic, photographic – and the equations in which they arrange and rearrange themselves like so many limbs in a love triangle".