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London and Los Angeles Royal Academy in collaboration with The Broad 2017. Large ocversized extra heavy square 4to hardcover with pasted on illustration to front. 264 pages, profusedly illustrated, mainly in color. Fine clean copy. 1st edition.

Los Angeles: J. Paul Getty Museum, 2015. 8vo. Publishers hardcover, with protected dustjacket. 320 pages, with 198 color and 28 b/w illustrations. Fine clean attractive copy. 1st edition. "Paul Cézanne (1839–1906) was one of the most influential artists of his day, producing work derived from “the most acute sensibility at grips with the most searching rationality” according to his friend, the writer Joachim Gasquet. Honoring tradition while also challenging it, his example made possible the advances of numerous younger artists such as Henri Matisse, Pablo Picasso, and Georges Braque, thereby paving the way for the emergence of modern art. Cézanne’s novel approach was evident as much in his drawings and watercolors as in his oil paintings. While the hundreds of drawings that the artist left behind in his sketchbooks confirm the centrality of this medium to his artistic practice, his watercolors from the 1890s were undertaken as works of art in their own right. These latter efforts—most of them landscapes and still lifes executed in Provence in the South of France—rank among the finest achievements in this difficult medium from any period. This beautifully illustrated volume traces the development of Cézanne’s style through his works on paper. Diverse in subject matter and execution, his drawings and watercolors include copies of other masters’ works, studies of his immediate family and their domestic surroundings, and preliminary ideas for finished compositions. They reveal Cézanne as someone deeply committed to devising a process for comprehending and recording the world as he saw it. The result is some of the most absorbing art ever created.

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.

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".

Faber and Faber, London, in association with Opal Records Ltd., 1986. Large 4to in wraps as issued. 144 pages, richly illustrated. Text in English. Some scattered ink notes in text, and edgewear (see photos). Overall a good, acceptable copy of this sought after Eno item! First edition. " (...) the lyrics to Eno's songs, each accompanied by an artwork inspired by the song's lyrics by Mills. Most of the lyrics and artworks are accompanied by notes by Eno and Mills on the lyrics and the interpretation of them as used for the artwork. The book is arranged chronologically, with songs arranged according to the album on which they appeared. Each album forms a chapter and is introduced by a commentary by Rick Poynor, these commentaries are largely formed through interviews with Eno. The commentaries cover Eno and Mills's influences, working methods, biography and philosophies, and are illustrated with excerpts from Eno's working notebooks. The chapters – and the albums which they precede – are: The Prepared Observer (Here Come the Warm Jets), The Painted Score (Taking Tiger Mountain (By Strategy)); The Dynamics of the System (Another Green World);The Hidden Intention (Before and After Science); and The Words I Receive (this last chapter accompanies various collaborative songs)." The book was issued concurrently with the compilation albums More Blank than Frank and Desert Island Selection.

Editions du Griffon - Neuchâtel - Suisse, 1971. Portfolio with 10 loose prints as issued (27x27 cm / 11x11 inch each) printed in héliogravure on glossy paper. Printed in 1971. Impressive quality. Included in the catalogue raisonné. One plate with discoloring to paper edges else very good set. 1st edition.

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

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.

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).

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.

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".

New York: Wildenstein Plattner Institute in association with Yale University Press, 2017. Oversized very heavy large hardcover with jacket. 335 pages, including 374 color and 17 b&w plates. A fine copy. First edition, clean and attractive copy. The most comprehensive and definitive study of Johns' work to date.

Iceland: Mumbling Eye, 2021. Small 8vo hardcover. (40) pages. Text in P-language, Icelandic and English. New copy. First edition, one of only 200 numbered and signed copies. Magnús Pálsson is one of Iceland’s premier artists; a national treasure. In 1978 he was instrumental in founding The Living Art Museum (Nýló). Sculptor, sound poet, performer and inspirational teacher, Magnús comes from a strong Fluxus background, where he and his clan forged the beginnings of conceptualism and concrete poetry. As a sculptor, Magnús dealt with enigma and touch by making casts of negative spaces and trapping ephemeral moments in solidifying plaster. His signature piece from that time is a cast of the space between the three wheels of a Sikorsky helicopter and its landing field, seconds before it actually touches down. Made in 1976, this work was exhibited in Venice in 1980 when Magnús represented Iceland at the 37th Biennale. Gradually he moved away from solid material into the more fluid realm of sound and action where recently he has made works for choirs, JCB earth diggers, ghosts and children.

Hatje Cantz Verlag, 2014. 8°. Complete set in original box, only opened for inspection. This copy was opened for inspection else fine. Artist's book by German photographer Ursula Shulz-Dornburg with nine notebooks with photographs printed on cardboard, a map and a large individual print on tissue paper, plus an essay and statements by Lawrence Weiner. This important photographer is finally reaching a larger audience with the exhibition and the prize-winning book published by Mack "The Land in Between" (2018). First edition, one of 1.500 numbered copies.

London: Macmillan & Co., 1882. Original publisher's green cloth hardcover, spines and front covers lettered and decorated in gilt, brown endpapers, all edges gilt. Frontispieces with tissue guard, illustrated title pages printed in grey and green, 7 engraved plates, 96 b/w text illustrations, all engraved by J. D. Cooper after Randolph Caldecott. Inner hinges a bit week, but holding firm. Previous owners fine bookplate made by Povl Christensen (Else Fahnøe). Overall a very well preserved and very attractive copy. ""Old Christmas" (First published in a separately 1876 and identical to this copy) is a collection of five Christmas "sketches" by Washington Irving from his famous Sketch Book - A beautifully produced Christmas book which captures the essence of a Victorian Christmas. It describes Irving's experiences at the English country estate of Mr. Bracebridge during the "coaching days" of the early 19th century, focusing on the sights, sounds, smells and traditions of "Old" Christmas. In spirit it hearkens back to the Middle Ages -- before the "peasants" had learned to read newspapers or were talking politics at the local pub, when manner lords opened their halls for the local folk to feast in a show of gratitude, under the watchful stare of painted ancient family crusaders and armored statues. This wonderful account has a tangible sense of realism mixed with romanticism and the comforts of tradition.Drawings throughout are by Randolph Caldecott, a prolific and famous children's book artist of the 19th century. The pictures bring the book to life, we see the exact "physiognomy" and "countenance" of the many curious Dickens-like characters, the scenes of feasting and dancing, the old English kitchens, the stage coach, the dress and mannerisms of a "Coachy" - priceless details that effortlessly transport the reader back in time". - Washington Irving, one of the first Americans to achieve international recognition as an author, was born in New York City in 1783. His A History of New York, published in 1809 under the name of Diedrich Knickerbocker, was a satirical history of New York that spanned the years from 1609 to 1664. Under another pseudonym, Geoffrey Crayon, he wrote The Sketch-book, which included essays about English folk customs, essays about the American Indian, and the two American stories for which he is most renowned--"The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" and "Rip Van Winkle." Irving served as a member of the U.S. legation in Spain from 1826 to 1829 and as minister to Spain from 1842 to 1846.

Bolinas: Shelter Publications / Random House, 1978. Small 4to in wraps as issued. 224 pages, richly illustrated throughout. Text in English. Only minimal shelfwear, overall a clean and very well preserved tight copy. First edition. Lloyd Kahn, former shelter editor for the Whole Earth Catalog and publisher of Domebooks One and Two, travelled across America, Ireland and England over a two year period researching alternative ways to build, the results of which appear in the books Shelter and Shelter II, publications that made his reputation. Assembled with the assistance of numerous contributors it includes an historical survey of shelter and the evolution of simple building types: tents, yurts, timber buildings, barns, small homes, and domes, along with a section on building using natural materials, including heavy timber construction and stud framing, as well as stone, straw bale, adobe, plaster, and bamboo. Now regarded as a counterculture classic, and a forerunner of the contemporary interest in cabins, do-it-yourself building and off-grid living.

China: Peking Foreign Language Press, 1968. Tiny pocket version i red vinyl binding as issued - 3-5/8 inches high by 2-5/8 inches wide (94 x 70mm). Gilt lettering. [10] 312, (2). Including Mao portrait frontis and Lin Biao (Piao) foreword with facsimile. Title page with red lettering in green frame. Initials of previous owner to free front endpaper, and same name as a small sticker to free front endpaper, and some minor foxing to endpapers else clean and overall a well preserved copy. Pocket edition printed 1968, first edition thus. Including the preface by Lin Biao, removed from copies after 1971.

MIT Press, 2016. Hardcover, w jacket. LII, 290 pages, with illustrations. Fine clean copy. First edition.

London: Leonard Hill, 1956 (1940). 2nd edition. Tall 4to hardcover with original dustjacket, slightly worn but now protected. 27x19. 220 pp. + 38 leaves with around 145 photos and perspective renderings including 22 full-page. More than 135 drawings and plans in the text. Text in English. Very good well preserved copy with a fine provenance. From the collection of Danish architect Kay Fisker, not signed but with the date ("4/7-56") handwritten by the architect to inner cover. Mendelsohn and Kay Fisker knew each other well and Fisker was influenced much by the German Modernism of Mendelsohn and Bruno Taut whom he both visited in Germany.

Galerie Wittrock, Düsseldorf & DuMont Reiseverlag, Ostfildern, 1992. Tall slim quarto in original hardcover with the original dustwrappers well preserved. 133 pages. With a short text in German by Dietmar Kamper. Illustrated throughout and finely printed. Only light wear to edges of jacket, now protected - see photos. Overall a fine attractive copy.  Subtitled "Acht Kalenderbauten auf dem Weg nach Santiago de Compostela" - Later reissued as "Medieval Heremitages along the Route to Santiago de Compostella" by Art Institute of Chicago, Washington 1996. This is the First edition. Scarce!

New York: Viking Penguin, 2007. Hardcover, with jacket - black cloth over mustard boards, with bright gold lettering on spine. 408 pages. Clean well preserved copy with only little shelfwear. First US edition, 1st printing of the first unexpurgated transcript.

New York: Conde Nast, 1948. Magazine in original wraps as issued. Illustrated richly in b/w and color. Text in English. 200 pp. Some edgewear and wear to spine (see photos) else very good, clean inside, complete. Super Vogue issue with Liberman as art director and classic works by star photographers as Horst, many by Irving Penn, including the cover, Frances McLaughlin-Gill and John Rawlings among others. Also in this issue Steichen's "50 photographs by 50 photographers".