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Making Dying Illegal - Architecture Against Death: Original to the 21st Century [review copy]

Making Dying Illegal - Architecture Against Death: Original to the 21st Century [review copy]

by Gins, Madeline and Arakawa. Jean-Jacques Leclercle

New York: Roof Books, 2007. Very Good minus softcover with lay-ins (and paste-ins). 9 x 7 inches, 224 pages. Some minor discoloration and scraping at top edge of front cover. This copy may have been Gins and Arakawa's pre-publication copy, as pasted over some lines of text is corrected text -- see photos. This occurs on roughly thirty pages of the book, in some cases single words are being replaced/corrected; in other cases larger swathes of text. In addition, laid in are a "REVIEW COPY" insert from the... Read more about this item
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A$274.54
Brice Dellsperger's Body Double. Posture and High Heels

Brice Dellsperger's Body Double. Posture and High Heels

by Casnet, Marie; Brice Dellsperger

Berlin: Sternberg Press, 2011. NF. Near Fine in thick wrappers, 208 pp., 25 x 189 cm, 185 b/w ills. Radical delight.
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A$117.66
Joseph Kosuth : Freud, Wittgenstein and Musil : September 12-October 27, 2012

Joseph Kosuth : Freud, Wittgenstein and Musil : September 12-October 27, 2012

by Kosuth, Jpseph. Barbara Bertozzi Castelli

Leo Castelli Gallery, 2012. Hardcover. Near Fine. Near Fine 8vo in grey boards with silver cover and spine lettering, 13 pages with 3 reprinted texts by the artist as well as 13 pages of photos. A 25 year resurrection of a 1986 exhibition. From the library of Peter Schjeldahl. Uncommon.
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A$235.32
Basic by Isotype

Basic by Isotype

by Otto Neurath

Cambridge: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co., Ltd, 1937. First edition. Hardcover [16mo]. Beige paper boards backed with blue cloth, title panel pasted to spine. 4" x 6 1/8", 130 pp. Very good, fading to pasted-down spine title, lightly worn boards with some rubbing to corners and edges. Boards lightly bowed inwards towards fore edge.. Otto Neurath was a pioneer in infographics and inventor, with artist Gerd Arntz, of the pictorial method of representing social-scientific data known as ISOTYPE... Read more about this item
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A$4,510.30
Walking Inside Out - Contemporary British Psychogeography

Walking Inside Out - Contemporary British Psychogeography

by Richardson, Tina, editor

Rowman & Littlefield, 2015. Paperback. Near Fine. Near Fine in glossy wrappers, marred only by some pen notes at the foot of page 1. 263 pages. Contributions from more than a dozen authors.
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A$54.91
Process and Reality: An Essay in Cosmology

Process and Reality: An Essay in Cosmology

by Whitehead, Alfred N

New York: Macmillan, 1967. Sixth printing. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good-. An excellent copy in dark red boards with gilt spine titles, 8vo , 546 pages. The matte dust-jacket has darkened on the spine and extremities, some rubbing to edges but only one minute chip at rear. Price-clipped, else sturdy and VG. Gifford Lectures Delivered in the University of Edinburgh During the Session 1927-28.
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A$235.32
Apparatus

Apparatus

by Theresa Kyung Cha [Editor]

New York: Tanam Press, 1981. First printing. Signature-bound [octavo] in pictorial wraps. 437 pp. Very Good, soft crease to front and back wrap, edge wear, some rubbing. Small dampstain to last few pages in upper fore corner. Clean internally, binding sound.. Scarce compendium of writings on experimental cinema edited by Theresa Kyung Cha, containing pieces by Maya Deren, Bertrand Augst, Roland Barthes, Gregory Woods, and more.
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A$451.81
Signs

Signs

by Merleau-Ponty, Maurice. Richard McCleary, trans. and intro

Northwestern University Press, 1964. First. Hardcover. VG/VG. Very Good in brown cloth which shows some spotting to boards and foxing to top edge ; interior immaculate. DJ gently age-toned in places but otherwise Very Good, no scratches or tears. 355 pages. Previous owner's name & home city in pencil on ffep, erasable. Owner was an author, professor and social worker based in Gloucester, MA.
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A$86.28
The Powers of Healing

The Powers of Healing

Wheaton, Illinois: The Theosophical Order of Service, Undated. Saddle-stapled, octavo, green paper wrappers with green titles, 14 pp. Good, vertical 14 cm tear along staple-bound paper wrappers, consistent chipping and wear along perimeter aspects of wrappers, additional light creasing to corners, text block has mild hi-lighting and ink markings. Pamphlet issued by The Theosophical Order of Service, contents include the chapters: some principles of healing, sources of healing power, the healer and the... Read more about this item
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A$18.83
Marxism and Anthropology

Marxism and Anthropology

by George Markus

Assen, The Netherlands: Van Gorcum, 1978. Signature-bound, octavo, pictorial wraps, 86 pp. Very good condition, wraps lightly worn and soiled, text block lower edge lightly soiled throughout.
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A$90.99
Psychoanalysis & Daseinsanalysis

Psychoanalysis & Daseinsanalysis

by Medard Boss

New York and London: Basic Books, 1963. Hardcover, [octavo] with cream cloth boards and gilt and lavender decoration and lettering in pictorial dust jacket, 295 pp. Very good, gently worn with lightly frayed cloth at edges in good price-clipped dust jacket, considerable chipping and creasing all around with close and larger tears at edges, lightly soiled all around. Jacket design by Arnold Meyers. A clinical handbook of existential theory and therapy, translated by Ludwig B Lefebre.
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A$134.92
The Order of Things

The Order of Things

by Michel Foucault

New York: Random House, 1970. First American edition. Hardcover, [octavo], black cloth boards, gilt spine and cover titles, pictorial dust jacket, 387 pp. Very good book; very good dust jacket, spine ends chipped, cover edges worn with nicks, flap seams chipped. Jacket design by Jay J. Smith.
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A$134.92
The Archaeology of Knowledge

The Archaeology of Knowledge

by Michel Foucault

New York: Pantheon Books, 1972. First American Edition. Hardcover, red cloth with silver lettering to spine and black decorative design to front board. Good, boards soiled towards edges and slightly bowed, foxed text block and endpapers, otherwise clean and sound./Good jacket, soiled and toned, lightly creased at spots, spine sunned, small dampstain to top of spine, some shallow chipping to edges mostly at folds.. First American Edition of Foucault's third book to be brought out in English translation.
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A$90.99
Listen, Little Man [Inscribed by Steig]

Listen, Little Man [Inscribed by Steig]

by Reich, Wilhelm. William Steig. Theodore P. Wolfe, trans

New York: Orgone Press, 1948. First. Hardcover. VG. Tan cloth w/ maroon lettering, 126 pages. Illustrations by William Steig who has inscribed this copy in ink to a friend & Reichian disciple once known to this bookseller, "with love" on ffep. Thw book affectionately known to some as the "ReichSteig". Just kidding. Boards lightly frayed at crown and signs of a darkening damp at base and a few others signs of use but interior without flaw, bright, crisp and clean. Laid in is a folded 3.5 page broadside... Read more about this item
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A$274.54
The Sudan: a Southern Viewpoint

The Sudan: a Southern Viewpoint

by Oliver Albino, Arnold Toynbee (foreword)

UK: Institute of Race Relations / Oxford University Press, 1970. Perfect-bound octavo in pictorial wraps. xiv, 132pp. Light edge wear and soiling; Very Good.. A Southern Sudanese perspective on the nature and causes of Southern resistance from 1820 to the (then) present.
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A$134.92
HAUG - Commodity Aesthetics, Ideology & Culture

HAUG - Commodity Aesthetics, Ideology & Culture

by Haug, Wolfgang Fritz

NY/Bagnolet, France: International General, 1987. Paperback. VG. Vg 8vo softcover, 188 pages, minor edgewear. Ten essays written between 1970-1983. Appendix is a Haug bibliography. Uncommon.
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A$58.83
Collage Culture: Readymades, Meaning, and the Art of Consumption (Postmodern Studies 49)

Collage Culture: Readymades, Meaning, and the Art of Consumption (Postmodern Studies 49)

by David Banash

Rodopi; Amsterdam, New York, 2013. Softcover. Very Good. 0x0x0. [ART HISTORY]. Banash, David. "Collage Culture: Readymades, Meaning, and the Art of Consumption (Postmodern Studies 49)." Rodopi; Amsterdam, New York, 2013. English language. Softcover. Text with black and white illustrations. 317 pp. Text clean. Near Fine. ISBN: 9789042036819.
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A$149.04
Panegyric

Panegyric

by Debord, Guy

London / New York: Verso, 1991. First. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Very Fine 8vo hardcover in a Fine DJ, 79 pages, translated by James Brook. "The house seemed to open directly on to the Milky Way
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A$108.25
Imagining the Antipodes. Culture, Theory and the Visual in the Work of Bernard Smith

Imagining the Antipodes. Culture, Theory and the Visual in the Work of Bernard Smith

by Beilharz, Peter

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1997. Octavo Size [approx 15.5 x 22.8cm]. Very Good condition in Very Good Dustjacket. DJ protected in our purpose-made clear archival plastic sleeve. Front free endpaper clipped at top [to remove ownership details I presume]. xv, 216 pages. Part intellectual history, part biography and part interpretive argument, this book presents a new way of thinking about Australia through the works of Bernard Smith. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for... Read more about this item
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A$25.00
Pulturebook (b&w version)

Pulturebook (b&w version)

by Bader, Darren. Brian Kennon

Los Angeles: 2nd Cannon, 2008. First & only printing. Paperback. VG-. A just less than Very Good copy of this limited edition, one of an edition of five hundred copies. Thick wraps, 385 pages, 9 x 7 inches. Soem rubbing showing white to covers, crease to bottom edge, a couple of scuffs ands scratches also to covers while interior is without flaw. Both four-sided color image cards laid in. Scarce. Sally Ride, indeed. Further images upon request.
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A$274.54
Art Has Many Faces; The Nature of Art Presented Visually

Art Has Many Faces; The Nature of Art Presented Visually

by Katharine Kuh

New York: Harper & Row, 1953. 4to. 185 pp. Hard cover. Some black and white plates. Modern signs of shelf wear. Frayed edge on spine. Good. Autograph of Peter Selz, 1953. Provenance: From the Collection of Art Historian Peter Selz (1919-2019).
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A$117.66
On the Passage of a few people through a rather brief moment in time: The Situationist International 1957-1972

On the Passage of a few people through a rather brief moment in time: The Situationist International 1957-1972

by Sussman, Elizabeth, ed

Cambridge: MIT Press, 1989. Fine/Very Good +. A beautiful tight and clean copy (Near to fine) in off-white silky boards in a Very Good+ DJ which shows faint sunning, especially to spine, 200 pages. Exhibition organized by Peter Wollen and Mark Francis, with Paul-Hervé Parsy, in consultation with Thomas Y. Levin, Greil Marcus and Elizabeth Sussman. The Exhibition was shown at Musée national d'art moderne Centre George Pompidou, Paris, 21st of Feb. 1989 - 9th of April 1989. Institute of Contemporary... Read more about this item
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A$133.35
Eroticism in Western art.

Eroticism in Western art.

by Edward Lucie-Smith

New York: Praeger Publishers, 1972.. 8vo. 287 pp. Soft cover. Some color plates. Light signs of shelf wear. Very Good. Original Price: $5.95 Provenance: From the Collection of Art Historian Peter Selz (1919-2019).
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A$86.28
The Fox [Full run, Nos. 1, 2 and 3]

The Fox [Full run, Nos. 1, 2 and 3]

by The Fox, Art & Language, Sarah Charlesworth, Michael Corris, Joseph Kosuth, Andrew Menard, Mel Ramsden, Preston Heller, eds

New York City: Art & Language Foundation, 1975. Softcover. VG/VG/VG-/None. All three volumes in thick card-covers, 144,163 and186 pages. Newsprint pages nicely age-toned and all three are firmly bound and without internal flaws. Volume 2 has some mild dampstaining along spine and Volume 3 has heavy chipping with a piece missing at crown. Scores of artists and critics including Adrian Piper, Terry Atkinson, Eunice Lipton, Lizzie Borden, Jean Toche, Robert Horvitz, Paul Kagawa, Peter Benchley, Kathryn... Read more about this item
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A$313.76
Comedy (The New Critical Idiom)

Comedy (The New Critical Idiom)

by Andrew Scott

London and New York: Routledge, 2014. 2nd Edition. Softcover. Fair. 5x0x7. [THEORY]. Scott, Andrew. "Comedy (The New Critical Idiom)." London and New York: Routledge, 2014. English language. Softcover. 7.75 x 5 x 0.5 in. 20 x 13 x 1 cm. 9 oz. pp. viii, 217. Sticker on back cover. Use. Laminate coming off covers at edges. Ink and pencil underlining and marginalia. Front cover bowing out. Fair. ISBN: 9780415854191."This new edition of Andrew... Read more about this item
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A$30.59
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