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John Foucault: This is Not a Pipe, An Art Quantum, 1983
by John Foucault, Rene Magritte, James Harkness (Milan)
Milan, IT: University of California Press, 1983 . First Edition. 8vo. Hard Covers with burgundy book cloth and dust jacket. Dust jacket has slight wear and discoloration on front and back covers and a small tear on the back cover. Very Good. 80 pp. Black and white plates. Translated and edited by James Harkness. What does it mean to write "This is not a pipe" across a bluntly literal painting of a pipe? René Magritte's famous canvas provides the starting point for a delightful homage by the French...
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NZ$145.52
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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NZ$94.16
Art Into Ideas : Essays on Conceptual Art
by Robert C Morgan; Contemporary artists and their critics
Cambridge : University Press, 1996.. 8vo. 218 pp. Hardcover. Black and white plates. Light signs of shelf wear. Very Good From the series: "Contemporary artists and their critics" Provenance: From the Collection of Art Historian Peter Selz (1919-2019).
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NZ$94.16
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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...
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NZ$342.40
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...
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NZ$20.54
System and Dialectics of Art
by John D. Graham
New York: Delphic Studios, 1937. Limited to 1000 copies, stamped number 905 to colophon / limitation page. Signature-bound, octavo, pictorial wraps, 154 pp., 15 b&w illustrations. Good condition, toned wraps and text block, spine lightly creased, spine ends worn with closed tears, covers lightly soiled and creased at corners, early separation of text block to spine at pp. 112-113, half title page top fore edge corner owner-inscribed in red felt marker by fellow painter Howard Daum, deckled text block...
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NZ$886.82
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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NZ$118.13
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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NZ$99.30
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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NZ$64.20
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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NZ$94.16
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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...
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NZ$299.60
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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NZ$128.40
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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...
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NZ$299.60
beginnings: intention and method
by edward said
baltimore and london: the johns hopkins university, 1975. signed copy, 1975. work of literary criticism in which said differentiates between the concept of "origin" and "beginning", also reflecting reflexively on the role of criticism and of the intellectual within a larger culture. baltimore and london: the johns hopkins university press. isbn: 0-8018-2085-5. 6x9". 414 pages. softcover. bound in colored paper wrappers. condition: reading creases to spine. shelfwear throughout. very good.
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NZ$291.09
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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NZ$59.92
the way of individuation
by joanne jacobi
new york: meridian, 1983. 1983. out of print. translated by r. f. c. hall. an interpretation of carl jung's concept of "inviduation" by one of his acquaintances. new york: meridian. isbn: 0-452-00866-2. 177 pages. 5.25x7.9". softcover. bound in colored paper wrappers. book condition: minor shelfwear. very good +.
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NZ$174.66
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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NZ$299.60
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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NZ$493.06
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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NZ$256.80
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...
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NZ$33.38
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...
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salvation: black people and love
by bell hooks
new york: william morrow, 2001. first edition, 2001. acclaimed cultural critic and activist bell hooks explores the transformative power of love for black people. she views love as expansive, identifying its potency in the writings of martin luther king, jr., james baldwin, and maya angelou; in the civil rights movements of the 50s, 60s, and 70s; and in hip hop. book condition: iny bit of foxing to head of block, else fine. fine-. jacket condition: unclipped ($22.00). fine.
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NZ$194.06
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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NZ$128.40
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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NZ$147.23
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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NZ$256.80
