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The books described here are only a tiny fraction of an estimated 30,000 books and exhibition catalogues currently in stock. The great majority are on modern and contemporary art and artists--Cubism, Futurism, Expressionism, Dada, Surrealism, Abstract Expressionism, Cobra, Pop Art, Minimalism, Conceptual Art, Fluxus and so on. You also will find photography and unusual books in other areas.Inernational League of Antiquarian BooksellersAntiquarian Booksellers' Association of America

Hungarian caricatures, 1933. For a unique album from Budapest of brilliant, original caricatures worthy of publication and exhibition, please click here.

An additional 40,000 art periodicals include the world's largest holdings of Artforum, Art in America, and High Performance, plus many others.

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FREE domestic & international shipping with direct order. **Vienna: [Gerlach & Schenk], 1898. In publisher's maroon cloth binding: decorative blindstamping and gilt decoration on pebbled cover. The gilt titling consists of poppies against an elaborate scroll with highly stylized lettering. Bound by the publisher as a single book but with the original covers not included. Richly illustrated, of course (some color, some mounted), including a color lithograph by Kolo Moser at p. 12, Jan 1898. Pagination: 30; 32; 24; 30; 60 (nos. 5/6); 32; 36; 28; 34; 24; 24. Near fine, with light rubbing at extremities. Ver Sacrum. 1. Jahrgang [cover title]. Organ der Vereinigung bildender Künstler Osterreichs
Vereinigung bildender Künstler Osterreichs
FREE domestic & international shipping with direct order. **Vienna: [Gerlach & Schenk], 1898. In publisher's maroon cloth binding: decorative blindstamping.. more
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FREE domestic or international shipping with direct order. **Valencia, CA, 1975. Edited by Miriam Schapiro. Introduction by Deena Metzger. 75 illustrations and portraits of the artists. 82 pp. 17.4 x 30.7 cm (oversquare). Decorated black paper covers. This early and influential overview includes 38 women artists, from Pat Adams to Barbara Zucker and from Nell Blaine and Jeanne Reynal to Lynda Benglis and Carolee Schneemann. Very scarce now. Fine. Art: a woman's sensibility.
Feminist Art Program. California Institute of the Arts
FREE domestic or international shipping with direct order. **Valencia, CA, 1975. Edited by Miriam Schapiro. Introduction by Deena Metzger. 75.. more
Price: $350.00
FREE domestic or international shipping with direct order. **La Jolla, California: 1968. Catalogue in the the form of a vertical hanging poster folded leporello style. 6 plates. 10 panels. About 19.8 cm square when folded; about 190.5 cm (75 inches) unfolded. The artists are Peter Alexander, John Baldessari ("How to sell paintings"), Ron Cooper, Doug Edge, Jessie Jacobs, and Terence O'Shea. Text by James Monte. No copies in OCLC. Slight wear and denting of the stiff, glossy paper. This probably came in an envelope, which no longer is present. New work / Southern California
University of California, San Diego
FREE domestic or international shipping with direct order. **La Jolla, California: 1968. Catalogue in the the form of a vertical.. more
Price: $300.00
FREE domestic or international shipping with direct order. **Two of the postcards from 2001 show works of Baldessari's, and the third is from the wonderful Musso & Frank Grill in Hollywood. All three of these bear personal messages and have one or more pinholes near the top margin. The fourth was sent from Florence in 1972. The front is plain white, except for a hole slightly less than 1/2-inch in the center and the legend in pale gray, "A hole to see the sky through. Yoko Ono '71." On the address side the message to Matheny consists solely of a dotted circle echoing the die-cut hole. Price is for all four. 4 postcards from John Baldessari to his lifelong friend artist Bob Matheny. 1972 & 2001.
Baldessari, John.
FREE domestic or international shipping with direct order. **Two of the postcards from 2001 show works of Baldessari's, and the.. more
Price: $850.00
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