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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

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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 shipping with direct order. **New Haven, London: Yale University Press, 1963. 80 separate folders containing 149 color plates (including 119 original serigraphs) + text volume of 80 pp. in cloth & commentary volume of 48 pp. in paper covers, 33 x 25.5 cm., all in dark-brown folding cloth box & slipcase, 37 x 28 x 14 cm. Albers' great didactic work brings to a wide audience his exploration of color, previously accessible only through his small seminars at Yale. Case lightly worn; otherwise very fine. Interaction of color, original edition
Albers, Josef
FREE domestic shipping with direct order. **New Haven, London: Yale University Press, 1963. 80 separate folders containing 149 color plates.. more
Price: $5,000.00
FREE domestic or international shipping with direct order. **San Francisco, 1949. Mullican's first one-man show. 4 plates and color decoration on title page. [16] pp. + tissue flyleaves. 25.3 x 15.8 cm. Tan paper covers decorated with elaborate drawing in black and title in red. 800 copies. Foreword by Richard B. Freeman; texts by the artists Wolfgang Paalen and Gordon Onslow-Ford. The two of them and Mullican formed the post-Surrealist San Francisco group Dynaton, which also had a legendary exhibition at the San Francisco Museum in 1951. This copy of a delicate publication is in better condition than it has any right to be. Mullican: an exhibition of paintings at the San Francisco Museum of Art July 19 through August 14, 1949
Mullican, Lee
FREE domestic or international shipping with direct order. **San Francisco, 1949. Mullican's first one-man show. 4 plates and color decoration.. more
Price: $350.00
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
FREE domestic or international shipping with direct order. **San Diego: Atticus Books, 1981. Number 8 of 50 copies signed by Burroughs. includes the text, "Foreword: the future of the novel." Cover portrait photograph and illustrations of 33 items of 360 catalogued. 56 pp. Paper covers., handbound with binder's cord. 21.8 x 13.7 cm. In original 6 x 9-inch manila envelope. Slight darkening at the spine and upper edge of the cover. William S. Burroughs, the hombre invisible. Catalogue eight.
Burroughs, William S. Atticus Books [Ralph Cook]
FREE domestic or international shipping with direct order. **San Diego: Atticus Books, 1981. Number 8 of 50 copies signed by.. more
Price: $325.00
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