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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 shipping with direct order. ** New York: Illustrated American Publishing Company, 1894. Profusely illustrated. About 48 pages per part. Decorated paper covers.. 31.4 x 23.4 cm. Covers mostly in color, six by Archie Gunn and one by H.S. Loury. Features on Ellen Terry, Henry Irving, Edwin Booth, Helena Modjeska, Lillian Russell, Nellie Melba, and dozens of others. Beautiful copies. OCLC locates only 2 full sets. See also related listings for "New York Dramatic Mirror"; "Leander Richardson's Illustrated Dramatic News"; and "San Francisco Dramatic Review". Gallery of Players from the Illustrated American. Complete in 12 parts
Brererton, Austin; Nirdlinger, Charles Fdc.; Hall, Maxwell; Austin, Henry; Hoeber, Arthur; and Vore, Albert White, eds.
FREE domestic shipping with direct order. ** New York: Illustrated American Publishing Company, 1894. Profusely illustrated. About 48 pages per.. more
Price: $350.00
FREE domestic or international shipping with direct order. **Los Angeles [not New York]: Dwan Gallery, 1965. Poster. Tans and grays, brown, black, pink, blue. Folded in eight. About 22 x 25 inches flat (oversquare). Fine. Never mailed. Rauschenberg at Dwan: drawings. April 13, 1965. Poster
Rauschenberg, Robert
FREE domestic or international shipping with direct order. **Los Angeles [not New York]: Dwan Gallery, 1965. Poster. Tans and grays,.. more
Price: $375.00
FREE domestic or international shipping with direct order. **Milano: Treues, 1902. Profusely illustrated, oversize publication on this important international exposition devoted to Art Nouveau and Stile Liberty. 32 pp. (including covers). 41 x 30.2 cm. Cover design by Griffi. The organizers' credo: "Only original products that show a decisive tendency toward aesthetic renewal of form will be admitted. Neither mere imitations of past styles nor industrial products not inspired by an artistic sense will be accepted." Photographs depict some of the main buildings, exhibits, and monuments, while drawings by R. Salvaderi, F. Matania, and others show events. The exhibiting countries were Great Britain, Germany, France, Belgium, Austria, Hungary, Denmark, Sweden, the USA, and Japan. No copies in OCLC. Spine taped; worn, with long crease throughout at bottom front corner. Torino e l'Esposizione Internazionale d'Arte Decorativa Moderna
FREE domestic or international shipping with direct order. **Milano: Treues, 1902. Profusely illustrated, oversize publication on this important international exposition.. more
Price: $250.00
FREE domestic or international shipping with direct order. **Bern, Spirale Press, [November 1954?]. 800 copies. 69 numbered plates & illustrations of sculpture by Swiss and international artists, including Moholy-Nagy, Moore, Hepworth, Nicholson, Vantongerloo, and Max Bill, with texts by many of them. [42] pp., incluuding one leaf of ads. Loose in paper covers. as issued. 49.8 x 33.7 cm. The bright orange covers are torn and worn at the fold and the extremities. Please see also listing for number 3. Ed. by Marcel Wyss, Dieter Roth, and Eugen Gomringer
Spirale 4.
FREE domestic or international shipping with direct order. **Bern, Spirale Press, [November 1954?]. 800 copies. 69 numbered plates & illustrations.. more
Price: $750.00
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