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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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FREE domestic & international shipping with direct order. **Cullompton, Devon, UK: Beau Geste Press, [ca. 1974]. A very small edition in the artist's handmade mailer postmarked 22 November 1974. An early artist's book by this remarkable woman associated with the Fluxus movement. 18 pp. doubled and bound Japanese-style precede 3 small booklets at the rear, bound one above the other. In the top rank one 8-page booklet precedes a second 22-page booklet; both are 12 x about 8.5 cm. The lower rank consists of 16 small, white envelopes blind-stamped with designs; 8 x about 8.5 cm. The brown paper covers have four white labels shaped like footprints with a floral decoration printed over them in brown. Inside the covers and elsewhere are several applied bits of decorated paper and pasteboard. Drawings printed in black appear throughout the main section—domestic scenes, especially cows. The two upper booklets at the rear are drawings printed in black and brown. Housed in a card slipcase covered with dark-red rice paper illustrated with drawings that appear to be printed in batik. Book measurement 20.2 x 15.3 cm. The mailing wrapper is made of hand-colored paper with hand-cut labels of brown paper applied to front and back. Very fine. To my friends
Saito, Takako
FREE domestic & international shipping with direct order. **Cullompton, Devon, UK: Beau Geste Press, [ca. 1974]. A very small edition.. more
Price: $1,000.00
FREE domestic or international shipping with direct order. **Wien: Galerie Grünangergasse 12, 1972. White on green. About 59 x 42 cm. Folded in 4 (about 29.5 x 21 cm). Some wrinkling. Dieter Rot. Poster
Roth, Dieter
FREE domestic or international shipping with direct order. **Wien: Galerie Grünangergasse 12, 1972. White on green. About 59 x 42.. more
Price: $200.00
FREE domestic or international shipping with direct order. **Norfolk, Ct.: New Directions, 1936. New Directions Pamphlets, edited by James Laughlin IV, number one. The first edition, first printing of the first book published by the justly famous firm. Blue paper covers. are the point of issue; a later printing is red. 17 x 11.5 cm. 16 pp. Concludes with "A dictionary definition of Surrealism," by André Breton. Fine. Pianos of sympathy
O'Reilly, Montagu
FREE domestic or international shipping with direct order. **Norfolk, Ct.: New Directions, 1936. New Directions Pamphlets, edited by James Laughlin.. more
Price: $400.00
FREE domestic or international shipping with direct order. **Newcastle: Printed by E. Walker, for T. Bewick and Son, 1818. Imperial copy, with the receipt for the Fables bound in facing the title page, and signed with the famous engraving of Thomas Bewick's thumbprint. 323 wood-engraved vignettes. Frontispiece (receipt) +xxiv + 376 pp. Unusually large size of 24.6 x 16.4 cm. Period calf with new calf spine and corners; original spine label preserved. Some wear and scuffing of original boards, but fine otherwise. An inscription in an exceptionally precise hand on a blank leaf preceding the receipt reads: "Hicks Thomas Deacle's the Gift of the Rev. William Young B.D. tutor of Emmanuel College Cambridge, as a reward for merit when he was but seven years old. 1823." The Reverend Hicks Thomas Deacle (21 December 1816–12 August 1891) received his B.A. from St. John's College, Cambridge in 1840 and was ordained a deacon in 1841, then an Anglican priest in 1842. In 1844, he received his MA. During the 1850's, he served as chaplain of the Holy Trinity vicarage, Bungay, Suffolk, and in 1860 became vicar of Bawburgh, Diocese Norwich. His account books in twelve volumes spanning the years 1836 to 1889 are in the Archives and Manuscripts Department, Pitts Theology Library, Emory University, and list the daily personal expenses of a country parson in England. The fables of Aesop, and others, with designs on wood, by Thomas Bewick
Aesopus
FREE domestic or international shipping with direct order. **Newcastle: Printed by E. Walker, for T. Bewick and Son, 1818. Imperial.. more
Price: $1,500.00
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