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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. **Bedford Village, New York: Tyler Graphics, ©1982. Superb lithographed miniature in black and light brown. 16.7 x 23.5 cm (image, oversquare); 18.5 x 25.4 cm (paper, oversquare). Print tipped into white folder with explanatory text, 22.3 x 28.6 cm. Original image size 44 x 61 inches. Not an "original print," but it certainly looks like one. 3000 copies of this brochure printed. Several as-new copies available. For other similar publications, please search for "Albers" or "Stella" as author and "miniature" as title. Lament for Lorca. [Handprinted miniature of lithograph by Robert Motherwell.]
Motherwell, Robert.
FREE domestic shipping with direct order. **Bedford Village, New York: Tyler Graphics, ©1982. Superb lithographed miniature in black and light.. more
Price: $50.00
FREE domestic or international shipping with direct order. **Bern, Spirale Press, [January 1954?]. 9 original prints. 600 copies. Zinc etching by Max Bill (cover); lithographs by Friedrich Vordemberge-Gildewart, Richard P. Lohse, Heinrich Eichmann, Mary Vieira, and Hans Hofmann; linoleum cuts by Sophie Taeuber-Arp and Verena Wickart-Loewensberg; and a woodcut by Camille Graeser. A vivid composition in black and red by Marcel Wyss appears to be a silkscreen. Literary contributions by many of the artists, as well as Hans Hofer, Hans Arp, Piet Mondrian, and others. [28] pp. in single sheets and folded signatures loose in paper covers. as issued. 49.8 x 33.7 cm. The spine of the blue paper cover is slightly faded (but not the apple-green ink of the print); some small chipping and tears in the edge and spine, and light creasing, Nevertheless, near fine. These early issues (of 9 published) are vanishingly scarce in the wild. A book on this fabulous publication is Spirale: an artists magazine 1953-1964, by Annemarie Bucher (Lars Müller Publishers, 2001; ISBN 978-3-906700-21-2). Please see also listing for number 4. Ed. by Marcel Wyss, Dieter Roth, and Eugen Gomringer
Spirale 3.
FREE domestic or international shipping with direct order. **Bern, Spirale Press, [January 1954?]. 9 original prints. 600 copies. Zinc etching.. more
Price: $3,500.00
FREE domestic or international shipping with direct order. **Ithaca, NY: 1969. 47 plates and illustrations. [88] pp. Tan paper covers. 18.8 x 25.4 cm. (oversquare). Foreword by Thomas W. Leavitt; essays by Willoughby Sharp and William C. Lipke. Fine. Earth art: Jan Dibbets, Hans Haacke, Neil Jenney, Richard Long, David Medalla, Robert Morris, Dennis Oppenheim, Robert Smithson, Gunther Uecker
Andrew Dickson White Museum of Art, Cornell University
FREE domestic or international shipping with direct order. **Ithaca, NY: 1969. 47 plates and illustrations. [88] pp. Tan paper covers... more
Price: $300.00
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
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