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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 or international shipping with direct order. **Berlin: Verlag "Russische Kunst", 1921. Cover by Bilibin. Profusely illustrated (part color) by Loukomski, Bilibin, Grigoriev, Sorine, Archipenko, Roerich, and others. 43 pp. + advertisements and German translations. 32.3 x 24.8 cm. Texts include an early poem, "Pero," by Nabokov under the pseudonym Vladimir Sirin. Backstrip chipped; a small bump in the upper front corner and the lower one creased and chipped. Still, a fresh, near-fine copy of this rarity. Zhar-ptitsa [Jar-ptitza], no. 4/5.
Kogan, Alexander, ed.
FREE domestic or international shipping with direct order. **Berlin: Verlag "Russische Kunst", 1921. Cover by Bilibin. Profusely illustrated (part color).. more
Price: $1,000.00
FREE domestic shipping with direct order. **Paris: Carrefour, 1929. No. 457 of 1000 copies. 147 plates printed one side only and divided into nine sections + [xiv] pp. Red cloth with leather label on spine. Edward Sackville-West's bookplate inside front cover. The plates are Ernst's wonderful collages pieced together from 19th-century illustrations. La femme 100 têtes. Avis au lecteur par André Breton
Ernst, Max
FREE domestic shipping with direct order. **Paris: Carrefour, 1929. No. 457 of 1000 copies. 147 plates printed one side only.. more
Price: $2,750.00
FREE domestic and international shipping with direct order. **5 issues, early 1950s. Profusely illustrated. [16] pp. each. Decorated paper covers. 19.8 x 12 cm. No. 23: "Edward L. Bernays and the American mind," by P. K. Thomajan. No. 29: "Posters by McKnight Kauffer." No. 30: "Saul Steinberg, visual historian." No. 36: "Albert Schiller and type ornaments." No. 37: "Lucina Wakefield," by Donald Vining [wood engravings]. A wonderful publication issued by a paper company. A little wear on the colored folded spines of nos. 29 and 30 Design and paper. Numbers 23, 29, 30, 36, 37
Kauffer, McKnight; Steinberg, Saul; Schiller, Albert. Marquardt and Company, New York
FREE domestic and international shipping with direct order. **5 issues, early 1950s. Profusely illustrated. [16] pp. each. Decorated paper covers... more
Price: $500.00
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
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