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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 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
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 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
3 separate items in a vinyl envelope printed "Collaborations" in red. 1983. 1) Art & Language. 27 illustrations. 48 pp. 20. 8 x 15 cm. Yellow paper covers.. 1000 copies. 2) Abhasa, image-bearing light: Lita Albuquerque, Robert Kramer, Harold Budd; a collaboration. Held at Fisher Gallery, University of Southern California, Los Angeles. 35 illustrations (4 in color). 24 pp. Decorated paper covers.. 21.6 x 21.2 cm. 3) Dark Star [by] Harold Budd. Music from Abhasa: light-bearing image. An installation by Lita Albuquerque [et al.]. (a single-sided 7-inch vinyl LP record; Basheva Music, 1983). All of these are in a clear vinyl envelope about 23 x 22.5 cm (plus flap). "Collaborations" is printed diagonally in red on the front. As new. Collaborations. Art & Language. PLUS Abhasa: image-bearing light. PLUS Music from Abhasa (LP record)
Los Angeles Institute of Contemporary Art. Lita Albuquerque, Robert Kramer, Harold Budd
3 separate items in a vinyl envelope printed "Collaborations" in red. 1983. 1) Art & Language. 27 illustrations. 48 pp... more
Price: $150.00
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