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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. **[West Point, New York,] 1870. The first of 46 annual volumes 1870-1916 under this title (per OCLC, which ignores the odd spelling Acaedemy). Later volumes 1917-1941 under another title. Pale blue paper covers.. 58 pp. 23.1 x 14.7 cm. Addenda slip concerning discharge of association secretary tipped in on p. 1. The contents include minutes, in memoriam, and a "Register of Graduates" from 1802 through 1870, 2369 of them, including Jefferson Davis (1828), Robert E. Lee (1829), William Tecumseh Sherman (1840), Ulysses S. Grant (1843), "Stonewall" Jackson and George B. McClellan (both 1846), and George A. Custer (1861). Covers chipped, faded, fragile, but mostly present. A litle edge chipping of first and last pages. The Association of the Graduates of the United States Military Acaedemy [Academy]. Annual reunion, June 17th, 1870. [Cover title]
United States Military Acaedemy [Academy], West Point
FREE domestic or international shipping with direct order. **[West Point, New York,] 1870. The first of 46 annual volumes 1870-1916.. more
Price: $250.00
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. **San Diego: Atticus Books, 1981. Number 8 of 50 copies signed by Burroughs. includes the text, "Foreword: the future of the novel." Cover portrait photograph and illustrations of 33 items of 360 catalogued. 56 pp. Paper covers., handbound with binder's cord. 21.8 x 13.7 cm. In original 6 x 9-inch manila envelope. Slight darkening at the spine and upper edge of the cover. William S. Burroughs, the hombre invisible. Catalogue eight.
Burroughs, William S. Atticus Books [Ralph Cook]
FREE domestic or international shipping with direct order. **San Diego: Atticus Books, 1981. Number 8 of 50 copies signed by.. more
Price: $325.00
FREE domestic shipping with direct order. **Los Angeles: Zora Gallery, 1964. 10 signed, numbered original lithographs and 10 poems + title page (in red & black) & colophon (all printed one side only on Arches and Rives paper). 22 loose sheets. 38 x 56 cm (oversquare). Plates printed in one, two, and three colors; stones & zinc plates effaced. Stated edition of 108 numbered copies. This set unnumbered on the colophon; the signed prints bear mixed numbers from 40 through 48; at least one is marked "Artist's proof." Printed at the Plantin Press. Reportedly, the full publication never was completed. The colophon says the book was bound by the Schuberth Bindery in San Francisco, but that firm's current owner thinks the job never materialized. The "brown vinyl ring-binder" in one OCLC record sounds nothing like Schuberth's fine work. Copy 24 at the Archives for New Poetry at UCSD is loose sheets like this one. This is Hirschman's third book, but Belkin's large, full-sheet lithographs with their blend of figuration and densely organic abstraction are the real focus. Two: ten lithographs by Arnold Belkin; poems by Jack Hirschman
Belkin, Arnold, and Hirschman, Jack
FREE domestic shipping with direct order. **Los Angeles: Zora Gallery, 1964. 10 signed, numbered original lithographs and 10 poems +.. more
Price: $1,000.00
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