American Artists

East Falmouth, MA: PeKa Boo Press, 1984 IN NEAR FINE CONDITION. INSCRIBED AND SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR on the ffp "To Bob Gontos (sp?) a good friend and pleasant colleague, Bob E." In April & May 1984, the U.S. and Canada presented verbal aguments to the World Court, over the exact international ocean boundary line between them. The author, as an ecologist and not a lawyer, found it difficult to take notes. In an effort to focus on the legal basis, he found himself doddling. This book is full of black & white doodles of a biological nature, which represent what was being discussed, retaining some of the original handwritten notes. ie: "Listening to Lawyers argue points is like looking through a kaleidoscope" with a kalaidoscopic image, along with handwritten notes that read "Any non-lawyer who attempts to explore the labyrinths of a lawyers mind will surely meet the minotaur." Very insightful and entertaining. In a protective mylar sleeve.

Pittsburgh, PA / Washington, D.C. : The Associated Artists at Carnegie Institute / The Corcoran Gallery of Art, 1928 25 x 30 inches, oil on canvas. Signed by Norwood MacGilvary directly on the bottom right corner.

Athens, Georgia: The University of Georgia Press, 1975. First Edition . Hardcover. Very Good+/Very Good +. VG+/VG+/1st ed. A solid handsome copy. Some very minor shelf wear to all corners and both ends of the spine. Great bright blue even color to the jacket, with price intact, now covered with a mylar sleeve. Some minor surface soiling to jacket. Interior is clean and unmarked, pages bright white. Early portraits and miniatures of early Georgia's leading citizens in black and white. 313pp., section on the artists, on unillustrated portraits, and the patrons, index. Comes to you in an acid free document bag for storage. Mailed boxed, and I can have it in the mail to you tomorrow. BKRM

This is a rare signed copy that I bought at the launch event in London. Collectors item. Beautiful boxed first edition.As new condition. "Since its formation in 1987, Critical Art Ensemble has set out to explore the intersections between art, critical theory, technology and political activism. The award-winning group of tactical media practitioners has exhibited and performed in a variety of venues internationally, from the street to the museum to the internet. Disturbances is the first book to assess the group's 25-year history, examining the environmental, political and bio-technological themes of their various initiatives.
In the publication, each project is presented by the group itself, from their early live multimedia productions; to their development of models of electronic civil disobedience, digital resistance, and contestational biology and ecology; to their most recent tactical media projects.
Disturbances is a landmark handbook for activists in art, theory, science and politics." publishers blurb

Millerton, NY: Aperture, 1984. Fine in a fine dust jacket.

University of Oklahoma Press, 2012. Book. Good+. Hard Cover with Dustjacket. First Edition First Printing. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Oversize hardcover with dustjacket : good plus / very good. Book: inner hinges have been glue-repaired and are holding well but the splits are still visible, otherwise book is fine. Jacket in new mylar protector; light wear to lower outer corners. .

Malmo: Galerie Borjeson, 1983. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. Illustrated glazed boards. 48 full-page, accordion folded, color plates. Text in English and Swedish. 23,7 x 24 cm. .

Hastings-on-Hudson: Newington-Cropsey Cultural Studies Center Consecutive five-year run of American Arts Quarterly. Fall, 2011 (Volume 28. number 4) through Winter, 2016 (Volume 33, number 1) - 21 issues. All fine or near fine. . 1st. Soft Cover. Near Fine/No Jacket, As Issued. 8vo.

Chicago: L.M. Stein, 1932. First edition. Hard cover in original cloth. Published Chicago: L.M. Stein, 1932, first printing. 4to., 8 3/4" x 11", 154pp., illustrated with 52 full page plates. Profiling 52 modern artists with artists' statement, reproduction and capsule biography. Blue-green cloth with black titles, blue endpapers. Spine cloth sun darkened, some wear at the tips and spine extremities, previous owner bookplate on pastedown. Very good minus. . 1st. Hard. Very Good Minus/No Jacket. 4to.

"Frankenthaler." Text by Barbara Rose. New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., Publishers, [1971]. pp. 274, Biography, Bibliography. 205 b. & w. illus. and 54 colour plates (1 fold-out). Hardcover, illustrated cloth, title in black on spine, white on cover (bottom of spine is worn & frayed, top & fore edge are toned, margins in text are yellowed, extremities are worn, price stamped on half-title page, otherwise interior is unmarked). dj., original plastic (jacket is cracked and has several short tears, torn in a few places at both top & bottom of spine, has a tear and is folded down at top of front cover, the surface of the jacket is scuffed). Good+ condition.Size: 11" x 11 5/8" (27.75cm x 29.5cm).
"The physical design of this volume is the result of close collaboration between Helen Frankenthaler and the artist Robert Motherwell, who developed its basic concept. The painting reproduced on the cover was made especially for this publication." (from the dust jacket).
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New York: The Floating Bear, 1965. 1st edition. Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket (as issued). VG+. 4to, 16pp, stapled front wrapper drawn by Jess Collins. This copy addressed and mailed to Art Ford in New York. Another key issue of this incomparable private-circulation mimeo revolution mag from the heart of the sixties cultural ferment. Most content by John Wieners. Mailing address and postage plus Return to Sender stamp to last leaf (no other markings), horizontal mailing fold, a little toning, minor wear overall.

Silver-embossed, black grained cover like new, very slight wear on rear - pages clean, bright and unmarked – spine like new.
No dust jacket issued with this book.
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Uncommon work from the celebrated artist. Storey's work has appeared in Time, National Geographic, Reader's Digest and many other magazines. His work has been displayed in the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery.

Bellingham, WA: Bellingham High School, 1943. 1st edition. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket (as issued). VG+. 4to, 92pp, textured boards. The senior high school yearbook of artist, filmmaker, folk music anthologist, and Thelemic Saint Harry Everett Smith. A youthful Smith is pictured amongst the senior class ("Ambition—Composer of symphonic music"), as well as in a cast photo of the senior play and in photos of the yearbook staff and the Art Club. A well-preserved copy with typical yearbook signatures and inscriptions.

New York: Full Court Press, 1975. 1st edition. Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket (as issued). VG. 8vo, 148pp, printed wrappers. Consolidated edition of I Remember texts from Joe Brainard. Unmarked copy, sunning to spine, some spotting to page edges.

New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1973. 1st edition. Soft cover. Very Good/Very Good. VG+ in VG dw. 4to, 24pp, stapled card wrappers with printed dustwrapper. A rare Christmas-themed sequel's sequel's sequel from Joe Brainard. Unmarked copy, toning, light soil, and spine fraying to dustwrapper, does not include printed envelope.