Featured: Vija Celmins

Vija Celmins: Wüste, Meer und Sterne Desert, Sea & Stars

Edited by Julia Friedrich, Kasper König. Texts by Hubertus Butin, Julia Friedrich
Hardcover

"The many admirers and devotees of Vija Celmins (born 1938) at last possess a serious overview of the Latvian-born, New York-based artist's work in this volume. For more than a half-century, Celmins has quietly mined a narrow but infinitely rich range of theme and palette, extrapolating whole worlds of photorealist detail from four seemingly simple motifs: the surface of the sea, the night sky, the desert and the spider web. In oil paintings, prints and charcoal or graphite pencil drawings that revisit these motifs over and over, as if researching them to comprehend their infinities of detail, Celmins confines herself to the colors black, white and gray, preserving a spacious sobriety and calm exactitude for her potentially romantic subjects. This essential volume reproduces more than 60 variations of Celmins' precisely depicted seas, skies, deserts and webs, which in the artist's seemingly dispassionate renderings restore vastness and wonder to our sense of the cosmos."






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Featured: Two By George Saunders

Pastoralia
Paperback

“Artful and sophisticated. . . .truly unusual. Imagine Lewis’s Babbitt thrown into the back seat of a car going cross-country, driven by R. Crumb, Matt Groening, Lynda Barry, Harvey Pekar or Spike Jonze. That’d be a story Saunders could tell.” —The New York Times




The Very Persistent Gappers Of Frip
illustrated by Lane Smith
Hardcover

"Three families live in the seaside village of Frip—the Romos, the Ronsens, and a little girl named Capable and her widowed father. The townspeople of Frip make their living raising goats, but they must fight off a daily invasion of gappers, bright orange, many-eyed creatures that cover goats and stop them from giving milk. When the gappers target Capable’s goats, the Romos and the Ronsens turn their backs on the gapper-ridden Capable. What will Capable do about her gapper plague? An imaginative tale accented with haunting illustrations, The Very Persistent Gappers of Frip is an adult story for children, a children’s story for adults, an oceanside fable for the irremediably landlocked, a fish story for loaves, and a fable about the true meaning of community."




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Featured: Two By Dick Higgins & Bern Porter

Two collections of Dick Higgins Fluxus tomfoolery, illustrated by Bern Porter




Die Fabelhafte Getraume Von Taifun Willi (out of print)
Abyss Press, 1970 (1970)
Paperback






City With All The Angels (out of print)
Unpublished Editions, 1974
Paperback




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New Arrivals: Classic Children's Books

The Dead Bird
Margaret Wise Brown, illustrated by Remi Charlip
Hardcover, illustrated boards (out of print)




Moose, Goose & Little Nobody
Written & illustrated by Ellen Raskin
Hardcover, illustrated boards (out of print)




Sam And Emma
Donald Nelson, illustrated by Edward Gorey
Hardcover, illustrated boards (out of print)




Seeds & More Seeds
Millicent Selsam, illustrated by Tomi Ungerer
Hardcover, illustrated boards (out of print)





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Featured: Aspen Magazine In A Box 5+6: The Minimalism Issue

Aspen Magazine In A Box Issue 5+6
All 28 listed items are present including all advertisements.
Rare and out of print

New Arrivals: Two Classic Penguin Thurbers

The Thurber Album






The Thurber Carnival




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New Arrivals: McSweeney's

...just got in about a dozen back issues of McSeeney's Quarterly Concern, all priced between $10-15.

New Arrival: Agnes Martin

Agnes Martin
Hardcover

Gorgeously quiet in color and composition, Agnes Martin’s paintings have a distinctive grace that sets them apart from those of the Abstract Expressionists of her day and the Minimalist artists she inspired. Martin attributed her grid-based works to metaphysical motivations, lending a serene complexity to her oeuvre that has defied any easy categorization. Perhaps for this reason, critical and scholarly analysis of her paintings has been scarce—until now. This important new anthology brings together the most current scholarship on Martin’s paintings by twelve multidisciplinary essayists who consider various aspects of the artist’s four-decade career.

Organized by Dia Art Foundation, whose extensive holdings of Martin’s paintings and ambitions to support in-depth research on the works are unparalleled, the publication brings renewed focus and energy to Martin’s career and her contributions to the art historical narrative.




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Featured: Two Covers By Bill English

Iris Murdoch, An Unofficial Rose
Cover by Bill English
Hardcover






Iris Murdoch, A Severed Head
Cover by Bill English
Hardcover




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New Arrivals: Two by J. Sheridan Le Fanu

Best Ghost Stories Of J. Sheridan Le Fanu & Guy Deverell
Both are paperback Dover editions





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New Arrivals!

Marguerite Henry, Birds At Home (1942)
illustrated by Jacob Bates Abbott
Hardcover folio, illustrated boards
SOLD!

...just got in a very large haul of books, mostly classic children's books and fiction. Hope to post the highlights over the next few days...