A crucial way our Fine Art and Reference collections grow is by generous donations of books by our community.
The below books are publications that our community has asked we keep in our library or that we know would be a great fit.
Here’s how it works: use the link provided to buy the book. Ship it to Gillian Lee c/o Center for Book Arts, 28 W 27th St Fl 3, New York, NY 10001—or, if you’re in New York, ship it to yourself and drop it off so we can thank you in person! If you ship it to us, email your receipt to collections@centerforbookarts.org. Either way we will send you a donation receipt for your tax records.
We will remove books from the list as they are donated. Please also tell us if you consent to us crediting you as the donor in the catalog record.
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| TITLE | AUTHOR/EDITOR/PUBLISHER | ISBN | LINK | A WORD FROM THE LIBRARIAN | |
| Thought experiments in Graphic Design Education | Yván Martínez Arguiarro; Joshua Trees | 9780957350915; 0957350910 | Currently sold out but maybe someday | This would be a great contemporary addition to our typography section. | |
| Image Text Music | Catherine Taylor | Buy on publisher’s site | Many visiting researchers are interested in photobooks and, specifically, the interplay of text and image. This contemporary book from a publisher we love covers that subject specifically. | ||
| Duotones, Tritones, and Quadtones | Nick Clark | 9780811814263; 0811814262 | Buy on Amazon 🙁 | Intended for photographers, this book can also provide inspiration to those using multiple colors on the Risograph. | |
| In Numbers : Serial Publications by Artists Since 1955 | Philip Aarons, Andrew Roth | 9780971548077 | Buy from Printed Matter 🙂 | An excellent historical look at artists’ serials, which happens to be a special interest of mine, and is also relevant to the zinesters and writers in our community. | |
| Queer Zines, Vol. 2 | Philip Aarons, AA Bronson | Buy from Printed Matter 🙂 | A bibliography of zines by queer zinemakers. The LGBTQIA+ community has always been present in CBA’s studios and collections and we want to keep being a historical resource in that way. | ||
| Six Years: The Dematerialization of the Art Object from 1966 to 1972 | Lucy R. Lippard | 9780520210134 | Buy from Bookshop | We love materials, but we also love concept…Here is the field upon which the conflict may play out. | |
| Digital Color and Type | Rob Carter | 9782880466886 | Buy from AbeBooks | ||
| THE THING, THE BOOK | Jonn Herschend and Will Rogan | Buy from Open Editions | A totally thrilling, collaborative exploration of the overlap between object and book. | ||
| Artists’ books : Visual Studies Workshop Press, 1971-2008 | edited by Joan Lyons | Buy on VSW’s site | We love VSW’s work and it would be fitting to have a retrospective book on them in our collections. | ||
| Cover to Cover: The Artists’ Book in Perspective | Rob Perrée | 9789056622824; 905662282X | Buy from Abebooks | ||
| Freedom of the Presses: Artists’ Books in the Twenty-First Century | Marshall Weber | Buy from Amazon | This is an exciting discussion of artists’ books as a platform to engage communities and organize around social justice causes. | ||
| Artists’ Magazines: An Alternative Space for Art | Gwen Allen | 9780262528412 | Buy from MIT Press | Another important book as we grow our holdings related to artists’ serial publication. | |
| Aspects of Contemporary Book Design | Ed. Richard Hendel | 9781609381752 | Buy from University of Iowa Press | ||
| A Book of the Book | Jerome Rothenberg and Stephen Clay | 9781887123280 | Buy from Granary Books | ||
| 10×10 Japanese Photobooks | Publisher: 10×10 Photobooks | 978-0-692-20866-3 | Sold out but let us know if you have a used copy… | A gorgeous and crucial look at Japanese photobooks to serve our large community of photographers and photobook-interested patrons. | |
| 10×10 American Photobooks | Publisher: 10×10 Photobooks and bookdummypress | 978-0-9896888-0-2 | Same 🙁 | It was published in a small edition of 500 copies…sigh… | |
| Concrete Poetry: A 21st-Century Anthology | Edited by Nancy Perloff | Buy from UChicago | |||
| Fluxus Means Change: Jean Brown’s Avant-Garde Archive | Marcia Reed | 9781606066621 | On backorder at Bookshop | We anticipate increased interest in Fluxus and book arts as a result of the Beau Geste Press exhibition, Summer 2023. | |
| Ed Ruscha and Some Los Angeles Apartments | Virginia Heckert | 978-1-60606-138-1 | Buy from the Getty |