Art Market from LEFT COAST BOOKS

New York: Atheneum, 1973. Cloth, xxv, 353 pages, illustrations; 24 cm. Topstained yellow. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Age toning. Stated First Edition. Dust jacket clipped on the front flap, with moderate edgewear, protected in a mylar cover. Subtitle on DJ: The Story of the Illegal International Traffic in Works of Art. . 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. 8vo.

New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008. 268 pages, [8] pages of plates, illustrations (chiefly colour); 24 cm. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Expected browning. Dust jacket protected in a mylar cover. "Why would a smart New York investment banker pay $12 million for the decaying, stuffed carcass of a shark? By what alchemy does Jackson Pollock's drip painting No. 5, 1948… Read more about this item

Minneapolis: Minneapolis Institute of Arts, 1973. Cloth, [272] pages, illustrations; 22 cm. Catalogue of an exhibition at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts, July 11 to September 29, 1973. Near fine. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Age toning. Dust jacket, with light edgewear, protected in a mylar cover. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by arrangement. Profusely illustrated. "'Fakes, Forgeries, and Other Deceptions,'… Read more about this item

New York: Thomas Y. Crowell Company, 1977. Cloth, xii, 493 pages, illustrations; 24 cm. Tight, clean copy. Dust jacket, with a sunned spine (bold & legible titles), protected in a mylar cover. Excellent reference material. CONTENTS: Of autographic prints, afters, and reproductive prints; Signatures on prints; Rarity and the limited edition; Spurious prints: fakes, forgeries, and falsified proofs; Connoisseurship: detection… Read more about this item

San Francisco and New York: Fraenkel Gallery; Matthew Marks Gallery, 1996. [3] pages, 70 leaves of plates, illustrations (some colour); 28 cm. Catalogue of an exhibition held at the Matthew Marks Gallery, November to December 1996, and at the Fraenkel Gallery, January to February 1997. Near fine. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Sunned spine. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by arrangement.… Read more about this item

New York: Penguin Press, 2009. xv, 327 pages; 25 cm. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Remainder mark/tail edge. Dust jacket with light edgewear. Another copy available. A profile of John Drewe and artist John Myatt. "A tautly paced investigation of one the 20th century's most audacious art frauds, which generated hundreds of forgeries--many of them still hanging in prominent museums… Read more about this item

Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1998. Cloth, 192 pages, illustrations (some colour); 24 cm. Near fine. Tight, clean copy. Remainder spray/tail edge. Dust jacket protected in a mylar cover. "Julien Levy (1906-1981) was one of the most influential art dealers of the twentieth century. The Julien Levy Gallery, which opened in Manhattan in 1931 and closed in 1949, played an essential… Read more about this item

New York: Simon and Schuster, 1981. 365 pages, illustrations (some colour); 25 cm. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Age toning, top edge lightly soiled. First printing. Dust jacket, with light edgewear, protected in a mylar cover. Another copy available. Hoving was the controversial Director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Since 1960, Hoving, then a curator at The Cloisters, had… Read more about this item

Cambridge: 21 Publishing, 2001. 219 pages, illustrations (chiefly colour); 22 cm. A good+ copy with a reglued spine. Another copy available. "ART CRAZY NATION: at last a book about the British art world, which is sympathetic and informed but not at all afraid to be incredibly rude. How has the art world changed since Blimey! first hit the bookstands five… Read more about this item

New York: PublicAffairs, 2006. xi, 483 pages, [8] pages of plates, illustrations (some colour); 25 cm. PRESENTATION COPY. Signed by the author, with a personalized inscription. Spine rolled at the crown, expected browning. Stated First Edition. Dust jacket, with a closed tear, protected in a mylar cover. "In 1926, Edith Gregor Halpert, just twenty-six years old, opened one of the… Read more about this item

Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2004. vi, 293 pages, illustrations, maps; 26 cm. Firm binding, clean inside copy. "This ambitious collection treating the appropriation of the past for political purposes by Italian fascists focuses on the role of the visual in the aim of fusing the past and the modern world in Mussolini's Italy." - Publisher. CONTENTS: Introduction, by Claudia… Read more about this item

New York: Sotheby's, 1977. 473 pages, illustrations (some colour); 30 cm. Sale code 7015. Auction held May 19, 1997. Firm binding, gently creased spine. Clean inside copy. Light shelfwear to wraps, age toning. Sale results laid in. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by arrangement. Profusely illustrated. 1164 lots.. 1st. Paperback. Very Good. 4to.

Southfield, MI: Park West Gallery Press, 2020. xvi, 374 pages, illustrations (some colour); 23 cm. Tight, clean copy. "The founder and CEO of Park West Gallery, Albert Scaglione, tells the story of how he created the largest art dealer in the world" - Publisher. . 1st. Paperback. Fine. 8vo.

New York: PublicAffairs, 2019. x, 450 pages; 25 cm. Tight, clean copy. Stated First Edition. Dust jacket protected in a mylar cover. A fine copy of the first printing. "The meteoric rise of the largest unregulated financial market in the world -- for contemporary art -- is driven by a few passionate, guileful, and very hard-nosed dealers. They can make… Read more about this item

New York: Random House, 1983. ix, 285 pages, [16] pages of plates, illustrations; 24 cm. Near fine. Firm binding, clean text. Top edge lightly soiled. Stated First Edition. Dust jacket, with light edgewear, protected in a mylar cover. Myers was former managing editor of View & later Director of the Tibor de Nagy Gallery. On the Hamptons: "We were shocked… Read more about this item

New York and London: W. W. Norton & Company, Inc., 2009. xix, 287 pages, illustrations; 21 cm. Good+. Tight, clean copy. Browning. CONTENTS: The auction; The crit; The fair; The prize; The magazine; The studio visit; The biennale. "The art market has been booming. Museum attendance is surging. More people than ever call themselves artists. Contemporary art has become a… Read more about this item

New York: Random House, 1983. ix, 285 pages, [16] pages of plates, illustrations; 24 cm. Firm binding, clean text. Top edge lightly soiled with a remainder mark. Stated First Edition. Dust jacket, with light shelfwear, protected in a mylar cover. Another copy available. Myers was former managing editor of View & later Director of the Tibor de Nagy Gallery. On… Read more about this item

Boston: MFA Publications; Museum of Fine Arts, 2003. xxi, 320 pages, illustrations; 21 cm. Tight, clean copy. First edition thus, Julien Levy famously promoted Surrealist art in his New York gallery. CONTENTS: Portrait of an Art Dealer, by Ingrid Schaffner; Pt. 1. Preliminaries; The Gallery; Duchamp; Duchampiana; Duchamp's Kiss; Joella; Arthur! Arthur!; Stieglitz; Pt. 2. 602 Madison Avenue; J. C.… Read more about this item

Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press, 2022. Pictorial boards, x, 201 pages, illustrations; 24 cm. Near fine. Tight, clean copy. Light edgewear to boards. "Collecting the Now offers a new, in-depth look at the economic forces and institutional actors that have shaped the outlines of postwar art history, with a particular focus on American art, 1960-1990. Working through four… Read more about this item

New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014. 282 pages, [8] pages of plates, colour illustrations; 25 cm. Near fine. Tight, clean copy. Age toning. Dust jacket protected in a mylar cover. CONTENTS: Stephanie; The colors of contemporary art. The world of contemporary art; The art market crash of '08; What jobs do we hire art for?; Back story; Authenticating Warhol; Collecting and… Read more about this item