Collecting Artists' books is an unhealthy and often expensive habit. You can spend months or years searching for the one you need to complete a set, or worse yet, walk in to a place like Printed Matter and splurge on 20 that youve never even seen before. Wait. No. Thats not true. You cant walk in to a place like Printed Matter and buy 20 artists books that youve never seen before because there is nowhere else in the world that would have that many of these treasures in one place. And theyve got WAY more than 20.
Granted, you cant walk in and pick up a Ruscha 1st or rare Lewitt or something.. but thats not really what Printed Matter is about. These days, the high end stuff has all made its way in to private collections or dealers' hands and is priced through the roof. You can go to Borders or something and buy a $40 glossy hardcover monster book about Thomas Kinkade or you can go to PM and buy a $3 flip book of Jesus' face made out of barcodes.. its up to you.
Need the newest Prince book? They'll have it. Nieves? They have it! No shipping from BFE, either! Maybe you just want some inspiration or a book filled with 200 pages of the same word typed over and over and over and over again. Got it. My strategy is to walk in and start from the back and work forward. I pull any book that is completely blank or white on the outside first. Then I pull books that have nothing on the spines. I then go through my pile and weed out the ones I already have and usually buy the rest. A few newbies and straglers make it in on occasion as well.
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