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Scope and Contents From the Collection: Steven Leiber was an art and ephemera dealer and collector located in San Francisco, CA. He was active from 1983 to his death in 2012. In 1992, Leiber began producing catalogs for his gallery Steven Leiber Basement. These unique catalogs come in many different formats, often mimicking the design of a piece sold within, and have become collectible in and of themselves. Formats here include, but are not limited to, an imitation library card catalog, a thirty foot long scroll, and a pack of...

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"An homage to the periodical ARTFORUM INTERNATIONAL. ARTFORUM, New York, NY. The back cover is modeled after the early 1990s Galerie Bruno Bishofberger [sic] advertisements on the back cover of ARTFORUM magazine."--Steven Leiber Basement website. Listed alongside "Artforum 34:8 (April 1996)" --Leiber and Sullivan by Peter Trepanier.

Catalogues of Steven Leiber checklist: no. 8; Leiber and Sullivan checklist: no. 7

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"Portfolio with 2 pockets containing 188 numbered leaves. Portfolio is offset lithograph printed. Leaves are photocopied. Some leaves are folded. ... Catalogue offered dadazines, artists’ stamps, mail art, publications by mail artists and other primary documents related to North American Mail Art." --Steven Leiber Basement website.

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A black and white booklet produced in collaboration with 20th Century Art Archives. "Steven Leiber's distribution of this catalogue takes the form of a book and five plastic fingernails in a plastic bag enclosed in an envelope.” --The Catalogues of Steven Leiber: A Memorial Exhibition by Philip E. Aarons. The Clark Art Institute Library is lacking the bag of plastic fingernails.

Catalogues of Steven Leiber checklist: no. 7

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Joint production with 20th Century Art Archives. "2 booklets in slipcase offering artists' books from the collection of Leif Eriksson a.k.a. SAAB. Catalogue concept after Boltanski inventory artists' books." --The Catalogues of Steven Leiber: A Memorial Exhibition by Philip E. Aarons.

Catalogues of Steven Leiber checklist: no. 6; Leiber and Sullivan checklist: no. 5

Scope and Contents A catalog which pays homage to Dietrich Albrecht’s handmade Reflection Press publications. Consists of staple bound pages of 11cm by 28cm interleaved with pages of 21cm by 21.5cm. There is a photograph glued to the back wrapper. The catalog is offering for sale a complete Reflection Press Archive, with selected publications priced individually. "The photgraph pasted to the back cover of the catalog is of bull's excrement mailed by an artist friend to Albrecht D. and kept...

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This catalog is spiral bound with black and white illustrated glossy covers. Pages are letter-sized and are numbered to 51, although pages with illustrations are not numbered. Many of the items for sale herein are duplicates from the Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry. --The Catalogues of Steven Leiber: A Memorial Exhibition by Philip E. Aarons.

Catalogues of Steven Leiber checklist: no. 18