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It's an artist-run bookstore for books by artists located in Amersterdam!

Sadly I didn't find it in 'real life' but via the wonderful bookartsbookshop online. (This is a place
I intend to vist in 'real life' very soon, watch
this space.)

They stock books, prints, audio and video and have an online store with a catalogue of around 7000 titles.

They state on their website that ...
"The entirely self financing enterprise is Europe’s, if not the world’s, venue for artists’ books the longest in existence which carries books regardless to their author's fame"
(I'm assuming they mean the world's largest, or best, or something like that! Or maybe 'only')

Here are some artist books from their website that caught my eye, I think my favourite is 'The Thinking Machine' by Thomas Geiger - an ingenious idea for generating more ideas!

Thessia Machado
Possible Things & Assorted Markings
116 line drawings, soft cover, 236 not numbered pages, 15 x 15 cm, 2003

Robin Page
Bluebeard Junior Fluxus Happenings And Events For Kids
irony? revenge? at least very amusing to read and now available again in form of a reprint by Boekie Woekie of the first edition of the Edition Hundertmark booklet from 1995, stapled, 16 pages, 21 x 14,5 cm, Amsterdam 2010

Die Froschfängerin by Silke Woweries
drawings and words telling a version of the frog/prince fairy tale, sewn, with dust jacket, 20 not numbered pages, 23 x 23 cm, numbered/1250, Berlin

Sara MacKillop - Laptop
Loyalty Map
found loyalty cards scanned and created and made into a Map format to reflect the make up of central London, concertina format, folded 6,5 x 10 cm, unfolded 51 x 41 cm, ed/100, n.p. 2017

Thomas Geiger - Thinking Machine
“Thinking Machine … is what I call my construction of three revolving discs with about 50 adjectives and nouns each. Since 2008 I have been spinning the discs every morning before leaving the house. The resulting combination of words stays with me throughout the day and thus serves as a basis for my visualization in either photo, an action, a video or a description of a situation.”, a selection of images and texts thus gained follows, soft cover, 19,5 x 13,5 cm, 160 pages, ed/400, 2013