At Librairie Marian Goodman (66 Rue du Temple; mariangoodman.com), a sleek and slender bookstore across the street from the influential Galerie Marian Goodman in the Marais, you’ll find monographs on such artists as Gerhard Richter and John Baldessari, as well as a smattering of limited-edition art objects, like a Maurizio Cattelan scarf. A few blocks away, Le Comptoir de l’Image (44 Rue de Sévigné) is overstuffed with teetering stacks of vintage issues of Vogue Italia, The Face and other collector bait. The wooden shelves bow under the strain of fashion books, including out-of-print titles by such photographers as Louise Dahl-Wolfe, Herb Ritts and Walter Pfeiffer.
The prestigious auction house Artcurial (7 Rond-Point des Champs-Élysées; artcurial.com), which occupies a stately 19th-century mansion, has its own bookshop, with titles on art, sculpture, ceramics and furniture,…
