SARRA, [Valentino] (artist)
Poster: "I'll carry mine too! Trucks and Tires Must Last Till Victory"
Original photo-illustrated poster, lithographed in colors and measuring 56.5cm x 71cm (22 1/8" x 28"). Professionally linen-backed, with old fold lines faintly visible; some expert, pinpoint retouching to a few small spots at lower fold (center), and at the intersection of several points along center fold; Near Fine. A-.
[RADICAL & PROLETARIAN LITERATURE] Kauffman, Reginald Wright
A Man of Little Faith
Green cloth boards; dustjacket. One of an unspecified number of publisher's presentation copies, with tipped-on label bearing author's signature to front pastedown. Remainder issue, in Grosset & Dunlap dustjacket but with correct publisher's slug to spine, title page, and copyright page (jacket not supplied; as issued). Endpapers a little grubby...
![[Text in Russian] Ukazatel 15 Let Kominterna 1919-1934](http://www.lornebair.com/pictures/thumb/22013.jpg)
TSITOVICH, Ia; A. Arin et al., eds.
[Text in Russian] Ukazatel 15 Let Kominterna 1919-1934
First edition, illustrated tan cloth clam-shell box (14.5x11.5x6cm), containing 227 loose cards and errata list and 15pp. introductory pamphlet; text is in Russian. Light wear and soil to box; convents Very Good and apparently complete, contents conforming to all catalogued copies listed in OCLC.
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[ADAMS, Maude, Charles Frohman, Edmond Rostand, and Louis N. Parker]
Charles Frohman Presents Maude Adams in Edmond Rostand's Play in Four Acts "Chantecler." Adapted by...
Oblong folio (28x34.75cm.); original photo-illustrated string-bound card wrappers, yapp edges; unpaged; photographic illus. throughout. Some shallow chips and tiny losses to wrapper extremities, none affecting text or illustrations, spine nearly split, some foxing to contents, else About Very Good.
WHITE, E.B.; Garth Williams, illus.
Stuart Little
Octavo (21cm.); original cloth in pictorial dust jacket; [10],131pp.; illus. Jacket toned along edges, spine starting to cleanly split down the middle, rear panel a bit soiled, else a Near Fine copy in the jacket, Very Good thus.
LOCKE, Edwin
Typed Letter, Signed. 2pp, to Ben Shahn, dated 31 July 1967
Original 2pp typed letter on two sides of a sheet of hotel letterhead, dated 31 July 1967. Addressed: Dear Ben [Shahn], signed in ink "Ed Locke." Three old folds, else fine.
![A Jew in Love [Limited Edition, Signed]](http://www.lornebair.com/pictures/thumb/22626.jpg)
HECHT, Ben
A Jew in Love [Limited Edition, Signed]
Limited to 150 copies of which this is no. 59. Octavo (20.5cm.); original black gilt-lettered cloth in black paper-covered slipcase; [6],341pp. Fine in About Good slipcase which is quite rubbed and fragile, lacking top panel. Signed by the author on colophon. HANNA 1650: "The distorted love life of a New York publisher."
SIBSON, Francis H[enry].
The Survivors
First Printing. Octavo (19.75cm); gray cloth, with titling and decorations stamped in navy blue on spine and front cover; orange topstain; dustjacket and publisher's wraparound advertising band; [10], 311, [1]pp; illustrated fold-out map. Crown gently nudged, else a fresh, Fine copy with a bright, even topstain. Dustjacket is price-clipped, with...
SCHMECKEBIER, Laurence E.
Modern Mexican Art
Quarto (26cm). Terra-cotta cloth over boards, stamped in blue; 190pp text; 78 leaves of plates. Inscribed on half-title: "To Ben Shahn with kindest regards, Laurence Schmeckebier," dated 1951. A lightly worn copy, lacking the dustwrapper; Very Good.
STEIN, Gertrude; Sherwood Anderson, foreword
Geography and Plays
Fourth state binding (1922 sheets bound and distributed ca. 1940/1). Octavo (19.5cm.); publisher's cloth-backed boards, in blue dust jacket printed in darker blue; 419pp. Horizontal crease affecting entire dust jacket, some general dust-soil and a few small closed tears, contemporary (1946) ownership inscription to front free endpaper, else Very Good...
[CPUSA] [EARL BROWDER] VARGA, E[ugen]
20 Jahre Kapitalismus und Sozialismus
Octavo (23cm). Blue cloth, lettered in gilt; 240, [ii]pp. The copy of American Communist leader Earl Browder, with his ownership signature to front endpaper and with extensive ink and pencil annotations throughout the text and on rear endpapers, all in Browder's hand. Volume slightly shaken; gilt dulled; minor external wear;...
[RADICAL & PROLETARIAN LITERATURE] MILLER, Fred R. and W.C. Williams (eds)
Blast. A Magazine of Proletarian Short Stories. Vol 1, nos. 1-2
Quarto. Staple-bound journal. Printed card wrappers; each issue 32pp. No. 1 with some uneven soiling to wrapper edges, minor chips to extremities; no. 2 with red pencil markings to front cover and inside rear cover, else fresh, well-preserved copies, Very Good or better.
[AFRICAN AMERICANS] [BOSTON]
Peoples' South End News - No.8 (October 9-23)
Tabloid (43cm); photo-illustrated newsprint wrappers; 20pp; illus. Horizontal fold at center, light toning to extremities, with a few closed tears; Very Good+.
MAITIN, Samuel C.
Poster: Indo China Summer '72 - End The Killing - Call Resistance PE-5-1350 - Rebuild...
Original silkscreened poster, printed in red and black on off-white stock, measuring 89cm x 58.5cm (35" x 23"). One of 75 numbered copies signed by the artist in pencil at lower margin, this being copy no.11. Light toning and minor signs of handling to extremities, else bright and Near Fine / A-.
CLARK, Walter Van Tilburg
Christmas Comes to Hjalsen
Slim octavo (23.75cm.); original card wrappers illustrated by the author and printed in blue, yapp edges; [2],16pp.; text also printed in blue. Minor toning, previous owner has bracketed "Copyright" on title page else Very Good or better. Nevadan author's first book, a long Christmas poem. Clark is best known for...
[ANARCHISM] [BENJAMIN TUCKER] BLUNT, Wilfrid Scawen
The Wind and the Whirlwind
Small quarto. Original japan vellum over cardstock wrappers; 30pp. Unopened. Slight browning to edges, else a neat, unworn copy.
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FISHER, Vardis
The Divine Passion [Limited Edition, Signed]
Limited to 100 copies of which this is no. 9. Octavo (21.5cm.); original full red gilt-lettered morocco, top edge gilt; xi,[1],3-373pp. Fine. Signed by the author on colophon. Printed at the Caxton Press, Caldwell, Idaho. The fifth in the 12-volume "Testament of Man" series, set among the tribe that would...
DUGAN, Alan
Poems 3
Small octavo (21cm). Green cloth, lettered in gilt on spine; dustjacket; 61pp. Inscribed on leaf facing copyright page, below dedication: "For Ben & Bernarda / Love, Dugan," undated but apparently contemporary. Mild surface rubbing to dustwrapper, else a fine, fresh copy.
LARSSON, Gosta
Our Daily Bread
Octavo. Tan cloth; dustjacket; 438pp. Partially-elided old ink price on front endpaper, else a tight, attractive copy, Very Good or better, in the very scarce pictorial jacket, unclipped, lightly rubbed at extremities and a trifle soiled, with small affixed "Recommended by Book-of-the-Month Club" label adhered to front panel.
GROTH, John (1908-1988)
Original cartoon illustration, "The Colossus Leans," ca 1943
Original cartoon illustration in black ink on watercolor paper; sheet size 63cm x 50cm (ca 24-13/4" x 19-3/4"). Signed in ink lower right. Drawing spotted and lightly soiled; glue remnants to margin, apparently from a removed mat; title in pencil below image; Very Good.
HARRIS, Thomas Lake
Brotherhood of the New Life. Letter from Thomas Lake Harris, with Passing Reference to Recent...
Octavo; printed wrappers; 16pp. Mild toning to wrapper edges, nicks to corners; VG or better; a particularly nice copy.
[BEN SHAHN] MARITAIN, Jacques
Creative Intuition in Art and Poetry. A. W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts, National...
Quarto (25cm). Cloth-backed tan linen boards, stamped in gilt; xxxii, 423pp; tipped-in color frontispiece & 68 leaves of plates. Inscribed on front endpaper by artist Ben Shahn to his wife Bernarda, dated 1955. Minor external wear; internally clean and unmarked; Near Fine, lacking the dustwrapper. From the library of Ben...
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[LOWELL, Robert]
Fresh Hearts That Hailed Three Thousand Years Ago; with Other Things [Inscribed]
12mo (18.5cm.); publisher's brown blind-embossed cloth, gilt-lettered spine, brown glazed endpapers, 2 leaves of publisher's advertisements bound in before front free endpaper; vi,[2],121pp. Boards a bit worn at corners, spine crown very slightly pulled, rear endpapers a bit soiled, else a Very Good and sound copy, inscribed by the author...
OPPENHEIM, E. Phillips
Up The Ladder of Gold
First Printing. Octavo; orange cloth, with titling and decorations stamped in red on spine and front panel; dustjacket; 312pp. Some trivial rubbing to lower board edges, else Fine. Dustjacket is price-clipped, edgeworn, with several small nicks and short tears, and some unnecessary clear tape reinforcement along edges on verso; Very...
