The radical and reform movements of the 19th and 20th centuries produced no end of remarkable graphic works, including the great satirical work of the leftist cartoonists of the Masses era; the Social Realism of the artists, photographers and lithographers of the AAA and WPA; and of course many thousands of visually stunning posters announcing (and denouncing!) everything from sit-down strikes to genocide. This vital aspect of social history is well represented at Lorne Bair Rare Books, with a selective offering of posters, graphics and original artworks from all periods generally in-stock.
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Single quarto issue (29cm x 22cm) in original wrappers; 80pp; illus. Mild wear to wrapper edges; internally clean, fresh and unmarked. Numerous mounted color plates. This issue devoted primarily to iconography of V.I. Lenin in Soviet painting, graphics, and sculpture. Front cover is a bronze bust of Lenin by N......
Original illustrated poster (61x43cm.) printed offset in red and black on white stock; light wear to extremities, else Fine. Poster issued by the Vereniging van Dienstplichtige Militairen, one of the organizations protecting the rights of compulsory soldiers in the Dutch Army. The image shows a senior military type trying to.....
Folio (42cm); photo-illustrated wrappers, saddle-stitched; [56]pp; illus.; text is entirely in English. Mild wear along spine-fold, oxidation to staples, else Near Fine, and clean throughout.
More info about USSR in Construction. 1935, Nos.3-4 (March-April
Letter "L" of twenty-six copies, signed, hand-numbered, and with an original postcard collage in rear envelope (the artwork with matching number and signature). Octavo (23cm); pictorial card wrappers; 138pp. A fine, unread copy.
Standard issue, limited to 450 copies. Folio (35.5cm.); original pictorial linen embossed in red, matching board slipcase with linen edges; 145pp.; photographs and color plates mounted in text. Fine. Catalog of woodcuts and linocuts by artists associated with the Omega Workshops and the Hogarth Press.
Slim octavo (23.5cm.); boards in white pictorial dust jacket; x,60pp.; illus. A few short closed tears to jacket extremities else Fine in Near Very Good jacket. Brief biography and art history of the works of Duncanson (1821-1872), an African American painter associated with the Hudson River School.
More info about Robert S. Duncanson: 19th Century Black Romantic Painter
![Text in Russian] Izobrazitel'noe Iskusstvo Kieva: Zhivopis' / Dekorativno-Monumental'naia...](http://www.lornebair.com/pictures/medium/34046.jpg?v=1529353751)
Folio (34cm.); publisher's cloth in black pictorial dust jacket; [28],165,[15]pp.; chiefly color illus. throughout. Jacket extremities a bit chipped and rubbed, else Near Fine in Near Very Good jacket. Catalogue of contemporary Ukrainian art, text entirely in Russian and Ukrainian.
Slim 12mo (16.75cm.); publisher's tan decorative card wrappers; 71pp.; photographic illus. throughout. Some pencil erasure on front free endpaper, else Near Fine. Inscribed and signed by Robert Creeley: "For Angelica (and Tom!) with Love, Bob..." Thirty short poems, each accompanied by a monoprint by the author's wife Bobbie.
Original illustrated poster, offset printed in four colors on white stock, measuring 40.5cm x 55.5cm (16" x 22"). Mild handling to extremities, faint corner crease and a tiny tear to upper edge, with a staple hole toward upper margin; Near Fine.
More info about Poster: Evacuation Would Be Impossible. Mobilize For Survival. Rally May 27
Limited to 250 copies of which this is no. 141. Square quarto (27.75cm.); original blind-embossed cloth in pictorial card slipcase; unpaged; silkscreen illus. by Scottish sculptor and painter Bruce McLean throughout. Light wear to slipcase, else Fine. Signed by the author and artist to colophon. The second book to be.....
![Text in Russian] Bogomater' Vladimirskaia...Sbornik Materialov, Katalog Vystavki](http://www.lornebair.com/pictures/medium/22834.jpg?v=1582067585)
Large quarto (29cm.); original pictorial wrappers, French flaps; 191,[1]pp.; illus. Spine a bit toned, light shelf wear, else About Fine. Exhibition catalogue of early Russian Christian iconography.
More info about Text in Russian] Bogomater' Vladimirskaia...Sbornik Materialov, Katalog Vystavki
Octavo (22cm.); original yellow decorative cloth stamped in grey, gilt-lettered spine; xvii,[1],216pp. Spine a bit toned, else Near Fine, albeit lacking jacket. Inscribed and signed to artists Ben and Bernarda Shahn on front free endpaper: "For Bernarda and Ben, with affection and admiration / J T S." From the library.....
More info about Modern Art and the New Past [Inscribed & Signed to Ben & Bernarda Shahn
Oblong quarto (23cm x 28cm). Pictorial wrappers; 11pp text; [44pp] illustrations and commentary. Together with the final manuscript "dummy" for the finished book, bound into vinyl wrappers with illustrations provided in xerox facsimile. Both volumes fine. Bernarda Shahn's own copies, unsigned but with Shahn estate labels tipped onto front pastedown.....
![Text in Ukrainian] Lenin, Velykyi Nam Put' Osiiav: Z Ukraïns'koï Radians'koï...](http://www.lornebair.com/pictures/medium/34617.jpg?v=1529353779)
Quarto (28.5cm.); publisher's pictorial boards; 178pp.; color illus. throughout. Boards rather soiled, some light wear to extremities, else Near Very Good and sound. Bilingual Ukrainian-English reference to Soviet Ukrainian propaganda posters.
More info about Text in Ukrainian] Lenin, Velykyi Nam Put' Osiiav: Z Ukraïns'koï Radians'koï...
Folio (32.75cm.); original white illustrated boards; [2],400pp.; chiefly illus. A touch dust-soiled, else Fine. Lavishly produced catalogue to accompany the exhibit of the same name.
More info about Windows on the War: Soviet Tass Posters at Home and Abroad, 1941-1945
No. 270 of 300 signed copies. This copy additionally inscribed on title page "to Nancy & Eric," dated Xmas 1968. Octavo blue card portfolio wrappers; 26 loose color woodcut plates, as issued, plus letterpress title page and colophon. Mild wear to the wrappers, else a Fine, complete copy. Per colophon.....
More info about An Alphabet Book. A Portfolio of Wood Engravings by Helen Siegl
Original drawing in graphite and ink, with white ink highlights. Sheet size 33cm x 58cm (ca 13" x 23") with ca. 1" margins. Titled in pencil, top margin. Signed in image, lower right; additionally inscribed in lower margin: "With best wishes to Professor E. Maurice Bloch / Burriss Jenkins," undated.....
Original illustrated poster, offset printed in three colors on white stock, measuring 43cm x 56cm (17" x 22"). Light handling, a few horizontal bends, with some faint, scattered soil along the left margin; Very Good+.
Quarto (28.5cm.); original cloth in white pictorial dust jacket; [6]pp. & 70 plates. Jacket spine a bit toned, else Fine. Signed by the author on p. [1]. Early graphic novel first begun while Naeve was imprisoned for opposing World War II "on humanitarian grounds."
Single quarto issue (29cm x 22cm) in original wrappers; 80pp; illus. Mild wear to wrapper edges; spine abraded; internally clean, fresh and unmarked. Numerous mounted color plates. Contributors include V. Kemenev, L. Akimova, M. Alpatov, I. Sapego (article on Masereel), others. Front cover reproduces a bronze sculpture by M. Manizer.....
Limited to 45 copies of which this is no. 20. Octavo (23cm.); single leaf of card stock folded into 6-panelled pamphlet laid into navy blue chemise printed in gilt; illus. Fine. "False Bay Editions" (rear chemise panel).
More info about The New Rule: A Poem [Limited Edition, Signed by the Publishers
![Poster] Poging Tot Doodslag op Wie? [Attempted Murder Against Whom?](http://www.lornebair.com/pictures/medium/34692.jpg?v=1546641440)
Original photo-illustrated poster (43x61cm.) printed offset in black, red, and blue; wrinkling to extremities, closed tear at top edge touching one word with old tape repair to verso, else Near Very Good.
More info about Poster] Poging Tot Doodslag op Wie? [Attempted Murder Against Whom?
Original pictorial poster (70x50cm.) printed silkscreen in red, white, and blue on pale blue stock; stock a bit wrinkled, tiny chips at top edge, short closed tear at bottom edge not approaching text or image, one small dampstain, else Near Very Good overall. Poster advertising the premier of a 40-minute.....
More info about Poster: In Een Tank Kun Je Niet Wonen [You Can't Live in a Tank
Offset lithograph in colors, 34" x 22-1/2". Archivally backed on linen; a clean, unrestored copy in Fine condition. Reproduces a painting from Johns's "Target" series.
Quarto (29cm). Pictorial stapled wrappers; 72pp. Original lithographed poster (70cm x 50cm) laid in. About fine; poster folded (as issued) but unworn.
Original illustrated poster, printed in black on white stock, measuring 44.5cm x 57.5cm (17.5" x 22.5"). Edges a little curled from being rolled, else Fine (unbacked).
Original silk-screened poster, 29" x 20". Printed in two colors on heavy poster stock. Faint wrinkling throughout; light soil; Very Good +. Archivally hinged to acid-free backing, in gallery frame.
More info about A Meeting of American Radicals The British Scene Where It's At
![Poster] Demonstratie Tegen de Sloop in de Nieuwmarkt! Vanavond half acht Westermarkt / Vandaag...](http://www.lornebair.com/pictures/medium/35298.jpg?v=1546641442)
Original pictorial poster (59.5x41.75cm.) printed offset in black on white stock; minor wrinkling from handling, else Very Good or better.
Original drypoint etching. Sheet size 27.5cm x 41cm (ca 10-3/4" x 16"); image area 15.5cm x 30cm. No edition stated (artist's proof?). Signed in pencil, lower right. Old crease and kraft paper adhesions to extremities (well away from image); Near Fine.
Original silkscreened poster, printed and illustrated in black on white Gaubert Japon stock, measuring 32.5cm x 50cm (12 7/8" x 19 6/8"). Creasing and light wear to extremities, with a single tiny tear to right margin; Very Good+.
More info about Original Poster: "Armee Du Chah Hors D'Oman" ("Shah's Army Out of Oman"
Quarto (29.5cm); pictorial wrappers, stapled; pp.[669]-716; illus. Shelfworn, evenly toned and a bit dusty, with wear and a short split at spine-fold, small loss to upper right corner of front wrapper, with a seminary's embossed stamp to same, and a few scattered stains; contents clean; Very Good.
More info about Survey Graphic: Magazine of Social Interpretation - Vol.XXX, No.12 (December, 1941
Ca. 1910. Original vintage photographic postcard, 5-1/2" x 3-1/2," by Leo of Paris. Printed on card-stock with lines for address verso. Divided back. One of this studio's celebrated "pink" erotic images, this of a clearly effeminate young man with plucked eyebrows and wearing lipstick, holding a bouquet of roses. Corners.....
Large, slim quarto (28cm); original cream pictorial wrappers; 38,[2]pp.; lithographed 2-toned title page and full-page views throughout. Some very minor wear from handling, else Fine. Small broadside laid in, illustrated and with a nonsense lyric by Lear, advertising the company Corfu Travel.
Original pictorial poster (46.5x31cm.) printed offset in black and yellow on white stock; just About Fine. Protest poster against military tattoos, the image depicting a line of penis-headed soldiers participating in such an event as they give a synchronized Nazi salute. OCLC locates one copy as of October, 2016, in.....
Original pictorial poster (61x45cm.) printed offset in purple on white stock; crease and subsequent wrinkling to right-hand edge, additional edge wear, else Good or better.
Original illustrated poster, offset printed in red on white stock, measuring 22.5cm x 39.75cm (8 7/8" x 15 5/8"). A Fine copy.
Broadside, 47cm x 35cm. Printed recto-only, on newsprint. Text in 4 columns beneath woodcut illustration, within decorative border; 8 cuts in text. Illustration signed "beltrán" in type, below image. Old folds; edge-chips; paper moderately browned; about Very Good.
More info about Corrido del Congreso de la Paz [Ballad of the Peace Congress
Octavo (22.5cm.); original pale green staplebound card wrappers; [4],ix,[1],64pp.; text printed from typescript. Original price rubberstamped to upper wrapper. Fine. Originally presented in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the Higher Certificate in Librarianship, 1965. Chapters divided geographically, including works from Sudan, Ghana, Nigeria, the Congo, and Angola.
Original illustrated poster, offset printed in colors on white stock, measuring 45.5cm x 60.75cm (18" x 24"). A few faint folds smoothed out, staple holes along left and right margins, with a few faint creases and small stains; Very Good.
![Text in Russian] P. Korin: Izbrannye Proizveddennia / Selected Works](http://www.lornebair.com/pictures/medium/34502.jpg?v=1529353771)
Slim quarto (29.5cm.); publisher's green pictorial boards; [22]pp. & 54 leaves of chiefly color plates printed on rectos and versos. Boards a bit worn, spine sunned, else Very Good and sound. Catalogue raisonné of the works of Pavel Korin, the Soviet painter and art restorer. Text in Russian and English.....
More info about Text in Russian] P. Korin: Izbrannye Proizveddennia / Selected Works
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