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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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.
![Poster: Weiger Werk / Zoals Stakende Hoeren al Riepen / Iedere Arbeid Is Prostitutie / Onze Eis Recht Op Luiheid [Refuse Work / As Whores on Strike Have Already Said / All Work Is Prostitution / Our Demand, the Right to Laziness]](http://www.lornebair.com/pictures/medium/31911.jpg?v=1529353673)
Original poster (43x30cm.) printed silkscreen in colors on white stock; light wear, else Very Good to Near Fine. Poster issued by the Dutch organization the Bond Werkschuw Tuig (translation: Federation of Work-Shy Riff Raff). The term was first used in the 1960s in reference to the young men whose long.....
Folio (31cm.); original simulated cloth in black photo-illustrated dust jacket; mostly unpaged; chiefly photographic illustrations. Bilingual text in English and Spanish. Fine.
Square quarto (27.5cm); original cloth in pictorial price-clipped dust jacket; [6],122,[16]pp.; illus. Jacket edges a touch shelf-worn, else Near Fine. "Published in cooperation with the Museum of Modern Art."
Oblong octavo (14x21cm.; original cloth, pictorial plate mounted to upper cover; purple pictorial dust jacket; unpaged; illus. Light wear to jacket extremities, very faint offsetting to front jacket flap from previously removed sticker, else Fine in Very Good or better jacket.
Wrapper Issue. Octavo (23.75cm.); original grey wrappers printed in red, French flaps; 422,[14](ads)pp.; two-toned (red and black) illus. by Angna Enters. General shelf-wear, some discoloration to bottom extremities, that to rear cover from perished tape bleeding to spine foot. Still, About Very Good. Includes pieces by Havelock Ellis, Thomas Mann.....
Large quarto (27.5cm.); original pictorial boards; 175pp.; illus. throughout. Fine. Text entirely in German. Very attractively produced and illustrated overview of the photomontage works of John Heartfield.
![[Text in Russian] Studiia Voennykh Khudozhnikov Imeni M. B. Grekova](http://www.lornebair.com/pictures/medium/34633.jpg?v=1529353780)
Quarto (29.5cm.); publisher's cloth in red pictorial dust jacket; 231pp.; chiefly color illus. throughout. General shelf wear to jacket and cloth extremities, else Very Good and sound. Catalogue raisonné of the Soviet military and battle painter Mitrofan Borisovich Grekov. Text entirely in Russian.
Original poster, lithographed in colors on white stock, measuring 76cm x 116cm (30" x 45.75"). Professionally linen-backed, light toning and expert infill to a few small losses at margins, with a handful of neat, mended tears; bright, Very Good+ example.
![Larousse Dictionary of Painters [Bernarda Shahn's copy]](http://www.lornebair.com/pictures/medium/32589.jpg?v=1529353705)
Large quarto (29.5cm.); original blue simulated cloth, gilt-lettered spine; ix,[1],467pp.; color illus. throughout. General shelf wear, faint scratches to rear cover, else Very Good and sound, albeit lacking jacket. Artist Bernarda Shahn's copy with her ownership signature to front free endpaper--her husband Ben Shahn's entry is on pp. [381]-382. From.....
Wrapper Issue. Folio (30.25cm.); original glossy black photo-illustrated wrappers; [6],200pp.; chiefly photographic illus. Top fore-edge corner of textblock slightly warped else Fine.
Original poster, lithographed in three colors on white stock, measuring 58.5cm x 76cm (23" x 30"). A Fine copy / A.
Two extraordinary hand-crafted parade banners, ca. 110" x 84" (9 feet x 7 feet), one slightly smaller. Each entirely composed of hook-work with colored yarns on white muslin backing. Slight age-toning and soil; a few threads loose but no significant losses; Near Fine condition overall. Folded and stored in original...
![Poster: Jat Bewust. Proletaries winkelen, neem et eet! [Take Freely. Proletarian shopping: take and eat!]](http://www.lornebair.com/pictures/medium/31754.jpg?v=1529353667)
Original pictorial poster (43x30.5cm.) printed offset in red and black on white stock; Near Fine. Poster encourages the reader to steal from large chainstores when wages and standards of living are greatly reduced.
![Stephen Harwood: East End Paintings [Bookplate Signed by Ackroyd Laid in]](http://www.lornebair.com/pictures/medium/24313.jpg?v=1529353423)
Octavo (21cm.); original orange staplebound wrappers; [8]pp.; illus. About Fine. Exhibition catalog of works by a 22-year-old artist, text by historian Peter Ackroyd. Bookplate signed by Ackroyd laid in.
Folio (31cm.); original cloth in white pictorial dust jacket; 194pp.; color and black and white illus. throughout. Top jacket extremities rather worn with three tears and subsequent creasing; some general dust-soil, else Very Good in Good or better jacket. Gift inscription to Ben and Bernarda Shahn on half title from...
![Broadsides: "Wash. D.C. July 4, 1971 Smoke-In - Let's twist again like we did last summer!" [3 Variants]](http://www.lornebair.com/pictures/medium/19869.jpg?v=1529353267)
Three illustrated broadsides, offset lithographed in black and in colors on white stock, each measuring 28cm x 17cm (11" x 17"); offered here in three variant colors - a) purple, pink, and brown, b) black and white, and c) rainbow-colored, the first printed on recto only, with the latter two...
![[Poster] Zo Ontruimt Krasnapolski: Kra$ Laat Huizen 7 Jaar Leegstaan + Verkrotten [This is How Krasnapolski Is Cleaning Up: Kra$ Leaves Houses Vacant for 7 Years and Lets Them Fall into Ruins]](http://www.lornebair.com/pictures/medium/35291.jpg?v=1529353811)
Original photographic poster (59x41.75cm.) printed offset in black on white stock; very faint horizontal fold, light wrinkling from handling, else Very Good or better.
![The Mummies of Guanajuato [Inscribed & Signed by Bradbury]](http://www.lornebair.com/pictures/medium/33841.jpg?v=1529353743)
First Printing. Folio (31cm.); publisher's cloth in photo-illustrated dust jacket; unpaged; photographic illus. throughout. Just About Fine. Signed and inscribed on front free endpaper: "Richard! Good wishes from Ray Bradbury."
Folio (31cm.); original photo-illustrated boards in clear mylar decorative dust jacket printed in black, yellow, and red; unpaged; chiefly photographic illus. Mylar a bit worn with some shallow splitting along flap folds, small loss to bottom fore-edge corner of upper panel, light wear to boards, else Near Very Good and...
Original lithographed poster, 54cm x 41cm (21" x 16"). Professionally matted and framed (not laid down) beneath UV-protective glass. Fine, unfaded example; Grade A.
Brown crayon on paper, 18" x 15". Professionally matted and handsomely framed in walnut, with original gallery label (Signature Galleries, Chicago) on verso of backing-board. A few trivial spots of foxing, else Fine sight condition. Not viewed out of frame.
Original illustrated poster, lithographed in colors on off-white stock and measuring 63.5cm x 85cm (25" x 33.5"); signed "McClelland Barclay, USNR" in-plate. Professionally linen-backed, with old fold lines faintly visible; tear at center left margin expertly restored, with some minor retouching to a few folds at the margins; Near Fine.
Mimeographed broadside, 14" x 8-1/2" on pulp paper. Text in two columns in Italian and English, below a graphic headline. Mild toning; small loss at upper left corner (away from image or text); Very Good.
Hand-painted banner, 8.5cm x 65cm (ca 3-1/4" x 26"). In red and black on a white background. Archivally framed; old stains and tape adhesions; Good. Not examined out of frame.
![The True Story of Santy Claus [Limited Edition]](http://www.lornebair.com/pictures/medium/21252.jpg?v=1529353302)
Limited to an unknown number of copies. Slim octavo (20cm.); original tan pictorial boards printed in white, glassine dust jacket; 27pp.; color frontispiece, full-page illus. throughout. Boards a bit foxed along spine edges, else Very Good.
Original pen-and-ink composition with colored-pencil highlights, 28" x 22" (ca 71cm x 56cm). In hand-made pine frame (likely original); overall dimensions 31" x 25" (ca 79cm x 64cm). General wear, soiling, and age, with surface abrasions, scratches, and old stains to margins; crudely placed in frame, without backing or mat; Good.
![The Girl in the Abstract Bed [Limited Edition]](http://www.lornebair.com/pictures/medium/32393.jpg?v=1529353696)
Limited to 1500 copies of which this is no. 290. Folio (43cm.); title page & 13 color silkscreen plates mounted to printed stiff card stock, loose as issued in red pictorial chemise. Chemise unevenly darkened, some faint dampstaining to top and bottom edges, 1 x 2" paper flaw to upper...
Octavo. Original pictorial wrappers; 15pp. Limited to 500 copies. This copy nicely inscribed on inside cover to Ben and Bernarda Shahn, dated 1966: "a Bernarda e Ben / tanti auguri / da Bruno e Lidia," with an original humorous drawing of the author/artist holding a fountain pen between his toes...
Quarto (28cm.); publisher's pictorial card wrappers, French flaps; lx,237pp.; color illus. throughout. Light shelf wear, else Very Good and sound. Essays in English and Italian, the painting descriptions in Italian only.
Original poster, offset printed in two colors on white stock, measuring ca.69cm x 42cm (24.25" x 16.5"). Old folds (as issued), creasing to corners, a few short edge tears and a small piece of tape at upper left corner; unbacked; Very Good / B.
Octavo (23.5cm.); original cloth in brown pictorial dust jacket by "Steinberg"; ix,[1],226pp.; photographic illus. throughout. Some chipping and general shelf wear to jacket extremities, else Near Fine in Near Very Good jacket. Edition statement from upper jacket panel. First published in 1948. From the library of Ben and Bernarda Shahn...
Folio (32.5cm.); publisher's boards in pictorial dust jacket; 175pp.; color illus. throughout. Fine.
![[Text in Russian] Russkoe Iskusstvo: XX Veka](http://www.lornebair.com/pictures/medium/34477.jpg?v=1529353769)
Octavo (24.5cm.); publisher's red pictorial paper-covered boards; 223pp.; color illus. throughout. Rear board a hint soiled, corners bumped, else About Fine. Treatise on 20th-century Russian art. Text entirely in Russian.
Original canvas strike banner. Dimensions 61cm x 36cm (ca 24" x 14-1/2"). Printed in red and blue inks on white canvas, with brass grommets for hanging. Light soil and foxing; old horizontal crease; Very Good.
Oblong octavo (15x22.75cm.); original pictorial staplebound wrappers; unpaged; chiefly color and black-and-white illus. Rear wrapper lightly foxed with some minor dust-soil, else Very Good or better. Exhibition catalog of the works of Ken Davies, known for his highly photographic trompe-l'œil paintings.
Slim quarto (28.5cm.); original cloth in white pictorial dust jacket; xii,[2],42pp.; chiefly illus. Jacket extremities chipped and a bit rubbed, else Near Fine in About Very Good jacket. From the Library of Ben and Bernarda Shahn with their estate label to front pastedown.
![Strike [...] Wolverhampton Art Gallery](http://www.lornebair.com/pictures/medium/27745.jpg?v=1529353555)
Quarto (25cm.); original white decorative card wrappers; 102pp.; illus. Light shelf-wear, else Near Fine. Exhibition catalog coinciding with a show displaying the works of Conrad Atkinson. Includes contributions by artists and authors in response to the questions: "How does/could/would the withdrawal of art affect the world?" and "Does the answer.....
Single sheet of glossy white stock, offset printed in black on recto only; 25.5cm X 41cm (10" X 16"). Some trivial wear to extremities, else Fine.
Original illustrated poster, offset printed in black on white stock, measuring 43.25cm x 56cm (17" x 22"). Two old folds, shallow chip to lower left corner, with a touch of dustiness to extremities and a patch of faint toning; unbacked; Very Good / B.
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