Lorne Bair Rare Books

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.......

More info about Larousse Dictionary of Painters [Bernarda Shahn's copy

Folio (32.75cm.); original illustrated wrappers; 208pp.; chiefly illus. Fine. Compilation of more than 200 peace posters relating to the Iraq War (2003).

More info about Peace Signs: The Anti-War Movement Illustrated / Zeichen des Friedens: Die Illustrationen der...

Quarto (30.75cm.); original simulated cloth in photo-illustrated dust jacket; unpaged; chiefly photographic illus. Top jacket extremities a bit shelf-worn, a few short closed tears, else Very Good or better. Exhibition catalog featuring the photographic works of American pop artist Robert Rauschenberg. Text entirely in French, including the translation of an...

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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

Folio (33cm.); publisher's boards in glossy black pictorial dust jacket; 174pp.; color illus. throughout. Minimal shelf wear, shallow crease along edge of rear jacket flap, else Near Fine. Review slip laid in. Monograph on Vrubel, a member of the Symbolist and Art Nouveau movements.

More info about Mikhail Vroubel: The Artist of the Eves [Review Copy

Small quarto broadside (23.5cm.) illustrated by Edward C. Caswell; light wear from handling with a few short closed tears, else Very Good or better. Flyer advertising the spring show in the Greenwich Village, "The Art Cradle of America," May 22 thru June 15, 1952. Illustration shows a beret- and pipe-clad...

More info about 41st Washington Square Outdoor Art Exhibit In and About Historic Washington Square

Folio (32.5cm.); publisher's boards in glossy pictorial dust jacket; 200pp.; color illus. throughout. Fine. Forms part of the series Schools and Movements.

More info about Russian Impressionists and Postimpressionists

Offset lithographed poster in colors, 58cm x 43cm (ca 23" x 17"). Original vertical and horizontal folds (as issued), else a fine, fresh, apparently uncirculated example.

More info about Rally Against Reefer Madness - Stop the Witch Hunt!

Edition limited to 100. Small quarto (ca 29cm x 19cm / 11" x 7-1/2"). Album of 18 original signed artworks, mostly woodcuts but also including etchings and mixed-media pieces, each signed and titled in pencil below image. Lithographed title page, in the publisher's folding cloth box, as issued. Fine.

More info about Toma de Zacatecas 100 Años

Quarto (29cm). Black cloth, lettered in white on spine and front cover; 226,[12]pp; illus. Tight, straight, Near Fine copy, lacking jacket.

More info about Erro. Catalogue General

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

Quarto (27.25cm.); original linen in white photo-illustrated dust jacket; viii,63 & 16 leaves of plates depicting 50 prints. Upper jacket panel foxed along extremities, else Very Good and sound. Inscribed to front free endpaper: "To Bernarda / With much love and affection. Much of the good things which happened to...

More info about Rudy Pozzatti: American Printmaker [Inscribed & Signed with TLS by Pozzatti

Octavo (25.5cm.); publisher's pictorial card wrappers comb-bound at top edge; [12] leaves printed in black and blue on rectos only; chiefly illus. throughout. Light wear, small loss of one comb, else Very Good and sound. Quite an attractive fundraising wall calendar, with contributions by Rockwell Kent, William Steig, Wanda Gág.......

More info about 1942 Wall Calendar] Russian War Relief [cover title

Lithographed poster in 4 colors; 153 x 103 cm (ca 60-1/4" x 41"). Archivally backed on linen. Few minor spots of restoration along upper margin; two brief (1") repaired tears; Grade A-.

More info about Campesino, defiende con las armas al gobierno que te dió la tierra

Original illustrated flyer, offset printed in colors on white stock, measuring 21.5cm x 28cm (8.5" x 11"). A Fine copy.

More info about Sixth Annual Fourth of July Smoke-In at the Ellipse, Washington, D.C

Tabloid-sized bifolium (44.5cm); illustrated newsprint wrappers; [4]pp. Light wear, toning, and a few short tears and creases to extremities; Very Good+.

More info about There Is Some Shit We Will Not Eat - STRIKE

Tabloid (42.5cm); illustrated newsprint wrappers; 12pp; illus. Light wear, toning, and dust-soil to extremities, with a few small punctures to masthead, and a tear toward upper right corner of front wrapper; Very Good, complete copy.

More info about White Lightning - Vol.1, No.4 (April, 1972

Octavo (21.25cm); original blue cloth, gilt-lettered spine; 324pp. Spine ends a bit rubbed with closed horizontal crack about one inch from spine foot, else Very Good or better. Later edition, this collection of essays on art history, theater, and music first published in 1906.

More info about Studies in Seven Arts

Original photo-illustrated broadside, xeroxed on a single sheet of white stock, measuring 28cm x 21.5cm (11" x 8.5"). Mild, even toning, with two small pinholes at upper corners; Very Good+.

More info about Broadside: "Aboriginal People - Land Rights For Indigenous People"

Square quarto (27.5cm.); original cloth in black photo-illustrated dust jacket; 248pp.; frontispiece, plates throughout. General edge wear to jacket extremities, minor tape residue from previously removed label to front panel, else Near Very Good. Gift inscription to artist Bernarda Shahn to front free endpaper, presumably shortly after the death of...

More info about Giovanni Pisano, Sculptor

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.

More info about It Is Time For Action! / 'E Tempo Di Essere Attivi Nella Lotta Contra La Reazione!

One of 150 copies issued as a keepsake by the Press. 12mo. Unprinted card covers; orange dustjacket with applied printed label. Near Fine in mildly spine-sunned dustwrapper. With two laid-in pieces of ephemera (as received): (1) an invitation to a preview reception at the 32nd Annual Exhibition of the Downtown...

More info about A Letter from Ernst Barlach

First Printing. Octavo (21cm.); publisher's mauve cloth-backed gilt-embossed boards, gilt-lettered spine; [16],292pp. Boards rubbed with exposure at corners, brief dampstaining to upper cover not bleeding into interior, pencil ownership signature effaced on front free endpaper, else a Near Very Good copy. The painter's infamous compilation of scathing correspondence written in...

More info about The Gentle Art of Making Enemies

Quarto (24cm). Staple-bound pictorial paper wrappers (comic book format); 24pp; illus. Near Fine. Collects five poems from Keeler's first published collection (American Falls, 1987), all illustrated in comic style by various artists, all members of the Montana State University Graphic Illustration program, including Mike Spokas, Mike Clark, Lisa Beardsley, Kent...

More info about Poetryman: Five Poems

Folio (30cm.); original cloth in white photo-illustrated dust jacket printed in red, grey, and black; 280pp.; chiefly photographic illus. Jacket extremities a bit toned, else Near Fine. Includes 194 reproductions of photographic works by the African American Harlem-based painter and photographer.

More info about Roy DeCarava: A Retrospective

Quarto (28.5cm.); publisher's cloth in white pictorial dust jacket, matching cloth and paper-covered slipcase; 182pp. A hint of wear at jacket spine crown, minor soil to slipcase, else Fine. Catalogue raisonné of the Russian realist painter.

More info about Text in Russian] Nikolai Nikolaevich Ge / Nikolai Gay

Quarto (27.5cm.); original white pictorial staplebound card wrappers printed in brown and black; [20]pp.; chiefly illus. About Fine. Prospectus for the deluxe portfolio celebrating the life and works of the Israeli political and military leader Moshe Dayan (1915-1981).

More info about Prospectus for] Masada: The Victory of the Vanquished. Homage to Moshe Dayan

Original photo-illustrated poster (61x43cm.) printed offset in black on white stock; wrinkling to extremities, tiny closed tear at bottom edge not approaching text, else Very Good and sound.

More info about Poster] Oproep 30 April Massale Demonstratie [Call for Massive Demonstration April 30

Original illustrated poster, lithographed in colors and measuring 72.25cm x 102.5cm (28 3/8" x 40.25"). Professionally linen-backed, with old fold lines faintly visible; expert infilling and retouching to a few pinpoint areas at the intersection of upper-center folds; very Near Fine. A-.

More info about Poster: "AMERICA is the loser, too - when avoidable accidents stop production / The U.S. Army...

Oblong 4to (25.5cm x 34cm). Spiral-bound pictorial boards; title page and 31 leaves of machine-lithographed plates after watercolors by the artist. Descriptive text printed in three languages (Spanish, French, and English). Light rubbing to boards and board edges; with two spots of abrasion to front board; mild toning to plate...

More info about Estampas de la Revolucion Española - 19 Julio de 1936

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.

More info about Poster: Jat Bewust. Proletaries winkelen, neem et eet! [Take Freely. Proletarian shopping: take...

Slim, square quarto (23.5cm.); original grey photo-illustrated boards, upper cover and spine lettered in red; 64pp.; chiefly photographic illus. Minor soil to upper cover, else Very Good or better. Exhibition catalog of works by German photographer Hans Günther Hausen.

More info about Hans Günther Hausen: Fotografien

Quarto (28.5cm.); original cloth in pale grey pictorial dust jacket; xviii,462pp.; color plates, text illus. throughout. Light shelf wear, jacket spine a bit sunned, else Near Fine.

More info about Images of American Radicalism

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-.

More info about Poster: "I'll carry mine too! Trucks and Tires Must Last Till Victory"

Limited to 1600 copies. Large, oblong folio (35.5x50cm.); original blue cloth-backed boards, upper cover and spine lettered in blue, white board slipcase; unpaged; chiefly color illus. Fine. Bookplate signed by Doctorow laid in.

More info about Scenes and Sequences: Fifty Eight Monotypes. Text by E.L. Doctorow

Octavo (20cm.); original cream pictorial wrappers printed in red and black depicting a signed illustration by Girard of a fallen soldier; 292pp.; illus. by the author throughout, including many full-paged. Spine a bit darkened, top textblock edge stained with very shallow bleeding onto leaves. A Very Good and tight copy...

More info about Bataille Secrète en France. 167 dessins de l'auteur [TOGETHER WITH] Original pencil and...

Original lithographed poster, measuring 42.5cm x 54.5cm (16.75" x 21.5"). White stock, with black and white photographic image at center, with text printed in black at lower margin. Rolled, else Fine.

More info about Original Poster: Free Angela Davis Now!

Pen-and-ink on heavy composition paper, ca 18" x 15" (ca 47cm x 39cm). Compositor's marks and notes at margins; light soil; Very Good. Signed "KET" lower left.

More info about Original pen-and-ink drawing: "U.S. Recovery"

Quarto (30cm.); original white pictorial staplebound wrappers; 40pp.; illus. Light wear, minor dust-soiling, else Very Good. OCLC locates 4 copies as of October, 2015, none outside the United Kingdom.

More info about Community Arts: Principles and Practices. A series of papers arising out of the Barnstaple...

Quarto (29cm.); original two-toned cloth (red and black) lettered in blind on upper cover, spine lettered in black; xvi,230pp.; color illus. throughout. Fine, albeit lacking jacket. Exhibition catalog of the works of the Russian abstract artist.

More info about Kazimir Malevich, 1878-1935