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GRAPHICS & ARTWORKS

GRAPHICS & ARTWORKS

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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  • Peace Signs: The Anti-War Movement Illustrated / Zeichen des Friedens: Die Illustrationen der. James MANN, ed., foreword Howard Zinn, intro Nicolas Lampert.

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

    MANN, James, ed.; Howard Zinn, foreword; Nicolas Lampert, intro.

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

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  • Linocut: [Landarbeiter] [Farmer. GRAPHICS, ORIGINAL ART - GERMANY.

    Linocut: [Landarbeiter] [Farmer]

    [GRAPHICS & ORIGINAL ART - GERMANY] KRALIK, Hanns (1900-1971)

    Original linocut on India paper. Sheet size 41cm x 31cm; image area 38cm x 24cm. Signed and dated below image. In hinged gallery mat. Title taken from exhibition catalog (see ref. below). A strong, clean impression from Kralik's "Werktätige" ("Working") series, an homage to working-class Germans at the outset of.....

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  • 666: The Hymn To Lucifer. COUNTERCULTURE, FREEWHEELIN FRANK, a k. a. Frank Reynolds, HELLS ANGELS.

    666: The Hymn To Lucifer

    [COUNTERCULTURE] [HELLS ANGELS] FREEWHEELIN FRANK (a.k.a. Frank Reynolds)

    Quarto (26.75cm); twelve (12) five-color broadsides (measuring 20cm X 26cm), printed on rectos only and housed in an illustrated portfolio on glossy cardstock. A few stress creases and some subtle toning along the spine-fold of the portfolio, else Fine.

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  • The R. Crumb Coffee Table Art Book. R. CRUMB.

    The R. Crumb Coffee Table Art Book

    CRUMB, R.

    First Printing. Large quarto (33.75cm); brick red paper-covered boards, with titles stamped in gilt on spine and pictorial elements in black on front cover; pictorial endpapers; dustjacket; [vi],250pp; illustrated throughout in black & white and in color. Small remainder mark to lower edge of textblock, else Fine in a Fine.....

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  • Rally Against Reefer Madness - Stop the Witch Hunt! COUNTERCULTURE - GRAPHICS, Dana FRANZEN, Smoke-In Central, design.

    Rally Against Reefer Madness - Stop the Witch Hunt!

    [COUNTERCULTURE - GRAPHICS] FRANZEN, Dana (design); Smoke-In Central

    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.

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  • Stop the Bombing - End the Blockade - U.S. Out of Indochina Now - End Support of Thieu. NEW LEFT, People's Coalition for Peace and Justice, GRAPHICS.

    Stop the Bombing - End the Blockade - U.S. Out of Indochina...

    [NEW LEFT] [GRAPHICS] People's Coalition for Peace and Justice

    Offset lithographed poster, 56cm x 44cm. Printed both sides of sheet; recto in red, verso in black ink. Original folds; mild wear to extremities, still a clean and fresh example, easily Near Fine. Double-sided poster with recto presenting a bold call to action, verso with a large map of the.....

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  • Text in Russian] P. Korin: Izbrannye Proizveddennia / Selected Works. Pavel KORIN, E. VINOGRADOVA.

    [Text in Russian] P. Korin: Izbrannye Proizveddennia / Selected Works

    [KORIN, Pavel] VINOGRADOVA, E.

    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.....

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  • Poster: Stop bombardementen op heel Vietnam / Nixon teken de vrede nu! / Vietnam voor de. COMITÉ NATIONALE DEMONSTRATIE VOOR VREDE IN VIETNAM.

    Poster: Stop bombardementen op heel Vietnam / Nixon teken de vrede nu!...

    [COMITÉ NATIONALE DEMONSTRATIE VOOR VREDE IN VIETNAM]

    Original photo-illustrated poster (60x41cm.) printed offset in red and black on white stock. Stock quite wrinkled, else About Very Good overall.

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  • Poster] Demonstratie Tegen de Sloop in de Nieuwmarkt! Vanavond half acht Westermarkt / Vandaag. Marijke GROENEVELD.

    [Poster] Demonstratie Tegen de Sloop in de Nieuwmarkt! Vanavond half acht Westermarkt...

    [GROENEVELD, Marijke]

    Original pictorial poster (59.5x41.75cm.) printed offset in black on white stock; minor wrinkling from handling, else Very Good or better.

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  • George Grosz: Das Gesicht der Herrschenden Klasse & Abrechnung Folgt! George GROSZ.

    George Grosz: Das Gesicht der Herrschenden Klasse & Abrechnung Folgt!

    GROSZ, George

    Quarto (25cm.); original green pictorial card wrappers, French flaps; xi,[1],119pp.; chiefly illus. Spine sunned, tiny closed tear to top edge of rear wrapper, else Near Very Good and sound. Grosz's landmark collection of political caricatures, lampooning the corruption, indolence, and self-satisfaction of the German aristocracy in the years immediately following.....

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  • Rude Awakening. Purnell CHRISTIAN, Joe Service.

    Rude Awakening

    CHRISTIAN, Purnell, & Joe Service

    Specially bound edition limited to 30 copies of which this is no. 8. Large quarto (28.5cm.); original pictorial cloth embossed in gilt on upper cover, matching slipcase; unpaged; chiefly illus. Fine. Signed by Christian, Service, and McMillan on limitation page. Only 3 holdings of the trade edition in OCLC as.....

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  • Original Dustjacket Artwork for The Judgment of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg [Together with] The. artwork, design, GRAPHICS, ILLUSTRATION - ORIGINAL ARTWORK, Rockwell KENT, WEXLEY.

    Original Dustjacket Artwork for The Judgment of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg [Together...

    [GRAPHICS & ILLUSTRATION - ORIGINAL ARTWORK] KENT, Rockwell (artwork & design); WEXLEY...

    Original illustration, composed in ink, gouache, and drybrush on art paper, measuring 30.5cm x 31.5cm (12" x 12.5"); titled by Kent in pencil along the lower margin ("Jacket design for The Judgment of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, by James Wexley"), and signed by him (in pencil) at lower right corner.....

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  • View - Vol.5, No.4 (November, 1945. Charles Henri FORD, Leon KELLY, cover.

    View - Vol.5, No.4 (November, 1945)

    FORD, Charles Henri (editor); KELLY, Leon (cover)

    Quarto (30.5cm); original pictorial wrappers, stapled; 22pp; illus. Light wear, creasing, and dust-soil to wrappers, with gentle sunning to lower edge of front cover, and a few small tears to rear cover; contents clean, complete; Very Good.

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  • The Glory of New York. Joseph PENNELL, Elizabeth Robins Pennell, introd.

    The Glory of New York

    PENNELL, Joseph; Elizabeth Robins Pennell [introd.]

    One of 355 copies printed (not numbered). Folio (47cm). Original blue cloth, stamped in gilt, in blue dust jacket, housed in original blue cardboard box with later typed label taped to front; plain endpapers; unpaginated; 24 color plates. Title page printed in two colors. With an inserted acknowledgements slip. A......

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  • Lear's Corfu: An Anthology Drawn from the Painter's Letters and Prefaced by Lawrence Durrell. LEAR, Edward.

    Lear's Corfu: An Anthology Drawn from the Painter's Letters and Prefaced by...

    LEAR, [Edward]

    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, faint staining alone spine, else Near Fine. Small broadside laid in, illustrated and with a nonsense lyric by Lear, advertising the company Corfu Travel.

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  • African Tribal Sculpture: A Bibliography Based Principally on Works Available in South African. Esther GREEN.

    African Tribal Sculpture: A Bibliography Based Principally on Works Available in South...

    GREEN, Esther

    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.

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  • Text in Russian] Nikolai Vasil'evich Il'in. Nikolai Vasil'evich IL'IN, K. KRAVCHENKO.

    [Text in Russian] Nikolai Vasil'evich Il'in

    [IL'IN, Nikolai Vasil'evich] KRAVCHENKO, K.

    Slim quarto (26.5cm,); publisher's parchment-covered boards, blind-embossed upper cover, unadorned spine; 99pp.; color illus. throughout. Boards rubbed and worn with spine separating at rear joint. A Good or better copy, internally fine. Catalog of the works of the Soviet book illustrator and designer.

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  • Poster] Oproep 30 April Massale Demonstratie [Call for Massive Demonstration April 30. DE AUTONOMEN.

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

    DE AUTONOMEN

    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.

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  • A Letter from Ernst Barlach. Ernst BARLACH.

    A Letter from Ernst Barlach

    BARLACH, Ernst

    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.....

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  • The Dance Photography of Carl Van Vechten [Review Copy. Carl VAN VECHTEN, ed. Paul Padgette, intro, ed Paul Padgette.

    The Dance Photography of Carl Van Vechten [Review Copy]

    VAN VECHTEN, Carl; Paul Padgette, ed. & intro.

    Folio (30.75cm.); two-toned cloth in gilt photo-illustrated dust jacket; vii,[3],212pp.; photographic illus. throughout. Jacket extremities rubbed with clear tape reinforcement to bottom edge and spine crown, else Near Fine in About Very Good jacket. Review copy with two original promotional photographs and typed letter from the publisher laid in. Errata.....

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  • The History of Surrealist Painting. Marcel JEAN, Arpad Mezei.

    The History of Surrealist Painting

    JEAN, Marcel with Arpad Mezei

    Quarto. Cloth boards; dustjacket; 383pp. Tight, clean, Near Fine copy in lightly edge-rubbed dustwrapper with original acetate overlay, as issued.

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  • L'Avant Garde Russe dans les Années 1920-1930: Peinture, arts graphiques, sculpture, arts. Evgueni KOVTOUNE.

    L'Avant Garde Russe dans les Années 1920-1930: Peinture, arts graphiques, sculpture, arts...

    KOVTOUNE, Evgueni

    Folio (32.75cm.); publisher's boards in pictorial dust jacket; 287pp.; color illus. throughout. Light edge wear, corners bumped, else Very Good or better. French-language exhibition catalog of Avant-garde works at the State Russian Museum in St. Petersburg.

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  • USSR in Construction. 1933, No.4 (April. G. L. PYATAKOV, N. S. TROSHIN, design.

    USSR in Construction. 1933, No.4 (April)

    PYATAKOV, G.L. (editor); TROSHIN, N.S. (design)

    Folio (42cm); printed wrappers, saddle-stitched; [32]pp; illus. Light wear to extremities, some faint dust-soil and foxing to wrappers, with a few tiny nicks and tears; Very Good or better.

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  • Ilya/Emilia Kabakov: Where Is Our Place? Ilya KABAKOV, Emilia.

    Ilya/Emilia Kabakov: Where Is Our Place?

    [KABAKOV, Ilya and Emilia] FONDAZIONE QUERINI STAMPALIA

    Oblong octavo (16.5x24cm.); publisher's white pictorial card wrappers; 96pp.; illus. throughout, including photographs. Wrappers a bit worn and dust-soiled, else Very Good and sound. Exhibition catalog of the Ukrainian-American husband-and-wife conceptual artists Ilya and Emilia Kabakov. Bilingual text in English and Italian.

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  • Drypoint Etching: "Coal Gleaners". John GROTH.

    Drypoint Etching: "Coal Gleaners"

    GROTH, John (1908-1988)

    Original drypoint etching. Sheet size 23cm x 30.5cm (ca 9" x 12"); image area 18cm x 25cm. Titled and signed in pencil in lower margin. Mounted to hinged gallery mat. No edition stated (artist's proof?). Mat dusted; print clean and bright, with very faint toning at in image; Near Fine.....

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  • The Appeal of Prints. Carl ZIGROSSER.

    The Appeal of Prints

    ZIGROSSER, Carl

    Quarto (21.5cm). Cloth boards; dustjacket; 151pp. Inscribed on front endpaper: "To the memory of Ben / cordially, Carl Zigrosser." Tight, Near Fine copy in lightly rubbed jacket.

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  • America! Above All. Franklin D. ROOSEVELT.

    America! Above All

    [ROOSEVELT, Franklin D.]

    Lithographic window decal (25.25x30.5cm); illustration printed within patriotic red, white, and blue border, showing an American flag blowing in the wind, with inset circular colored photographic portrait of FDR. Right-hand edge trimmed close, else Fine.

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  • Commerce. Being Extracts from The Summa Theologica of S. Thomas Aquinas, Part II. Questions. Hilary PEPLER.

    Commerce. Being Extracts from The Summa Theologica of S. Thomas Aquinas, Part...

    [PEPLER, Hilary]

    12mo (13cm). Original gray paper wrappers; 22pp. Woodcut device to front cover, repeated as tail-piece on p.22. Slightly soil and foxing to cover wrappers; text fresh and unmarked; Very Good.

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  • Poster: Jat Bewust. Proletaries winkelen, neem et eet! [Take Freely. Proletarian shopping: take. ANARCHISM.

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

    [ANARCHISM]

    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.

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  • Defend the Gainesville Vets. NEW LEFT - GRAPHICS, Vietnam Veterans Against the War, Peter G. COHEN.

    Defend the Gainesville Vets

    [NEW LEFT - GRAPHICS] [COHEN, Peter G.]; Vietnam Veterans Against the War...

    Original offset lithographed poster in colors, 56cm x 43cm (22" x 17"). Fine, fresh, apparently unused example.

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  • : , [Iskusstvo :. SOVIET ART - SOCIAL REALISM, "ISKUSSTVO".

    : , [Iskusstvo : organ Ministerstva kul tury SSSR, Soi u za...

    [SOVIET ART - SOCIAL REALISM] "ISKUSSTVO"

    Single quarto issue (29cm x 22cm) in original wrappers; 80pp; illus. Mild wear to wrapper edges and spine; internally clean, fresh and unmarked. Numerous mounted color plates. Contributors include P. Pavlov, V. Kalinin, L. Kouznetsova, others. Front cover reproduces a marble bust of Lenin by N. Tomski. Text entirely in.....

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  • Survey Graphic: Magazine of Social Interpretation - Vol.XXVIII, No.7 (July, 1939. Paul KELLOGG.

    Survey Graphic: Magazine of Social Interpretation - Vol.XXVIII, No.7 (July, 1939)

    KELLOGG, Paul (editor)

    Quarto (29.5cm); pictorial wrappers, stapled; pp.[417]-464; illus. Light wear and dustiness to wrappers, with a faint vertical bend at center; Very Good+.

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  • Hans Günther Hausen: Fotografien. Hans Günther HAUSEN.

    Hans Günther Hausen: Fotografien

    HAUSEN, Hans Günther

    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.

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  • Hudibras. Plates I-XII (complete) [from] Hogarth Restored: the Whole Works of the Celebrated. CARICATURE - GREAT BRITAIN, William HOGARTH, Engraver Thomas Cook, after.

    Hudibras. Plates I-XII (complete) [from] Hogarth Restored: the Whole Works of the...

    [CARICATURE - GREAT BRITAIN] HOGARTH, William (after); Thomas Cook, Engraver

    The complete series, plates I-X uncut as issued. These are the Thomas Cook re-engravings, ca. 1806. Plate marks 21-1/4" x 14" on 24" x 17" sheets; printed on heavy wove paper. Occasional shallow chipping, soiling, & foxing to extremities; images fresh and unfoxed; Very Good. A fresh and attractive set.....

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  • I Take Great Pleasure... [Review Copy. Cecil BEATON.

    I Take Great Pleasure... [Review Copy]

    BEATON, Cecil

    Octavo (21cm.); original cloth in red and yellow decorative price-clipped dust jacket; [10],213pp.; illus. Some wear to jacket extremities, spine sunned, top edge of rear panel a bit toned. Fine in Very Good jacket. Publisher's review slip laid in. British photographer's humorous exposé of America and Americans, illustrated with drawings.....

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  • The Schinocephalic Waif. Alexander THEROUX, Stan Washburn.

    The Schinocephalic Waif

    THEROUX, Alexander; Stan Washburn, illus.

    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.

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  • Audience: Pilot Issue, Spring, 1968 [Ben Shahn's Copy. Tim HILL, ed.

    Audience: Pilot Issue, Spring, 1968 [Ben Shahn's Copy]

    HILL, Tim, ed.

    Small folio (30.5cm.); original white pictorial cloth in printed acetate dust jacket; 112pp.; color illus. throughout. Acetate jacket a bit yellowed and soiled along extremities, else Very Good and sound. From the library of Ben and Bernarda Shann with their estate label tipped to front pastedown. Editorial advisors list Shahn.....

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  • Collage of Spaces. Ilya KABAKOV.

    Collage of Spaces

    KABAKOV, Ilya

    Slim square quarto (29.75cm.); publisher's maroon cloth lettered in white, color plate mounted to upper cover; 33pp.; color illus. Fine copy, in original shrinkwrap. Bibliographical data provided by OCLC.

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  • Broadsheet: LaMaarLullen [La Maar Lullen = Let Him Babble. BOND VOOR DIENSTPLICHTIGEN.

    Broadsheet: LaMaarLullen [La Maar Lullen = Let Him Babble]

    BOND VOOR DIENSTPLICHTIGEN

    Large broadsheet (43x30cm.) printed offset in black on white stock; rather worn and soiled from handling, three previous mail folds (as issued?), a few tiny chips and closed tears along right-hand edge. Good and sound overall.

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  • Poster] Leegstandswet = Oorlog [Vacancy Law = War. SQUATTERS MOVEMENT - NETHERLANDS.

    [Poster] Leegstandswet = Oorlog [Vacancy Law = War]

    [SQUATTERS MOVEMENT - NETHERLANDS]

    Original pictorial poster (42.75x61cm.) printed offset in black on white stock. Wrinkling from handling, as well as some old tape repairs to verso not showing through to image, else About Very Good. Squatters movement protest poster issued in response to the newly passed vacancy law ("leegstandswet"), which allowed home owners.....

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