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 engraving. Printed in black on Fabbiano mold-made paper; sheet size 50cm x 70cm (ca 20" x 27"); image area 35cm x 36cm (ca. 14" x 14-1/2"). Signed in pencil lower right; additionally inscribed, "A Giovanni i Gebbe Scianna" [i.e., Jonathan & Jean Shahn]; titled illegibly lower left. Faint foxing.....
Three volumes. 12mo. 14.5cm. Publisher's black stiff card covers. Unpaginated. Clean and strong; slight scratching to the laminate of "Cut It Out", price stickers to the rear panels of two vols; internally clean and fresh; A bright, strong, near fine set. A mixed set with "Banging Your Head Against a......
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![Krasnyi soldat na fronte ne obut, ne odet [=] The Red Soldier at the Front is without Footwear. RUSSIAN REVOLUTION, Dmitri MOOR.](https://lornebair.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/83710.jpg?width=768&height=1000&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1740452201)
First impression. Lithographed poster, 84cm x 63.5cm (ca 33" x 25"); printed in black on thin white stock. Light original wear and soil, still Near Fine. Professionally laid down on archival canvas. A plea to workers to provide material support to Bolshevik troops during the dark days of the Russian.....
No. 40 of 150 numbered copies. Octavo (20cm). Original pictorial parchment-covered boards; 254 unnumbered leaves; designs printed in colors, recto-only. Exterior staining and wear to binding, with darkening to spine; internally quite fresh, free of markings and solidly bound; Very Good overall. A finely-printed compendium of designed ex-libris by Fascist-era.....
Folio (42cm); printed wrappers, saddle-stitched; [1],2-39,[1]pp; illus. Light wear to extremities, touch of oxidation to staples, and a few very faint creases to wrappers, else clean internally; Near Fine. Well-preserved issue of this landmark Soviet art magazine, issued from 1930 to 1941 to celebrate the achievements of the first two.....
Quarto (30.5cm); original pictorial wrappers, stapled; pp.71-102; illus. Staples neatly removed, light dust-soil to wrappers, with some creasing to upper right corners; contents clean, complete; Very Good. View was Charles Henri Ford's New York-based avant-garde magazine, published from 1940-1947, which played a significant role in introducing Surrealisim to the American.....
Lithograph in colors, 45” x 30”. A Near Fine example, with subtle cleaning and repair to margins. Professionally mounted on archival canvas. Shahn’s most celebrated political poster, created to support the Progressive Party’s 1948 Presidential candidate, Henry Wallace. The poster lampoons the Democratic and Republican candidates Dewey and Truman, leaving.....
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Limited to an unspecified number of which this is no. 16. Original etching; sheet size approx. 60.75x45cm.; image area 28x22.5cm. Signed with limitation number in blue pencil by the artist. A Fine copy, mounted in archival mat. Symbolist image by the French anarchist painter and engraver Charles Maurin. According to.....
Slim quarto (32cm); original pictorial wrappers, stapled; [16]pp; illus.; text is entirely in French. Light wear and dust-soil to wrappers, subtle toning to text edges; contents clean, complete, Very Good+. A well-preserved issue of this illustrated French satirical magazine with anarchist and anti-colonialist sensibilities, which ran from 1901-1936. This issue.....
More info about L'Assiette au Beurre - No.151: Japonaise Dessins de Adaramakaro (20 Fevrier, 1904
Slim quarto (32cm); original pictorial wrappers, stapled; pp.2138-2152; illus.; text is entirely in French. Light wear and dust-soil to wrappers, subtle toning to text edges; contents clean, complete, Very Good+. A well-preserved issue of this illustrated French satirical magazine with anarchist and anti-colonialist sensibilities, which ran from 1901-1936. This issue.....
More info about L'Assiette au Beurre - No.127: Visions! par Camara (5 Septembre, 1903
Quarto (30.5cm); original pictorial wrappers, stapled; 22pp; illus. Staples neatly removed, light wear and dust-soil to wrappers, with some creasing to upper right corners; contents clean, complete; Very Good. View was Charles Henri Ford's New York-based avant-garde magazine, published from 1940-1947, which played a significant role in introducing Surrealisim to.....
Folio (41.5cm); original pictorial wrappers, stapled; [40]pp, plus fold-out centerfold plates; illus. Text is entirely in English. Modest wear and handling, some oxidation to staples, a 2" closed tear and mild dust-soil to rear panel, with one panel of the fold-out centerfold neatly and archivally mended along the fold; contents.....
Lithograph in colors, 75.5cm x 51cm (ca. 30" x 20"). Mild toning in margins, with subtle repair to closed tears; Near Fine. Professionally mounted on archival linen. A somewhat involved visual polemic against the Liberal government of Prime Minister H.H. Asquith – scheming Socialists and Progressives have lit a beacon.....
Tabloid (41cm); original photo-illustrated newsprint wrappers; 24pp; illus. Old horizontal fold smoothed out at center, light wear and toning to extremities, with a few small tears; Very Good+. Well-preserved copy of this underground newspaper from the earliest days of Montreal's counterculture scene. Logos was founded by Paul Kirby and his.....
Letterpress broadside, 22" X 17" (ca 55cm x 43cm). Printed in black on laid paper; signed in plate below image. Edition unknown; this example not hand-signed. Fine. See PRESCOTT 212. Shahn produced this broadside opposing the Vienam War in 1965. Shahn's cataloguer Kenneth Prescott recounts a visit to Shahn's studio.....
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Original brush drawing in black on white wove paper, ca. 40" x 26". Inscribed and signed below image: "Black & White for Sol," signed in full "Ben Shahn." Well-preserved with a few faint spots of foxing visible in image. Unframed. "Sol" is the noted documentary photographer Sol Libsohn, who was.....
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Slim 12mo (18cm.); publisher's cream pictorial card wrappers printed in red and black; 106pp.; pictorial ads in rear. Tiny split at bottom spine edge of upper cover, early signature (including title page) disbound at time of publication, else Very Good and sound. Czech translation of Stendhal's 1832 novella "The Abbess.....
Original lithographed poster, offset printed in two colors on white stock, measuring 58.5cm x 43cm (23"x 17"). Old folds smoothed out, some pinholes and tiny punctures, with three medium-sized tears and attendant creases; unbacked; Very Good. The Revolutionary Student Brigade (RSB) was a Marxist-Leninist student organization founded in mid-June, 1974.....
Original illustrated poster, offset printed in black on thick beige stock, measuring 43cm x 71.5cm (17" x 28"). Light wear and handling to extremities, tiny chip to lower left corner, stray ink mark to left edge, with a few tiny nicks and tears, and a longer one (1 9/16") at.....
Quarto (30.5cm); original pictorial wrappers, stapled; 66pp; illus. Light wear to extremities, touch of dust-soil to rear wrapper, with faint creasing to upper right corners; contents clean and complete; Very Good+. View was Charles Henri Ford's New York-based avant-garde magazine, published from 1940-1947, which played a significant role in introducing.....
Folio (42cm); printed wrappers, saddle-stitched; [28]pp, with an incredible four-panel foldout plate with photos of workers in the slaughterhouse on both sides; illus. Wrappers dust-soiled, wear to spine-fold and extremities, with a few faint creases, and an early bookseller's label to front wrapper; contents clean, complete; Very Good or better.....
Slim quarto (32cm); original pictorial wrappers, stapled; pp.646-657,[2]; illus.; text is entirely in French. Some wear to extremities, toning to wrapper extremities and text edges, with a few tiny nicks, tears, and some attendant creases, and a few benign shapes drawn in red pencil at lower rear wrapper; contents complete;.....
More info about L'Assiette au Beurre - No.41: L'Argent par François Kupka (11 Janvier, 1902
Slim quarto (32cm); original pictorial wrappers, stapled; pp.2810-2824; illus.; text is entirely in French. Light wear and dust-soil to wrappers, subtle toning to extremities, with a bit of oxidation to staples; contents clean, complete; Very Good+. A well-preserved issue of this illustrated French satirical magazine with anarchist and anti-colonialist sensibilities.....
More info about L'Assiette au Beurre - No.169: Texte et Dessins par Jossot (25 Juin, 1904
Lithograph in colors, 77cm x 50cm (ca. 30" x 20"). Mild toning in margins, with subtle repair to closed tears; Near Fine. Professionally mounted on archival linen. An anti-Progressive satirical image, using a crash-landed bi-plane to symbolize the recklessness of Asquith's Liberal government; the unfortunate banged-up chap at center appears.....
![Tovarishi Vintovkoy i molotom otprazdnuyem Krasny Oktyabr [=] "Comrades! Let's. RUSSIAN REVOLUTION, Dmitri MOOR.](https://lornebair.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/83711.jpg?width=768&height=1000&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1740452201)
First impression. Lithographed poster, 88.5cm x 61cm (ca 35" x 24"); printed in black and red on thin cream stock. Light original wear and soil, including a few ink smudges that appear to be from printing; a few tiny mended tears in margins, still Near Fine. Professionally laid down on.....
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Folio (41.5cm); original pictorial wrappers, stapled; [40]pp; ilus.; text is entirely in English. Light wear to extremities, touch of oxidation to staples, with some very mild creases to spine-fold; contents clean, complete; Near Fine. A significant issue of this landmark Soviet art magazine, issued from 1930 to 1941 to celebrate.....
Quarto (30.5cm); original pictorial wrappers, stapled; 50pp; illus. Light wear and dust-soil to wrappers, faint creasing to upper right corners; contents clean, complete; Very Good+. View was Charles Henri Ford's New York-based avant-garde magazine, published from 1940-1947, which played a significant role in introducing Surrealisim to the American public. The.....
Quarto (30.5cm); original pictorial wrappers, stapled; 48pp; illus. Staples neatly removed, light wear and dust-soil to wrappers, with some creasing to upper right corners; contents clean, complete; Very Good+. View was Charles Henri Ford's New York-based avant-garde magazine, published from 1940-1947, which played a significant role in introducing Surrealisim to.....
Offset lithograph in colors, 43cm x 29cm (17" x 11"). Signed in image, lower right. Crease to left corner, with a single short, closed tear; Very Good+. Unbacked. A fiery photomontage poster advertising a rally that appears never to have taken place, perhaps because it was scheduled for the same.....
Lithographed poster in colors, 101cm x 76.5cm (ca 39-3/4" x 30"). A fine example, professionally mounted on archival canvas. One of the most striking homefront posters of the Second World War. Lester Beall (1903-1969) was a pioneer in the use of photomontage in American graphic design, especially famous for his.....
Slim quarto (32cm); original pictorial wrappers, stapled; pp.3226-3240; illus.; text is entirely in French. Light wear and dust-soil to wrappers, subtle toning to extremities, with a bit of oxidation to staples; contents clean, complete; Very Good+. A well-preserved issue of this illustrated French satirical magazine with anarchist and anti-colonialist sensibilities.....
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