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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![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.....
Quarto (27.5cm.); original orange, black, and white pictorial boards; viii,124pp.; illus. Boards rubbed and toned; slightly ex-library with small shelf number to spine foot, minor paper flaws to front pastedown and free endpaper from previously removed bookplate and erradicated rubberstamp. Good or better.
From the portfolio SIX AMERICAN ETCHINGS (SERIES I), published by The New Republic, New York, 1924. Edition of between 500 and 600 (per Morse).
Small quarto (22.75cm.); original cloth in cream photo-illustrated dust jacket; xi,[1],305pp.; photographic illus. throughout. Jacket extremities a bit wrinkled and somewhat dust-soiled, more heavily so to rear panel, very slight lean to spine, short closed tear mid-panel not affecting text or image, else Near Fine in About Very Good jacket.....
![[Poster] Askatasuna](http://www.lornebair.com/pictures/medium/37300.jpg?v=1534803524)
Original poster (65x45cm.) printed offset in color on white stock; some general wrinkling, tiny closed tear at bottom edge, else Very Good and sound. Issued by the Basque separatist political party Euskadi Ta Askatasuna (ETA), appropriating a detail from Picasso's anti-fascist painting Guernica, completed in 1937 after the bombing of...
![The Nazi Drawings [Ben & Bernarda Shahn's Copy]](http://www.lornebair.com/pictures/medium/29670.jpg?v=1529353612)
Quarto (30.5cm.); original white card wrappers printed in red, French flaps, clear acetate dust jacket; [16] & 30 leaves of color plates. Extremities toned with some soiling, front hinge starting to separate, else Good or better. From the library of Ben and Bernarda Shahn with their estate label inside upper...
Quarto (29cm). Black cloth, lettered in white on spine and front cover; 226,[12]pp; illus. Tight, straight, Near Fine copy, lacking jacket.
![Hot Potatoe [Sic]](http://www.lornebair.com/pictures/medium/27762.jpg?v=1529353555)
Large quarto (29.75cm.); original pictorial boards; [2],269pp.; chiefly illus. Small remainder mark to bar code on rear cover, else Fine. Compilation of the Canadian graphic novelist's shorter works, including magazine articles, individual illustrations, and comic strips.
"Revised and Remodelled from the Latest Researches, by Lady Eastlake." 2 volumes; octavo (20.5cm.); original cream cloth, paper spine labels printed in red, maroon glazed endpapers; xxv,[1],288;[2],[289]-620pp.; approx. 144 plates, occasional text illus. throughout. Cloth heavily foxed, paper labels dampstained, spines toned and ends a bit rubbed; one plate loose...
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...
Limited edition screenprint in two colors, 25" x 19" (ca 64cm x 48cm). On heavy art paper. Signed in ink, lower right. Faint vertical crease along left side of image, else Fine.
Quarto (32.5cm x 25cm). Red cloth boards (hardcover); dustjacket; 319pp; color illus. Fine copy; free of markings or wear; appears new. Near Fine dustwrapper with slight wear to exremities. Extensive collection of Russian avant-garde film posters in color by Rodchenko, Stenberg brothers, Nathan Altman, among others. Texts in English, German...
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-.
![Psalmen [Limited Edition]](http://www.lornebair.com/pictures/medium/27979.jpg?v=1529353566)
Limited to 75 copies. Small quarto (26.75cm.); original tan stitched decorative wrappers printed in three colors (red, blue, and pale blue); [8]pp.; two full-page color stencilled illus. Some light interior spotting, else Fine.
![A Balthus Notebook [Signed Bookplate Laid in]](http://www.lornebair.com/pictures/medium/28219.jpg?v=1529353575)
Octavo (21.5cm.); original cloth-backed boards in pictorial dust jacket; [6],90pp.; 4 leaves of illustrations printed on rectos and versos. Fine. Bookplate signed by the author laid in.
Small square quarto (23.5cm.); publisher's boards in brown pictorial dust jacket; x,207pp.; illus. throughout. Fine in original shrinkwrap. Bibliographical data provided by OCLC.
![[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 Great Wheadle Tragedy [Inscribed & Signed]](http://www.lornebair.com/pictures/medium/26784.jpg?v=1529353515)
Oblong octavo (13.75x21.5cm.); original cloth, pictorial plate mounted to upper cover repeated on dust jacket; unpaged; illus. Light wear to jacket extremities, else Very Near Fine. Compliment card from the publishers laid in. Signed and inscribed "For Burt" by the author on front free endpaper.
Quarto (28.75cm.); original black card wrappers printed in brown and blue, French flaps; 144pp.; color illus. throughout. Near Fine.
![A Living Lens: Photographs of Jewish Life from the Pages of the "Forward" [Inscribed & Signed]](http://www.lornebair.com/pictures/medium/32555.jpg?v=1529353703)
Folio (31cm.); original simulated cloth in black photo-illustrated dust jacket; 352pp.; photographic illus. throughout. Some general edge wear to jacket extremities, corners lightly bumped, else Very Good or better. Inscribed and signed on front free endpaper by the editor: "For Lou, A lifelong Forward reader. Much gratitude for carrying on...
Lithographed postal card, ca 19.5cm x 9cm (5-1/4" x 3-1/2"). Mild discoloration; corners slightly rounded; Very Good. Recto is a captioned portrait; verso printed for mailing, with text providing a brief biography of Anabalon, a communist-affiliated college professor who was arrested, tortured and killed by Chilean government forces in 1932...
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.
![A Portion of Jubilate Agno, a Poem by Christopher Smart, 1722-1771 [Shahn's Copy]](http://www.lornebair.com/pictures/medium/28812.jpg?v=1529353595)
Square 16mo (12.75cm.); original tan decorative wrappers bound in contemporary limp morocco, upper cover lettered in black; 26pp.; illus. Wrappers darkened, else Very Good and sound. From the Library of Ben and Bernarda Shahn with their estate label inside upper wrapper.
Silkscreen in four colors, 26" x 20" (ca 66cm x 51cm). From an edition of approximately 75 copies, hand-signed and dated lower right. Clean, fresh example; tiny tack-holes and minor wear at corners, else Fine; Grade A/A-.
Original poster, offset lithographed in black on white stock, measuring 56x37cm. (22 x 14.5"). Dustsoiling to extremities, fairly discreet tape repair to verso extremities, a few small, shallow losses to corners and left-hand edge, none affecting image. Good and sound.
Quarto (29.5cm.); publisher's two-toned cloth in pictorial dust jacket; 309pp.; chiefly color illus. throughout. A number of small losses and tears to jacket extremities, spine slightly cocked, else Near Very Good and sound. Catalogue raisonné of the Russian realist and historical painter.
Original lithographed poster, offset printed in three colors on off-white stock, measuring 65cm x 97cm (25.5" x 38.25"). Professionally linen-backed; Fine, well-preserved example.
Photomechanically printed palm card 12cm x 9cm (ca 4-3/4" x 3-1/2"). Printed in black and red on medium card stock. Minor surface soil, faint creases; Very Good. A vivid image, protesting the rise of global fascism as exemplified in the Fascist review Antieuropa (founded 1929), presumably produced between the journal's...
Oblong quarto (11cm x 24cm). Brown cloth-covered boards; [880pp]; entirely illus. Sun-fading to spine and approximately 1-1/2" of front board; remainder dot (?) to bottom edge of text block; Very Good overall and internally fine.
Folio (29.75cm.); original cloth in green pictorial dust jacket; xi,[1],212pp.; chiefly illustrations, both in black and white and color. Jacket a bit unevenly faded, else Near Fine. Exhibition catalog edited by Frank Whitford.
Original illustrated poster, lithographed in colors and measuring 51.5cm x 71cm (20.25" x 28"). Professionally linen-backed, with old fold lines faintly visible; some expert, pinpoint retouching to a few spots along lower edge, else Fine.
![Space 1026 [Space Art] [Limited Edition]](http://www.lornebair.com/pictures/medium/32538.jpg?v=1529353702)
Limited to 200 copies of which this is no. 150. Square quarto (28cm.); postbound screenprinted wrappers; unpaged contents comprised of screenprints, collages, and textiles, including two folding plates. Undated but several contributions dated 2002 in image. Upper wrapper slightly scratched else Fine. Freeborn's name has been added to the list...
![Viisi Albumia / Fem Albumer / Five Albums / [Text in Russian] Piat' Al'bomov [Inscribed & Signed with Original Drawing]](http://www.lornebair.com/pictures/medium/34653.jpg?v=1529353780)
Folio (31cm.); publisher's black pictorial blind-lettere cloth, color plate mounted to upper cover; [4],231,[1]xipp.; chiefly color illus. First and last few leaves printed on lower quality stock with subsequent toning, else a Fine copy. Inscribed and signed in Russian on half title by the Ukrainian-American conceptual artist, including a sketch...
![[Prospectus for] Masada: The Victory of the Vanquished. Homage to Moshe Dayan](http://www.lornebair.com/pictures/medium/31415.jpg?v=1529353655)
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).
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.
![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...
Octavo (24cm.); original white pictorial staplebound wrappers; 80pp.;illus. in color. Fine. With bifolium list of the 75 color plates reproduced in this exhibition catalogue to accompany an exhibition of Lipschutz's private collection of war posters, dating from the first World War to the present (1982) day.
![Sixteen Small Portraits of Katherine Made by Her Friends & Colleagues [Limited Edition]](http://www.lornebair.com/pictures/medium/32280.jpg?v=1529353689)
Limited 150 copies of which this is no. 60. Octavo (23cm.); original thick blue papier-peint wrappers, printed paper labels mounted to upper cover and spine; unpaged; chiefly illus. Fine.
Folio (31cm.); original simulated cloth in black photo-illustrated dust jacket; mostly unpaged; chiefly photographic illustrations. Bilingual text in English and Spanish. Fine.
![[Text in Russian] Vladimir Vasil'evich Lebedev, 1891-1967](http://www.lornebair.com/pictures/medium/33437.jpg?v=1529353728)
Small quarto (25.5cm.); publisher's cloth in white pictorial dust jacket; [2],304pp.; photographic portrait frontispiece, illus. throughout, many in color. Jacket extremities rather rubbed and worn with a number of short closed tears, one touching upper panel image without loss, else Near Fine in Good to Very Good jacket. Beautiful catalogue...
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