Komar & Melamid: Symbols of the Big Bang [Inscribed & Signed]

Komar & Melamid: Symbols of the Big Bang [Inscribed & Signed]

Slim quarto (25.5cm.); pictorial card wrappers; 106pp.; color illus. throughout. About Fine. Inscribed and signed on title page by the artists Vitaly Komar and Alex Melamid. Exhibition catalog of works by the Russian-American tandem conceptual artists (fl. 1967-2003).

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

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

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-.

A Portion of Jubilate Agno, a Poem by Christopher Smart, 1722-1771 [Shahn's Copy]

A Portion of Jubilate Agno, a Poem by Christopher Smart, 1722-1771 [Shahn's Copy]

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.

Poster: "Women's Liberation is Gonna Get Your Mama and Your Sister and Your Girlfiend"

Poster: "Women's Liberation is Gonna Get Your Mama and Your Sister and Your Girlfiend"

Original illustrated poster, offset printed in purple and black on white stock, measuring 54cm x 79cm (21.25" x 31"). Loss to upper left corner, edgeworn and horizontally folded, with some creasing, several short tears, and soil from old adhesive to three corners; Very Good only / B-.

Moments Preserved: Eight Essays in Photographs and Words

Moments Preserved: Eight Essays in Photographs and Words

Tall quarto (33cm). Original cream linen boards, lettered in black on spine; 183pp. (chiefly illus). Spine cloth a bit toned, else Near Fine, albeit lacking photo-illustrated slipcase. From the library of Ben and Bernarda Bryson Shahn, with estate label tipped on to front pastedown.

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

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

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.

USSR in Construction. 1937, No.3 (March)

USSR in Construction. 1937, No.3 (March)

Folio (41.5cm); photo-illustrated card wrappers, stapled; [36]pp; illus., with three illustrated plates tipped onto thicker stock in-text, and three panoramic fold-out plates designed by Es and El Lissitzky; text is in English. Light wear along spine fold and extremities, else Near Fine, with all plates intact.

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

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

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.

Hallelujah Anyway

Hallelujah Anyway

Octavo (21cm.); original boards in plum pictorial dust jacket; unpaged; extensively illus., text printed on tan stock. Light shelf wear else Very Good to Near Fine. Collection of "Picture-Poems."

Nino Caffè

Nino Caffè

Oblong folio (22.5x30.5cm.); original full red illustrated moiré silk stamped in gilt; [14]pp. & 14 color plates mounted to thick cream card stock; text photographic illus. throughout. Text leaves a bit yellowed along extremities, minor soil spots to preliminaries, else Very Good or better. From the Library of Ben and.....

A Letter from Ernst Barlach

A Letter from Ernst Barlach

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...

Roy DeCarava: A Retrospective

Roy DeCarava: A Retrospective

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.

Poster: Johnson Oorlogsmisdadiger / Volgens rechtsnormen van Neurenberg en Tokio [Johnson War Criminal / Measured by criteria used in Nuremberg and Tokyo]

Poster: Johnson Oorlogsmisdadiger / Volgens rechtsnormen van Neurenberg en Tokio [Johnson War Criminal / Measured...

Original pictorial poster (43x30cm.) printed offset in black on cream stock; previous vertical fold, offsetting from perished tape at corners; About Very Good overall.

The Schinocephalic Waif

The Schinocephalic Waif

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.

Russian Impressionists and Postimpressionists

Russian Impressionists and Postimpressionists

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

L'URSS en Construction (USSR in Construction). 1938, no.3

L'URSS en Construction (USSR in Construction). 1938, no.3

Folio (41.5cm); printed card wrappers, stapled; [36pp]; illus; text is in French. Light wear to spine fold and extremities, with a few short tears, light dustiness and faint stains to wrappers; tiny price rubber stamped to upper left corner of rear wrapper; Very Good+.

Kaethe Kollwitz

Kaethe Kollwitz

Quarto (28.5cm.); original cloth-backed boards in white pictorial dust jacket, black topstain; 70pp.; chiefly full-page illus. Jacket extremities quite toned, else Fine, scarce thus. Collection of 72 reproductions of the German artist's four print cylces, The Weaver's Cycle, the Peasant War Cycle, the War Cycle, and the Death Cycle.

Mesa Verde [Limited Edition, Signed]

Mesa Verde [Limited Edition, Signed]

Limited to 150 copies of which this is no. 134. Folio (33cm.); decorative vegetable vellum embossed in gilt, two-toned (tan and purple) cloth slipcase; 24pp.; original water color and etching by Therrien bound in. Fine. A handsome production.

Jacob Lawrence, American Painter

Jacob Lawrence, American Painter

Large quarto (29cm.); original cloth in pictorial dust jacket; 235pp.; illus. throughout. Rear jacket panel a bit dust-soiled, else Near Fine. Exhibition catalog for a retrospective of the African American artist's work, at the Seattle Art Museum.

Stop the Death Squads in El Salvador and Los Angeles

Stop the Death Squads in El Salvador and Los Angeles

Original screen print in three colors, 22" x 17" (ca 56cm x 43cm). On heavy white poster paper. Clean, uncreased and unmarked; Near Fine / Grade A.

U.S. Camera Magazine. Vol I, No. 1 (Autumn, 1938)

U.S. Camera Magazine. Vol I, No. 1 (Autumn, 1938)

Quarto (31cm). Spiral-bound, pictorial wrappers; pp72; illus. Slight rolling and soil to covers; internally clean and unmarked; bound edge still firmly attached, with none of the usual separation along perforations; Very Good Plus.

Ratfink's Hollywood

Ratfink's Hollywood

Slim quarto (27cm.); original white pictorial card wrappers ; unpaged; chiefly illus. General wear to extremities from handling, wrappers slightly toned, old price sticker inside upper cover, else interior fine. About Very Good.

Janice Mehlman: Photographs

Janice Mehlman: Photographs

Slim square quarto (21.75cm.); original photo-illustrated card wrappers; 46pp.; color and black and white photographs throughout. Light shelf wear, else Near Fine. Exhibition catalog, text in English and Italian.

What Is Poetry?

What Is Poetry?

Folio (33cm.); original pictorial thick drab boards, black cloth spine; unpaged; illus. & photographs throughout. Fine. Poetry by Ferlinghetti accompanied with illustrations by the Spanish painter Frederic Amat.

Original Etching. "Bandit's Cave"

Original Etching. "Bandit's Cave"

From the portfolio SIX AMERICAN ETCHINGS (SERIES I), published by The New Republic, New York, 1924. Edition of between 500 and 600 (per Morse).

Babelsberg: Ein Filmstudio 1912-1992

Babelsberg: Ein Filmstudio 1912-1992

Quarto (27cm.); original silver photo-illustrated card wrappers, French flaps; 368pp.; photographic illus. throughout. Near Fine. Text entirely in German. History of Babelsberg Studio outside of Berlin, the oldest large-scale film studio in the world.

Fotografía Pública: Photography in Print, 1919-1939

Fotografía Pública: Photography in Print, 1919-1939

Quarto (28.5cm.); original illustrated paper-covered boards; 270pp.; chiefly illus. Very minor shelf-wear, else Near Fine. Bilingual text in Spanish and English.

[Text in Hebrew] Ha-Kol Shekarim: Kerazot, 'itone mahteret u-posterim: shiluv ben hitnagdut li-yetsivah = It's All Lies: Leaflets, Underground Press and Posters: The Fusion of Resistance and Creativity in Israel

[Text in Hebrew] Ha-Kol Shekarim: Kerazot, 'itone mahteret u-posterim: shiluv ben hitnagdut li-yetsivah = It's...

Oblong folio (29.5x42.25cm.); original spiral-bound pictorial boards; [5],93pp.; chiefly illus. Boards a bit shelf-worn, else Very Good or better. CD-ROM mounted inside upper cover. Catalogue text in English and Hebrew.

A Meeting of American Radicals The British Scene Where It's At

A Meeting of American Radicals The British Scene Where It's At

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.

The Harlem Book of the Dead

The Harlem Book of the Dead

Quarto (26.5cm.); original white glossy photo-illustrated wrappers; [10],85pp.; illus. throughout. Wrappers slightly edge worn, old dampstain affecting latter half of textblock with subsequent cockling, else About Very Good.

Poster: Solidaridad / Solidarity / / Solidarit

Poster: Solidaridad / Solidarity / / Solidarit

Original poster, offset printed in colors on white stock, measuring 32cm x 52cm (12 5/8" x 20.5"). Old folds (as-issued in Tricontinental), discreet pinholes to corners, two spots of adhesive bleed-through at upper corners and two small abrasions to lower corners (verso); unbacked; Very Good / B-.

URSS en Construction (USSR in Construction). 1932, no.2

URSS en Construction (USSR in Construction). 1932, no.2

Folio (41.5cm); printed card wrappers, stapled; [34pp]; illus; text is in French. Light wear and thumbing to extremities, with some dustiness to rear wrapper; spinal extremities and two chips to rear wrapper expertly restored; Very Good.

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