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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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
Single quarto issue (29cm x 22cm) in original wrappers; 80pp; illus. Mild wear to wrapper edges; spine abraded; internally clean, fresh and unmarked. Numerous mounted color plates. Contributors include V. Zimenko, A. Pavlov, N. Vinogradova, others. Front cover illustration by N. Vesselova. Text entirely in Russian, though the Table of.....
![Poster] 460 Years of Chicano History [Signed](http://www.lornebair.com/pictures/medium/35060.jpg?v=1554414996)
Original poster (57.25x49cm.) printed offset in colors on white stock. Fine. Signed and dated 4-26-1991 in silver pen by the artist at bottom right-hand corner. Poster reproduction of the 8x8' mural originally located at the Victor Clothing Co. in Los Angeles. The image is comprised of dozens of vignettes and.....
More info about Poster] 460 Years of Chicano History [Signed
Original silkscreened poster, text printed in black on thin, powder gray stock made with coca leaf pulp, measuring 49.75cm x 70cm (19.5" x 27.5"). Old folds smoothed out, small, unobtrusve tear at center, with faint smudge at upper left corner; very Near Fine / A-.
More info about Poster: The Movement of the Liberation of the Coca Plant
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+.
More info about L'URSS en Construction (USSR in Construction). 1938, no.3
![Hudibras. Plates I-XII (complete) [from] Hogarth Restored: the Whole Works of the Celebrated...](http://www.lornebair.com/pictures/medium/008381.jpg?v=1529353112)
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.....
Folio (33cm.); original black pictorial staplebound card wrappers; unpaged; chiefly illus. Wrapper extremities a bit rubbed, minor dust-soiling to rear wrapper, else Very Good and sound.
![Text in Russian] Nikolai Nikolaevich Ge / Nikolai Gay](http://www.lornebair.com/pictures/medium/34635.jpg?v=1529353780)
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
Original poster, lithographed in three colors on off-white stock and measuring 72.25cm x 51.5cm (28.5" x 20.25" - the smallest of three formats). Professionally linen-backed, with old fold lines faintly visible; expert conservation to upper edges of blue portion on the flag, with 2cm infilling and professional re-touching to upper.....
Limited to 300 copies of which this is no. 111. Large square quarto (30cm.); original cloth in white gilt-lettered dust jacket; unpaged; tissue-guarded plates by Ohno. Jacket fore-edges significantly foxed, a few tiny closed tears to extremities, cloth edges very lightly discolored from damp, else Good or better. Signed by.....
Quarto (28.25cm.); original tan pictorial cloth, top edge gilt; xv,[1],184pp.; frontispiece, illus., many full-page, throughout, map endpapers. Cloth a bit dust-soiled, very minor wear to spine ends, engraved bookplate of a George Brooke Roberts to front pastedown, small contemporary Christmas card tipped to front flyleaf, else Very Good or better.....
More info about Voyaging Southward from the Strait of Magellan
Oblong folio (28x38.75cm.); original cloth in orange photo-illustrated dust jacket; unpaged; photographic frontispieces & 202 full-page illus. in color and black and white. A few faint scratches to upper panel else Near Fine.
Slim quarto (28cm.); original white photo-illustrated staplebound card wrappers; 11pp.; illus. in text. Light wear else Near Fine. Inscribed and signed by Kremen on title page: "For Dorothy & Detlev / So good of you to visit us in friendship / Krem '90." Catalog for a traveling exhibition first displayed.....
More info about From the 2nd Decade: Collages by Irwin Kremen, 1979-1989 [Inscribed & Signed
Oblong quarto (17cm x 23cm); publisher's red pictorial cloth boards; xi; 82pp text, each page with facing plate leaf. Spine ends and corners worn, with rubbing, hand-soil, and several stains to panels; still a tight and sound copy, internally fresh and clean - Very Good.
Slim oblong quarto (22.5cm.); original red photo-illustrated card wrappers; 96pp.; photographic illus. throughout. Wrappers a bit worn along extremities, rear panel lightly dust-soiled, else About Very Good and sound. Gift inscription to title page mentions that "Marius Péladeau is a native of Brattleboro, and a friend." Catalog of works of.....
More info about Chansonetta: The Life and Photographs of Chansonetta Stanley Emmons, 1858-1937
Quarto. Cloth boards; dustjacket; 482pp. Tight, Near Fine copy in barely edge-rubbed dustwrapper. Essential reference; includes visual examples for many, and capsule biographies for more than 2,200 Russian & Soviet artists.
More info about A Dictionary of Russian and Soviet Artists 1420-1970
Folio (31cm.); original two-toned (blue and black) cloth lettered in gilt; mixed paginations; chiefly leaves of plates depicting 1209 illustrations. One signature (image nos. 947-77) separated but present, else Fine. Bollingen Series XXXVII. From the library of Ben and Bernarda Shahn with their estate label to front pastedown.
More info about Jewish Symbols in the Greco-Roman Period. Volume Three: Illustrations
Folio (42cm); printed wrappers, saddle-stitched; [48]pp; illus.; text is entirely in English. Light wear along spine-fold and wrapper extremities, with a few short tears to same, with two clear tape mends on verso; shallow loss to upper left corner of rear wrapper; Very Good+.
Original pictorial poster (61x45cm.) printed offset in purple on white stock; crease and subsequent wrinkling to right-hand edge, additional edge wear, else Good or better.
Original pictorial poster (40x27.5cm.) printed silk screen in red, blue, brown, and yellow; previous folds, else Very Good and sound. Protest poster issued by the worldwide nonpartisan association of university student organizations, depicting a muscular young Korean man showing two bedraggled U.S. soldiers out of the image. Issued at the.....
Folio (33.5cm.); original die-cut illustrated staplebound wrappers in the shape of a briefcase; unpaged; illus. About Fine.
Slim quarto (28.5cm.); original red cloth; 94pp.; photographic portrait frontispiece, illus. throughout, text in double columns. Spine perished, boards and textblock rather soiled. A Fair only copy, well worn possibly due to its previous owner, Ben Shahn, one of the subjects of this, Parks's second work. Other subjects include Ralph.....
![Poster] Kraak de Kroning [Crack the Coronation](http://www.lornebair.com/pictures/medium/31838.jpg?v=1529353670)
Original photo-montaged poster, offset printed in red and black on white stock, measuring 47.5x32cm. Trivial handling, very Near Fine / A.
More info about Poster] Kraak de Kroning [Crack the Coronation
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
Broadside, 47cm x 35cm. Printed recto-only, on newsprint. Text in 4 columns beneath woodcut illustration, within decorative border; 8 cuts in text. Illustration signed "beltrán" in type, below image. Old folds; edge-chips; paper moderately browned; about Very Good.
More info about Corrido del Congreso de la Paz [Ballad of the Peace Congress
Quarto (29cm). Black cloth, lettered in white on spine and front cover; 226,[12]pp; illus. Tight, straight, Near Fine copy, lacking jacket.
Octavo (23cm). Red cloth boards, lettered in gilt on spine, with gilt pictorial device to spine and front cover; dustjacket; 467pp; illus; pictorial endpapers. Presentation copy, inscribed by Young on half-title: To Ethel Clyde, With Best Wishes From Her Friend / Art Young," undated. Also laid in is a brief.....
More info about Art Young, His Life And Times. Edited by John Nicholas Beffel
Original photo-illustrated poster, lithographed in colors and measuring 56.5cm x 71cm (22.25 x 28"). Professionally linen-backed, with old fold lines faintly visible; a few small spots expertly retouched at folds, closest to the edges; Near Fine. A-.
More info about Poster: "Do with less - so they'll have enough! Rationing Gives You Your Fair Share"
![Poster] Zo Ontruimt Krasnapolski: Kra$ Laat Huizen 7 Jaar Leegstaan + Verkrotten [This is How...](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.
Quarto. Cloth boards; dustjacket; 383pp. Tight, clean, Near Fine copy in lightly edge-rubbed dustwrapper with original acetate overlay, as issued.
Octavo sketchbook (9-1/4" x 6-1/2" / ca 23.5cm x 16cm). Green cloth-covered boards, decorated by the artist on front cover; 146 leaves, fully used but for two preliminary leaves. Minor external wear; binding slightly shaken, but all leaves still firmly attached; contents fine. Glintenkamp's signature to recto of first leaf;.....
More info about Sketch Book of 146 Leaves, Documenting Travels in Austria, Italy and Hungary, 1930
![Poster] Leegstandwet is Ontruimingswet: 20.000 Krakers op Straat / Leegstandwet Beschermt...](http://www.lornebair.com/pictures/medium/35075.jpg?v=1546641441)
Original pictorial poster (61x43cm.) printed offset in black and pink on white stock. Extremities quite wrinkled with a number of small closed tears along edges, none approaching text, else About Very Good. Protest poster issued in response to the newly passed "vacancy laws" (leegstandwet), allowing home owners to rent their.....
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.
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.
More info about A Balthus Notebook [Signed Bookplate Laid in
Original pictorial poster (62x42.75cm.) printed offset in purple and black on white stock; light wear to extremities, else Very Good.
![Text in Russian] Russkoe Iskusstvo: XX Veka](http://www.lornebair.com/pictures/medium/34477.jpg?v=1529353769)
Octavo (24.5cm.); publisher's red pictorial paper-covered boards; 223pp.; color illus. throughout. Rear board a hint soiled, corners bumped, else About Fine. Treatise on 20th-century Russian art. Text entirely in Russian.
Original illustrated poster, offset printed in black on white stock, measuring 43.25cm x 56cm (17" x 22"). Two old folds, shallow chip to lower left corner, with a touch of dustiness to extremities and a patch of faint toning; unbacked; Very Good / B.
![Essai sur les Arts Plastiques Vivants en Republique du Tchad [drop title] [Cover title: Les Arts...](http://www.lornebair.com/pictures/medium/31643.jpg?v=1529353662)
Folio (31cm.); original drab staplebound mimeographed wrappers; unpaged; chiefly illus. throughout. Several shallow losses and one long closed tear along wrapper extremities, none touching text, some dampstaining to wrappers, more noticeably to rear cover; contents about fine. Good or better overall.
Octavo (21cm.); original simulated cloth in pale blue and white pictorial dust jacket; xvi,[2],299pp. Jacket extremities a bit chipped and worn with clean one-inch loss to top edge of upper cover not touching text or image, some minor dust-soil. Near Fine in an About Very Good copy of the scarce.....
More info about The Desire and Pursuit of the Whole: A Romance of Modern Venice
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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