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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Quarto (27.75cm.); original simulated cloth in white pictorial dust jacket; 256pp.; profusely illustrated, many in color. Remainder rubberstamp to bottom textblock edge, else Very Near Fine. A New York Graphic Society Book.
Large square quarto (28cm.); original two-toned cloth in white pictorial dust jacket printed in red and black; mostly unpaginated; chiefly illustrations, some printed in red. Bottem edge of boards rubbed, rear jacket panel dust-soiled, remnants of old price sticker to front free endpaper, else Very Good and sound.
![Poster: Leven Nieuwmarkt [and] Pardon, Atoombommetje](http://www.lornebair.com/pictures/medium/31811.jpg?v=1529353669)
Original color pictorial silkscreen poster (61x43cm.) printed in red and black on white stock; faint previous folds, minor wear from handling, else Very Good or better.
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.
![Bookmaking: The Illustrated Guide to Design & Production [Bernarda Shahn's copy]](http://www.lornebair.com/pictures/medium/32558.jpg?v=1529353703)
Large octavo (26cm.); original black pictorial cloth lettered in brown and gilt; [16],399pp.; illus. throughout. Light shelf wear, else Very Good to Near Fine. The artist and book illustrator Bernarda Shahn's copy with her extensive notes to front flyleaves and original illustration on p. 399. From the library of Ben...
Small quarto. Gilt-stamped cloth boards with pictorial paste-on; 148pp; chiefly illus. A bright, fine copy; without dustwrapper, as issued. Attractive small monograph on the work of the Austrian surrealist painter and sculptor.
![Incident at the Museum, or Water Music / [Text in Russian] Sluchai v Muzee, ili Muzyka na Vode](http://www.lornebair.com/pictures/medium/34529.jpg?v=1529353773)
Slim folio (30.5cm.); publisher's cloth tape-backed boards, color photographic plate mounted to upper cover; [2],25pp.; six photographic plates mounted to grey card stock in text. Some wear from handling, including short closed tear to upper cover fore-edge not approaching text, else Very Good or better. Handsomely produced exhibition catalog bilingual...
Square quarto (27.5cm); original cloth in pictorial price-clipped dust jacket; [6],122,[16]pp.; illus. Jacket edges a touch shelf-worn, else Near Fine. "Published in cooperation with the Museum of Modern Art."
![[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.
Edition limited to 100. Small quarto (ca 29cm x 19cm / 11" x 7-1/2"). Album of 18 original signed artworks, mostly woodcuts but also including etchings and mixed-media pieces, each signed and titled in pencil below image. Lithographed title page, in the publisher's folding cloth box, as issued. Fine.
Slim, square quarto (25.75cm.); original pictorial boards; 103pp.; color illus. throughout. Light dustiness, else Near Fine. Bilingual (English and Spanish) exhibition catalog of works by Russian-American conceptual artists Ilya and his wife Emilia Kabakov.
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.
Lithographed poster in 4 colors; 153 x 103 cm (ca 60-1/4" x 41"). Archivally backed on linen. Few minor spots of restoration along upper margin; two brief (1") repaired tears; Grade A-.
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-.
Original lithographed poster, printed in colors on white stock measuring ca.43cm x 56xcm (17" x 22"). 1cm tear at upper right corner, with a few small rubs to lower quarter; Near Fine.
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.
Octavo (23.5cm.); publisher's cloth in white pictorial dust jacket; xvii,[1],198pp.; illus. throughout. Just About Fine.
Original poster, lithographed in three colors on white stock, measuring 58.5cm x 76cm (23" x 30"). A Fine copy / A.
![[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](http://www.lornebair.com/pictures/medium/28407.jpg?v=1529353584)
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.
![[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.
Folio (32cm.); publisher's cloth in pictorial dust jacket; 255pp.; color illus. throughout. Light wear to jacket and cloth extremities, brief tape residue to front free endpaper from previously removed sticker, else Very Good and sound. Catalogue raisonné of the Russian-American conceptual artist, text including commentaries provided by the artist himself.....
Small square quarto (23cm.); publisher's cloth in blue pictorial price-clipped dust jacket; xxi,[1],268pp.; 40 leaves of illus. printed on rectos and versos. Minor wear to jacket extremities, tiny hole in cloth at bottom edge of upper cover, else Near Fine in Very Good or better jacket.
Quarto (28.5cm.); original black cloth, printed paper plate mounted to upper cover; unpaged; chiefly illus. Spine quite sunned, spine ends a bit rubbed, else About Very Good and sound. Attractively produced catalog of the murals and paintings by the Mexican artist Orozco (1883-1949).
Original poster, offset printed in colors on white stock, measuring 32.5cm x 53cm (12 7/8" x 21"). Faint horizontal fold at center, discreet pinholes to corners, adhesive residue to corners on verso, with small scratch to lower right; unbacked; Very Good+ / B.
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.
![[Text in Russian] Iskusstvo Narodov SSSR, 1917-1970-e](http://www.lornebair.com/pictures/medium/34048.jpg?v=1529353751)
Large folio (32.25cm.); publisher's leatherette in white pictorial dust jacket, yellow board slipcase; 502pp.; chiefly color illus. throughout. Some wear and sunning to slipcase, chipping to jacket corners and spine ends else Very Good and sound overall. Massive catalogue of Soviet art.
9 volumes; octavo (20.75cm.); uniformly bound in tan pictorial staplebound card wrappers, house together in pictorial paper string-bound chemise; illus. About Fine. Includes the main "Documentation" volume and eight additional pamphlets with art and essays on various topics, including race, spirit, war/death, birth, food, body, shelter, and environment. Text in...
![Geniuses & Other Eccentrics: Photographing My Friends [Bernarda Shahn's Copy]](http://www.lornebair.com/pictures/medium/29752.jpg?v=1529353614)
Quarto (27.5cm.); original silver photo-illustrated wrappers; [2].vii,[1],185pp.; photographic portraits throughout. Wrappers somewhat soiled and lightly foxed as is textblock, else Near Very Good and sound. From the library of Ben and Bernarda Shahn with their estate label inside upper wrapper. Envelope addressed to Bernarda used as bookmark on pp. 116-7.....
Original drypoint etching. Sheet size 22.5cm x 29.5cm (ca 9" x 11-1/2"); image area 18cm x 24.5cm. Signed in plate, lower right; titled and signed in pencil in lower margin. No edition stated (artist's proof?). Very faint soiling at margins; Near Fine.
Two extraordinary hand-crafted parade banners, ca. 110" x 84" (9 feet x 7 feet), one slightly smaller. Each entirely composed of hook-work with colored yarns on white muslin backing. Slight age-toning and soil; a few threads loose but no significant losses; Near Fine condition overall. Folded and stored in original...
![The True Story of Santy Claus [Limited Edition]](http://www.lornebair.com/pictures/medium/21252.jpg?v=1529353302)
Limited to an unknown number of copies. Slim octavo (20cm.); original tan pictorial boards printed in white, glassine dust jacket; 27pp.; color frontispiece, full-page illus. throughout. Boards a bit foxed along spine edges, else Very Good.
![[Poster] 8 April Demonstreer 20 Uur, Dam / Alle Politietroepen Weg Uit Amsterdam / Baas in Eigen Stad [Demonstration April 8... Get All Policemen Out of Amsterdam / Let's Be the Boss Of Our Own Town]](http://www.lornebair.com/pictures/medium/35301.jpg?v=1529353812)
Original pictorial poster (73.5x61cm.) printed offset in black on white newsprint; previous folds with some shallow splitting, a few additional short closed tears to extremities, none approaching text or image, stock a bit toned, else About Very Good.
Octavo (21.25cm); original blue cloth, gilt-lettered spine; 324pp. Spine ends a bit rubbed with closed horizontal crack about one inch from spine foot, else Very Good or better. Later edition, this collection of essays on art history, theater, and music first published in 1906.
Folio (31.25cm.); publisher's boards in orange pictorial dust jacket; xiii,[3],428pp.; color illus. throughout. Very minor dust-soil to rear jacket panel, tiny bookseller ticket to front free endpaper, else Near Fine.
Large quarto (27.5cm.); original pictorial boards; 175pp.; illus. throughout. Fine. Text entirely in German. Very attractively produced and illustrated overview of the photomontage works of John Heartfield.
![Phantasies of a Prisoner [Signed]](http://www.lornebair.com/pictures/medium/28648.jpg?v=1529353590)
Quarto (28.5cm.); original cloth in white pictorial dust jacket; [6]pp. & 70 plates. Jacket spine a bit toned, else Fine. Signed by the author on p. [1]. Early graphic novel first begun while Naeve was imprisoned for opposing World War II "on humanitarian grounds."
Small original photographic portrait (15.25x10.25cm.), bottom edge with contemporary typescript note "Kathleen Millay, Author of THE BEGGAR AT THE GATE, Published by Horace Liveright Inc. N.Y. Photograph by Man Ray, Paris." Tiny loss at bottom left-hand corner not affecting image or text, else Very Good. Author portrait of Edna St.....
Octavo (21cm.); original simulated cloth in blue pictorial dust jacket; unpaged [126pp]; chiefly illus. Light wear to jacket and board extremities, mostly at top fore-edge corner of upper panel, else a Very Good or better, unfaded copy.
Original lithographed poster, 77cm x 53cm (ca 30" x 21"). Printed in colors on thin, matte-coated paper. Light overall creasing; bottom left corner toned on verso; light soil; Very Good condition, with no losses or fold-lines. Unbacked.
Octavo (24cm.); original cloth in pictorial dust jacket; xvi,301pp.; frontispiece, illus. throughout. Minor wrinkling to jacket spine crown and top corners, else Near Fine. John Ruskin: The Later Years, would not be published until 2000.
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