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 drypoint etching. Sheet size 27.5cm x 41cm (ca 10-3/4" x 16"); image area 15.5cm x 30cm. No edition stated (artist's proof?). Signed in pencil, lower right. Old crease and kraft paper adhesions to extremities (well away from image); Near Fine.
![Text in Cyrillic] Gosudarstvennyi Russkii Muzei Leningrad: Zhivopis, skul'ptura, grafika,...](http://www.lornebair.com/pictures/medium/34331.jpg?v=1529353762)
Folio (34.25cm.); publisher's linen in pictorial dust jacket; 307pp.; chiefly color illus. Some wrinkling to jacket extremities, else Very Good or better. Fine art catalog of the works displayed at the present-day's State Russian Museum in St. Petersburg.
Folio (32cm.); publisher's cloth in photo-illustrated dust jacket; 344pp.; photographs throughout. Fine copy, still in the original shrinkwrap. Presumed first printing, all bibliographical data provided by OCLC record no. 35550970.
Four original two-color silkscreen prints; approx. 36cm x 27cm or the reverse (sheet size 46cm x 36cm), on heavy stock; each image signed in plate and dated 1987. Fine condition.
More info about Four silkscreen prints of the Watsonville, CA Cannery Strike of 1985-7
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.
More info about URSS en Construction (USSR in Construction). 1932, no.2
Octavo (21cm.); original orange staplebound wrappers; [8]pp.; illus. About Fine. Exhibition catalog of works by a 22-year-old artist, text by historian Peter Ackroyd. Bookplate signed by Ackroyd laid in.
More info about Stephen Harwood: East End Paintings [Bookplate Signed by Ackroyd 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] 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.....
More info about Text in Russian] Vladimir Vasil'evich Lebedev, 1891-1967
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.
![Bataille Secrète en France. 167 dessins de l'auteur [TOGETHER WITH] Original pencil and...](http://www.lornebair.com/pictures/medium/26125.jpg?v=1529353486)
Octavo (20cm.); original cream pictorial wrappers printed in red and black depicting a signed illustration by Girard of a fallen soldier; 292pp.; illus. by the author throughout, including many full-paged. Spine a bit darkened, top textblock edge stained with very shallow bleeding onto leaves. A Very Good and tight copy.....
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 (32.5cm.); publisher's boards in glossy pictorial dust jacket; 200pp.; color illus. throughout. Fine. Forms part of the series Schools and Movements.
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Oblong 4to (25.5cm x 34cm). Spiral-bound pictorial boards; title page and 31 leaves of machine-lithographed plates after watercolors by the artist. Descriptive text printed in three languages (Spanish, French, and English). Light rubbing to boards and board edges; with two spots of abrasion to front board; mild toning to plate.....
More info about Estampas de la Revolucion Española - 19 Julio de 1936
64 images of various sizes (from 6.5x4.25cm. to 17.5x12.75cm.); includes 38 snapshots and 26 postcards, 20 of which have brief manuscript annotations in ink to versos; a few with wear to extremities, some images blurred or faded, but still a Very Good collection.
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.....
More info about The Nazi Drawings [Ben & Bernarda Shahn's Copy
Quarto (29cm.); original two-toned cloth (red and black) lettered in blind on upper cover, spine lettered in black; xvi,230pp.; color illus. throughout. Fine, albeit lacking jacket. Exhibition catalog of the works of the Russian abstract artist.
Folio (31.5cm.); original linen in pictorial dust jacket, cardboard slipcase with peach printed and pictorial paper labels mounted to spine and upper edge; xxxiv & 250 plates, including folding, mounted, color illustrations. Minor wear to slipcase else Very Good to Near Fine.
![Poster] Leegstandswet = Oorlog [Vacancy Law = War](http://www.lornebair.com/pictures/medium/35078.jpg?v=1546641442)
Original pictorial poster (42.75x61cm.) printed offset in black on white stock. Wrinkling from handling, as well as some old tape repairs to verso not showing through to image, else About Very Good. Squatters movement protest poster issued in response to the newly passed vacancy law ("leegstandswet"), which allowed home owners.....
More info about Poster] Leegstandswet = Oorlog [Vacancy Law = War
Original poster, offset printed in black on white stock, measuring 67.5cm x 80.5cm. Light wear to extremities, old horizontal and vertical folds with attendant creasing; Very Good+.
Original poster (43x30cm.) printed silkscreen in colors on white stock; light wear, else Very Good to Near Fine. Poster issued by the Dutch organization the Bond Werkschuw Tuig (translation: Federation of Work-Shy Riff Raff). The term was first used in the 1960s in reference to the young men whose long.....
One of 150 hand-numbered copies on rag, with 12 mounted original wood engravings on rice paper by Ilse Bischoff, including frontispiece pencil-signed by the artist. Octavo. Vellum-backed blue cloth boards; paper spine label; 253pp. Vellum portion of binding browned and discolored; bit of rubbing to boards; internally clean, bright and.....
![Poster] Demonstratie Tegen de Sloop in de Nieuwmarkt! Vanavond half acht Westermarkt / Vandaag...](http://www.lornebair.com/pictures/medium/35298.jpg?v=1546641442)
Original pictorial poster (59.5x41.75cm.) printed offset in black on white stock; minor wrinkling from handling, else Very Good or better.
Original poster, lithographed in three colors on white stock, measuring 58.5cm x 76cm (23" x 30"). A Fine copy / A.
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 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
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.
Single quarto issue (29cm x 22cm) in original wrappers; 80pp; illus. Mild wear to wrapper edges and spine; internally clean, fresh and unmarked. Numerous mounted color plates. Contributors include B. Nikiforov, N. Voronov, V. Bulgakov, others. Front cover illustration by T. Borodin. Text entirely in Russian, though the Table of.....
Tabloid (17-1/2" x 12"); 24pp; illus. Horizontal fold (as issued); very mild toning to extremities; a Near Fine example.
Original illustrated poster, offset printed in black, red, and green on white stock, measuring 89.5cm x 58cm (35.25" x 22.75"). Two old folds, with some trivial dustiness and a few scattered black, red, and green ink spots along the margins; unbacked; Near Fine / A.
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![Poster] Peace Is Patriotic / Bill Weege Graphics, Sept 30 - Oct 12 Wisconsin Union Theater Gallery](http://www.lornebair.com/pictures/medium/43498.jpg?v=1554848338)
Original silkscreen poster printed in black on thick white stock (53.5x53.5cm.); Fine condition. Exhibit announcement for a brief show held at the Wisconsin Union Theater Gallery at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. "Peace Is Patriotic," also the title of Weege's massive 1967 portfolio, is printed along the four edges of.....
Original illustrated poster, offset printed in three colors on white stock, measuring 43cm x 56cm (17" x 22"). Light handling, a few horizontal bends, with some faint, scattered soil along the left margin; Very Good+.
Square quarto (26.5cm.); original cloth in pictorial dust jacket; 154pp.; chiefly illus. Light wear to jacket extremities, tiny white soil spots to rear panel, else Near Fine in Very Good jacket. Text in French and English.
More info about T'ang Haywen: Les Chemins de l'Encre / Paths of Ink
Original illustrated poster, offset printed in three colors on white stock, measuring 44.5cm x 54cm (17.5" x 21.25"). Two faint folds smoothed out, tiny pin-hole near text at lower right panel, else Near Fine.
More info about Poster: Your tax dollars at work? DON'T pay!
Original pictorial poster (63x39.75cm.) printed offset in brown over yellow on white stock; shallow 2-inch loss at left-hand margin touching text without loss of meaning, additional short closed tear at top edge touching text, also without loss of meaning, else a Good, vibrant copy. Calls for the boycotting of Outspan.....
Folio (32cm.); original cloth in tan pictorial dust jacket; 342pp.; illus throughout. Spine and top edges of jacket faded to pale blue, else Fine. Heartfield, aka Helmut Hertzfeld, was an important Berlin Dadaist and among the earliest artists to use the technique of photomontage; his work from the 1930s, much.....
Original photographic broadside, offset printed in black on white stock, measuring 21.5cm x 35.5cm. Mild handling and scattered dust-soil, with a few faint creases and short tears to extremities; Very Good.
Folio (30.75cm.); two-toned cloth in gilt photo-illustrated dust jacket; vii,[3],212pp.; photographic illus. throughout. Jacket extremities rubbed with clear tape reinforcement to bottom edge and spine crown, else Near Fine in About Very Good jacket. Review copy with two original promotional photographs and typed letter from the publisher laid in. Errata.....
More info about The Dance Photography of Carl Van Vechten [Review Copy
Folio (41.5cm); photo-illustrated card wrappers, stapled; [36]pp; illus; text is in English. Minor wear and a few creases to spine fold and extremities, with dustiness to rear wrapper; occasional thumbing to margins; Very Good+.
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.
Limited to 20 copies of which this is no. 3. Original lithograph; sheet size 41.5x33.25; image size 27.5x21.5cm. Some tape residue at corners, else Fine. Signed and captioned in pencil by the author at bottom margin.
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