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 silkscreened poster, printed in red and black on off-white stock, measuring 89cm x 58.5cm (35" x 23"). One of 75 numbered copies signed by the artist in pencil at lower margin, this being copy no.11. Light toning and minor signs of handling to extremities, else bright and Near Fine / A-.
Quarto (29.5cm.); original green gilt-embossed boards; 39pp. & approx. [40] leaves of color photographs, some folding. Small bump at the bottom edge of both covers, else Near Fine. Text in English and Russian.
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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.
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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.
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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Oblong folio (26.5x37.5cm.); publisher's string-bound decorative limp paper-covered boards, printed paper label mounted to upper cover and speckled with gilt, all edges gilt, green- and gilt-speckled endpapers; [2]pp. & 35 leaves of hand-colored collotype plates, captions printed in English, tissue guards present; colophon printed in Japanese bound in rear. Very...
Original aquatint. Sheet size 49.5cm x 67.5cm (ca 19-3/4" x 26-1/2"); image area 45cm x 61cm. Signed and numbered (1/50) in pencil, lower right, titled lower left. Slight soil to verso and to margins; a strong, clear and clean impression.
Folio (35.5cm.); pictorial bifolium printed in green, yellow, and black, author photograph printed on the upper panel. Closed tears and shallow losses along wrapper extremities, the whole rather toned due to poor paper stock. About Very Good and sound overall. Published as a supplement to the San Francisco Sunday Examiner, 1899.
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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.
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.......
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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.
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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.
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Tabloid (17-1/2" x 12"); 24pp; illus. Horizontal fold (as issued); very mild toning to extremities; a Near Fine example.
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.
Oblong quarto (23cm x 28cm). Pictorial wrappers; 11pp text; [44pp] illustrations and commentary. Together with the final manuscript "dummy" for the finished book, bound into vinyl wrappers with illustrations provided in xerox facsimile. Both volumes fine. Bernarda Shahn's own copies, unsigned but with Shahn estate labels tipped onto front pastedown...
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.
Original photo-illustrated poster (86.5x56cm.) printed offset in black on white stock; illustrated with the well-known photographic portrait of Mooney taken outside his cell shortly after his second trial, in 1933. Previous folds, just a hint of toning to extremities, else Very Good or better.
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"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...
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Quarto (25.75cm.); original half maroon cloth over black cloth boards, gilt-lettered spine, all edges stained blue, in grey board slipcase, printed paper spine label mounted to slipcase spine; unpaged; chiefly illustrations. Imprint in German, else text entirely in English. Accompanied as usual with staplebound pamphlet providing a German translation by...
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Octavo (22cm.); original yellow decorative cloth stamped in grey, gilt-lettered spine; xvii,[1],216pp. Spine a bit toned, else Near Fine, albeit lacking jacket. Inscribed and signed to artists Ben and Bernarda Shahn on front free endpaper: "For Bernarda and Ben, with affection and admiration / J T S." From the library...
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Octavo (20.25cm.); original cloth in magenta pictorial dust jacket; [14],251pp.; photographic frontispiece, illus. throughout. Jacket extremities a bit rubbed with two short closed tears to top edge of upper panel not affecting text, else Very Good or better. Includes contributions by the Nigerian series editor Joseph Okpaku, David Diop, and...
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Original lithographed poster, offset printed in black on white stock, measuring 44.5cm x 57cm (17.5" x 22.5"). Light wear and a few creases to extremities; Very Good+ or better / B+.
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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.
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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.......
More info about Larousse Dictionary of Painters [Bernarda Shahn's copy
Original drypoint etching. Sheet size 23cm x 30.5cm (ca 9" x 12"); image area 18cm x 25cm. Titled and signed in pencil in lower margin. Mounted to hinged gallery mat. No edition stated (artist's proof?). Mat dusted; print clean and bright, with very faint toning at in image; Near Fine.
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).
Quarto (28.5cm.); original illustrated paper-covered boards; 270pp.; chiefly illus. Very minor shelf-wear, else Near Fine. Bilingual text in Spanish and English.
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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...
More info about Bookmaking: The Illustrated Guide to Design & Production [Bernarda Shahn's copy
Slim 12mo (16.75cm.); publisher's tan decorative card wrappers; 71pp.; photographic illus. throughout. Some pencil erasure on front free endpaper, else Near Fine. Inscribed and signed by Robert Creeley: "For Angelica (and Tom!) with Love, Bob..." Thirty short poems, each accompanied by a monoprint by the author's wife Bobbie.
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...
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Large display banner, 124cm x 87cm (ca 48" x 34"). Printed in white on a red background, with grommets for mounting along upper border. Without imprint, though a stamped union bug is visible on verso of canvas lining -- illegible, but resembling most closely the label of the Brotherhood of...
Folio (33cm.); publisher's boards in glossy black pictorial dust jacket; 174pp.; color illus. throughout. Minimal shelf wear, shallow crease along edge of rear jacket flap, else Near Fine. Review slip laid in. Monograph on Vrubel, a member of the Symbolist and Art Nouveau movements.
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Slim octavo (21cm.); original cloth in grey pictorial dust jacket; unpaged; extensively illus. Just a hint of foxing to textblock edges else Fine. "Picture-Poems, Handwriting-Poems, Drawing-Poems" - upper jacket flap.
Original three-color poster, offset lithographed in black, white and red, measuring 43cm x 56cm (16 7/8" x 22 2/8"). A Fine example.
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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...
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Quarto (29.5cm.); publisher's cloth in gilt photo-illustrated dust jacket; 436pp.; chiefly color illus. Light wear to jacket extremities else Fine in Very Good jacket. Catalog of the USSR Academy of Arts. Text entirely in Russian.
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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...
Original pictorial poster (61x43cm) printed offset in black on white stock; minor wrinkling at corners from handling, else Very Good or better. Anti-parliamentary poster depicting two rows of identical men, one exiting, the other entering a polling station, the former with their mouths taped shut. OCLC no. 944001181 locates a....
Folio (42cm); photo-illustrated wrappers, saddle-stitched; [40]pp; illus.; text is entirely in English. Moderate wear and handling to wrappers, with a few stray pencil marks to same, mild toning, and a faint dampstain affecting upper right margin of text; Very Good.
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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