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 lithograph. Sheet size ca. 20" x 13". Edition 175; signed in pencil, lower right. Mild, uniform toning to image, else fine.
The Special Artist's Edition, comprised of 250 signed, numbered copies (this is no.76). Oblong folio (33cm x 43cm). Cloth-board portfolio; 5 preliminary leaves and 52 color lithographic plates, loose as issued. Slight wear to the portfolio; plates uniformly clean and unmarked; Near Fine.
Slim quarto (28cm.); publisher's glossy tan photo-illustrated card wrappers; 62pp.; photographic illus. throughout. Spine a bit sunned, light wear from handling, else Very Good or better. "A photographer's account of Haiti and the February Revolution" - upper cover.
Small folio (30.5cm.); original white pictorial cloth in printed acetate dust jacket; 112pp.; color illus. throughout. Acetate jacket a bit yellowed and soiled along extremities, else Very Good and sound. From the library of Ben and Bernarda Shann with their estate label tipped to front pastedown. Editorial advisors list Shahn.....
More info about Audience: Pilot Issue, Spring, 1968 [Ben Shahn's Copy
Quarto (29.5cm); pictorial wrappers, stapled; pp.[669]-716; illus. Shelfworn, evenly toned and a bit dusty, with wear and a short split at spine-fold, small loss to upper right corner of front wrapper, with a seminary's embossed stamp to same, and a few scattered stains; contents clean; Very Good.
More info about Survey Graphic: Magazine of Social Interpretation - Vol.XXX, No.12 (December, 1941
![Text in Russian] Nikolai Vasil'evich Il'in](http://www.lornebair.com/pictures/medium/34620.jpg?v=1641872315)
Slim quarto (26.5cm,); publisher's parchment-covered boards, blind-embossed upper cover, unadorned spine; 99pp.; color illus. throughout. Boards rubbed and worn with spine separating at rear joint. A Good or better copy, internally fine. Catalog of the works of the Soviet book illustrator and designer.
Quarto (29cm). Black cloth, lettered in white on spine and front cover; 226,[12]pp; illus. Tight, straight, Near Fine copy, lacking jacket.
Lithographic window decal (25.25x30.5cm); illustration printed within patriotic red, white, and blue border, showing an American flag blowing in the wind, with inset circular colored photographic portrait of FDR. Right-hand edge trimmed close, else Fine.
![Text in Russian] 50 Let Sovetskogo Iskusstva: Grafika](http://www.lornebair.com/pictures/medium/34445.jpg?v=1641872311)
Folio (30.25cm.); publisher's tan gilt-lettered cloth; [4],324,[14]pp.; chiefly illus., some in color. Minor wear to cloth extremities, else Near Fine. One of a series of exhibition catalogs, this of Soviet graphics and fine art.
More info about Text in Russian] 50 Let Sovetskogo Iskusstva: Grafika
Folio (42cm); printed wrappers, saddle-stitched; [40]pp; illus. Light wear and handling to wrappers, with a few tiny tears and creases; contents clean, complete; Very Good+.
![Poster] Leegstandswet = Oorlog [Vacancy Law = War](http://www.lornebair.com/pictures/medium/35078.jpg?v=1641872322)
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
Large quarto (35cm); pictorial wrappers, stapled; 34pp; illus. Light toning and handling to wrappers, oxidation to lower staple, with upper staple lacking; Very Good+.
Quarto (29.5cm); pictorial wrappers, stapled; pp.[385]-424; illus. Shelfworn, wrappers soiled, with some oxidation to staples, and faint vertical bend at center; Very Good only.
More info about Survey Graphic - Vol.XXXIV, No.10 (October, 1945
Original pictorial poster (46.5x31cm.) printed offset in black and yellow on white stock; just About Fine. Protest poster against military tattoos, the image depicting a line of penis-headed soldiers participating in such an event as they give a synchronized Nazi salute. OCLC locates one copy as of October, 2016, in.....
Original pictorial poster (70x50cm.) printed silkscreen in red, white, and blue on pale blue stock; stock a bit wrinkled, tiny chips at top edge, short closed tear at bottom edge not approaching text or image, one small dampstain, else Near Very Good overall. Poster advertising the premier of a 40-minute.....
More info about Poster: In Een Tank Kun Je Niet Wonen [You Can't Live in a Tank
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.....
More info about R. Crumb Sketchbook, November, 1974, to January, 1978
Slim octavo (21.5cm.); original plain card wrappers in photo-illustrated dust jacket; 47pp.; chiefly photographic illus. throughout. Inscribed and signed on title page: “For George / Best / Lotte / December 1982.” Offered together with two original photographic portraits, by Jacobi, of Albert Einstein. Each an original silver-gelatin print (printed later);.....
Original poster, printed in two colors on white stock, measuring 43cm x 54cm (17" x 21.25"). Edgeworn, lower margin trimmed, some handling, small tears, and abrasions, with old dampstaining along left margin, and some tape-stains and scattered soil on verso; Good to Very Good. A poster produced by the Young.....
Original pictorial poster (59.5x30cm.) printed offset in black on white glossy stock; very shallow crease to top right-hand corner, light wear from handling, else Very Good or better.
![Poster] Verrader Paul V. Wissen [Traitor Paul V. Wissen](http://www.lornebair.com/pictures/medium/34691.jpg?v=1641872316)
Original photo-illustrated poster (59.25x41.75cm.) printed offest in black on white stock. Light wrinkling, else Very Good or better.
More info about Poster] Verrader Paul V. Wissen [Traitor Paul V. Wissen
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.....
More info about Modern Art and the New Past [Inscribed & Signed to Ben & Bernarda Shahn
Slim quarto (31cm.); publisher's boards in photo-illustrated dust jacket; 94pp.; chiefly photographic illus. A Fine copy in original shrinkwrap. (Bibliographical data taken from OCLC no. 37825876.) The collected World War II photographs of the Red Army photographer.
More info about Witness to History: The Photographs of Yevgeny Khaldei
Original photographic poster (43x32cm.) printed offset on glossy white stock; some old folds and wrinkling, else About Very Good.
More info about Poster: Stem Niet -- Kies Zelf [Don't Vote, Make Your Own Choices
Two octavo volumes (a 1902 Longfellow Collected Poems and a ca. 1914 reprint of C.N. & A.M. Williamson's It Happened in Egypt) with extensive juvenile marginalia by Bernarda Bryson when about ten years of age. From the library of Ben and Bernarda Bryson Shahn, with estate labels tipped on at.....
More info about Two Books Extra-Illustrated by Bernarda Bryson as a Young Girl, ca. 1913
Original illustrated poster (61x43cm.) printed offset in red and black on white stock; light wear to extremities, else Fine. Poster issued by the Vereniging van Dienstplichtige Militairen, one of the organizations protecting the rights of compulsory soldiers in the Dutch Army. The image shows a senior military type trying to.....
Limited to an unspecified number of which this is no. 16. Original etching; sheet size approx. 60.75x45cm.; image area 28x22.5cm. Signed with limitation number in blue pencil by the artist. A Fine copy, mounted in archival mat.
Folio (42cm); printed wrappers, saddle-stitched; [32]pp; illus. Light wear to extremities, some faint dust-soil and foxing to wrappers, with a few tiny nicks and tears; Very Good or better.
Offset lithographed poster in colors, 58cm x 43cm (ca 23" x 17"). Original vertical and horizontal folds (as issued), else a fine, fresh, apparently uncirculated example.
More info about Rally Against Reefer Madness - Stop the Witch Hunt!
![Poster] "Inspire to Aspire," Tribute to Carlos Santana](http://www.lornebair.com/pictures/medium/35061.jpg?v=1641872321)
Original photographic poster (41.5x76.5cm.) printed offset in colors on white stock. Long crease to bottom right-hand corner, some toning to verso not showing through to image, else About Very Good. Poster shows a photograph by Bob Hsiang of the mural "Inspire to Aspire" located on 22nd and Vanness in San.....
More info about Poster] "Inspire to Aspire," Tribute to Carlos Santana
Quarto (28.5cm.); original linen in black pictorial dust jacket; x,342pp.; color and black and white illus. throughout. Jacket extremities exceedingly worn with several largish chips and shallow losses, substantial tape reinforcement to verso causing discoloration to rear panel, two long closed tears, the larger measuring 3.5 inches, neither affecting text.....
More info about The Visual Dialogue: An Introduction to the Appreciation of Art
Original illustrated poster, silkscreened in three colors on white stock, measuring 47.25cm x 67.25cm (18.5" x 26.5"). Light wear and handling, some faint creases, short tear to upper left margin, with masking tape along upper and lower margins on recto, and some faint adhesive streaking; unbacked; Very Good+ / B......
More info about Poster: Pinturas de Osorio - Ateneo Puertorriqueño del 7 al 28 de Feb. del 58
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
![Poster] Amsterdammers / Verdedig het Hart van Amsterdam geen terreur van stadsbestuur weest...](http://www.lornebair.com/pictures/medium/34690.jpg?v=1641872316)
Original photo-illustrated poster (59.5x42cm.) printed offset in red and black on white stock; tack holes to upper corners, the whole a bit wrinkled with previous fold lines, else About Very Good overall. Black text over a heart-shaped photograph printed in red of a demolition scene.
Limited to 600 copies of which this is no. 428. Small quarto (27.75cm.); original cloth in white photo-illustrated dust jacket; unpaged; photographic endpapers, full-paged color-blocked copper-plate engravings throughout. Jacket a hint shelf-worn and rather dust-soiled with small soil stain to upper panel, else Fine in About Very Good jacket. Signed.....
Large quarto (34.75cm); pictorial wrappers, stapled; 22pp; illus. Oxidation to staples, a few faint creases to wrappers, else a bright, very Near Fine copy.
Edition not stated. Oblong quarto (ca 25cm x 33cm); glazed boards; unpaginated; illus. Signed by illustrator Jossi Stern on title page, with a full-page original drawing by him on final preliminary leaf, a self-portrait in which a seated Stern is being patted on the head by a beneficent angel (mal'ach);.....
More info about The Golden Haggadah of Jerusalem (Signed, With Original Illustration
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.....
Single quarto issue (29cm x 22cm) in original wrappers; 80pp; illus. Mild wear to wrapper edges; internally clean, fresh and unmarked. Numerous mounted color plates. This issue devoted primarily to iconography of V.I. Lenin in Soviet painting, graphics, and sculpture. Front cover is a bronze bust of Lenin by N......
Quarto (29.5cm); pictorial wrappers, stapled; pp.[417]-472; illus. Light shelfwear, toning to spine, with a seminary's embossed stamp to first 4 pages, and small rubber-stamp to upper rear wrapper; Very Good.
More info about Survey Graphic - Vol.XXXII, No.11 (November, 1943
Quarto (25cm.); original green pictorial card wrappers, French flaps; xi,[1],119pp.; chiefly illus. Spine sunned, tiny closed tear to top edge of rear wrapper, else Near Very Good and sound. Grosz's landmark collection of political caricatures, lampooning the corruption, indolence, and self-satisfaction of the German aristocracy in the years immediately following.....
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