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 21cm x 27cm (ca 8-3/8" x 10-5/8"); image area 15cm x 20cm. Monogrammed in plate, lower right; titled and signed in pencil in lower margin. Mounted to hinged gallery mat bearing title, artist's name, and the following notation: "Prairie Print Masters show, Wichita;" with original.....
Square quarto (23.5cm.); original white wrappers in brown photo-illustrated dust jacket; xix & unpaged photographic plates. 3-inch closed tear to bottom edge of upper jacket panel, some uneven toning, else Near Fine in Near Very Good jacket.
More info about African Tribal Images: The Katherine White Reswick Collection
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. Contributors include N. Gabibov, N. Voronov, L. Tananaeva, others. Front cover illustration by M. Abdoullaev. Text entirely in Russian, though the Table of Contents is.....
Wrapper issue. Quarto (27.75cm.); publisher's black pictorial card wrappers; xiii,[1],265pp.; photographic illus. throughout. Some light shelf wear, general minor cockling from exposure to damp, else Very Good and sound. Warmly inscribed and signed on title page at a later date (1999) by Wasserman.
More info about Daumier Sculpture: A Critical and Comparative Study [Inscribed & Signed by Wasserman
Octavo (22.5cm.); original pale green staplebound card wrappers; [4],ix,[1],64pp.; text printed from typescript. Original price rubberstamped to upper wrapper. Fine. Originally presented in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the Higher Certificate in Librarianship, 1965. Chapters divided geographically, including works from Sudan, Ghana, Nigeria, the Congo, and Angola.
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);.....
Specially bound edition limited to 30 copies of which this is no. 8. Large quarto (28.5cm.); original pictorial cloth embossed in gilt on upper cover, matching slipcase; unpaged; chiefly illus. Fine. Signed by Christian, Service, and McMillan on limitation page. Only 3 holdings of the trade edition in OCLC as.....
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 P. Pavlov, V. Kalinin, L. Kouznetsova, others. Front cover reproduces a marble bust of Lenin by N. Tomski. Text entirely in.....
Folio (32.25cm.); original pictorial card wrappers; 87pp.; chiefly illus. Extremities rubbed with some creasing to wrapper corners. About Very Good overall. Exhibition catalog of modern political Brazilian art.
Quarto (29.5cm.); publisher's cloth in pictorial dust jacket; 8pp. & [80] leaves of plates, many in color. Light edge wear, else Near Fine. Multi-lingual guide to the plates in Russian, French, English, and German laid in. Polish exhibition catalog of artistic representations of the Army.
More info about 30 Lat Ludowego Wojska Polskiego w Twórczo ci Plastycznej
Thick folio (31.5cm.); original simulated cloth in black photo-illustrated dust jacket; 448pp.; profusely illustrated throughout. Fine. Catalogue raisonné of the works of the English ceramics artist.
Color pictorial postal card (5-7/8" x 4-1/8"). Satirical artwork by the prolific political caricature team Derso & Kelen, undated but clearly from the years immediately following the first World War. The satirical cartoon presents the image of a starving post-war family gazing on a row of plump mortar shells; a......
More info about Two Families / Zwei Familien / Deux Familles / Dos Familias
Oblong quarto (21x27cm.); publisher's white pictorial card wrappers; 247pp.; color frontispiece, illus. throughout. Wrappers a bit worn with faint crease at bottom fore-edge corner of upper wrapper, uniformly dust-soiled, old price sticker to upper cover, else Near Very Good, internally fine. Bilingual (Italian and English) exhibition catalog of a large.....
More info about "Monument to a Lost Civilization" / "Monumento alla Civilità Perduta"
Offset lithographed poster, 28cm x 44cm; printed in blue and red inks on uncoated white stock. Vertical fold at center; single tack-hole and slightl toning to extremities; Very Good or better.
Original pen-and-ink composition with colored-pencil highlights, 28" x 22" (ca 71cm x 56cm). In hand-made pine frame (likely original); overall dimensions 31" x 25" (ca 79cm x 64cm). General wear, soiling, and age, with surface abrasions, scratches, and old stains to margins; crudely placed in frame, without backing or mat;.....
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.....
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![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
Quarto (21.5cm). Cloth boards; dustjacket; 151pp. Inscribed on front endpaper: "To the memory of Ben / cordially, Carl Zigrosser." Tight, Near Fine copy in lightly rubbed jacket.
Original illustrated poster, offset printed in colors on white stock, measuring 45.5cm x 60.75cm (18" x 24"). A few faint folds smoothed out, staple holes along left and right margins, with a few faint creases and small stains; Very Good.
Small octavo (18.5cm.); original pictorial cloth by Sutnar in grey decorative dust jacket printed in blue, blue topstain; 255pp. Jacket extremities a bit rubbed, spine somewhat toned and cocked, topstain unevenly faded, else a Very Good or better copy.
Original silkscreened poster, printed and illustrated in black on white Gaubert Japon stock, measuring 32.5cm x 50cm (12 7/8" x 19 6/8"). Creasing and light wear to extremities, with a single tiny tear to right margin; Very Good+.
More info about Original Poster: "Armee Du Chah Hors D'Oman" ("Shah's Army Out of Oman"
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+.
Folio (42cm); photo-illustrated wrappers, saddle-stitched; [56]pp; illus.; text is entirely in English. Mild wear along spine-fold, oxidation to staples, else Near Fine, and clean throughout.
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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.
Broadsheet, 11" x 8-1/2". Offset-printed; both sides of a single sheet in red and black inks on white paper. Fine.
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
Original silk-screened poster in three colors, 23" x 29". Browned at margins, but image area bright and clean. Archivally hinged to acid-free backing, in gallery frame.
Quarto. Textured wraps (softcover); 33, [6]pp; chiefly illustrations. Mild external wear; wrapper edges lightly sunned; internally clean, fresh and unmarked -- an attractive, Very Good copy. 4pp introductory text by Abbe, followed by 15pp of photographs of her three-dimensional work. Uncommon.
Series of ten color lithographs in postal-card format, housed in original printed glassine envelope. Envelope slightly worn and wrinkled; cards in fine, unused condition.
Original photo-illustrated poster, lithographed in colors and measuring 52.5cm x 78.5cm (20.75" x 31"). Professionally linen-backed, with old fold lines faintly visible; Fine.
Folio (32.75cm.); publisher's boards in pictorial dust jacket; 287pp.; color illus. throughout. Light edge wear, corners bumped, else Very Good or better. French-language exhibition catalog of Avant-garde works at the State Russian Museum in St. Petersburg.
Quarto (29cm). Pictorial stapled wrappers; 72pp. Original lithographed poster (70cm x 50cm) laid in. About fine; poster folded (as issued) but unworn.
Tabloid (17-1/2" x 12"); 24pp; illus. Horizontal fold (as issued); very mild toning to extremities; a Near Fine example.
Quarto (28cm.); original cloth in black photo-illustrated dust jacket, green topstain; 148pp.; photographic illus. throughout; glassine envelope containing The Store's blue business card mounted to front free endpaper. Fine. Pictorial document of Oldenburg's Store and Ray Gun Theater, a public art installation which also featured performances.
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![Impeach Johnson [with] Impeach Nixon & 1967 [Signed and Dated](http://www.lornebair.com/pictures/medium/43500.jpg?v=1594109284)
Diptych comprised of two original silkscreen posters, each approximately 60x44cm, printed in red or black on card stock. Faint finger soil and marginal wear else Near Fine. Each signed and dated in pencil, lower right.
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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.
Slim 12mo (18cm.); publisher's cream pictorial card wrappers printed in red and black; 106pp.; pictorial ads in rear. Tiny split at bottom spine edge of upper cover, early signature (including title page) disbound at time of publication, else Very Good and sound. Czech translation of Stendhal's 1832 novella "The Abbess.....
Octavo (22cm.); original cloth in photo-illustrated dust jacket; viii,451pp.; photographic portrait frontispiece, 11 leaves of plates, including photographs. Jacket extremities quite rubbed and worn with old yellowed tape repair to spine ends, offsetting on two pages mid-textblock from previously removed newspaper clipping, a few plates slightly dampstained at foreedges, else.....
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.
![Text in Russian] Kniga i Grafika](http://www.lornebair.com/pictures/medium/34621.jpg?v=1529353779)
Quarto (26.5cm.); publisher's cloth in black and white pictorial dust jacket, grey topstain; [2],315pp.; illus. Jacket extremities a bit rubbed, spine slightly cocked, else Very Good and sound. Russian monograph on the history of book design and illustration.
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