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 four-color screenprint, 89cm x 57cm (ca 35" x 22-1/2"), on heavy white poster stock. Signed in pencil lower right, dated 1965. Light edgewear; darkening and adhesive tape remnants to verso; image bright and clean - Very Good to Near Fine.
More info about Original Silkscreen Poster: Untitled [Portrait of Pete Seeger
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"
Quarto (25cm). unadorned black wrappers in pictorial dust jacket, additional clear acetate jacket; 257pp; illus. Includes bibliography. Large-ish loss to top edge of clear dust jacket, else Very Good or better. Cover design by Andy Warhol.
More info about Images of an Era: The American Poster 1945-75
Square quarto (20.75cm.); original black pictorial card wrappers; 211pp.; illus., a few in color, throughout. Light shelf-wear, else Near Fine. Catalog for the exhibit of the same title, held July 6-October 7, 1985, at the Musée National Fernand Léger, Biot, Alpes-Maritimes.
More info about Images du Travail: Peintures et Dessins des Collections Françaises
Slim square quarto (21.75cm.); original photo-illustrated card wrappers; 46pp.; color and black and white photographs throughout. Light shelf wear, else Near Fine. Exhibition catalog, text in English and Italian.
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.
Limited to 75 copies. Small quarto (26.75cm.); original tan stitched decorative wrappers printed in three colors (red, blue, and pale blue); [8]pp.; two full-page color stencilled illus. Some light interior spotting, else Fine.
Oblong quarto (11cm x 24cm). Brown cloth-covered boards; [880pp]; entirely illus. Sun-fading to spine and approximately 1-1/2" of front board; remainder dot (?) to bottom edge of text block; Very Good overall and internally fine.
Quarto (24cm). Cloth boards; dustjacket; 166pp; illus. 160 works illustrated, some in color. Generally clean and unmarked copy, Near Fine, in original jacket with triangular chip to front panel at spine; Very Good. International survey of 20th-century (post-war) political propaganda posters. Text in German.
Slim quarto (27cm.); original white pictorial card wrappers ; unpaged; chiefly illus. General wear to extremities from handling, wrappers slightly toned, old price sticker inside upper cover, else interior fine. About Very Good.
Original offset lithographed poster in colors, 56cm x 43cm (22" x 17"). Fine, fresh, apparently unused example.
Folio (42cm); photo-illustrated wrappers, saddle-stitched; [34]pp; illus.; text is entirely in English. Light wear to spine-fold and extremities, some mild handling to wrappers, with old ink price to upper front wrapper, and a few faint stains along upper margin of text; Very Good+.
Large, slim quarto (28cm); original cream pictorial wrappers; 38,[2]pp.; lithographed 2-toned title page and full-page views throughout. Some very minor wear from handling, else Fine. Small broadside laid in, illustrated and with a nonsense lyric by Lear, advertising the company Corfu Travel.
12mo. Black cloth boards, lettered in red on spine and front cover; original patterened glassine dustwrapper (unprinted); [40]pp; 2 inserted leaves of plates (reproducing lithographs by Orózco. Upper board edges slightly sunned, else a tight, Near Fine copy in the scarce publisher's spiderweb glassine, chipped along upper edge and with.....
Original photographic broadside, offset printed in black on white stock, measuring 36.75cm x 55.75cm (14.5" x 22"). Old folds, BOSS Archives rubber-stamp at upper right margin, else Near Fine.
Large quarto (29.75cm.); original pictorial boards; [2],269pp.; chiefly illus. Small remainder mark to bar code on rear cover, else Fine. Compilation of the Canadian graphic novelist's shorter works, including magazine articles, individual illustrations, and comic strips.
Original pictorial poster (59x41.5cm.) printed offset in red, yellow, blue, and black on glossy white stock; minor wrinkling, else Near Fine. Protest poster issued by the Pacifist Socialist Party, advertising an anti-NATO rally in Utrecht. The image shows a skull sporting a NATO helmet. Designer attributed to Dick Breebaart by.....
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 poster, offset lithographed in three colors on off-white stock measuring 51.25cm x 72.5cm (20.25" x 28.5"). Professionally linen-backed, with old fold lines faintly visible; a bright, Fine example.
More info about Poster: "Take Care! Idle Hands Work For Hitler"
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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 (22cm). Staple-bound wrappers; 31pp. Mild external wear; internally clean and tight; Very Good. Minuscule ownership signature ("Rosie Nelson") in ink at upper edge of front wrapper.
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Slim quarto (29.5cm.); publisher's green pictorial boards; [22]pp. & 54 leaves of chiefly color plates printed on rectos and versos. Boards a bit worn, spine sunned, else Very Good and sound. Catalogue raisonné of the works of Pavel Korin, the Soviet painter and art restorer. Text in Russian and English.....
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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.
More info about Jewish Symbols in the Greco-Roman Period. Volume Three: Illustrations
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.
Original lithographed poster, measuring 42.5cm x 54.5cm (16.75" x 21.5"). White stock, with black and white photographic image at center, and text printed in black at lower margin. Fine.
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.....
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Small oblong quarto (15x27.75cm.); original black spiral-bound die-cut wrappers; 109pp.; illus., sections of textblock separated by unpaged printed red card stock. Near Fine. Bestiary-like exhibition catalogue of the stone carvings of animals, both real and mythical, found at the Cloître.
Original lithographed poster, offset printed in black on white stock, measuring 43cm x 56cm (17" x 22"). Mild wear along upper right edge and lower left corner, with some faint, scattered foxing to verso; Near Fine / A-.
More info about Poster: Cleaver for President. Peggy Terry for V.P. "All Power to the People"
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.....
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.
Large quarto (29cm.); original cloth in pictorial dust jacket; 235pp.; illus. throughout. Rear jacket panel a bit dust-soiled, else Near Fine. Exhibition catalog for a retrospective of the African American artist's work, at the Seattle Art Museum.
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.
Limited to 250 copies of which this is no. 141. Square quarto (27.75cm.); original blind-embossed cloth in pictorial card slipcase; unpaged; silkscreen illus. by Scottish sculptor and painter Bruce McLean throughout. Light wear to slipcase, else Fine. Signed by the author and artist to colophon. The second book to be.....
Folio (40cm). Illustrated card portfolio containing 12 loose lithographic plates and a single sheet of letterpress, as issued. General external wear and dusting to portfolio; contents clean and fresh. This is the regular edition; there were simultaneous limited editions of 150 and 25 copies (per colophon).
Hand-painted banner, 8.5cm x 65cm (ca 3-1/4" x 26"). In red and black on a white background. Archivally framed; old stains and tape adhesions; Good. Not examined out of frame.
More info about Hand-Painted Banner: "Elect Communists! Kristalsky for Mayor"
Silkscreen in four colors, 26" x 20" (ca 66cm x 51cm). From an edition of approximately 75 copies, hand-signed and dated lower right. Clean, fresh example; tiny tack-holes and minor wear at corners, else Fine; Grade A/A-.
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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;.....
Lithographed poster (offset) in three colors; 100cm x 70cm (ca 40" x 28"); on heavy paper. Minor toning; light creases at margins; Near Fine - Grade A/A-.
Folio (42cm); printed wrappers, saddle-stitched; [40]pp; illus.; text is entirely in English. Wrappers with mild dust-soil and a few faint creases, neatly detached and split along spine-fold; contents clean and complete, with loosely inserted photographic leaf memorializing A.M. Gorky (1868-1936); Good.
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