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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Broadside (61.5x41cm.); depicting 19 captioned photoengravings printed in black and tan; dampstaining to bottom edge, else Very Good. A premium picture offered to subscribers of The Christian, "a large, 16-page family illustrated Christian Temperance paper."
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.
Large quarto (27.5cm.); original pictorial boards; 175pp.; illus. throughout. Fine. Text entirely in German. Very attractively produced and illustrated overview of the photomontage works of John Heartfield.
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.
Folio (33.5cm.); original boards in red pictorial dust jacket; 251,[1]pp.; chiefly illus. Fine. Text in English, German, and French.
Quarto (28.5cm.); original cloth in pale grey pictorial dust jacket; xviii,462pp.; color plates, text illus. throughout. Light shelf wear, jacket spine a bit sunned, else Near Fine.
Original illustrated poster (59.5x39cm.) printed offset in black on white stock; light wear to extremities, else Very Good or better. Unattributed poster presumably printed in the Netherlands (one of the televisions depicted in the image reads "Door Naar 21," Dutch for "Proceed to Door 21")--we attribute the place of publication...
Quarto (28cm). Yellow paper-covered boards (hardcover); dustjacket; 275pp; illus. Includes bibliography. Fine, unmarked copy in lightly rubbed and edgeworn jacket; Near Fine. 315 works pictured and described, many in color.
Original pictorial poster (57x41cm.) printed offset in colors on glossy white stock; small loss at top left-hand corner not approaching text or image, general rather substantial wrinkling from handling; Good.
Folio (40.5cm). 25 sheets, loose in card portfolio as issued. Trivial external wear to portfolio, else Fine. Exhibition catalog for Coe's 1988 traveling exhibition "Police State," a series of punk-inflected graphic portrayals of American life during the Reagan administration.
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...
Original canvas strike banner. Dimensions 61cm x 36cm (ca 24" x 14-1/2"). Printed in red and blue inks on white canvas, with brass grommets for hanging. Light soil and foxing; old horizontal crease; Very Good.
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....
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...
![Geniuses & Other Eccentrics: Photographing My Friends [Bernarda Shahn's Copy]](http://www.lornebair.com/pictures/medium/29752.jpg?v=1529353614)
Quarto (27.5cm.); original silver photo-illustrated wrappers; [2].vii,[1],185pp.; photographic portraits throughout. Wrappers somewhat soiled and lightly foxed as is textblock, else Near Very Good and sound. From the library of Ben and Bernarda Shahn with their estate label inside upper wrapper. Envelope addressed to Bernarda used as bookmark on pp. 116-7.....
![Stone Dust: The Autobiography of a Stone Carving [Limited Edition, Inscribed & Signed to Bernarda Shahn]](http://www.lornebair.com/pictures/medium/31045.jpg?v=1529353640)
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...
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.
![Someday It'll All Be...Who's? [sic]](http://www.lornebair.com/pictures/medium/33993.jpg?v=1529353748)
Square quarto (24.25cm.); original cloth in orange pictorial dust jacket; vi,196pp.; chiefly illus. Tiny closed tear at bottom edge of upper panel, otherwise Just About Fine. Collection of cartoons on family business (upper jacket panel subtitle: "The Lighter Side of Family Business").
![[Text in Russian] Russkaia Ikonopis': Ot Istokov Do Nachala XVI Veka](http://www.lornebair.com/pictures/medium/33438.jpg?v=1529353728)
Folio (34cm.); publisher's brown cloth embossed in brown and gilt, matching cloth slipcase, two large color plates mounted to both sides of slipcase; 536pp.; illus. throughout, including many in color and full-paged. Fine. Massive reference on 16th century Russian icon painting. OCLC locates three copies of this edition as of...
Large quarto (33cm); original illustrated wrappers; pp 97-184; illus. Yapp edges chipped at margins; small loss to paper at base of spine, slight toning and dust-soil, but internally fresh and overall a clean, well-preserved copy, easily Very Good.
Small quarto (22.75cm.); original cloth in cream photo-illustrated dust jacket; xi,[1],305pp.; photographic illus. throughout. Jacket extremities a bit wrinkled and somewhat dust-soiled, more heavily so to rear panel, very slight lean to spine, short closed tear mid-panel not affecting text or image, else Near Fine in About Very Good jacket.....
![Community Arts: Principles and Practices. A series of papers arising out of the Barnstaple National Conference [cover title]](http://www.lornebair.com/pictures/medium/27841.jpg?v=1529353559)
Quarto (30cm.); original white pictorial staplebound wrappers; 40pp.; illus. Light wear, minor dust-soiling, else Very Good. OCLC locates 4 copies as of October, 2015, none outside the United Kingdom.
Quarto (29.5cm.); publisher's simulated cloth in red pictorial dust jacket; 191pp.; illus. throughout. Spine slightly cocked, minor shelf wear to jacket extremities, else Very Good to Near Fine. Illustrated with photographs from David King's private collection.
![Facing East [Limited Edition, Signed]](http://www.lornebair.com/pictures/medium/24597.jpg?v=1529353430)
Limited to 2500 copies of which this is no. 2430. Portfolio loose as issued in cloth chemise and matching clamshell box, black leatherette belt; xxxipp. & four leaves of color plates; additional "hors texte" woodcut printed on vellum laid in. Signed by the author and artist. Clamshell box very lightly...
Original illustrated poster, silkscreened in red, black, orange, and blue on white stock, measuring 62cm x 97.5cm (24.5" x 38.5"). Some trivial wear and dustiness to extremities, a few faint stress creases, with the small rubber-stamped address of the Creative Women's Collective at lower left corner on verso; Near Fine / A (unbacked).
Small slim oblong 32mo (3.75x11.5cm.); plain staplebound card wrappers; five leaves each comprised for four repeating perforated stamps printed in red, interleaved with blanks. Fine. Complete booklet of IWW GOC (General Organizing Committee) dues stamps.
![Poster: Jat Bewust. Proletaries winkelen, neem et eet! [Take Freely. Proletarian shopping: take and eat!]](http://www.lornebair.com/pictures/medium/31754.jpg?v=1529353667)
Original pictorial poster (43x30.5cm.) printed offset in red and black on white stock; Near Fine. Poster encourages the reader to steal from large chainstores when wages and standards of living are greatly reduced.
![JFK Coloring Book [cover title]](http://www.lornebair.com/pictures/medium/25217.jpg?v=1529353453)
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.
Quarto (29.5cm.); publisher's two-toned cloth in pictorial dust jacket; 309pp.; chiefly color illus. throughout. A number of small losses and tears to jacket extremities, spine slightly cocked, else Near Very Good and sound. Catalogue raisonné of the Russian realist and historical painter.
![Mikhail Vroubel: The Artist of the Eves [Review Copy]](http://www.lornebair.com/pictures/medium/33422.jpg?v=1529353727)
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.
Original screen-print in silver and black inks, 17-1/2" x 23" (44cm x 58cm). Printed on heavy paper, inscribed in pencil below image: "Para Rachel y Leon whom are a source of inspiration and familyhood. Con amor y corazon / René Yañez," dated 1977. Light bumps and creases at corners; paper...
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.
![W.D.'s Midnight Carnival [Signed Bookplate Laid in]](http://www.lornebair.com/pictures/medium/22095.jpg?v=1529353335)
Hardcover issue limited to 500 copies. Square quarto (25.5cm.); original boards in white pictorial dust jacket; 48pp.; color and plain illus. Very light soiling to upper jacket panel, remainder mark to top textblock edge, else Near Fine. Bookplate signed by Snodgrass laid in.
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.
Quarto (28.25cm.); original tan pictorial cloth, top edge gilt; xv,[1],184pp.; frontispiece, illus., many full-page, throughout, map endpapers. Cloth a bit dust-soiled, very minor wear to spine ends, engraved bookplate of a George Brooke Roberts to front pastedown, small contemporary Christmas card tipped to front flyleaf, else Very Good or better.....
Square quarto (21.75cm.); original wrappers in white illustrated integral dust jacket; 119pp.; illus. throughout, many full-page and in color. Small dampstain to upper panel, toning and dusting, tiny chip at spine crown slightly affecting upper panel, some yellowing to textblock, else About Very Good or better. Exhibition catalog issued three...
![Poster: Leven Nieuwmarkt [and] Pardon, Atoombommetje](http://www.lornebair.com/pictures/medium/31811.jpg?v=1529353669)
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.
Quarto (26.5cm.); original white pictorial staplebound wrappers (a few soil spots); 51pp.; illus. Wrappers a bit worn from handling, spine edge toned, else Very Good. Nigerian author's second book, a collection of 40 poems accompanied by attractive full-page linocut illustrations "stimulated by the poems," by Susanne Wenger.
Quarto (11"). Pictorial card wrappers with silk cord binding; [28pp]; illus. Faint stains to upper front wrapper; scattered soiling; internally clean and unmarked, with all the original lithographic plates present. A Very Good copy.
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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