Lorne Bair Rare Books

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.....

More info about Geniuses & Other Eccentrics: Photographing My Friends [Bernarda Shahn's Copy

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.

More info about Poster: Youth International Party Manifesto!

Octavo (23cm). Red cloth boards, lettered in gilt on spine, with gilt pictorial device to spine and front cover; dustjacket; 467pp; illus; pictorial endpapers. Presentation copy, inscribed by Young on half-title: To Ethel Clyde, With Best Wishes From Her Friend / Art Young," undated. Also laid in is a brief.....

More info about Art Young, His Life And Times. Edited by John Nicholas Beffel

Quarto (29.5cm); pictorial wrappers, stapled; pp.[365]-412; illus. Light wear to extremities, touch of dustiness to rear wrapper, with a faint vertical bend at center; quite fresh, about Near Fine.

More info about Survey Graphic: Magazine of Social Interpretation - Vol.XXX, No.7 (July, 1941

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.

More info about America! Above All

Pen-and-ink on heavy composition paper, ca 18" x 15" (ca 47cm x 39cm). Compositor's marks and notes at margins; light soil; Very Good. Signed "KET" lower left.

More info about Original pen-and-ink drawing: "U.S. Recovery"

Folio (32cm.); publisher's cloth in photo-illustrated dust jacket; 344pp.; photographs throughout. Fine copy, still in the original shrinkwrap. Presumed first printing, all bibliographical data provided by OCLC record no. 35550970.

More info about Alexander Rodchenko: Photography, 1924-1954

Letter "R" of twenty-six copies, signed, hand-numbered, and with an original postcard collage in rear envelope (the artwork with matching number and signature). Octavo (23cm); pictorial card wrappers; 138pp. Mild corner-crease to final two leaves of text, else a fine, unread copy.

More info about Postcards on Parade (Lettered Edition

Folio (32cm.); original dark green cloth, upper cover and spine embossed in yellow; 87pp.; photographs throughout. Fine. Inscribed and signed on title page: "Personally, Raphaël. Paris, 2010." Catalog of an exhibit at the Musée de l'Elysée, Lausanne, Switzerland, featuring photographs taken of various antipersonnel mines, each accompanied with a short.....

More info about Antipersonnel [Inscribed & Signed

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

Slim quarto (28.5cm.); original red cloth; 94pp.; photographic portrait frontispiece, illus. throughout, text in double columns. Spine perished, boards and textblock rather soiled. A Fair only copy, well worn possibly due to its previous owner, Ben Shahn, one of the subjects of this, Parks's second work. Other subjects include Ralph.....

More info about Camera Portraits: The Techniques and Principles of Documentary Portraiture [Ben Shahn's Copy

Original photographic poster (64x47cm.) printed offset in dark blue and red on glossy white stock; faint horizontal fold, the whole rather wrinkled, else Near Very Good. Issued the year of the nuclear arms race during which the United States was developing the neutron bomb, this anti-nuclear weapon poster depicts the.....

More info about Poster: Neutronenbom? Nee [Neutronbomb? No

Broadsheet, 11" x 8-1/2". Offset-printed; both sides of a single sheet in red and black inks on white paper. Fine.

More info about BOYCOTT Campbell's Cream of Exploitation Soup - In Support of Midwestern Farm Workers

Original illustrated poster, offset printed in red on white stock, measuring 22.5cm x 39.75cm (8 7/8" x 15 5/8"). A Fine copy.

More info about Poster: We Will Observe Moratorium Day - Wed., October 13th. No Business As Usual! End the War Now!

Quarto (28.5cm.); original cloth in white pictorial dust jacket; [6]pp. & 70 plates. Jacket spine a bit toned, else Fine. Signed by the author on p. [1]. Early graphic novel first begun while Naeve was imprisoned for opposing World War II "on humanitarian grounds."

More info about Phantasies of a Prisoner [Signed

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.

More info about W.D.'s Midnight Carnival [Signed Bookplate Laid in

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.

More info about Community Arts: Principles and Practices. A series of papers arising out of the Barnstaple...

Folio (33.5cm.); original cloth in black photo-illustrated dust jacket; 431pp.; chiefly photographic illustrations. Text pamphlet laid into clear plastic chemise mounted to rear pastedown. Very Near Fine.

More info about Migrations: Humanity in Transition

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.

More info about Brian Flanagan For Sheriff Watch Him Run

Octavo (24.5cm.); publisher's red pictorial paper-covered boards; 223pp.; color illus. throughout. Rear board a hint soiled, corners bumped, else About Fine. Treatise on 20th-century Russian art. Text entirely in Russian.

More info about Text in Russian] Russkoe Iskusstvo: XX Veka

Oblong octavo (14x21cm.; original cloth, pictorial plate mounted to upper cover; purple pictorial dust jacket; unpaged; illus. Light wear to jacket extremities, very faint offsetting to front jacket flap from previously removed sticker, else Fine in Very Good or better jacket.

More info about The Schinocephalic Waif

Original photo-illustrated poster, lithographed in four colors on off-white stock, measuring 76.25cm x 102.5cm (30" x 40.25"); signed in plate by the artist at upper right corner. Professionally linen-backed, with old fold lines faintly visible; minor, expert restoration to corners and the intersection of a few folds - Near Fine.....

More info about Poster: "America Calling - Take your place in Civilian Defense"

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.

More info about The Appeal of Prints

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.

More info about Text in Russian] Nikolai Vasil'evich Il'in

Octavo (25.25cm.); publisher's reddish-pink pictorial staplebound wrappers; xiii-xvipp. Just About Fine. Signed by the author on first page. Extracted from the Princeton University Library Chronicle, Vol. XXXV, nos. 1 & 2. Brief essay on the 19th-century British illustrator George Cruikshank.

More info about Introduction: Remembering Cruikshank [Signed

Limited to 26 copies of which this is copy N. Octavo (23.5cm.); floral patterened cloth-backed photo-illustrated boards, clear acetate dust jacket; 155pp.; photographic frontispiece, original drawing bound in after p. [4], additional illus. by the author throughout. Just About Fine. This edition bound by Earle Gray. Signed by the author.....

More info about The Trick: New Stories [Limited Edition, Signed with Original Drawing

Quarto (28.5cm.); publisher's pictorial boards; 178pp.; color illus. throughout. Boards rather soiled, some light wear to extremities, else Near Very Good and sound. Bilingual Ukrainian-English reference to Soviet Ukrainian propaganda posters.

More info about Text in Ukrainian] Lenin, Velykyi Nam Put' Osiiav: Z Ukraïns'koï Radians'koï...

Original photo-montaged poster, offset printed in red and black on white stock, measuring 47.5x32cm. Trivial handling, very Near Fine / A.

More info about Poster] Kraak de Kroning [Crack the Coronation

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

Square quarto (25.5cm.); original cloth in pictorial dust jacket; 207pp.; color illus. throughout. Fine. Bookplate signed by the author laid in. Handsome pictorial work on the Mexican muralist.

More info about Diego Rivera [Signed Bookplate Laid in

Brown crayon on paper, 18" x 15". Professionally matted and handsomely framed in walnut, with original gallery label (Signature Galleries, Chicago) on verso of backing-board. A few trivial spots of foxing, else Fine sight condition. Not viewed out of frame.

More info about Original Drawing: The Bread Basket

Quarto. Cloth-covered boards; dustjacket; 236pp. About thirty leaves at center of book creased at margins (probably a binders error) else a tight copy in lightly edge-rubbed dustwrapper. A useful copy for reference, but not in collector's condition.

More info about Where Art is Joy. Haitian Art: the First Forty Years

Octavo (22.75cm.); original pictorial linen stamped in black and red, red topstain; 264pp.; frontispiece, 4 leaves of illustrations printed on rectos and versos. Upper cover edges a bit foxed, else Fine. American bookseller's ticket mounted to front pastedown. Collection of essays on Christianity in early Soviet Russia. Illustrated with black.....

More info about Das Notbuch der Russischen Christenheit

Quarto. Cloth boards; dustjacket; 383pp. Tight, clean, Near Fine copy in lightly edge-rubbed dustwrapper with original acetate overlay, as issued.

More info about The History of Surrealist Painting

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.....

More info about : , [Iskusstvo : ...

Original photo-illustrated poster (43x61cm.) printed offset in black, red, and blue; wrinkling to extremities, closed tear at top edge touching one word with old tape repair to verso, else Near Very Good.

More info about Poster] Poging Tot Doodslag op Wie? [Attempted Murder Against Whom?

Small quarto. Gilt-stamped cloth boards with pictorial paste-on; 148pp; chiefly illus. A bright, fine copy; without dustwrapper, as issued. Attractive small monograph on the work of the Austrian surrealist painter and sculptor.

More info about Tagtraumbuch / Day-Dream Book

Original three-color silkscreen poster, 18" x 21-1/4". Signed in plate, lower right, with type caption describing events in the Watsonville Canning Company strike of 1985. Faint creases at corners, else Fine condition, Grade A/A-.

More info about "For the welfare and future of my children, I fight for justice..."

Original lithograph featuring a bust portrait of General Leonard Wood, signed in pencil by Wood and artist Boardman Robinson. On off-white stock measuring 49cm x 65cm (19.25" x 25.5"), professionally hinged and matted. A few short closed edge tears (not extending into image), with faint creases; Very Good-Near Fine...

More info about Original Lithographed Portrait of General Leonard Wood

Large, thick quarto (29.75cm.); original cloth in white and grey pictorial dust jacket, matching board slipcase; 427pp.; illus. throughout. Both hinges cracked but holding, else Near Fine. Attractively produced catalogue of the works of Angolan-born artist John Muafangejo with biographical essays by Pat Gilmour, Olga Levinson, Edward Lucie-Smith, and Steven.....

More info about I Was Lonelyness: The Complete Graphic Works of John Muafangejo. A Catalogue Raisonée,...