Original silkscreened poster: Homenaje A Frida Kahlo...November 2 - December 17, 1978

Original silkscreened poster: Homenaje A Frida Kahlo...November 2 - December 17, 1978

Silkscreen in three colors, 26" x 20" (ca 66cm x 51cm). Edition unspecified; signed and dated in pencil, upper right. Very fine copy, free of wear or soil.

A Collection of Nagasaki Colour Prints and Paintings: Showing the influence of Chinese and European art on that of Japan

A Collection of Nagasaki Colour Prints and Paintings: Showing the influence of Chinese and European...

Folio (31.5cm.); original linen in pictorial dust jacket, cardboard slipcase with peach printed and pictorial paper labels mounted to spine and upper edge; xxxiv & 250 plates, including folding, mounted, color illustrations. Minor wear to slipcase else Very Good to Near Fine.

From the 2nd Decade: Collages by Irwin Kremen, 1979-1989 [Inscribed & Signed]

From the 2nd Decade: Collages by Irwin Kremen, 1979-1989 [Inscribed & Signed]

Slim quarto (28cm.); original white photo-illustrated staplebound card wrappers; 11pp.; illus. in text. Light wear else Near Fine. Inscribed and signed by Kremen on title page: "For Dorothy & Detlev / So good of you to visit us in friendship / Krem '90." Catalog for a traveling exhibition first displayed...

Jerk

Jerk

Slim octavo (21cm.); original red and white photo-illustrated boards; 54pp.; color photographic illus. throughout. Light dust-soil else Fine. Short story based on the confession of David Brooks, one of the accomplices of serial killer Dean Corll (a.k.a. the Candy Man).

Strike [...] Wolverhampton Art Gallery

Strike [...] Wolverhampton Art Gallery

Quarto (25cm.); original white decorative card wrappers; 102pp.; illus. Light shelf-wear, else Near Fine. Exhibition catalog coinciding with a show displaying the works of Conrad Atkinson. Includes contributions by artists and authors in response to the questions: "How does/could/would the withdrawal of art affect the world?" and "Does the answer.....

"Monument to a Lost Civilization" / "Monumento alla Civilità Perduta"

"Monument to a Lost Civilization" / "Monumento alla Civilità Perduta"

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.....

Original Broadside: "The World Defends Angela"

Original Broadside: "The World Defends Angela"

Single sheet of glossy white stock, offset printed in black on recto only; 25.5cm X 41cm (10" X 16"). Some trivial wear to extremities, else Fine.

Ilya/Emilia Kabakov: Where Is Our Place?

Ilya/Emilia Kabakov: Where Is Our Place?

Oblong octavo (16.5x24cm.); publisher's white pictorial card wrappers; 96pp.; illus. throughout, including photographs. Wrappers a bit worn and dust-soiled, else Very Good and sound. Exhibition catalog of the Ukrainian-American husband-and-wife conceptual artists Ilya and Emilia Kabakov. Bilingual text in English and Italian.

The True Story of Santy Claus [Limited Edition]

The True Story of Santy Claus [Limited Edition]

Limited to an unknown number of copies. Slim octavo (20cm.); original tan pictorial boards printed in white, glassine dust jacket; 27pp.; color frontispiece, full-page illus. throughout. Boards a bit foxed along spine edges, else Very Good.

[Text in Russian] Studiia Voennykh Khudozhnikov Imeni M. B. Grekova

[Text in Russian] Studiia Voennykh Khudozhnikov Imeni M. B. Grekova

Quarto (29.5cm.); publisher's cloth in red pictorial dust jacket; 231pp.; chiefly color illus. throughout. General shelf wear to jacket and cloth extremities, else Very Good and sound. Catalogue raisonné of the Soviet military and battle painter Mitrofan Borisovich Grekov. Text entirely in Russian.

A Living Lens: Photographs of Jewish Life from the Pages of the "Forward" [Inscribed & Signed]

A Living Lens: Photographs of Jewish Life from the Pages of the "Forward" [Inscribed &...

Folio (31cm.); original simulated cloth in black photo-illustrated dust jacket; 352pp.; photographic illus. throughout. Some general edge wear to jacket extremities, corners lightly bumped, else Very Good or better. Inscribed and signed on front free endpaper by the editor: "For Lou, A lifelong Forward reader. Much gratitude for carrying on...

The Shape of Content

The Shape of Content

Octavo (23.5cm.); original cloth in white pictorial dust jacket; [8],131pp.; color frontispiece, text illus. throughout. Jacket extremities a bit rubbed with a few chips and short closed tears, light spotting to cloth edges, else Near Fine in Very Good jacket.

Poster: Stem Niet -- Kies Zelf [Don't Vote, Make Your Own Choices]

Poster: Stem Niet -- Kies Zelf [Don't Vote, Make Your Own Choices]

Original photographic poster (43x32cm.) printed offset on glossy white stock; some old folds and wrinkling, else About Very Good.

Original Campaign Poster: "Wharton Will Make Good!...All for the People and Nothing for the Interests"

Original Campaign Poster: "Wharton Will Make Good!...All for the People and Nothing for the Interests"...

Original poster, ca 35cm x 28cm. Printed recto only, in black ink on stiff white poster board; photographic portrait of the candidate (halftone) at upper left. Brief closed tear at upper margin; minor toning and wear, Very Good.

Pioneers of Soviet Architecture: The Search for New Solutions in the 1920s and 1930s

Pioneers of Soviet Architecture: The Search for New Solutions in the 1920s and 1930s

Thick quarto (27.5cm.); original cloth in red and white pictorial dust jacket, cardboard slipcase; 618pp.; illus. throughout. Just a hint of toning to jacket and slipcase extremities, jacket spine lightly sunned, else Near Fine.

Broadsides: "Wash. D.C. July 4, 1971 Smoke-In - Let's twist again like we did last summer!" [3 Variants]

Broadsides: "Wash. D.C. July 4, 1971 Smoke-In - Let's twist again like we did last...

Three illustrated broadsides, offset lithographed in black and in colors on white stock, each measuring 28cm x 17cm (11" x 17"); offered here in three variant colors - a) purple, pink, and brown, b) black and white, and c) rainbow-colored, the first printed on recto only, with the latter two...

The Vanishing American Frontier: Bernarda Bryson Shahn and her historical lithographs created for the Resettlement Administration of FDR

The Vanishing American Frontier: Bernarda Bryson Shahn and her historical lithographs created for the Resettlement...

Oblong quarto (23cm x 28cm). Pictorial wrappers; 11pp text; [44pp] illustrations and commentary. Together with the final manuscript "dummy" for the finished book, bound into vinyl wrappers with illustrations provided in xerox facsimile. Both volumes fine. Bernarda Shahn's own copies, unsigned but with Shahn estate labels tipped onto front pastedown...

Bread & Puppet Presents: Washer Woman Nativity

Bread & Puppet Presents: Washer Woman Nativity

Small 16mo (13.75cm.); pictorial staplebound self-wrappers; 32pp.; chiefly illus. Minor toning, light wear from handling, else Very Good to Near Fine.

Poster: The Movement of the Liberation of the Coca Plant

Poster: The Movement of the Liberation of the Coca Plant

Original silkscreened poster, text printed in black on thin, powder gray stock made with coca leaf pulp, measuring 49.75cm x 70cm (19.5" x 27.5"). Old folds smoothed out, small, unobtrusve tear at center, with faint smudge at upper left corner; very Near Fine / A-.

Original lithographed poster: Keep The Wheels Turning! Repair Work is Vital to the War Effort

Original lithographed poster: Keep The Wheels Turning! Repair Work is Vital to the War Effort

Lithograph in two colors, 20" x 15" (ca 51cm x 38cm). Light crease at bottom margin; paper very slightly tanned; still a Fine, unrestored example, Grade A/A-.

Be a Victory Farm Volunteer in the U.S. Crop Corps. See Your Principal

Be a Victory Farm Volunteer in the U.S. Crop Corps. See Your Principal

Original poster, offset lithographed in colors on white stock, measuring 56.75x35.5cm. (22.5 x 14 inches). Previous folds, else Fine.

Eskimo Prints

Eskimo Prints

Oblong quarto (22cm.); publisher's cloth-backed boards in white pictorial dust jacket; 110pp.; color illus. throughout. Jacket extremities chipped and worn with a 2.75" closed tear at top edge of upper panel touching one letter, spine rather toned, a few soil spots throughout, corners bumped, else Very Good in About Very...

Poster: "I, John Brown, am now quite certain that the crimes of this guilty land will never be purged away but with blood."

Poster: "I, John Brown, am now quite certain that the crimes of this guilty land...

Original illustrated poster, offset printed in black and red on white stock, measuring 44.25cm x 58.5cm (17.5" x 23"). Faint, scattered foxing to margins and lower third of poster, with six spots of adhesive residue (five of them on verso); unbacked; Very Good / B-.

[Text in Russian] P. Korin: Izbrannye Proizveddennia / Selected Works

[Text in Russian] P. Korin: Izbrannye Proizveddennia / Selected Works

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.

The Explainers

The Explainers

Octavo (21cm.); original simulated cloth in blue pictorial dust jacket; unpaged [126pp]; chiefly illus. Light wear to jacket and board extremities, mostly at top fore-edge corner of upper panel, else a Very Good or better, unfaded copy.

Breach of Peace: Portraits of the 1961 Mississippi Freedom Riders

Breach of Peace: Portraits of the 1961 Mississippi Freedom Riders

Folio (31cm.); original boards in black and red photo-illustrated dust jacket; 239pp.; illus. Corners a bit bumped, else Fine.

The Disintegration of Form in the Arts [Inscribed & Signed to Ben & Bernarda Shahn]

The Disintegration of Form in the Arts [Inscribed & Signed to Ben & Bernarda Shahn]

Octavo (22cm.); original two-toned cloth in blue dust jacket lettered in red and white; vii,[3],133pp.; illus., including two by Ben Shahn. Some small chips and closed tears to jacket extremities, spine lettering a bit toned. Fine in Very Good jacket. Collection of three lectures delivered at Princeton and SUNY-Stony Brook.....

Poster: Weiger Werk / Zoals Stakende Hoeren al Riepen / Iedere Arbeid Is Prostitutie / Onze Eis Recht Op Luiheid [Refuse Work / As Whores on Strike Have Already Said / All Work Is Prostitution / Our Demand, the Right to Laziness]

Poster: Weiger Werk / Zoals Stakende Hoeren al Riepen / Iedere Arbeid Is Prostitutie /...

Original poster (43x30cm.) printed silkscreen in colors on white stock; light wear, else Very Good to Near Fine. Poster issued by the Dutch organization the Bond Werkschuw Tuig (translation: Federation of Work-Shy Riff Raff). The term was first used in the 1960s in reference to the young men whose long.....

Golden Legacy Illustrated History Magazine, Vol. 4: The Life of Benjamin Banneker

Golden Legacy Illustrated History Magazine, Vol. 4: The Life of Benjamin Banneker

Comic-book format (10-1/8" x 7"). Glossy pictorial wrappers; 28, (3)pp; illus. Advertisement on rear. Small chip to rear cover (away from text); interior paper slightly toned; Very Good. A well-preserved example.

Poster: "If you tell where he's going...He may never get there!"

Poster: "If you tell where he's going...He may never get there!"

Original poster, lithographed in colors on off-white stock measuring 51.5cm x 71cm (20.25" x 28"). Professionally linen-backed, with old fold lines faintly visible; a bright, Fine example.

The Imperial Palaces of Peking

The Imperial Palaces of Peking

Three volumes; folio (33cm.); publisher's navy blue cloth, gilt-lettered spines, top edges gilt, others untrimmed; vi,67pp. & 274 collotype plates; additional 14 plates of maps and plans, all but one folding; frontispieces in each volume. Boards very gently shelf worn and corners bumped, upper cover of Vol. I dampstained; some...

Greece Fights On

Greece Fights On

Lithographed poster in four colors, 81cm x 61cm (ca 32" x 24"). Signed in plate, lower right, dated 1942. Original fold-lines; repaired marginal tears, Grade B. Archivally backed on linen.

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