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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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.
Limited to an unspecified number of which this is no. 16. Original etching; sheet size approx. 60.75x45cm.; image area 28x22.5cm. Signed with limitation number in blue pencil by the artist. A Fine copy, mounted in archival mat.
Quarto (27cm). Pictorial glossy card wrappers; 93pp; illus. Mild external wear, with some faint surface scratches to covers, else Near Fine. Catalogue for a 1997 exhibition of graphic masterpieces from the collections of the State Library, Moscow. Text entirely in French.
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One of 150 hand-numbered copies on rag, with 12 mounted original wood engravings on rice paper by Ilse Bischoff, including frontispiece pencil-signed by the artist. Octavo. Vellum-backed blue cloth boards; paper spine label; 253pp. Vellum portion of binding browned and discolored; bit of rubbing to boards; internally clean, bright and.....
Quarto. Cloth boards; dustjacket; 482pp. Tight, Near Fine copy in barely edge-rubbed dustwrapper. Essential reference; includes visual examples for many, and capsule biographies for more than 2,200 Russian & Soviet artists.
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![Text in Hebrew] Ha-Kol Shekarim: Kerazot, 'itone mahteret u-posterim: shiluv ben hitnagdut...](http://www.lornebair.com/pictures/medium/28407.jpg?v=1529353584)
Oblong folio (29.5x42.25cm.); original spiral-bound pictorial boards; [5],93pp.; chiefly illus. Boards a bit shelf-worn, else Very Good or better. CD-ROM mounted inside upper cover. Catalogue text in English and Hebrew.
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.
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"
Offset lithographed poster in colors, 58cm x 43cm (ca 23" x 17"). Original vertical and horizontal folds (as issued), else a fine, fresh, apparently uncirculated example.
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![Essai sur les Arts Plastiques Vivants en Republique du Tchad [drop title] [Cover title: Les Arts...](http://www.lornebair.com/pictures/medium/31643.jpg?v=1529353662)
Folio (31cm.); original drab staplebound mimeographed wrappers; unpaged; chiefly illus. throughout. Several shallow losses and one long closed tear along wrapper extremities, none touching text, some dampstaining to wrappers, more noticeably to rear cover; contents about fine. Good or better overall.
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.
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Two extraordinary hand-crafted parade banners, ca. 110" x 84" (9 feet x 7 feet), one slightly smaller. Each entirely composed of hook-work with colored yarns on white muslin backing. Slight age-toning and soil; a few threads loose but no significant losses; Near Fine condition overall. Folded and stored in original.....
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.
Limited to 20 copies of which this is no. 3. Original lithograph; sheet size 41.5x33.25; image size 27.5x21.5cm. Some tape residue at corners, else Fine. Signed and captioned in pencil by the author at bottom margin.
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Quarto (28.75cm.); original black card wrappers printed in brown and blue, French flaps; 144pp.; color illus. throughout. Near Fine.
Small folio (30.5cm.); original white pictorial cloth in printed acetate dust jacket; 112pp.; color illus. throughout. Acetate jacket a bit yellowed and soiled along extremities, else Very Good and sound. From the library of Ben and Bernarda Shann with their estate label tipped to front pastedown. Editorial advisors list Shahn.....
More info about Audience: Pilot Issue, Spring, 1968 [Ben Shahn's Copy
Original illustrated poster, silkscreened in two blended colors on repurposed computer listing paper with perforated tractor strips, measuring 38cm x 56cm (15" x 22"). A thin strip of toning, small smudge at upper margin; Near Fine.
Quarto (29.5cm); pictorial wrappers, stapled; pp.[561]-656; illus. Shelfworn, oxidation to staples, with some dustiness, small triangular chip to left edge of front wrapper, with a few rubber-stamps and pencil markings to same; Very Good only.
More info about Survey Graphic - Vol.XXVIII, No.10 (October, 1939
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 E. Belachova, K. Kravchenko, V. Bulgakov, others. Front cover illustration by Gueorgue Ivantsentso. Text entirely in Russian, though the Table of.....
Thick quarto (29.5cm.); original cloth in pictorial dust jacket; 579pp.; chiefly illus. throughout. Minor wear from jacket extremities, else Near Fine. From the library of Ben and Bernarda Shahn with their estate label to front pastedown.
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![Original Dustjacket Artwork for The Judgment of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg [Together with] The...](http://www.lornebair.com/pictures/medium/52336.jpg?v=1624323610)
Original illustration, composed in ink, gouache, and drybrush on art paper, measuring 30.5cm x 31.5cm (12" x 12.5"); titled by Kent in pencil along the lower margin ("Jacket design for The Judgment of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, by James Wexley"), and signed by him (in pencil) at lower right corner.....
Octavo (24cm.); original cloth in pictorial dust jacket; xvi,301pp.; frontispiece, illus. throughout. Minor wrinkling to jacket spine crown and top corners, else Near Fine. John Ruskin: The Later Years, would not be published until 2000.
Two octavo volumes (a 1902 Longfellow Collected Poems and a ca. 1914 reprint of C.N. & A.M. Williamson's It Happened in Egypt) with extensive juvenile marginalia by Bernarda Bryson when about ten years of age. From the library of Ben and Bernarda Bryson Shahn, with estate labels tipped on at.....
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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.
Octavo (20.25cm.); original cloth in magenta pictorial dust jacket; [14],251pp.; photographic frontispiece, illus. throughout. Jacket extremities a bit rubbed with two short closed tears to top edge of upper panel not affecting text, else Very Good or better. Includes contributions by the Nigerian series editor Joseph Okpaku, David Diop, and.....
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Original illustrated poster (50x35cm.) printed offset in colors on white glossy stock; a hint of wear from handling, else Near Fine. Prospectus poster for a compilation of pieces from the Dutch feminist magazine De Bonte Was, edited by Ada Stroeve. One copy in OCLC as of October, 2016, in the.....
More info about Poster: Moederboek / De Bonte Was [Motherbook / Colored Laundry
Slim octavo (21cm.); original grey pictorial card wrappers, French flaps; unpaged; chiefly illus. Just About Fine. Inscribed and signed on title page: "For Benedict / with love from / Michael / Oct '97." Exhibition catalog of portraits inspired by various Old Masters and early photographs.
Original photographic poster (69.75x50cm.) printed offset in black and yellow on glossy white stock; extremities quite wrinkled with a number of closed tears along top edge, none approaching image. Good overall. Poster depicts two photographs of riot police clearing out squatters from fourteen abandoned buildings due to be razed and.....
![Poster] Demonstratie Tegen de Sloop in de Nieuwmarkt! Vanavond half acht Westermarkt / Vandaag...](http://www.lornebair.com/pictures/medium/35298.jpg?v=1546641442)
Original pictorial poster (59.5x41.75cm.) printed offset in black on white stock; minor wrinkling from handling, else Very Good or better.
Original pictorial poster (62x42.75cm.) printed offset in purple and black on white stock; light wear to extremities, else Very Good.
Original drypoint etching. Sheet size 27.5cm x 41cm (ca 10-3/4" x 16"); image area 15.5cm x 30cm. No edition stated (artist's proof?). Signed in pencil, lower right. Old crease and kraft paper adhesions to extremities (well away from image); Near Fine.
![Poster] Saneren - Deporteren - Speculeren [Cleaning Up - Deportation - Speculation](http://www.lornebair.com/pictures/medium/35295.jpg?v=1546641442)
Original pictorial poster (56x44cm.) printed silkscreen in black on white stock; minor wrinkling from handling, tiny piece of tape reinforcement at bottom edge verso, else Very Good or better.
More info about Poster] Saneren - Deporteren - Speculeren [Cleaning Up - Deportation - Speculation
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.....
Octavo (24cm.); original white pictorial staplebound wrappers; 80pp.;illus. in color. Fine. With bifolium list of the 75 color plates reproduced in this exhibition catalogue to accompany an exhibition of Lipschutz's private collection of war posters, dating from the first World War to the present (1982) day.
Folio (35.5cm.); pictorial bifolium printed in green, yellow, and black, author photograph printed on the upper panel. Closed tears and shallow losses along wrapper extremities, the whole rather toned due to poor paper stock. About Very Good and sound overall. Published as a supplement to the San Francisco Sunday Examiner.....
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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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.
Original silkscreen poster in black ink on white background; on thick poster stock, 18-1/4" x 25". A clean, unworn copy, very Near Fine (A).
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Folio (32.75cm.); original illustrated wrappers; 208pp.; chiefly illus. Fine. Compilation of more than 200 peace posters relating to the Iraq War (2003).
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.
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