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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9 volumes; octavo (20.75cm.); uniformly bound in tan pictorial staplebound card wrappers, house together in pictorial paper string-bound chemise; illus. About Fine. Includes the main "Documentation" volume and eight additional pamphlets with art and essays on various topics, including race, spirit, war/death, birth, food, body, shelter, and environment. Text in...
Photomechanically printed palm card 12cm x 9cm (ca 4-3/4" x 3-1/2"). Printed in black and red on medium card stock. Minor surface soil, faint creases; Very Good. A vivid image, protesting the rise of global fascism as exemplified in the Fascist review Antieuropa (founded 1929), presumably produced between the journal's...
Original poster, offset printed in two colors on white stock, measuring ca.69cm x 42cm (24.25" x 16.5"). Old folds (as issued), creasing to corners, a few short edge tears and a small piece of tape at upper left corner; unbacked; Very Good / B.
![[Text in Cyrillic] Kino-Triuki. Perevod s Angliyskogo pod red. A. Gvozdeva [Russian translation of "Cinematic Tricks"]](http://www.lornebair.com/pictures/medium/26042.jpg?v=1529353483)
12mo (18.25cm.); original photomontaged wrappers showing an acrobat swinging from a rope far above a cityscape, below him a man and child clambering from a rooftop at the bottom left-hand corner; 62pp.; 4 leaves depicting eight cinematic stills. Ownership name to upper cover, half title, and title page redacted; spine...
![Panamarenko: For Clever Scholars, Astronomers, and Doctors [cover title]](http://www.lornebair.com/pictures/medium/28406.jpg?v=1529353583)
Folio (42.5cm.); original white photo-illustrated boards; unpaged; photographic illus. Light dust-soil, else Fine. Photographic catalogue of the works of Belgian assemblage sculptor Panamarenko, who specializes in imaginary flying vehicles, dirigibles, and flying saucers.
![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.
Octavo (21.25cm); original blue cloth, gilt-lettered spine; 324pp. Spine ends a bit rubbed with closed horizontal crack about one inch from spine foot, else Very Good or better. Later edition, this collection of essays on art history, theater, and music first published in 1906.
Original silk-screened poster in two colors; 30" x 20". Trivial edge-rubbing; Fine / Grade A. Archivally hinged to acid-free backing, in gallery frame.
Octavo. Stiff pictorial wrappers; 20pp (text); [60]pp illus & catalog. Minute wear to wrapper edges, else Fine; includes erratum slip; original price sticker ($3.00) affixed to front endpaper, as issued.
Slim octavo (23.5cm.); boards in white pictorial dust jacket; x,60pp.; illus. A few short closed tears to jacket extremities else Fine in Near Very Good jacket. Brief biography and art history of the works of Duncanson (1821-1872), an African American painter associated with the Hudson River School.
Quarto (28.5cm.); original cloth in black pictorial dust jacket; xvi,254pp.; illus. throughout. Fine copy.
Square quarto (24.5cm.); original cloth in white dust jacket; unpaged; chiefly illus. Rear jacket panel a bit dust-soiled, textblock somewhat foxed, else Very Good or better. Exhibition catalog featuring works by members of the Alliance. From the library of Ben and Bernarda Shan with their estate label to front pastedown.
![Emily Mason: The Fifth Element [Inscribed & Signed]](http://www.lornebair.com/pictures/medium/31065.jpg?v=1529353640)
Quarto (26.75cm.); original cloth in pictorial dust jacket; unpaged; illus. throughout. Very Near Fine. Inscribed and signed by Mason on title page: "[In black ink] For Helen, with best wishes. April 22. 2010. [In thick silver pen] Emily Mason." Catalog raisonné of the Abstract Expressionist painter.
[Roosevelt, NJ: ca 1969-70]. Octavo (23.5cm). Red paper-covered boards; [28]pp. Original hand-made "dummy" of 28 pages, with text and illustrations tipped on to blank pages. Includes a hand-lettered title page and 26 original pencil drawings by Bernarda Shahn, illustrating the (mostly) animal characters in the text. In fine condition, as...
Original poster, offset printed in colors on white stock, measuring 32.5cm x 53cm (12 7/8" x 21"). Faint horizontal fold at center, discreet pinholes to corners, adhesive residue to corners on verso, with small scratch to lower right; unbacked; Very Good+ / B.
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.
![Güzel Sanatlar [No.] 4](http://www.lornebair.com/pictures/medium/31854.jpg?v=1529353671)
Folio (36cm.); original cream decorative wrappers lettered in black and gilt, yapp edges; 123pp.; nine color plates mounted to brown stock, additional text illus. and photographs throughout. Wrapper extremities quite chipped and worn with some small paper flaws not approaching text; contents fine. About Very Good and sound overall. Quite...
![[Poster] "Inspire to Aspire," Tribute to Carlos Santana](http://www.lornebair.com/pictures/medium/35061.jpg?v=1546641441)
Original photographic poster (41.5x76.5cm.) printed offset in colors on white stock. Long crease to bottom right-hand corner, some toning to verso not showing through to image, else About Very Good. Poster shows a photograph by Bob Hsiang of the mural "Inspire to Aspire" located on 22nd and Vanness in San.......
![Stephen Harwood: East End Paintings [Bookplate Signed by Ackroyd Laid in]](http://www.lornebair.com/pictures/medium/24313.jpg?v=1529353423)
Octavo (21cm.); original orange staplebound wrappers; [8]pp.; illus. About Fine. Exhibition catalog of works by a 22-year-old artist, text by historian Peter Ackroyd. Bookplate signed by Ackroyd laid in.
![[Text in Ukrainian] Lenin, Velykyi Nam Put' Osiiav: Z Ukraïns'koï Radians'koï Leniniany, Politychnyi Plakat, Poeziia / We Follow the Road Shown by Great Lenin: Lenin in the arts of Soviet Ukraine, Political Posters, Poetry](http://www.lornebair.com/pictures/medium/34617.jpg?v=1529353779)
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.
Edition limited to 100. Small quarto (ca 29cm x 19cm / 11" x 7-1/2"). Album of 18 original signed artworks, mostly woodcuts but also including etchings and mixed-media pieces, each signed and titled in pencil below image. Lithographed title page, in the publisher's folding cloth box, as issued. Fine.
Lithograph in three colors; printed recto-only on thin lithographic paper; 83cm x 60cm (ca 32" x 24"). Small (1") loss to left margin (away from image); darkening and toning to extremities; image bright and unfaded; grade B+/B.
Original illustrated poster, lithographed in colors and measuring 72.25cm x 102.5cm (28 3/8" x 40.25"). Professionally linen-backed, with old fold lines faintly visible; expert infilling and retouching to a few pinpoint areas at the intersection of upper-center folds; very Near Fine. A-.
Slim octavo (23.5cm.); original cloth in black pictorial dust jacket; 64pp.; photographic illus. throughout. Jacket verso foxed, rear panel a bit dust-soiled, some short chipping along extremities, else About Very Good and sound. From the library of Ben and Bernarda Shahn with their estate label tipped to front pastedown.
Lithographed poster in four colors, 102cm x 70cm (ca. 40" x 27-3/4"). Several repaired marginal tears; tape adhesion and ink attribution at extreme upper margin; Grade B/B+. Archivally backed on linen.
Large quarto (33cm); original illustrated wrappers; 74pp; illus. Wrappers detached, but present; toned, edgeworn, with several old clear tape mends along spine, short tears and creases, and 1" x 1" loss at upper right corner of rear wrapper; contents clean, complete; Fair to Good.
Folio (32.25cm.); original pictorial card wrappers; 87pp.; chiefly illus. Extremities rubbed with some creasing to wrapper corners. About Very Good overall. Exhibition catalog of modern political Brazilian art.
![[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.
![Poster: Neutronenbom? Nee [Neutronbomb? No]](http://www.lornebair.com/pictures/medium/34366.jpg?v=1546561330)
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.......
![[Photocollage Print] "Waiting to Be Abducted by UFOs" [Signed]](http://www.lornebair.com/pictures/medium/38247.jpg?v=1539806421)
Photocollage print (11.5x16.75cm.) in white mount (20x26cm.). Title and copyright in ink manuscript at bottom edge, signed by the artist in pencil. Fine condition. Collage by the Cuban-American artist depicting various characters from iconic works of art crowded in a badlands-type landscape, a UFO approaching out of a red sky.......
![The Disintegration of Form in the Arts [Inscribed & Signed to Ben & Bernarda Shahn]](http://www.lornebair.com/pictures/medium/28857.jpg?v=1529353596)
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.......
Folio (33.25cm.); original boards in photo-illustrated dust jacket; 304pp.; chiefly photographic illus. Fine. Exhibition catalog.
Quarto (32.5cm x 25cm). Red cloth boards (hardcover); dustjacket; 319pp; color illus. Fine copy; free of markings or wear; appears new. Near Fine dustwrapper with slight wear to exremities. Extensive collection of Russian avant-garde film posters in color by Rodchenko, Stenberg brothers, Nathan Altman, among others. Texts in English, German...
![Rudy Pozzatti: American Printmaker [Inscribed & Signed with TLS by Pozzatti]](http://www.lornebair.com/pictures/medium/29713.jpg?v=1529353613)
Quarto (27.25cm.); original linen in white photo-illustrated dust jacket; viii,63 & 16 leaves of plates depicting 50 prints. Upper jacket panel foxed along extremities, else Very Good and sound. Inscribed to front free endpaper: "To Bernarda / With much love and affection. Much of the good things which happened to...
Original lithograph. Sheet size ca. 20" x 13". Edition 175; signed in pencil, lower right. Mild, uniform toning to image, else fine.
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-.
![The Dance Photography of Carl Van Vechten [Review Copy]](http://www.lornebair.com/pictures/medium/29720.jpg?v=1529353613)
Folio (30.75cm.); two-toned cloth in gilt photo-illustrated dust jacket; vii,[3],212pp.; photographic illus. throughout. Jacket extremities rubbed with clear tape reinforcement to bottom edge and spine crown, else Near Fine in About Very Good jacket. Review copy with two original promotional photographs and typed letter from the publisher laid in. Errata.......
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...
64 images of various sizes (from 6.5x4.25cm. to 17.5x12.75cm.); includes 38 snapshots and 26 postcards, 20 of which have brief manuscript annotations in ink to versos; a few with wear to extremities, some images blurred or faded, but still a Very Good collection.
Single sheet of glossy white stock, offset printed in black on recto only; 22cm X 42cm (8 5/8" X 16.5"). Some trivial wear to extremities, else Fine.
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