Leiden: Boycot Outspan Aktie, n.d., ca. 1973. Original pictorial poster (63x39.75cm.) printed offset in brown over yellow on white stock; shallow 2-inch loss at left-hand margin touching text without loss of meaning, additional short closed tear at top edge touching text, also without loss of meaning, else a Good, vibrant..... More
Utrecht? PSP, 1979? Original pictorial poster (59x41.5cm.) printed offset in red, yellow, blue, and black on glossy white stock; minor wrinkling, else Near Fine. Protest poster issued by the Pacifist Socialist Party, advertising an anti-NATO rally in Utrecht. The image shows a skull sporting a NATO helmet. Designer attributed to..... More
Washington: El Coordinador de Asuntos Interamericanos, 1942. A brilliant design, clearly incorporating the surrealist influences that appeared in Brodovitch's work beginning in the late Thirties. This is one of a series of posters commissioned by the Office of Inter-American Affairs in the early years of World War Two, created specifically..... More
![Lithograph: "The City" [Limited Edition, Signed]. Harry BRODSKY](/pictures/medium/27861.jpg?v=1546561308)
n.d., ca. 1940s. First Edition. One of Brodsky's realist pieces depicting a man in a spartan room, looking out the window at a cityscape. In the fore-ground is a table with a newspaper and pencil--presumably the man in the image is unemployed and seeking work, given that the artist is..... More
Hanover: Christopher Publishing House, [1998]. First Edition. 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. More
Hanover: Christopher Publishing House, [1999]. Second Edition. Quarto (27.5cm.); original glossy yellow illustrated wrappers; xviii,462pp.; illus. throughout, including numerous color plates. Light internal wear from handling, else Very Good or better. More
![Hudibras. Plates I-XII (complete) [from] Hogarth Restored: the Whole Works of the Celebrated...](/pictures/medium/008381.jpg?v=1529353112)
London: T. Cook, 1806. Later Edition. The complete series, plates I-X uncut as issued. These are the Thomas Cook re-engravings, ca. 1806. Plate marks 21-1/4" x 14" on 24" x 17" sheets; printed on heavy wove paper. Occasional shallow chipping, soiling, & foxing to extremities; images fresh and unfoxed; Very..... More
[New York: Citadel Press, 1962]. First Edition. Humorous cartoon collection, in the format of a paper-doll book, poking fun at the advertising industry and its "Mad Men" culture. Begins with the client (here illustrated as a dog), with the advice to "Tell him he's your best friend." A client's lunch..... More
Rome: Edizioni dell'Elefante, 1965. First, Limited Edition. A visual paean to the human hand, with numerous illustrations by the author. An uncommon work by the Italian caricaturist and surrealist painter, among the leading anti-Fascist artists of the post-war period. Very scarce; none others in commerce; only two copies located in..... More
New York: Washington Square Outdoor Art Exhibit, 1952. First Edition. Small quarto broadside (23.5cm.) illustrated by Edward C. Caswell; light wear from handling with a few short closed tears, else Very Good or better. Flyer advertising the spring show in the Greenwich Village, "The Art Cradle of America," May 22..... More
[London]: Camden Community Law Centre, [n.d. but ca.mid-1970's]. Poster produced by the Camden Community Law Centre in London, promoting a series of meetings at the Kentish Town Library designed to inform working women of their rights with regards to sex discrimination, equal pay, etc. The CCLC is comprised of volunteers..... More
Boston: Celebrity Art Co., 1910. Original photogravure on heavy art paper; 13-3/4" x 11" plate size on 16-1/4" x 13-1/2" sheet. Deckled edges. Faint marginal soil, else fine. A decorative novelty photomontage image, offering a visual pun on the common phrase in the title. Celebrity Art Co. was a prolific Boston..... More
Paris: Centre Pompidou, 2005. First Edition. Quarto (27.75cm.); original red decorative stiff wrappers, French flaps; 181pp.; color illus. throughout. Ink scribble to rear cover, else Fine. Exhibition catalog for an exposition of the same title, mounted at the Centre Pompidou June, 2005, to Februrary, 2006. Text in French and English..... More
![Gebed om Vrede [Prayer for Peace]. CHARLES D'ORLÉANS, printer Hendrik Nicolaas Werkman](/pictures/medium/28018.jpg?v=1529353567)
[Groningen, the Netherlands: De Blauwe Schuit, H.N. Werkman, 1943]. First Edition. Fifteenth-century poem by Charles d'Orléans composed during the author's 25-year tenure as prisoner of war to the English. This, "Prayer for Peace," is a very loosely veiled reference to Werkman's own emprisonment as a Jewish Dutchman in Nazi-occupied Netherlands..... More
[San Francisco: Galeria de la Raza, 1976/77]: 1977. From the Galeria de la Raza's "Calendario" for 1977. Chicano artists affiliated with the gallery produced these calendars, each consisting of thirteen original screenprints, beginning in the early Seventies. Individual prints were also sold in numbered editions. René Yañez was among the..... More
Urumqi, XinJiang Uyghur Autonomous Region: Cultural Revolution Committee of Urumqi / Xinjiang Army Divisioni, 1967/8. Both banners bear the inscription "Chairman Mao Reviewing the Great Army of the Cultural Revolution," and depict the August, 1966 mass rally at Tiananmen Gate, where more than 10 million Red Guards from all over..... More
[Tuscan: Dennis McMillan Publications], 1996. First Edition. 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..... More
[London]: Reaktion Books, [1997]. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (24cm.); publisher's simulated cloth in pictorial dust jacket; 221pp.; illus. throughout. Occasional neat unobtrusive marginalia, else About Fine. More
Barcelona: SAESA, 1937. Sixteenth annual calendar issued by the Spanish industrial welding collective. Calendar divided into four trimesters, with each sheet perforated below the top piece for removal. Striking graphic. Not found in OCLC. Original calendar for the year 1937; four long sheets, lithographed in black and red (rectos only)..... More
Washington DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1942. A simply-designed poster, unsigned, but credited to artist Charles Coiner. Among the earliest posters produced by the Office of War Information (OWI Poster No.9), unmistakably patriotic, with the "Give It Your Best" slogan meant to inspire increased production in the nation's factories during..... More
[The Netherlands: Comité Nationale Demonstratie voor Vrede in Vietnam, ca. 1972]. Anti-Vietnam War protest poster showing depicting a photograph of Vietnamese citizens weeping over the bodies of a child and man while military aircraft fly overhead. Imprint provided by geheugenvannederland.nl. Original photo-illustrated poster (60x41cm.) printed offset in red and black..... More
[New York: Daily Worker, n.d. but ca.1942]. Superb war-time poster promoting the Daily Worker, prominently featuring a striking image of a tank bursting through the front page of the newspaper. This present example was printed at the "Victory Workshop," a small working group within the Artist'sLeague of America tasked with..... More
Roma: Partito Comunista Italiano / Editoriali Fratelli Spada, 1971. First Edition. A bit of a puzzle: the poster appears to celebrate the twentieth anniversary of the formation of the Associazione Bandiera Rossa, an Italian Trotskyist group; but the poster bears the imprint of the PCI, the main-line Marxist-Leninist party in..... More
Antofagasta: [Partido Comunista de Chile], 1933. Lithographed postal card, ca 19.5cm x 9cm (5-1/4" x 3-1/2"). Mild discoloration; corners slightly rounded; Very Good. Recto is a captioned portrait; verso printed for mailing, with text providing a brief biography of Anabalon, a communist-affiliated college professor who was arrested, tortured and killed..... More
[Hamtramck, MI]: [1934]. Scarce relic from the 1934 Hamtramck, Michigan mayoral campaign, in which George Kristalsky and a slate of seven communist candidates for City Council were defeated. Hamtramck, a working-class suburb of Detroit, was a center of radical labor activity during the Great Depression. Hand-painted banner, 8.5cm x 65cm..... More
