Philadelphia: Samuel H. Reading, 1937. First Edition. Rare broadside from the print shop of Samuel H. Reading, an African-American printer and publicist who briefly employed the Philadelphia artist Dox Thrash as a graphic designer (we entertained the tantalizing possibility that the current lynching graphic may have been Thrash's work, but..... More

New York: North American Review Corporation, 1920. Single issue of this journal of conservative opinion and politics, edited and published by the New York railway magnate and Ambassador to the United Kingdom under Harding, George B.M. Harvey. Harvey's Weekly ran from 1919-1921 as a continuation of Harvey's North American Review..... More

New York: North American Review Corporation, 1920. Single issue of this journal of conservative opinion and politics, edited and published by the New York railway magnate, staunch anti-Wilsonian, and Ambassador to the United Kingdom under Harding, George B.M. Harvey. Harvey's Weekly ran from 1919-1921 as a continuation of his North..... More

London: Published by the Author at the Stock Exchange, 1887. First Edition. Octavo (22cm.); original plum cloth, upper cover double ruled in black, gilt lettered spine, marbled endpapers; vi,183pp.; double frontispiece, one additional plate, text illus. throughout. Boards rather rubbed with shallow losses at spine ends, spine a bit sunned..... More

London: William Heinemann Ltd., 1928. First, Limited Edition. Number 341 in an edition of 380 signed and numbered copies, with an extra signed plate in rear pocket. White, beveled cloth-covered boards, titled in gilt on spine and front cover; AEG; 49 mounted, b/w plates on heavy paper, with facing text..... More

Amsterdam: Bond Voor Dienstplichtigen, n.d., ca. 1973. Recruitment broadsheet issued by the underground organization the League of Conscripts (BVD), founded in 1970 as an anti-militaristic group within the Army. Verso adorned with a cartoon of two members of the army, their ears plugged using rolled up pieces of BVD propaganda..... More

Tiranë, Albania: Shtëpia Botuese, 1976. First Edition. Large, slim octavo (25.5cm.); publisher's white pictorial card wrappers; 100pp.; chiefly color cartoons throughout. Light wear to wrapper extremities, the whole a bit dust-soiled else Very Good, internally fine. Bilingual collection of political cartoons in Albanian and English. Institutionally scarce, no copies in..... More

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

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1956. First Edition. Compilation of women-related cartoons culled from major American periodicals. Grouped into chapters by subject ("Fashion and Beauty," "Love, Sex, and the Pursuit of the Male," etc.) Includes works by Currier & Ives, William Steig, James Thurber, and Art Young, among many others. Large..... More

Barcelona: Edicions del Comissariat de Propaganda de la Generalitat de Catalunya, [ca 1936]. First, Limited Edition. Suite of twelve handsome lithographs by the Catalan painter Pere Créixams (1893-1965), all depicting Catalonian children against the backdrop of various scenes from the Civil War. Each image is accompanied by a brief patriotic..... More

N.p. The Typophiles, N.d. [ca 1944]. First, Limited Edition. Satirical jab at the Axis powers in WWII, anonymously written in the form of mutual letters begging aid between Tojo and Hitler. The Tojo portion is printed in Japanese Kanji characters, with English translation. Text makes mention of the loss of..... More

Paris: Souvenirs du Futur, [1988]. First Edition. Quite possibly the only comic book in its class, Le Grand Rêve Americain (The Great American Dream) adapts technology developed by Philippe Schléret and Véronique Hauss, using molded plastic to create brilliantly colored 3D images. The work exuberantly lampoons Pop Art, American culture..... More

[Frankfurt am Main]: Makol Verlag, [1973]. Reprint. Quarto (25cm.); original green pictorial card wrappers, French flaps; xi,[1],119pp.; chiefly illus. Spine sunned, tiny closed tear to top edge of rear wrapper, else Near Very Good and sound. Grosz's landmark collection of political caricatures, lampooning the corruption, indolence, and self-satisfaction of the..... More