[Bucarest]: Luceafarul, n.d. Oblong paperback in illustrated wrappers; unpaginated [36 pp.]; photographs; illustrations (some color). Faint stamp to front wrapper of "Romanian Pavilion, N.Y. Worlds Fair 1940." Profiles the characteristics specific to Romanian folk art including "the decoration of the peasants, houses, their costumes, their carpets and embroideries, the craftmanship... More
New York: George Braziller, 1963. Limited ed. Oblong (9 ½” x 7 ¼”) cloth boards, unpaginated, printed on Italian handmade Fabriano paper. In slipcase with paper title label. SIGNED Ben Shahn and Wendell Berry at rear. Includes Wendell Berry’s poem on the assassination of John F. Kennedy, which originally appeared..... More
Grahamstown: Rhodes University, 1961. First edition. Saddle-stapled grey wrappers printed in black; 33 pp. The author, a professor of fine arts, examines hegemonic influences of American and Russian standards of education and art and warns of an "ethico-scientific world culture plan" (mainly the result of Marxist application). 11 copies via... More
London: Chatto and Windus, Piccadilly, 1880. Quarto (27 cm); xvi, 559 pp.; illustrated. Green, black-ruled cloth over beveled boards; gilt spine;top edge gilt; black & red printed title page. Cloth is a bit mottled and worn with some very light foxing internally. Good+. Binding tight and hinges are still sound... More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1916. First edition. Square 12mo; blue cloth boards stamped in yellow, deckle fore-edge, 146 pp, illus. Eastman, who was editor of "The Masses" at the time, denounces illustrators and editors for censoring good art for the sake of commercial interests. Sunning to boards; bookplate and... More
Leipzig: Fr. Wilh. Grunow, 1885. First edition thus. First German edition. Octavo (19 cm); xii, 219 pp. Green cloth with gilt titling to front board and spine. A near fine copy with only a hint of rubbing; gently bumped corners. Eudel was a French-born art collector, dealer and columnist who... More
Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1985. First edition. 8vo; black cloth boards with red and gilt printed spine label, xii, [4], 254 pp, dust jacket. "Michael Ferber unites two approaches - integrative systematizing and historical contextualizing - with ideology as a mediating concept, and traces the impulse in Blake to specific... More
Toronto: Memory Lane Publications, [197-]. First edition. 4to.; illustrated wrappers printed on newsprint; [32] pp.; illustrations. This issue of “Captain” George Henderson’s comic series focuses on the artwork of Virgil Finlay (1914-1971), the popular pulp, science fiction/fantasy and horror illustrator. With a few illustrations in rear from Hannes Bok. Some..... More
[New York: Hugo and Livia Gellert], [1942]. A single sheet of cream colored stock (20” x 8”) printed in red, folded once to make 4 pp. A large format greeting card for the year 1942 from the noted proletarian artist, Hugo Gellert, and his wife Livia. The cover features a.... More
New York: Duell, Sloan and Pearce, 1953. Second printing. 12mo. (19.5 cm). Illustrated paper boards; burgundy endpapers; unpaginated; illustrations; dust jacket. An about Fine copy with small bump to tail in a Near Fine, unclipped ($2.00) dust jacket, which has one 1/8" closed tear to the top of the back... More
Berkeley: Last Gasp, 1977. First edition. Comic book format, [32] pp., illus. Some light wear and creasing to wrappers, but VG+. Includes underground adult comics from Guy Colwell, Bill Griffith, Jay Kinney, Paul Mavrides, Michael McMillan, Ned Sonntag, Spain, Larry Todd, and Becky Wilson. Jay Kinney’s “Red Guard Romance” finds..... More
[New York]: B.L.D. Limited, 1983. First edition. Square octavo (23 cm); blue cloth boards, 73, [7] pp.; illus.; dust jacket. Text in English and Hebrew. A small note in Hebrew on the author's stationary is laid in. Levin's work "evokes a gentle social comment - not a shrill shout, but... More
New York: Cultural Correspondence, 1983. 4to; stapled, photo-illustrated wrappers, 96 pp, illus. Slight rippling to front wrapper evidence of some dampstaining, but does not affect interior; otherwise just light wear and rubbing, VG overall. One of the final issues of the long-running progressive cultural/arts magazine founded by Paul Buhle and Dave... More
New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1941. First edition. Quarto. Illustrated stiff wrappers; 48 pp.; illus.; dust jacket. An about Near Fine copy with the slightest evidence of dampstaining to bottom corner tips of the first 15 pgs; completely unobtrusive and not affecting text. Very Good+. In a Very... More
[New York?], [1984]. A 12 ¼” x 19” offset poster from linocut. Some light wear and creasing, but a VG copy. No record for this poster in WorldCat by title, but we note a copy at the Library of Congress. An exhibition poster for a 1984 show featuring the block... More
New York: Tudor Publishing Co., 1946. First American edition. Quarto. Light, naked-colored cloth prominently stamped in grey; 24 color plates; dust jacket. A Near Fine copy with some darkening near gutters and owner's stamp to pastedown (obscured by dust jacket flap). In the scarce dust jacket, which is Very Good... More
Lexington, Kentucky: Privately printed, 1969. Limited ed. Folio-size (9 ½” x 12”); red cloth boards with hand-colored paper label to front board, 31 leaves hand-lettered and hand-colored on variegated stock (rectos only). Some light soiling to cloth, presumably issued without dust jacket. A VG+ copy. We find four copies in... More
London: T. H. Wintringham, 1934. Octavo; stapled wrappers; 48 pp.; illus. The inaugural issue of the organ of the British section of the Writers' International. "The Left Review" was founded "as a monthly forum for the exploration of questions about the social responsibility of the writer and the relationship between... More
[Philadelphia]: The Print Club of Philadelphia, 1930. First edition. Exhibition catalogue limited to 1500 copies. Quarto. Yellow wrappers printed in black; unpaginated [58] pp.; illustrations. Includes works by Matisse, Chagall, Modigliani, Picasso, and 31 other artists, with short biographies of each preceding plates. A Very Good copy with some toning... More
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