New York: New Masses, Inc., 1926. Folio-size wrappers (10 ½” x 13 ½”) featuring cover art by Hugo Gellert, 30 pp, illus. Spine mostly perished, although wrappers still secure; appears to have been previously bound with other issues (?); front wrapper has been trimmed along the fore and bottom edges..... More
![November Twenty Six Nineteen Hundred Sixty Three [SIGNED]. Wendell BERRY, Ben SHAHN](/pictures/thumb/06066.jpg?v=1544581629)
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
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: 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
n.p.: [William Gropper], [1953]. An original lithograph of militant abolitionist, John Brown, from William Gropper's American Folklore Lithographs portfolio, a collection of ten lithographs of American folklore heroes. The lithograph measures 9” x 14” and is printed on an 11” x 17” sheet of thick stock. Very light wear to..... More
New York: Gallery: Gertrude Stein, 1964. An 17” x 24” offset printed poster for Sam Goodman’s controversial NO-Sculptures [Shit Show] held at the Gertrude Stein Gallery from May 12-May 30, 1964. The show featured 21 piles of sculpted excrement described by fellow artist Boris Lurie as “an ultimate gesture of..... More
New York: The Spanish Child Welfare Association of America for the American Friends Service Committee (Quakers), 1938. A collection of drawings by Spanish boys and girls illustrating their experiences during the Spanish Civil War. The book was issued as a fundraising initiative by Quakers for the relief of children in..... 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: Exit Magazine, 1989. The fourth of five full issues (a sixth was partially completed) of this controversial large format magazine founded by George Petros and Adam Parfrey in NYC in 1983. As described by Petros in the introduction to The EXIT Collection (Tacit Press, 1998), EXIT was “…an..... More
![Rachel Romero Block Prints [Exhibition Poster]. Rachel ROMERO](/pictures/thumb/06184.jpg?v=1548646195)
[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
Boston: Stuart Publications, ©1970. First edition. A pamphlet from anti-Art Establishment theorist, Theodore L. Shaw, who accuses the Metropolitan Museum of Art of “enunciat[ing] preposterous falsehoods and fakeries under the guise of teaching you to understand art.” Shaw promoted Conjecturism, a form of relativistic art criticism that he developed to..... 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
[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