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1959ref. 158542New York: Inkweed Studios 1959. Vintage poster for the 1959 off-Broadway play which opened on July 15 1959 at the Living Theatre. Poster designed by Inkweed Studios with a label affixed to the recto stating showtimes. Presumably either unique or produced in very small quantity. Mounted on art board as issued and used. Founded in 1951 by Beat poet Kabbalist and Lower East Side underground luminary Lionel Ziprin with his wife illustrator and dancer Joanne Ziprin Inkweed Studios was originally created to produce "studio cards"-greeting cards to rival the mass-produced cards produced by the Hallmark Company. While not financially successful Inkweed did produce many outstanding graphics such as the poster on offer here. The company also served as the launching pad for the graphic work of artists such as Harry Smith Jordan Belson Bruce Conner Barbara Remington and William Mohr. Jack Gelber's landmark play within a play observes a producer and writer attempting to stage a production using "real" heroin addicts largely jazz musicians waiting for their score interspersed with jazz music. Notable not only for its honest depiction of addiction the play also radically re-imagined the relationship between audience and actor with actors utilizing the theatre's aisles as performance areas an actor presented as an audience member and actors remaining in character and panhandling during intermission. A key play in the history of American jazz and an evocative portrait and product of the Beat era. Winner of three Obie Awards including Best New Play Best All-Around Production and Best Actor for Warren Finnerty. Made into an equally groundbreaking and largely unrecognized motion picture in 1961 directed by Shirley Clarke and starring Finnerty and William Redfield. 13.75 x 21.75 inches archivally framed to 16.25 x 24.25 inches. Very Good plus with some light corner and edgewear a small chip to the bottom right corner and a small bruise to the mid-right edge. Inkweed Studios unknown books
1922ref. 156616St. Louis MO: Lippman Kamprite Trailer Company 1922. Vintage oversize double weight composite retail display photograph showing 18 images of the Lippman Kamprite Trailer circa 1922. Originally produced in 1921 in St. Louis Missouri the Lippman Kamprite Trailer was one of the earliest self-contained travel trailers. Advertised as "a real camp home in three minutes" the trailer boasted beds for four a privacy partition hammocks for clothes and a tail lamp. The composite photograph on offer here displays the assembly and functionality of the trailer in eighteen charming images and was almost certainly used for retail display. As production-line manufacturing of affordable automobiles began in the early twentieth century and car ownership boomed the production of auto trailers and goods and amenities for auto touring followed close behind. A number of creative and unusual apparatuses marketed for auto touring appeared in the 1910s including bed kits for car interiors bed and tent kits which mount to the running board and about the car as well as a variety of early auto trailers. The following decade the 1920s would be a golden age for motor camping with the refinement of the design of tent trailers and the advent of travel trailers. A charming relic of the golden age of motor camping. 13.5 x 19.5 inches. Very Good plus with a small closed tear to the top margin two modest chips to the bottom margin and a modest chip to the bottom right corner repaired with cello tape on the verso. Clean sharp and unfaded. Lippman Kamprite Trailer Company unknown books
ref. 156601N.p.: N.p. 1980. Archive of 133 vernacular photographs from an custom automotive upholstery shop the "Auto Seat Cover Co." located in Harrisburg Pennsylvania housed in acrylic photo sleeves in a photo album circa 1961-1983. The majority of the photographs in the archive appear to date from the 1970s capturing before and after photographs and ornate custom automotive upholstery in acrylic cloth and leather. Archive also includes six photographs of the company's trade show booth circa late 1960s four photographs of the interior of the business circa early to mid 1960s as well as five photographs of the flooding of the business likely the Harrisburg flood of 1972 and three photographs of a home upholstery job circa early 1970s. 3.5 x 2.5 inches to 4.5 x 3.25 inches the majority approximately 3.5 x 3.5 inches. Very Good plus to Near Fine overall. Photo Album 12.75 x 8.5 inches. Near Fine. N.p. unknown books
1940ref. 60221New York: Plimpton Press 1940. First Edition. Small octavo. Original green cloth with printed paper spine and cover labels; frontispiece portrait; 6521pp. Spine slightly faded else a Near Fine copy in the original unprinted acetate jacket and publisher's slipcase mildly toned on edges but still Near Fine. A finely-printed keepsake in honor of Alfred A. Knopf "as a tribute of affection and congratulation from his fellow members of the Book Table." Includes contributions by Carl Van Vechten Carl Van Doren Willa Cather H.M. Lydenberg H.L. Mencken Thomas Mann Henry Seidel Canby B.W. Huebsch and Adolf Kroch. Five of these contributors -- Van Vechten Van Doren Lydenberg Mencken and Huebsch -- have signed the volume on the rear flyleaves as have twenty-six others all presumably members of the Book Table including Elmer Adler Donald Brace Bertram Wolff Frederic G. Melcher Whitney Darrow and numerous others. Plimpton Press unknown books
1964ref. 154557N.p.: N.p. 1964. Vintage oversize design illustration for an embroidered uniform patch worn by Burger Chef employees circa 1964. Sample patch affixed to the top left corner. The first Burger Chef restaurant was opened by Frank and Donald Thomas in Indianapolis in 1957. The chain quickly spread across the United States with 335 locations across the country in 1964. The restaurant gained popularity in the early 1970s for the Funburger and the Funmeal which included packaging decorated with stories about the company mascot Burger Chef his sidekick Jeff and their illustrated friends-predating the McDonald's Happy Meal by a number of years. Patch measuring 4 x 5 inches affixed to poster measuring 27.5 x 31 inches. About Near Fine with light age-toning and pinholes to the corners. Tennyson pp. 68-69 80. N.p. unknown books
1958ref. 155556Vienna: Verein für Soziale Wohnkultur 1958. Two vintage furniture and home decor booklets produced by Austrian furniture maker Soziale Wohnkultur for subsidized housing in Vienna circa 1958. One booklet illustrated throughout with black-and-white and color photographs the other illustrated with black-and-white photographs only. Text in German. In 1952 in the midst of rebuilding the city after WWII the government of Vienna formed a furniture initiative called Soziale Wohnkultur or "Social Living Culture" a project spearheaded by architect Franz Schuster. The project introduced a line of furniture for low-income municipal housing residents that was designed to be attractive and high quality but also inexpensive and practical for small apartments. A number of prominent Austrian designers were commissioned to work on the project and the resulting designs ranged from kitchen bedroom and living furniture to wall shelving and lamps all emblazoned with the "SW" logo. The furniture and fittings produced by the SW are considered to have had a significant influence on mid-century Austrian design and extant furniture from the period is still highly in demand today. Booklets 5.75 x 7 inches. One booklet with perfect binding the other saddle stapled. Both booklets with brief curling else about Near Fine. Verein für Soziale Wohnkultur unknown books
1970ref. 152982Berkeley: University Art Museum 1970. First Edition. Softcover. First Edition. An exhibition catalog developed from an exhibition titled "The Eighties" presented at the University Art Museum in Berkeley from March 17 1970 - April 12 1970. Scarce. Near Fine in wrappers and a white comb binding as issued. University Art Museum unknown books
1933ref. 54109Moscow: The State Publishing House of Graphic Arts 1933. First Edition. Folio 42cm; printed wrappers saddle-stitched; 32pp; illus. Light wear to extremities some faint dust-soil and foxing to wrappers with a few tiny nicks and tears; Very Good or better. Well-preserved issue of this landmark Soviet art magazine issued from 1930 to 1941 to celebrate the achievements of the first two Five Year Plans and through various foreign-language editions to propagandize the stark contrast between the vibrant Soviet economy during this period and the stagnation of Western economies under capitalism. "All the visual strategies of the propaganda photobooks designed by Lissitsky Rodchenko and others.were developed in USSR in Construction one of the most beautifully produced magazines of the twentieth century" Parr-Badger The Photobook I:148. The present issue is entirely devoted to the socialistic development of the White Russian Soviet Socialist Republic. The State Publishing House of Graphic Arts unknown books
1968ref. 54532San Francisco: San Francisco Oracle 1968. First Edition. Tabloid 44cm; pictorial newsprint wrappers; 32pp; illus. Horizontal fold at center some wear handling and faint creasing to extremities with a few old faint dampstains at upper and lower spine-fold; Very Good complete copy. Final issue of this legendary Bay Area psychedelic paper with contributions by George Leonard Michael Murphy Carl Rogers Philip Whalen Daniel Moore Lew Welch Alan Watts and others with an attractive mandala centerfold. San Francisco Oracle unknown books
1951ref. 1002738Chicago: Beckley-Cardy Company 1951. Complete set of midcentury classroom posters designed to be colored by students. The twelve fruits and vegetables featured here are apples beets carrots cherries grapes peaches pears radishes strawberries sweet corn tomatoes and wax beans each depicted on the tree vine or stalk. As a footnote each image offers specific instructions on which colors the children should choose. Beckley-Cardy 535. A fine set of vintage classroom materials with pomological appeal. Complete set of twelve black and white posters measuring 10.5 x 8.5 inches. Housed in publisher's pictorial envelope printed in black and red. Light wear and smudging to envelope posters fine. Beckley-Cardy Company unknown books
ref. 1002574France: no publisher no date early twentieth century. Striking hand-colored sheet of six "images d'Épinal." Inexpensive broadsides like these were hugely popular in France in the nineteenth century: naïve woodcuts brightly colored featuring images of Catholic saints Napoleonic battles and storybook characters. By the turn of the twentieth century lithography had emerged as the primary printing process and the range of subjects had greatly expanded but there was still a market for images printed in the old style a graphic tradition that influenced modernists from Henri Rousseau to Alfred Jarry. This group of six separate images printed from blocks on a sheet of Ingres d'Arches paper may be a publisher's proof. The military and religious subjects include uniformed soldiers on horseback the Madonna and child and Saint Hubert's encounter with Christ in the form of a stag. A bright fine example. Single sheet of six woodblock prints printed recto only and colored en pochoir measuring 14.75 x 19 inches. no publisher unknown books
1978ref. 45732New York: Mobilization for Survival 1978. First Edition. Original poster 55.5x41cm. printed offset in red yellow and silver foil on white stock. Minor wrinkling small closed tear mid-poster slightly touching text else a Very Good vibrant copy. Poster announcing a sit-in to be held during the U.N.'s special assembly on disarmament June 12 1978 at Bryant Park in New York City with orientation and non-violent training the day before. Additional activities noted include a legal rally on May 27 at Dag Hammarskjold Plaza. Text in yellow and white on a red background a string of men and women running along the bottom edge as two silver nukes come straight towards them. U. Michigan only in OCLC as of September 2019. Mobilization for Survival unknown books
1926ref. 47602New York: International Publishers 1926. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo 19.5cm; black cloth with titles stamped in green on spine and publishers logo embossed at lower front cover; dustjacket; 67-2873pp. Spine ends gently nudged contemporary owners name in ink to front endpaper else Fine. In an attractive example of the dustjacket designed by William Gropper; price-clipped gently spine-sunned and lightly edgeworn with several tiny nicks and small tears along upper edge mended by clear tape on verso; Very Good. Attractive copy of this first-hand account by the Russian-American foreign correspondent written after revisiting his birthplace in the Soviet Union and dealing with "the peasant his daily life his wife and children the village school the Church the Soviet the political and social regeneration of the village" from front flap. With an introduction by Glenn Frank. International Publishers unknown books
1978ref. 43524New York: Mobilization for Survival 1978. Original illustrated poster offset printed in four colors on white stock measuring 40.5cm x 55.5cm 16" x 22". Mild handling to extremities faint corner crease and a tiny tear to upper edge with a staple hole toward upper margin; Near Fine. Poster produced by Mobilization for Survival a national coalition of peace and justice groups based in Philadelphia who advocated for denuclearization and an end to the arms race. Planet Earth prominently featured at center swallowed by a large mushroom cloud in the background. Not found in OCLC though we note an example held at OMCA. Mobilization for Survival unknown books
1985ref. 41785Washington DC: Smoke-In Central 1985. First Edition. Offset lithographed poster in colors 58cm x 43cm ca 23" x 17". Original vertical and horizontal folds as issued else a fine fresh apparently uncirculated example. Terrific punk-inflected poster advertising a 1985 rally in the Capital to promote marijuana legalization and oppose police brutality especially the then-burgeoning phenomenon of police tasers here called "stun-guns". Features a vivid central caricature of President Ronald Reagan who is surrounded by vignettes of police brutality; along the upper quadrant Nancy Reagan chases a line of potheads including Groucho Marx and the Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers through the sky wielding a stun-gun while sitting astride a flying pig. Copy at the Center for the Study for Political Graphics and not uncommon in commerce though fine copies are unusual; otherwise unlocated in institutional collectons. Smoke-In Central unknown books
1979ref. 43527Philadelphia: Mobilization for Survival 1979. Original illustrated poster offset printed in three colors on yellow stock measuring 45.5cm x 58cm ca.18" x 23". Old folds smoothed out tiny pin-hole to upper margin with a short tear at lower edge and holograph local contact information pasted at lower right corner; Very Good. Poster produced by Mobilization for Survival a national coalition of peace and justice groups based in Philadelphia who advocated for denuclearization and an end to the arms race. The group states their demands above silhouettes of nuclear cooling towers and missiles of various sizes: Stop research production and use of nuclear weapons; stop operation and construction of nuclear power plants; guarantee adequate heating fuel for the poor during the winter. Not found in OCLC though we note an example held at OMCA. Mobilization for Survival unknown books
1918ref. 44382Basle: C.-A. Junger 1918. First Edition. Octavo 20.5cm.; publisher's green pictorial cloth stamped in gilt with design by Masereel; xxviii329523pp.; photographic frontispiece. Rear cover badly dampstained though only slightly affecting interior spine gilt a bit dulled textblock uniformly toned else Very Good and sound. Study of women's rights by the eccentric meat packing millionaire and playwright John Wesley de Kay who concludes that "industrial toil should be performed exclusively by men and machines" p. vii. C.-A. Junger unknown books
1927ref. 45253Berlin: Malik Verlag 1927. First German Edition. Octavo 19cm.; publisher's stiff card wrappers mounted inside photo-illustrated dust jacket; 443pp. Some light chipping to jacket extremities spine creased light foxing to textblock fore-edge else Very Good and sound. Translation of the Russian author's first novel "Goroda i Gody" 1924 set during the October Revolution and later translated into English as "Cities and Years." Upper cover designed by John Hirschfield features a photographic portrait of the author. See "Der Malik-Verlag 1916-1947" p. 247. Malik Verlag unknown books
1929ref. 144757New York: Henry Miller's Theatre 1929. Original flyer for the 1929 play "Journey's End" which premiered at Henry Miller's Theatre on Broadway on March 22 1929 and closed on May 17 1930 for a total of 485 performances. The first US production of the play after its smash hit at at the Apollo Theatre in London which starred a young Laurence Olivier and was directed by then-unknown director James Whale. It is widely considered to be one of the greatest plays ever written about World War I following the plight of a British Army infantry company in 1918. Whale accompanied the play to America for the production advertised here which by late 1929 was being performed by 14 companies in English and 17 in other languages and he would go on to direct the 1930 film adaptation starring Colin Clive David Manners and Ian Maclaren. His film would be the first of numerous adaptations including: "The Other Side" 1931 "Aces High" 1976 and "Journey's End" 2017. Whale would go on to even greater Hollywood fame later directing "Frankenstein" "The Invisible Man" "The Bride of Frankenstein" and more and was one of the first openly gay directors. Two-color single leaf folded once 10 x 8 inches. Bright and Near Fine with a few closed tears and edge creases. Henry Miller's Theatre unknown books
1990ref. 43437New York: Harry N. Abrams Inc 1990. First American Edition. Quarto 35.5cm x 27cm. Gray cloth boards hardcover with titling embossed in silver on spine; pictorial dustjacket; 320pp; illus. Near Fine copy; slighly bumped edge of lower back board else clean and tight. Near Fine dustwrapper; very slight slight shelf wear to extremities. A photographic journey through the landscapes and cultures of the Horn of Africa by photographers Carol Beckwith and Angela Fisher supported by an informative text by Graham Hancock and line-drawings of the artifacts and architecture of the region. 328 illustrations including 244 color plates 75 line drawings and 9 maps. Harry N. Abrams, Inc unknown books
1928ref. 41970Praha: Aventinum 1928. First Edition. Small octavo 20cm.; publisher's white photo-montaged card wrappers printed in black and green; 159pp. Light shelf wear to wrapper extremities tiny chip at bottom spine edge of upper cover minor dust-soil else Very Good or better. Designed by the prolific Surrealist Czech designer Frantisek Muzika 1900-1974 the art director of Aventinum from 1927 until the publisher's folding in 1934 during which period he would provide the designs for nearly one hundred titles see Jindrich Toman Foto-Montáž Tiskem / Photo-Montage in Print 2009 p. 196. Aventinum unknown books
1924ref. 42953Praha: Vydal Devetsil 1924. Second Edition. Slim octavo 22cm.; publisher's white pictorial wrappers yapp edges; 61pp. Wrappers rather chipped and worn especially along spine repaired shallow loss at bottom edge of upper cover general dust-soil some foxing to rear cover textblock slightly toned else Good to Very Good. Earliest edition of the author's first play to be issued by the leading Czech avant-garde publishing house Devetsil upper cover designed by the prolific Surrealist artist Jindrich Štyrsky. OCLC locates one copy in the United States as of November 2018 at the NYPL. Vydal Devetsil unknown books
1932ref. 42043Moscow: The State Publishing Union of RSFSR 1932. First Edition. Folio 42cm; printed wrappers saddle-stitched; 44pp; illus.; text is entirely in English. Some wear mild toning and handling to wrappers with a few faint creases to same and a few faint damp marks at margins; 8-panel centerfold spread is detached from staples but present; just Very Good. Well-preserved issue of this landmark Soviet art magazine issued from 1930 to 1941 to celebrate the achievements of the first two Five Year Plans and through various foreign-language editions to propagandize the stark contrast between the vibrant Soviet economy during this period and the stagnation of Western economies under capitalism. "All the visual strategies of the propaganda photobooks designed by Lissitsky Rodchenko and others.were developed in USSR in Construction one of the most beautifully produced magazines of the twentieth century" Parr-Badger The Photobook I:148. The present issue is entirely devoted to the 10th anniversary of the Transcaucasian Federation detailing the customs and contributions of its people in text and photos. The State Publishing Union of RSFSR unknown books
1927ref. 40282Praha: Knihovna Kosmopolis 1927. First Thus. Slim 12mo 18cm.; publisher's cream pictorial card wrappers printed in red and black; 106pp.; pictorial ads in rear. Tiny split at bottom spine edge of upper cover early signature including title page disbound at time of publication else Very Good and sound. Czech translation of Stendhal's 1832 novella "The Abbess of Castro" attractive avant-garde cover art by Otakar Mrkvicka. Knihovna Kosmopolis unknown books
1916ref. 143509N.p.: N.p. 1916. Vintage Swiss one sheet lithograph poster made to promote the 1916 opening of Speck's Orient-Cinema in Zurich during the heart of the silent film era. Designed and illustrated by costume and commercial designer Ernst Deutsch-Dryden. The poster's illustration portrays well-dressed clientele watching a Western movie likely meant to represent a US import. During this period there was a push in Zurich as in all large European and American cities to build lavish new cinemas to accommodate the constantly growing public demand for films and elegant movie houses in which to view them. 27 x 39 inches. Linen backed with no extra linen borders with slight restoration at the folds and edges. Archivally framed with UV plexi. N.p. unknown books
