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(V23) (OLIVER, VAUGHAN) (4AD). Oliver, Vaughan. Los Angeles: 4AD, 1994. First Edition. Elephant Folio. Printed Poster. Concert Poster. Fine.. One 29 x 14" sheet printed in colors, recto only. Designed by Vaughan Oliver, Chris Bigg and Paul McMenamin. This is the striking V23-designed poster from 1994 publicizing a weeklong series of concerts by artists recording for the innovative British label 4AD entitled "All Virgos Are Mad". Held at Los Angeles' legendary Troubadour club, the participants included Lisa Germano, Michael Brook, Air Miami, Red House Painters, The Wolfgang Press, His Name is Alive, Pale Saints, Lisa Germano, Kristin Hersh, Throwing Muses, Michael Brook, Heidi Berry, Defever and Masters, Lisa Gerrard, Mark Kozalek, Kendra Smith, and numerous "special guests". A brand new, flat, most handsome example of this uncommon Vaughan Oliver item that will be shipped rolled in a poster tube. Inventory Number: 027594

(VISIONAIRE). Gan, Stephen, Cecilia Dean & James Kaliardos, Editors. New York: Visionaire Publishing, 2000. First Edition 1/6000. 4to. Loose Contents in a Box. Fashion Quarterly. Fine/No Jacket - As Issued. np (48pp) + 16 six-sided pictorial blocks housed in a Lucite case. Published in an edition of six thousand copies, this is the thirtieth installment of everyone's favorite long-running luxe fashion quarterly, Visionaire. Issued in conjunction with the Louis Vuitton Cup Trials to determine the finalists for the 2000 America's Cup yacht race, Visionaire assembled teams of artists, photographers and image makers from the seven participating countries. Six contributors each from the U.S., Australia, France, Italy, Japan, Spain and Switzerland produced an image that occupies one side of each of the enclosed blocks; the sixteen cubes placed in the correct configuration form one of the six different images. The six Spanish contributors represented here are Ruben Toledo, Pedro Almodovar, Juan Gatti, Jordi Labanda, Miquel Barcelo, and Layla D'Angelo. These cubes, along with a booklet of all forty-two images are packaged inside a silk-screened Lucite case created for Visionaire by Louis Vuitton. The closure for this case is a spherical nautical compass on a leather thong, so you'll never get lost while trying to solve the puzzles inside. A brand new, most handsome individually numbered example of the Spain edition inside the publisher's unprinted protective cardboard shipping box, as issued. PLEASE NOTE: Additional shipping costs are required for this item beyond our standard rates due to its weight and value - we will inform you of the applicable amount at time of purchase. 1-888645-28-8 Inventory Number: 023773

(VISIONAIRE). Gan, Stephen, Cecilia Dean & James Kaliardos, Editors. New York: Visionaire Publishing, 2000. First Edition 1/6000. 4to. Loose Contents in a Box. Fashion Quarterly. Fine/No Jacket - As Issued. np (48pp) + 16 six-sided pictorial blocks housed in a Lucite case. Published in an edition of six thousand copies, this is the thirtieth installment of everyone's favorite long-running luxe fashion quarterly, Visionaire. Issued in conjunction with the Louis Vuitton Cup Trials to determine the finalists for the 2000 America's Cup yacht race, Visionaire assembled teams of artists, photographers and image makers from the seven participating countries. Six contributors each from the U.S., Australia, France, Italy, Japan, Spain and Switzerland produced an image that occupies one side of each of the enclosed blocks; the sixteen cubes placed in the correct configuration form one of the six different images. The six French contributors represented here are Karl Lagerfeld, Serge Lutens, M/M, Pierre Joseph, Richard Fauguet, and Guy Limone. These cubes, along with a booklet of all forty-two images are packaged inside a silk-screened Lucite case created for Visionaire by Louis Vuitton. The closure for this case is a spherical nautical compass on a leather thong, so you'll never get lost while trying to solve the puzzles inside. A brand new, most handsome individually numbered example of the France edition inside the publisher's unprinted protective cardboard shipping box, as issued. PLEASE NOTE: Additional shipping costs are required for this item beyond our standard rates due to its weight and value - we will inform you of the applicable amount at time of purchase. 1-888645-25-3 Inventory Number: 018313

(VISIONAIRE). Gan, Stephen, James Kaliardos & Cecilia Dean, Editors. New York: Visionaire Publishing, 1993. First Edition 1/1500. Folio. Loose Plates in a Portfolio. Fashion Quarterly. Near Fine/No Jacket - As Issued. Individual sheets laid into a die-cut printed portfolio, profusely illustrated in color and b&w. Designed by Gregory Foley. Published in an edition of one thousand, five hundred copies, this is the ninth installment of everyone's favorite long-running luxe fashion quarterly, Visionaire. "Greg Foley, who had been collaborating with us on our cover designs since the day he graduated from Rhode Island School of Design, really went to town with this one. He sliced out every letter he fancied and created one gigantic collage that we then photographed and printed. The concept was exciting: The B from Harper's Bazaar and the V from Vogue could all appear on our cover, along with many other famous typefaces. In the end it even became a kind of guessing game: ''Name that logo.'' The only drawback was that for months after this cover was made, there was not a magazine, phone book, or cereal box in the house that didn't have a hole cut out of it. The holographic metallic foil stamping also made this one of our most memorable covers. As for the contents, we assigned each of the contributing artists a different letter of the alphabet. For the first time, the directions were very specific, but even so, many artists took the challenge and proceeded as if they had been given carte blanche". Its contributors include editor Stephen Gan, Nick Knight, Robert Medvedz, Dovanna Pagowska, Jeffrey Fulvimani, Tim Rollins + K.O.S., Ruben Toledo, Bill Cunningham, Steven Meisel, James Dignan, Steven Klein, James Vance, Kareem Iliya, Bruce Weber, Francois Berthoud, Robert Adams, Stevan Dohan, Michael Capotosto, Miguel Calvo, Florentino J. Pamintuan, Donna Trope, Lucy Ewing, Helmut Lang, Arnaldo, Ferrara Ocanto, Mei Tao, Malcolm Hill, Joshua Jordan, Manolo, James White, Alexis Rockman, Peter Robathan, Torkil Gudnason, Christophe Rihet, Juan Gatti, Josef Astor, John Martin Newsom, Victoria Bartlett, Bernard Figueroa, Filip Pagowski, Michael "Rags" Raglin, Susan Cianciolo, Andrew Gellaty, and Lori Kessel. A most handsome individually numbered example of this uncommon issue. PLEASE NOTE: Additional shipping costs are required for this item beyond our standard rates due to its value - we will inform you of the applicable amount at time of purchase. PLEASE NOTE: Additional shipping costs are required for this item beyond our standard rates due to its weight and value - we will inform you of the applicable amount at time of purchase. Inventory Number: 018301

(WARHOL, ANDY) (WALLOWITCH, JOHN). Wallowitch, John. New York. ND (1964).: Serenus Records Corp.. First Edition. Large Square 4to. LP in Illustrated Album Cover. Fine/Fine. One black vinyl long-playing phonograph record in a plain paper inner-sleeve, inside a 12 x 12" album cover printed black and white offset recto, and two color offset verso. Design by Irwin Rosenhouse. Cover Photograph by Andy Warhol. This is the very first recording issued by the late pianist, composer and lyricist John Wallowitch. Best known as one half of the Manhattan cabaret performing duo Wallowitch and Ross, his songs have been recorded by the likes of Tony Bennett, Blossom Dearie, Dixie Carter, Doc Severinson, and many others. He was also the brother of the late photographer Ed Wallowitch, a confidant and early Factory assistant to Andy Warhol. Art directed by noted New York designer Irwin Rosenhouse, Warhol collaged a series of photobooth images for its cover that capture the suited Wallowitch from his chest up to his mouth, cutting off any other identifying facial features (as well as making a non-issue of the pianist's baldness). The recordings consist of twelve show tunes and standards including "Swanee", "I'll Remember April", "Fly Me to the Moon", and "I Left My Heart in San Francisco".  The jacket is stamped "Stereo" on the verso in black ink, and is remarkably clean and fresh. A bright, most handsome example of this uncommon, early Andy Warhol item (entry number twenty-six in Paul Marechal's "Andy Warhol: The Record Covers 1949-1987 - Catalogue Raisonné," and cited on page 48 of Guy Schraenen's "Vinyl: Records and Covers by Artists") that predates his "The Velvet Underground And Nico" album cover by two years. PLEASE NOTE: The album's catalogue number SEP 2005 printed prominently on the rear cover has led some less well-versed observers to speculate that this is a reprint issued in September of the year 2005. It is not. It is the first - and only vinyl issue - released in 1964. Inventory Number: 027217

(YOKOO, TADANORI). Kokushokankokai, I00220315, 2022. 10 x 12 inches, 460 Pages. Hardcover. New.

Tadanori Yokoo held his first solo exhibition of paintings in 1966 in Tokyo. His revolutionary work, which oscillates between conceptual art and pure design, rapidly gained attention in the international art world. With a signature style of colorful psychedelia and pastiche, he engages a wide spectrum of modern visual and cultural phenomena from Japan and elsewhere. The subject matter often clashes with what seems a nonsensical collage of images. ‘Genkyo’ is an exuberant, far-reaching anthology of Yokoo’s work throughout the years, with a special focus on how the artist constantly revisits and remakes the same images and themes in a mind-blowing variety of styles and artworks. 9784336071019 Inventory Number: I00220315

(ZELLEN, JODY). Zellen, Jody. Santa Monica, CA: Self-Published, 1997. First Edition 1/500. 16mo. Stapled Pictorial Wrappers. Artist's Book. Fine.. np (40pp), profusely illustrated in color and b&w. Designed by Jody Zellen. Published in conjunction with the 1997 exhibition "Blur" at San Diego Mesa College Art Gallery, this is the second of Santa Monica-based artist/graphic designer Jody Zellen's self-produced small format artist's books. Uniformly scaled to 4 ½ x 4 ½", these beautiful little editions combine photographic reproduction, text, and a grid format to achieve a sublime narrative. A most handsome example of this uncommon item limited to five hundred unnumbered copies. Inventory Number: 023103

Arcturus Radio Tube Corporation. NP (Newark, NJ). ND (circa early 1930s).: Arcturus Radio Tube Corporation. Edition Not Stated - Presumed First. 4to + Elephant Folio. Die-Cut Printed Sheets. Electronics Advertisements. Very Good -./No Jackets - As Issued.. One 27 x 20" + four 13 ½ x 10" die-cut cardboard sheets screenprinted color offset recto only, mounted on stiff cardboard backing. This is a striking group of five vintage advertising standups produced for the pioneering late twenties, early thirties New Jersey-based electronics manufacturer Arcturus Radio Tube Corporation by Ivel Displays, Inc. of New York City as a retailer sales tool to promote their line of "Blue A-C Long Life Tubes". Vividly colored with science fiction-inspired illustrations, these claim ""Quick 7 Second Action", "More Volume", "Hum-Less Clearer Reception", "Immune to Current Changes", and more. There are four smaller placards accompanied by a larger piece depicting the rocket ship-like five pin blue tube along with the Arcturus logo. A bright, mostly well-preserved set of these vibrant, exceedingly uncommon advertisements showing some light staining, wear, scuffing, and chipping to the faces of the signage with varying degrees of foxing and dampstaining to the versos still housed in the manufacturer's perishing original cardboard shipping carton, as issued. PLEASE NOTE: Additional shipping costs are required for this item beyond our standard rates due to its size, weight and value - we will inform you of the applicable amount at time of purchase. Inventory Number: 025972

Astraleyes. Los Angeles: Bibliomancers / Skylight Books, I00240720. 2024.. First Edition. 8 1/4 x 5 1/4". Paperback. Book Design Survey. New. 104pp, profusely illustrations in color. Designed by Jordan Crane. "Occult Eye" is Bibliomancers' fifth and latest survey of late twentieth Century cover and illustration art from Witchcraft, Magik, Occult and Esoteric Religion-themed books and magazines. A brand new, most handsome example of this worthy successor to "Spell Bound," "The Spectral Vision of Gothic Romance," "Mask Garden," and "Binding The Devil." Inventory Number: I00240720

Author Not Stated. NP. ND.: NP. Edition Not Stated - Presumed First. 4to. Scrap Book Binder. Poster Monograph. Fine/No Jacket - As Issued. np (74pp) + np (24pp), 102 black and white mounted photographs + 36 b&w illustrations. This is a hand-assembled scrapbook album that has been filled with black and white photographs loosely inserted into corner mounts reproducing one hundred and two posters issued in conjunction with the United States' participation in the First World War. While not dated, its general appearance and the sulfurous nature of the pages give the impression that this dates to the first half of the twentieth Century. A most handsome example of this unique album bearing the vintage Ex Libris bookplate of Charles L. Heartwell who we suspect must be the compiler into which has been laid a Fine condition copy of "Recruiting Posters Issued by the U.S. Navy Since the Declaration of War" issued in 1918 by the Press of the U.S. Navy Recruiting Bureau that features images of works by the likes of J.C. Leyendecker, Frank Brangwyn, Charles Dana Gibson, Howard Chandler Christy, James Montgomery Flagg, and many more. Inventory Number: 026955

Cohen, Arthur A. & Trevor Winkfield. New York. ND (circa 1976).: Ex Libris. First Edition. 4to. Printed Wrappers. Bookseller's Catalogue. Very Good.. np (152pp), profusely illustrated in b&w. New York's Arthur Cohen was the premier purveyor of books and ephemera on twentieth century Modern Art movements for nearly twenty years. Ex Libris' copiously researched, scholarly, illustrated catalogues stood as unparalleled bibliographic tools at a time when there was a paucity of available reference to the documentary literature of the modernist avant-gardes. Catalogue number three features nine hundred and eighty-five fully described and indexed original works, photographs, posters, books, periodicals, pamphlets, and printed ephemera on the subjects of Guillaume Apollinaire, Architecture, Expressionism, Illustrated Books and Livres de Peintre, Alfred Jarry, Periodicals and Annuals, Photographs and Photogravures (including a large collection of plates from "Camera Work"), Photography and Film, and Surrealism. And while at the time of its 1976 publication the prices here seemed astronomical, some forty years later they are finally downright bargains! A handsome example of this uncommon reference showing a bit of light sunning to the covers along with its title added discreetly in ink to the spine. Inventory Number: 015159

Gold, Jeff & Gene Sculatti. Berkeley & Los Angeles, CA: Gingko Press & Kill Your Idols, 2016. First Paperbound Edition. 4to. Pictorial Paperback. Music Monograph. As New.. 260pp, 443 color illustrations. Jeff Gold's "101 Essential Rock Records..." is a tribute to the vinyl album and celebrates one hundred and one of rock’s most influential records - from The Beatles’ 1963 debut "Please Please Me" through the Sex Pistols’ Never Mind the Bollocks". Alongside the big names such as Bob Dylan, Jimi Hendrix, The Rolling Stones, and Fleetwood Mac are lesser-known but highly influential artists including Laura Nyro, The Flying Burrito Brothers, Captain Beefheart, and The Stooges. An essay on each album accompanies reproductions of the original vinyl cover artwork, with rare variations from around the world. Also included are thought-provoking interviews with musicians who discuss the albums and artists who changed their lives. Graham Nash describes meeting The Beatles at a 1959 talent show where they were billed as Johnny and the Moondogs, and how, four years later, John Lennon and Paul McCartney sang him the just written "Misery" - one voice in each ear. David Bowie speaks eloquently about the Velvet Underground’s influence, and Iggy Pop writes of the profound impact upon hearing Van Morrison’s no-holds-barred performance on the first album by Them, and his admiration for Frank Zappa and The Mothers of Invention’s "Freak Out", noting that opening for the Mothers "pushed me to be weirder faster". Additional contributions are from Jac Holzman (Elektra Records), Robyn Hitchcock, Nels Cline (Wilco), Susanne Vega, Jon Savage, Devendra Banhart, Mick Haggerty, Joe Boyd, Peter Buck (REM), Johnny Marr (The Smiths), and Ken Barnes. Also featured are pictorial explorations of Jimi Hendrix’s personal record collection and a survey of censored album covers from throughout the rock era". A brand new, pristine copy of the 2016 first paperbound printing of one of our favorite books of the past decade BOLDLY SIGNED "Jeff Gold" in black marker on the title page.



978-1-58423-640-5 Inventory Number: E000JG101P

Hershenson, Bruce. West Plains, MO: Bruce Hershenson, 1996. First Edition. 4to. Illustrated Wrappers. As New.. np (84pp), 394 color illustrations. This is the third installment of noted collector/dealer/author/publisher Bruce Hershenson's indispensable film poster references categorized by subject matter. From Emil Janning's "Wings" through Tim Burton's "Ed Wood", it reproduces three hundred and ninety-four posters and lobby cards including images for all the winners of the top six Academy Awards from every year from the very first in 1927/28 through to 1994. A brand new, pristine paperbound example. 1-887893-00-8 Inventory Number: 024172

Hershenson, Bruce. Los Angeles: Christie's, 1996. First Edition 1/300 Deluxe. 4to. Illustrated Boards. Fine/No Jacket - As Issued. np (168pp), 174 color illustrations. This is the catalogue for two December 15th, 1995 sales of film posters organized by noted collector/dealer/author/publisher Bruce Hershenson held at Christie's in Los Angeles. It features two complete auctions in one volume. First there are one hundred and seventy-four full-color Rock 'n' Roll movie posters ranging from Bill Haley in 1956's "Rock Around the Clock" to Nirvana in 1992's "The Year Punk Broke". Then there are an additional two hundred and seventy-six full-color classic film posters including an ultra-rare "Flying Down to Rio" one-sheet that sold for a staggering $81,700.00. A most handsome example of the deluxe hardbound edition limited to three hundred copies SIGNED AND NUMBERED in ink by Bruce Hershenson on a printed label affixed to the front pastedown, as issued. Inventory Number: 016627

Hershenson, Bruce. West Plains, MO: Bruce Hershenson, 1996. First Edition 1/300 Deluxe. 4to. Illustrated Boards. Fine/No Jacket - As Issued. np (80pp), 380 color illustrations. This is the fourth installment of noted collector/dealer/author/publisher Bruce Hershenson's indispensable film poster references categorized by subject matter. From 1913's "Ben Hur" through the Roger Corman's "Death Race 2000", it reproduces three hundred and eighty sports-themed posters and lobby cards. A brand new, most handsome example of the deluxe hardbound edition limited to three hundred copies SIGNED AND NUMBERED in ink by Bruce Hershenson on a printed label affixed to the front pastedown, as issued. 1-887893-15-6 Inventory Number: 016625

Hershenson, Bruce. West Plains, MO: Bruce Hershenson, 1996. First Edition 1/300 Deluxe. 4to. Illustrated Boards. Fine/No Jacket - As Issued. np (84pp), 394 color illustrations. This is the third installment of noted collector/dealer/author/publisher Bruce Hershenson's indispensable film poster references categorized by subject matter. From Emil Janning's "Wings" through Tim Burton's "Ed Wood", it reproduces three hundred and ninety-four posters and lobby cards including images for all the winners of the top six Academy Awards from every year from the very first in 1927/28 through to 1994. A brand new, most handsome example of the deluxe hardbound edition limited to three hundred copies SIGNED AND NUMBERED in ink by Bruce Hershenson on a printed label affixed to the front pastedown, as issued. 1-887893-00-8 Inventory Number: 016624

Ide, Yasushi. Tokyo: Treville, 1991. First Edition. 12mo. Illustrated Boards. Fine/No Jacket - As Issued. np, 75 color illustrations. Text in Japanese. This is a charming little compendium of jazz and lounge-themed album cover art culled from the author's own collection. The musical artists represented include Jackie Gleason, Dick Hyman, Wayne King, David Carroll, Johnny Gregory, Russ Morgan, Art Van Damme, Ray Anthony, Les Baxter, Gordon Jenkins, Richard Hayman, Joe Bushkin, The Norman Luboff Choir, Nelson Riddle, Melachrino, Eddie Calvert, Peter Yorke, Russ Columbo, Jay Jerome, Roger Williams, Earl Grant, Bert Kaempfert, Ray Sherman, Jack Pleis, The King Sisters, Paul Weston, Percy Faith, Wayne King, Lawrence Welk, Ken Griffin, Laurindo Almeida, Jan & Dean and the Satellites, Stan Kenton, Andre Popp, Henri Rene, Jerome Kern, Mantovani, Stanley Black, Hugo Winterhalter, The Three Suns, and Jesse Crawford. Hailing from an era when romance ruled, with titles like "Martini Time", "Music for Sippin', Music for Dancin'", "Blue Chiffon", "Black Satin", and "The Torch with the Blue Flame" and endless images of lovers doing a lot of drinking, smoking and gazing longingly - how could you go wrong? A most handsome example. 4-8457-0597-4 Inventory Number: 000918

Kimura, Katsu. Tokyo: Rikuyo-sha Publishing, Inc., 1986. First Edition. 4to. Printed Boards in Dust Jacket. Graphic Design Monograph. Fine/Near Fine. 204pp, profusely illustrated in color and b&w. Text in English and Japanese. This is the striking, beautifully produced book documenting noted Japanese designer Katsu Kimura's unique collection of Art Deco packaging and graphics. A most handsome example of this engaging document whose dust jacket shows just the faintest bit of typical sunning along the spine. 4-89737-045-0 Inventory Number: 009777

No Author. NP (Los Angeles, CA).: No Publisher, I00231125, ND (2023). First Edition. 6 34 x 8 3/4", Oblong 8vo. Bolt-bound Boards. Motorcycle Culture Monograph. New/No Jacket - As Issued. np (112pp), profusely illustrated in color covers. Just in time for the Holidays come this exquisitely - and mysteriously - produced catalogue of several hundred outlaw motorcycle club "courtesy cards." Courtesy cards were the equivalent of a biker's business card and were exchanged with those that had been helpful in some way to the club in question - typically for some future consideration. As one might imagine, these were not widely distributed, and having access to these many images is something of a revelation to the outlaw biker historian and graphic designer alike. A brand new, pristine example of this awesome, sure to disappear quickly tome that bears no indication whatsoever of its author or publisher. Probably with good reason. Inventory Number: I00231125

Reed, Jr., Orrel P. & Robert Gore Rifkind. Foreword by Gerald Nordland. Los Angeles: Frederick S. Wight Art Gallery, University of California, Los Angeles, 1977. First Edition. 4to. Gilt-Debossed Cloth. Exhibition Catalog. Near Fine/No Jacket - As Issued.. 380pp, profusely illustrated in b&w. Designed by Jack Carter. With an exhibition checklist and bibliography. In a protective clear acetate dustwrapper. This is the copiously illustrated, scholarly catalogue published in conjunction with a 1977 exhibition of four hundred and eighteen German and Austrian Expressionist, Dada, Bauhaus, and related European modernist prints, drawings, illustrated books, posters and periodicals drawn from the Robert Gore Rifkind Collection. Now part of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art's holdings, the collection is reputedly the most comprehensive archive of Expressionist graphics outside of Germany. Artists whose work is featured include Josef Albers, Cuno Amiet, Alexander Archipenko, Hans Arp, Ernst Barlach, Willi Baumeister, Herbert Bayer, Max Beckmann, Albert Bloch, Max Buchartz, Heinrich Campendonk, Lovis Corinth, Otto Dix, James Ensor, Max Ernst, Lyonel Feininger, Conrad Felixmuller, George Grosz, John Heartfield, Erich Heckel, Karl Jakob Hirsch, Ferdinand Hodler, Karl Hofer, Johannes Itten, Willi Jaeckel, Alexej Von Jawlensky, Wassily Kandinsky, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Paul Klee, Gustav Klimt, Oskar Kokoschka, Kaethe Kollwitz, Alfred Kubin, Wilhelm Lehmbruck, Max Liebermann, August Macke, Franz Marc, Frans Masereel, Paula Modersohn-Becker, Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, Ludwig Meidner, Wilhelm Morgner, Otto Mueller, Edvard Munch, Gabriele Munter, Emil Nolde, Max Pechstein, Hans Purrmann, Christian Rohlfs, Egon Schiele, Oskar Schlemmer, Karl Schmidt-Rottluff, Arnold Schoenberg, Kurt Schwitters, Richard Seewald, Arthur Segal, Max Slevogt, Georg Tappert, Emil-Rudolph Weiss, and many, many more. A handsome copy of the uncommon hardbound first edition (issued without dust jacket) whose gilt is bright and fresh showing a tiny bump to the tips of the rear board at the upper foredge corner (not affecting the textblock) as well as some light overall wear. PLEASE NOTE: Additional shipping costs are required for this item beyond our standard rates due to its weight - we will inform you of the applicable amount at time of purchase. 0-915346-27-3 Inventory Number: 016201

U.S. War Advertising Council. NP: NP (U.S. War Advertising Council), 1942. Edition Not Stated. 16mo. Printed Paper. Propaganda Leaflet. Near Fine.. One 3 ¼ x 5 ¾" sheet printed color offset recto and verso, one color illustration. Featuring a distinctly unflattering caricature of Der Fuhrer, this is a graphically striking two-sided leaflet issued by the United States Government in 1942 to help insure an allied victory in World War II by promoting the sale at retail stores of U.S. War Stamps and Bonds. The text on the verso reads: "Hitler says: "Democracy is Dead". Democracy is dead Hitler,,, dead-set on burying you deep under your own debris. Right now the vultures are flying over Berchtesgaden waiting for you to come home to roost. Our dimes and dollars will hasten the day we stow Hitler away. Let's buy bonds - to buy bombs to bury Hitler. Don't take a powder... help buy some". The verso states "The immediate, "all out" public purchase of U.S. WAR STAMPS and BONDS will help bring VICTORY in the shortest possible time! Let's ALL do MORE than our share in JULY! WAR STAMPS and BONDS are now easily available in most RETAIL STORES. Victory - 1942!". A bright, well-preserved example of this uncommon bit of wartime propaganda showing just the slightest bit of age-toning along the bottom edge. Inventory Number: 025970

van Kooij, Barbera, Oswaldo Costa & Robin Resch, Editors. Rotterdam, THE NETHERLANDS: Witte De With Center for Contemporary Art, 1993. First Edition 1/650. 8vo. Pictorial Wrappers. Near Fine.. 128pp, 30 b&w illustrations. Text in English. Cover image by Jean-Luc Moulene. The final of three annual volumes, this is a collection of the transcribed contemporary art history lectures presented during 1992 at Rotterdam's Witte De With Center for Contemporary Art. The contents and participants are: Guy Brett, Catherine David, Rodrigo Naves, and Sonia Salzstein-Goldberg - "I Aspire to the Great Labyrinth", Walter Nikkels - "The Catalogue: An Ordered List of Works", Craigie Horsfield - "30.8.92 on Walker Evans", Stephen Prina - "We Represent Ourselves to the World: Institutional Narrativity", Stephan Balkenhol, Jean-Francois Chevrier, Chris Dercon, Ludger Gerdes, Martin Kreyssig, and Jeff Wall - "The Body is the Present", and Bruce Mau - "Beyond Typography". A most handsome example. 90-73362-26-1 Inventory Number: 016953

Volger, Bruno. Stuttgart, GERMANY. ND.: Schwabacher'sche Verlagsbuchhandlung. First Edition. 8vo. Decorative Boards. Graphic Design Survey. Very Good/No Jacket. 157+ 26pp (advertisements at rear), 70 b&w illustrations. Text in German. "Moderne Reklamekunst..." is a comprehensively illustrated survey of the art and technique of modernist advertising and poster design in Germany just prior to the first World War. A most handsome example of this uncommon item. Inventory Number: 004737

WHITNEY'S PICK. Paso Robles, CA: Nazraeli Press, 2019. First Press. 375 ML. Glass Bottle with an Artist-Designed Label. As New.. *
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Wolfe, Ernie III. With Contributions by Clive Barker, LeVar Burton, Deirdre Evans-Pritchard, Walter Hill, Anjelica Huston, John Milius, Roy Sieber, Paul Hayes Tucker, Gus Van Sant & John Yau. Los Angeles: Dilettante Press & Kesho Press, 2000. First Edition. 4to. Illustrated Wrappers. Film Monograph. Fine.. 305pp, profusely illustrated in color. This is noted African Art scholar Ernie Wolfe's extraordinary compendium of vivid, vulgar and outrageous examples of indigenous Ghanaian vernacular movie advertisements. These hand-painted, one-of-a-kind canvases typically adorn local video stores. Resembling vintage American carnival sideshow banners, their lurid images may or may not have anything to do with the actual content of the film they are representing. These posters are both amusing, and poignant in their irony of promoting Hollywood's excesses in the dry, dusty West African villages in which they hang. The list of essayists is also remarkable, featuring Clive Barker, LeVar Burton, Deirdre Evans-Pritchard, Walter Hill, Anjelica Huston, John Milius, Roy Sieber, Paul Hayes Tucker, Gus Van Sant, and John Yau each writing on the film genre of their choice. A brand new, most handsome example of the 2000 paperbound first edition additionally BOLDLY SIGNED "Ernie Wolfe III" by the author in black marker on the verso of the front pastedown. 0-9664272-2-X Inventory Number: 027323