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Perhaps nothing tells the story of popluar culture than the posters we create. Concerts classical and rock. Plays, movies and auctions. From commercial advertisements to works of the WPA. This is the story of the way we lived.

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GOLD RUSH

GOLD RUSH

by MOVIE POSTER, lithograph

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1942. [MOVIE POSTER, lithograph]. THE GOLD RUSH (United Artists, R-1942). "The Gold Rush" is considered by many to be Chaplin's greatest masterpiece. This is a poster for the 1942 re-release of the 1925 film, for which Chaplin composed and recorded a musical score and added a narration which he recorded himself. British Door Panel (20" X 60"). This color poster shows the "Little Tramp," wrapped in a shawl and shivering in the snow, before a large wooden sign that reads: "THE WORLD'S GREAT | LAUGHING PICTURE! | CHARLIE | CHAPLIN | in | THE | GOLD RUSH | Written and directed by | Charles Chaplin | with MUSIC | and WORDS." In the bottom left corner is a small seal: "Distributed by UNITED ARTISTS," and in the bottom right corner is another small seal, that of the British Board of Film Censors. Printed in very small type in the bottom border, beneath the image, is "Printed in England," a two-line terms-of-use statement, "STAFFORD & CO., LTD., Netherfield, Nottingham : and London," " No 6128A." There is a… Read More
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A Collection of Motivational Poster Cards (Poster Sales Letters)
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A Collection of Motivational Poster Cards (Poster Sales Letters)

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San Anselmo, California
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Chicago. C.J. Howard. 1927. Collection is contained in original imprinted cardboard C.J. Howard packaging box. 7"x4.75" when closed (horizontal folding card).7"x9.5" when opened. Each card presents a striking Art Deco multicolored lithograph and various coloured borders and decorations printed upon folded heavy card stock. Early in the 1920s Charles Mather, who worked for his family’s Chicago printing house, the Mather Company, took an idea brought to him by one of the firm’s salesmen, Charles Howard Rosenfeld. What Rosenfeld proposed was a series of posters whose focus was to give workers incentive to work better and to work harder. Mather called these prints, “Constructive Organization Posters.” These posters were made to be placed on office and factory walls and were expected to inspire workers to do their best. Mather sold his posters by subscription and produced more than 300 varieties between 1923 and 1929.In 1925 Rosenfeld and another employee… Read More
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Hand-drawing  Cultural Revolution propaganda poster:
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Hand-drawing Cultural Revolution propaganda poster:

by Revolutionary Committee of Epidemic Prevention of Yunnan Province

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Used - Hand-drawing Cultural Revolution propaganda poster
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Beijing, China
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Hand-drawing Chinese propaganda poster: "Holding highly the flags of Maoism Thought to eliminate leptospirosis thoroughly." 1971. 89cm x 62cm. All of the painting and red Chinese characters are hand-drawing, only the below black Chinese characters were typed on a paper and then adhered to the painting. Have slight fold which probably can be recovered because the fold is formed by whole put together with others.
The soldier, worker and peasant are holding a red books with title "Maoism Thought" . The three banners are captioned with "Ready for Battle, Ready for Famine, For People", "Long Live For the Victory of the hygienism Route of Chairman Mao’s Proletariat Revolution" and "Put the emphasis of the work of hygienism and Health into Rural Area", respectively. The two plates are captioned with "Must Demolish thoroughly the remaining toxin of the hygienism Route of Anti-revolutionary Revisionism" and "Must eliminate leptospirosis thoroughly ", respectively.
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Metropolis (Original US herald for the 1927 film)
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Metropolis (Original US herald for the 1927 film)

by Fritz Lang (director); Thea von Harbou (screenplay, novel), Channing Pollock (adaptation)

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Hollywood: Universum Film [UFA] / Paramount Pictures, 1927. Original advertising herald for the US release of the 1927 film, a shortened 115-minute version re-cut by American playwright Channing Pollock, who is credited on the herald. Interestingly, the herald credits the film as joint production of Paramount and UFA, just prior to the formation of the larger umbrella production company Parufamet, which included UFA, Paramount, and MGM. 4.5 x 6 inches folded, 8.75 x 6 inches unfolded. Near Fine with some light soil. Ebert I. Eureka Masters of Cinema 16. Rosenbaum 1000. Schrader Canon Fodder 5. Godard, Histoires du cinema.
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[Embrace the Base] Greenham Common Women's Peace Camp Invite Women to Take Part in an...
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[Embrace the Base] Greenham Common Women's Peace Camp Invite Women to Take Part in an International Action to Stop the Siting of Cruise Missiles Anywhere in Europe. December 12th & 13th. Embrace the Base on Sunday. Close the Base on Monday.

by Greenham Common Women's Peace Camp

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[England, 1982]. Poster (420mm x 580mm). Professionally mounted, framed and glazed using archival materials. White text and graphic of a missile caught in a spider's web superimposed over a grey and red photograph of the mushroom cloud over Nagasaki. Marker pen notes at the bottom of the poster give contact details and instructions for travelling to the camp by bus from Birmingham. Light creases from old folds into four, some slight surface scuffs. Very good condition. A rare poster advertising Embrace the Base, one of the key mass actions at the Greenham Common Women's Peace Camp. We have been able to locate only two other copies in institutional collections, at the LSE Women's Library and the Glasgow Women's Library. The Greenham Common protest was established in September of 1981 by the Welsh group Women for Life on Earth, who were opposed to the deployment of nuclear tipped Cruise missiles at the site. What was initially planned as a single march became a permanent protest camp in place until… Read More
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Women in the War—We Can't Win Without Them.
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Women in the War—We Can't Win Without Them.

by War Manpower Commission

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Moray, United Kingdom
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Washington D.C.: US Govt. Printing Office, 1942. Colour poster (28 x 40 in). Professionally mounted, glazed, and framed using archival materials. Original creases from folding, bright and fresh. Excellent condition. An important Second World War poster promoting women in the wartime workforce, produced in 1942 by the War Manpower Commission. At the time, "Women in the War" was one of the most widely distributed images of a woman laboring in war production, unlike the "We Can Do It" poster, which was produced only for Westinghouse plants during a few weeks in 1943 and did not become iconic until the 1980s. "Among the many agencies President Roosevelt had created during the war was the War Manpower Commission, formed in April 1942 to oversee war labor issues in the military, industrial, and civilian sectors. And in June 1942, the Office of War Information was formed to manage the flows of news and propaganda about the war to the public. By 1943, when the labor shortage was most acute, the two… Read More
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The Sketchbooks of Picasso "Je Suis Le Cahier": Exhibition Poster

The Sketchbooks of Picasso "Je Suis Le Cahier": Exhibition Poster

by Pablo Picasso; Paloma Picasso ( SIGNED)

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  • near fine
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Used - Near Fine
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First Printing
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New York: SPADEM/ Pace Gallery Publ., 1986. RARE exhibition poster SIGNED by Paloma Picasso, renowned fashion designer and daughter of Pablo Picasso, signed lower left and dated by her "86. The exhibition ran at the Pace Gallery, New York City, from May 2 - August 1, 1986. Near Fine, faint creases, small stain bottom right corner. Well suited for framing, will be shipped loosely rolled in a mailing tube. . First Printing. Poster. Near Fine. 22 1/4"w x 38"h.
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Original Poster for Merce Cunningham and John Cage Event at University of Illinois, Urbana...

Original Poster for Merce Cunningham and John Cage Event at University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign, November 16, 1967

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Kennesaw, Georgia
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Original Poster: Theatre Event: The Merce Cunningham Dance Company with John Cage. Thursday, November 16, 8:00 p.m. Assembly Hall. Tickets: 2.50, 2:00 and 1.50, Illini Union Box Office or the Assembly Hall. Approximately 11.5" x 22”. Heavy yellow stock with red design and lettering, overall VG+, with some offsetting to bottom third, a small stain not affecting image or text, a small closed tear and bumped corner. John Cage, the avant-garde composer and a founder of the New York School, arrived in 1967 for a three-year appointment as Associate of the Center for Advanced Studies and Visiting Professor of Music, where he created numerous “happenings,” performance art where visitors, performers, objects, and environments interacted. The first happening Cage directed at Illinois (complete with large weather balloons) occurred on this November weekend: Music Circus (otherwise known as Musicircus) at the University of Illinois Stock Pavillion, which began at 8pm and lasted for nearly eight hours. A… Read More
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HUNTER S. THOMPSON FOR SHERIFF - 3 COLOR VINTAGE SILKSCREEN FACSIMILE: SIGNED
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HUNTER S. THOMPSON FOR SHERIFF - 3 COLOR VINTAGE SILKSCREEN FACSIMILE: SIGNED

by Thompson, Hunter S. (Author) & Benton, Thomas W. (Artist)

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HUNTER THOMPSON FOR SHERIFF - ORIGINAL SILKSCREEN: This item is a 3 color silkscreen printed by artist, Thomas Benton, original designer of Hunter Thompson's election poster from his campaign for sheriff of Aspen in 1970. This item was part of a series released by the artist during the late 90's. Item is boldly signed by Hunter Thompson in gold, and countersigned by Benton in pencil at the bottom of the poster. The poster is in FINE condition. PROVENANCE: The poster has had one owner: Me. I purchased the poster at a book fair in Burbank, CA sometime in the late 90's from Ed Smith Books - ABAA/ILAB member. It has been well preserved & taken care of in a frame (not professional) with acid-free backing.
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Lithograph Wall Chart] Structural Differential
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Lithograph Wall Chart] Structural Differential

by Korzybski, Alfred (1879-1950)

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Used - Near Fine
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First Printing
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New York: Rand McNally & Co. , 1949. RARE lithograph wall chart for the device called the "Structural Differential" which Alfred Korzybski patented in 1925 as a means to aid in visualizing the process he called "abstracting". This was to be used as a training device in general semantics, a field of study Korzybski is credited with founding. The chart is Near Fine, rubbed lower right, mounted on two stained wooden dowels with ribbon hanger 18" wide by 38" high. Korzybski's work in semantics heavily influenced science fiction authors such as A.E. Van Vogt, Robert A. Heinlein, Poul Anderson, and H. Beam Piper, as well as L. Ron Hubbard and Joseph W. Campbell. His most famous quote "The map is not the territory" comes from this longer quote "A map is not the territory it represents, but, if correct, it has a similar structure to the territory, which accounts for its usefulness."( Science and Sanity, Korzybski, 1931). OCLC locates no copies; no… Read More
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我們要切切實實的對日經濟&...

我們要切切實實的對日經濟絕交. [Wo men yao qie qie shi shi de dui ri jing ji jue jiao]. [Chinese Kuomintang Propaganda Poster - We Need to Pose A Total Economic Sanction on Japan].

by [XIUTANG]. (ILLUSTRATOR). 秀堂.

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[南京].[Nanking].: 南京特別市農民協會.. [1928].. Chinese Kuomintang (KMT) propaganda poster stencilled in blue and red, appears to have been issued folded with 4 neat horizontal folds visible, some other minor creasing, small closed tear from margin, archival repair to lower left corner, small stain lower corner. Issued by the Peasants' Association of Nanking Special Municipality, the party emblem of KMT is centrally placed at the top of the poster with skulls and crossbones just below, calligraphic text takes up the majority of the poster with the characters for "five" and "three" highlighted, lower edge dripping blood, overall very good. Text in traditional Chinese. Sheet measures 78 x 26cm. In the final stage of the Northern Expedition, Chang Kai-shek's National Revolutionary Army (NRA) entered Jinan, the capital city of Shandong Province in April 1928. The two characters "five" and "three" so graphically depicted on this poster… Read More
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Love
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Love

by Morrison, Toni

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  • near fine
  • Hardcover
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Used - Near Fine
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1st Edition
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Hardcover
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Las Vegas , Nevada
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Princeton: Princeton University, 2003 Promotional poster printed in red and black on heavy cream paper for Morrison's reading from her novel LOVE. Council of Humanities and the Program in African-American Studies (November 4th, 2003) on the Princeton University campus at the Historic Alexander Hall in the Richardson Auditorium, a venue where Morrison who long taught at Princeton frequently appeared. This copy signed by Toni Morrison. Pin holes at the corners (three interiorly) and a faint crease to top edge, else in fine condition.
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Ten Minutes for Refreshments
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Ten Minutes for Refreshments

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Used - Near fine
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Chehalis, Washington
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New York: Great American Tea Company, 1886. Near fine. Original chromolithograph advertising poster, 22 x 32 inches. A stunning print with exceptionally rich color, archivally backed. Professional restoration to edges and a few small spots on the printed area. Near fine. "Ten minutes for refreshments!" was the well-known cry of railroad conductors across the United States before dining cars became common on trains. Hungry and thirsty passengers would rush off the train and into the depot, where they scrambled to order and then bolt down their lunch under the watchful eye of conductor determined to keep the train on schedule. In this advertising print for the Great American Tea Company, the conductor stands in the doorway with pocket watch in hand, calming observing the chaos as customers (all white men served by Black waiters) frantically consume their food and beverages, some leaving smashed crockery in their wake as they rush to re-board the train. Coffee is dispensed from urns advertising the… Read More
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Clemens, Samuel (Mark Twain) - St. Valentin's Card Signed 1902 and Photo
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Clemens, Samuel (Mark Twain) - St. Valentin's Card Signed 1902 and Photo

by Mark Twain

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American writer (1835-1910) whose real name was Samuel Clemens, humorist, publisher and author of the celebrated novel "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer" (1876) and its sequel "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" (1885).
St. Valentin's Day card, dated by him in 1902. Size is 7.9 x 5.75 inches, creases, in very good condition.
ALSO INCLUDED is an original photograph by George G. Rockwood, size is 4.9 x 6.9 inches, in excellent condition.
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New Orleans Anti-Prohibition Poster, Cocktail Recipes [SIGNED Original 1931 Collins Diboll]
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New Orleans Anti-Prohibition Poster, Cocktail Recipes [SIGNED Original 1931 Collins Diboll]

by Diboll, Collins

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  • very good
  • Hardcover
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Used - Very Good
Edition
1st
Binding
Hardcover
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Granville, New York
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New Orleans: Diboll & Gelpi, 1931. Published New Orleans, : Diboll & Gelpi, 1931. 15 1/4" x 19 3/4" inches, printed in brown ink in reverse type and images, halftones, with white border. Poster is flat mounted on old corrugated board backing, unframed. Signed in pencil at bottom left margin: "To Karen and Doug, for SPIRITUAL GUIDANCE, Collins Diboll." The poster features numerous vignettes of human activity - eating, drinking, travel, sports, music, dance, entertainment and merrymaking, framed by inner and outer borders of humorous verse: "I used to know a clever toast but now I cannot think it, so fill your glass to anything and damn your souls I'll drink it." "Some are fond of drinking and others of high position, but we're for toleration and down with prohibition." The large central image is a navigational clock, with compass points at center and "Bonum vinum laetificat cor hominis" (Good wine gladdens a person's heart), with… Read More
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