Godine for Children: Poster by Hidy, Lance - 1982

Brookline, MA: David R, Godine A handsome broadside, 22" w x 31" h, featuring a 15" h x 20 ' w photogravure, printed by Joh. Enschede, Zonen, Haarlem, Holland, portraying a Civil War encampment with wounded soldiers resting beneath trees. Underneath, the quote, taken from Whitman's "Democratic Vistas:, note 2. "The whole present system of the officering and personnel of the army and navy of these States, and the spirit and letter of their trebly-aristocratic rules and regulations, is a monstrous exotic, a nuisance and revolt, and belong here just as much as orders of nobility, or the Pope's council of cardinals. I say if the present theory of our army and navy is sensible and true, then the rest of America is an unmitigated fraud. Walt Whitman". Printed on Cartridge Paper made by Schut, Heelsum, Holland and calligraphy by Bram De Does. No date, circa 1972. Near Fine, faint creases at edges. SCARCE. First Printing. Broadside. Near Fine. 22" w x… Read More

Brookline, MA: David R, Godine SCARCE a haunting and prophetic broadside, Whitman's words written in 1871 following the Civil War as relevant today as then. 22" w x 30 1/2" h, featuring a 20" w x 19/12" h photogravure, printed by Joh. Enschede, Zonen, Haarlem, Holland, portraying Walt Whitman in profile, enlarged reproduction of 1891 photograph of Walt Whitman by Thomas Eakin at head of text. Underneath, the quote, taken from Whitman's "Democratic Vistas": " We have frequently printed the word Democracy. Yet I cannot too often repeat that it is a word the real gist of which still sleeps, quite unawaken'd, notwithstanding the resonance and many angry tempests out of which its syllables have come, from pen or tongue. It is a great word, whose history, I suppose remains unwritten, because that history has yet to be enacted. It is in some sort, younger brother of another great and often-used word, NATURE, whose history also waits unwritten. WALT… Read More

London: X3 Posters RARE exhibition poster, no date, circa 1982- 1990 ( possibly 1989, the numbers 8 an 9 printed on the hands lower left), by Ken Meharg and Bob Linney, who ran the poster operation for Birmingham Arts Laboratory or Arts Lab, an experimental arts centre in Birmingham, until 1982. Posters from that era were featured in an international touring exhibition by the British Council between 1981 and 1985, and were the subject of an exhibition by Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery in 1998. They were known for their use of psychedelic imagery. Near Fine, small faint creases. Well suited for framing, will be shipped loosely rolled in a mailing tube. . First Printing. Poster. Near Fine. 19 3/4"w x 30"h.

Paris: Galerie Lahumiere , 1981. Original exhibition poster featuring Auguste Herbin's "Mer" 1945, a silkscreen which measures 25" x 19" within the larger poster, 28 1/4" x 37". An exhibition at this famous Paris gallery that featured the works of Geometric Abstarct artists, including Bauduin, Claisse, Dewasne, Herbin, D'Imbleval, Kowalski, Marcoussis, Magnelli, Poliakoff, Vasarely, and Villon. Near Fine, faint creases. A poster well suited for framing, will be shipped loosely rolled in a mailing tube. . First Printing. Poster. Near Fine. 28 1/4" x 37".

New York: Simon & Schuster, 1979. RARE and fabulous promotional poster on shiny mylar featuring an Ed Feingersh photographic portrait of Marilyn done in New York City during the week he spent photographing her in Mach, 1955. Near Fine, faint creases, 20"w x 30"h. Distributed in limited numbers at the ABA trade show in 1979, well suited for framing. Will be shipped loosely rolled in a mailing tube. Photographs do not do justice to the stunning effect of this poster !. First Printing. Poster. Near Fine. 20 " x 30".

Brookline, MA: David R, Godine A handsome broadside, 22" w x 31" h, featuring a 15" h x 20 ' w photogravure, printed by Joh. Enschede, Zonen, Haarlem, Holland, portraying a Civil War encampment with wounded soldiers resting beneath trees. Underneath, the quote, taken from Whitman's "Democratic Vistas:, note 2. "The whole present system of the officering and personnel of the army and navy of these States, and the spirit and letter of their trebly-aristocratic rules and regulations, is a monstrous exotic, a nuisance and revolt, and belong here just as much as orders of nobility, or the Pope's council of cardinals. I say if the present theory of our army and navy is sensible and true, then the rest of America is an unmitigated fraud. Walt Whitman". Printed on Cartridge Paper made by Schut, Heelsum, Holland and calligraphy by Bram De Does. No date, circa 1972. Near Fine, faint creases at edges. SCARCE. First Printing. Broadside. Near Fine. 22" w x… Read More

London: X3 Posters RARE exhibition poster, no date, circa 1982- 1990, by Ken Meharg and Bob Linney, who ran the poster operation for Birmingham Arts Laboratory or Arts Lab, an experimental arts centre in Birmingham, until 1982. Posters from that era were featured in an international touring exhibition by the British Council between 1981 and 1985, and were the subject of an exhibition by Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery in 1998. They were known for their use of psychedelic imagery. Near Fine, small faint creases. Well suited for framing, will be shipped loosely rolled in a mailing tube. . First Printing. Poster. Near Fine. 20"w x 30"h.

New York: Thomas Y Crowell & Co., 1958. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR at title page - "from Sandra Cooney to Dana Ericson". Caldecott Medal Winner for 1959. SCARCE in the First Edition and SIGNED. Near Fine, original orange decorative cloth with patterned end papers, tiny rubs at bottom corners, in a Near Fine dust jacket, faint closed tear bottom edge front panel, tiny chips at corners. Caldecott Medal front panel, correct price of $3.00 front flap. A sweet copy, and tough to find in this condition and signed/inscribed. . SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR. First Edition. Decorative Cloth. Near Fine/Nea Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1961. First Edition, Second Isssue, with Bound by The Book Press, New York at colophon page. Fine in bright red cloth, in Near Fine dust jacket, small spot of soil front cover, price on jacket flap of $3.95 inked out with inked price of $3.29, a few small edge tears and chips, mainly at top edge and flap folds. With wonderful illustrations by Nancy Ekholm Burkert. This was Roald Dahl's first book for children. Basis for the 1976 BBC TV film starring Simon Bell, Anna Quayle, and Ann Beach, and the 1996 animated film starring Paul Terry, Richard Dreyfuss, Peter Postlethwaite, and Susan Sarandon. A lovely copy of this enduring children's favorite story. . First Edition. Cloth. Fine/Near Fine. Tall 8vo.

New York: The Macmillan Co,, 1945. SCARCE SIGNED BY AUTHOR AND ILLUSTRATOR Maud and Miska Petersham at front end page. Winner of the Caldecott Medal in 1946. A Good copy, lacking the dust jacket, front end page loose, chips and small tears at edges of front end page, text block completely free with old internal tape mend shadows in gutters front and back, dampstain top corners of text in margins, not affecting text or illustrations. A copy in need of and deserving restoration, as SIGNED copies of this award winner are SCARCE. . SIGNED BY AUTHOR AND ILLUSTRATOR. First Edition. Cloth. Good/No Jacket. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.