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No binding. Fine. Fine Art Print Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston (playwrights) New York: Lincoln Center Theater, 1991. Vintage original 22 x 14"" (56 x 36 cm.) poster, USA. Artwork by James McMullen. Archivally mounted on artboard, FINE. Due to an acrimonious falling out between Hughes and Hurston, it took six decades for this play about African American life in '20s rural Florida to finally get its world premiere. ""Mule Bone: A Comedy of Negro Life is a 1930 play by American authors Langston Hughes and Zora Neale Hurston. The process of writing the play led Hughes and Hurston, who had been close friends, to sever their relationship. Mule Bone was not staged until 1991, when it was produced in New York City by the Lincoln Center Theater. ""Hughes and Hurston began writing Mule Bone in March 1930. They wanted to write a comedy about African-American life that didn't consist of racial stereotypes. They decided to base the plot on a folktale which Hurston had collected in Florida during one of… Read More

Dead River Grand Trunk Railway. Broad Gauge Air Line. Shortest Route! Quickest time! Rum Policy, President. S.U.R.E. Death, SuperintendentOriginal illustrated, folded broadside. 4 pages. 8½ by 10½ inches. N.P., N.D. (Ca. 1870 – 1872). (Archive of Americana, American Broadsides and Ephemera, Series 1, No. 12927). Caption title. "Reader, will you assist in diffusing information about the above road, so that the multitudes who are invited to excursions upon it, may be informed of the country through which it passes, and where it terminates? This advertisement will be sent free to any address, on application to R.H. McDonald & Co., 32 & 34 Commerce St., New York." Followed by 12 reasons why no rational being should use tobacco. Plus articles about the evils of alcohol, "Moderate drinking," "Bitters," "Satan's Agents," "Woman's Virtue," a Testimonial for Dr. Walker's Vinegar Bitters, "Purely Vegetable, Free from Alcohol," etc. R.H. McDonald & Co. is listed in New York City directories for 1870-71 and… Read More

Stockholm: Metro Goldwyn Mayer (MGM), 1936. Near Fine. This is an ORIGINAL Swedish one-sheet movie poster for "SAN FRANCISCO", the 1936 MGM film starring Clark Gable, Jeanette MacDonald, Spencer Tracy, Jack Holt and Ted Healy. Directed by W. S. Van Dyke. Expertly linen mounted. Image: 27 1/2" x 39 1/2". Art by Eric Rohman (1891-1949), a Swedish artist who specialized in Swedish movie posters. He estimated that he had done over 7000 posters in his lifetime. Signed in the print. "San Francisco" was released in Sweden in November,1936. This film featured the iconic re-creation of the 1906 Earthquake and Fire. A Beautiful poster. Shipped rolled. FREE SHIPPING to any United States address.

NP. 1926 - 1972. A magnificent archive of stage performers 'Bobby and Evelyn' who performed as clowns. (11 x 8.3 inches). There are over 150 items, stuck neatly into a large folder, the spine of which is now breaking. Comprising: 24 real mono photographs (12 from the Clown act and 12 from a Luton Grammar School gymnastic display which was choreographed by Squire), One large poster, circa 40 letters and telegrams, circa 60 programmes and show bills, circa 25 newspaper cuttings. The earliest items here are a photo dated 1926 and a flyer from 1928, and the latest seems to be 1972 on a large poster from Girvan. Working for the most part as Clown Bobby and Evelyn, His real name was Robert Squire, hers was Evelyn Wrensted. The couple performed across the country at fetes, fairs, concert parties and on the music hall and end of pier circuit for almost fifty years. This is the unique personal record of their career, from booking confirmations and programmes to photographs, letters of thanks and newspaper coverage.

London: Aquarium Gallery, 2004. 1st Edition . No Binding. As New. The Pax Britannica exhibition poster designed by Ralph Steadman in 2004. Note: this is not from the boxed-set of signed prints issued by the gallery which included Steadman, Banksy et al, and which were un-numbered but rather an example of the Poster published separately in an edition of 100. Signed & numbered by Ralph Steadman, bottom left. 16.2" x 23", printed by United Posters Ltd. In immaculate condition, rolled.

No binding. Fine. Fine Art Print Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston (playwrights) New York: Lincoln Center Theater, 1991. Vintage original 22 x 14"" (56 x 36 cm.) poster, USA. Artwork by James McMullen. Archivally mounted on artboard, FINE. Due to an acrimonious falling out between Hughes and Hurston, it took six decades for this play about African American life in '20s rural Florida to finally get its world premiere. ""Mule Bone: A Comedy of Negro Life is a 1930 play by American authors Langston Hughes and Zora Neale Hurston. The process of writing the play led Hughes and Hurston, who had been close friends, to sever their relationship. Mule Bone was not staged until 1991, when it was produced in New York City by the Lincoln Center Theater. ""Hughes and Hurston began writing Mule Bone in March 1930. They wanted to write a comedy about African-American life that didn't consist of racial stereotypes. They decided to base the plot on a folktale which Hurston had collected in Florida during one of… Read More

Dead River Grand Trunk Railway. Broad Gauge Air Line. Shortest Route! Quickest time! Rum Policy, President. S.U.R.E. Death, SuperintendentOriginal illustrated, folded broadside. 4 pages. 8½ by 10½ inches. N.P., N.D. (Ca. 1870 – 1872). (Archive of Americana, American Broadsides and Ephemera, Series 1, No. 12927). Caption title. "Reader, will you assist in diffusing information about the above road, so that the multitudes who are invited to excursions upon it, may be informed of the country through which it passes, and where it terminates? This advertisement will be sent free to any address, on application to R.H. McDonald & Co., 32 & 34 Commerce St., New York." Followed by 12 reasons why no rational being should use tobacco. Plus articles about the evils of alcohol, "Moderate drinking," "Bitters," "Satan's Agents," "Woman's Virtue," a Testimonial for Dr. Walker's Vinegar Bitters, "Purely Vegetable, Free from Alcohol," etc. R.H. McDonald & Co. is listed in New York City directories for 1870-71 and… Read More

Stockholm: Metro Goldwyn Mayer (MGM), 1936. Near Fine. This is an ORIGINAL Swedish one-sheet movie poster for "SAN FRANCISCO", the 1936 MGM film starring Clark Gable, Jeanette MacDonald, Spencer Tracy, Jack Holt and Ted Healy. Directed by W. S. Van Dyke. Expertly linen mounted. Image: 27 1/2" x 39 1/2". Art by Eric Rohman (1891-1949), a Swedish artist who specialized in Swedish movie posters. He estimated that he had done over 7000 posters in his lifetime. Signed in the print. "San Francisco" was released in Sweden in November,1936. This film featured the iconic re-creation of the 1906 Earthquake and Fire. A Beautiful poster. Shipped rolled. FREE SHIPPING to any United States address.

NP. 1926 - 1972. A magnificent archive of stage performers 'Bobby and Evelyn' who performed as clowns. (11 x 8.3 inches). There are over 150 items, stuck neatly into a large folder, the spine of which is now breaking. Comprising: 24 real mono photographs (12 from the Clown act and 12 from a Luton Grammar School gymnastic display which was choreographed by Squire), One large poster, circa 40 letters and telegrams, circa 60 programmes and show bills, circa 25 newspaper cuttings. The earliest items here are a photo dated 1926 and a flyer from 1928, and the latest seems to be 1972 on a large poster from Girvan. Working for the most part as Clown Bobby and Evelyn, His real name was Robert Squire, hers was Evelyn Wrensted. The couple performed across the country at fetes, fairs, concert parties and on the music hall and end of pier circuit for almost fifty years. This is the unique personal record of their career, from booking confirmations and programmes to photographs, letters of thanks and newspaper coverage.

London: Aquarium Gallery, 2004. 1st Edition . No Binding. As New. The Pax Britannica exhibition poster designed by Ralph Steadman in 2004. Note: this is not from the boxed-set of signed prints issued by the gallery which included Steadman, Banksy et al, and which were un-numbered but rather an example of the Poster published separately in an edition of 100. Signed & numbered by Ralph Steadman, bottom left. 16.2" x 23", printed by United Posters Ltd. In immaculate condition, rolled.