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Berlin: Galerie Gerd Rosen, 1947. 11 3/4 x 16 1/2", poster lithographed in two colors. A rare poster from the Galerie's earliest and most important period, when the gallery was still operating from its original location on KurfĂĽrstendamm. It is difficult to understate the importance of the gallery, which bookseller Gerd Rosen opened in August 1945. Iwas the first postwar exhibition space devoted to modern art in the wartorn city. In particular, the gallery championed artists which the Nazi's had labelled as degenerate. Uhlmann was one of those artists. He had been imprisoned on charges of sedition in 1933, shortly after wire become an important element of his work. One of the preminent abstract sculptors of the postwar period, Uhlmann was closely associated with the gallery, even serving as its second director. His prison sketches and drawings were the subject of a recently released monograph in Germany. The poster, designed by Uhlmann, features a striking geometric portrait of two subjects… Read More

Ithaca, NY: Eagles Cornell University Art Place, c. late 19th century. Silver gelatin print, mounted on a cabinet card with bevelled edges, 4 1/4 x 6 1/2", verso printed with a reproduction f a view of Cornell University. A cabinet card featuring two young women, likely Cornell University Graduates, reading a book held between them. The typography on the card and the view on the back are very reminiscent of the studio of the famous Cornell photographer E.D. Evans. Some oxidization to image, with a couple faint stress creases, and a stain to lower margin of card not affecting image. The verso shows some light staining. Otherwise very good.

np, nd. 3 1/2 x 4 1/2" vintage snapshot of a woamn playing a fiddle and looking at sheet music, with a radiator in the background. Black paper adhering to verso from being removed, likely from an album, some faint oxidation. Very good.

Np, nd. 3 x 4" photographic print, roughly cut, with paper remnants to verso. Silvering to image.

np, nd. Approximately 2 1/2 x 2 1/2", roughly trimmed. Worn, with indentings, creasing, and a cellotape remnant to upper margin.

Dublin: Dolmen Press, 1957. First edition. 12mo, viii, 61 pp, bound marbled boards backed in yellow linen with black titles. Title, initial, and printer's device on colophon printed in red. One of 250 numbered copies printed by letterpress at the Dolmen press, the first 50 copies being hand-colored and signed. This is copy no. 71. Includes a brief foreward by Ussher. the colophon states that the drawings of cards II and V were based on cards leant by Mrs. W. B. Yeats. Later reprinted in other formats, the first edition is scarce. Boards lightly bumped and rubbed at extremities. Near fine.