Search Results: Authors starting with S from Arthur Fournier Fine & Rare

Linoleum block print in the style of the Taller Graìfica Popular. Handmade paper sheet is approx. 14.75 x 11 in. ; impression is 10 x 7 in. Very good overall, with light marginal soiling and handling marks. Loose as issued. [1348]
In the folklore of Sinaloa, Jesús Malverde is revered as a bandit saint, watching over the poor. His is especially popular among lower-level traffickers caught up in the violent struggle of of the Mexican drug trade. While there is no evidence that Malverde lived, his legend is vitally important to the local culture of the regional highland. Every year on the anniversary of his death, a party is held at Malverde's shrine. According to a fascinating text on Malverde by scholar Patricia L. Price, "Narcotrafickers have strategically used Malverde's image as a 'generous bandit' to spin their own images as Robin Hoods of sorts, merely stealing from rich drug-addicted gringos and giving some of their wealth back to their Sinaloa hometowns, in the form of schools, road… Read More

IX, 114 pp. text in English : 83 illustrated with lenticular images, activated through the use of a plastic lens element housed in the rear pocket. 4to. Near fine. Black cloth boards with lenticular image on front cover, housed in glossy boards cassette. [1670]
A rare an unusual medical imaging photobook, using lenticular technology to animate stereoscopic images of the brain and its vascular system. Rare in the market and institutionally uncommon.

Illustrated poster with exhibition title and informational texts boldly silkscreened in red ink across a photolithographic facsimile of The New York Times classified ads page W27, dated September 9, 1956, executed on actual newsprint. Exhibition checklist printed on verso.Approx. 22.5 x 15 in.Edition size unknown. Our source for this item tells us it was professionally de-acidified and laid down on ultrathin Japanese mulberry paper using a light application of archival grade, starch-based adhesives. The item is in very good condition overall with insignificant loss of material at the original folds. An notoriously fragile and therefore uncommon poster for the important Schwitters exhibition. Ref. Swann Sale 2346, lot 147 ; MoMA 876.1979. This copy comes to us from the collection of dealer Jean Noel Herlin.

Four (4) photographic portraits of Sharits, ca. 5 x 7 to 8 x 10 in. each ; hand-annotated program for P.A.P. program for the XXIIIe Festival d'Avignon from August 10 to August 14th ; hand-annotated program for Sunday, March 15, 1970, Goucher College / New York Pro Musica presentation of Medieval and Renaissance Music of England 1300-1600 ; hand-annotated pre-publication (photocopy) typescript for "Blank Deflections : Golden Cinema" (Paul Sharits / Aspen, Summer 1968) ; set of (13) photocopy leaves, one hand-annotated "Happy Set Theory Memory Honey, love&joy, Paul" ; San Francisco Art Institute Cinematheque addressed to "Dagne" (October 1977?) ; newspaper article "The Avant Garde Film," by P. Adams Sitney, concerning the work of Paul Sharits. Items housed loose in manila folder. Very good. [837]
An intriguing collection of items including extensive and intimate correspondence by Sharits addressed to his lover, "Dagny," for whom we can find no immediate references in the literature on Sharits, save for… Read More

174 pp. photo-illustrated book. Folio. Limited to 2000. Very good. Illus. dust wrapper over cloth covers, housed in pictorial boards case. [787]
This copy boldly dedicated by Ed Hardy to Jonathan Shaw; a unique copy with fine associations.

Folded poster-pamphlet with texts and images printed in black ink on cream paper stock, opens to large color poster on verso. 4to [opens to 17.5 x 22.5 in] Near fine ; old central crease. Loose folded sheet. [1319]
A delightfully riotous publication with texts attributed to former King Mob member Phil Cohen and associates in the London Streeet Commune. The poster illustration on the pamphlet's verso depicts a youth with a huge erection being sentenced to correction bu authorities at a "Penal Institution." Our expert source informs us that Agro was printed in an attempt to organize London's hippie, greaser, and skinhead youth cultures to work together against ruling class oppression, rather than antagonize one another. "At the end of 1969 the pilot – and only! – issue of Agro tried to mobilize the skinhead opinion. The paper ('printed by the Gutter Press'), bore the stamp of the [London Street] Commune and most of it in fact consisted of an abridged version of 'Project Free London', a small… Read More