N.P. 1940. Heavy cardstock broadside with large photographic illustration of Armstrong, 28 x 22 inches. Near fine with some normal wear. Ellen Armstrong was the daughter of the magician John Hartford Armstrong, and began performing alongside her father and mother-in-law when she was very young.After her father’s death in 1939.....
New York: Gay Men's Health Crisis, Inc., 1983. Poersch, Enno. Poster, 35 x 23 inches. A scarce poster for an important early AIDS benefit, one of the first AIDS benefits organized by GMHC, taking place a few months earlier than the Rodeo event. GHMC bought all of the tickets from.....
Chicago: Poole Brothers, 1917. Folding map measuring 38 ½ x 26 ¾ inches. Tape repairs to verso, some tears at folds and edges, still bring and attractive, good to very good overall with excellent restoration potential. A map of the canneries in Alaska, British Columbia and Washington operated by the.....
New York: Committee to Defend the Panther 21, 1970. First Edition. The Panther 21, who were eventually acquitted of plots to carry out rifle attacks on police stations and an education center, had widespread support from varied groups including various church groups, Abbie Hoffman and Leonard Bernstein. Communist Party members.....
Bahia: 1928. Folded map. Fine condition. Teodoro Sampaio was an Afro-Brazilian cartographer, engineer, politician and historian who was very active in Brazil, particularly in Bahia, during the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. Offered here is Sampaio’s map of Bahia from 1928, which updates a map he produced in 1899.....
Los Angeles: 1923? Guidebook measuring 9 ⅜ x 4 inches. With forty-eight numbered and eleven lettered (A-K) maps. Some chipping and folding to edges primarily of outer pages, some loss to a few margins, otherwise bright, very good minus overall with some brittleness and toning. An uncommon early automobile guidebook.....
Chicago: 1969. 21 1/4 x 29 1/4 inches. Some light toning and edgewear, near fine condition overall. The first example of this poster we have encountered, which shows Judge Julius Hoffman, Chicago Mayor Richard Daley and President Richard Nixon. We find no other records, and can only assume it was.....
Chicago: 1969. Poster. 24 x 20 inches. Minimal wear, fine condition. An iconic poster protesting the arrest of the Chicago 8 on conspiracy charges relating to the protests at the 1968 Democratic Convention. The group, originally as eight members, consisted of Abbie Hoffman and Jerry Rubin, founders of the Youth.....
London: John Snow / Bacon & Co., 1864. 8vo, 472, 32 pp. With 26.3 x 17.6 in. colored map attached at frontis. Tears to binding, map very good with some brittleness and folds at margins which make unfolding quite difficult, pages uncut, good condition overall. An uncommon work by the.....
Lithograph poster in colors. Signed in the plate, l.l. Sheet: 38” x 24 ⅞. Creases to lower right quadrant, wear to top and bottom margins, pinholes to corners, very good condition overall. The Supremes were at the height of their popularity when they performed at Lincoln Center’s Philharmonic Hall in.....
Holyoke and Northfield: Litho Inc. / American Youth Hostels, 1939. First Edition. Includes: Bicycle for Adventure on the Youth Hostel Trail. Holyoke, Massachusetts, c. 1939: Valley Litho Inc. Lithographed poster, 19 x 25 inches; Take to the A.Y.H. Trail. Northfield, 1939: American Youth Hostels . Lithographed poster, 17 x 22.....
N.P. 1972. . Poster measuring 14 x 22 inches. Some marks, a closed tear with tape repair edgewear and creasing, very good minus overall. After John Conyers’ efforts to create a national holiday honoring Martin Luther King, Jr. failed in congress days following his assassination, the first celebrations of Martin.....
New York: NAACP, 1959. Poster on heavy card stock, 13 x 10 inches. Some foxing to edges, near fine condition overall. In 1959, to commemorate the fifth anniversary of the Brown vs. Board of Education decision, the NAACP coordinated a group of celebrations in churches throughout the country to celebrate.....
New York: 1925. A large-scale rendering of the plans for the Greenpoint Avenue bridge over Newtown Creek. The bridge connected Greenpoint to the Blissville neighborhood in Queens. The bridge is the sixth in this location.
Boston: Ad Hoc Committee for December 14, 1974. Printed poster, 17 x 11 inches, folded. Somelight wear, crease to center, ownership marks to verso, very good plus condition overall. With the ownership stamp of J. Wesley Miller, with “J.W. Miller - duplicate” written in ink. Federal District Judge W. Arthur.....
Happening Press: 1967. A particularly fine example of one of several posters printed at Happening Press in Berkeley as part of William Weege’s Peace is Patriotic series. A nude is paired with a Thomas Jefferson quote and an anti-war pin.