Munich: Histradut Zionit, Achida, and Nocham, 1945-1946. Octavo. 14ff. With seven woodcuts by Miklós Adler. Text in Hebrew and Yiddish. Light spotting on back cover, else a very fine copy in printed wrappers. The history of this Haggadah begins with the compelling story of Hungarian-born Jewish artist Miklós Adler, whose..... More
Chicago: US/Guatemala Labor Education Project, (c. 1990s). Lithographed poster. Printed in black and red, the image centers on a woman bent over a sewing machine. Above her flies a lushly feathered bird, and beneath her is printed the challenging question, “Was your shirt made by Guatemalan women earning $3 a...... More
Canton, NY: Caliban Press, 2008. Octavo. (4)pp. One of 100 copies, initialed by the printer, Mark McMurray. Apollinaire's visual poem here receives an updated, poignant frame. The poem, the title of which loosely translates to "New Boots," meditates on the tragedy of youth and war; its structure recalls the crossbody..... More
Decorah, IA: Solmentes Press, 2022. Quarto. (32)pp. One of thirty copies, from which a percentage of the original sales aided Ukraine TrustChain. Signed by the artist, David Esslemont. Devised as an immediate, empathic response to the Russian invasion of Ukraine in late February 2022, the book, in Esslemont's words, aims..... More
![Item #30146 Los Fusilamientos [The Shootings]. Ildefonso Manuel Gil](https://bromer.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/30146.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1667508557)
Aurora, NY: Wells College Press, 2003 (but 2014). Folio. (9)ff. One of thirty copies, signed by the author, Ildefonso Manuel Gil, before his passing in 2003. Each lithograph titled, numbered, signed, and dated by the artist as well. A suite of four lithographs, plus an original drawing, by Roberts embrace..... More
Seattle: Aubergine Atelier, 2019. Oblong 24mo. 36(ff)., + 14 Japanese kozo-paper leaves painted on both sides in gouache, tempera, watercolor, and polyacrylic varnish. From an edition of thirty copies, this is one of ten bound in half leather with decorative paper over boards. Each copy in the edition contains unique..... More
Brooklyn: David Barthold, 2020. Broadside. One of fifty copies, signed by the artist, David Barthold. Screenprint of Barthold’s portrait of the late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. In 2020, Barthold’s portraits of Ginsburg, George Floyd, whose death at the hands of police in May accelerated the Black Lives Matter movement, and..... More
1938. Oil on canvas. Signed and dated by the artist, Leon Bibel. In the 1930s, Leon Bibel enrolled first in the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC), and then the mural division of the Works Project Administration (WPA). He soon became one of the most recognizable artists of the New Deal era..... More
Chicago: Gráfica Studios, Charisma Chain, Inc., 1970. Four-color poster. Dynamically printed with a semi-silhouetted portrait of a Black man, the poster weaves together the threads of the Civil Rights movement of the 1950s and 60s to the struggle for acknowledgement and implemented equality in the 1970s. "I Am Somebody" was..... More
André Carrilho, 2020. Silkscreen print. One of twenty copies, signed and numbered by the artist, André Carrilho. Part collage, part cartoon, Carrilho’s illustration highlights the particular position of Black athletes in the fight against police brutality. Black athletes have a long history of using their platform to bring awareness to..... More
(Havana, Cuba: OSPAAAL, 1967). Two-color poster. An OSPAAAL poster, among the few concerned with issues of injustice in the United States, here attending to the Civil Rights movement and police brutality. The Organization of Solidarity with Asia, Africa, and Latin America was founded in 1965 with an agenda of "total..... More
(N.p.): Limited Editions Club, (1994). Folio. (14)ff. One of 400 copies. Signed by the author and artist. Angelou requested that, for this first edition, her poem be illustrated by her favorite artist, John T. Biggers. Biggers' images are totemic, enshrining ancestral traditions in iconographic and dynamic drawings. Like Angelou's poetry..... More
NY: Dial Press, 1963. Uncorrected long galley proof copy. Baldwin's seminal non-fiction text on race in America, here in a rare pre-publication format. The book contains two essays, "My Dungeon Shook: Letter to My Nephew on the One Hundredth Anniversary of the Emancipation" and "Down at the Cross: Letter from..... More
(N.p.): Limited Editions Club, (1996). Folio. (24)ff. One of 300 copies. Signed by the author and artist. Illustrated with five paintings by Lois Mailou Jones, including a frontispiece portrait of Senghor. Born in then-French West Africa, Léopold Senghor devoted his life to activism and poetry; in 1960 he was elected..... More
NY: Limited Editions Club, (2001). Oblong folio. 73pp. One of 300 copies. Signed by the artist. Illustrated with four aquatints by Wilson, printed at the Center Street Studio in Milton, Massachusetts by Jim Stroud. Typography and letterpress printing by David Wolfe of Portland, Maine. The restrained color palettes of John..... More
(Havana, Cuba: OSPAAAL, c. 1968). Four-color poster. One of the many posters published and disseminated by OSPAAAL, this acknowledging the month of solidarity with Korea by superimposing an image of a Korean soldier aiming a rifle over the North Korean flag. Since its founding in 1965-and even during the events..... More
(Havana, Cuba: OSPAAAL, 1968). Five-color poster. OSPAAAL (Organization of Solidarity with Asia, Africa, and Latin America) was born out of Mehdi Ben Barka and his associates' increasing observations of and frustrations with the widespread effects of colonialism, at the time highlighted by the Cuban Revolution, the Palestinian movement, and pro-sovereignty..... More
Washington, D.C. Corcoran College of Art + Design, 2014. Quarto. (17)ff. spreads, accordionfold. One of ten copies, signed by Kwon. Letterpress printed, lithograph illustrations. Kwon's graphically and physically substantial concertina grapples with the immediate and generational trauma of the mid-century South Korean authoritarian government's oppression of dissent. Between 1945 and..... More
(Pasadena, CA): Kerberos Press, 2011. Octavo. 28ff. One of twenty copies, signed by the printer, Vance Studley, and the designer, Tom Mossman, on the colophon page. An unbound collection of detailed illustrations of twelve different species of solitary bees, with accompanying descriptions of their physical and social characteristics, habitats, and..... More
(N.p.): Murray, 1990. Octavo. (14)ff., loose. One of 60 copies, signed by Coe. A distressing and confrontational collection, Coe's suite of engravings demands attention to the ways in which humans mistreat dogs, how they conceive of dogs as perpetrators when, in fact, they are abused and their innate loyalty manipulated..... More
(Santa Barbara, CA): Simplemente Maria Press, 2020. Octavo volume and strand of ten paper prayer flags. (22)ff., + 20ff. One of twenty copies, signed by the artist. Mary Heebner's flags bear her five invocations to a distressed planet, with one prayer for each element: fire, earth, air, water, and aether..... More
Tualatin, OR: Clinker Press, 2015. Octavo. (iv), 14, (4)pp. One of twenty copies, signed by the artist and printer, Andre Chaves, and by Herman. A stunning production in Arts & Crafts style, and a fitting ode to Muir, whose persistent environmental activism was essential leverage for the preservation of the..... More
(Stanmore, NSW, Australia): Ant Press, 2018. Oblong quarto. (16)pp. One of seven copies. In drypoints, transfer-printed photographs, and bold typographic styling, Oppen sets altered landscapes before the viewer and confronts the oppression of the natural features of Australia by humankind. Her panoramic etchings show vistas lying barren and dark, while..... More
![Item #30137 "Hona Al-Qahera [Here is Cairo]"](https://bromer.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/30137.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1667508556)
Houston, TX: Ganzeer, 2020. Original illustration, signed by the artist, Ganzeer. Produced for his op-ed, “The Fate of Egypt,” which ran in Middle East Eye in February 2020, the illustration shows a diverse array of Egyptians protesting the dictatorial regime of President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, who rose to power in..... More
Chicago: Women's Graphics Collective, 1974. Multi-colored screenprint poster. Produced by the Women's Graphics Collective, a socialist feminist organization formed in the early 1970s, the poster advertises the 1974 Midwest Lesbian Conference and Music Festival taking place from May 17-19th in East Lansing, Michigan. At the foreground of the image are..... More
