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

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

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

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

Brussels: mfc-michèle didier, 2006. Octavo. (96)pp. One of 250 copies. An entrancing yet mildly unsettling illustration of conversation, Joseph Grigely’s book presents one continuous text of 45,000 words transcribed from written conversations that the artist has been collecting for the past ten years. The transcription mimics the words’ original presentations..... More

1971. Four original illustrations capturing scenes of protest. Two focus on the central figure of a young Black man, one who is raising his fist in a timeless and insistent gesture of power and belief, and the other who is pointing with a posture that suggests purpose and urgency. Another..... More

NY: Simon and Schuster, 1971. First edition, first printing. Inscribed by the author and signed by the illustrator at the front flyleaf. A young-adult retelling of two fugitive slaves in the mid-19th century. The dedicatory statements after the title page elucidate the historical threads binding the author to the Crafts'..... More

Santa Cruz, CA: Moving Parts Press, (1991). Quarto. (44)pp. One of 70 copies, signed by the author, Francisco X. Alarcón. Forty pen-and-ink drawings by Ray Rice, in his second collaboration with his daughter, Felicia Rice, printer and proprietor of Moving Parts Press, are at once abstract, fractural, and familiar. Literally..... More

NY: Limited Editions Club, 2003. Oblong folio. (9)ff, loose. One of 75 copies of this suite of etchings, each of which is signed and numbered by Mitchell. Each etching bears a title and subtitle, the latter usually naming the depicted figure's role in a musical quintet, the exception being a...... More

Prague, Czechoslovakia and Vestal, NY: Robert Marx and Ivan Ruzicka, 1966. Octavo. (28)ff. One of twenty-five copies, signed by the artist, Robert Marx, and the translator and binder, Ivan Ruzicka, below the colophon, and initialled by Marx on the title page. Marx’s etched portraits of old women, all numbered and..... More

(c. 1999). Two posters, one featuring an armed young man beneath the Vietnamese flag watching an American fighter plane crash, and the other depicting Ho Chi Minh amidst the flags for North Vietnam and the Viet Cong. Though reproductions, these posters mark a shift in post-war Vietnam, in which propaganda..... More

NY: Jonathan Cape and Harrison Smith, (1930). First edition, second printing. This is Ward's second woodcut novel, with the story told exclusively via woodcut illustrations. Through this dramatic and expressive non-verbal style, Ward communicated situations and emotions using nothing more than the woodcut's stark contrast of black and white. A...... More

1971-72. An original illustration showing an ensemble of images emblematic of the early 1970s social movements: a hand forming a peace sign, various illicit drugs, a revolver labeled “Saturday Night Special,” a sign demanding “End the War,” a couple on a motorcycle, a white woman wearing a fierce expression gripping..... More