The Darling Buds of May
8vo, red loth, d.w. London: Michael Joseph, (1958). First Edition. The price-intact dust wrapper is considerably browned on the verso, but does not show through. The front & back flyleaves are brown-stained, but the book is otherwise fine.
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To Laugh That We May Not Weep: The Life & Times of Art Young
With essays by Art Spiegelman, Justin Green et al. Lavishly illustrated with hundreds of examples of drawings by Art Young. 381 pages. 4to, pictorial boards. Seattle: Fantagraphics, (2017). First edition. Art Young (1866-1943) was an American political cartoonist best known for his drawings and editorial contributions to the Socialist monthly magazine, The Masses (1911-1917). Young started out drawing for mainstream news and humor publications, earning a position at the Chicago Interocean where he worked with the well-known political cartoonist Thomas Nast. Inspired by Nast's work but suspicious of his Nativist politics, the artist quickly embraced political cartoons as an effective form of political activism, particularly as his disillusionment with contemporary social and artistic conditions grew. In fact, it was Young who coined the term "Ashcan School" in 1915 to disparage the lack of social engagement in the work of his fellow artists. In contrast, Young's drawings for The Masses and other publications starkly and often scathingly criticized the economic injustices and racial and sexual discrimination that, for him and his Socialist peers, characterized the United States' capitalist society. His controversial and often anti-war cartoons got him into legal trouble on several occasions, including a charge of conspiracy to obstruct enlistment filed under the Espionage Act in 1917. Art Young's legacy lies in the influence of his drawings on both his contemporaries and a younger generation of socially- and politically-engaged artists. Look Who’s Talking!
8vo blue cloth, (faded on the spine & top edge, end-papers browned, ownership inscription; dust wrapper price intact but with a triangular chip at the top edge. New York: Random House (1940). Firs Edition. "Twenty-four of the Funniest pieces that he or any other Contemporary Zany has written." Gypsies
KOUDELKA, Josef Many full-page b/w photographs by Koudelka. Oblong 4to, dark gray cloth, d.w (largely intact but with some wear at extremities and one larger chip at lower corner). New York: Aperture, 1975. First printing stated, with centered numberline 2-9. A fine copy in a very good(-) dust wrapper. The first major monograph from this important Czech photographer, with pictures taken mostly in the separated Gypsy settlements of East Slovakia during the period 1962-1968. -- Parr & Badger v1, 230.- $300
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Subway
DAVIDSON, Bruce Illustrated throughout with color plates. 87 pages. Slim oblong 4to, gray silk cloth, d.w. New York: Aperture, (1986). First edition. Cloth is just a trifle sunned at bottom edge, still fine in fine dust wrapper. An excellent association copy, inscribed on the title by Davidson to an editor at Aperture: "To. For your support of my work and your help on Subway. Bruce Davidson '90." The New York subway and its passengers provide the setting for Davidson's first extensive series in color.- $550
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