Search Results: Prints and posters from Veery Books

[12 x 9 inches], one leaf, laid paper, fine. Verso blank. With cartoon image of Richard Nixon releasing a shower of medals (uncredited). Ruggles was a longtime San Francisco poet and activist; he was born in Pontiac, Michigan, and grew up on a dairy farm. " 'Gene's most astounding characteristic is his heart,' said his longtime friend, poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti. 'He really empathizes with the downtrodden and the down-and-out.' "—SFGate The left trouser leg of that young black marine folded and pinned shut with a medal, is another eyelid filled with Nixon's sleep . . .—from the broadside

N.P.: N.I., N.D. [1979?]. Offset lithograph poster. [27¾ x 21 inches]. Wear to edges, pinholes on corners, Very Good. The photograph is the work of Susan Meiselas, credited on the poster. "Ocultando su identidad detras de su mascaras tradicionales, nativos del rebelde barrio Monimbo de en Masaya, preparan bombas de contacto para combatir el ejercito de la Dictadura, durante la Guerra de Liberacion." (Foto de Susan Meiselas) Rough translation: Nicaragua a country that discovers itself: Inturismo. Hiding their identity behind their traditional masks, natives of the rebel Monimbo neighborhood in Masaya, prepare contact bombs to combat the army of the Dictatorship, during the War of Liberation." Appears at first glance to be a tourism poster, but is seemingly an ironic parody of such. One of a series wryly praising colonial architecture and other similarly inappropriate national artifacts. Meiselas's image appeared on the cover of The New York Times Magazine on June 30, 1978 as seen here, and is… Read More

Hauer delin. et Sculpsit [Johann Thomas Hauer, 1748-1820]. Optical view, 1 leaf.Prospect in Hamburg / Vue de la Ville Hambourg. Se vend a Augsbourg au Negoce comun de L'Academie Imperiale d'Empire des Arts libereaux avc Privilege de Sa Mageste Imperiale et avec Defense ni d'en faire ni de vendre les Copies. Augsburg: [Kaiserliche Franziskische Akademie], [1775-1779]. Series: Collections des Prospects. Copperplate engraving, hand colored. Single leaf, plate size: 400 x 300mm [15.75 x 11.8 inches], paper size: 455 x 340mm [17.9 x 13.4 inches]. Condition: a very good impression with bright coloring, with little darkening of paper. Outside of the impression there are generous margins that were in contact with an acidic matte. These margins are darkened by the acid of the matte board but are still supple. The print was attached to the matte with paper tape, a 0.25 inch is attached around the edge of the back of the print (see photo). This print is an exemplar of the "Optical Print/Vue d'Optique." These… Read More

Litho poster, [29 x 23 inches].Very good, some rippling, light edge wear. The poster features an aerial image of Manhattan (credited to Skyview Surveys) with several bold arrows pointing at the northwest corner of Union Square. The Underground disco was located in the basement of 860 Broadway, just above Union Square on the east side of Broadway. Warhol's Factory was also present in this building at the time. The poster lists events to take place the week of and on the day of the Gay Pride March on Sunday, June 27, 1982. No exemplars found in collections or in trade. All posters are presently stored between acid free boards, flat, under weight. They will be shipped rolled, in tubes.

Lithographic poster on thin clay stock. Small tears to edges, repairable, generally very good appearance belied here, in this description, by difficulty in reproducing photographically. [35 x 23 inches]. The Foreign Agents Series, "established in 1983, [a] series of subversive French cultural theory, [that] infiltrated American shores and an unsuspecting academe, originally in the form of their now-iconic little black pocket-sized books. This was the series that helped introduce into English such characters as Gilles Deleuze, Felix Guattari, Paul Virilio, Michel Foucault, and most famously in the Semiotext(e) lineage, Jean Baudrillard."—MIT Press. "It was strangers in the night. People I met would be strangers, and I would get to know them. Like foreigners—the Foreign Agents series, which we created with Semiotext(e). A 'foreign agent' is the administrative phrase for a spy. And those spies are the people I wanted to be with. It was the person I was. I wanted to have a sort of covert action. Even… Read More