Rare & Collectible Posters

New York: Doubleday, 2003. Original publishers advertising poster issued by Doubleday in 2003 as for display in bookstores to promote the original publication of this book by Chuck Palahniuk. The poster ia a blow up of the original dustjacket for the trade paperback edition, measuring 19 1/4" w x 30" h, mounted to foamboard, and SIGNED AND INSCRIBED by Palahniuk "To The Drum-You Survived "Guts" !! Chuck Palahniuk". Signed when Palahniuk appeared at the Shaman Drum Bookshop in Ann Arbor, MI. The poster is Near Fine, with 3 of the corners very slightly curled. A great addition to any Palahniuk collection !. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR. First Printing. Poster. Near Fine.

Miramax Films. 1993. Signed by Roddy Doyle. First U.S. edition / First printing. One sheet film poster. Fine. Based on the author's second novel and the second book in the Barrytown trilogy.

No Place: Villard Original publisher's promotional poster, 22 " w x 28" h, for the book published 1993, the poster was printed in Italy with same artwork as the original dust jacket. Near Fine, faint creasing. An uncommon poster, featuring Audubon's majestic portrayal of an egret. Well suited for framing, distributed in short supply at the ABA trade show in 1993. All posters shipped loosely rolled in mailing tube. . First Printing. Poster. Near Fine. 22" x 28".

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1991. Publisher's promotional poster, 18 1/2 " w x 25 1/4" h distributed at the ABA trade show in 1991. Near Fine, faint crease near edge. With a wonderful Van Allsburg illustration, different than the one seen on the dust jacket. Well suited for framing. All posters will be sent loosely rolled in a mailing tube. . First Printing. Poster. Near Fine. 18 1/2" x 25 1/4".

Switzerland: Gruner Janura AG, 1977. SCARCE, The first poster reproduction of Hundertwasser's painting 531 " Judenhaus in Osterreich", Mixed Media, 1961-62, the painting now in the collection of the KunstHausWien, Vienna. Friedensreich Hundertwasser (1928 - 2000) was an Austrian born New Zealand artist and architect known for his colorful imagery and use of spirals, circles, and biomorphic shapes. Near Fine, faint creases. A lovely poster with metallic embossings, well suited for framing. All posters shipped loosely rolled in mailing tube. . First Printing. Poster. Near Fine. 23 1/2 " h x 33" W.

Brookline, MA: David R, Godine SCARCE a haunting and prophetic broadside, Whitman's words written in 1871 following the Civil War as relevant today as then. 22" w x 30 1/2" h, featuring a 20" w x 19/12" h photogravure, printed by Joh. Enschede, Zonen, Haarlem, Holland, portraying Walt Whitman in profile, enlarged reproduction of 1891 photograph of Walt Whitman by Thomas Eakin at head of text. Underneath, the quote, taken from Whitman's "Democratic Vistas": " We have frequently printed the word Democracy. Yet I cannot too often repeat that it is a word the real gist of which still sleeps, quite unawaken'd, notwithstanding the resonance and many angry tempests out of which its syllables have come, from pen or tongue. It is a great word, whose history, I suppose remains unwritten, because that history has yet to be enacted. It is in some sort, younger brother of another great and often-used word, NATURE, whose history also waits unwritten. WALT… Read More

No Place: Atlantic Monthly Press, 1985. Publisher's promotional poster featuring the same great drawing of a rhinoceros as the dust jacket, printed in limited numbers and distributed at the ABA trade show in 1985, in celebration of Searle's 65th birthday. Near Fine, 17" w x 22" h, small bottom corner crease. A SCARCE poster, well suited for framing. Will be shipped loosely rolled in a mailing tube. . First Printing. Poster. Near Fine. 17" w x 22" h.

No Place: Cheloniidae Press , 1984. Pencil SIGNED BY ARTIST Alan James Robinson. Fine, prose printed in blue and black in two columns on cream-colored handmade paper. At head of second column wood-engraving by Alan James Robinson of a unicorn. Colophon at end: "An anonymous seventeenth century broadside newly printed at Cheloniidae Press c.1984". A RARE broadside, Worldcat shows only one institutional holding, at Brown University. Well suited for framing, will be shipped loosely rolled in a mailing tube. . SIGNED BY ARTIST. First Printing. Broadside. Fine. 12 1/2"w x 18"h.

Great Britain: British Overseas Airways Corporation No date, circa 1950's. Very Good, a 1/2" w at bottom tapering to 3" long chip bottom right corner, the only real fla, which could be covered by framing. Original silkscreen travel poster for BOAC featuring Scottish Highland dancers in vibrantly colored kilts. An excellent image, well suited for framing, will be shipped loosely rolled in a mailing tube. . First Printing. Poster. Very Good. 19 3/4" x 29 3/4".

Westbrae International , 1985. RARE advertising poster, 20 1/2"w x 35 1/2"h, printed on stiff cloth. featuring a Japanese dancer, in vivid colors and below a 1985 calendar. Fine, as issued. Well suited for framing, will ship loosely rolled in a mailing tube. . First Printing. Poster. Fine. 20 1/2" x 35 1/2".

No binding. Very Good. Fine Art Print Gordon Parks (screenwriter, director) Italian title: Ragazzo la tua pelle scotta. Rome: Dear Film, 1969. Vintage original 78 x 55"" (140 x 200 cm.) 4-fogli poster, Italy. Printed in two sections and folded (as issued), NEAR FINE. Artwork by Italian poster artist Manfredo Acerbo. THE LEARNING TREE was the first film directed by an African American and financed by a major Hollywood studio, Warner Brothers. Writer-director Parks adapted his autobiographical novel about a black teenager growing up in Kansas in the 1920s. The film was one of the first twenty-five movies selected in 1989 for preservation as part of the United States National Film Registry.

No binding. Very Good. Fine Art Print Hollywood: Samuel Goldwyn Company, 1984. Vintage original 41 x 27"" (104 x 69 cm.) poster, USA. John Lurie, Eszter Balint, dir: Jim Jarmusch; Goldwyn. Unfolded, with just a couple of minute nicks in the blank left margin, JUST ABOUT FINE. Jim Jarmusch's first feature film, a landmark, surreal comedy laiden with dead- pan humor. There were two different posters for the movie -- this one, with a scene at a frigid Lake Erie, and another from the film's finale in Pensacola. There are numerous later repros of this poster on the market, but they measure 40 x 27"", and are printed only in black, whereas this poster is printed in black and brown.

Boston: David R, Godine, 1985. SCARCE publisher's promotional poster, 28" h x 20"w, featuring the artwork of Glenna Lang, who has illustrated numerous Godine publications and posters. Near Fine, bottom corner crease in margin. Well suited for framing, will be shipped loosely rolled in sturdy mailing tube. . First Printing. Poster. Near Fine. 28" h x 20"w.

Original vintage poster from the 70s promoting nudist tourism by the Vrsar nudist beaches in Croatia, Yugoslavia.
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Dimensions: 92 x 63 cm
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Condition: As new. For the item's condition and details see the picture. If you have any questions, please contact us.
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Note: This is an original poster. We don't sell reproductions.

New Orleans: Diboll & Gelpi, 1931. Published New Orleans, : Diboll & Gelpi, 1931. 15 1/4" x 19 3/4" inches, printed in brown ink in reverse type and images, halftones, with white border. Poster is flat mounted on old corrugated board backing, unframed. Signed in pencil at bottom left margin: "To Karen and Doug, for SPIRITUAL GUIDANCE, Collins Diboll." The poster features numerous vignettes of human activity - eating, drinking, travel, sports, music, dance, entertainment and merrymaking, framed by inner and outer borders of humorous verse: "I used to know a clever toast but now I cannot think it, so fill your glass to anything and damn your souls I'll drink it." "Some are fond of drinking and others of high position, but we're for toleration and down with prohibition." The large central image is a navigational clock, with compass points at center and "Bonum vinum laetificat cor hominis" (Good wine gladdens a person's heart), with… Read More