LIFE IN IRAN The Library of Congress Drawings by Ardeshir Mohassess

Published by Mage Publishers, Washington D.C., 1994. First edition. Introduction by Bernard F. Reilly, Jr. Illustrated softcover, 11.75" x 9.5", 47 pages, filled with captioned b&w illustrations by one of the greatest political satirists of Iran. His prescient and tragic work spoke truth to power and bear witness to the authoritarian forces surrounding the 1979 Revolution and the repressive years that followed under the Islamic Republic of Iran. These drawings depict transformative decades in Iran, first observed from within the country and later from the diaspora. Very Good Condition: a touch of wear to the covers, otherwise tight, bright, clean and unmarked. Uncommon.

Ardeshir Mohassess (b. Iran, 1938-2008), Iran's greatest contemporary graphic artist, His work depicts a crucial time in Iran's modern history, the years surrounding the 1979 Revolution. His fearless critique of the monarchy and clergy, and depicting the shah and his entourage with unrelenting scorn led to increasing censorship and police harassment, prompting his departure from Iran. These images resonate with increasing urgency, a record that asserts art's role as witness, documenting what power seeks to obscure and of preserving memory where official histories fail.

WE FARM MEMORIES - A BROADSIDE by DAVID MAS MASUMOTO, a Central California Organic Peach and Grape Farmer.

ART by PATRICIA CURTAN.

SIGNED by the Farmer / Author, David Mas Masumoto.

Broadside, printed on heavy-stock laid paper, 9x14 inches.

Published by Point Reyes Books, 2009. First edition. Limited Edition, so stated, number of copies unstated.

NEAR FINE condition, light signs of handling, a bright, lovely copy.

Colophon at the bottom states: "Broadside Published by Point Reyes Books on the Occasion of The Geography of Hope Conference: Celebrating Writing on Farming and Rural Life, Point Reyes Station, March 2009. TEXT: David Mas Masumoto... ARTWORK: 'Peaches' by Patricia Curtan... Printed Letterpress by Point Reyes Printing Co. / Limited Edition."

Read the broadside's text and you will be craving a fresh, deliciously sweet, peach.

The broadside would look great mounted and framed.

CUTAWAY - ARTIST'S BOOK - 1/45 - DESIGNED & PRINTED by SARAH BRYANT, ALABAMA BASED WOMAN FINE PRINTER / BOOK DESIGNER / ARTIST - AT HER BIG JUMP PRESS, 2007

[ALABAMA: Big Jump Press, 2007].

Hardcover Artist's Book, linen covered boards, embossed design on front cover, 5.25x8 inches (13.5x20.5 cm), unpaginated; in dark blue cloth covered slipcase.

Printed in an edition of 45 numbered copies, this being copy number 15. SIGNED by the ARTIST, Sarah Bryant, on the Colophon page (the last page).

Condition: Fine in a fine slipcase.

See the provided photos for a good idea of the book and its structure, quite amazing.

About CUTAWAY from the Publisher:

******Simple definitions, both visual and verbal, can describe a great many disparate things with the same language. This book features layered cross-section imagery printed on translucent material, removable cards printed with color, and reference language that is mixed and shifted throughout the book. Letterpress printed from polymer plates on mylar, Rives BFK, and Hahnemuhle Copperplate. Contained in a slipcase. Printed in an edition of 45 in 2007.******

About SARAH BRYANT and her BIG Jump Press:

******Big Jump Press is the imprint of Sarah Bryant. Under this name, I produce letterpress printed artist books, prints, broadsides, and hand-bound books. I started Big Jump in 2005 in Tuscaloosa, Alabama while an MFA student at the University of Alabama. After teaching for a few years at the Book Arts Center at Wells College and a few years teaching workshops and short courses all over the United Kingdom, I am back in Tuscaloosa as an Assistant Professor for The University of Alabama MFA Book Arts Program. I make books.******

SIGNED and INSCRIBED by RICK GRIFFIN "To Bruce Bard In Friendship." Signed in thick black pen in his cross like trademark style.

Rick Griffin. Published by Perigee Paper Tiger (G.P. Putnam's Sons), New York City, 1980. Stated First Printing. Photographs by Bob Seidemann. Publisher's illustrated glossy card wraps, perfect bound, 11.25" x 8.25", 95 pages. Fully illustrated in color by Griffin showcasing his legendary psychedelic posters, surf posters, underground comix, album covers, and more. Very Good Condition: light shelf wear and edgewear to the covers but the spine remains uncreased. Internally, a touch of age, overall tight, bright, clean and unmarked. Rare Signed.

Rick Griffin (1944 -1991) American artist. One of the legendary 'Big Five' psychedelic poster artists of the 1960s. His work appeared on many iconic San Francisco rock concert posters and Grateful Dead album covers. As a contributor to the underground comix movement, his work appeared regularly in Zap Comix. In the mid-1960s, he participated in Ken Kesey's Acid Tests. His first art exhibition was for the Jook Savages, celebrating the one-year anniversary of the Psychedelic Shop on Haight Street. As a boy, Griffin was influenced by Native American culture, comic books, and surf culture.

Bruce Bard was a Petaluma philanthropist, music lover, Deadhead, and old hippie.

The Helpers Home and Workshop for the Mentally Retarded, located at 2626 Fulton Street in San Francisco was a pioneer in the Independent Living Movement for people with developmental disabilities. Helpers of the Mentally Retarded was originally founded in 1963 with residential homes for the developmentally challenged, revolutionizing their care by providing alternatives to the inhumane institutionalization that was common at the time and advocating for their rights to lead lives of dignity and respect. From 1963 to 2015, Helpers housed people living in a collection of homes near Golden Gate Park. In 2017 the charity became notorious due to embezzlement from the out-of-control socialite at the helm but that's another story.

Three 8" x 10" black and white glossy promotional photographs circa 1963, each with the stamp of the Helpers Home and Workshop for the Mentally Retarded at the rear. The photographer is unattributed. VERY GOOD CONDITION: some surface wear, a corner crease, but remain bright and clear. A unique group of rare images from the early days of the Independent Living Movement in San Francisco.

TRANSLATIONS by JESS. Introduction by ROBERT DUNCAN. Catalog for the exhibition that took place at the Odyssia Gallery, New York, in 1971.

NEW YORK: Odyssia Gallery, 1971. Printed by Black Sparrow Press in an edition of 1000 softcover and 200 hardcover copies.

Softcovers, 8x10 inches, xiii, 26, [6] pages. Illustrated in b&w. Laid-in is a fold-open invitation to the opening of the exhibition.

Though uncalled for in the softcover edition, THIS copy is warmly SIGNED, INSCRIBED and DATED by JESS to his friend, the noted Marin County bookseller MICHAEL GOOD: "For Mike Good / In hopes he'll like our picture-book / affectionately, JESS ".

NEAR FINE condition, tight, bright, clean and unmarked.

Copies of this catalog are rarely found INSCRIBED by the artist. A nice bibliophilic association copy.

About JESS (from Wikipedia):

******Jess Collins, b.1923 d.2004, known today simply as Jess, was an American visual artist.

He met Robert Duncan in 1950 and began a relationship with the poet that lasted for 37 years until Duncan's death in 1988. The two men lived and worked for decades from their historic Victorian home in the Mission District, "a wonderland of an old house, filled to the roof with art".

Jess's art received international attention with solo exhibitions at the The Museum of Modern Art in New York (1974), the Galleria Odyssia in Rome (1975), the Wadsworth Atheneum[11] (1975), the Dallas Museum of Fine Arts (1977), the Berkeley Art Museum (1980), and The Arts Club of Chicago (1981).

In 2019, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art mounted the show "Mythos, Psyche, Eros: Jess and California", which paired paintings and collages: "that privileged the mystical, whimsical, and absurd" by "one of San Francisco's most enigmatic figures..."

Original 1981 Color Photograph. SIGNED and DATED in black the ink by the artist KEN BOTTO on the front mat and on the rear frame backing. Ektacolor print, 8" x 12", double matted in an 11" x 16" metal and glass frame, the photograph is loosely set into 4 photo corners. The photograph is in NEAR FINE Condition bright and clean, the inner signed mat has a shoreline stain in the lower left corner, not affecting the photograph (this can also be seen on the rear backing board), and both of Ken Botto's signatures are bold and bright. A scarce early photograph from his famous Barbie Series.

A darkly surreal image that evokes a nuanced sense of unease and satire with a touch of uninhibited dominatrix energy. An iconic image from an iconic series by a very unique photographer.

Photographer Ken Botto (American, 1937-2008) Bolinas based artist who received his BFA from California College of Arts and Crafts and his MFA from Claremont Graduate School. Botto's photographic work has been widely exhibited and is in the permanent collections of the New York Metropolitan Museum of Art; the Museum of Modern Art, New York; and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.

LEATHER!

Compiled Under the Direction of Avery Willard. Published by Guild Press LTD., Washington, D.C., 1965, first edition. Original illustrated textured wraps, side staple bound, 8.5" x 5.25", 72 pages, illustrated with 64 pages of black and white homoerotic photographs featuring leather, whips, chains, rope, and motorcycles. NEAR FINE CONDITION: tight, bright, clean and unmarked. Scarce, just 9 copies in OCLC collections worldwide.

"Men of Leather," was the first American gay male manifesto of leather Identity, a defining four page essay on leather subculture followed by an archetypal collection of photographs from the 1950s and 1960s from six studios, Chuck Renslow's Kris Studio of Chicago, Avery Willard of New York, Bob Anthony of New York, Scott of London, David of Cleveland, and R. A. Enterprises. Guild Press was a pioneering homomasculine publisher of gay oriented physique magazines in the 1950s. In 1962 Guild won an important legal victory to distribute publications with gay erotic content.

Avery Willard (aka Bruce King) 1921-1999, provocative and groundbreaking New York City artist, photographer, experimental filmmaker, writer, publisher, leatherman, actor, pornographer, publisher, drag historian and gay rights activist. In 1967 he created the classic gay film "Leather Narcissus" starring New York leather icon Fernando, following the Stonewall uprising in Greenwich Village in 1968, under the pen name Bruce King, Willard published "Gay Scene" until 1992. A trailblazer of the queer art movement, Willard produced a lifetime of historically significant work that has remained widely unseen for decades.

SCARCE GROUP OF IMPORTANT AFRICAN AMERICAN ARTISTS BOOKS ONE SIGNED

1. Exhibition Catalogue. THE PROPHET AND OTHER PAINTINGS by Alvin Hollingsworth

ALVIN C. HOLLINGSWORTH attracted widespread critical acclaim with his groundbreaking exhibition THE PROPHET SERIES held at the Harbor Gallery in Long Island that travelled to the Studio Museum in Harlem in 1970. Harlem Renaissance Artist and Civil Rights Advocate Romare Bearden lauded the exhibition in the October 1970 issue of the New York Amsterdam News. And in a 1971 Ebony magazine interviewed Hollingsworth who provocatively stated, "I have always felt that Christ was a Black man . a symbol of any of the modern prophets who have been trying to show us the right way. To me, Malcolm X and Martin Luther King are such prophets." Published by the Harbor Gallery, Cold Spring Harbor, New York, 1970. First Edition. Softcover, dark yellow textured card covers with black printing and tipped on color plate, 9" x 6", side staple bound, 12 unnumbered pages including covers, illustrated with 7 b&w photographs of Hollingsworth's paintings and a b&w photographic portrait of the artist. NEAR FINE Condition: tight, bright, clean and unmarked. Scarce, only 11 copies in OCLC collections worldwide.

2. SIGNED Conference Program. THE SLAVERY DEBATE: WHAT DOES IT MEAN? April 1975, Queens College, University of New York. John Henrik Clarke, Convener. Illustrated wraps 11" x 8.25", side staple bound, 8 un-numbered pages. SIGNED by HOLLINGSWORTH in blue pen on the front cover. Hollingsworth created the cover art for the program. NEAR FINE Condition: tight, bright, clean, unmarked and Hollingsworth's signature is bold and bright. Scarce.

3. Children's Book. I'D LIKE THE GOO-GEN HEIM. Written and Illustrated by A.C. Hollingsworth. Published by Reilly & Lee Books, a division of Henry Regnery Company, Chicago, IL, 1970. First edition. Hardcover in illustrated dustjacket, light yellow cloth covered boards with embossed metallic blue printing on the spine, 7" x 8", sky blue endpapers, 48 un-numbered pages, colorfully illustrated throughout, the inside rear panel of the dj has a b&w photograph of the artist Book and un-price clipped dustjacket are in NEAR FINE Condition: tight, bright, clean and unmarked. Scare first edition of Hollinworth's only children's book.

ALVIN C. HOLLINGSWORTH (1928-2000) Leading African American Artist, trail blazing Black comic artist, painter, illustrator, abstract expressionist, best known for his paintings relating to civil rights issues, the experience of Blacks within the urban landscape, Black women's rights, jazz, spirituality, and dance. Founding member with Romare Bearden of the Spiral Group of African American artists who linked their creative expression to social justice, other prominent members included Charles Alston, Emma Amos, Earl Miller, Norman Lewis, Hale Woodruff, Richard Mayhew, and Reginald Gammon. As early as 1945 he was illustrating comic books for various publishers including Cat Man Comics, which were issued under his name and pseudonyms, by the early 1950's he successfully created his own nationally syndicated comic.

MADONNA - PHOTOGRAPH BY HERB RITTS - Original Poster for the Exhibition that took place at the Fahey / Klein Gallery, Los Angeles, from October 21 - November 26 [1986].

SIGNED, INSCRIBED & DATED by the PHOTOGRAPHER, HERB RITTS, in the bottom left corner: "To Sergio / Herb Ritts / '90".

Large poster, 31.5x23.5 inches. Published by Bankcrest Worldwide, London, for the Fahey / Klein Gallery, Los Angeles.

VERY GOOD condition, bright, clean and clear; the blank backside has some light rubs. A lovely poster that has not been mounted or framed.

MADONNA POSTER - SCARCE SIGNED BY HERB RITTS.

The poster will be shipped carefully rolled (its natural state) in a very sturdy mailing tube.

INTERNATIONAL BUYERS PLEASE NOTE: This poster will be sent in a long, sturdy mailing tube, and will require additional shipping charges. After placing your order you will be notified of the charges and be able to accept or reject them before payment is taken. Thanks!

FIVE WILLIAM T. WILEY ART EXHIBITION CATALOGS, plus a Memorial Tribute pamphlet.

TWO of the ART EXHIBITION CATALOGS are SIGNED & INSCRIBED by WILEY to his good friends MICHAEL and SANDRA GOOD.

(The items come from the estate of MICHAEL and SANDRA GOOD. Sandra Good, a noted bookbinder, was a past President of the Hand Bookbinders of California. Michael Good was an antiquarian bookseller and a one time President of the ABAA.)

The catalogs are in GOOD to VERY GOOD condition, the Robert Hudson / William Wiley catalog is scraped and worn at the spine, otherwise the items just show light signs of handling and age.

The exhibition catalogs are:

STRUCK! SURE? SOUND / UNSOUND. Wm. T. Wiley. The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington D.C., 1991. Softcovers, 7x11 inches, 44 pages. Illustrated. SIGNED & INSCRIBED by WILEY on the half-title page: "For Mike and Sandy / Love / Wiley / 91".

ROBERT HUDSON: SCULPTURE / WILLIAM T. WILEY: PAINTING. Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts, 1991. Softcovers, 10x11 inches, 50 pages. Illustrated. SIGNED & INSCRIBED by WILEY on the front endpaper: "For the GOODS / With Love / Wiley / 91".

WILLIAM T. WILEY - AFTERBURNER. Rena Branstein Gallery, San Francisco, 1994. Softcovers, 8.5x11 inches. Illustrated. 32 pages.

STEAL THE WITNESS FOR THE TIME BEING. William T. Wiley. Fuller Goldeen Gallery, San Francisco, 1984. 8.5x11 inches. Illustrated. 31 pages.

WILLIAM T. WILEY - SELECTIONS FROM TWO EXHIBITIONS. John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco; Charles Cowles Gallery, New York. 2007. 10x10 inches. Illustrated. 72 pages.

PLUS:

A Celebration of the Life of William T. Wiley - San Geronimo Valley Community Center, July 17, 2021. Small, single fold pamphlet (4 pages), 5.5x8.5 inches.

IMÁGENES ARGENTINAS EN QUINCE XILOGRAFIAS. [IMAGES OF ARGENTINE in FIFTEEN LITHOGRAPHS].

Fifteen (15) lithographs of various Argentine scenes. Each lithograph is hand signed by the artist, Pablo Fabisch. The loose lithographs are held in a printed folder; they are accompanied with six folded together leaves (12 pages) of descriptive text in Spanish and some German.

FOLIO SIZE, the lithographs are printed on 14x17.5 inch sheets, and held in a slightly larger folder. LIMITED, NUMBERED EDITION, this being #226 of 400 total copies, so stated on the last page of the descriptive text leaves.

VERY GOOD condition, just light wear.

Published by Edicion Galeria Bodo, [1970].

From the Colophon page (translated): Under the artist's supervision this edition was completed in Buenos Aires on September 17, 1970.

About PABLO FABISCH (from the Arte de la Argentina website):

******Pablo Fabisch, b.1903 Berlin d.1974 Buenos Aires. A painter, engraver, and book illustrator. He studied at the Academy of Fine Arts under Emil Orlik. He settled in Argentina in 1937, and became an Argentine citizen in 1951. He has had solo exhibitions in Buenos Aires, Berlin and elsewhere.******

THE CHRISTMAS THINGY - ORIGINAL ART by ALAN CLARK, SIGNED & FRAMED.

Alan M. Clark was the Illustrator for the children's book THE CHRISTMAS THINGY by F. Paul Wilson. This is an ORIGINAL ARTWORK by Alan Clark. It pictures the THINGY holding a bunch of Christmas presents. The artwork is signed with Clark's typical monogram signature "AC" at the bottom left corner.

The image measures 4.5 square inches, the frame 11.25 square inches.

Both the frame and art are in FINE condition.

This auction is for the framed piece of Original Art by Alan Clark based on his illustrations for the children's book The Christmas Thingy. It does not include the book.

Alan M. Clark is an American artist and book illustrator. He has won many awards for his illustrations.

Chinese American Artist John Way was a pioneer of mid twentieth century Chinese Abstraction. This is a scarce exhibition catalogue from early in Way's career where he found the essence of his style at the crossroads of east and west. There are no examples of this publication in OCLC collections worldwide.

JOHN WAY

Published by Joan Peterson Gallery, Boston to accompany Way's solo exhibition. Printed by The Juvenile Press, Taipei, Taiwan, 1967. First and only printing. Softcover, Chinese stab binding, bound with white silk string, 10.25" x 6", 9 folded leaves of thin paper printed on one side only, front cover is an original lithograph on textured Chinese calligraphy paper. Text includes artist statement, previous exhibitions, and reproduced reviews from various publications. Only the cover is illustrated. GOOD CONDITION: complete as issued. There is a shoreline stain in the upper corner affecting all the pages except the front cover, and light edge and corner wear, otherwise bright, clean and unmarked. Scarce.

"I am searching / for an art form / which shows / the feeling of / powerfulness and subtlety, / the infusion of controlled /and uncontrolled images, / and / the sensations of / order and disorder, / perfection from imperfection." -- John Way 1967.

John Way [Wei Letang] (Chinese/American, 1921-2012) Born in Shanghai, Wei started his artistic studies under the great calligrapher Li Jian (1881-1956). He immigrated to the U.S. in 1956 and studied architecture at M.I.T., he worked in the Boston area until moving to San Francisco in the 1990s. Inspired by both traditional Chinese calligraphy and Abstract Expressionist painting, his work evokes the large gestural work of Robert Motherwell and Franz Kline. His artworks are widely exhibited, including a solo exhibition at the Shanghai Art Museum.

The Joan Peterson Gallery was an art gallery in Boston. Peterson was one of the most prominent art dealers in Boston from the late 1950s into the early 1980s. Her gallery showed the work of leading regional modernists. It closed in 1981.

LE FROU-FROU. Paris Journal of Humor and Light Eroticism. 25 issues, #80-150, Avril 1902 through Octobre 1902, including their "Contes Inedits" inserts, all bound together in a contemporary, embossed Simplex Binder. Includes the rare title page to this collection with its embossed gilt Frou-Frou illustration, the statement "1902 2e Semestre" (the second half of 1902), and the price of "6 francs".

Text in French, the humorous and risqué drawings speak for themselves in all languages.

GOOD Condition: The binder has some rubs, scrapes to the folds, and a couple white marks, but is solid and attractive; internally, the issues and pages are toned as normal, otherwise bright, clean and unmarked.

A nice set, includes drawings unique to this publication by some noted French artists of the day.

About LE FROU-FROU (from various Internet sources):

******LE FROU-FROU was a French magazine published from 1900 until the beginning of WWI. It was known for its humorous and risqué content, including illustrations of can-can dancers, cartoons, and humorous anecdotes of Parisian life.******

THREE SIGNED POSTERS after Bob Seidemann's original series of aviation photographs the AIRPLANE AS ART.

P-38 Lightening

Fuselage, F-86D

Canadian Snowbirds

Photolithographs, each is 18" x 24". Published by Classic Images, Distributed by Pacific Images, Glendale, California, 1989. Each hand signed in black pen by Bob Seidemann. VERY GOOD CONDITION. Three scarce signed posters, I could not find any in commerce or auction records.

Photographer Bob Seidemann (1941-2017) is famous for his Hippie era rock posters. He was one of the most recognized rock 'n' roll photographers of the 1960s, he photographed Janis Joplin wearing only beads, he photographed album covers for the Grateful Dead, Jerry Garcia, Jackson Browne, Neil Young, and the infamous Blind Faith album cover. Raised near LaGuardia Airport he developed an early fascination with aircraft that inspired his acclaimed aviation project which began in the 1980s. In 2007 the original Airplanes As Art photography portfolio sold at auction for $216,000 at Sotheby's.

The three posters will be shipped together, safely rolled in a sturdy mailing tube.