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New Acquisitions

Radioactivo: Poderoso Fertilizador y Estimulante Para La Vegetación
Banco del Radium [Banque du Radium, Paris]. - [1915]


Unrecorded advertisement for the Parisian Banque du Radium, associated with Marie Curie's lab.

Sous la jupe: illustré
G. Maindouce - ca. 1933-1935


Detourned fetish photography from Studio Biederer and Diana-Slip (Brassaï, Kertesz, and Schall, et al.).

El Ĉina fotografia arto: kompilita de la redakcio de “Ĉina Fotografio.”
1963


Propagandistic anthology of Chinese photography, published by the Chinese Esperanto Association.

Nineteen Press Photographs of Havana Riots, President Céspedes, and La Pentarquía
1933


Images of the violence that marked the end of the Machado regime, the brief Céspedes presidency, and the establishment of the Pentarchy.

Twenty-One Egyptian and Syrian Tourist Guides, Pamphlets, and Ephemera
ca. 1958


Skema. Mensile fotografico d’attualità. (All published).
1969-1974


Complete run of a rare photographic serial covering urgent political, social, environmental, and economic issues during the 'anni di piombo.'

1a Exposició de Cartells [...] Internacionals en Previsió dels Accidents de Treball
1937


Two illustrated calendars commemorating an exhibition of international worker safety posters.

Eight Spanish Republican Women’s Groups’ Handbills and Flyers
Agrupación Mujeres Libres; La Secció Femenina del Bloc Obrer i Camperol; Las Agrupaciones Femeninas del Partido Radical, et al. - 1934-1938


(Suffrage) (Anarcho-Feminism) (Music) Unrecorded ephemera from Republican women's political organizations.

Traços biographicos da heroína brasileira Jovita Alves Feitosa ...
[Feitosa, Jovita Alves] - 1865


(Women Soldiers) (War Propaganda) (Brazil) Scarce contemporary bio of a celebrated national heroine of the Paraguayan War.

Cuentos para Mari-Sol
Marta Brunet and Maria Valencia, Illus. - 1938?


Elusive first ed. of the beloved children's book by Chilean suffragist Marta Brunet; the only edition illus. by artist Maria Valencia.

Cantar Juvenil. Año I, Núm. 2-3
Juventudes Comunistas de Chile - 1975


Unrecorded clandestine poetry serial published by the youth wing of Chile's Communist Party during the Pinochet dictatorship.

Cocktail
Silvia Guerrico - 1932


(Radio) (Tango) (Women's Literature) (Association Copy) Signed first editions by the rioplatense radio star.

Otoño Imperdonable
María Elena Walsh - 1947


Signed presentation copy of Walsh's first book, published when she was just 17.

Aire. No. 1 (Junio 1937) through No. 4 (Primavera 1938) (all published)
1937-1938


A highlight of Spanish Civil War print culture, rare complete.

Collection of 31 photographs of Chilean modern dance pioneer Andrée Haas
ca. 1930-1940


Vintage photos of the founder of Chile's first modern dance program.

Grand Torneo Internazionale di Lotte Feminili al Salone Margherita
1912


Promo for women's wrestling tournament, Rome.

COLLECTION OF PROPAGANDA PHOTOGRAPHS OF THE SECCIÓN FEMENINA
ca. 1941


40 photographs of the women's wing of the Spanish fascist movement, most taken by the Nazi propaganda service SS-PK

Çayir Yapraklari (Leaves of Grass)
Walt Whitman (Trans. Suat Tașer) - 1951


Avant-garde typography and experimental book design in the first Turkish translation of Walt Whitman. Signed.

Women

A Featured Collection

Latin America

A Featured Collection

Apóstrofes: Revista de la Escuela de Periodismo Universidad Católica. Año I, No. 1–No. 3
1982


Unrecorded student movement publication.

Forma: Revista de Arte. Nos. 6-7
1942


One issue of the uncommon Chilean arts serial, with essay by David Siqueiros on antifascist mural project.

Study for a bas-relief sculpture for Las Cristalerías Rigolleau
Urbici Soler - 1928


A pencil and gouache study for an overdoor panel at the Rigolleau company's new building, Buenos Aires.

Publisher’s Prospectus for “Art in Ancient Mexico”
[Diego Rivera] - 1941


Ephemera from a key moment in the popularization and appropriation of pre-Colonial Mexican art in the United States

…de Pe a Pa
Celina Uralde - 1962


Experimental poetry by Celina Uralde with cover illus. and prologue by Gyula Kosice.

A ruptura da fotografia nos anos 50
José Filho Oiticica - 1983


Mexico
Comité Organizador de la Participación en la Exposición Ibero-Americana de Sevilla - 1929


Large format propaganda album, presenting glories of post-revolutionary Mexico.

Cuauhtemoc
[Gustavo Valcárcel and Adolfo Mexiac (Illustrator)] - 1956


Condensed biography by the Instituto Nacional Indigenista with illustrations by Adolfo Mexiac.

Cine Cubano. Año 1, No. 3 and Año 2, No. 6.
1960; 1962


Inauguración de su Nuevo Edificio
Secretaria de Recursos Hidráulicos - [1950]


Unrecorded souvenir of the water ministry's new building. Designed by Del Moral y Pani, with Gustavo Saavedra.

Centro Deportivo Chapultepec: Recuerdo de la Inauguración de los Nuevos Edificios
[Gaspar Octavio Almanza and Ramiro Romo] - 1950


Celebrating a new sports complex designed by Gonzalo Garita and Carlos Romo with murals by Ramiro Romo Estada.

Sala Permanente de Artes Plásticas de Cuba
Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes - ca. 1955


Inaugurating the permanent exhibition of Cuban Art at the new Palácio de Bellas Artes, Havana.

Modernism

A Featured Collection

Ephemera and Oddities

A few more bits of fun.

Five Illustrated Booklets Documenting the Fall and Death of Benito Mussolini and Clara Petacci.

Conseils et soins à donner à la chevelure. Traité théorique et pratique.

Eight Jail and Prison Equipment Catalogues.

Modern marketing for the emergent prison-industrial complex.

(Sexual Health) Dr. McIntosh’s Natural Uterine Supporter.

Vaginal pessary leaflet.

Sol Lewitt.

[Album Amicorum].

German-Jewish manuscript friendship album.

Poem 1 and Poem 2. From Penny Poems, No. 31.

The earliest Oldenburg publication?

Pride in Kitchen and Bathroom: A Sure Sign of Excellent Housekeeping.

Pedrito Contreras y Juan del Campo.

Peronist propaganda illustrated by humorist Pedro Segui.

Las Juventudes Libertarias de Artes Gráficas protestan [...].

The FAI's youth cultural commission defends Barcelona's Municipal Band.

Carteleras. Año I, No.1 - Año 1, No.3 (all published?).

Advertising for UGT-CNT controlled theaters in Valencia, unrecorded in OCLC.

Comitè Econòmic d’Espectacles Públics.

A class-conscious film schedule for the CNT/AIT collectivized theaters in Girona.

Nosotros: [Revista Mensual Anarquista].

Valencian anarchist serial associated with the Teatro del Pueblo movement.

A Fable.

Satirical antiwar fable illus. by the pacifist Southall.

On the Question of Homosexuals and the Party.

Marxist Leninist repudiation of homosexuality documents the mixed history of communism and LGBTQ rights.

1968: An Opera (in English) by J. Jordan.

Souvenir program for drag opera about Warhol-Solanus affair.

Processed World: Special Sex Issue..

Post-situationist magazine for the radical office worker.

Sun Annual.

International nudist serial.

Minus 8.

Asia-Pacific Alternative Press Syndicate; coverage of Miss Universe in Hong Kong, student protests, etc.

Modeling Soap Sculptures in White Soap.

Ceramicist Margaret Postgate's first career as the soap sculpture queen.

Art: The Independent Review. No. 1 (Dec. 1987) and No. 2 (Mar. 1988).

Artists deliver straight-talk about conditions and political realities of the artworld in apartheid-era South Africa.

Album of late 19th Century Albumen or Gelatin-Silver Prints of Gubbio and Perugia.

Late-19th-century Italian album combining amateur and professional photography.

Recueil des instruments de chirurgie orthopédie et mobiliers.

Instruments of amputation followed logically by prosthetics.

The Victim Did It.

Sue Williams exhibition poster.

Books from the estate of Mark Tobey.

Otherwise unrecorded sales list of abstract artist Mark Tobey's library.

File Megazine Vol. 5, No. 4 (1983).

Mondo Cane Kama Sutra Dog Eat Dog Eat Dog

Dara Birnbaum: Video.

Swedish exhibition poster.

STUBBS—U.T.C.: STAR WARS?.

CND protests corporate sponsorship at the Tate Gallery.

Album Recuerdo de la Alhambra.

Orientalism at the Alhambra. Vintage albumen prints.

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