Gropper William Illustrations (10 results)

Pamphlet. 29p., 5x7 inches, illustrations, staples rusted else very good in stapled brown printed wraps, first printing. "An attack on Reader's Digest as dishonest, profascist, and anti-Soviet. It is accused of catering to anti-Semitic, anti-Negro, and antilabor sentiments. The author demands that this defeatist magazine be forced to cease publication." *Seidman G35.…

Pamphlet. 30p. staplebound booklet, very good condition, 5x7 inches. Fourth printing which includes a printed letter from Dreiser commending the booklet, and blurbs on the rear cover by Rockwell Kent, Vito Marcantonio, William Z. Foster and others (letter and reviews not found in earlier editions). Illustrated with Gropper's caricatures of Franco, Lindbergh, and Valtin. "An attack on Reader's Digest as dishonest, profascist, and anti-Soviet. It is accused of catering to anti-Semitic, anti-Negro, and antilabor sentiments. The author demands that this defeatist magazine be forced to cease publication." *Seidman G35. …

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 96 Pp. Black Cloth Spine, Gilt, White Boards. Limited Edition With Signed Color Print Bound In, #26 Of 50 Copies. Also Inscribed By The Artist To Social Artist William Gropper "To Bill Gropper Wonderful Artist And My Friend Anto Refregier". Original Color Print; B/W Illustrations (illustrator). Inscribed by Author(s).…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Poor. 1st Edition. Xvii, 225 Pp. Black Cloth Lettered In Red. First Printing With 1932 Date On Title Page. Lightly Used, Would Be Near Fine But Some Water Stains On Front Endpapers (Only) With Red-Offsetting From The Red Dust Jacket. Dust Jacket Itself Is Worn And With Some Fading Or Damp Staining, Spine Panel Almost Entirely Chipped Away But No Loss Of Text On Other Panels. Inscribed To Social Artist William Gropper, Whose Work Is Illustrated In The Book, "To Bill Gropper Design Conscious Artist Ralph M Pearson October 20, 1932." Ralph M. Pearson (1883-1958) Was An Accomplished Etcher At A Time When The Art Was Just Emerging As A Popular Medium In The United States. Pearson's Prints Show A Wide Variety Of Subjects Including Landscapes, Industrial Scenes, Indian Pueblos, And Portraits. The Images Are Reveal A Sophisticated Design Sense, Clearly Employing Compositional Strategies Of Artists Such As Arthur Wesley Dow Which Emphasized The Inter-Relationship Of Line, Mass, And Value In Two Dimensions. Pearson Studied At The Art Institute Of Chicago Under John Vanderpoel. Later, In New York Pearson "Found The First School Of Modern Art In This Country" Led By Hugo Robus. In His Words He "Inaugurated A Painful Unlearning And Relearning Process Of Some Eight Years' Duration Which Was A Cheap Enough Price To Pay For A Basic Reorientation." He Married Margaret Hale (The Daughter Of Classics Professor William Gardner Hale) In June Of 1916. In 1919 He Settled In The Foothills Of The Taos Mountains. Shortly Thereafter He Started An Unlikely Combination Business Venture Featuring Hogs And Greeting Cards. Apparently, He Was Better At Etching Than Pig Farming And Soon The Etching Sales Were Paying For The Pigs Upkeep. By 1920 He Had Given Up On The Pig Adventure And Concentrated On His Greeting Card Business Which Was Doing Quite Well. He Bought A "Big New Press" And Enlarged His Studio. By 1921 He Had Forty Different Vendors Selling His Cards In Cities Throughout The Country. Joseph O'Kane Foster, A Former Hearst Newspaper Reporter From Chicago, Had Moved To Taos And Soon Was Adding His Artistic And Literary Skills To The Enterprise. By 1923 Pearson Decided To Leave His Wife And Foster In Charge Of The Company And He Moved To California. The Company Name Was Changed To Vancil Foster Greeting Cards. Pearson And Hale Divorced. Foster Married Hale. They Closed The Business In 1928. In California Pearson Continued His Etching And Was Represented By The Stendahl Gallery In Los Angeles. His Best Know Work From This Period Was His "Cypress Grove" Of Monterey. For Pearson This Was His Final Break From The Representational Style Of His Youth. By 1928 He Had Remarried And Returned To New York To Start Another Career As An Educator, Art Critic And Author. He Taught For 10 Years At The New School For Social Research In New York. He Also Founded The Design Workshop, An Independent School, With Summer And Winter Classes, In Painting, Drawing And Critical Appreciation. These Classes, Planned As Condensed Courses, Gradually Evolved Into Teaching The Same Subjects By Mail. He Also Taught One-Year Stints At Utah State And At The University Of Texas In Austin. He Focused His Attention On Writing With Seven Books To His Credit As Well As Over 250 Magazine Articles. Pearson Was A Member Of The Chicago Society Of Etchers, The New York Society Of Etchers, California Art Club, California Society Of Etchers And The Brooklyn Society Of Etchers. He Exhibited Widely And Won Numerous Awards Including A Medal At The Panama-Pacific International Exposition. Plates, Drawings And Other Illustrations In Text (illustrator). Inscribed by Author(s).…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good +. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. 216 Pp. Black Cloth, Spine Lettered In Red. Map Endpapers. Very Short Biographical Dictionary At End. Essentially A Military History The Conquering Of Adjacent Peoples For 1000 Years, A Roman Style Epic Without Good Civil Engineering. First Printing, Undated But 1942. Scarce. Rear Panel With Ads For Six Other Hutchinson Books "Of Russian Interest" "Published By Authority Of The Press Department Of The Soviet Embassy In London"; P. 183 With A Full Page Photo Of The Soviet Ambassador To London, Maisky, "Seen Here Toasting That Alliance With Its Other Great Architect, Premier Churchill". Inscribed From Elizabeth Moos To American Social Artist William Gropper. Elizabeth Moos Was A Peace Activist Who Was Arrested During The Mccarthy Era On Charges Of Failure To Register As A Foreign Agent. Mrs. Moos Was A 1911 Graduate Of Smith College And Held Master's Degrees In Early Childhood Education From The Bank Street College Of Education And The Columbia University Russian Institute. Several Of Her Books About The Soviet Educational System Were Published Circa 1950-1960. Mrs. Moos, Along With Dr. W. E. B. Dubois And Three Other Leaders Of The Peace Information Center, Was Indicted In February 1951 By A Federal Grand Jury On Charges Of Violating The Foreign Agents Registration Act. The Prosecution Said The Organization Had Been A Sponsor In This Country Of The Stockholm Peace Appeal, Which Federal Officials Described As A Communist Trick That Promoted Unenforceable Soviet Proposals About Atomic Energy And Weapons. The Charges Were Later Dismissed. Illustrations Throughout (illustrator).…

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. 96 Pp. Card Covers Printed Entirely In Red; Paper Loss Along Fore Edges Of Rear Cover (Surface Only And Not Affecting The Lettering) And Last Two Leaves (A Few Small Holes Not Affecting Lettering). Signed By Eight Prominent Figures At The Worker (The Daily Worker) In Those Years; From The Library Of William Gropper. Annotated Illustrations Throughout (illustrator). Signed by Author(s).…

First Edition. First Printing, with correct code of 'G-F' to copyright page. 12mo. (17cm); maroon cloth, with titling and decorations stamped in gilt on spine; dustjacket; 98pp; illus. Some trivial wear to spine ends and lower corners, else Fine. Dustjacket is unclipped (priced $1.25); moderate, even toning overall, with light edgewear, a few short tears and two small stains to right margin of front panel; Very Good. A compilation of pieces written by early American humorists (Mark Twain, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Eugene Field, Edgar Nye, and Artemus Ward, et al). Illustrated throughout by William Gropper, who has designed a vivid two-color frontispiece following the jacket illustration. …

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. The Scarce Portfolio Hardcover Issue, 20 5/8" X 13 3/4", Beige Cloth Spine, Orange Boards Printed In Black, With Chemise Top And Right Side Flaps, Containing Three Pages Of Descriptive Text On Single Folded Sheet (With Tiny "Printed In Mexico" Stamp, Indicating This Was The Us Issue) And The 10 Loose Color Plates. Covers Worn With Some Fraying At Edges, Contents Clean And Undamaged. With The Sale Packing Slip From Dauber & Pine Bookshops In New York City To Artist William Gropper At His Mt. Airy Road, Croton-On-Hudson Ny Address. …

dj. First Edition. First Edition. Fictional stories of life on the bum, based on the author's own experiences. Very Good plus, lacking the dust jacket, with a slight lean, bookplate on the front pastedown, and faint splashes on the spine.

dj. Reprint. Octavo (20.75cm); dark red cloth, with titling and decorations stamped in yellow on spine and front cover; pictorial endpapers; yellow topstain; dustjacket; [viii],280pp; illus. Slight forward lean, spine ends gently nudged, with a handful of small stains to right edge of textblock; Very Good+. Dustjacket is edgeworn, spine-sunned, with a few small chips at spine ends, several short tears and attendant creases; Very Good. "Despite its cheery-sounding title, Circus Parade is light years away from Toby Tylerland, presenting a dark, violent and thoroughly unromanticized portrait of life on the road with a traveling show -- described by Tully as "generally a canvas nest of petty thieves and criminals among the lower gentry." The book's depictions of casual brutality -- including a shocking account of the troupe's exploitation of a young black girl's sexual favors -- got it banned in Boston and caused an uproar with circus fans (and, unsurprisingly, circus owners), which helped to put the kibosh on a proposed film adaptation by James Cruze" (PROUTY 4). …