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Museum of Modern Art. 1937. First edition.. Trade paperback. Very good. light shelfwear, ex-museum stamp to blank flyleaf.

Museum of Modern Art, January 1937. Hardcover. Used - Good/No Jacket. This 1937 Red Hardback copy (without a Jacket) is in Good and Clean Condition. The pages are clean and crisp and the binding is tight and secure. There is fading along the spine, slight discororation along the edges and a signature inside. No other marks writing or damage. Quick Shipping and Delivery Confirmation!

New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1937. First Printing. Card Covers. Fine-. One of 2,750 copies printed by the Spiral Press, with notes by Kauffer on technique and foreword by Aldous Huxley, of this catalog for an exhibition at New York's Museum of Modern Art from February 10 to March 7, 1937. Royal 8vo (254 x 191mm): 24pp, including 12 highlights, on 9 black-and-white plates, from the exhibit of 85 posters designed by Kauffer for London Underground, Great Western Railways, Shell, and other English clients. Stapled illustrated card covers screen-printed in French blue, black, and grey. About Fine, with minute wear to lower front cover edge, else virtually pristine. Scarce. Kauffer moved to London at the start of the First World War, and is probably best remembered for the 140 posters he created for London Underground (later London Transport), in many styles showing influences of futurism, cubism, and vorticism as well as impressionism and Japanese woodcuts. Why Huxley was chosen to contribute the… Read More

Washington DC: El Coordinador de Asuntos Interamericanos, 1942. Poster. Good. A suite of three WWII posters, 14" x 20". Each poster has been mounted to a thin card board. With some creasing, and occasional small losses from the edges. The largest loss is from the top right corner of the "palabra" poster, measuring 4" x 3". The posters also have a general layer of light glue-staining. Three American WWII posters depicting the themes of Freedom of Worship, Freedom from Want, and Freedom of Speech. These posters were meant to highlight Franklin D. Roosevelt's four freedoms (here three), and to sway Latin American opinion against Germany, Italy, and Japan. The Spanish text at the foot of each poster reads: "One of the 4 liberties for which the allies fight." Edward McKnight Kauffer (1890-1954) was an American artist and graphic designer who worked mostly in the realm of poster art. He was born in Montana, however he moved to England and became an expatriate. He was very influential in Europe, however… Read More