Rare conceptual art poster created by Negation, a 1970s Bay Area post-Situationist group. Promoting a farcical “Jump for Jesus” off the Golden Gate Bridge event on October 8, 1972, "The-Big-Baptism-In-The-Bay." The poster employs dark humor and satirical language to critique the self-sacrificial rhetoric prominent in religious ideologies of the late 1960s and early 1970s. Sample text: "After all, every good Christian knows that genitals are TOOLS OF THE DEVIL and that orgasms are just revolting SEIZURES OF SIN experienced by those into whom the love of God has not penetrated.".....
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Whimsically illustrated pictorial map of California’s Sequoia National Park, created by Carroll Barnes in 1945. The verso lists 23 notable places and activities within the park, each corresponding to the numbers and names appearing on the map. Cartoon figures exaggerate the features, landmarks and animals of the park, highlighting the map’s dual function as both an informative guide and a collectible piece of ephemera. Such souvenirs became increasingly common as national parks grew in popularity as vacation destinations during the World War II era. Rare. Condition noted, and priced accordingly.....
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A rare collection of menus from Alice Waters' famous Berkeley restaurant, Chez Panisse plus other ephemera including flyers, cards and Chez Panisse envelopes dating from 1982 ton 2011. Many letterpress printed on fine paper and with illustrations by David Lance Goines. Items include flyers and menus for the 25th and 40th anniversaries, New Year’s Eve 1991, a menu for Diana Kennedy the food writer, New Zinfandel Festival menus, and a menu celebrating Catherine & Jean-Marie Peyraud, among others. A rare and lovely collection of menus and ephemera from the legendary.....
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A large collection of over 350 rave flyers and cards, circa 1993 to 2010, with an emphasis on the Bay Area, Los Angeles, and Portland, plus examples from Chicago, New York, Detroit, and other cities, including a handful from Europe/Canada. With a large number of die-cut and fold-out cards, the collection provides a look at the innovative graphic design, typography and printing of the genre emerging in the early 1990s. (This collection is duplicates from a larger collection of approx. 2,000+ rave flyers that is still being cataloged and processed.....
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An exquisite original ink, graphite and gouache/watercolor drawing of a French historical costume worn by a noble Frenchwoman during the 14th-15th centuries, after or copying a drawing by the French fashion illustrator Louis Marie-Lanté. Marie-Lanté drew elegant and refined depictions of historical costumes, in particular famous women of France known for their talents or beauty. This drawing depicts Odette de Champdivers, the chief mistress of Charles VI of France (Charles the Mad). Because she physically resembled the Queen, she was called la petite reine ("the little queen") by contemporaries. With.....
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A rare copy of American photographer Greg Cloud's 1989 photobook L.A. Dreams, known for it's late-1980s erotic Southern CA-infused color photos of nude L.A. guys, plus other scenes from the queer community. Cloud also has a credit as a still photographer on the 2001 independent film, The Fluffer. Must be 18 or over to purchase.

Condition: Near Fine, light scuffing to covers; now in a custom-made protective mylar jacket.
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A numbered box set of only 25 copies (this being no. 13) of risograph-printed postcards from the 2015 Fisk Gallery (Portland, OR) exhibition celebrating the zine "Tan Lines" and its illustrators. Artists in the set (and the exhibition) include Jim Stoten, Jean Jullien, Adi Goodrich, Ben Sanders, Kate Prior, Paul Windle, Liana Jegers, Joe Tallarico, Pete Gamlen, Ellen Van Engelen, Sac Magique, Olimpia Zagnoli, Hisashi Okawa, Tim Colmant, Ellie Andrews, Hannah K. Lee, Mike Perry, Ben Marcus, Margherita Urbani, Chad Kouri, Clay Hickson, Will Bryant, Tim Lahan, Damien Correll.....
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A circa 1976 War Resisters League poster highlighting the injustice of the prison-industrial complex. With the text: "Capital punishment means them without the capital get the punishment." Includes an illustration credit for Peg Avery/Liberation News Service and a union bug printing credit for The Print Shop of Smithtown, New York. The War Resisters League is the oldest secular pacifist organization in the United States, having been founded in 1923. Copies of this poster are in the Victoria & Albert Museum (UK) and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.....
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A 1987 poster honoring the legacy of Augusto César Sandino, the 1920s resistance leader that the Sandinista National Liberation Front (FSLN) was named after. 1986 was the 25th anniversary of the FSLN. It's goal was to overthrow the U.S.-backed dictatorial Somoza family. Led by figures like Daniel Ortega, they achieved their goal, ruling until 1990 after implementing reforms in education, healthcare, and land reform, while engaging in conflict with U.S.-backed Contras. Illustration by Armando Morales with art direction by Liberation Graphics.

Condition: Near Fine, a few surface dimples.
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A 1989 poster celebrating 10 years of Nicaraguan independence from the Somoza dictatorship and published by the Nicaragua Network, a national grassroots organization that promotes friendship projects with Nicaragua and works to end U.S. intervention in Central America. Illustration by Chilean graphic designer and artist René Castro, a co-founder of Mission Gráfica, the community-based print center in San Francisco that became an icon of 1980s Bay Area political poster production. Art Direction is credited to Liberation Graphics. The composition depicts a smiling young woman holding two pink bouquets.....
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Scarce 1971 poster criticizing American President Richard Nixon and the country's involvement in the Vietnam War. The original image, titled “Nixon Tearing the Heart out of Indochina,” was created by prominent Cuban graphic designer and artist René Mederos. The composition depicts a map of Southeast Asia, with North Vietnam and Laos represented as a burning red hole in the map. A bird of prey bearing the face of Richard Nixon, with exaggerated vampiric fangs, grips the affected countries in its talons. Although Nixon is directly depicted, the work reflects.....
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An anti-fascist poster protesting the right-wing political party ARENA (Nationalist Republican Alliance) of El Salvador. The party was founded by individuals deeply embedded in the military command linked to right-wing death squads during the country's civil war. ARENA was established in 1981 and held the presidency of El Salvador between 1989 and 2009. The poster shows two leaders of the group, Roberto D’Aubuisson and Alfredo Cristiani, as the eyeballs of a skull with a swastika on its forehead. The text reads "Arena is Terror, is War" and "Everyone Against.....
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An El Salvador solidarity poster expressing support for the country during its twelve-year civil war. The design features a stylized depiction of a soldier silhouetted in front of a wall covered in revolutionary graffiti, based on a photograph by José Lavanderos. Above the image appears a quote attributed to Farabundo Martí, leader of the 1932 uprising and founder of the Central American Socialist Party, emphasizing the necessity of guerrilla fighters to claim their own history: "When history cannot be written with a pen it must be written with a gun.".....
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