![This Land for Sale]. Garth Williams](/pictures/thumb/361619.jpg?v=1649790206)
Original pen-and-ink with charcoal cartoon drawing. Roughly 8 by 6 inches (oblong), cut manually and not quite a rectangle.. This drawing, apparently a commentary on New York real estate, shows a large vacant corner lot filled with wrecked cars with the optimistic sign, "This Land for Sale." The long, narrow.....
Price: $150
Original pen-and-ink and watercolor drawing. Paper measures roughly 9 by 8 inches, cut by hand from a larger sheet and not quite a rectangle. In this drawing, Williams mocks modern dance, depicting the dancers as a sort of reverse mobile, attached by wires and driven by a pully from the.....
Price: $250
![Horses Leaving the Starting Gate]. Garth Williams](/pictures/thumb/361615.jpg?v=1649790203)
Original pen-and-ink cartoon drawing. Roughly 8 by 6 inches (oblong). In this drawing, two horses are shown leaving the starting gate of a race. This unpublished drawing made for the New Yorker magazine dates from 1943 to 1946, when Williams was a staff illustrator. Only seven of his drawings ever appeared.....
Price: $150
![Man Looking at Watercolor Paintings]. Garth Williams](/pictures/thumb/361614.jpg?v=1649790203)
Original pen-and-ink cartoon drawing. Roughly 8 by 6 inches (oblong). In this drawing, a man inspects watercolors in a street vendor's case. This unpublished pen-and-ink drawing made for the New Yorker magazine dates from 1943 to 1946, when Williams was a staff illustrator. Only seven of his drawings ever appeared in.....
Price: $100
![Dog Lapping Up Red Wine]. Garth Williams](/pictures/thumb/361613.jpg?v=1649790202)
Original pen-and-ink cartoon drawing. Roughly 8 by 6 inches (oblong). In this drawing, a black-and-white dog laps up red wine from a leaking barrel in a cellar. This unpublished pen-and-ink drawing made for the New Yorker magazine dates from 1943 to 1946, when Williams was a staff illustrator. Only seven.....
Price: $150
![Stalin Awards Medal]. Garth Williams](/pictures/thumb/6116.jpg?v=1649790211)
Original pen-and-ink cartoon drawing. Paper measures roughly 6 by 8 inches, cut by hand from a larger sheet and not quite square (as was typical of William's drawings at this time). In this drawing, a military man, seemingly Stalin, pins a medal on another soldier, seemingly an American Army three-star (lieutenant).....
Price: $150
![Record of a Japanese in America] Aru zaibei nihonjin no kiroku [2 volumes, complete]. Jo "Joseph"...](/pictures/thumb/361056.jpg?v=1638666167)
First Edition. "An autobiography of an Issei leftist, a native of Tokyo and a graduate of Aoyama Gakuin. The first volume covers the period prior to World War II and includes his years in the Soviet Union; the second treats his wartime internment experience and his service to the American.....
Price: $600
First Edition. A reprint of an article entitled "Issei, Nisei, and Kibei" from Fortune magazine, April 1944. The tone is gently critical of internment on procedural grounds and sympathetic to the incarcerated American citizens, but it rather lacks compassion for the real people involved. Miné Okubo, a Japanese American artist who.....
Price: $125
First Edition. One of the classic accounts of naval action during the Second World War, written by a British destroyer captain. Hill served in the Arctic convoys, the Mediterranean Campaign and Malta Convoys, as well as aboard HMS Jervis during the Normandy landings. This UK edition (the true first edition).....
Price: $75
One of the classic food-related posters of the Second World War, encouraging home canning to preserve food for the winter. 16 by 22-1/2 inches. OWI Poster No. 77; O-533993. Old folds, as issued; beginning to split along one fold. This is an original World War Two poster, not a reproduction. Ships.....
Price: $300
An attractive homefront poster from the Second World War encouraging Americans to recycle scrap metal for the war effort. The poster presents stylized silhouettes of a bomb, a tank, a battleship, and an anti-aircraft gun, each printed over a line drawing of a pile of scrap metal. 20 by 28-1/2.....
Price: $300
A homefront poster printed by the Libby food company to encourage recycling of their cans. The poster has four images, three showing a woman's hands removing the can label and folding in the ends, and a fourth depicting a woman's shoe crushing the can. The scrap drives organized during the.....
Price: $150
A poster to encourage the quick unloading of freight trains by railroad employees. The text on the back (verso) says, "It is designed for posting in freight yards, on shipping platforms, and around all other points of freight car loading and unloading operations." The poster, produced for the U.S. Office of.....
Price: $400
A terrific and dramatic home front propaganda poster encouraging lumber production published by a lobbying group of the National Lumber Manufacturers Association (now the National Forest Products Association). The poster depicts Uncle Sam, illustrated in a wood-cut style, holding an ax and pointing toward forested mountains. An article in the.....
Price: $750
A fifth-grader's "army reports and pictures" documenting German military victories and leaders. Young Ms. Wolter was (apparently) assigned to collect newspaper articles about Adolf Hitler and military victories, which she pasted neatly into a blank school lesson book. The collection begins with a newspaper photograph of Josef Goebbels congratulating the.....
Price: $65
Original black-and-white gelatin-silver press photograph, October 31, 1944. 7 by 9 inches. Captioned on the back on a mounted label: "A worker at the Scullin Steel Co. in St. Louis moves a completed 6-ton 'earthquake bomb' forward on its platform to a freight car." These bombs were manufactured for the British.....
Price: $100
First Edition. 7-7/8 by 11-1/4 inches. Poems for a spoken-word one-man performance about the Nazi architect of the Holocaust. The poems are printed one letter to a square on letterpress-printed graph paper. The format emphasizes Himmler's drive for precision. Published in an edition of 500 hardcover copies and an unknown.....
Price: $125
Leaflet, 4-3/4 by 7-3/4 inches, printed in black on the front (recto) and red on the back (verso). Text in Italian, dropped by the Allies over Libya before the fall of the city in 1943. Image of a boot with a swastika crushing a building with text on the back.....
Price: $100
![So sieht es in Berlin aus und in Deiner Heimatstadt? [This is Berlin. What about your hometown?]....](/pictures/thumb/134.jpg?v=1597090086)
8 by 5-1/2 inches. An American propaganda leaflet enumerating the quantity of bombs being dropped on Germany. The front (rector) is a picture of bombed out buildings; the back (verso) is German text only, translated in part, "During the first three months of 1944, 80,000 tons of bombs were dropped.....
Price: $50
Leaflet, 5-1/4 by 8 inches, in Italian, printed both sides. A propaganda leaflet dropped over North Africa the day after the second battle of El Alamein. The leaflet includes a safe conduct pass and condemns the German army for stealing Italian vehicles for their retreat. "You will be force to.....
Price: $75
