New York: 1982. A gathering of 50 items collected by an attendee at the anti-nuclear demonstration in New York City, which remains the largest political demonstration in the history of the United States. On that date approximately 1 million people gathered in the city and converged upon Central Park. The...
Paris: Comite de Lutte Anti-Nucleaire, 1958. Square 8vo, single sheet folded once. With papillon [3 1/8 x 5 1/4", offset printed on cream gummer paper] laid in. A powerful manifesto by the Surrealist Group against nuclear science and proliferation at the close of the 1950's. The text was written by...
San Francisco: 1968. 6 1/4 x 7" folder, photographically illustrated, housing 8 seed packets, each letterpress printed with the name of the plant and a poetic text at recto, with planting directions at verso. Illustrated with photographs by Bill Brach. Printed by Graham Mackintosh. A remarkable artist's book by Brautigan...
Shandon, Dumbartonshire: Faslane Peace Camp, 1997. 4to, 20 pp., saddle-stapled wraps. With two leaflets laid in. Booklet issued to draw attention to the plight of the long-lived peace camp in the face of evictions. The camp was formed to protest the development of nuclear weapons alongside the Faslane naval base...
New York: The Artist, 1982. 18 x 24”, offset lithograph on glazed paper. An early and significant poster work by Haring, made to celebrate the anti-nuclear movement. Haring created and published the poster himself, and distributed it at the June 12, 1982 demonstrations, passing out 20,000 of them in Central...
Los Angeles: Independent Project Press, 1992. First edition. Four letterpress stampsheets, each featuring ten stamps, interleaved with letterpress explanatory sheets, side-stapled into a letterpress printed card stock folder. One of an edition of 500 copies. The stampsheets feature, respectively, the Greenpeace vessel The Rainbow Warrior, a Greenpeace inflatable raft, a....
np: Livermore Liberation League, nd [c. early 1980's]. 8 1/2 x 11" poster, xerox in black and white on both recto and verso. Poster advertising a march to the Livermore Lab, and calling to convert the lab, and Los Alamos, to peaceful purposes. The march was a joint effort by...
San Francisco: UC Nuclear Weapons Labs Conversion Project, 1982-? 8vo, 8pp, unbound, folded sheets. A proposal to repurpose the Livermore Weapons Laboratory to peaceful purposes. OCLC locates no holdings. Fine.
Mountain View, CA: PHASE (Project on Health and Safety in Electronics), c. 1979. Three 8 1/2 x 11" flyers, the first two offset printed on rectos only, and the last offset printed on both recto and verso, all with union printing slugs. Three handbills by PHASE drawing attention to health...
San Francisco: Solidarity- Gay/Lesbian Liberation, 1982. 8vo, single sheet folded once to make a four panel booklet. An anti-nuclear manifesto that urges Gay and Lesbian support for Proposition 12, the Bilateral Nuclear Weapons Freeze Initiative, and makes the observation that the same politicians escalating the arms races also tend to...
Helsinki: Information Centre of the World Peace Council, 1978. 8vo, 55 pp, saddle-stapled wraps. Text in English. Profusely illustrated with b/w photographs. Unbelievably good and compact work that is both a manifesto and survey of anti-nuclear action worldwide at the close of the 1970's. Profusely illustrated not only with photographs...
[Healdsburg, CA]: [Zephyrus Image], nd. 5 1/2 x 8 1/2", black text overlayed onto a zinc print photographic image of the Pope & Co on brown card stock. Insignia print at verso reads "Christus Regnet." According to Johnston, Teter's only explanation for the piece was "Christ Reigns", probably a play...
[Healdsburg]: [Zephyrus Image], nd. 13 1/4 x 9 3/4' broadside, linocut on crack and peel sticker paper. This oversized bumper sticker was the Zephyrus Image's contribution to the water wars. The inspiration for the sticker was the Digger's proposal (as outlined in Planet Drum) to divide California into bioregions, and...
Healdsburg: Zephyrus Image, [1976]. 8 1/2 x 11", linocut by Michael Myers with four color overlays matched to a found zinc block print of a dead whale. This stationary was originally commissioned by Project Jonah as their letterhead. When the client refused the work as too ornate, Zephyrus Image used it...
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