Poster Art, Postcards & Ephemera

Discover Richard Burton's farewell note to Elizabeth Taylor, Helen Keller's letter to The New York Symphony Orchestra about 'hearing' their concert through her fingers, the final missives from a doomed Japan Airlines flight in 1985, David Bowie's response to his first piece of fan...

Drawn is a compendium of Craig Frazier’s illustrations for the most prominent publications and businesses in America and abroad. The book presents over 250 illustrations and sketches curated from a career spanning over 40 years. Respected by design peers and leaders in business, Frazier’s illustrations...

Matt Lee has been collecting Rolling Stones memorabilia for more than two decades. He amassed so much that he had to move house; he even has his own museum dedicated to Stones memorabilia and he is the Guinness World Record holder for the largest...

A fresh look at typographic design as an art and as a storytelling device that expresses narratives, emotions, and voice.Stretching the boundaries of typographic expression, Type Tells Tales is a sensational showcase of type that is integral to the message it conveys, with the capacity to...

Rare & Collectible Europe Express takes you on a journey from the Twenties to the Eighties of the twentieth century. A Grand Tour through a continent full of contrasts: from St. Mark's in Venice to bustling Berlin. From the Grand Hotels in luxurious Swiss...

Egidio Marzona's intensive experience with contemporary art forms the basis for his encyclopaedic collecting activity, which started in the mid-1960s and continues to the present day. The book illustrates how drawings, collages, artists' publications, invitation cards and posters in both American and European art,...

Rare & Collectible In the mid-1930s, Stephen Mitchell & Son, a cigarette manufacturer based in Scotland, joined the craze for producing cigarette cards. The firm created 'The World of Tomorrow', an imaginative series of cards that set out to forecast the future. Each of...

Rare & Collectible Whether you're a fan of Sean Landers's prolific, varied, purposely self-aggrandising and simultaneously self-puncturing career or not (and no one is neutral), there's one thing that's indisputable: He's wickedly funny. And nowhere is his humour sharper than in these previously uncollected...

Rare & Collectible Throughout India images of babies appear everywhere – on posters, in calendars and on billboards. But these are no ordinary babies – Chairman baby, Scientist baby, Farmer Baby – all make an appearance. Carriers of dreams, both personal and social, babies...

Facsimiles of 13 painted-out postcards following the life of St. Anthony with narrative captions opposite. Anthony of Padua was a Portuguese Catholic priest and member of the Order of Friars Minor. Known for his 13 miracles, He is especially invoked and venerated all over...

The 'X' mas Files is a random cross-section of extracts from postcards, folding cards and notes sent by Stephen Duncalf to Simon Cutts between 1994-1995. The title is a deliberate pun, as Simon Cutts writes  – a reference to ‘the eponymous movie in dubious taste’....

From the first ever sketch of the Red Cross logo by its founder Clara Barton to a cartoon scrawled on a love letter from Charles Bukowski, the objects in this fascinating collection are a perfect reflection of the eclectic and storied cast of characters...

Viktor Koretsky (1909–1998) was a leading Soviet artist and the acknowledged master of the Soviet photographic poster. With a long and prolific career that spanned the early Stalin era through to the onset of Glasnost, Koretsky produced some of the most memorable images of...

In the mid-1970s, Andrzej Klimowski's fearlessly original artwork caught the eye of leading Polish theatre and film companies, for whom he designed some of the period's most iconic posters. The London-born artist, who moved to Poland at a time when many East Europeans dreamed...

some forms of availability assembles speculative essays, reviews, interviews, and collected statements and texts by Simon Cutts, long-time publisher of Coracle Press. The book is concerned with the recent history of the book and the idea of publication arising from its occurrence in modernism,...

For more than 35 years, Coracle has produced artists' books, critical works, editions and ephemera. Printed in Norfolk tells the story of this contemporary small press in all its manifestations as printer, publisher, bookshop and gallery. The emphasis here is on the years 1989-2012, when,...

Photographer Eugène Atget is best known as a chronicler of a romantic, if disappearing, Paris around the turn of the 20th century. This book presents a series of postcards depicting Paris’s petits métiers, or little trades, exploring another side to Atget’s oeuvre. More or...

The Royal Academy Summer Exhibition has become a British institution, bringing the work of hundreds of artists to the public in the largest event of its kind in the world. The academy's archivist has compiled this collection of more than 70 posters designed to...