Vintage Posters: Five Rare Books for Collectors
Mantell's Marionette Hippodrome/Fairyland Transformation (Newport, Donaldson Litho, ca. 1910s)
Highlights of the Potter & Potter Vintage Posters auction on March 26 include:
Job (Paris: F. Champenois, 1898)
Classic Art Nouveau advertising poster by Alphonse Mucha (1860 – 1939) showing a woman with a cigarette rolled with Job papers
Peaceful Paradise Valley/Northern Pacific Railway (St. Paul, Brown & Bigelow, c. 1940)
Photo-offset poster advertising the railway's "pioneer live stock transportation line of the Northwest," featuring a bucolic sheep-herding image by J.C. Haberstroh
You Take the High Road - I'll Take the Railroad/Southern Pacific (c. 1938)
Railroad advertising poster, offset lithograph, from Southern Pacific's ad campaign based on the famous Scottish song
Discover France by Train/The Basque Coast (Paris, Hubert Baille & Cie, 1955)
Bright color offset lithograph French Railways poster with Bernard Villemot (1911-1989) illustration of a golf fairway and endless beaches of the Basque region
Mantell's Marionette Hippodrome/Fairyland Transformation (Newport: Donaldson Litho, ca. 1910s)
Color stone lithograph horizontal poster advertising the puppet show featuring "seventeen gorgeous drop curtains" and "forty-five elegant talking acting figures."
