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General books on posters

Surveys

• The Power of the Poster, M. Timmers, 1998; UK
• Posters American Style, T. Thau Heyman, 1998; UK
• Graphic Design in the Mechanical Age: Selections from the Merrill C. Berman Collection, 1998; UK
• Poster Art (Design Library Series), S. Knapp, 1996
• Designer Posters, 1996

History

• History of the poster, Josef and Shizuko Mueller-Brockmann, reprint 2004 UK, FR
• Graphic Style: From Victorian to Post-Modern, S. Chwast, 1994
• A History of Graphic Design, P.B. Meggs, 2.ed. 1992
• A History of Graphic Design, P.B. Meggs, 3.ed. 1998
• Posters a Concise History by J. Barnicoat, 1985

19th / early 20th century posters

• Designed to Sell: Turn-Of-The Century American Posters in the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, 1997
• Fun Without Vulgarity: Victorian and Edwardian Popular Entertainment Posters, C. Haill, 1997
• Bon Voyage!: Travel Posters of the Edwardian Era, J. Wigg, 1996
• The Complete Masters of the Poster: All 256 Color Plates, S. Appelbaum, 1990
• Poster Calendar 1897 Edward Penfield, Calendar, 1989
• Turn of the Century Poster Designs, E. Sibbett, 1979
• American Advertising Posters of the Nineteenth Century, M. Black, 1976

Books arranged by topic

Movie posters

• Film Posters of the 60s: The Essential Movies of the Decade, T. Nourmand, 1998; UK
• Film Posters of the 70s: Essential Movies of the Decade, T. Nourmand, 1998
• El Cartel De Cine En Espana: The Film Poster in Spain 1910-1965, P. Baena Palma, 1998
• Poster Art from the Golden Age of Mexican Cinema, R. Agrasanchez, 1998
• What It Is... What It Was!; The Black Film Explosion of the '70s, G. Martinez, 1998; UK
• More Cowboy Movie Posters, B. Hershenson, 1998
• Academy Award Winners' Movie Posters, B. Hershenson, 1997
• Cowboy Movie Posters, B. Hershenson, 1997
• Cartoon Movie Posters, B. Hershenson, 1997
• Crime Movie Posters, B. Hershenson, 1997
• Sports Movie Posters, B. Hershenson, 1997
• Stenberg Brothers: Constructing a Revolution in Soviet Design, C. Mount, 1997
• Crime Scenes: Movie Poster Art of the Film Noir: The Classic Period 1941-1959, L. Bassoff, 1997
• Collecting Movie Posters : An Illustrated Reference Guide to Movie Art-Posters, Press Kits, and Lobby Cards, E.A. & S.T. Poole, 1997
• The Lost Artwork of Hollywood: Classic Images from Cinema's Golden Age, F.E. Basten, 1996
• The Disney Poster: The Animated Film Classics, 1995
• Errol Flynn: The Movie Posters, L. Bassoff, 1995
• A Separate Cinema: Fifty Years of Black-Cast Posters, J. Kisch, 1992
• German Film Posters, 1895-1945 (Film Television-Sound Archives Series, Vol 3), B. Stach, 1992
• Posters of Gdr-Films 1945-1990 (Film-Television-Sound Archive, Vol. 2) , B. Stach, 1990
• Forties Film Talk: Oral Histories of Hollywood, With 120 Lobby Posters, D. McClelland, 1992
• Reel Art: Great Posters from the Golden Age of the Silver Screen (Tiny Folio), S. Rebello, 1992
• Movie Posters of the Silent Film Era, R. Schneider, 1983

Political posters and war posters

• Design for Victory: World War II Posters on the American Home Front, H.R. Rubenstein, 1998
• Both Sides of Peace: Israeli and Palestinian Political Poster Art, D. Bartelt, 1998
• Iconography of Power: Soviet Political Posters Under Lenin and Stalin, V.E. Bonnell, 1997; UK
• Chinese Propaganda Posters: From Revolution to Modernization, S. Landsberger, 1996
• Decade of Protest: Political Posters from the United States Vietnam Cuba 1965-1975, S. Martin, 1996
• Shouts from the Wall: Posters and Photographs Brought Home from the Spanish Civil War, C. Nelson, 1996
• Graphic Agitation: Social and Political Graphics Since the Sixties, L. McQuiston, 1993
• Persuasive Images: Posters of War and Revolution from the Hoover Institution Archives, P. Paret, 1992
• The Bolshevik Poster, S. White, 1990
• The First World War in Posters, from the Imperial War Museum, London; J. Darracot, 1974

Rock and music posters

• Cal 99 the Fillmore Posters, Calendar, 1998
• Cal 99 Rolling Stones Calendar: Concert Posters 1969-1998, Calendar, 1998
• The Art of the Fillmore 1966-1971, G. Lemke, 1997
• The Art of Rock: Posters from Presley to Punk, P.D. Grushkin, 1993

Graphic design, typography

• Milton Glaser Graphic Design, M. Glaser, J.M. Folon, 1998
• Typography Now Two: Implosion, R. Poynor, paperback edition, 1998
• A History of Graphic Design, P.B. Meggs, 3.ed. 1998
• Typography : An Encyclopedic Survey of Type Design and Techniques, F. Friedel, 1998
• Graphic Design Sources, K. Hiebert, Armin Hofmann, 1998
• Graphic Design in the Mechanical Age: Selections from the Merrill C. Berman Collection, E. Lupton, 1998
• British Modern: Graphic Design Between the Wars, S. Heller, 1998
• 6 Chapters in Design (Bass, Chermayeff, Glaser, Rand, Tanaka, Meggs), P.B.Meggs, 1997
• Design Literacy: Understanding Graphic Design, S. Heller, 1997
• French Modern: Art Deco Graphic Design, S. Heller, 1997
• Graphic Design of the Deco Espana: Twenties and Thirties, S. Heller, 1997
• David Carson, 2nd Sight: Grafik Design After the End of Print, 1997
• Jan Tschichold: A Life in Typography, R. McLean, 1997
• The End of Print: The Graphic Design of David Carson, 1996
• Japanese Modern: Graphic Design Between the Wars, J. Fraser, 1996
• A Smile in the Mind: Witty Thinking in Graphic Design, B. McAlhone, 1996
• Streamline: American Art Deco Graphic Design, S. Heller, 1995
• Dutch Modern: Graphic Design from De Stijl to Deco, S. Heller, 1994
• Graphic Design: A Concise History, R. Hollis, 1994
• Graphic Style: From Victorian to Post-Modern, S. Heller, Seymour Chwast, 1994
• Italian Art Deco: Graphic Design Between the Wars, S. Heller, 1993
• A History of Graphic Design, P.B. Meggs, 1992
• AGI Annals, F.H.K. Henrion, 1989

Various topics

• The Theater Posters of James McMullan, J. McMullan, 1998
• The Art of Whisky, a deluxe blend of historic posters, J. Murray, 1998, UK
• The Olympic Images: The First 100 Years, W. Yew, 1997
• American Circus Posters in Full Color, C.P. Fox, 1979

Books arranged by country

China

• Chinese Propaganda Posters: From Revolution to Modernization, S. Landsberger, 1996

Cuba

• Decade of Protest: Political Posters from the United States Vietnam Cuba 1965-1975, S. Martin, 1996

France

• French Modern: Art Deco Graphic Design, S. Heller, 1997

Germany

• German Film Posters, 1895-1945 (Film Television-Sound Archives Series, Vol 3), B. Stach, 1992
• Posters of Gdr-Films 1945-1990 (Film-Television-Sound Archive, Vol. 2) , B. Stach, 1990

Great Britain

• British Modern: Graphic Design Between the Wars, S. Heller, 1998
• Fun Without Vulgarity: Victorian and Edwardian Popular Entertainment Posters, C. Haill, 1997
• Bon Voyage! Travel Posters of the Edwardian Era, J. Wigg, 1996

Israel and Palestine

• Both Sides of Peace: Israeli and Palestinian Political Poster Art, D. Bartelt, 1998

Italy

• Italian Art Deco: Graphic Design Between the Wars, S. Heller, 1993

Japan

• Japanese Modern: Graphic Design Between the Wars, J. Fraser, 1996

Mexico

• Poster Art from the Golden Age of Mexican Cinema, R. Agrasanchez, 1998

Morocco, Tunisia

• The Orientalist Poster : A Century of Advertising Through the Slaoui Foundation Collection

Netherlands

• Dutch Graphic Design: A Century, K. Broos, reprint 1998
• Dutch Modern: Graphic Design from De Stijl to Deco, S. Heller, 1994

Poland

• Contemporary Polish Posters in Full Color, J.S. Czestochowski, 1980

Russia

• Iconography of Power: Soviet Political Posters Under Lenin and Stalin, V.E. Bonnell, 1997; UK
• Stenberg Brothers: Constructing a Revolution in Soviet Design, C. Mount, 1997
• Film posters of the Russian avant-garde: Postcard book, S. Pack (1996)
• The Bolshevik Poster, S. White, 1990

Spain

• El Cartel De Cine En Espana: The Film Poster in Spain 1910-1965, P. Baena Palma, 1998
• Graphic Design of the Deco Espana: Twenties and Thirties, S. Heller, 1997
• Shouts from the Wall: Posters and Photographs Brought Home from the Spanish Civil War, C. Nelson, 1996

USA

• Posters American Style, T. Thau Heyman, 1998; UK
• Cal 99 the Fillmore Posters, Calendar, 1998
• Collectors Guide to Early Twentieth Century American Prints, M. Ivankovich, 1998
• Design for Victory: World War II Posters on the American Home Front, H.R. Rubenstein, 1998
• Designed to Sell: Turn-Of-The Century American Posters in the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, 1997
• James Montgomery Flagg: Uncle Sam and Beyond, G. Manchur, 1997
• Decade of Protest: Political Posters from the United States Vietnam Cuba 1965-1975, S. Martin, 1996
• Streamline: American Art Deco Graphic Design, S. Heller, 1995
• Posters of the WPA, C. Denoon, 1987
• American Advertising Posters of the Nineteenth Century, M. Black, 1976

Vietnam

• Decade of Protest: Political Posters from the United States Vietnam Cuba 1965-1975, S. Martin, 1996

Yearbooks, periodicals

• Poster Annual 2003, B.M. Pedersen, 2003
• Poster Annual 2002, B.M. Pedersen, 2002
• Poster Annual 1999, B.M. Pedersen, 1999
• Graphis Poster 98, B.M. Pedersen, 1998
• Graphis Poster 97, B.M. Pedersen, 1997
• Graphis Poster 96, B.M. Pedersen, 1996
• Graphis Poster 95, B.M. Pedersen, 1995
• Graphis Poster 93, B.M. Pedersen, 1993

• Creation No 20 (Pericoli, Walkuski, Hibino, Wolf, Czerniawski), Y. Kamekura, 1994
• Creation No 19 (Tai-keung, Vanderbyl, Taniguchi, Perestroika, Hara, Rosocha, Aoba, Kelley), Y. Kamekura, 1994
• Creation No 18 (Dorfsman, Troxler, Ishioka, Bass, Starowieyski, Lubalin), Y. Kamekura, 1994
• Creation No 17 (Giusti, Ott+Stein, Kunz, Huber, Sumichrast, Endo), Y. Kamekura, 1993
• Creation No 16 (Nitsche, Asaba, Stenberg, Lenica, Kehl), Y. Kamekura, 1993
• Creation No 10 (Sadowski, Takino, Stermer, Glaser, Matsunaga), Y. Kamekura, 1993
• Creation No 6 (Lutens, K2, Tomaszewski, Holland, Mendell), Y. Kamekura, 1993

• The 76th Art Directors Annual (1998)

• Graphic Design USA 19, The annual of the AIGA (1999)

• The 41st Tokyo Art Directors Club Annual (1998)

• Typography 24 : The Annual of the Type Directors Club (2003)
• Typography 23 : The Annual of the Type Directors Club (2002)
• Typography 22 : The Annual of the Type Directors Club (2001)
• Typography 21 : The Annual of the Type Directors Club (2000)
• Typography 20 : The Annual of the Type Directors Club (1999)
• Typography 19 : The Annual of the Type Directors Club (1998)
• Typography 18 : The Annual of the Type Directors Club (1997)
• Typography 17 : The Annual of the Type Directors Club (1996)
• Typography 16 : The Annual of the Type Directors Club (1995)
• Typography 15 : The Annual of the Type Directors Club (1994)

Calendars, postcards

• Cal 99 the Fillmore Posters, Calendar, 1998
• Cal 99 Rolling Stones Calendar: Concert Posters 1969-1998, Calendar, 1998
• Film posters of the Russian avant-garde : Postcard book, S. Pack (1996)
• Penfield Poster Postcards/24 Full-Color Cards, 1992
• Six Poster Cat Postcards, J. Spero, 1992
• Six Poster Clown Postcards, C.P. Fox, 1992
• Six Circus Poster Postcards, H. Cirker, 1991
• Six Patriotic Posters Postcards, J. Spero, 1990
• Mucha Poster Postcards in Full Color, 1986

Price guides, poster collecting

• Collectors Guide to Early Twentieth Century American Prints, M. Ivankovich, 1998
• Warren's Movie Poster Price Guide, J.R. Warren, 1997
• Miller's Collecting Prints & Posters, J. Gleason, 1997
• Railroad Timetables, Travel Brochures & Posters: A History and Guide for Collectors, B.F. Lomazzi, 1995
• Prints, Posters, and Photos: Identification and Price Guide, S. Theran, 1993
• The Official Identification and Price Guide to Rock and Roll, D.K. Henkel, 1992

Books on poster designers

• Herbert Bayer: The Complete Work, A.A. Cohen, 1988
• Aubrey Beardsley, S. Calloway, 1998
• Best Works of Aubrey Beardsley, 1990
• The Beggarstaff Posters: James Pryde and William Nicholson, C. Campbell, 1993
• Will Bradley: His Graphic Art, R.W. Wong, 1974
• Will H. Bradley: A Bibliographical Guide, A. Bambace, 1995
• Will H. Bradley: A Reference Guide, A. Bambace, 1995
• Cassandre: Les Maitres De L'Affiche, A. Weill, 1996
• Posters of Jules Cheret: 46 Full-Color Plates & and Illustrated Catalogue Raisonne, L. Broido, 1992
• Seymour Chwast, The Left-Handed Designer, S. Chwast, 1985
• Roman Cieslewicz, M. Rouard-Snowman, 1993
• Paul Colin's Lithographs of Josephine Baker and La Revue Negre, H.L. Gates, 1998
• Graphic Trade Symbols by German Designers, from the 1907 Klingspor Catalog, Fritz Hellmuth Ehmcke, 1974
• James Montgomery Flagg: Uncle Sam and Beyond, G. Manchur, 1997
• Beware Wet Paint, Alan Fletcher, 1996
• Abram Games graphic designer - Maximum meaning, minimum means, N. Games, 2003
• Milton Glaser Graphic Design, M. Glaser, J.M. Folon, 1998
• David Lance Goines Posters: 1970-1994, D.L. Goines, 1994
• John Heartfield: AIZ/ VI 1930-38, D. Evans, 1992
• Thomas Theodor Heine: Fin-De-Siecle Munich and the Origins of Simplicissimus, T.W. Hiles, 1996
• The J.C. Leyendecker Collection: American Illustrators Poster Book, K. Steine, 1995
• The Theater Posters of James McMullan, J. McMullan, 1998
• Mucha Poster Postcards in Full Color, 1986
• Alphonse Mucha: An American Collection, A. Bennett, 1997
• Mucha: The Triumph of Art Nouveau, A. Ellridge, 1996
• Maxfield Parrish: The-Poster-Book, A.M. Gilbert, 1994
• Penfield Poster Postcards/24 Full-Color Cards, 1992
• Poster Calendar 1897 Edward Penfield, Calendar, 1989
• Design Form and Chaos, Paul Rand, 1993
• Zero - Hans Schleger, a life of design, P. Schleger, 2001
• The Graphic Art of Michael Schwab, M. Schwab, 2001
• Tanaka Ikko: Graphic Master, G.C. Calca 1998
• Toulouse-Lautrec: Posterbook, 1996
• Jazz Blvd. Niklaus Troxler posters FR
• Jan Tschichold: A Life in Typography, R. McLean, 1997

General books | Arranged by topic | Arranged by country | Yearbooks | Calendars, postcards | Price guides | Designers