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Banned Books V
Banned Books V

Banned Books V

By Max Steven Grossman

Located in Boca Raton, FL

Banned Books Bookscape

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Color Photography

Materials

Photographic Paper

BANNED Books (framed)
BANNED Books (framed)

Karyn MannixBANNED Books (framed), 2022

$2,400

H 24 in W 18 in D 1.5 in

BANNED Books (framed)

By Karyn Mannix

Located in East Hampton, NY

hard to photograph image BANNED Books (comes framed in white frame) Art size is 24x18 framed 26x20 Grease Pencil on Photograph Unique Wall Display image is to show how it looks fram...

Category

2010s Pop Art Mixed Media

Materials

Mixed Media, Photographic Paper

Box of Banned (Books) 2/3
Box of Banned (Books) 2/3

Karyn MannixBox of Banned (Books) 2/3, 2024

$1,000

H 10.5 in W 6.5 in D 2.5 in

Box of Banned (Books) 2/3

By Karyn Mannix

Located in East Hampton, NY

As Seen at Art on Paper Art Fair 2024 at The Mannix Project East Hampton NY Box of BANNED (Books) contains 100 banned books. On the front of each piece is the book cover.

Category

2010s Pop Art Mixed Media

Materials

Mixed Media, Photographic Paper

BANNED Books
BANNED Books

Karyn MannixBANNED Books, 2023

$4,400

H 40 in W 30 in D 1.5 in

BANNED Books

By Karyn Mannix

Located in East Hampton, NY

BANNED Finished Dimensions: 43.5''x33.5''x1.5" Grease Pencil on 40"x30" Photograph mounted on acid-free foamboard Unique Very hard to photograph due to paper shine & grease pencil s...

Category

2010s Contemporary Mixed Media

Materials

Mixed Media

Banned Books
Banned Books

Banned Books

By Max Steven Grossman

Located in Boca Raton, FL

Max Steven Grossman’s seemingly disparate studies in engineering and art have helped mold his work into a study of reality and imagination. In his "Bookscapes" series he digitally re...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Color Photography

Materials

Photographic Paper

BANNED limited edition print
BANNED limited edition print

BANNED limited edition print

By Karyn Mannix

Located in East Hampton, NY

Ships flat and unframed Pricing 1-20 $450 21-40 $500 40-50 $550 Other themes: All Creatures Big & Small BANNED (Books) BANNED Too BANNED: Teach Your Children Well Cookery De...

Category

2010s New Media More Prints

Materials

Archival Paper

Murals of Tibet. Limited, signed by HH The Dalai Lama with Shigeru Ban bookstand
Murals of Tibet. Limited, signed by HH The Dalai Lama with Shigeru Ban bookstand

Murals of Tibet. Limited, signed by HH The Dalai Lama with Shigeru Ban bookstand

By Thomas Laird

Located in Los Angeles, CA

SUMO-sized Collector’s Edition limited to 918 copies (No. 81–998), each signed by His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama, with a bookstand designed by Pritzker Prize-winning architect and ...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Italian Tibetan Books

Materials

Gold Leaf

Murals of Tibet. Limited ed book, signed by HH The Dalai Lama. Shigeru Ban stand
Murals of Tibet. Limited ed book, signed by HH The Dalai Lama. Shigeru Ban stand

Murals of Tibet. Limited ed book, signed by HH The Dalai Lama. Shigeru Ban stand

By Thomas Laird

Located in Los Angeles, CA

SUMO-sized Collector’s Edition limited to 918 copies (No. 81–998), each signed by His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama, with a bookstand designed by Pritzker Prize-winning architect and ...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Italian Tibetan Books

Materials

Gold Leaf

Ulysses by James Joyce, First Authorized American Edition, 1934
Ulysses by James Joyce, First Authorized American Edition, 1934

Ulysses by James Joyce, First Authorized American Edition, 1934

By James Joyce

Located in Colorado Springs, CO

Woolsey rejected the claims of obscenity and that “a book must be judged not from reading select passages but as a result of the whole book… a decision that admitted the novel into t...

Category

Vintage 1930s American Books

Materials

Paper

Thomas Laird's Murals of Tibet Signed by the Dalai Lama with Bookstand
Thomas Laird's Murals of Tibet Signed by the Dalai Lama with Bookstand

Thomas Laird's Murals of Tibet Signed by the Dalai Lama with Bookstand

By Shigeru Ban, TASCHEN, Thomas Laird

Located in Vancouver, BC

A World Heritage landmark, this SUMO-sized publication presents the most precious surviving murals of Tibetan Buddhist culture. For the first time, these astonishing and intricate ma...

Category

2010s German Tibetan Books

Materials

Paper

Antique Fingerprint Mirror (Stand not included)

Antique Fingerprint Mirror (Stand not included)

By Valerie Huhn

Located in New York, NY

I started researching banned books and learned that, in 2023, most of the challenges to books in over 100 school districts were made by just 11 people.

Category

2010s Conceptual Figurative Sculptures

Materials

Ink, Mixed Media

Fingerprint Book Sculpture: 'Between the World and Me" by Ta-Neshisi Coates

Fingerprint Book Sculpture: 'Between the World and Me" by Ta-Neshisi Coates

By Valerie Huhn

Located in New York, NY

I started researching banned books and learned that, in 2023, most of the challenges to books in over 100 school districts were made by just 11 people.

Category

2010s Contemporary Still-life Sculptures

Materials

Mixed Media

Fingerprint book Sculpture: "Against the Loveless World" by Susan Abulhawa
Fingerprint book Sculpture: "Against the Loveless World" by Susan Abulhawa

Fingerprint book Sculpture: "Against the Loveless World" by Susan Abulhawa

By Valerie Huhn

Located in New York, NY

I started researching banned books and learned that, in 2023, most of the challenges to books in over 100 school districts were made by just 11 people.

Category

2010s Contemporary Still-life Sculptures

Materials

Mixed Media

Fingerprint Book Sculpture: 'The Prophet" by Kahll Gibran
Fingerprint Book Sculpture: 'The Prophet" by Kahll Gibran

Fingerprint Book Sculpture: 'The Prophet" by Kahll Gibran

By Valerie Huhn

Located in New York, NY

I started researching banned books and learned that, in 2023, most of the challenges to books in over 100 school districts were made by just 11 people.

Category

2010s Contemporary Still-life Sculptures

Materials

Mixed Media

Fingerprint Book Sculpture: 'When Things Fall Apart" by Pema Chödrön
Fingerprint Book Sculpture: 'When Things Fall Apart" by Pema Chödrön

Fingerprint Book Sculpture: 'When Things Fall Apart" by Pema Chödrön

By Valerie Huhn

Located in New York, NY

I started researching banned books and learned that, in 2023, most of the challenges to books in over 100 school districts were made by just 11 people.

Category

2010s Contemporary Still-life Sculptures

Materials

Mixed Media

Fingerprint Book Sculpture: 'The Handmaid's Tale" by Margaret Atwood

Fingerprint Book Sculpture: 'The Handmaid's Tale" by Margaret Atwood

By Valerie Huhn

Located in New York, NY

I started researching banned books and learned that, in 2023, most of the challenges to books in over 100 school districts were made by just 11 people.

Category

2010s Contemporary Still-life Sculptures

Materials

Mixed Media

Fingerprint-pinned sneakers: "Fingerprint-pinned Racing Spikes"
Fingerprint-pinned sneakers: "Fingerprint-pinned Racing Spikes"

Fingerprint-pinned sneakers: "Fingerprint-pinned Racing Spikes"

By Valerie Huhn

Located in New York, NY

I started researching banned books and learned that, in 2023, most of the challenges to books in over 100 school districts were made by just 11 people.

Category

2010s Conceptual Figurative Sculptures

Materials

Ink, Mixed Media

Original Vintage Poster Man As Industrial Palace Body Steampunk Fritz Kahn
Original Vintage Poster Man As Industrial Palace Body Steampunk Fritz Kahn

Original Vintage Poster Man As Industrial Palace Body Steampunk Fritz Kahn

By Fritz Kahn

Located in London, GB

Fritz Kahn was most noted for his info-graphic works and regarded the human body as "the most competent machine in the world" but his books were banned and publicly burned when the N...

Category

Vintage 1920s German Posters

Materials

Paper

Recent Sales

"Der Mensch als Industriepalast" Poster by Fritz Kahn, 1926
"Der Mensch als Industriepalast" Poster by Fritz Kahn, 1926

"Der Mensch als Industriepalast" Poster by Fritz Kahn, 1926

By Fritz Kahn

Located in New York, NY

Kahn was a Jewish intellectual, doctor and popular science fiction writer who is renowned for his five-volume series Das Leben des Menschen (The Life of Man). In the 1930s his books ...

Category

Vintage 1920s German Posters

Materials

Paper

Life with an Idiot
Life with an Idiot

Life with an Idiot, 1992

Unavailable

H 36.25 in W 32.5 in

Life with an Idiot

Located in New York, NY

Erofeyev was born in Moscow in 1947 and as the son of a high-ranking Soviet diplomat spent part of his childhood in Paris, where he had access early on to books banned in the Sovie...

Category

1990s Suprematist Prints and Multiples

Materials

Paper

Shigeru Ban Complete Works 1985-2010, Art Edition
Shigeru Ban Complete Works 1985-2010, Art Edition

Shigeru Ban Complete Works 1985-2010, Art Edition

Sold

H 15.4 in W 12.1 in L 15.4 in

Shigeru Ban Complete Works 1985-2010, Art Edition

By Philip Jodidio

Located in Los Angeles, CA

Shigeru Ban (b. Tokyo, 1957) attended SciArc in California and earned his degree at the Cooper Union School of Architecture in New York.

Category

Late 20th Century Italian Books

"Lovely Mary Jane" Post-Modern painting inspired by The Bluest Eye, Toni Morison
"Lovely Mary Jane" Post-Modern painting inspired by The Bluest Eye, Toni Morison

"Lovely Mary Jane" Post-Modern painting inspired by The Bluest Eye, Toni Morison

By Anthony Mastromatteo

Located in Sag Harbor, NY

This painting was inspired by one of the top 10 banned books across the country, Toni Morrison’s “The Bluest Eye” which is about a young black girl who wishes she had blue eyes, an e...

Category

2010s Post-Modern Still-life Paintings

Materials

Oil, Board

Fingerprint Book Sculpture: '1984" by Geroge Orwell
Fingerprint Book Sculpture: '1984" by Geroge Orwell

Fingerprint Book Sculpture: '1984" by Geroge Orwell

By Valerie Huhn

Located in New York, NY

I started researching banned books and learned that, in 2023, most of the challenges to books in over 100 school districts were made by just 11 people.

Category

2010s Contemporary Still-life Sculptures

Materials

Mixed Media

Fingerprint Book Sculpture: 'Letter's to a Young Poet"
Fingerprint Book Sculpture: 'Letter's to a Young Poet"

Fingerprint Book Sculpture: 'Letter's to a Young Poet"

By Valerie Huhn

Located in New York, NY

I started researching banned books and learned that, in 2023, most of the challenges to books in over 100 school districts were made by just 11 people.

Category

2010s Contemporary Still-life Sculptures

Materials

Mixed Media

Original Vintage Poster Man As Industrial Palace Industriepalast Steampunk Kahn
Original Vintage Poster Man As Industrial Palace Industriepalast Steampunk Kahn

Original Vintage Poster Man As Industrial Palace Industriepalast Steampunk Kahn

By Fritz Kahn

Located in London, GB

Fritz Kahn was most noted for his info-graphic works and regarded the human body as "the most competent machine in the world" but his books were banned and publicly burned when the N...

Category

Vintage 1920s German Posters

Materials

Paper

Original Vintage Graphic Poster Der Mensch Als Industriepalast Ft Industrial Man
Original Vintage Graphic Poster Der Mensch Als Industriepalast Ft Industrial Man

Original Vintage Graphic Poster Der Mensch Als Industriepalast Ft Industrial Man

By Fritz Kahn

Located in London, GB

Fritz Kahn was most noted for his info-graphic works and regarded the human body as "the most competent machine in the world" but his books were banned and publicly burned when the N...

Category

Vintage 1920s German Posters

Materials

Paper

Original Vintage Poster Der Mensch Als Industriepalast Man As Industrial Palace
Original Vintage Poster Der Mensch Als Industriepalast Man As Industrial Palace

Original Vintage Poster Der Mensch Als Industriepalast Man As Industrial Palace

By Fritz Kahn

Located in London, GB

Fritz Kahn was most noted for his info-graphic works and regarded the human body as "the most competent machine in the world" but his books were banned and publicly burned when the N...

Category

Vintage 1920s German Posters

Materials

Paper

Sir Thomas More Large British Historical Portrait Painting
Sir Thomas More Large British Historical Portrait Painting

Sir Thomas More Large British Historical Portrait Painting

Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire

More remained a passionate defender of Catholic orthodoxy - writing pamphlets against heresy, banning unorthodox books, and even taking responsibility when chancellor for the interro...

Category

16th Century Old Masters Portrait Paintings

Materials

Acrylic

BANNED Books (framed)
BANNED Books (framed)

Karyn MannixBANNED Books (framed), 2022

Sold

H 24 in W 18 in D 1.5 in

BANNED Books (framed)

By Karyn Mannix

Located in East Hampton, NY

hard to photograph image BANNED Books (comes framed in white frame) Art size is 24x18 framed 26x20 Grease Pencil on Photograph Unique Wall Display image is to show how it looks fram...

Category

2010s Pop Art Mixed Media

Materials

Mixed Media, Photographic Paper

BANNED Books (framed)
BANNED Books (framed)

Karyn MannixBANNED Books (framed), 2022

Sold

H 24 in W 18 in D 1.5 in

BANNED Books (framed)

By Karyn Mannix

Located in East Hampton, NY

hard to photograph image BANNED Books (comes framed in white frame) Art size is 24x18 framed 26x20 Grease Pencil on Photograph Unique Wall Display image is to show how it looks fram...

Category

2010s Pop Art Mixed Media

Materials

Mixed Media, Photographic Paper

BANNED Books (framed)
BANNED Books (framed)

Karyn MannixBANNED Books (framed), 2022

Sold

H 24 in W 18 in D 1.5 in

BANNED Books (framed)

By Karyn Mannix

Located in East Hampton, NY

hard to photograph image BANNED Books (comes framed in white frame) Art size is 24x18 framed 26x20 Grease Pencil on Photograph Unique Wall Display image is to show how it looks fram...

Category

2010s Pop Art Mixed Media

Materials

Mixed Media, Photographic Paper

BANNED l (framed)
BANNED l (framed)

Karyn MannixBANNED l (framed), 2021

Sold

H 26 in W 20 in D 1 in

BANNED l (framed)

By Karyn Mannix

Located in East Hampton, NY

BANNED Books *Very hard to photograph due to paper shine & grease pencil shine.

Category

2010s Pop Art Mixed Media

Materials

Mixed Media, Photographic Paper

All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque First Edition
All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque First Edition

All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque First Edition

By Erich Maria Remarque

Located in valatie, NY

The author was a German veteran of World War I and describes the German soldiers' extreme physical and mental stress during the war, and the detachment from civilian life felt by man...

Category

Vintage 1920s American Books

Materials

Paper

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Art PG
Art PG

Max Steven GrossmanArt PG, 2022

$17,000

H 48 in W 100 in

Art PG

By Max Steven Grossman

Located in Boca Raton, FL

Art books bookscape

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Still-life Photography

Materials

Plexiglass, Photographic Paper

Fashion FR
Fashion FR

Fashion FR

By Max Steven Grossman

Located in Boca Raton, FL

Fashion books

Category

2010s Contemporary Color Photography

Materials

Photographic Paper

Poets (framed)
Poets (framed)

Karyn MannixPoets (framed), 2024

$2,400

H 24 in W 18 in D 1.5 in

Poets (framed)

By Karyn Mannix

Located in East Hampton, NY

As Seen at Art on Paper Art Fair 2024 at The Mannix Project East Hampton NY hard to photograph image POETS (comes framed in white frame) Art size is 24x18 framed 26x20 Quotes from t...

Category

2010s Pop Art Mixed Media

Materials

Mixed Media, Photographic Paper

Sing A Song (framed)
Sing A Song (framed)

Karyn MannixSing A Song (framed), 2024

$1,600

H 24 in W 18 in D 1.5 in

Sing A Song (framed)

By Karyn Mannix

Located in East Hampton, NY

As Seen at Art on Paper Art Fair 2024 at The Mannix Project East Hampton NY hard to photograph image Sing A Song l (comes framed in white frame) Art size is 24x18 framed 26x20 Also ...

Category

2010s Pop Art Mixed Media

Materials

Mixed Media, Photographic Paper

New York: It's a Helluva Town (framed) lll
New York: It's a Helluva Town (framed) lll

New York: It's a Helluva Town (framed) lll

By Karyn Mannix

Located in East Hampton, NY

hard to photograph image New York: It's a Helluva Town (comes framed in white frame) Art size is 24x18 framed 26x20 Grease Pencil on Photograph Unique *installation photo is for sca...

Category

2010s Pop Art Mixed Media

Materials

Mixed Media, Photographic Paper

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Banned Books For Sale on 1stDibs

On 1stDibs, there are several options of banned books available for sale. Finding the ideal contemporary or Pop Art examples of these works for your living room, whether you’re looking for small- or large-size pieces, is no easy task — start by shopping our selection today. These items have long been popular, with older editions for sale from the 20th Century and newer versions made as recently as the 21st Century. Adding a colorful piece of art to a room that is mostly decorated in warm neutral tones can yield a welcome change — see the banned books on 1stDibs that include elements of gray, black, beige and more. Many versions of these artworks are appealing in their rich colors and composition, but Valerie Huhn, Karyn Mannix and Max Steven Grossman produced especially popular works that are worth a look. Each of these unique pieces was handmade with extraordinary care, with artists most often working in mixed media, paper and photographic paper.

How Much are Banned Books?

Prices for pieces in our collection of banned books start at $25 and top out at $20,000 with the average selling for $2,500.