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Original Vintage Poster Destroy Invading Enemies China Propaganda Navy Torpedo
Located in London, GB
it holding up a copy of the Little Red Book of Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung with a red
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Vintage 1970s Chinese Posters

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Paper

Original Vintage Soviet Poster Inspired Workers Science Space Farming Military
Located in London, GB
centre holding an open book ????????? ???? / KPSS Programme in front of a hammer and sickle emblem on a
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Vintage 1960s Russian Posters

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Paper

Titan II Base
By Phillip Buehler
Located in New York, NY
visited NATO airbases, Cape Canaveral, the Airplane Graveyard, missile bunkers and silos (even within New
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2010s Contemporary Landscape Photography

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Photographic Paper

Vintage Orig Metallic Painting by O. E. L. Graves Extremely Rare Collectible
By O.E.L. Graves
Located in Palm Springs, CA
book by French photographer Robert Doisneau called “Palm Springs 1960” Mr Graves himself and his
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Mid-20th Century American Mid-Century Modern Paintings

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Metal

Nike Bunker
By Phillip Buehler
Located in New York, NY
Canaveral, the Airplane Graveyard, missile bunkers and silos (even within New York City’s borders) among
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2010s Contemporary Landscape Photography

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Archival Pigment

Strategic Air Command B-52
By Phillip Buehler
Located in New York, NY
airbases, Cape Canaveral, the Airplane Graveyard, missile bunkers and silos (even within New York City’s
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2010s Contemporary Figurative Photography

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Archival Pigment

B52 Field
By Phillip Buehler
Located in New York, NY
Canaveral, the Airplane Graveyard, missile bunkers and silos (even within New York City’s borders) among
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2010s Contemporary Figurative Photography

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Archival Pigment

Vietnam B-52
By Phillip Buehler
Located in New York, NY
airbases, Cape Canaveral, the Airplane Graveyard, missile bunkers and silos (even within New York City’s
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2010s Contemporary Color Photography

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Archival Pigment

Nuclear Warheads
By Phillip Buehler
Located in New York, NY
Canaveral, the Airplane Graveyard, missile bunkers and silos (even within New York City’s borders) among
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2010s Contemporary Figurative Photography

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Archival Pigment

Superstitious Aloysius
By Phillip Buehler
Located in New York, NY
Canaveral, the Airplane Graveyard, missile bunkers and silos (even within New York City’s borders) among
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2010s Contemporary Color Photography

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Archival Pigment

Tantalizing Takeoff
By Phillip Buehler
Located in New York, NY
Canaveral, the Airplane Graveyard, missile bunkers and silos (even within New York City’s borders) among
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2010s Contemporary Color Photography

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Archival Pigment

Sioux Warrior
By Phillip Buehler
Located in New York, NY
Canaveral, the Airplane Graveyard, missile bunkers and silos (even within New York City’s borders) among
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2010s Contemporary Color Photography

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Archival Pigment

Nike Bunker 30"x40" limited edition photograph
By Phillip Buehler
Located in New York, NY
. Buehler has visited NATO airbases, Cape Canaveral, the Airplane Graveyard, missile bunkers and silos (even
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2010s Contemporary Landscape Photography

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Archival Pigment

"Salt Shed" Contemporary Color Photograph
By Phillip Buehler
Located in New York, NY
NATO airbases, Cape Canaveral, the Airplane Graveyard, missile bunkers and silos (even within New York
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2010s Contemporary Color Photography

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Archival Pigment

B-52 Cockpit
By Phillip Buehler
Located in New York, NY
. Buehler has visited NATO airbases, Cape Canaveral, the Airplane Graveyard, missile bunkers and silos (even
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2010s Contemporary Figurative Photography

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Archival Pigment

Fallout Shelter, archival dye-sub print on aluminum
By Phillip Buehler
Located in New York, NY
, the Airplane Graveyard, missile bunkers and silos (even within New York City’s borders) among many
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2010s Contemporary Color Photography

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Metal

Smoke rises from shelled buildings in Douma, Syria – Seba Kurtis, Photography
Located in Zurich, CH
. Civilians claimed they were the victims of a chemical weapon attack. The assault prompted reprisal missile
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2010s Contemporary Color Photography

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Lambda

“Jester”
By Rolph Scarlett
Located in Southampton, NY
the American modernist tradition. In this beautifully illustrated book, Judith Nasby presents a
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1920s American Modern Mixed Media

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Oil Pastel, Watercolor, Gouache

“Jester”
“Jester”
H 7.19 in W 4.73 in D 0.5 in
Massimo Catalani Uvetta Raisins Grapes Original Mixed Media on Board
Located in Dayton, OH
restaurant and paints with wine for a charity auction. In 2008 he published “Nihil Nihilism”a book with the
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Late 20th Century Modern Paintings

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Paint

Massimo Catalani Arancio Con 3 Foglie Original Mixed Media on Board
Located in Dayton, OH
restaurant and paints with wine for a charity auction. In 2008 he published “Nihil Nihilism”a book with the
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Late 20th Century Modern Paintings

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Paint

WWII Pilot Dilbert in a Touring Car
By Robert Chesley Osborn
Located in Soquel, CA
"one of the very few masters of illustrative cartooning." In the introduction to the 1985 book "Osborn
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1960s Other Art Style Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

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Wax Crayon, Archival Paper

Original Vintage Poster Destroy Invading Enemies China Propaganda Navy Torpedo
Located in London, GB
it holding up a copy of the Little Red Book of Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung with a red
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1970s More Prints

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Paper

Original Vintage Soviet Poster Inspired Workers Science Space Farming Military
Located in London, GB
industries with a lady in the centre holding an open book Программа КПСС / KPSS Programme in front of a
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1960s More Prints

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Paper

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Original Vintage Australian Airline Travel Poster for Qantas - At Your Command!
By Mandson
Located in London, GB
Original vintage travel advertising poster for Qantas super service at your command! Australia's international airline Qantas Empire Airways Ltd in association with British Overseas ...
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Vintage 1950s Australian Posters

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Paper

Vintage Surrrealist Poster of Soviet Film by Nikita Mijalkov Cuba Reboiro 1979
Located in Miami, FL
1979 Cuban Silkscreen Poster for Soviet Film Pieza Inconclusa by Russian Director and Actor Nikita Mijalkov (b.1945). Surrealist silkscreen art work by Antonio Fernández Reboiro. ...
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Vintage 1970s Cuban Mid-Century Modern Posters

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Paper

Original Vintage Poster Team Lotus Ford 49 Formula One Car Racing F1 Motor Sport
Located in London, GB
Original vintage motor sport poster for Lotus-Ford 49 featuring a great illustration of a green and gold Lotus 49 car marked with the number 6 and Team Lotus logo on the side. Design...
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Vintage 1970s British Posters

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Paper

Original Vintage Propaganda Poster USA NATO Politics DDR Pershing Missile Rocket
Located in London, GB
Original vintage political propaganda poster published in the German Democratic Republic - Die im dunkeln sieht man doch! You can see those in the dark! - featuring a dark background...
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Vintage 1980s German Posters

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Paper

Original Vintage Communist Revolution Propaganda Poster All Power To The Soviets
By Alexei Kokorekin
Located in London, GB
Original vintage Soviet propaganda poster - We Overthrew Centuries of Oppression with a Mighty Hand! Great illustration depicting a man holding a bayonet rifle and wearing a worker's...
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Vintage 1940s Russian Posters

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Paper

Original Vintage Grand Prix F1 Motor Sport Poster Weltmeisterschaft Nurburgring
By V. Mundorff
Located in London, GB
Original vintage F1 motor sport poster advertising the Automobil-Weltmeisterschaft XVI. Grosser Preis Von Deutschland Nürburgring / Automobile World Cup XVI Grand Prix of Germany hel...
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Vintage 1950s German Posters

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Paper

Original Vintage Poster Red Army Cold War Soviet Propaganda Learn To Advance
Located in London, GB
Original vintage Cold War era Soviet propaganda poster - Learn to Advance Swiftly and Bravely! Dynamic artwork showing an infantry soldier in uniform holding his Kalashnikov automati...
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Vintage 1960s Russian Posters

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Paper

Original Vintage Poster 25th Anniversary Komsomol USSR WWII Soviet Propaganda
Located in London, GB
Original vintage World War Two Soviet propaganda poster - Long Live the 25th Anniversary of the Leninist-Stalinist Komsomol! Dynamic artwork depicting soldiers and workers marching f...
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Vintage 1940s Russian Posters

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Paper

Original Vintage USSR Cold War Poster America Psychological War Orchestra Bank
Located in London, GB
Original vintage Soviet anti-USA propaganda poster featuring the title text on a flag of America with red and white stripes and a skull and crossbones emblem instead of stars - Psych...
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1960s More Prints

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Paper

Original ENIT Travel Poster - Roma Mercato di Traiano Trajan's Market Rome Italy
By Vittorio Grassi
Located in London, GB
Original vintage travel advertising poster published by the Italian tourist board ENIT to promote the Trajan's Market / Mercato di Traiano ruins in the city of Rome built in 100-110A...
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Vintage 1920s Italian Posters

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Paper

Original Vintage Travel Advertising Poster by Wootton - Fly to Japan by BOAC
By Frank Wootton
Located in London, GB
Original vintage travel advertising poster: Fly to Japan by BOAC featuring a colourful scenic view by the notable British painter and illustrator Frank Wootton (1911-1998) of a Japan...
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Vintage 1950s British Posters

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Paper

Original Vintage Soviet Propaganda Poster Gagarin Space Pioneer Cosmonaut USSR
Located in London, GB
Original vintage Soviet propaganda poster - Our Motherland is the Pioneer of Space! / ???? ?????? ?????? ???????! Dynamic design featuring a smiling Yuri Gagarin (Yuri Alekseyevich G...
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Vintage 1960s Russian Posters

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Paper

Original Antique Poster by Hohlwein for Munich Zoo - Zoologischer Garten Munchen
By Ludwig Hohlwein
Located in London, GB
Original vintage travel advertising poster for Munich Zoo Park / Zoologischer Garten Munchen by the notable German graphic artist Ludwig Hohlwein (1874-1949). Stunning artwork featur...
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Vintage 1910s German Posters

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Paper

Original Vintage Poster Communist Future Science Space Rocket Soviet Propaganda
Located in London, GB
Original vintage Soviet propaganda poster - Let's Look into the Communist future Communism is created by the work of millions - featuring a dynamic and colorful design depicting illu...
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Vintage 1960s Ukrainian Posters

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Paper

Original Vintage Poster Red Army Cold War Soviet Propaganda Learn To Advance...!
Located in London, GB
Original vintage Cold War era Soviet propaganda poster - Learn to Advance Swiftly and Bravely! Dynamic artwork showing an infantry soldier in uniform holding his Kalashnikov automati...
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1960s More Prints

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Paper

Original Vintage USSR Cold War Poster America Psychological War Orchestra Bank
Located in London, GB
Original vintage Soviet anti-USA propaganda poster featuring the title text on a flag of America with red and white stripes and a skull and crossbones emblem instead of stars - Psych...
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Vintage 1960s Russian Posters

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Paper

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Original Vintage Soviet Cold War Propaganda Poster Peace Victory Solidarity USSR
Located in London, GB
signing a thick open book full of signatures from around the world with red flags behind them and two
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Vintage 1950s Russian Posters

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Paper

Cat's Cradle, Signed by Kurt Vonnegut, Easton Press Limited Edition, 2013
Located in Colorado Springs, CO
printing of Kurt Vonnegut’s Cat’s Cradle. The book was published by Easton Press in 2013 in a limited
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2010s American Modern Books

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Leather, Silk, Paper

1987 "the Ian Fleming Thriller Map" by Aaron Silverman and Molly Maguire
Located in Colorado Springs, CO
the book series. As shown, his escapades as a spy took him across four continents and many countries
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Vintage 1980s American Maps

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Paper

1987 "the Ian Fleming Thriller Map" by Aaron Silverman and Molly Maguire
Located in Colorado Springs, CO
the book series. As shown, his escapades as a spy took him across four continents and many countries
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Vintage 1980s American Maps

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Paper

S.S. Mariposa, Matson Steamship - Historical Maritime Seascape Illustration
Located in Soquel, CA
. This painting is the original illustration that appears in the 1947 book "Ships of the U.S. Merchant
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Mid-20th Century American Impressionist Landscape Paintings

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Tempera, Cardboard

S.S. Matsonia, Matson Steamship Hawaii - Mid Century Maritime Seascape
Located in Soquel, CA
painting is the original illustration that appears in the 1947 book "Ships of the U.S. Merchant Marine" by
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Mid-20th Century American Impressionist Landscape Paintings

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Tempera, Cardboard, Canvas

Original Vintage Soviet Cold War Propaganda Poster Peace Victory Solidarity USSR
Located in London, GB
three young men representing the USSR, China and Africa signing a thick open book full of signatures
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1950s More Prints

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Paper

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Book Missile For Sale on 1stDibs

On 1stDibs, you can find the most appropriate book missile for your needs in our varied inventory. There are many contemporary and modern versions of these works for sale. Making the right choice when shopping for a book missile may mean carefully reviewing examples of this item dating from different eras — you can find an early iteration of this piece from the 20th Century and a newer version made as recently as the 21st Century. Adding a book missile to a room that is mostly decorated in warm neutral tones can yield a welcome change — find a piece on 1stDibs that incorporates elements of black, gray, beige, blue and more. There have been many interesting book missile examples over the years, but those made by Phillip Buehler, Robert Chesley Osborn and Rolph Scarlett are often thought to be among the most thought-provoking. Artworks like these — often created in archival pigment print, pigment print and paper — can elevate any room of your home.

How Much is a Book Missile?

A book missile can differ in price owing to various characteristics — the average selling price for items in our inventory is $1,600, while the lowest priced sells for $800 and the highest can go for as much as $6,920.