Quarto. (14)ff, loose. The introductory leaf provides the title in Farsi, and then in Farsi, French, and German attributes the work to "Jacques, an Armenian revolutionary printer," whose designs "illustrate the fascist regime now in Iran." The subsequent images are all signed "J. K. 76." Among the Armenian artists who have left a public record, the most plausible candidate is Jacques Karamanoukian (1940-2002), whose chief style merged outsider art and surrealism, and whose expressive brushstrokes here seem to echo his later, more abstract work. The political and social sensibilities which compelled Karamanoukian likewise suit the agenda of the present portfolio. Each illustration presents a harrowing image of the fascist conditions under Shah of the Imperial State of Iran, in the years just before the 1979 Iranian Revolution. Red text, in Farsi, surrounds the main figures in black. Many of the images show the victims of the state; many others explicitly link greed for money and oil to the corrupt government, with pipelines and derricks looming in various backgrounds. The United States' involvement is also criticized in the several instances of the dollar sign and one illustration of a hand identified as "USA" holding up a "king" parrot who says whatever the hand commands. Sheets rubbed marginally at corners, title sheet with crease to upper left corner and staining along left margin, else near fine. With original folder, which is unmarked save for a rubber stamp of "4.00." Unrecorded.