Hardcover. New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1st, 2016, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 272 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Very clean, unmarked copy still in shrink wrap. Over 100 of Diane Arbus' early photographs in black and white. Tight copy. Diane Arbus (1923-1971) is one of the most distinctive and provocative artists of the twentieth century. Her photographs of children and eccentrics, couples and circus performers, female impersonators and nudists, are among the most recognizable images of our time. This book is the definitive study of the artist's first seven years of work, from 1956 to 1962. Drawn primarily from the rich holdings of the Metropolitan Museum's Diane Arbus Archive--a remarkable treasury of photographs, negatives, appointment books, notebooks, and correspondence--it is an essential contribution to our understanding of Arbus and her oeuvre.
New York, Watson-Guptill Publications, 1st, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 143 pages, illustrated throughout. A monograph on the artwork of James McMullan as well as a step-by-step guide to his approach to the design process with his reference materials, sketches, photographs of the artist at work, and the finished project. Introductory interview by Milton Glaser. Dust jacket edge wear and fade, minor foxing on top edge. Otherwise, very clean and tight copy.
Softcover. Tokyo, Fuji Television Gallery, 1st, 1982, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, staple-bound, 24 pages; in English and Japanese. Illustrated in b&w. Crease to top corner/pages of catalog, otherwise clean.
Softcover. Washington DC, Smithsonian Books, 1st, 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 512 pages plus index, b&w photographs, map end papers. Previous price sticker on back cover. Light edge wear to wrappers. Else a clean, tight copy. A unique reference for those interested in American heritage sculpture and architecture. This book was published in both paperback and clothbound editions. Photography by David Blume.
Hardcover. New York, Harper and Brothers, 1st, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards with a b&w cartoon featuring the Toonerville Trolley gang. Blue cloth spine. Clean and sharp. No credits, commentary or date but undoubtedly reprinted from his syndicated strip Toonerville Folks. There is an ink inscription on the front fly leaf dated 1922. In great overall condition, now protected by an acetate dust jacket.
Hardcover. London, B. T. Batsford Ltd, 1st, 1949, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 96 pages, with a foreword by A. E. Richardson, color and black & white illustrations and watercolors throughout. Dust jacket worn with fading and rubbing, closed tear on back cover, otherwise, internally very clean and tight.
Softcover. Montpelier VT, Wood Art Gallery, 1st, 1972, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 63 pages illustrated in b&w. Lists 79 works exhibited. Thomas Waterman Wood was an American painter born in Montpelier, Vermont. Essay by William Lipke. Exhibition held at Robert Hull Fleming Museum, Burlington, Vt., Sept. 11-Oct. 5; the Currier Gallery of Art, Manchester, N.H., Oct. 14-Nov. 12; and the Wiggin Gallery, Boston Public Library, Nov. 16-Dec. 10, 1972. Includes bibliographical references. Clean copy.
Capetown SA, Fernwood Press/Rembrandt van Rijn Art Foundation, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket with minor edgewear 156 pages. Irma Stern (1894-1966) became a renowned artist in South Africa, the country she chose to live and paint the diversity of life and objects. She painted numerous portraits and still life and Rose to fame as one of their great artists. Herart works are exhibitted around the world, and this book is an attempt to shed some lights on Irma Stern?s life and her paintings. Printed on high quality stock, this oversized volume is jampacked with some of her finest works. Clean copy.
Softcover. Seattle, WA, Fantagraphics, Reprint, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 136 pages. Softcover. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to wrapper edges. The Harvey- and Eisner-nominated anthology of action, thrills, chills and transgression is back with a third volume! Anything goes in Hotwire, eschewing literary high-mindedness for a pure, gut-wrenching viscerality that you can tune in and rest your brain on after a long day.
Softcover. New York, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, reprint, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 629 pages. B&w and color images throughout. Slight shelf wear to covers. Otherwise, tight clean copy.
Softcover. Salem MA, Peabody Museum, 1st, 1949, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, exhibition catalog. 36 pages illustrated throughout in b&w. Gray paper wrappers. Front cover lightly sunned, slight wear to edges, else a very nice, tight copy.
Hardcover. London, Pimpernel Press, 1st, 2019, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 216 pages, color plates. Interest in mid-20th century British artists and the world they inhabited is growing internationally--prices are rising and exhibitions proliferate. This biography focuses on the couple who were at the centre of the Modern British art scene: Cedric Morris (1889-1982) and Arthur Lett-Haines (1894-1978). Both men studied in Paris in the 1920s where they absorbed the work of the French Post Impressionists, Cubists and Surrealists. Later in London, Morris became a sought-after painter of flowers, birds and landscapes, and a friend of Augustus John and Ben Nicholson. Lett was hailed as Britain's first Surrealist. They gave fabulous parties attended by the cream of creative London. Morris and Haines founded the East Anglian School of Painting and Drawing in Suffolk, attended by Lucian Freud and Maggi Hambling. The atmosphere was described as 'robust and coarse, exquisite and sensitive all at once, also faintly dangerous.' The conversation was sometimes bawdy and bitchy but never boring. Lett-Haines, who ran the school, was a superb cook who swapped recipes with Elizabeth David. Cedric Morris became an award-winning plantsman and poppy iris breeder. He was an acknowledged influence on Beth Chatto, amongst others. like new.
Hardcover. Boston, J. Paul Getty Museum, 1st, 2011, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 112 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Very clean, unmarked copy still in publishers shrink-wrap. Photography as Fiction includes seventy-six color plates illustrating works from the J. Paul Getty Museum's collection that embrace theatricality and are unconcerned with documenting the world as it exists.
Softcover. New York, Nantier Beall Minoustchine, 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Unpaginated. Softcover. First volume of reprinting, covering 1924-1925. With an introduction by Bill Blackbeard. An unmarked, clean and tight copy with only light edge wear to wrappers.
Softcover. San Francisco, Stephen Wirtz Gallery, 1st, 1978, Book: Very Good, Softcover, plastic comb binding, Soft white and color illustrated wraps with gray and black lettering. Color plates. Interior pages printed on thick, gray paper. Includes text by Stephen Wirtz. INSCRIBED BY THE ARTIST on the inside cover. Created to announce the exhibition "Harold Paris: The 26 Days of John Little", held from February 7 through March 8, 1978 at Stephen Wirtz Gallery in San Francisco, CA. Clean, bright copy.
Hardcover. Palo Alto, Sunday Press , 1st, 2007, Hardcover, oversize format 21" x 16". Collected for the first time here are the best of King's early Gasoline Alley Sunday comics, starting from the very first Sunday in 1921, reprinted in the original size and colors. King's innovations in art, layout and storytelling brought a new warmth and style to the medium at the dawn of the Golden Age of newspaper comic strips. If you are interested in the development of this unique American art form, or simply love beautiful comics, this sumptuous volume is a masterpiece in comic art, and a must for your collection. Like McCay, Feininger, Herriman, and others of that era, King was a graphic innovator. His panoramic layouts, themed styling, and whimsical cartoon conceits explored new artistic methods. But he also had a great knowledge of story and character, presented with a warmth and humanity never seen before in comics, and rarely done as well since. He went beyond the gags and slapstick of his contemporaries to create vignettes of genuinely human characters; showing them relating to each other and, particularly in his Sunday comics, to the world around them.
Hardcover. Washington DC/New Haven CT, National Gallery of Art/Yale University Press, 1st, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 259 pages, hardcover with dust jacket. First major survey of Homer's watercolor career, part of a celebration of the 150th anniversary of Winslow Homer's birth. Mild rubbing to dust jacket. Color and black-and-white illustrations throughout. Unmarked. Bright and clean. A tight copy.
Hardcover. Seattle, Fantagraphics, 1st, 2025, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, large format, pictorial boards, 160 pages. The definitive collection of comics and illustration from 1892 to 1942 by James Swinnerton, one of the founding fathers of the American comic strip. This sumptuous volume covers Swinnerton's six-decade career in comics, from his beginnings as a sports/editorial cartoonist for William Randolph Hearst in San Francisco to his years in the America's Southwest desert, where his love for the land and its people came through in his comics and illustration. Jimmy! includes an illustrated biography and essays by co-editor Michael Tisserand and Eddie Campbell. The comic strips in this volume are carefully restored to their original colors and printed at near-full size. Swinnerton lovers will be delighted by the richness and variety of the works seen here. Those new to this uniquely American artist will likely join the growing numbers who appreciate his important role in the history of the comics. Clean, bright copy. DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.
Softcover. Louisville KY, Chicago Spectrum Press, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, b&w illustrations throughout. INSCRIBED BY HAMILTON on the front fly leaf. Ed Hamilton was raised on a street, in a neighborhood, that no longer exists. But Walnut Street and the now razed black professional district are vibrant and alive in this account of how one skinny black youth became a nationally acclaimed sculptor. This autobiography chronicles not just one man, but a way of life. It is filled with photos of art work now located all over the U.S., in private homes, public plazas, and prestigious museums.
Newport Beach CA, The Newporter Resort, 1986, Book: Very Good, This painting shows the entrance to the resort as a couple pass on their way to the tennis courts. Image size: 5 1/2* X 7", watercolor on texture white paper, signed. Unpublished.
Hardcover. New York, Prestel, 1st, 2015, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 496 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Color illustrations throughout. Clean, tight copy.
Softcover. Milan, Olivetti, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 155 pages. Numerous illustrations and color photos. This is a catalogue for an exhibition of the preparatory drawings made by Leonardo for The Last Supper. Professor Carlo Bertelli describes the history of the painting (and of the many copies made over the centuries, which form an important documentary record).
Hardcover. NY, Harry N Abrams, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. 208 pages illustrated in color. A surprising look at who designed for Disney: Michael Graves, Frank Gehry, Aldo Rossi, Robert Venturi etc. Based on interviews with those involved plus original photos and drawings. From fairy-tale castles to extraordinary buildings designed by the world's most distinguished architects, The Walt Disney Company has set new standards for the imaginative use of popular imagery in architecture. The company's enormously influential architectural philosophy, first expressed more than fifty years ago at Disneyland, draws on characters and settings from the world's most compelling legends and stories, especially Disney's own remarkable animated films. Clean copy.
Hardcover. Philadelphia, PA, Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 488 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Very clean, unmarked copy still in publishers shrink-wrap. Lavishly illustrated with more than 250 of Eakins's most significant paintings, watercolors, drawings, photographs, and sculpture, the book features essays by prominent scholars who place his art in the context of the history and culture of late nineteenth-century Philadelphia, where he lived.
Softcover. Cambridge MA, MIT Press, 4th pr., 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 82 pages, b&w illustrations. The collected writings of the "dean of the New York School of Abstract-Expressionist Painting." "The creative process lies not in imitating, but in paralleling nature; translating the impulse received from nature into the medium of expression, thus vitalizing this medium. The picture should be alive, the statue should be alive and every work of art should be alive." Thus Hans Hofmann wrote nearly half a century ago. He left the Old World, Germany, for the New, at the age of 50. In 1948, when the retrospective exhibition was held at the Addison Gallery of American Art, Hofmann was 68; he had been in the United States for 18 years, a citizen for seven years. Yet he was scarcely recognized in Europe or America as an artist of significance and had never had a full-scale retrospective exhibition of his work. Beginning with a group exhibition in Germany in 1909, he had been given 12 one-man shows and had been included in four group exhibitions before the exhibit at Andover. Subsequently, he was to have 33 one-man shows and to be in over 60 group exhibitions, including the 1960 Venice Biennale, in which he was one of the four artists chosen to represent America. Clean copy.
Chicago, CIty Files Press, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. A wonderful collection of amateur photographs. These personal snapshots form a pictorial history of everyday Americans from the last century. Unpaginated, 350 b&w and color images. Clean copy.
Hardcover. New York, George Braziller, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 231 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Very clean, unmarked copy with only minor edgewear. 124 color prints. 13 gatefold illustrations especially valuable: nearly 5 feet wide when opened. Textual material includes descriptions of each screen reproduced, a glossary, and short biographies of the artists whose work is presented.
Hardcover. London/NY, Chelsea House, 1st, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 274 pages. 378 illustrations, including many hand-mounted color plates. Catalogue raisonne of drawings and prints from 1958 to 1960. Folio. Brown cloth, gilt lettering to spine. A very clean, crisp and attractive copy in excellent condition. Small ownership sticker on front fly leaf. DUE TO WEIGHT, DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.
Softcover. Stackpole Books, 1st, 2016, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 147 pages, color illustrations. Published during the war's centennial, this is the story of the First World War through forty propaganda posters. Essays explain each poster, unpacking the visual imagery and setting the poster within the military, political, social, and cultural history of the war. Clean, bright copy.
Hardcover. New Haven CT, Yale University Press/Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, 1st, 2015, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 184 pages, 148 color plates. A landmark examination of iconic and provocative portraits by Warhol and Mapplethorpe, presented side by side and in depth for the first time.
Softcover. London, Tampa Museum of Art/ D Giles Ltd, 1st, 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 172 pages illustrated in color. This is a fascinating exploration of the incredible body of artwork produced at Graphicstudio, a print atelier based at the University of South Florida. Since its foundation in 1968, the studio has developed an international reputation, and this volume features over ninety modern artworks by thirty-four Graphicstudio artists, including Louise Bourgeois, Chuck Close, Jim Dine, Keith Edmier, Alex Katz, Guillermo Kuitca, Roy Lichtenstein, Christian Marclay, Vik Muniz, Robert Rauschenberg, James Rosenquist, Ed Ruscha, Kiki Smith, Janaina Tschape, and Theo Wujcik. It features interviews with current and past Graphicstudio directors as well as artists, including former Graphicstudio master printer Theo Wujcik. Clean copy. DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.
Hardcover. New Texture, 1st, 2022, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards, 135 pages. A prolific men's action magazine illustrator from the magazines' start in the 1950s until their passing from American newsstands in the 1970s, POLLEN IN PRINT's complete, chronological presentation of Pollen's contributions serves as its own visual history, illuminating both Pollen's growth as an artist, as well as the magazines' (and their readers') shifting focus and changing interests across three decades. Clean copy.
Hardcover. New York, Abbeville Press, 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, large format, 342 pages. "Each of the 300 posters included in Reel Art has been reproduced to the uncompromising standards of all Abbeville's fine art books. The selection of posters is world-class, many never been published, and the definite text, by screenwriter and film historian Stephen Rebello, tells the vastly entertaining story behind the posters and their creators." The four decades between 1910 and 1950 were the golden age of the American movie poster, an era when wonderful films wer promoted through the talents of legendary illustrators like Thomas Hart Benton, Norman Rockwell, Howard Chandler Christy and Jmes Montgomery Flagg, as well as a small army of unknowns. It was a time when big studios lavished fortunes on poster campaigns - from modest one-sheets posted on neighbourhood fences to the gargantuan forty-eight sheets that usurped entire sides of multi-storey buildings. Hollywood knew that the right image could seduce millions past the box office and into the theatre. Today such graphics fetch five-figure prices from collectors seeking a Casablanca or a King Kong.
Hardcover. London, Printed by the Proprietor and Sold by James Carpenter and Son, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, olive-colored morocco covers with gilt borders, spine with raised bands and gilt design and lettering. Attractive collection of Burnet's three principal works bound together with a general title page: Practical Hints on Composition in Painting (6th edition 1845), Practical Hints on Light and Shading in Painting (2nd edition 1927), and Practical Hints on Colour in Painting (2nd edition 1828). 25 pages of plates of which 8 are hand-colored. Bookplate on inside front cover, name on blank page opposite half-title dated 1917. Overall very good with minor rubbing to covers.
Hardcover. NY, George Braziller, 1st, 1973, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, red cloth covers stamped in gilt, in a black cardboard slipcase. Color illustrations throughout. This powerful and breathtakingly beautiful Book of Hours was designed in the fifteenth century by one of the greatest masters of expressionism in France at the time, and executed by him (together with members of his workshop) for a royal patron. A relatively unknown masterpiece, it emerged from artistic obscurity in 1904 to widespread acclaim and critical appreciation. As Millard Meiss points out in his Introduction: "The Rohan Master cared less about what people do than what they feel. . . .Whereas his great predecessors, the Boucicaut Master and the Limbourgs, excelled in the description of novel aspects of the natural world, he explored the realm of human feeling." Clean copy.
Hardcover. New York, Thames and Hudson, 1st, 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 288 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Minor soiling to front dust jacket cover. A very clean, unmarked copy with only minor edgewear to dust jacket. Hipgnosis created some of the most innovative and surreal cover art of the 1960s, 70s, and early 80s for the biggest names of the era-Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin, Wings, Yes, Genesis, 10cc, Peter Gabriel, Bad Company, Syd Barrett, and Black Sabbath, to name just a few. The sublime prism cover for Pink Floyd's The Dark Side of the Moon continues to be one of the most pervasive images in all popular culture. Hipgnosis's highly conceptual approach and graphic appeal earned them five Grammy nominations for cover design, and they profoundly influenced not only the history of music, but also all other creative fields from advertising to fashion.
Hardcover. NY, Grosset & Dunlap, 1st, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket with light edgewear. An uncommon collection of Rockwell's art, focusing mostly on the illustrations he did for the Brown & Bigelow calendars over the years. Others reprinted from the Saturday Evening Post. Inscription on front leaf otherwise a clean copy.
Hardcover. Bloomington, IN, Indiana University Press, 1st, 2016, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 152 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. A very clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket edges. A tight copy. As a photographer for Life and Fortune magazines, Margaret Bourke-White traveled to Russia in the 1930s, photographed the Nazi takeover of Czechoslovakia in 1938, and recorded the liberation of Buchenwald at the end of WWII. In 1949, Life sent her to South Africa to take photographs in a country that was becoming racially polarized by white minority rule. Life published two photo-essays highlighting Bourke-White's photographs, but much of her South African work remained unpublished until now. Here, these stunning photographs collected by Alex Lichtenstein and Rick Halpern offer an unparalleled visual record of white domination in South Africa during the early days of apartheid. In addition to these powerful and historically significant photographs, Lichtenstein and Halpern include two essays that explore Bourke-White's artistic and political formation and provide background material about the cultural, political, and economic circumstances that produced the rise and triumph of Afrikaner nationalism in South Africa. This richly illustrated book brings to light a large body of photography from a major American photographer and offers a compelling history of a reprehensible system of racial conflict and social control that Bourke-White took such pains to document.
Hardcover. San Francisco, Pomegranate, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Charles Burchfield's Seasons offers a wealth of visionary art rendered in his personal abstract stylistic shorthand that vividly expresses the moods and sounds of light and wind. Accompanied by quotations from Charles Burchfield's Journals, the color plates in this book resonate with the artist's vibrancy. Clean copy.
NY, Harper & Brothers, 1911, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Painting of a group of fishermen on deck watching a plane passing overhead. Approx. 10 X 13". Color art by PLEASE NOTE The image shown is a scan of the actual product you are purchasing. What you see is what you get. The sheet may have some imperfections beyond the cropped area shown. You are buying THIS PAGE ONLY- not the entire magazine. Your order will be placed carefully between stiff paper and an acetate overlay, then packed in a rigid cardboard sleeve to prevent bending.
Hardcover. New York, Atria Books, 1st Hardcover, 2016, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 416 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Remainder mark to bottom edge of textblock. Otherwise a very clean, unmarked copy with only minor edgewear to dust jacket. Black and white photographs. Tracing the highs and lows of fashion photography from the late 1940s to today, Gross vividly chronicles the fierce rivalries between photographers, fashion editors, and publishers like Conde Nast and Hearst, weaving together candid interviews, never-before-told insider anecdotes and insights born of his three decades of front-row and backstage reporting on modern fashion. An unprecedented look at an eccentric and seductive profession and the men and women who practice it on the treacherous shifting sands of pop and fashion culture, Focus depicts--perhaps most importantly--the rewards and cost, both terribly high, of translating an artist's vision of beauty for an often cold and cruel commercial reality.
NY, Harper and Brothers, 1911, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Painting of locomotive bearing down on railroad crossing with a carriage in it's lights. A night scene, art by William Hernden Foster. Approx. 10 X 13". PLEASE NOTE The image shown is a scan of the actual product you are purchasing. What you see is what you get. The sheet may have some imperfections beyond the cropped area shown. You are buying THIS PAGE ONLY- not the entire magazine. Your order will be placed carefully between stiff paper and an acetate overlay, then packed in a rigid cardboard sleeve to prevent bending.
Hardcover. New York, Aperture, 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 144 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. A very clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. Black and white photographs throughout. A tight copy.
Softcover. Pittsburgh PA, Museum of Art/Carnegie Institute, 1st, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 53 pages, 5 color plates, many b&w illustrations. A complete catalogue of his graphic prints selected by Gene Baro. SIGNED BY HOUSE in pencil on front cover. Exhibition catalog.
NY, ADC Publications, 1st, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, pictorial boards. illustrated in b&w and color. Clean, bright copy. DUE TO WEIGHT, DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.
Hardcover. New York, Harper Design, 1st, 2018, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 160 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. A very clean, unmarked copy with only minor edgewear. A tight copy. Over 125 color illustrations, memorabilia, plus a framable print in the back.
Hardcover. Raleigh NC, TwoMorrows Publishing, 1st, 2024, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in glossy pictorial boards, 263 pages illustrated in color. This 1945-49 volume covers the comic book industry during the aftermath of World War II, when scores of writers and artists returned from foreign battlefields to resume their careers. It was a period when readers began turning away from the escapist entertainment offered by super-heroes in favor of other genres, like the grittier, more brutal crime comics. It was a time when Joe Simon and Jack Kirby created Young Romance, inaugurating a golden age of romance comics. And it was during this five-year period that Timely and National Comics capitalized on the popularity of Westerns, that Bill Gaines plotted a new course for EC Comics in the wake of his father's death, and that Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster first sued for the rights to Superman. These are just a few of the events chronicled in this exhaustive, full-color hardcover, further documenting the ACBC series' cohesive, linear overview of the entire landscape of comics history! Like new.
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