Art

Hardcover. New York, Abbeville Press, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 328 pages, illustrated throughout with 213 plates in color and b&w. Maroon cloth with white title to spine, pictorial dust jacket. Beautiful copy. Like new. The rich artistic and social history of the Arts and Crafts movement in California, as well as the highly collectible objects it produced. In a brief but intensely prolific period between about 1895 and 1930. Essays by Leslie Greene Bowman, Bruce Kamerling, Cheryl Robertson, Joseph A. Taylor, David C. Streatfield, Karen J. Weitze and Richard Guy Wilson.

Hardcover. NY, Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1st, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket with short repaired tear, 155 pages illustrated in color and b&w. Skippy was a comic strip drawn by Percy Crosby-considered by many to be one of the classics of the American newspaper strip. This excellent book contains a biography of Crosby as well as a generous selection from Skippy. Introduction by Jules Feiffer. Clean copy.

Hardcover. University of Nebraska Press, 1st, 2016, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 512 pages. Historians, biographers, and scholars of John James Audubon and natural history have long been mystified by Audubon's 1843 Missouri River expedition, for his journals of the trip were thought to have been destroyed by his granddaughter Maria Rebecca Audubon. Daniel Patterson is the first scholar to locate and assemble three important fragments of the 1843 Missouri River journals, and here he offers a stunning transcription and critical edition of Audubon's last journey through the American West. Patterson's new edition of the journals--unknown to Audubon scholars and fans--offers a significantly different understanding of the very core of Audubon's life and work. Readers will be introduced to a more authentic Audubon, one who was concerned about the disappearance of America's wild animal species and yet also loved to hunt and display his prowess in the wilderness. This edition reveals that Audubon's famous late conversion to conservationism on this expedition was, in fact, a literary fiction. Maria Rebecca Audubon created this myth when she rewrote her grandfather's journals for publication to make him into a visionary conservationist. In reality the journals detail almost gratuitous hunting predations throughout the course of Audubon's last expedition.

Hardcover. NY, Thames & Hudson, 1st, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 208 pages, color illustrations. Introduction by Paul Theroux. This album of over 200 century-old postcards takes the reader on a magical journey across the world in five travelogues, depicting the Orient, the Arab lands, Africa, the Americas and Oceania. These haunting postcards and the people they depict strike us with a special force today, vividly expressing a deep-seated connection with the land and customs that gave them their identities. Clean, bright copy in a dust jacket.

Hardcover. New York, Morrow, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 160 pages. Illustrated in full color. Still in shrink wrap. Beautifully illustrated with 68 full color reproductions, several double page spreads and two foldouts. Impressive paintings of cowboys, Indians, buffalo, cavalry, mountain men, immigrant wagons, spectacular rock formations and vistas, etc. McCarthy was a successful book cover and movie poster illustrator before becoming one of our finest Western artists.

Hardcover. UK, Sona Books, 1st, 2024, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in pictorial boards, 141 pages in color. Famous for the Birkin Bag and Silk Scarf and beloved by the great, the good and the uber glamorous - Hermes boasts an instantly recognizable signature style all of its own. This book, beautifully illustrated with images of some of the world's iconic fashion items, charts the story of Hermes origins and how the brand became the symbol of French luxury and craftsmanship and the influential, innovative haute couture power house it is today. Clean, bright copy.

Softcover. NY, Jaap Rietman, 1st, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 88 pages. Profusely illustrated in b&w. Essay by David Bourdon, with additional text by Barbara Rose. Designed by Richard S. Haymes. With a chronology, exhibition history and bibliography. This is the substantial catalogue published in conjunction with a 1978 circulating American Museum retrospective exhibition of sixteen sculptures and sculptural installations executed between 1959 and 1977 by minimal pioneer Carl Andre. Clean copy.

Softcover. San Francisco, Chronicle Books, 1st, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 132 pages, color illustrations. Culling more than 150 of the most colorful and sometimes unbelievable posters from 1957-1990. Includes an illuminating bilingual essay discussing the posters' creation, the role of cinema in Mexican popular culture, and the ups and downs of its film industry.

Hardcover. Baden, Lars Muller, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-Paginated. Full color examples of optical illusions. Features center fold-out, and 3-D glasses and Reflector in rear pouch. Small abrasion on front of dust jacket. Clean, bright copy.

Softcover. NY, Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1st pbk., 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 218 pages with 256 b&w illustrations. From cover: "describes the ideals that inspired an earlier generation to leave city and factory in order to practice crafts ranging from bookbinding and metalwork to furniture making." Mild curl to cover, otherwise very good, clean.

Softcover. NY, Reporter Publications, Inc., 1957, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover magazine. Articles on Elvis with drawings by Felix Topolski, Sugar Ray Robinson, Maria Callas, touring cars, building your own golf course, writing by W. Eugene Smith, James Beard, and others. And men's fashion, of course. Red spine faded. Clean.

Hardcover. West Plains MO, Russ Cochran, 1st, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards. Numbers 1-6, all reproduced in full color. Very good.

Hardcover. New York, Dodd, Mead, 1st, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. Non-paginated. Features black & white cartoons by Barney Tobey. Dust jacket with short closed tears along edges. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. NY, Pantheon Books, 1st, 1966, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 12th volume of the A.W. Mellon lectures in the fine arts. The Bollingen Series XXXV. Profusely illustrated with b/w plates. Arntzen calls this book `a good critical treatment of the development of the Renaissance portrait.' Light edgewear to dust jacket.

Softcover. NY, Pantheon Books, 1st US, 1979, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 232 pages, illustrated throughout in b&w. Light sun-fade to spine, otherwise a clean, tight copy.

Softcover. New York, Hudson Hills, 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 130 pages, color and b&w photographs. Exhibition catalogue dedicated to the contemporary Navajo artist and her weaving of Chant Rugs; a majority of the 83 textiles (shown in color plates) that have been selected are a well-balanced demonstration of the very finest weaving skills of any period in Navajo history.

Hardcover. Philadelphia, J.B. Lippincott Company, 1st US, 1908, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Two hardcover volumes. Rebound in three-quarter red morocco gilt and cloth, with raised bands along spine. Top edges gilt. Many black & white illustrations with tissue guards. Light rubbing to spine edges at hinges. Rubbed, chipping at cover corners. Clean, tight copies. DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.

Hardcover. Seattle, Fantagraphics, 1st, 2024, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards, Forged in the crucible of the Korean War, and produced by veterans of the Second World War, this volume's eight issues present the brutality and grimness of armed combat by some of Atlas' most notable war artists and future comics stars including Gene Colan, Russ Heath, Joe Maneely, Dave Berg, Jay Scott Pike, Mike Sekowsky, Vern Henkel, Allen Bellman, Pete Morisi and Norman Steinberg.Propaganda abounds from the very first story, published in War Comics #1 in September 1950: "Peril in Korea," a primer explaining why the USA joined the conflict. Other highlights include Colan's "The Chips are Down" and "Victory," Heath's "Alone" and "No Survivors," Maneely's "Stormy Weather," Henkel's "Total Destruction," and Berg's "The Infantry's War."Originally a trial spun off from the publisher's "Men's Adventure" publications, in the nine years to follow, Atlas went on to produce 533 comic book issues with war content, across 34 different titles. War Comics is where it all began - unseen in decades, scanned from the original books, restored and packaged as one large, beautiful hardcover volume. Clean, bright copy.

Hardcover. Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 1st, 1946, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, Hardcover, 131 pages of text followed by 126 plates, several in color. Foxing to endpapers. Dust jacket age darkened with chipping and small tears along edges. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. Seattle, Fantagraphics Books, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 168 pages illustrated in color and b&w. Fantagraphics's third volume collecting Segar's original Popeye (Thimble Theatre) covers 1932-1934 includes the never-republished extra-large strips set at the Chicago World's Fair and an insightful scholarly essay by Donald Phelps.

Hardcover. New York, Sterling Publishing, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 183 pages. Hardcover. Full color illustrations. Light wear. Clean, tight copy. The term pulp fiction has always had a certain resonance; but it is the artwork--bold, energized, dramatic, garishly colorful, and frequently grotesque--that has made pulp magazines memorable to so many people. Pulp Art is the groundbreaking--and ultimate--book on one of America's most important and spectacular forms of illustration art. At last, preserved in this volume are most of the still-existing originals created for the pulp covers, never before seen in all their sharply focused, vibrantly colored brilliance. Robert Lesser, a pioneering collector of this work and an expert on American popular culture, has assembled a gallery of these now-priceless originals. The dynamically pulp-flavored text is a complete historical survey of the pulps and their most important cover artists--Virgil Finlay, J. Allen St. John, Rafael de Soto, Hannes Bok, George and Jerome Rozen, Frank R. Paul, and many others. Also offered are critical discussions of individual paintings, as well as the major themes of the pulp magazines.

Hardcover. Washington DC, Smithsonian Institution Scholarly Press , 1st, 2009, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. At least since the Renaissance, artists have created wonderful images of themselves. Some self-portraits are the equivalent of a painter's "signature," while others were inspired by the need to establish social status or gain a commission. In the twentieth century, however, self-representation turned inward, becoming a means by which artists sought to navigate passageways of the mind. In Reflections/Refractions, some of the greatest modern artists--including Andy Warhol, Edward Hopper, Grant Wood, Jasper Johns, Robert Rauschenberg, Jacob Lawrence, Louise Bourgeois, David Hockney, Alexander Calder, and Alex Katz--use sinuous line and gorgeous color to trace the intricacies of their personalities, whether dark and gloomy or bright and fanciful. The book is at once a catalog of twentieth-century self-portraits in the collection of the National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, and an exploration of how modern artists view themselves and the world. Eighty color illustrations--drawings and paintings--are accompanied by lively and informative captions, making this volume an endlessly fascinating book. Clean copy.

Leicester VT, Gala Books, 1st, 2019, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 218 pages. Includes 3 essays: Hiding in Plain Sight: Decoding the Homoerotic and Socio-Political Imagery of Grant Wood.Charles Sheeler and Albert Einstein: Pioneers in the Exploration of Spacetime!The Case for Reattributing George H. Durrie's "Genre" Paintings to James Goodwyn Clonney.

Hardcover. Princeton NJ, Princeton University Press, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 279 pages. Hardcover. Extensive color illustrations throughout. Includes extensive notes and appendices. Gilt titles on spine. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Hardcover. NY, Doubleday and Co., 1st, 1964, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, glossy boards with Picasso art on covers, white cloth spine with gilt lettering.. Illustrated with 282 photos including 52 in full color by Quinn. No wraparound title band or acetate jacket. Mild soil to covers, name on front fly leaf, front hinge partially cracked, otherwise clean. DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.

Softcover. Ostfildern GR, Hatje Cantz, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 114 pages illustrated in color and b&w, catalog of an exhibition held at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, January 24-April 1, 2001. Clean copy.

Softcover. Seattle WA, University of Washington Press, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover. Like new in publisher's shrink-wrap. A biography of the celebrated documentary photographer, Milton Rogovin, and catalogue that accompanied an exhibition at the Center for Creative Photography, Tucson, in 2006. Rogovin (1909-2011) was an optometrist in Buffalo, NY, who turned to photography as a means of expression when he was discredited -- and thereafter lost his business -- by the HUAC committee in 1952. For the rest of his life he documented the lives of the working class around the world. Photographs by Milton Rogovin; text by Melanie Anne Herzog; foreword by Douglas R. Nickel; afterword by Catherine Linder Spencer. 176 pages; 126 duo-toned b&w plates + 21 text illustrations; 9 x 11 inches. Bibliography.

Hardcover. London, Phaidon Press Limited, 1st Edition, 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Text Volume - 450 pages. Hardcover. Blue cloth boards with gilt titles & gilt decorations to cover, spine. Frontis illustration, Parement Master and Workshop: Annunciation, Paris, in full color, tipped-in. Previous owner's signature to front flyleaf. Dust jacket with foxing, toning, now protected with plastic cover. Light foxing to edges. Otherwise very good, clean condition.Plate Volume - Hardcover, blue cloth boards with gilt titles & decorations. 845 plates, 12 full page, full color, tipped-in & beautifully presented. Dust jacket with light foxing, now protected with plastic cover. Light foxing to edges. Bright, clean copy.

Hardcover. Cambridge MA, MIT Press, 1st, 2019, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards, 256 pages. Philosophical and biographical accounts of Antonin Artaud's late visual work, all reproduced in color. Antonin Artaud (1896-1948)-stage and film actor, director, writer, and visual artist-was a man of rage and genius. Expelled from the Surrealist movement for his refusal to renounce the theater, he founded the Theater of Cruelty and wrote The Theater and Its Double, one of the key twentieth-century texts on the topic. Artaud spent nine years at the end of his life in asylums, undergoing electroshock treatments. Released to the care of his friends in 1946, he began to draw again. This book presents drawings and portraits from this late resurgence, all in color. Accompanying the images are texts by by Artaud's longtime friend and editor Paule Thevenin and the philosopher Jacques Derrida. Still in publisher's shrinkwrap.

Hardcover. New York, Artisan, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 207 pages. Black & white and color illustrations by William Steig. Introduction by John Updike. A study of the life and work of the eminent cartoonist, New Yorker cover artist, and humorist. Steig also served as art director of the New Yorker.

Hardcover. NC, TwoMorrows Publishing, 2nd printing, 2015, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 254 pages. Hardcover no dust jacket. Clean, unmarked copy in excellent condition. Color and black and white illustrations. Explores the fascinating life of Will Eisner , detailing a more than 70-year career in which he spearheaded comics for adult readers and created the first widely accepted graphic novel, A Contract with God.

Hardcover. Essex, Pequot Press, First Edition, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 69 pages. Hardcover. Gray cloth boards with gilt titles to spine. Black & white illustrations throughout. Frontis illustration, The Harpist, A Portrait of Miss Florence by Alphonse Jonghers, tipped-in & in full color. Dust jacket with same full color image on bright blue background. Dj has age related wear to edges. Clean, unmarked. A nice copy.

Hardcover. NY, Palgrave Macmillan , 6thpr., 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 268 pages, color illustrations. Why would a smart New York investment banker pay $12 million for the decaying, stuffed carcass of a shark? By what alchemy does Jackson Pollock's drip painting No. 5, 1948 sell for $140 million? Intriguing and entertaining, The $12 Million Stuffed Shark is a Freakonomics approach to the economics and psychology of the contemporary art world. Why were record prices achieved at auction for works by 131 contemporary artists in 2006 alone, with astonishing new heights reached in 2007? Don Thompson explores the money, lust, and self-aggrandizement of the art world in an attempt to determine what makes a particular work valuable while others are ignored.

Hardcover. NY, Abrams, 1st, 1991, Large hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Uncommon monograph regarding British ornithological painter Basil Ede with contributions by H.R.H. The Prince Philip, Walter H. Annenberg, and Jack Warner plus an essay by Robert McCracken Peck. Includes 103 color plates including one foldout as well as 15 b/w illustrations. Clean copy.

Softcover. New York, Pantheon, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 136 pages. Softcover. Black and white comic. Light edgewear to wrappers. Meet David Boring: a nineteen-year-old security guard with a tortured inner life and an obsessive nature. When he meets the girl of his dreams, things begin to go awry: what seems too good to be true apparently is. And what seems truest in Boring's life is that, given the right set of circumstances (in this case, an orgiastic cascade of vengeance, humiliation and murder) the primal nature of humankind will come inexorably to the fore.

Paperback. np, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Unpaginated. Delicate softcover in green wraps, with white spine. 9.5" x 15". Cover is faded with some rubbing. 18 prints on rice paper from the urns at the Mieu Temple in Vietnam. No date or publisher.

Hardcover. NY, Farrar Straus Giroux, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 181 pages. "In the 1960's and 1970's, American professor Norton Dodge forayed on his own in the Soviet Union, bought the work of underground 'unofficial' artists, and brought it out himself or arranged to have it shipped illegally to the United States. John McPhee investigates Dodge's clandestine activities in the service of dissident Soviet art, his motives for his work, and the fates of several of the artists whose lives he touched. The Ransom of Russian Art is a suspenseful, chilling, and fascinating report on a covert operation like no other". Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Weybright and Talley, 1st US, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, lavender cloth with gilt tile on spine, 338 pages. Previous owner's name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean. No dust jacket but flaps laid-in.

Hardcover. New York, DC Comics, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 218 pages in color. Like new in publisher's shrink-wrap. Will Eisner's classic 1940s crimefighter returns! This second volume finds America about to enter World War II -- and the Spirit facing Fifth Columnists, spies and saboteurs, as well as meeting the series' first great femme fatale, Silk Satin! These highly atmospheric stories, which ran weekly in newspapers, range from humorous to darkly moody.

Hardcover. New York, William Morrow & Company, Inc., 1st, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, pages. History and analysis of the American artistic phenomenon of Superrealism. Contains 72 color plates and 68 black/white plates as well as notes on particular artists. Very good condition; no internal marks, slight wear on the edges of the dust jacket.

Hardcover. Seattle, Fantagraphics Books, 1st, 2024, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, oversize format, pictorial boards. Vintage glamour girl artist extraordinaire Bill Ward gets the full Fantagraphics Studio Edition treatment featuring Ward's most polished, fully-realized pinups from the 1950s and 1960s.Bill Ward's glamour girls were the staples of countless men's and humor magazines, where they shared the pages with cult models like Bettie Page, Tina Louise, and Julie Newmar, and cartoons by fellow "good girl" artists such as Archie's Dan Decarlo and Playboy's Jack Cole. What set Ward apart-and above-his talented contemporaries in terms of sheer image-making was his use of the conte crayon. When drawn on simple newsprint stock, this potent combination created Ward's trademark gossamer sheen on his women's thigh-high stockings. This Fantagraphics Studio edition showcases the best of Ward's Humorama work and includes a healthy number of what became known as his "telephone girls." Tame by today's standards, Ward's telephone girls were always caught in candid moments when they just happened to be talking on the phone dressed in gossamer lingerie in innocently provocative poses. The majority of the images in this volume were drawn between 1955 and 1965 when Ward was at the height of his skill. They have been scanned in super high-resolution from original art and reproduced to highlight every sheen and accentuate every curve to its fullest. The book not only reproduces more than 150 of Ward's most beautifully rendered illustrations, but also serves as a time capsule to a more innocent moment in pop culture when these images were shocking. DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.

Softcover. Collection du Musee Reattu , 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 110 pages, 4to in French wraps. Color and b&w reproductions. Clean, bright copy. FRENCH TEXT.

Hardcover. Washington DC, National Portrait Gallery, 1st, 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. Like new in publisher's shrink-wrap. For this exclusive collection of postcards, David Bailey, one of the worlds most distinguished and distinctive photographers, has chosen a selection of images from his archive some familiar, others previously unseen. This box of 36 portraits, reminiscent of Baileys acclaimed Box of Pin - Ups (1965), demonstrates the extraordinary range of people that he has captured during his long career;

Hardcover. London, Frederick Muller Limited, 1st, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 224 pages. White cover with gilt lettering to spine, color illustrated dust jacket, 32 pages of 87 color plates of stain glass in England. Light wear to dust jacket; overall a clean, tight copy.

Softcover. Venice, Cataloghi Marsilio, 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 140 pages. TEXT IN ITALIAN. A catalog of drawings and architectural watercolor sketches done by Le Corbusier on a trip to Italy in 1907. His career spanned five decades, with his buildings constructed throughout Europe, India, and America. He was a pioneer in studies of modern high design and was dedicated to providing better living conditions for the residents of crowded cities. (1907) - Catalogo della Mostra. Clean copy.

Softcover. San Francisco, Rip Off Press, 3rd pr., 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, oblong format with yellow pictorial covers. Some light fading to spine, a few small ink notations on inside rear cover, otherwise bright, clean copy. Originally published in 1977 in this format, this is the revised and enlarged edition of August 1982.

Hardcover. New York, Rizzoli International Publications, 1st, 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 352 pages. Hardcover. Extensive color photographs throughout. Silver gilt titles on spine. Reminder mark to bottom edge, otherwise clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. This exceptional album features over two hundred images by the most important modern and contemporary photographers, including David Bailey, Henry Clarke, Patrick Demarchelier, Karl Lagerfeld, Annie Leibovitz, Helmut Newton, David Sims, Bert Stern, Juergen Teller, Mario Testino, and Bruce Weber. This book features images from iconic Vuitton advertising campaigns from the 20s through to the present, with magazine editorials from publications including Vogue, Harpers Bazaar, Interview, and others.

Hardcover. Charlottesville VA, University Press of Virginia, 1st, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 553 pages, 348 full-page portraits in b&w. Includes a catalogue of 3,800 silhouettes by the artist. Very good in a crisp, unclipped dust jacket. Auguste Edouart was the most prolific silhouettist ever to work in this country. Arriving from France in 1839, he traveled throughout the United States contracting enough projects in six years to fill over fifty albums; at the same time he created a biographical record of the most famous Americans of the period. This volume contains the most, and the best, of Edouard's silhouettes every to appear under a single cover.

Hardcover. Seattle, Fantagraphics Books, 1st, 2025, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards. 424 pages, color throughout. After becoming a professional comics artist in 1948 at the age of 17, by 21 Al Williamson was well-regarded enough as a Western and science-fiction illustrator to be recruited for the EC Comics staff roster - the absolute peak of the field in the 1950s, and a team rarely challenged since. After the Comics Code forced EC to reduce their business, Williamson found himself at the door of Atlas Comics, the largest employer of freelancers in the field.From 1955-60, Williamson would draw 99 stories for Atlas (both solo and with help by "Fleagle Gang" studio cohorts Angelo Torres and Roy Krenkel, plus Gray Morrow and Ralph Mayo) in mostly western and fantasy genres, with a smattering of war, romance and "jungle girl adventure". He flourished on Westerns, freely and loosely rendered four-page morality plays, many scripted economically by Stan Lee. With his extensive oeuvre subsequently based mostly in newspaper strips (including Flash Gordon, Secret Agent Corrigan, and the syndicated Star Wars, at George Lucas' own request), or working largely as an inker, his Atlas stories collectively are the largest single body of work Williamson would ever do as a primary creator for one company. Fantagraphics is proud to present this Al Williamson Artist Edition to finally showcase this distinct period of his remarkable career. Clean, bright copy. DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.