Hardcover. NY, Metro Books, reprint, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, unpaginated but approx. 400 pages. Originally published in 3 separate volumes. In a bright dust jacket with light edgewear.
Hardcover. NY, E.P. Dutton, 1st, 1953, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 94 pages of b&w cartoons. In a very good, unclipped dust jacket that has fading to spine. Cartoons by George Wolfe, John Gallagher, Dick Cavalli, Mort Walker, others.
Hardcover. NY, Charles Scribner's, 1st, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 159 pages. A collection of b&w cartoons that originally ran in The New Yorker. In a bright, unclipped dust jacket.
Hardcover. Seattle, Fantagraphics Books, 1st, 2016, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards, 696 pages illustrated in color, b&w. Tells of Fantagraphics Books' key role in helping build and shape an art movement around a discredited, ignored and fading expression of Americana the way insiders share the saga with one another other: in anecdotal form, in the words of the people who lived it and saw it happen. Comics historian and critic Tom Spurgeon and longtime Comics Journal editor Michael Dean assemble an all-star cast of industry figures, critics, cartoonists, art objects, curios, and groundbreaking publications to bring you a detailed account of Fantagraphics' first 40 years.
Hardcover. Seattle, Fantagraphics Books, 1st, 2013, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, large format, color throughout. From the very first cover of the very first issue of Love and Rockets in 1982, Gilbert and Jaime Hernandez have created artwork that has subverted, contradicted and celebrated the history of the comic book medium, inverting familiar tropes and creating some of the most iconic images in comics over the past three and a half decades, inviting fans and readers into their world. Amazingly, many of the covers created by Gilbert and Jaime Hernandez for the various iterations of Love and Rockets over the past 35 years have never been collected or have only been reprinted in black-and-white. Love and Rockets: The Covers rectifies this problem, presenting them without trade dress (logos, marketing hype, etc.), allowing the original cover illustrations to communicate on their own.
Hardcover. Seattle, Wa, Fantagraphics Books, 1st, 2016, Book: Very Good, 242 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. A very clean, unmarked copy. Color illustrations throughout by Carl Barks. Donald and his nephews visit an Old West ghost town that was suddenly abandoned when the sheriff vanished while in hot pursuit of a passel of outlaws. Now the remains of the town are haunted - and it's up to the plucky nephews to solve the mystery of "The Ghost Sheriff of Last Gasp" before it's too late! Then, Donald is made stationmaster for a tiny out-of-the-way railroad station, but his first delivery is 10,000 baby turkeys - and they're all hungry! And when the Coast Guard announces it found the wreck of a steamship that sank with Uncle Scrooge's gold on board, the race is on to recover it ahead of Scrooge's rivals. Scrooge hustles Donald and the nephews into his private submarine - but it's Christmas Eve, and the boys are afraid Santa won't be able to find them to deliver their presents. The boys appeal to Uncle Scrooge, but - well, his name is Scrooge.Plus lots more stories with Barks favorites, including the wacky inventor Gyro Gearloose, the irritatingly lucky Gladstone Gander, and the ever-glamorous and sensible Daisy Duck. Carl Barks delivers another superb collection of outrageous hijinks, preposterous situations, and all-around cartooning brilliance. Over 200 pages of stories, each meticulously restored and newly colored. Insightful story notes by an international panel of Barks experts. Clean, bright copy.
Hardcover. np, New Texture, 1st, 2019, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 188 pages, color and b&w illustrations. A lushly-illustrated book that showcases the unique career of the blonde Swedish model and actress Eva Lynd, with text written by Eva herself or taken from conversations with her. Millions of men saw photographs of Eva taken by the best "glamour girl" photographers of the era in dozens of different bachelor magazines published in the '50s and '60s. She was also a popular artist's model for paperback covers and illustrations done for magazines in the men's adventure genre that flourished in those decades. Like new, issued w/o a dust jacket.
Hardcover. Koln, Taschen, 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 460 pages, without dustjacket, as issued. Clean, bright copy with hundreds of nudes and scantily-clad women in color and b&w photographs and illustrations.
Hardcover. Koln, Taschen, 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 460 pages, without dust jacket, as issued. Clean, bright copy with hundreds of nudes and scantily-clad women in color and b&w photographs and illustrations.
Hardcover. Koln, Taschen, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 460 pages, without dust jacket, as issued. Clean, bright copy with hundreds of nudes and scantily-clad women in color and b&w photographs and illustrations.
Hardcover. Koln, Taschen, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 460 pages, without dust jacket, as issued. Clean, bright copy with hundreds of nudes and scantily-clad women in color and b&w photographs and illustrations.
Softcover. NY, Guggenheim Mueum, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Two large softcover volumes, 894 pages. Profusely illustrated in color. Thick 4to, stiff pictorial wrappers, matching pictorial slipcase. Published in conjunction with a show that ran June 4 through September 12, 1999. Text by Jacques Baron, Timothy Baum, Rosalind Kraus, Jose Pierre, Werner Spies, Jean Toulet and with an interview by David Sylvester. Includes numerous color and black and white images along with biographies of the various artists. Volumes and slipcase clean, VG+.
NY, Penguin Studio, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 129 pages, 13.5 X 10". Foreword by Bernard Gersten. Introduction by John Guare. Well-illustrated throughout in color. On buses, billboards, and train platforms, in newspapers and magazines, a poster's swift promise in glorious color or powerful dark tones offers a vivid impression of what awaits a theatergoer, and provides the lasting mental image of a play long after its closing night. No one creates such images with more invention, honesty, and beauty--sometimes disturbingly, but always memorably--than James McMullan. The Theater Posters of James McMullan is an illuminating collection of thirty-six posters from 1976 to the present (from Arcadia and Carousel to Six Degrees of Separation), almost all of them for New York's Lincoln Center Theater, by this artist for whom "the body itself becomes a quickly understood gesture like the movement of a mime or a dance." The ragman hanging off the lamppost with his flaming match in Road, the French-postcard wink of the Anything Goes woman, Eros aiming his arrow in Four Baboons Admiring the Sun . . . full-page reproductions of McMullan's posters accompany his stories of their geneses. Reference photographs, sketches, and alternate versions illustrate his search for the perfect visual metaphor. Most of all, the personalities and dramas of the theater people who surrounded each poster's birth--from Wole Soyinka and John Guare to Liv Ullmann, Patti LuPone, and Mike Nichols--fill this gift book of choice for all theater and art lovers.Newspaper review laid in. Clean, very goog in a bright, unclipped dust jacket.
Softcover. Westport CT, Westport-Weston Art Council, 1st, 1985, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 147 pages, b&w and color illustrations. Much on the popular illustrators of the day. Light corner crease to pages.
Hardcover. Hunt Valley MD, Hermes Press, 1st, 2020, Book: Very Good, Large hardcover, 160 pages of color comics reproduced from the Sunday comics of the 40s. Beautiful condition.
Hardcover. NY, Beehive Press, 1st, 2019, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Large. oversize hardcover. 176 pages illustrated in color and b&w, with a sticker and postcard laid in. The first-ever comprehensive examination of this great artist, while collecting an amazing array of 300 generally scarce images. Harrison Cady (1877-1970) was one of the definitive magazine illustrators and cartoon artists of the first half of the 20th century. He created countless overflowing worlds of anthropomorphic lives: the Peter Rabbit Sunday page, the Happy Chaps for the magazine St. Nicholas, and illustrations that brought to life dozens of the Thornton Burgess books.
Hardcover. NY, Harcourt Brace, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 154 pages, in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Wonderfully illustrated survey of the dust jacket art of an American master. Introduction ("The Times and Places of Wendell Minor") by David McCullough; introductory artist's statement. SIGNED("W. Minor") and with rubber stamp monogram by Minor on first preliminary leaf. Clean, bright copy.
Softcover. NY, Princeton Architectural Press , 2nd pr, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, unpaginated, color illustrations throughout. This book is the first and only compilation of more than 200 45 record covers from all genres of music. Unpaginated, includes brief historical essays by collectors and graphic designers. Covers the 50s through the 90s. Clean, bright copy.
Hardcover. NY, American Studio Books/Watson-Guptill, 1st, 1947, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 128 pages, 268 illustrations (17 in color). A nice survey of American book illustration, covering such subjects as children's books, the growth of the American book publishing industry, and dust jackets, followed by illustrations by a wide number of artists in black and white and in color. Artists include Rockwell Kent, N. C. Wyeth, Marguerite de Angeli, the dAulaires, Lois Lenski, William Pene Du Bois, Salvador Dali, Margery Bianco, E. A. Abbey, Wanda Gag, Dorothy P. Lathrop, and numerous others. Bookplate on inside front cover, otherwise clean. In a chipped, edgeworn dust jacket.
Softcover. NY, Harmony Books, 1st, 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 128 pages illustrated in color and b&w. Gathered here for the first time in book form are 130 extraordinary illustrations, with 32 pages in full color, including Norman Rockwell, Vargas' pin-ups, Remington's gunfighters, Parrish's landscapes etc. Nice tight binding. Clean. Light crease to cover at bottom front corner.
Hardcover. Montreal/NY, Drawn and Quarterly, 1st, 2019, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, illustrated boards, unpaginated. Lulu Moppet is an outspoken and brazen young girl who doesn't follow any rules. A reissue series of Lulu's suburban hijinks: she goes on picnics, babysits, and attempts to break into the boys' clubhouse again and again. The cartoonist John Stanley's expert timing and constant gags made these stories unbelievably enjoyable, which made Marge's Little Lulu a defining comic of the postwar period. First released in the 1940s and 1950s as Dell comics, Little Lulu as helmed by Stanley remains one of the most entertaining works in the medium.
Softcover. Decatur IL, Illustrated Press, 1st, 2019, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 80 pages. Includes a 31 page tribute to the black artist Elmer Simms Campbell. Many color illustrations. Two other articles on illustrators Joe De Mers and Alex Redmond.
Hardcover. New York, Harry N. Abrams, 1st, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 215 pages. 151 illustrations, including 51 plates in full color, displaying beautiful realistic as well as surrealistic paintings. Clean, bright copy in a similar dust jacket.
Hardcover. NY, Random House, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 500 pages, b&w illustrations. In this second volume of his definitive biography of Pablo Picasso, John Richardson draws on the same combination of lively writing, critical astuteness, exhaustive research and personal experience that made a bestseller out of the first volume and vividly re-creates the artist's life and work during the crucial decade of 1907-1917--a period during which Picasso and Georges Braque invented cubism. Clean copy in a bright dust jacket.
Hardcover. Seattle, Fantagraphics Books, 1st, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 220 pages, color illustrations. A critical biography of Mort Meskin, one of the 20th century's most influential comic book artists. Clean copy in a bright dust jacket.
Hardcover. NY, St. Martin's Press, 1st, 2018, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 495 pages, color and b&w photos. In a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Remainder dot on top edge.
Hardcover. NY, Powerhouse Books, 1st, 2012, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 240 pages, color illustrations. The history of American comics through the stories of comics' most important and influential creators -- tracing the medium's journey all the way from its beginnings as junk culture for kids to its current status as legitimate literature and pop culture. Featuring artists such as Jerry Siegel, Will Eisner, Jerry Robinson, Al Jaffee, Neal Adams, Peter Kuper, Stan Lee and many more.
Softcover. Seattle, Fantagraphics Books, 1st, 2009, Softcover, 238 pages in color. Over 200 pages of pre-Spiderman, pre-comics code, horror comics by Steve Ditko.
Softcover. NY, Metropolitan Museum of Art, reprint, 2015, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 257 pages, This lavishly illustrated volume is the first comprehensive publication on the Brooklyn Museum's internationally renowned historic costume collection. The nearly 25,000-object collection comprises fashionable women's and men's garments and accessories from the 18th through the 20th century.
Hardcover. NY, Thomas Crowell, 1st, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 224 pages, illustrated in color and b&w. Jessie Willcox Smith (1863-1935), was one of the most prominent female illustrators in the United States during the Golden Age of American illustration. She illustrated stories and articles for clients such as Century, Collier's Weekly, Leslie's Weekly, Harper's, McClure's, Scribners, and the Ladies' Home Journal. Four appendices give detailed listings of the appearance of Smith's illustrations in books, magazine covers, posters, etc. Bibliography. Notes. Index. With a lightly worn dust jacket that's been price-clipped. Previous owner's inscription on front fly lead, otherwise clean.
Hardcover. NY, Cupples & Leon, 1st, 1917, Book: Very Good, Hardcover, pictorial pastedown on paper-covered boards, brown cloth spine. 100 b&w editorial cartoons reprinted from The New York Herald. Rogers was one of the country's top illustrators and a star in the Harper stable of artists. INSCRIBED BY ROGERS on the front fly leaf with a sketch of a boot kicking two Hun-like jackals. Light edgewear to boards.
NY, Farrar & Rinehart, 1st, 1940, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue cloth with black design, unpaginated. 224 original cartoons and drawings of George Price; including excerpts from Price's diary recounting his daily antics working for the New Yorker, Colliers and The Saturday Evening Post. Bump to bottom corner of front cover, otherwise clean, very good. No dust jacket.
Softcover. Decatur IL, Daniel Zimmer, 1st, 2020, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover magazine, 80 pages, color plates throughout. An issue devoted entirely to Austin Briggs and his illustrations.
Softcover. Palo Alto CA, Jim Vadeboncoeur , 1st, 2006-10, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Three softcover volumes, 100 pages each. A collection of work from the Golden Era of Pen & Ink Illustration.
Softcover. Palo Alto CA, Jim Vadeboncoeur, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover magazine, 44 pages, features many rare color illustrations and lavish production. This issue concentrates on the work of just two artists, Gustaf Tenggren (1896-1970) & Frank Brangwyn (1967-1956). Tenggren originated in Sweden but emigrated to the USA in 1920, where he continued to provide illustrations for Swedish illustrated editions. Frank Brangwyn hailed from Bruges, Belgium. He moved to England with his English family to complete his education. Both artists work is illustrated with detailed texts to accompany the many illustrations. Clean copy.
Softcover. Rochester NY, Home Institute, 1940, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 40 page booklet profusely illustrated in b&w by the author who was an instructor at New York University as well as a professional illustrator. #92 in a series of self-help pamphlets published by the Home Institute. Clean, 6 X 9".
Softcover. Groningen, Holland, International Art Publishing, 1st, 1962, Book: Very Good, Softcover, illustrated card wraps, 32 watercolors in chromolithography by Molendijk. Introduction by B. Van Der Veen Czn. Spine edgewear. Clean.
Softcover. Hollywood CA, Frederick`s of Hollywood,, 1981, Book: Good, Softcover, 72 pages in color, Most illustration is photographic, some is by artists and illustrators. Lingerie, dresses, exotic wear for her (and him!), bras, panties, stockings, shoes, and the like. Moderate wear.
Softcover. Rochester, NY, Home Institute, 1939, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, stapled 2-color wrappers, 40 page booklet, b&w illustrations throughout. Not credited but presumed the author. Nice period drawings.
Softcover. London UK, Winsor & Newton Ltd., reprint, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 20 page booklet, light gray wrappers. First published in 1892 it covers all technical aspects and chemistry of the manufacturer's oil and watercolor paints. No date, probably 1970s.
Hardcover. NY, Abrams, 1st thus, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 668 pages, in a bright dust jacket. Includes the contents of "The Comics Before 1945" and "The Comics Since 1945.
Hardcover. Montreal, Drawn and Quarterly, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 352 pages. Extensive b&w illustrations throughout. Illustrated paste downs and end papers. Gilt titles on spine. Blind stamp on cover. Some edge wear to dust jacket, otherwise clean, tight copy. Reprints the original newspaper dailies from 1921 & 1922.
Hardcover. Montreal, Drawn and Quarterly, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 352 pages. Extensive b&w illustrations throughout. Illustrated paste downs and end papers. Gilt titles on spine. Blind stamp on cover. Some edge wear to dust jacket, otherwise clean, tight copy. Reprints the original newspaper dailies from 1923 & 1924. King was the first cartoonist to have his characters age in real time and have modern story lines, a landmark conception for comic strips in the early twentieth century. There is a new eighty-page introduction by journalist Jeet Heer.
Hardcover. NY, Sterling, 1st, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, illustrated in b&w by Bob Kane. In a bright dust jacket.
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