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Hardcover. Plesant Plain OH, David Zimmerman, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, glossy pictorial boards, 268 pages illustrated in color. A visual reference for all kinds of tins for coffee, peanut butter, cocoa, tea, and various other food products. Also tins for spices, tobacco, cosmetics talcum powder, soap, typewriter ribbons, needles, pens, medicines, etc. Clean copy.

Hardcover. New Haven CT, Yale University Press, 1st, 2011, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 256 pages. Examines concepts of female beauty in terms of the ideal and the real, investigating paradigms of beauty as represented in art and literature and how beauty has been enhanced by cosmetics and hairstyles. Images of some of the most beautiful women in history, both real and ideal, accompanied by illustrations from costume books, fashion plates, advertisements, caricatures, etc. Like new in publisher's shrink-wrap.

Softcover. Mineola, NY, Dover Publications, 1st, 2019, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 96 pages. Softcover. A very clean, unmarked copy with only minor edgewear. This original compilation features more than 80 color plates selected from two of Phillips' early collections, A Gallery of Girls and A Young Man's Fancy, in addition to images from other sources. An Introduction by illustrator and graphic designer Scott M. Fischer provides a modern appraisal and speaks to Phillips' lasting influence. Students of illustration, graphic design, and advertising as well as fans of 1920s fashion will appreciate this collection of striking works by a Golden Age designer-illustrator.

Hardcover. NY, Art Director's Club/Book Service Co., 1st, 1926, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 136 pages plus ads. A wonderful collection of commercial art from 1925. Color art by Walter Biggs, Henry Raleigh, Edward Wilson, Merritt Cutler, others. Many b&w examples of illustration and photography from the period. Two-color boards with matching label on front. Excellent, clean condition. Small chips missing at top and bottom of spine causing dime size paper loss (smaller at bottom). Foxing to top edge. Light edgewear to boards. Scarce.

Hardcover. Mad Cave Studios, 1st, 2025, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in pictorial boards. Flash Gordon: Classic Collection Volume 4 reprints the Flash Gordon Sunday strip from 1944-1948. Color illustrated. Flash Gordon returns for another thrilling space-bound adventure as the original guardian of the galaxy, battling to save us all from a host of sinister super-villains determined to dominate, destroy, and wreak havoc--including the fierce and seductive Storm Queen of Valkir! Don Moore was the writer of the Flash Gordon, taking over scriptwriting duties from strip creator Alex Raymond in August 1935. Moore was a former pulp editor. Austin Briggs worked for a while at an advertising agency then became an assistant to the cartoonist Alex Raymond on Flash Gordon and succeeded him on Secret Agent Corrigan. In 1940 he drew a Flash Gordon Daily strip which he stayed on until about 1944. He drew the prestigious Flash Gordon Sunday strip from 1944 until 1948. He was one of the founding faculty for the Famous Artists School. In 1969 he was elected to the Society of Illustrators' Hall of Fame. Clean, bright copy.

Hardcover. NY, Wellfleet, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 144 pages. Offers a collection of fruit label art with a brief history of the industry and the lithographers who created the labels, and discusses the age, rarity, and quality of popular examples that are still available.

Softcover. London, Stationery Office, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, unpaginated, 80 color pates of posters advertising theatre productions, circuses and sideshows, carnivals and vaudeville shows.

Hardcover. NY, Assouline Publishing , 1st, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 200 pages. In 2008, the Museum of Modern Art acquired a wide range of George Lois's groundbreaking Esquire magazine covers and put them on display for a full year. The Esquire Covers at MoMA collects the entirety of that exhibit, many more covers, and unseen images from Lois's private collection, including personal photographs of the designer at work and outtakes of a shoot with Andy Warhol. George Lois, who led advertising's creative revolution in the 1960s, was hand-picked by the legendary editor Harold Hayes to convey visually that Esquire--a leading proponent of another creative revolution of the time, New Journalism--was on the cutting edge of profound changes in American culture. With images of JFK, RFK, and Martin Luther King, Jr. watching over Arlington National Cemetery; of Richard Nixon under the makeup-artist's powder-puff; and of Muhammad Ali as the martyred Saint Sebastian, he did just that.

Hardcover. New York , Assouline Publishing, 1st, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 200 pages, color illustrations. At the forefront of American advertising's creative revolution in the 1960s, George Lois was hand-picked by magazine editor Harold Hayes to visually convey that Esquire--a proponent of that era's New Journalism--was on the cutting edge of American culture. In 2008, New York City's Museum of Modern Art acquired a wide range of George Lois's groundbreaking, often controversial Esquire covers for its permanent collection. This fascinating catalogue presents the original exhibit, with additional covers and images from Lois's private collection, including photos of the designer at work and out-takes of the shoot that resulted in Andy Warhol "drowning" in one of his own tomato soup cans. Like new in publisher's shrink-wrap.

Hardcover. NY, Aperture, 1st, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Two hardcover volumes, 1200 pages. Gilbert & George are among the foremost artists of their generation. A collaborative team, they were early to explore performance as an art form, and early to explore the idea that every aspect of daily life could be classed as such. They were early to mingle photography and graphics in a style reminiscent of advertising, and early to address sexual identity in that work. In fact, they were early to do much that viewers now take for granted. Their work has been exhibited worldwide since the beginning of the 1970s, and is either unusually accessible or completely unpalatable, depending on the viewer's mindset. It has attracted both fierce controversy and enormous acclaim, including the 1986 Turner Prize and the U.K.'s slot at the 2005 Venice Biennale. At last, on the fortieth anniversary of their meeting (September 25, 1967, Saint Martin's, London) and on the eve of a major retrospective that will tour six venues around the world-including Tate Modern, the Brooklyn Museum, the Milwaukee Art Museum and the de Young Museum in San Francisco-here is a book that does justice to the scale, depth and ambition of their artistic achievement. Or rather, here are two books: designed and produced by the artists, this luxurious two-volume hardback set, which comes in a customized carrying case with handles, documents every picture the pair has created over the course of their 35-year career.With details and installation views of many significant pieces, it includes 1500 color illustrations. The Complete Pictures will be the most thorough and extensive publication on the artists' work ever assembled. Copublished with Tate Publishing, London.

Hardcover. NY, McGraw-Hill, 1st, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 127 pages. Gold, red, green and black (old Lucky Strike colors) boards, no dust jacket. A history of cigarette smoking. Great photos of smoking in films, antique ads and packages, etc. Laid in are publicity photos of author and designer. Clean, bright copy.

Hardcover. NY, McGraw-Hill, 1st, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 127 pages. Gold, red, green and black (old Lucky Strike colors) boards, no dust jacket. A history of cigarette smoking. Great photos of smoking in films, antique ads and packages, etc.

Softcover. Zurich, Graphis Press, 1st, 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, English, German and French text. B&w and color illustrations. Very good.

Softcover. Zurich, Graphis Press, 1st, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 124 pages. English, German and French text. B&w and color illustrations. Bottom right corner slightly bumped. Else a very clean, tight copy.

Softcover. Zurich, Graphis Press, 1st, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, English, German and French text. B&w and color illustrations. Light edge wear to wrappers. Else very good.

Softcover. Zurich, Graphis Press, 1st, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, English, German and French text. B&w and color illustrations. Spine faded. Else very good.

Softcover. Zurich, Graphis Press, 1st, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, English, German and French text. B&w and color illustrations. Very good.

Softcover. Zurich, Graphis Press, 1st, 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, English, German and French text. B&w and color illustrations. Very good. Swiss Posters 1976. Kodak Colour Calender Contest, 1977. Fred Otnes. 1.international Animated Film Festival in Ottawa. Trends in Jewellery Design in Europe.

Softcover. Zurich, Graphis Press, 1st, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, English, German and French text. B&w and color illustrations. Very good.

Softcover. Zurich, Graphis Press, 1st, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, English, German and French text. B&w and color illustrations. Jan Swanka, Barbara Nessim, Erhard Gottlicher, Oswaldo Miranda.

Softcover. Zurich, Graphis Press, 1st, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, English, German and French text. B&w and color illustrations. Very good.

Softcover. Zurich, Graphis Press, 1st, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 84 pages. English, German and French text. B&w and color illustrations. Very good. International graphic design magazine based out of Switzerland. No longer in print. Cover illustration by Andrzej Dudzinski. In Graphis magazine Issue 242, you'll find articles on: IBM--Design, Business & Education, by Steven Heller; Fourth Colorado International Invitational Poster Exhibition, by Philip E. Risbeck, Fort Collins, Colorado; Conception and Design of the USA Annual Reports 1983/84, by Richard A. Lewis, New York.

Softcover. Zurich, Graphis Press, 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, English, German and French text. B&w and color illustrations. Very good. Subjects include Igarishi, Nygaard, and early tourism posters.

Softcover. San Francisco, Ten Speed Press, 1st, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 224 pages. Early in the 20th century, as Americans climbed into their Model-Ts and took to the open road, American manufacturers and retailers discovered miles and miles of new advertising space, and the audaciously oversized billboard was born. For a century, billboards have recruited, congratulated, teased, sold, and seduced us, promoting everything under the sun, from hosiery to war bonds, presidential candidates to rock shows. GREAT AMERICAN BILLBOARDS not only offers a lively look back at changing styles, products, and tastes, but is also an important visual record of this largely unheralded yet ubiquitous American art form.