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Hardcover. NY, Abrams, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 224 pages. Color illustrations. Jack Kirby created or co-created some of comic books' most popular characters including Captain America, The X-Men, The Hulk, The Fantastic Four, The Mighty Thor, Darkseid, and The New Gods. More significantly, he created much of the visual language for fantasy and adventure comics. There were comics before Kirby, but for the most part their page layout, graphics, and visual dynamic aped what was being done in syndicated newspaper strips. Almost everything that was different about comic books began in the forties on the drawing table of Jack Kirby. This is his story by one who knew him well-the authorized celebration of the one and only "King of Comics" and his groundbreaking work.

Softcover. Paris, Dragon's Dream, 1st English transl., 1973, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, brilliant color illustrations throughout. Superb very fine detailed art, in this Science Fiction & Dark Fantasy, Sword & Sorcery, graphic novel masterpiece, with incredible color pictures. Measures 8.5" x 11". One of the great French Comic Artists, with some of his strips appearing in Pilotte magazine; He became best know in North America for his work in the pages of Heavy Metal magazine. Clean, sharp copy.

Hardcover. Detroit, MI, Wayne State University Press, 1st, 1964, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 196 pages. B&w illustrations throughout. Black cloth, silver lettering to front cover and spine. A nice copy, in a worn dust jacket with protective mylar cover. Small piece missing from lower right corner of dust jacket, minor tears. Slight staining to edges.

Hardcover. New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1st Edition, 1907, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. 126 pages plus 50 plates. Vivid color illustrated tipped-in plates (vibrant, excellent condition) with captioned tissue guards, as well as b/w illustrations throughout. Plates glued to brown heavy stock. Cover boards bound in green cloth, gilt title on spine, gilt title and design embossed on front cover board. Some light spotting to boards and spine, bump to front cover board's right top corner (see image). Binding tight. Spine straight. Pages quite bright and unmarked. Scarce. In Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens, J.M. Barrie first created Peter Pan as an infant, living a wild and secret life with birds and fairies in the middle of turn of the century London. This edition is beautifully illustrated by Rackham, one of the leading figures of the Golden Age of British book illustration.

Hardcover. East Yorkshire, UK, PS Artbooks Ltd., 1st, 2016, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover with no dust jacket. Very clean, unmarked copy. Color illustrations throughout. Tight copy. A collection of "Eerie" comic books from 1951 to 1952. Issues 1 through 7.

Hardcover. East Yorkshire, UK, PS Artbooks Ltd., 1st, 2016, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover with no dust jacket. Very clean, unmarked copy. Color illustrations throughout. Tight copy. A collection of "Ghost" comic books from 1951 to 1953. Issues 1 through 7.

Hardcover. Lexington KY, University Press of Kentucky, 1st, 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 328 pages, in a bright unclipped dust jacket, b&w illustrations. Noted for his charisma, talent, and striking good looks, director Rex Ingram (18931950) is ranked alongside D. W. Griffith, Marshall Neilan, and Erich von Stroheim as one of the greatest artists of the silent cinema. Ingram briefly studied sculpture at the Yale University School of Art after emigrating from Ireland to the United States in 1911; but he was soon seduced by the new medium of moving pictures and abandoned his studies for a series of jobs in the film industry. Over the next decade, he became one of the most popular directors in Hollywood, directing smash hits such as The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (1921), The Prisoner of Zenda (1922), and Scaramouche (1923). n Rex Ingram, Ruth Barton explores the life and legacy of the pioneering filmmaker, following him from his childhood in Dublin to his life at the top of early Hollywood's A-list and his eventual self-imposed exile on the French Riviera. Ingram excelled in bringing visions of adventure and fantasy to eager audiences, and his films made stars of actors like Rudolph Valentino, Ramon Novarro, and Alice Terry-his second wife and leading lady. With his name a virtual guarantee of box office success, Ingram's career flourished in the 1920s despite the constraints of an increasingly regulated industry and the hostility of Louis B. Mayer, who regarded him as a dangerous maverick.Barton examines the virtuoso director's career and controversial personal life-including his conversion to Islam, the rumors surrounding his ambiguous sexuality, and the circumstances of his untimely death. This definitive biography not only restores the visionary filmmaker to the spotlight but also provides an absorbing look at the daring and exhilarating days of silent-era Hollywood.

Softcover. NY, Abrams, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Flexible covers, 540 pages, 1,500 illustrations in full color. A visual survey of the scientific developments and cultural significance of robots documents the history of automatons, androids, and other forms of artificial intelligence, both of the fictional and real-world arenas, in a volume that features interviews with scientists, doctors, toy creators, science-fiction writers, and more.

Softcover. New York , Popular Library, 1st, 1973, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Wraps with Bob Dylan and Mick Jagger hanging out, no page numbers, [146 pages]. The book consists of Rock n Roll icons in fantasy settings created by Cohn and Peel;aert as a tribute to these Rock n Roll and other musical greats. Color illustrations throughout. Back cover with some rubbing, light scratches, otherwise clean, bright copy.

Hardcover. Nevada City NV, Underwood Books, 1st, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 112 pages illustrated in color. Showcases the popular period illustration which prefigured and helped create the violent visual language in today's popular aboveground cinema, comic books, and ultra-violent multi-million copy video games. Featuring full-page illustrations by pulp artists Walter Baumhofer, Rafael de Soto, Margaret Brundage, Jerome Rozen, Virgil Finlay, Norman Saunders, H.J. Ward, Harold McCauley, Austin Briggs, Emsh and others, this beautifully produced full-color collection documents Depression-era masculine violence, in fantasy and reality, as depicted on the covers of popular literature. Clean copy.

Hardcover. East Windsor, NJ, Vanguard Classics, 1st, 2016, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 176 pages. Like new in publisher's shrink-wrap. Vampirella, Weird Science, Dejah Thoris: This deluxe edition comes with a bonus 16-page folio and slipcase. Vampirella, Weird Science, Dejah Thoris... No one renders exotic women better than Frazetta, the World s greatest Fantasy artist. Until now, only the most ardent collectors possessed the elusive grail items from the short period of Frazetta s early-1960s Men's magazine and risque paperback illustrations. Often selling for hundreds of dollars each, these rare publications bridged Frazetta's exodus from traditional comics work, to his now-legendary Conan, John Carter of Mars and Death Dealer oil paintings. Now, in an affordable volume, Vanguard expands their authorized line of Frazetta books with this, the most complete collection ever, of rare, vintage, Sensuous Frazetta.

Hardcover. NY, Norton, 1st, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 272 pages. Sophie Crumb's startlingly expressive drawings track her development as an artist from age two to twenty-eight. Sifting through dozens of their daughter's remarkable sketchbooks, our generation's most celebrated graphic artists have, with their only child, Sophie, now selected more than three hundred paintings and drawings that depict her artistic and psychological maturation. Revealing how an original artistic sensibility is both innate and nurtured, the book features six separate developmental stages, including Sophie's earliest drawings, the elaborate fantasy world of her childhood, her late adolescent rebellion, and her coming of age in the milieu of the Paris circus world and New York's "seventh circle of hell." The drawings from her early twenties-of tattoo artists, dangerous men-reflect a personal anguish that finally ends with her becoming a mother and creating a family of her own. Illuminating and intimate, this book is a dramatic yet subtle statement on the evolution of personality as seen through art. Four-color illustrations throughout

Softcover. London, Green Wood Publishing, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, unpaginated, approx. 90 pages. A visual history of comic book cover art from England, all space-related. Color illustrations throughout. Clean, bright copy.

Hardcover. NY, Lucas Books & Del Rey, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in gray boards with a black cloth spine. This lavish volume features more than six hundred examples of the art created for The Phantom Menace each a masterpiece in its own conceptual illustrations, sequential art, and brilliant, fully executed paintings. Digging deep into the exclusive Lucasfilm archives, The Art of Star The Phantom Menace details Episode 1's revolutionary use of traditional and high-tech media. Magnificent paintings that capture the exotic environments of Naboo, Tatooine, and Coruscant Key action sequences, including the Podraces on Tatooine and the riveting ground and space battles Fascinating insights and photos revealing the secrets of the artists at work The earliest conceptual drawings, following the evolution of Darth Maul, Qui-Gon Jinn, Queen Amidala, and Jar Jar Binks Exciting new poster art, created expressly for Episode 1. Clean copy, lacks dust jacket.

Hardcover. Taschen, 2nd pr., 2021, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Huge oversized hardcover, 16x11", 596 pages. The full, fascinating story of this fabled company, written and designed by EC-expert Grant Geissman. Even the most die-hard EC Fan-Addicts will find something new within these pages, with the Gaines family archives providing over 100 rarities that have never seen print. Cover images are reproduced from Gaines file copies. 1,000 illustrations include the rarest and most notorious covers, interior pages and panels, rare photos, vintage original artwork, and some of the most celebrated stories ever to be printed in four colors. Author Grant Geissman was a customer in Bud Plant's San Jose comic book store in 1968-69, long before he became a recording star and EC expert. Grant has written several books on EC and, in my mind, is the foremost authority on both Mad and EC. He generously did a special bookplate for us, which reproduces a "fantasy" cover for Incredible Science Fiction that he commissioned from Angelo Torres. It's in full color and signed by Grant.

Softcover. US, Picture This Press, 1st, 2012, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 224 pages. Volume 1: Drawings. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to wrappers. Volume One focuses on Kley's ink drawings, and reprints for the first time a substantial selection of his illustration work for children's books and adult genre fiction, a side of Kley's career previously unexplored in other collections. This volume also includes a wide sampling of Kley's cartoons and magazine work, with newly collected examples taken directly from a variety of rare sources such as "Jugend," "Simplicissimus," and the historic "Der Orchideengarten" (the world's first fantasy fiction magazine). In all, more than 300 Kley illustrations and cartoons fill this first volume.

Softcover. NY, Thames & Hudson, 1st pbk., 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover in pictorial wrappers, 304 pages. Profusely illustrated in b&w. Piranesi has a powerful appeal for our time. His brilliance as a graphic artist, his transformation of the European vision of Classical antiquity, and his themes of fantasy have been the focus of considerable study in recent years. But though these aspects are important for an appreciation of Piranesi's visual significance, they have tended to obscure other factors essential for a complete understanding of his unique achievement. In this copiously illustrated study, John Wilton-Ely - one of the world's foremost authorities on Piranesi - offers a full reappraisal of the complex personality of an astonishingly versatile artist. His book covers every aspect of Piranesi's life and work, emphasizing especially his importance as a pioneer of Roman archaeology, the high quality of his technical illustrations, and his role in the great Graeco-Roman debate of the 1760s. The author brings to life the Enlightenment world of the artist's ideas - fundamentally bound up with the birth of Neo-Classicism - and the search for an appropriately modern form of expression; and he shows the practical and influential form taken by these ideas in Piranesi's architectural projects, his designs for furniture and decorative schemes and his imaginative restoration of antiquities. Clean copy.

Softcover. NY, Pocket Books, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 253 pages. Collects the sketches of the artists responsible for the costumes, sets, and aliens from the original Star Trek series, offering insight into the creative talents that contributed to the show's success and the time and budget constraints they overcame. Matt Jefferies created meticulous sketches of every aspect of the Starship Enterprise and the worlds she visited. The energetic illustrations of William Theiss depicted some of the most lavish costumes ever worn in this or any other galaxy. Fred Phillips designed makeup that actualized whole new races, with just humans underneath. Wah Chang created props and hardware that are still the basis of futurist design. Clean, bright copy.

Softcover. Vanguard Publishing , 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 168 pages. Color illustrations throughout.

Hardcover. Novato, CA, Underwood Miller, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 147 pages. Black & white illustrations by Virgil Finlay. Dust jacket is protected by a mylar cover.

Hardcover. Jackson MS, University Press of Mississippi, 1st, 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 240 pages. Like new in publisher's shrink-wrap. Cartoonist Winsor McCay (1869-1934) is rightfully celebrated for the skillful draftmanship and inventive design sense he displayed in the comic strips Little Nemo in Slumberland and Dream of the Rarebit Fiend. McCay crafted narratives of anticipation, abundance, and unfulfilled longing. This book explores McCay's interest in dream imagery in relation to the larger preoccupation with fantasy that dominated the popular culture of early twentieth-century urban America.McCay's role as a pioneer of early comics has been documented; yet, no existing study approaches him and his work from an art historical perspective, giving close readings of individual artworks while situating his output within the larger visual culture and the rise of modernism. From circus posters and vaudeville skits to department store window displays and amusement park rides, McCay found fantastical inspiration in New York City's burgeoning entertainment and retail districts. Wide Awake in Slumberland connects McCay's work to relevant children's literature, advertising, architecture, and motion pictures in order to demonstrate the artist's sophisticated blending and remixing of multiple forms from mass culture. Studying this interconnection in McCay's work and, by extension, the work of other early twentieth-century cartoonists, Roeder traces the web of relationships connecting fantasy, leisure, and consumption. Readings of McCay's drawings and the eighty-one black and white and color illustrations reveal a man who was both a ready participant and an incisive critic of the rising culture of fantasy and consumerism.

Hardcover. NY, Books of Wonder, reprint, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 272 pages. Journey to the spectacular land of Oz with The Wonderful Wizard of Oz! This classic tale from L. Frank Baum has enchanted readers for over a century. Now, in this stunning hundredth anniversary edition featuring the original illustrations by W.W. Denslow, new readers will learn the power of the phrase "There is no place like home."In this hardcover edition with high-quality reproductions of the original art, follow the adventures of young Dorothy Gale and her dog, Toto, as their Kansas house is swept away by a cyclone and they find themselves in a strange land called Oz.