Softcover. Seattle, WA, Fantagraphics Books, 3rd Edition, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 122 pages. Softcover. B/w illustrations throughout. Binding tight. Pages and edges clean and unmarked. Wrapper very good. One of the most chilling installments in the Love and Rockets series.
Softcover. Washington DC, National Geographic, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 191 pages, illustrated with dozens of rare aeronautical posters in color. Includes foreword by Herb Kelleher, Epilogue, and Index.
Softcover. Washington DC, National Geographic, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 192 pages. The Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum draws more visitors than any other museum in the world--90,000 a day in the summertime--and the exhibit of air travel posters featured in this unique companion volume combines arresting, colorful art, rare archival material, and a unique approach to aeronautical history. The posters--most of them never before published--feature barnstormers, gliders, and flying boats, the earliest passenger flights, the first luxury-liners, mail carriers, jets, and much more. Spanning a century and a half, they combine the popular art and the commerce of their eras, with both explored in the entertaining, informative text by a longstanding National Air and Space Museum curator. From 19th-century circus impresarios offering rides in gaudy hot-air balloons to the sleek 21st-century airliners, the posters provide a fascinating illustrated history of flight as it evolved from an exotic realm inhabited only by visionaries and daredevils into our modern world of speedy jets and frequent flyers--no longer extraordinary, perhaps, but still echoing with the exhilarating thrill and glamorous excitement captured here.
Hardcover. UK, PS Publishing, 1st, 2013, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 272 pages, illustrated throughout in color. Clean, tight copy. Tales exploring the supernatural featuring featuring Issues 6-11 from May/June 1952 to November 1952 of the ACG classic Forbidden Worlds. This second volume has been meticulously compiled from the original source material and painstakingly digitally restored.
Hardcover. UK, PS Publishing, 1st, 2013, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 288 pages, illustrated throughout in color. Clean, tight copy. Tales exploring the supernatural featuring featuring Issues 12-18 from December 1952 to June 1953 of the ACG classic Forbidden Worlds. This third volume has been meticulously compiled from the original source material and painstakingly digitally restored.
Hardcover. UK, PS Publishing, 1st, 2013, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 288 pages, illustrated throughout in color. Clean, tight copy. Tales exploring the supernatural featuring featuring Issues 12-18 from December 1952 to June 1953 of the ACG classic Forbidden Worlds. This third volume has been meticulously compiled from the original source material and painstakingly digitally restored.
Hardcover. US, PS Artbooks, 1st, 2015, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 240 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to cover.
Softcover. Rochester, NY, Austen Press, 1st trade, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 139 pages. Softcover with paper wrappers. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR, with drawing. Black and white comics throughout. Tight copy.
hardcover. Salt Lake City, Gibbs-Smith, 1st , 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Essay by Daniel Okvent. A collection of the magazine's ground-breaking cover art. 1930-1950. Many by artists like Leger, Ben Shahn, Diego Riveria & others, all in color. 142 pages.
Softcover. Forestville, CA, Eclipse Books, 1st wraps, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 222 pages. Black & white illustrations by Frank Frazetta. A reprint of his 1952-53 daily adventure strip. Paperback edition with color illustrated wrappers.
Hardcover. Hermes Press/Aristo , reprint, 2023, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards, 144 pages. The Iron Devil was Frank's most erotic and ambitious masterpiece - it's full of mouth-watering surprises! This series was originally printed in the 1990s, and has risen again in a deluxe hardcover. It also includes the three-issue sequel, The Devil's Angel! Featuring original art from the short lived series, this will bring the XXX-treme action back to a wider audience! Features an essay and original art. Adults only. Still in publisher's shrinkwrap.
Softcover. Berkeley CA, Snow Lion Graphics, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 128 pages. Softcover. Color pictures throughout. Light edgewear to wrappers. A volume of the art work of Stanley Mouse, creator of numerous posters for rock venues in the 60's and other counter culture works, as new, full color illustrations.
Softcover. Denver/Boulder CO, Johnson Books, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 272 pages, illustrated in color and b&w. Chanzit explores Herbert Bayer's stunning artistic legacy, which includes painting, photography, typography, sculpture, architecture, exhibition design, and graphic design.
Softcover. NY, Princeton Architectural Press , 1st, 2010, Softcover, 224 pages. color illustrations throughout. It's a situation we are all acquainted with: planning to visit friends in an unfamiliar part of the city, you draw yourself arudimentary map with detailed directions. In March 2008, graphic designer Kris Harzinski founded the Hand Drawn Map Association in order to collect just such drawings of the everyday. Fascinated by these accidental records of a moment in time, he soon amassed a wide variety of maps, ranging from simple directions to fictional maps, to maps of unusual places, including examples drawn by well-known historical figures such as Abraham Lincoln, Ernest Shackleton, and Alexander Calder. From Here to There celebrates these ephemeral documents usually forgotten or tossed aside after having served their purpose giving them their due as artifacts representing stories from people's lives around the world. There is the young woman suffering from juvenile rheumatoid arthritis who created maps of the Humira injections on her stomach and thighs to help her remember the sites, and give them time to heal. Or the young boy who imagined a whole country for ants and put it to paper. Lucas from Australia drew an obsessively detailed map of his local traffic island, and a teenage girl contributed a map of her high school locker. Two American tourists got lost in the Bulgarian mountains following the hand drawn map of a local, and Britanny from Denmark drew directions to an animal rights protest in Copenhagen. The maps featured in From Here to There are as varied and touching as the stories they tell.
Hardcover. Kent OH, Kent State University Press, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 387 pages, b&w illustrations. Clean, unmarked in a bright dust jacket. The Lincoln images, originally appearing in such publications as Budget of Fun, Comic Monthly, New York Illustrated News, Phunny Phellow, Southern Punch, and Yankee Notions, significantly expand our understanding of the evolution of public opinion toward Lincoln, the complex dynamics of Civil War, popular art and culture, the media, political caricature, and presidential politics. Lincoln, appealed to illustrators because of his distinctive physical features. (One could scarcely conceive of a similar book on James Buchanan, his immediate predecessor.) Despite ever-improving techniques, Lincoln pictorial prominence competed favorably with any succeeding president in the nineteenth century.
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.
Softcover. NY, The Monacelli Press , 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Softcover with plain white card covers covered in a pictorial dust jacket on heavy paper stock, 224 pages, b/w & color illustratios, large distinctive paperback with internal spire spine. Part experimental laboratory, part alternative institution, the Southern California Institute of Architecture (SCI-Arc) is one of the world's most vital and innovative schools. Known for its cutting-edge working methods and pioneering use of materials, SCI-Arc continues to revolutionize architecture, urbanism, design, research, and teaching through its remarkable work. This inventively designed and beautifully produced book brings together for the first time both built and theoretical projects -- previously unpublished recent work -- by SCI-Arc's celebrated faculty. Its members are a dynamic mix of architects, designers, theoreticians, and critics, echoing the rich environmental and cultural diversity of the surrounding Southern California region. Reflecting SCI-Arc's rigorous dedication to a working methodology, each project presented here reveals the ever-evolving design process itself. This analytical visual vocabulary combines sketches, study models, paintings, computer renderings, prototypes, and construction documents with explanatory illustrated texts by past and present faculty members. Mild wear to top of dj spine. Clean copy. DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.
Softcover. London, Mitchell Beazley, reprint, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 144 pages, illustrated in color with almost 300 book jackets. In this revealing and highly entertaining look at the great book jackets of the 20th century from around the world, author Alan Powers tells the story of the book jacket from its early days, via the advent of the paperback, to the most eye-catching covers produced today. With over 300 illustrations, including first editions by famous artists, jackets by key designers and artists, groundbreaking series from major publishing houses, and classic pulp-fiction jackets, this unique and fascinating insight into the world of the front cover will appeal to anyone with a passion for books and graphic design.
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.