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Softcover. UK, FAB Press, 3rd pr., 2024, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 191 pages illustrated in b&w. A mind-melting compilation of gonzo writing, illustration and comics about the most insane, sexy, awkward, cheesy, hilarious, upsetting and jaw-dropping movies in the history of film, Cinema Sewer joyously celebrates the sleaziest aspects of the moviegoing experience, whilst delving deep into bizarre cinematic history. Author and comic artist Robin Bougie takes a dive to the bottom of the cesspool of sexploitation, doing so in a distinctive manner that has made him famous amongst a loyal following of cult film fans. Issues 17 to 20 of this celebrated underground smash magazine are exhaustively revised and collated in this third wild volume, together with an additional 80 pages of never-before-seen interviews, rants, comics, hard-to-find classic movie advertising, and graphic illustrations by Bougie and a host of his talented friends from both the comic book and animation industries. Clean copy.

Hardcover. New York , Norton , 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. 190 pages, illustrated in color and b&w. Cipe Pineles was art director for leading fashion magazines between 1930 and 1960. Tracing Pineles's career from young immigrant to "ranking" female in the design world, Martha Scotford chronicles a time when few women were involved in design and assesses Cipe's brilliant contributions to graphic design and magazine design in particular.

Hardcover. New York, Macmillan Company, Book Club, 1950, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Non-Paginated. Hardcover. Full color illustrations by the Petershams. Previous owners bookplate on inside front cover. Some tape stains on front and rear endpapers. "Parents' Magazine's Read Aloud Book Club" seal on back cover and jacket. Fading along front top edge of dust jacket. Clean, unmarked pages.

Hardcover. US, Prestel Publishing, 1st, 2012, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, This comprehensive monograph explores the conceptual complexity and diversity of Claes Oldenburg's early work to reveal this influential artist's extraordinary inventiveness. Accompanying an exhibition of Oldenburg's seminal early work, this publication examines the breadth of his artistic career from the late 1950s to 1970. It features works including the landmark installations The Street and The Store and their accompanying performances; the highly influential spectacular sculptures of everyday objects as well as drawings and preparatory collages for public projects from the 1960s. The book traces the development of Oldenburg's practice as it follows his work up to the Mouse Museum. Also included in the publication is an extensive chronology, alongside notes as well as a variety of installation views that showcase the careful consideration given to modes of presentation. In addition to imagery of his Pop icons, this richly illustrated book contains an extensive selection of drawings, collages, and magazine and newspaper clippings as well as a wealth of previously unpublished notebook pages, preparatory studies, and photographs taken by the artist. This volume probes diverse aspects of his work to offer fresh perspectives on Oldenburg's artistic development and unprecedented insights into the conceptual process of his artistic explorations.Gash through dust jacket on front cover.

Hardcover. University of Missouri, 1st, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 288 pages. A "shooter" for the Associated Press for thirty-three years, Burroughs was assigned to the Washington bureau, and his photos appeared frequently in newspapers around the world, as well as on the covers of Life and other magazines. Close-ups of History is both an eyewitness account of history and a stirring professional memoir--a book that brings special moments into the viewfinder as Burroughs turns his trained photographer's eye to reflect his highly cultivated sense of news. These dramatic photographs testify to an incredible career launched at the end of World War II, and Burroughs's work in postwar Germany is especially poignant. He documented the remains of Hitler's office, ruined cities and displaced persons, and the Nuremberg trials. He also captured the beginning of the Cold War as the Soviets tried to take over Berlin and the German people struggled to hold the city for the West.

Hardcover. London, Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1st, 1963, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket, 128 pages. John Lehmann, the English author, poet, editor, and publisher, was partner and general manager of The Hogarth Press (1938 to 1946); director of the publishing firm John Lehmann, Ltd. (1945-1952); and editor of the publications New Writing (1936-1939), Penguin New Writing (1940-1950), New Writing and Daylight (1942-1946), New Soundings (1952-1953), and The London Magazine (1954-1961). Clean copy.

Hardcover. New York, Viking Press, 1st, 1961, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, 153 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Color/b&w photographs. Brodart covered dust jacket shows heavy wear on all edges. closed tear on upper front, spine edge. The internationally renowned photographer and filmmaker Eliot Elisofon (1911-1973) demonstrates the means he used to produce the distinguished pictures that made him famous. A frequent contributor to Life magazine, he also created an enduring visual record of African life from 1947 to 1973.

Softcover. Baltimore MD, Johns Hopkins University Press, 1st, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 326 pages, b/w illustrations, softcover. These 4 cartoonists worked at the New Yorker between 1925 and 1975, mocking the status quo without alienating that magazine's readers. For many aficionados of the New Yorker magazine, the drawings of Peter Arno, William Steig, Charles Addams, and Saul Steinberg epitomize its sophisticated wit and disarming humor. In The Comic Worlds of Peter Arno, William Steig, Charles Addams, and Saul Steinberg, the first full-scale scholarly study of the subject, Iain Topliss considers the work of each artist, traces the development of his art, and recalls the cultural and social context in which it was created.

Softcover. New York, Fantagraphics Books, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 199 pages. Softcover with minor wear to paper wrappers. Spine cracked on sencond page. Library embossed stamp on front cover, otherwise clean, tight copy. Minor wear on edges.

Hardcover. New York, Farrar & Rinehart, Inc, 1st, 1938, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. Unpaginated, over 40 b&w full page cartoons, cloth-bound cover, acetate-protected dust jacket. Wear and fading to edges and corners of dust jacket, price-clipped, discoloration to endpages, foxing on cloth cover; still, a neat and tight copy overall. Paul Webb"s hillbilly cartoons were a popular feature in Esquire Magazine in the 30s and 40s.

Hardcover. New York, NY, Prestel, 1st, 2012, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover without dust jacket. Like new in publishers shrink wrap. Conde Nast launched the careers of many great photographers. The discovery of most of the biggest names in fashion photography and the nurturing of their talent into full bloom can rightly be credited to that visionary publisher. Conde Nast himself was gifted at spotting future stars, and, by surrounding himself with the very best and most creative, he placed Vogue magazine, along with other titles such as Glamour, at the forefront of the photographic avant-garde and propelled them to positions of great social and cultural influence. This glorious volume, the result of unprecedented access to the empire's archives, reaches back to 1910 to demonstrate this history of excellence. A constellation of luminaries, legends, and stars, the list of photographers included in this treasury is truly breathtaking. Edward Steichen, Cecil Beaton, Irving Penn, Helmut Newton, Patrick Demarchelier, Ellen von Unwerth, and Mario Testino are just some of the figures who, working with masterful art directors, created a legacy that left its mark on the history of photography and is being built upon in the present day. Chronologically arranged with beautiful reproductions throughout, this stunning volume will become an important addition to the libraries of fashionistas of all ages and tastes.

Hardcover. New York, Random House, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Softcover book and 8 DVDs inside a folding case. Every page of every issue of the magazine (4,109 issues, half a million pages) on eight DVD-Roms, with a companion book of highlights.

Softcover. NY, Oxford University Press, 2nd pr., 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. George Schuyler, a renowned and controversial black journalist of the Harlem Renaissance, and Josephine Cogdell, a blond, blue-eyed Texas heiress and granddaughter of slave owners, believed that intermarriage would "invigorate" the races, thereby producing extraordinary offspring. Their daughter, Philippa Duke Schuyler, became the embodiment of this theory, and they hoped she would prove that interracial children represented the final solution to America's race problems. Able to read and write at the age of two and a half, a pianist at four, and a composer by five, Philippa was often compared to Mozart. During the 1930s and 40s she graced the pages of Time and Look magazines, the New York Herald Tribune, and The New Yorker. Philippa grew up under the adoring andinquisitive eyes of an entire nation and soon became the role model and inspiration for a generation of African-American children. But as an adult she mysteriously dropped out of sight, leaving America to wonder what had happened to the "little Harlem genius." Suffering the double sting of racismand gender bias, Philippa had been rejected by the elite classical music milieu in the United States and forced to find an audience abroad, where she flourished as a world-class performer and composer. She traveled throughout South America, Europe, Africa, and Asia performing for kings, queens, and presidents. By then Philippa had added a second career as an author and foreign correspondent reporting on events around the globe--from Albert Schweitzer's leper colony in Lamberene to the turbulent Asian theater of the 1960s. She would give a command performance for Queen Elisabeth of Belgium one day, and hide from the Viet Cong among the ancient graves of the Annam kings another.

Softcover. Bloomington IN, Indiana University Press, 2nd pr., 2011, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 263 pages. For members of Cairo's upper classes, cosmopolitanism is a form of social capital, deployed whenever they acquire or consume transnational commodities, or goods that are linked in the popular imagination to other, more "modern" places. In a series of thickly described and carefully contextualized case studies-of Arabic children's magazines, Pokemon, private schools and popular films, coffee shops and fast-food restaurants-Mark Allen Peterson describes the social practices that create class identities. He traces these processes from childhood into adulthood, examining how taste and style intersect with a changing educational system and economic liberalization. Peterson reveals how uneasy many cosmopolitan Cairenes are with their new global identities, and describes their efforts to root themselves in the local through religious, nationalist, or linguistic practices. Clean copy.

Softcover. NY, 1947, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover magazine, digest size. Articles on Norman Rockwell (The People's Painter) and Milton Caniff (Secrets of a Comic Strip Artist). Nice copy. Wrap-around cover illustrations by Stan Eckman.

Hardcover. Brooklyn NY, Melville House, 1st, 2013, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. This is the original 30,000 word article Agee wrote for Fortune magazine in 1936 that was never published. Accompanied by 30 Walker Evans photos. Clean copy.

Hardcover. New York, Viking, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 298 pages. Documents over 3,500 covers, reproduced in color. An indispensible volume for the collector or researcher.

Hardcover. New York , Viking Studio Books, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 298 pages, reproduces 3500 covers in color. An indispensable volume for the collector or researcher. Three thousand and five hundred reproductions include virtually every cover of the America's most popular magazine during its entire run, from 1899 to 1969, complemented by an essay tracing the magazine's evolution. 15,000 first printing.

Softcover. NY, Soft Skull Press, 1st, 2016, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 287 pages. It's 1983. Scott Savitt, one of the first American exchange students in Beijing, picks up his guitar and begins strumming Blackbird. He's soon surrounded by Chinese students who know every word to every Beatles song he plays. Scott stays on in Beijing, working as a reporter for Asiaweek Magazine. The city's first nightclubs open; rock 'n' roll promises democracy. Promoted to foreign correspondent for the Los Angeles Times then United Press International, Scott finds himself drawn into China's political heart.Later, at 25 years old, Scott is the youngest accredited foreign correspondent in China with an intimate knowledge of Beijing's backstreets. But as the seven week occupation of Tiananmen Square ends in bloodshed on June 4, 1989, his greatest asset is his flame-red 500 cc. Honda motorcycle--giving Scott the freedom to witness first-hand what the Chinese government still denies ever took place. After Tiananmen, Scott founds the first independent English language newspaper in China, Beijing Scene. He knows that it's only a matter of time before the authorities move in, and sure enough, in 2000 he's arrested, flung into solitary confinement and, after a month in jail, deported. Clean copy.

Hardcover. London/NY, Collins Living, 1st, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 271 pages, fully illustrated with color reproductions of photographs. Features articles and cover art from October 1969 through December 1987 issues. Fine in original pictorial paper-covered boards and fine pictorial dust jacket.

Softcover. Dragon's Dream, 1st thus, 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, pictorial wraps, unpaginated. Dan Dare is the classic science fiction strip from the British 'Eagle' magazine that became a household name when it was published in 1950. This series differs from the Hawk series in that here the art work in the first frame of each front page is not obscured by the title and re-cap text box. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Dodd Mead, 1st US, 1950, Book: Fair, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards, 64 pages illustrated in color and b&w by Trier. Cover and spine worn, chipped. Walter Trier was a Czech-German illustrator, best known for his work for the children's books of Erich Kastner and the covers of the magazine Lilliput. This is a sequel to his Dandy the Donkey first published in 1943. Book is fragile with shakey binding.

Softcover. San Francisco, Chronicle Books, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 144 pages. An illustrated history of the fabulous pulp magazines from 1896 to 1953. After tracing the birth of the pulps back to the 1882 launching of Golden Argosy magazine, printed on pulpwood pages, Server organizes his unwieldy subject into categories of pulps: adventure, romance and sex, horror and fantasy, private eye, weird menace, science fiction. Each receives a lively capsule history that covers trends, reader (and sometimes, as in the case of the ``Spicys,'' government) response, and writers' bios--which, though sketchy (Hammett's Hollywood experience gets one sentence), resurrect a number of relatively obscure but seminal and fascinating figures, like Conan- creator Robert E. Howard, who shot himself dead at age 30 on the day his mother died, and Frederick Faust (a.k.a. Max Brand), who sometimes wrote around the clock, piling up two or three million words a year. Server attributes the pulps' demise to, among other factors, the advent of TV, paperbacks, and comic books, and he winds up with a note on pulp-collecting. For all of the author's savvy, though, it's above all the eye- popping illustrations (100 color, 57 b&w) that will have readers beaming. Magazine covers (some lurid, some of eerie beauty), sample pages of text and ads (``Raise Giant Frogs'')--the pulps come alive once again here, in all their eccentric glory.