Magazines

Hardcover. New York , Mark Batty Publisher, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 286 pages, a comprehensive and inspirational guide to editorial design packed with contemporary examples of sophisticated and effective solutions for virtually any design challenge. Moser's thorough understanding of the process, combined with intriguing juxtapositions of layouts, no-nonsense comments and original insight make for an entertaining and useful book. Chapters range from Grid Systems and Formats to Covers, Logos and Inside Pages, Types of Page and Themes, even a section on the design of magazine spines-illustrated with over 1500 examples from publications around the world, and drawn from the author's personal collection of over one million magazines! A great reference book for all graphic designers, art directors and editorial writers.

Hardcover. NY, Random House, 1st, 1939, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, hundreds of b&w cartoons from the magazine's golden age. Tan cloth spine with blue boards. No lettering on spine. Clean copy, no dust jacket.

Softcover. Seattle, Fantagraphics, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 200 pages. Gary Groth interviews father and son cartoonists Gene and Kim Deitch. Academy-award-winning Gene Deitch, whose wide-ranging career has spanned over 60 years, talks about doing illustrations for The Record Changer, directing cartoons such as Munro and Krazy Kat, and creating his comic strip Terr'ble Thompson. Underground comics pioneer Kim Deitch, touches on his father's influence, reminisces about the New York-based scene and outlines the evolution of Waldo the Cat. Plus: The innovative Grant Morrison fills us in on his X-Men run, All Star Superman, the ambitious Seven Soldiers "maxiseries," and how he became one of the architects of the current DC Comics universe. Finally, the comics gallery presents an historical essay and highlights from the turn-of-the-19th-century work of Puck cartoonist, F. M. Howarth.

Softcover. Seattle, Fantagraphics, 1st, 2009, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 207 pages. A career-spanning interview with Mort Walker, the creator of Beetle Bailey and Hi & Lois. Jordan Crane discusses The Clouds Above: comics by the famous 17th century caricaturist Thomas K. Rowlandson.

Softcover. New York, Fantagraphics Books, 1st, 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 300 pages. Softcover with light edgewear to paper wrappers. Clean, tight copy. Color and black and white illustrations throughout. The definitive Comics Journal interviews with the cartoonists behind Zap Comix, featuring: Supreme 1960s counterculture/underground artist Robert Crumb on how acid unleashed a flood of Zap characters from his unconscious; Marxist brawler Spain Rodriguez on how he made the transition from the Road Vultures biker gang to the exclusive Zap cartoonists' club; Yale alumnus Victor Moscoso and Christian surfer Rick Griffin on how their poster-art psychedelia formed the backdrop of the 1960s San Francisco music scene; Savage Id-choreographer S. Clay Wilson on how his dreams insist on being drawn; Painter and Juxtapoz-founder Robert Williams on how Zap #4 led to 150 news-dealer arrests; Fabulous, Furry, Freaky Gilbert Shelton on the importance of research; Church of the Subgenius founder Paul Mavrides on getting a contact high during the notorious Zap jam sessions; and much more. In these career-spanning interviews, the Zap contributors open up about how they came to create a seminal, living work of art.

Softcover. Oakville Ontario , Mosaic Press , 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 276 pages. B&W illustrations. Here is an affectionate look back at the outsized heroes who once occupied the imagination of millions of loyal readers. The Shadow. Tarzan. Doc Savage. Captain Future. The Spider. Zero. They were the original super guys - godfathers and inpsiration to the likes of Superman, Batman, and James Bond. Fascinating and informative, The Great Pulp Heroes is a lively and entertaining history of those fabulous characters, of them gaudy, glorious magazines that spawned them, and of the amazing wordsmiths who churned out their monthly adventures. Bright, clean copy.

Hardcover. Atglen, PA, Schiffer Publishing, 2nd, 2012, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 489 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Clean, tight copy. Color photo throughout. While You Were Sleeping was a graffiti and pop culture magazine started by graffiti supply business owner Roger Gastman when he was 19. Here are some of the greatest stories the magazine ever published-and many that are not so good. From stories on admirable serial killers and interviews with child stars to photos of graffiti and people's naked sisters, this book takes you into the dirty minds of Gastman and his team of juvenile delinquents. You've been warned.

Hardcover. NY, Alfred A. Knopf, 1st, 1966, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in an unclipped, lightly soiled dust jacket. Yellow cloth stamped in purple and black; 370 pages, illustrated with drawings by Leslie Saalburg. Here Gingrich, the publisher of Esquire, shares his feelings on food, automobiles, smoking pipes, violins, haberdashery and a litany of other esoteric subjects.

Hardcover. Taschen, 1st, 1013, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, hardcover, 336 pages. At the height of the Jazz Age, when Prohibition was turning ordinary citizens into criminals and ordinary criminals into celebrities, America's true crime detective magazines were born. True Detective came first in 1924, and by 1934, when the Great Depression had produced colorful outlaws like Machine Gun Kelly, Bonnie and Clyde, Baby Face Nelson, and John Dillinger, the magazines were so popular cops and robbers alike vied to see themselves on the pages. Even FBI boss J. Edgar Hoover wrote regularly for what came to be called the "Dickbooks," referring to a popular slang term for a detective. As the decades rolled on, the magazines went through a curious metamorphosis, however. When liquor was once more legal, the Depression over and all the flashy criminals dead or imprisoned, the "detectives" turned to sin to make sales. Sexy bad girls in tight sweaters, slit skirts, and stiletto heels adorned every cover. Cover lines shouted "I Was a Girl Burglar-For Kicks," "Sex Habits of Women Killers," "Bride of Sin!," "She Played Me for a Sucker," and most succinctly, "Bad Woman."True Crime Detective Magazines follows the evolution and devolution of this distinctly American genre from 1924 to 1969. Hundreds of covers and interior images from dozens of magazine titles tell the story, not just of the "detectives," but also of America's attitudes towards sex, sin, crime, and punishment over five decades. With texts by magazine collector Eric Godtland, George Hagenauer, and True Detective editor Marc Gerald, True Crime Detective Magazines is an informative and entertaining look at one of the strangest publishing niches of all time.

Softcover. Los Angeles, Society for Visual Anthropology, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, magazine format, 108 pages. illustrated collection of provocative essays, occasional pieces, and dialogues with contributions from anthropologists, from cultural, literary and film critics and from image makers themselves. Includes: Narrative in a Papua New Guinean Swamp; Opportunities for 'Double Voicing' in Ethnographic Film; Images of Woman in Current Chinese Television Advertising; Interview with Filmaker Bob Connolly, other essays and reviews. Clean.

Softcover. Los Angeles, Society for Visual Anthropology, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, magazine format, 144 pages. illustrated collection of provocative essays, occasional pieces, and dialogues with contributions from anthropologists, from cultural, literary and film critics and from image makers themselves. Includes: Articles on the cinema of Tim Asch, Paradise by James Clifford (on Papua New Guinea), Subtitling Ethnographic Films, other essays and reviews. Clean.

Softcover. Los Angeles, Society for Visual Anthropology, 1st, 1992, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, magazine format, 144 pages. illustrated collection of provocative essays, occasional pieces, and dialogues with contributions from anthropologists, from cultural, literary and film critics and from image makers themselves. Includes: Shoot for the Contents, Films of Memory, Encounter with a Road Siren, other essays and reviews. Light rubbing to covers. Clean.

Softcover. Los Angeles, Society for Visual Anthropology, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, magazine format, 120 pages. illustrated collection of provocative essays, occasional pieces, and dialogues with contributions from anthropologists, from cultural, literary and film critics and from image makers themselves. Includes: Reading Trash, Artaud, Rouch, & the Cinema of Cruelty; Remembering the Revolution, Forgetting the Empire; 'Thirty Centuries, the Splendors of Mexico'; What Is Real About Virtual Reality?; Marketing Alterity, other essays and reviews. Clean.

Softcover. Los Angeles, Society for Visual Anthropology, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, magazine format, 180 pages. illustrated collection of provocative essays, occasional pieces, and dialogues with contributions from anthropologists, from cultural, literary and film critics and from image makers themselves. Special Issue on feminist approaches to the visualization of culture, other essays and reviews. Clean.

Softcover. Los Angeles, Society for Visual Anthropology, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, magazine format, 180 pages. illustrated collection of provocative essays, occasional pieces, and dialogues with contributions from anthropologists, from cultural, literary and film critics and from image makers themselves. Special Issue on feminist approaches to the visualization of culture, other essays and reviews. Clean.

Softcover. Los Angeles, Society for Visual Anthropology, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, magazine format, 124 pages. illustrated collection of provocative essays, occasional pieces, and dialogues with contributions from anthropologists, from cultural, literary and film critics and from image makers themselves. Includes: Post-Bourgeois Tattoo, The Ethnographer's Tale, Who's Story Is It?, other essays and reviews. Clean.

Hardcover. NY, Thames & Hudson;, 1st, 2009, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. The best pages from the sensational photo magazine published in France in the 1920s and 1930s. Established in Paris in 1928, VU combined stunning photography with dynamic layouts and first-rate reporting, creating a revolution in journalism and setting the stage for future photo magazines like Life, Stern, and Paris Match. For a weekly magazine that only published 665 issues (21 March 1928 -- 5 June 1940) VU left behind a remarkable legacy as revealed in these pages. There are eight main chapters: Page layouts; Faces; Photo stories; Photomontages; The rise of Hitler; Sensation and spectacle; Image innovations; Covers and each is crammed with spreads and covers from the magazine and lots of them are big enough to read the stories and captions (assuming you know French). VU was created by publisher Lucien Vogel with editor Carlo Rim and art editor Alexander Liberman (who became US Vogue's art editor and later creative director of Conde Nast) as a general interest picture weekly, some years before Life and Look in the US and Picture Post in Britain. They all took advantage of developing technologies of the day like wire transmission of photos and rotogravure printing. VU was the first though to use photos in a very creative way, especially with cover montages created by Liberman, no doubt influenced by Russian magazines of the twenties designed Rodchenko, Tellingater, Lissitzky and Stepanova.

Hardcover. NY, Thames & Hudson, 1st, 2009, Hardcover, 320 pages. The best pages from the sensational photo magazine published in France in the 1920s and 1930s.Established in Paris in 1928, VU combined stunning photography with dynamic layouts and first-rate reporting, creating a revolution in journalism and setting the stage for future photo magazines like Life, Stern, and Paris Match.VU covered a wide and eclectic range of subjects including politics, world affairs, social issues, discoveries, exploration, the arts, sports, and entertainment. It intended to be an illustrated journal of the week's events-a movie newsreel on paper-and published work by some of the most important photographers of the time: Robert Capa, Andre Kertesz, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Brassai, Man Ray, and more.This book gathers some of the best work from more than 600 issues of VU: covers, double-page spreads, and complete reports. It provides both a record of the prewar world of the twenties and thirties, and an unparalleled history of photojournalism in the early twentieth century. 200+ b&w illustrations

Hardcover. Boston, Perry Mason & Co., 1899, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 600+ pages. This is a children's periodical, all issues for the year 1899, bound together in black-cloth, gilt, edgeworn boards. Many b&w engravings. Large format, 11.5x16". Total of 50 issues or around 12-16 pages each. A treasure trove of old advertising and graphic images from that era. Perfect for a graphic artist, or collector, interested in Victoriana.