Women

Hardcover. Canada, Flammarion, 1st, 2015, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 160 pages. This book will beguile a new generation with flirtatious representations of femininity from the 1940s and 50s. Illustrations of irresistible pinup models bring teasing frivolity to a range of everyday situations, organized thematically from morning to evening. Gil Elvgren, Earl Moran, Al Buell, Edward d'Ancona, and Earl Christie were master illustrators of the pin-up genre. From sun-kissed beauties at the beach to ski bunnies hitting the slopes, bedside nurses ready to take your temperature to scantily clad runaways, rakish shipmates to not-so-conscientious secretaries, these smiling cuties are ready for fun. The penny arcade trading cards originally viewed on a peep-show style reel and reproduced here as detachable illustrations feature both established pin-up artists and those waiting to be rediscovered. Each illustration is accompanied by a humorous and memorable celebrity quote.

Hardcover. New York , Rizzoli, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Gilt stamped black cloth. The complete history of the legendary Pirelli Calendar. Launched in 1963 to a privileged shortlist of customers, the quality and creativity of Pirelli's photographers have made the limited-edition calendar a paradigm of the genre and a coveted collector's item. This volume contains all the calendars published since 1964--including the 1997 edition photographed by Richard Avedon--for a total of 264 full color images. Small chunk gone from rear of dust jacket. 407 pages.

Hardcover. New York , Rizzoli, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, black cloth with gilt lettering, no dust jacket. The complete history of the legendary Pirelli Calendar. Launched in 1963 to a privileged shortlist of customers, the quality and creativity of Pirelli's photographers have made the limited-edition calendar a paradigm of the genre and a coveted collector's item. This volume contains all the calendars published since 1964--including the 1997 edition photographed by Richard Avedon--for a total of 264 full color images. 407 pages. Clean copy.

Softcover. Chicago, Playboy Press, 1997, Book: Very Good, Single issue. Soft cover. Very Good. Minor wear. Centerfold intact. Binding tight, pages clean. 188 pages. Full of beautiful women, as always. Kelly Marie Monaco, Joey Heatherton, Vincent Bugliosi, Howard Stern, etc. A copy that may have a few cosmetic defects.

Softcover. Chicago, Playboy Press, 1997, Book: Very Good, Single issue. Soft cover. Very Good. Minor wear. Centerfold intact. Binding tight, pages clean. Pictorial wraps with Victoria Silvstedt on cover,The Timothy McVeigh Story, Dennis Rodman Interview, Carmen Electra, centerfold Carrie Stevens, George Carlin humor.

Softcover. Chicago, Playboy Press, 1998, Book: Very Good, Single issue. Soft cover. Very Good. Minor wear. Centerfold intact. Binding tight, pages clean. Pictorial wraps with Baywatch Babes on fold-out cover. This month articles feature: Navy flier shows her stuff, breaks the Playboy barrier; Interview with Paul Reiser; Nascar, history of the sexual revolution, 60 to 69 (make love not war), playmate Anne Randalll and more.

Softcover. Chicago, Playboy Press, 1997, Book: Good, Single issue. Soft cover. Very Good. Minor wear. Centerfold intact. Binding tight, pages clean. Pictorial wraps with Faye Resnick on cover, '3001: The Final Odyssey' by Arthur C. Clarke, Clint Eastwood interview, 20 questions for Michael Jordan, article on Don King, Miss March Jennifer Mariam and more.

Softcover. Chicago, Playboy Press, 1997, Book: Very Good, Single issue. Soft cover. Very Good. Minor wear to bottom of rear cover 10 pages in rear. Centerfold intact. Binding tight, pages clean. Pictorial wraps with Claudia Schiffer on cover. Full of beautiful women as always including supermodels.Highlights: Lynn Thomas as Miss May, Donald Trump Article, Saul Bellow interview, 20 Questions for Lucy Lawless, and more.

Softcover. Chicago, Playboy Press, 1989, Book: Good, Single issue. Soft cover. Very Good. Minor wear to bottom edge, rear cover. Centerfold intact. Binding tight, pages clean. Pictorial wraps with Donna Mills on cover, centerfold Renee Tenison. Stories on sex inthe Cinema 1989 pictorial; abortion opinions; Donna Mills Knots Landing; interview with Garry Kasparov; solving the murder of Jimmy Hoffa; confessions of an SOB and more.

Softcover. Chicago, Playboy Press, 1997, Book: Very Good, Single issue. Soft cover. Very Good. Minor wear. Centerfold intact. Binding tight, pages clean. Pictorial wraps with Pamela Anderson and Jenny McCarthy on cover,180 pages Features Jenny, playmate of the month Nikki Schieler, "a tribute to blonde ambition"; Christopher Walken interview; NFL preview; Fred Goldman's grand obsession, dream girls Pamela and... Chris Farley's size XXXL mind; 25 hot sex sites online and more.

Softcover. Chicago, Playboy Press, 1998, Book: Very Good, Single issue. Soft cover. Very Good. Minor wear. Centerfold intact. Binding tight, pages clean. Holiday anniversary issue. Grant Hill interview. Billy Bob Thornton's outrageous ex; Bettie Page's story. Teri Hatcher 20 questions. How smart are you about Seinfeld. Queen of the B's, Shannon Tweed. Shel Silverstein's Street Smart hamlet. playmate review. Centerfold: Heather Kozar.

Softcover. Chicago, Playboy Press, 1998, Book: Very Good, Single issue. Soft cover. Very Good. Minor wear. Centerfold intact. Binding tight, pages clean. Pictorial wraps with Baywatch babe Marliece Andrada on cover, also as Centerfold Miss March; Kevin Kline interview; swimsuit issue, playboy style; the real boogie nights - life and death of John Holmes and more.

Softcover. Chicago, Playboy Press, 1998, Book: Very Good, Single issue. Soft cover. Very Good. Minor wear. Centerfold intact. Binding tight, pages clean. Pictorial wraps with Lisa Rinna Melrose Place mom on cover & Pregnant Pictorial; sweet life of Ahmad Rashad; smartest women in porn; Patrick Moynihan inteview; Vanessa Gleason Miss September and more.

Hardcover. New Texture, 1st, 2022, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards, 135 pages. A prolific men's action magazine illustrator from the magazines' start in the 1950s until their passing from American newsstands in the 1970s, POLLEN IN PRINT's complete, chronological presentation of Pollen's contributions serves as its own visual history, illuminating both Pollen's growth as an artist, as well as the magazines' (and their readers') shifting focus and changing interests across three decades. Clean copy.

Hardcover. New Texture, 1st, 2018, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards, 135 pages. A lush visual archive collecting some of artist Samson Pollen's most memorable pieces, selected from the hundreds of jaw-dropping illustrations Pollen provided for men's adventure magazines (MAMs) from the 1950s through the 1970s. Sexy women were a regular component of story illustrations published in the more than 160 MAM titles that flourished from the early 1950s through the mid-1970s, and nobody painted beautiful and dangerous femmes like Pollen. Much of the artist's work--literally, hundreds of pieces--saw print in the Atlas/Diamond group of MAMs from Marvel Comics founder Martin Goodman's Magazine Management Company. Until now, almost none of these illustrations have seen print since their original publication in those latter-day pulps. POLLEN'S WOMEN collects the artist's sexiest and most lethal female portraits in a deluxe hardcover edition, with an autobiographical introduction by the artist.

Softcover. UK, Cambridge University Press, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 316 pages. How have women's lives changed in the republics of the former Soviet Union since the fall of the USSR? This is the first book systematically to examine changes and continuities across these states, focusing on women and work, social roles and women in politics. Drawing on interviews with women in factories, on farms and with women street-sellers, politicians and activists, the book questions whether women are "victims" or "agents" of change, and describes various strategies of coping and adaptation to new economic and social instabilities. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Abbeville Press, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 224 pages. This book provides a personal look at the three generations of American Indian women who made (and are still making) traditional pottery. Color illustrations throughout. Primarily a women's art, American Indian pottery reflects a heritage of powerful social, religious, and aesthetic values. Even now, modern American Indian women use the clay, paint, and fire of pottery making to express themselves, creating designs that range from dutifully traditional to strikingly original. This book--written in conjunction with one of the most important exhibitions of American Indian pottery ever mounted--provides an in-depth look at a unique North American art form. Clean copy. DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.

Hardcover. Twin Palms, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, unpaginated, black cloth in pictorial dust jacket (with pink belly band dj present and intact). Lavishly illustrated in duotone photographs of female nudes. During the 1920s. a time when the United States was, from all appearances, open to artistic experimentation, a Bay Area photographer named Albert Arthur Allen unwittingly took on the Goliath of nudity and politics. An obscure figure who operated outside the margins of the fine art community, Allen was known to a small coterie of clients who bought boudoir studies, pictures of comely young voluptuaries. (In Europe these photographic etudes were an acknowledged integral part of the academic tradition.) A homespun aesthetician who had a marked propensity for self-invention, Allen produced photographic protfolios that were initially inspired by the naturist movement. Today his images, which are typically perceived as high camp, are more familiar than his name.

Hardcover. Philadelphia, Johnson and Warner etc., reprint, 1818, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 344 pages, full leather binding with spine label. With improvements and notes by Thomas C. James. A nice copy with only faint foxing. Volume two only of a two volume set.

Hardcover. New York, Philosophical Library, Inc, 1st, 1961, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, 138 pages. Hardcover. Dust jacket unclipped. Covers slightly bent with touch of foxing, but otherwise good. Dust jacket has some moisture damage on back and some chipping at spine. Clean inside.

Hardcover. Buffalo NY, Prometheus Books, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. 188 pages, b&w photos. "At night she was a loving wife and mother. During the day, she'd put her children on the school bus, pack her sequined G-strings and feather boas, and leave for New York City - to take her place in the world of Times Square as the 'Queen of Burlesque. '...Paris refused to compete on an X-rated level, presenting her audiences with old-fashioned burlesque: the gowns, the gloves, the feather fans. Much to her surprise, she beceme the favorite stripper on the New York circuit." Clean copy.

Hardcover. Seattle, Fantagraphics, 1st, 2021, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards, 128 pages. Having created one of the most expansive and remarkable casts of characters of any cartoonist who ever lived (under the umbrella of the ongoing Love and Rockets comic book series), acclaimed graphic novelist Jaime Hernandez -- Will Eisner Hall of Famer; Eisner, Harvey, Ignatz, and PEN Award winner; L.A. Times Book Prize winner; and on a very short list of contenders for the title of America's Greatest Living Cartoonist -- has been privately amassing a body of work that no one else has ever seen for over 40 years. Until now. Creating a Love and Rockets-adjacent world, set in the heyday of 1960s and '70s women's wrestling and lucha libre, Queen of the Ring is a best-of book spotlighting the women who are often ignored in pro wrestling in 125 full color illustrations: pin-ups, action shots, fake wrestling magazine covers, all presented in a deluxe hardcover that echoes the lucha libre magazines of the 1960s.

Hardcover. Taschen, 1st trade, 2012, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 368 pages. "A photographer once said that beauty in women is endless. Perhaps it was I who said it. I love photographing women and could say that the form of the female body is absolute and perfect. "Master photographer Ralph Gibson returns with an exquisite collection of nudes, combining the best of his work with an in-depth interview by Eric Fischl. Strikingly graphic, meticulously composed, and loaded with subtle provocations, Gibson's mysterious, dreamlike images pay homage to greats such as Man Ray and Edward Weston, while continually pursuing new frontiers. DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.

Softcover. New Brunswick NJ, Rutgers University Press, 1st pbk., 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 372 pages. The first set of essays seeks to analyze the patriarchal discourses of a colonial society and includes an analysis of the shaping of Hindu-Aryan identity, the parameters of the discourse on widow-immolation, the "defeminization" of popular culture in nineteenth-century urban Calcutta, the nature of the reforms proposed by early women's journals in Hindi, and the implications of the nationalist movement and of Indo-Anglian literature on middle-class patriarchal norms. The second set of articles relates to women of the productive classes--the reconstitution of patriarchies in the agrarian transition in Haryana, in the Oudh peasant movement, in the armed peasant struggle in Telangana, and among the working class in Bengal. The contributors explore the interrelation of patriarchies with political economy, law, religion, and culture, and suggest a different history of "reform" movements, and of class and gender relations. Clean copy.