Thursday, July 21, 2016

Masters of American Illustration, Art of Doug Sneyd, Tales from the Crypt 2, Roger Zelazny & Vaughn Bode, Overstreet Price Guide, Planet Comics—on sale

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We’re at Comic-Con in San Diego as this email goes out, but I was able to get all the new items described before I left. Hurray! Hope to see you at the show. Biggies this week...the superlative Le Pater by Mucha, Masters of American Illustration by Fred Taraba, a new low-priced Doug Sneyd in softcover (still with our signed bookplate), the wonderful Way Up Hi and Here There Be Dragons by Bodé and Roger Zelazny, Overstreet Price Guide...and two kinky but wonderfully drawn erotic art books from Italy—see the Mature section.

Graphic Novels

 


HARLEY QUINN'S GREATEST HITS -- Recommended. By Scott Beatty, Adam Glass, Scott Snyder, Jeph Loeb et al. Art by Bruce Timm, John Timms, Jim Lee et al. Get ready for this summer’s most anticipated movie Suicide Squad with the comics that inspired the film, including fan-favorite character Harley Quinn! And here is the best of her short stories, with some stunning art by the likes of Jim Lee, whose work here knocks us out, plus Paul Dini, Bruce Timm and Amanda Conner. Wild, fun stories in a variety of styles, from animation to kid style to deadly serious...well, if Harley is ever really serious. With guest appearances from Batman, Poison Ivy, and Catwoman.....More.

Item Code: HQGHI
$9.99
Publisher DC
Publish Date 2016
Binding Soft Cover
Dimensions 7x10
# Pages 160pg
Color Full Color
Harley’s coming up in movie-land, and we’re bringing in all of her latest graphic novels and archives, like this one. See our website for more Harley.
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WANDERING ISLAND -- Recommended. By Kenji Tsuruta. First volume in a fascinating storyline. Mikura Amelia is a free-spirited young woman--more girl than woman, really--living alone with her cat. She operates an air delivery service, flying her vintage 1936-era seaplane to Japan’s small island communities located hundreds of miles out into the Pacific. When her beloved grandfather, who taught her to fly and started the business, passes away, she discovers he left her an undelivered parcel, addressed to an island that doesn’t exist...or does it? Magnificent artwork--photo-realistic detail, juxtaposed with softly sensual images of Mirkuro, who is more comfortable in a bikini than in flight jackets...it's hot there!....More.

Item Code: WAIS
$14.99
Publisher Dark Horse Manga
Publish Date 2016
Binding Soft Cover
Dimensions 6x8
# Pages 200pg
Color b&w
See our website for more adult manga novels. I like this new one, it’s fun.
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STEAM MAN -- Collects #1-5. By Joe R. Lansdale. Art by Piotr Kowalski. On the great plains of the old American west, an enormous steam-powered robot marches across the countryside, to defend the populace against invading Martians (a War of the Worlds tie-in) and armies of killer beastly Morlocks (and even more elemental, a tie in to The Time Machine)! The Steam Man, a giant metal man operated by a team of monster hunters, seems to have the defense of the West well in hand, until a crazed and powerful vampire--our warped Time Traveler--tries to bring about the apocalypse!....More.

Item Code: STMA
$17.99 $15.99
Publisher Dark Horse
Publish Date 2016
Binding Soft Cover
Dimensions 7x10
# Pages 136pg
Color Full Color
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NEIL GAIMAN Coraline -- Back in Stock. Recommended. Adapted and illustrated by P. Craig Russell. Acclaimed artist P. Craig Russell brings Neil Gaiman's enchanting, nationally bestselling children's book Coraline to new life in this gorgeously illustrated graphic novel adaptation. Coraline discovered the door a little after they moved into the house. When Coraline steps through, she finds another house strangely similar to her own (only better). But there's another mother there and another father, and they want her to stay and be their little girl. They want to change her and never let her go.....More.

Item Code: CORH
$9.99
Publisher Harper Collins
Publish Date 2009
Binding Soft Cover
Dimensions 6x9
# Pages 186pg
Color Full Color
Lots more Neil Gaiman on the website. This is also available in the original novel, as part of a boxed set of three books, in NEIL GAIMAN & CHRIS RIDDELL Box Set [NGCR. $21, your price $18.95]. Comes with The Graveyard Book and Fortunately The Milk, all illustrated by Riddell (from the British editions).
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BARB WIRE Book 2 Hotwired -- Collects Barb Wire Volume 2 #5-8, 2015-16. By Chris Warner, Patrick Olliffe, and Tom Nguyen. Covers by Adam Hughes. Braced by shady federal agents, bounty hunter Barb Wire is forced to locate an old associate whom the agents claim is the most dangerous man alive. With no choice but compliance, Barb learns that her former ally is not the man she remembers...if indeed he is a man at all! The comic book that inspired the motion picture, Barb Wire returns with smoke, lightning, and a skilled tough lady with fast-talking guns. Writtten by series creator Chris Warner and drawn by Catwoman and Spider-Girl artist Patrick Olliffe, with all five covers by comics superstar Adam Hughes.....More.

Item Code: BAW02
$14.99 $12.99
Publisher Dark Horse
Publish Date 2016
Binding Soft Cover
Dimensions 7x10
# Pages 96pg
Color Full Color
Volume 1 is the same price and discount [BAW01].
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ZENTROPA Signed -- Signed! By John Mahoney. New scifi from a veteran Disney Visual Development Artist!  In the tradition of the old Heavy Metal Magazine, Guido Crepax's work, Lone Sloane and the classic early European sci-fi epics. Inspired by a near death experience, this 108-page wordless graphic novel is a psychedelic, mind expanding epic. Two space explorers try to figure out what is happening to their planet as odd organic growths begin appearing everywhere. Is this a biological attack from another race or something coming from within their own planet?....More.

Item Code: ZENHS
$40.00
Publisher Independent Publisher
Publish Date 2015
Binding Hard Cover -
No Dustjacket
Dimensions 10x13
# Pages 108pg
Color Partial Color
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New On Sale

 


THE ART OF DOUG SNEYD Signed -- Signed bookplate! Now in Softcover. Our Highest Recommendation. By Doug Sneyd. Foreword by Hugh Hefner. One of Playboy Magazine's most popular contributors, Sneyd has been sketching beautiful ladies in compromising situations since the 1960s. Loaded with gorgeous cheesecake-style pin-ups and laced with a bawdy wit, these gorgeous full-color illustrations celebrate the art and humor of the pick-up, hook-up and break-up. Loaded with rare production sketches and previously unpublished works. A must for fans of Playboy, lovers of tongue-in-cheek sexy humor, and just plain beautiful ladies.....More.

Item Code: AODSN
$19.99
Publisher Dark Horse
Publish Date 2016
Binding Soft Cover
Dimensions 9x12
# Pages 248pg
Color Full Color
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ART OF RICHARD THOMPSON -- Closeout Price! Recommended. By David Apatoff, Nick Galifianakis, Bill Watterson et al. Known for his comic strip Cul de SacRichard Thompson's art prowess extends to many other levels. He is renowned among cartoonists, including high praise from Calvin & Hobbes' Bill Watterson, as an "artist's" cartoonist. Little known to all but those close to him is the extent of his talent. This is the book that will enlighten and delight, with plenty from his wonderfully funny strip, as well as other offbeat and unsual cartoons, portraits, and much more! Note: These copies have remainder marks.....More.

Item Code: ARRTH
$35.00 $16.95
Publisher Andrews McMeel
Publish Date 2014
Condition Note: These copies have remainder marks.
Binding Hard Cover
Dimensions 9x11
# Pages 224pg
Color Partial Color
Check out his wonderful Cul de Sac compilations on our website. Little four-year-old Alice is the closest thing to Calvin (of Calvin and Hobbes) we’ve come across, and we love this strip dearly. We have both the complete collection and an inexpensive softcover stand-alone title.
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Archives

 


EC ARCHIVES Tales from the Crypt Volume 2 -- Collects #23-28, 1951-52. Highly Recommended. By Al Feldstein and Johnny Craig. Art by Wally Wood, Graham Ingels, Jack Kamen et al. Here EC is just getting into its stride. There's very early work by Wally Wood, still figuring out his signature style. There's funky Al Feldstein, Jack Kamen, early Johnny Craig, Joe Orlando, Graham Ingels, and Jack Davis! Forward by Joe Dante, Introduction by Grant Geissman. Classic stories include "Drawn and Quartered," "The Works...in Wax," "Reflection of Death," "Voodoo Death," "Bats in My Belfry!" and much more.....More.

Item Code: ECT02H
$49.99 $39.99
Publisher Dark Horse
Publish Date 2016
Binding Hard Cover
Dimensions 8x11
# Pages 216pg
Color Full Color
Volumes 1, 4 and 5 area also available at the same discount. Volume 5 is the final volume, so now we just have Vol 3 to go to have them all back in print. See all these volumes on our website.
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HOWARD THE DUCK The Complete Collection Volume 3 -- Collects Howard the Duck Magazine #2-7, 1979-81. By Bill Mantlo et al. Art by Gene Colan, John Buscema and Michael Golden. Discover rare, never-before-collected tales of the duck with delusions of adequacy as Marvel's trawl through the annals of Howard history plunders the magazine era! As rendered by legends like Colan, Buscema and Golden, Howie has never looked better, while his adventures get wilder than ever. Since he moved from comics to a magazine, no more comics code--so there's abundant nudity here. Howard reunites with muck monster Man-Thing and meets Santa Claus, and Drakula, the undead duck! Mature Readers...More.

Item Code: HOWD03
$34.99 $29.99
Publisher Marvel
Publish Date 2016
Adult Rating Mature Readers
Binding Soft Cover
Dimensions 7x10
# Pages 360pg
Color b&w
Volumes 1 and 2 are available at the same discounted price.
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Art Books

 


MASTERS OF AMERICAN ILLUSTRATION (New Edition) -- Limited, 1000. Our Highest Recommendation. By Fred Taraba. This sold out immediately in 2011, a massive 432 pages about the working methods of 41 iconic American illustrators. Walter Baumhofer, Rudolph Belarski, W.T. Benda, Franklin Booth, Austin Briggs, Charles Livingston Bull, Matt Clark, Will Crawford, Albert Dorne, Robert Fawcett, James Montgomery Flagg...Along with Edwin Giorgi, John LaGatta, Andrew Loomis, Orson Lowell, Rose O’Neill, Herbert Paus, Edward Penfield, Coles Phillips, Mead Schaeffer, Jon Whitcomb, and Coby Whitmore.......More.

Item Code: MASAH
$60.00
Publisher Illustrated Press
Publish Date 2016
Binding Hard Cover
# Pages 432pg
Color Full Color
Still available are volumes 2 and 3 of The Golden Age--Masterworks from the Golden Age of Illustration. Both are limited to the same 1,000 copy edition size. Volume 1 is SOLD OUT. Published by Illustrator’s Press, the same folks who do Illustration Magazine.
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LE PATER ALPHONSE MUCHA'S SYMBOLIST MASTERPIECE -- With 10 additional mini prints! Our Highest Recommendation. By Thomas Negovan. Special Kickstarter edition with two separate sets of prints, else the same as the softcover. Coming in hardcover later this summer. By 1899, Alphonse Mucha had experienced four years as the most recognizable proponent of Art Nouveau graphics and the most celebrated illustrator in Paris. So Mucha insisted upon the release of a deeply personal work, and printed 510 copies of what he for the remainder of his life considered his masterpiece. This Symbolist story features a female deity protecting humankind, sophisticated occult themes and mystical illustrations.....More.

Item Code: ALPMP
$65.00
Publisher Century Guild
Publish Date 2016
Binding Soft Cover
Dimensions 8x11
# Pages 59pg
Color Partial Color
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LE PATER ALPHONSE MUCHA'S SYMBOLIST MASTERPIECE -- Our Highest Recommendation. By Thomas Negovan. The images from Le Pater are mentioned in numerous Mucha books as his masterpieces and are universally acknowledged alongside his massive Slav Epic paintings as his finest work. However, as a result of Mucha's forced limitation of the publication of this masterwork, the rarity of the lithographs means that most books are limited to mentioning the images in the text and leaving the reader to wonder what these "lost masterpieces" might look like. Unlike the advertising art that had dominated Mucha's output since his "discovery" by Sarah Bernhardt in late 1894, Mucha described this series of images to a New York reporter as "the thing I have put my soul into." (The Sun newspaper, 5 January, 1900)....More.

Item Code: ALPM
$35.00
Publisher Century Guild
Publish Date 2016
Binding Soft Cover
Dimensions 8x11
# Pages 59pg
Color Partial Color

The publishers have added a special hardcover edition, for $100, which will include the bonus ten plates that come with the $65 softcover package, above. However, this will not be ready until January. It is not yet on the website as I write this, but may be up shortly. You can call to reserve it: (530) 273-2166.

See our website for several more Alphonse Mucha art books.

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HERE THERE BE DRAGONS -- Highly Recommended. By Roger Zelazny. Art by Vaughn Bodé. Roger Zelazny’s only two children’s books in affordable new hardcover editions. Mister Gibberling picked up his quill, and with a great flourish of the feather wrote (in fancy letters): Here There Be Dragons. Then he would smile because he had explained a new territory. Thus, in a tiny, isolated kingdom long ago and far away, everyone believed that the world beyond was infested with fearsome, fire-breathing dragons and no one dared venture forth. No one, that is, except William. First published in a limited edition in 1992.....More.

Item Code: HETH
$19.99
Publisher Grant
Publish Date 2016
Binding Hard Cover
Dimensions 9x11
# Pages 24pg
Color Text/Full Color
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WAY UP HI -- Highly Recommended. By Roger Zelazny. Art by Vaughn Bodé. Roger Zelazny’s only two children’s books in affordable new hardcover editions. When Susi cut through the old orchard, shady and secret and out-of-the-way, she was alone. Then, on a fine, warm, sunny day during the last week of school she met Herman, a lonesome pterodactyl sunning himself on a rock. So began an extraordinary summer of friendship, adventure, discovery and . . . magic. First published in a limited edition in 1992.....More.

Item Code: WAYU
$19.99
Publisher Grant
Publish Date 2016
Binding Hard Cover
Dimensions 9x11
# Pages 24pg
Color Text/Full Color
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M C ESCHER The Graphic Work (New Edition) -- New Edition. Recommended. From impossible staircases to tesselated birds, Dutch artist M. C. Escher (1898–1972) crafted a unique graphic language of patterns, puzzles, and mathematics. Dense, complex, and structured by intricate principles, his work is at the same time decorative and playful, toying constantly with optic illusions and the limitations of sensory perception. For mathematicians and scientists, Escher is a mastermind. For hippies, he was the pioneer of psychedelic art. New edition of a 1959 classic, complete with Escher's commentary (he lived until 1972).....More.

Item Code: MCECH
$14.99
Publisher Taschen
Publish Date 2016
Binding Hard Cover
Dimensions 8x10
# Pages 496pg
Color b&w
We also have in stock this cool little work. Strangely enough, it hasn’t sold well for us in the catalog and on the website, but I sell it all the time in my local bricks and mortar store, Booktown, which is a USED book store. So this is obviously something folks have to see to fall in love with. Check it out.
 

ALSO AVAILABLE

M.C. ESCHER KALEIDOCYCLES -- By Doris Schattschneider and Wallace Walker. Everyone loves surprises, and in this book the magic of Escher's work is revealed in three dimensions. Use the perforated cards to make your own beautifully decorated geometric shapes. Forms of stunning symmetry and regularity are created when you combine geometry with Escher's art. Build 14 elaborate geometrics using die-cut, pop-out color designs on heavy card stock.
Item Code: MCEK
$14.99
Publisher Taschen
Publish Date 2015
Binding Soft Cover
Dimensions 12x9
# Pages 68pg
Color Partial Color
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HASHISH The Lost Legend -- A Lost Classic from 1898. Recommended. By Fritz Lemmermayer. Art by Gottfried Sieben. Edited by Ronald K. Siegel. This much sought-after lost German novel of hashish visions is newly translated and illustrated with the amazing erotic 19th century images. A book so rare and sought after that only two copies can be found in world libraries. A forgotten Arabian legend has been translated into English. This illustrated novel is presented as a "pictorial opera" of love, eroticism, drugs and tragedy, with wonderful nudes throughout, as well as Arabian heroic fantasy, all blended into a tale of drugs and other worlds and descriptions of true hashish hallucinations.....More.

Item Code: HASHH
$29.95 $26.95

Publisher Process
Publish Date 2013
Binding Hard Cover -
No Dustjacket
Dimensions 8x10
# Pages 118pg
Color Text/Partial Color
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2017 Calendars

 


BORIS VALLEJO & JULIE BELL Fantasy 2017 Calendar -- Highly Recommended. By Boris Vallejo and Julie Bell. The beloved and perennially bestselling calendar that fantasy lovers look forward to year after year. Thirteen vivid, all-new paintings by the husband-and-wife team of Boris Vallejo, America’s premier fantasy artist, and Julie Bell, designer of the popular Dragons of Destiny sculpture series. The full-color illustrations pull you into a dark, shadowy, and enthralling world, filled with sinister winged beasts; fiery, otherworldly landscapes; and sensual, beautiful women warriors and sorceresses—drawn with meticulous attention to anatomical detail.....More.

Item Code: BVJB17
$14.99
Publisher Workman
Publish Date 2016
Dimensions 12x12
# Pages 24pg
Color Full Color
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WOMEN OF MARVEL 2017 Calendar -- 16 month calendar. By Day Dream. Spend the year with the beautiful women of Marvel comics, including the Scarlet Witch, Emma Frost, Mystique and more.....More.

Item Code: WOM17
$14.99
Publisher LANDMARK
Publish Date 2016
Dimensions 12x12
# Pages 24pg
Color Full Color
See our website under Special Interest-Calendars to see new titles as they arrive or Use the Advanced Search and put 2017 in the title field. We already have several in stock, but no room for the others this week.
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Overstreet Comic Book Price Guide 2016-17

 

COMIC BOOK PRICE GUIDE 46th Edition 2016-17 SGT Rock Hall of Fame Edition -- Limited, 1000! Cover art by Russ Heath. Highly Recommended. By Bob Overstreet et al. The first ever "Overstreet Hall of Fame" edition of Overstreet, with all the same contents as the regular edition - the new prices, new feature articles, new additions to the Overstreet Hall of Fame, market reports and more - but in this new limited edition version. This year the book referred to as "The Bible of collectors and dealers" pays tribute to the legendary - and that's not just hype - artist Russ Heath, creating a Sgt. Rock/spirit of DC war comics cover.....More.
Item Code: CB46SR
$29.95 $25.95
Publisher Gemstone
Publish Date 2016
Binding Soft Cover
Dimensions 7x10
# Pages 1200pg
Color Partial Color
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COMIC BOOK PRICE GUIDE 46th Edition 2016-17 SGT Rock Hall of Fame Edition Hardcover -- Russ Heath, creating a Sgt. Rock/spirit of DC war comics cover.....More.

 

Item Code: CB46SRH
$35.00 $30.95
Publisher Gemstone
Publish Date 2016
Binding Hard Cover - No Dustjacket
Dimensions 7x10
# Pages 1200pg
Color Partial Color
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COMIC BOOK PRICE GUIDE 46th Edition 2016-17 Harley Quinn -- Cover art by Amanda Conner. Highly Recommended. By Bob Overstreet et al.....More.
Item Code: CB46HQ
$29.95 $25.95
Publisher Gemstone
Publish Date 2016
Binding Soft Cover
Dimensions 7x10
# Pages 1200pg
Color Partial Color
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COMIC BOOK PRICE GUIDE 46th Edition 2016-17 Harley Quinn Hardcover -- Highly Recommended. By Bob Overstreet et al. Silk Spectre artist Amanda Conner provides the cover.....More.

 

Item Code: CB46HQH
$35.00 $30.95
Publisher Gemstone
Publish Date 2016
ISBN 9781603601900
Binding Hard Cover - No Dustjacket
Dimensions 7x10
# Pages 1200pg
Color Partial Color
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THE BIG BIG COMIC BOOK PRICE GUIDE 46th Edition 2016-17 Star Trek 50th -- Highly Recommended. By Bob Overstreet et al. Artist Joe Corroney celebrates the 50th anniversary of Star Trek with his cover for this oversized, spiral-bound limited edition of The Overstreet Comic Book Price Guide. Created for comic book dealers, serious collectors and historians, The Big, Big Overstreet Comic Book Price Guide includes only the pricing sections and the lists of top comics--no ads and no articles,but everything here is in bigger size for easy reading, and spiral lay-flat binding for easier use.....More.

 

Item Code: BIG46
$47.50 $42.50
Publisher Gemstone
Publish Date 2016
Binding Wirebound
Dimensions 9x11
# Pages 800pg
Color Text/Partial Color
Last year’s guide, Capt. America cover, on sale for $14.95 [CB45C], $17.50 in hardcover [CB45CH], and $29.95 in the Big Big size with a special Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles cover [BIG45]. If you don’t mind prices slightly out of date, all the rest of the information is there! Very few left.
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PS Artbooks on Sale

 


Volume 2
Volume 3 Volume 9
 

PLANET COMICS Volume 2 -- Closeout Price! Collects #5-8, 1940. Recommended. By Will Eisner, Lou Fine, Bob Powell, Fletcher Hanks, Charles Quinlan et al. Foreword by Roy Thomas. More "out of this world" yarns from the heroes (and heroines!) of the spaceways that appeared from Fiction House over a thirteen-year period ending in 1953. They're all here. Captain Nelson Cole of the Solar Force, Gale Allen of the Girl's Patrol, Fero Planet Detective, Auro Lord of Jupiter, The Red Comet, Space Admiral Curry in the Doomed Universe, Spurt Hammond, Buzz Crandall, and Flint Baker. And they are all in just the first 64-page issue! This was the first and the longest running science fiction comic until DC's Strange Adventures came along, ten years later.....More.

Item Code: PLC02H
$48.00 $19.95
Publisher PS Artbooks
Publish Date 2013
Binding Hard Cover - No Dustjacket
Dimensions 7x10
# Pages 288pg
Color Full Color
 

Other Planet Comics on Sale

[PLC03H, 04H, etc.] $48.00-$59.99 Now $19.95

PLANET COMICS Volume 3

PLANET COMICS Volume 4

PLANET COMICS Volume 5

PLANET COMICS Volume 6

PLANET COMICS Volume 7

PLANET COMICS Volume 8

PLANET COMICS Volume 9

 
Click here to see all PS Artbooks on sale.
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Mature Readers

Two killer items this week: a new edition of the first Sex and Horror--The Art of Emanuele Taglietti. And also a companion volume, all new, The Art of Alessandro Biffgnandi. Hey, I never heard of these guys either, they are not household names. But I recognize their work from the covers of those crazy Italian comics of the 1960s and 70s. They both worked on the popular Zora the Vampire, and Biffgnandi did Candida La Marchesa among much more work. You may recognize them from pieces reproduced in years past in the pages of Glamour International. Amazing work from both.

Next up is a new art book from Barbara Jenson, her third, from the erotica publisher SQP. Like the recent Fastner/Larsen book, this comes with a limited edition signed variant  that includes a signed plate. Just 100 copies. I don’t know how long either will last, that’s a tiny limitation.

And we have two photography books: Glamour Girls of Paris  is just what it sounds like, photos from the 1950s and 60s, before the girls were shaving everything and getting airbrushed into perfection. Paris is where all this erotica started, isn’t it? And we also have a new collection by Helmet Newton, Us and Them. Although this has perhaps 25% devoted to nude ladies, as is his wont, the balance features celebrities, and shots by Newton and his wife, another talented artist, of one another at work and at play. Previously a high priced deluxe Taschen release, now in a bargain edition.

Nude Photography  |  Erotic Art   |  Erotic Films: DVDs  |  Adult Graphic Novels  |  All Pin-Up & Adult

 

News and Notes

New On Sale

My schedule calls for me to review, each week, all the items that we keep in stock. During that review, I very often choose some items to discontinue and in some cases I immediately put them on sale.

Right now we only list these in our special SALE listings, every three months or so. So we have no method to let you know about these until each SALE email. That is why I encourage you to look every so often into our website Close-Outs, to see the latest additions. I’d like to add these to this weekly email, but with the lack of room here, I can only include basic information, with a link to the full details on our website. We’ve not room to include pictures and descriptions. In an attempt to create this new feature, here are some of my latest price reductions.

Cavewoman (Mature Readers) - I just reduced prices on 14 titles and cover variants, usually 40% off. These include:

2012 Pittsburgh Convention signed $16.95, now $9.95 [CAV12PS]

Castaway One-Shot Bud Root Cover $10, now $5.95 [CAVC]

Killing Dinos 101 Summer Break Bud Root Cover $10, now $5.95 [CAVKS]

Cavewoman Roam Arthur Adams Cover $12, now $7.95 [CAVRF]

Sisters of Arena  Budd Root Cover $10, now $6 [CAVSA01]

The Return Bud Root Cover Book 2 and 3  $10, now $6 each [CAVTR02, CAVTR03]

The Zombie Situation 2  Budd Root Cover $10, now $5.95 [CAVZ02]

 

Here’s a few other new Close-Outs:

Beauty and the Beast 2013 Big Wow Sketchbook  $25, now $15 [BEA13]

I’d Love to Draw by Andrew Loomis  $39.95, now $24.95 [IDLOH]

Little Nemo’s Big New Dream Hardcover  $16.95, now $9.95 [LNBIGH]

Louis Brooks Detective Hardcover  $15.99, now $8.99 [LOUBH]

Quantities on these vary from five to rarely more than ten copies, so act accordingly. If this feature proves popular—if we get some orders—I’ll include more of these “mini-lists” here. I also just dropped prices on several of the Shadow graphic novels, such as the Masters series. [SHF02, SHF03, and SHM01-03].

~Bud

 

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