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Our latest catalog is ready for you to download. Click on any item in it for longer descriptions and additional scans of each item. California Fires: It's a short list this week, we've been closed for two days as PG&E turned off the electricity due to high winds and the danger of wildfires. We can see their smoke every day here. We could not ship on Tuesday and Wednesday, but will catch up Thursday and Friday. Our website is always up and running, but we can't answer the phones or ship when these occasional shutdowns occur. Thanks for your patience. Since new items are a bit short this week, I've supplemented our listings with some favorite tie-in items that you might have missed. |
Graphic Novels | Robert E. Howard Rare Books | Coming in October | 3...2...1...Gone
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ILLUSTRATION MAGAZINE #69 Our Highest Recommendation. Art by Robert O. Reid, J.F. Kernan, and Neysa McMein. Three successful illustrators, two new to us but no less interesting, and Robert O. Reid, Colliers artist extraordinaire, and master of "cartoon realism." J.F. Kernan, best known for his spectacular magazine spots and nostalgia covers for The Saturday Evening Post of the 1930s and 40s. Neysa McMein is featured, a fantastic female magazine illustrator from the 1930s and 40s whose pictures of beautiful women dominated McCall's covers. Illustrated Press, 2020....More. Item Code: IL69 Magazine, 9x11, 80pg, Partial Color $15.00 |
This issue makes the case for buying every issue of this fine magazine, not just cherry-picking ones with artists you recognize. I'm eager to read about three people I know next to nothing about. See our website for back issues, including a good selection of out of print numbers. Also from the publisher of Illustration Magazine, find here for all of their available art books. We just lost another one, the wonderful Mead Schaeffer quickly and quite unexpectedly sold out. Get your favorites before they are gone. Each one is limited to just 900 copies. |
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ALSO AVAILABLE THE ART OF DEAN CORNWELL Almost Gone! Limited, 900! Third Printing. Our Highest Recommendation. By Daniel Zimmer. Filled with beautiful illustrations reproduced almost exclusively from the original paintings and drawings. This spectacular book explores Cornwell (1892-1960), American illustrator and muralist. His oil paintings were frequently featured in popular magazines and books as literary illustrations, advertisements, and posters supporting the war effort. Throughout the first half of the 20th century he was a dominant presence in American illustration. At the peak of his popularity he was nicknamed the "Dean of Illustrators". Illustrated Press, 2020....More. Item Code: ARTDCH Hard Cover, 9x12, 224pg, Full Color $44.95 |
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ALSO AVAILABLE STANLEY MELTZOFF Picture Maker Almost Gone! Limited, 900. Highly Recommended. Stanley Meltzoff was one of the first paperback cover artists to be noted for his work in the science fiction field, painting dramatic images that escaped the pulp influence evident in most other science fiction covers of the 1950s and 60s, for publishers from Ballantine to Ace. He also did paperback and digest cover paintings in other genres, from iconic racy themes to mystery/detective. Meltzoff also produced work for slick magazines, including Scientific American, Life, Fortune, and the Saturday Evening Post. Illustrated Press, 2020....More. Item Code: STANMH Hard Cover, 9x12, 224pg, Full Color $44.95 |
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ALSO AVAILABLE THE ART OF RAFAEL DESOTO Almost Gone! Limited, 900. Highly Recommended. By David Saunders. This is the consummate art book on the life of pulp, paperback, and men's adventure magazine artist Rafael DeSoto, with reproductions taken directly from DeSoto's original paintings, as well as working drawings, reference photos, rare proof sheets of pulp and paperback covers, as well as historic family photos. He began drawing pulp covers in 1932 and because he was 4F, was one of very few pulp artists to work through the war years. He worked in pulps until the very end in the early 1950s, while expanding into doing paperback covers for Ace, Bantam, Dell, Lion, Signet, and Pocket Books, including the iconic "H Is For Heroin." He also worked for the slicks and for men's magazines. Illustrated Press, 2019....More. Item Code: ARTRDH Hard Cover, 9x12, 224pg, Full Color $44.95 |
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ONLY WHAT'S NECESSARY 70TH ANNIVERSAY Charles M. Schulz and The Art of Peanuts Highly Recommended. By Chip Kidd and Geoff Spear. The Eisner Award-nominated tribute to Charles M. Schulz— newly repackaged for the 70th anniversary of Peanuts. Renowned designer Chip Kidd was granted unprecedented access to the extraordinary archives of the Charles M. Schulz Museum. So here we have the best of the strips, all shot from the original art, and exclusive, rare, and unpublished original art and developmental work— much of which has never been seen before! Abrams, 2020....More. Item Code: ONWNH Hard Cover, 12x9, 304pg, Partial Color |
| Don't miss any Peanuts collections, we even have a couple on special sale. |
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BASKETFUL OF HEADS Recommended. Collects #1-7. By Joe Hill. Art by Leomacs. June Branch visits her boyfriend, Liam, on Brody Island for a relaxing last weekend of summer. An escaped group of criminals break in and Liam is taken. June grabs a strange Viking axe and flees. But when one of the attackers finds her, she swings the axe..neatly takes off his head, which rolls away and begins to babble...yes, to talk! For June to uncover the truth, she'll need to hear the facts straight from the mouths of her attackers...with or without their bodies attached. DC Comics, 2020....More. Item Code: BASKH Hard Cover, 7x10, 184pg, Full Color |
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BETTY & VERONICA The Bond of Friendship Recommended. By Jamie Lee Rotante, Art by Brittney Williams. When a career day at Riverdale High has the two Best Friends examining their futures, they start to wonder just where they'll end up— and how their lives may take very different paths. And we see where their imaginations take them, into Hollywood stardom, space adventures, and the Presidency? This original graphic novel explores the unbreakable bond that allows Betty and Veronica's friendship to withstand the tests of space and time. Archie Comic Publications, 2020....More. Item Code: BETVB Soft Cover, 6x9, 144pg, Full Color $14.99 |
| You can see all the latest graphic novels on our website, and click here for more of Archie, Sabrina and the Riverdale crew, in archives and new graphic novels. |
Robert E. Howard |
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RATTLE OF BONES & OTHER TERRIFYING TALES By Robert E. Howard Our Highest Recommendation. By Robert E. Howard. Art by Gabriel Rodriguez. Afterword by Steve Niles. Collecting eight of the finest horror stories from Conan's creator, Robert E. Howard, with seven all-new, full color illustrations by Locke & Key co-creator, Gabriel Rodriguez. Includes the famous Wolfshead, the title story from the 1960s Arkham House collection of REH work, plus In the Forest of Villefere, Sea Curse, A Tale of Faring Town, Rattle of Bones, The Touch of Death, Dig Me No Grave, People of the Dark, and The House of Arabu. Each originally appeared in the shudder pulps of the 1920s and 30s. Clover Press, 2020....More. Item Code: RATTBH Hard Cover, 7x9, 144pg, Text/Full Color $30.00 |
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ALSO AVAILABLE SONGS OF GIANTS The Poetry of Pulp Signed Signed & numbered, 1000! With oversized illustrated bookmark, also signed. Recommended. By Robert E. Howard, Edgar Rice Burroughs et al. Art by Mark Wheatley. An extremely handsome collection of the very best horror, dark fantasy, and heroic sword and sorcery poetry written by three giants of pulp literature; Robert E. Howard, Edgar Rice Burroughs and H. P. Lovecraft. Extravagantly illustrated by Mark Wheatley on every single page, with flamboyant, dramatic illustrations that remind us of Berni Wrightson's and Gary Gianni's work. Plus gorgeous full color endpapers of stunning, demonic cats. With an introduction by Jack McDevitt, "Arming the Valkyries." Insight Studio Group, 2019....More. Item Code: SONGHS Hard Cover, 9x11, 72pg, Partial Color $29.99 |
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ALSO AVAILABLE CONAN THE BARBARIAN The Original Unabridged Adventures of the World's Greatest Fantasy Hero Recommended. By Robert E. Howard. Robert E. Howard's original, unedited stories. The 10 works here include Howard's essay "The Hyborian Age," "Shadows in the Moonlight," "Queen of the Black Coast," "The Devil in Iron," "People of the Black Circle," “A Witch Shall Be Born,” "Jewels of Gwalur," "Beyond the Black River" (one of my favorites), "Shadows in Zamboula", and "Red Nails." Howard was a master of his craft, creating a hero as powerful and exciting as any in literature. Introduction by Rod Green. Prion, 2018....More. Item Code: CONTBA Soft Cover, 6x9, 512pg, Text/b&w |
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ALSO AVAILABLE ROY G. KRENKEL FATHER OF HEROIC FANTASY A Centennial Celebration Our Highest Recommendation. By AndrewSteven Damsits, Barry Klugerman. A magnificent, best-ever look at Krenkel's entire career. Oversized. Loaded with previously unpublished work. One of the most renowned fantasy artists of the 20th century. Krenkel's far-reaching influence on--and work with--artists like Frazetta, Williamson, Kaluta and Jeffrey Jones, to name but a few, was immeasurable and cannot be overstated. Krenkel illustrated Edgar Rice Burroughs, Robert E. Howard and others--but much of his work, full-blown paintings and illustrations, often were unpublished and never seen by even his biggest fans. IDW, 2019....More. Item Code: ROYKH Hard Cover, 9x13, 304pg, Partial Color |
| If you search "Robert E. Howard" on our new website, you'll find 57 hits, from Conan Omnibus editions to long, long out of print Howard Collector, published by Glenn Lord, and an Amra fanzine set, from the 1960s. |
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BLACK MASK LIBRARY LET THE DEAD ALONE Recommended. The Complete Black Mask Cases of Luther McGavock. By Merle Constiner. Art by Peter Kuhloff. Cover art by Rafael DeSoto. These Luther McGavock stories take him to small towns in the Tennessee hill-country. These are not your garden variety hardboiled detective yarns. These Black Mask stories are so rich in place and detail that they almost seem a travelogue of small-town life in the Deep South. Written by one of the most polished writers to see print in Black Mask, author Merle Constiner's writing is vivid, his characters complex, and his mysteries deep. Black Mask, 2020....More. Item Code: BLMLDA Soft Cover, na, 364pg, Text/b&w $24.95 |
| This is an ongoing series. We recently brought in the first five collections, which begin at $16.95. See more pulp adventure from Steeger Books and also from their former imprint, Altus Press. |
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ALSO AVAILABLE THE BLOOD N THUNDER GUIDE TO PULP FICTION Revised and Expanded Edition. Highly Recommended. By Ed Hulse. Acclaimed as one of the foremost (the foremost, in the opinion of some) reference books covering the subject. Illustrated with 750 magazine covers and original paintings, a complete and lively history of this unique literary form, covering genres individually (hero pulps--two chapters--spicy, western & adventure, sci-fi, crime, aviation, horror & fantasy) and identifying key titles, authors, and stories. Murania Press, 2018....More. Item Code: BLOGPF Soft Cover, 7x10, 426, Text/b&w $29.95 |
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ALSO AVAILABLE ART OF THE PULPS An Illustrated History Our Highest Recommendation. Experts in each of the ten major pulp genres, such as Detective, Hero, Spicy, Science Fiction, Adventure, Aviation, chart for the first time the complete history of pulp magazines–the stories and their writers, the graphics and their artists, and, of course, the publishers and their readers. Illustrated with more than 400 examples of the best pulp covers and graphics. Plus two special chapters: David Saunders on artists Norman Saunders and Walter Baumhofer and Ed Hulse looks at H.P. Lovecraft and Robert E. Howard. IDW, 2017....More. Item Code: ARTPIH Hard Cover - No Dustjacket, 10 x11, 240pg, Full Color |
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ALSO AVAILABLE FICTION HOUSE FROM PULPS TO PANELS Our Highest Recommendation. By Mitch Maglio. Art by Matt Baker, Lou Fine et al. From sexy jungle girls to even sexier ray gun toting space women and beyond, Fiction House Comics had it all! Now for the first time the entire history of Fiction House, the leading purveyor of Good Girl art during the Golden Age of Comics, is told in a single volume! Stuffed with breathtaking cover reproductions, original artwork, dozens of cover preliminaries by Joe Doolin (!) and even full length stories. The story of one of the most successful publishers ever, from their pulp origins on, with artwork by Matt Baker, George Tuska, Lou Fine, Bob Lubbers, Murphy Anderson, Lily Renee and many others. IDW, 2017....More. Item Code: FICHOH Hard Cover - No Dustjacket, 9x11, 300 pg, Full Color |
| See lots more pulp fiction and pulp art, it's a specialty of ours. And don't miss the Sanctum sale on The Shadow, Doc Savage, The Spider, The Avenger and other titles. We are selling out of select issues and we cannot restock any except the most recent, full price Shadows. Even one or two of those have sold out. |
2021 Calendars |
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GERLACH'S CHILDREN'S LIBRARY 2021 Calendar Highly Recommended. By Carl Otto Czeschka (8 months) and others. Another fine art, extremely limited printing calendar from our favorite art historian-turned-publisher. This collects the complete Art Nouveau illustrations for Die Nibelungen by Czeschka from 1909. For more on this important artist, see [CARLCH] on our website. Plus four more months by four other Weiner Workstatte illustrators from classic children's books, two pictures by each on each one of the 12 months. Calligraphics, 2021. Due: Sept....More. Item Code: GCL21 na, 12x9, 24pg, Full Color $19.95 |
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JANE COOK 1835-1920 2021 Calendar Recommended. From 1899, fantasy-story silhouettes of incredibly delicate and detailed illustrations. Jane E. Cook (1835-1920) illustrates Jack and Jill, The Queen of Hearts, My Pretty Maid Going a-Milking, Sing a Song of Six Pence and other nursery rhymes. Calligraphics, 2020. Due: Sept....More. Item Code: JC21 Wirebound, 12x9, 24pg, Full Color $19.95 |
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PULP ATTACK 2021 Calendar Recommended. Some classics, like the cover, Attack of the 50 Ft. Woman, and Sin on Wheels. But many fresh images new to us: Night Nurse: The Unashamed, The Root of His Evil, Satan was a Man, Naughtipuss, Come Sin With Me, a stunning full nude The Wild One, and She Was High on Grass. These look to me like rare softcore digest covers from the 1940s and early 50s, maybe a vintage paperback or two, one movie poster and one magazine cover, Real Men with “Lady With the Whip.” Tushita, 2020. Mature Readers....More. Item Code: PULP21 na, 12x12, 28pg, Full Color $14.95 |
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CINEMA NOIR 2021 Calendar Recommended. Twelve iconic movie posters from the golden age of Hollywood crime dramas. Third Man, Gilda, The Chase, Mystery Street, plus foreign versions of The Outlaw, entirely different, Gangsters, The Lady from Shanghai, Viale Flamingo, Alphaville, Citizen Kane, with Joan Crawford, Burt Lancaster, Ava Gardner et al. Nice selection of sultry and tough ladies and grim PI's. Lots of cleavage and long legs, a very good selection of more unusual works. Tushita, 2020....More. Item Code: CN21 na, 12x12, 24pg, Full Color $14.95 |
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PIN-UP HISTORY 2021 Calendar Recommended. Classic 1940s and 1950s pin-up girls, often with humor, several fully nude. Artists include one picture each by Elliot, Art Frahm, Elvgren, Erbit, two by the excellent Fritz Willis, and a very attractive girl in lingerie by an artist new to us, Medeal. Most of the girls are in beach towels or skimpy lingerie. Tushita, 2020. Mature Readers....More. Item Code: PI21 na, 12x12, 24pg, Full Color $14.95 |
| See all the 2021 calendars already in stock on our website. More to come, stay tuned. |
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| With the new learning curve on our new software, and with fires and such, we haven't had time to get any new Rare Books online for you in the last 2-3 weeks. On our home page, the last category in the top tool bar is Rare & Out of Print. You can browse by genre, and sort by latest, price and relevance. Here's a look at some artists whose out-of-print books you'll find: |
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X-MEN The Art and Making of the Animated Series X-Men: The Art and Making of the Animated Series takes fans behind the scenes of the landmark cartoon that laid the groundwork for the dozens of Marvel Comics adaptations that followed. Interviews with series writers, artists, producers, and executives reveal the razor's edge that Marvel and Fox navigated in order to bring the X-Men to television, and detail the tough decisions, compromises, and brilliant solutions that resulted in a series that has been lauded by critics and fans for nearly three decades. Due: Oct ...More. Item Code: XMENAH Hard Cover|na, 12x10, 288pg, Full Color |
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| Due to the power outages this week, we were unable to add new items, but here is the batch of 50 from last week, and the last week of August. |
Free Comic Book Day |
Pick out three with any order, or six for orders over $50. We're still giving out Jim Silke Sketchbooks ($19.95 cover price) as one of your free choices. See them all here.
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Mature ReadersWe have two new adult calendars this week, Derrieres and Naked. Both are very tasteful and in fact as close to fine art as you can get. They remind me of the famous nude photographers, such as Ruth Bernhard and Andre de Dienes. And you may recall Boris Vallejo did a book of nude photography at one time. These are very much in that vein. (Sorry, we don't have one of those in stock right now). See our website for our section on nude photography, and books by Boris Vallejo. You can also take a look at all of the adult calendars in stock already this year. |
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Nude Photography | Erotic Art | Erotic Films: DVDs | Adult Graphic Novels | All Pin-Up & Adult Click here to add yourself to our Adult's Only mailing list. |
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