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The new Overstreet Price Guide is here in a variety of covers. Dan Brereton has a new Nocturnals Omnibus with a signed bookplate; my favorite book this week is the bio of Gladys Parker & her greatest creation, Mopsy; four new Tarzan novels with new Joe Jusko covers; David Bowie’s story; Red Sonja; a very handsome Arrowsmith Deluxe by Busiek and Pacheco; our first five 2023 Calendars and finally, lower closeout prices on the last ones from 2022. If you haven’t yet received a copy of our latest catalog, pictured here, call and ask for one or add it to your order. Or hit the link to download it right now. Every single item is linked back to our website so you can see more scans and read more detailed descriptions. |
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| NOCTURNALS Omnibus Volume 2 Signed Signed extra-illustrated bookplate! Collects FOUR complete stories: The Dark Forever, Gunwitch: Outskirts of Doom, Spectres, and A Nocturnal Alphabet. Amazing low price for a 320-page hardcover, in full color!! Dan Brereton's Eisner-nominated lush, innovative, and action-packed stories of supernatural menace and gritty heroics are collected in this second volume omnibus edition, featuring weird tales of horror and crime. Plus TONS of bonus material, a Nocturnals "Alphabet" from A-Z, specialty paintings and far more. Dark Horse, 2022. More… Item Code: NOC02HS Hard Cover, 8x12, 432pg, Full Color $29.99 |
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| Volume 1 is the same low price and comes with a different but matching illustrated bookplate. Click here for much more by Dan Brereton. We have a brand new book by him, in stock. It comes complete with another new illustrated bookplate. But Dan has asked us to hold off announcing it until all his Kickstarter orders are filled. Stay tuned! |
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GLADYS PARKER A Life in Comics, A Passion for Fashion Highly Recommended. By Trina Robbins.This fascinating biography explores Gladys Parker, a creative force to be reckoned with. She first took over Flapper Fanny, a highly popular syndicated comic strip. Then she left to create her own strip, Mopsy, that ran from the 1940s to the 60s in both newspapers and comics. Meanwhile, she created her own clothes line, designed dresses and pants for Hollywood stars, put on exhibits, lived with two famous men, and it doesn't stop there. Hermes, 2022. More… Item Code: GLADH Hard Cover, 8x11, 256pg, Partial Color $59.99 |
| Here’s more by Trina including several fine books on women comic creators and on women as portrayed in comics. |
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EDGAR RICE BURROUGHS AUTHORIZED LIBRARY Volume 13 Tarzan at the Earth's Core With 74 pages of bonus archival material! Our Highest Recommendation. By Edgar Rice Burroughs. New cover and frontispiece by Joe Jusko. One of my very favorite Tarzan novels, where the two series, Pellucidar and Tarzan, cross over. David Innes meets Tarzan. One of ERB's best Tarzan adventures, in my humble opinion. -Bud. Plus an amazing bonus section with all the original pulp illustrations, dozens of previous edition covers, correspondence, etc. David Innes is a captive at the Earth's Core but he gets a message for help to the surface world. Tarzan joins a team using using a dirigible to sail into the polar opening to the savage, prehistoric world. But Pellucidar is not like the jungles the ape-man knows... Edgar Rice Burroughs, Inc., 2022. More… Item Code: ERBA13H Hard Cover, 6x9, 358pg, Text/b&w $29.95 |
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EDGAR RICE BURROUGHS AUTHORIZED LIBRARY Volume 14 Tarzan the Invincible 60 pages of bonus archival features. Highly Recommended. By Edgar Rice Burroughs. New cover and frontispiece by Joe Jusko .La of Opar is in trouble. The high priestess of the forgotten outpost of Atlantis has been betrayed by her people and locked in their dungeons until Tarzan comes to the rescue of the beautiful woman who still loves him. Which he does, but then she, together with a strange woman of Tarzan's kind, ends up captured again, this time in the tent of an Arab slave trader, dreading her certain fate. Meanwhile, Tarzan is beset by a peculiar band of men who have invaded his land--led by a madman bent on evil subversion. Edgar Rice Burroughs, Inc., 2022. More… Item Code: ERBA14H Hard Cover, 6x9, 338pg, Text/b&w $29.95 |
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EDGAR RICE BURROUGHS AUTHORIZED LIBRARY Volume 15 Tarzan Triumphant Bonus 48 pages of archival material. Highly Recommended. By Edgar Rice Burroughs. New cover and frontispiece by Joe Jusko. Evil men have come to the land of Tarzan, looting and killing as they move. But other evil lurks in a small valley of the Ghenzi Mountains, where the last remnants of an ugly, perverted people dwell in what they call their faith -- an ancient belief that came from Rome nearly 2,000 years before. Now they have captured Lady Barbara Collis and mean to use her as a human sacrifice -- unless Tarzan arrives in time! Edgar Rice Burroughs, Inc., 2022. More… Item Code: ERBA15H Hard Cover, 6x9, 342pg, Text/b&w $29.95 |
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EDGAR RICE BURROUGHS AUTHORIZED LIBRARY Volume 16 Tarzan and the City of Gold 72 pages of bonus archival features. Highly Recommended. By Edgar Rice Burroughs. New cover and frontispiece by Joe Jusko. When Tarzan of the Apes frees a man being tortured by cruel bandits, he is surprised to learn that the stranger comes from no race or country the ape-man knows. He is from the fabled land of Onthar, where lie two ancient cities unknown to the outside world. One is Athne, city of ivory; the other is Cathne, city of gold and evil. There great prides of trained lions are used to hunt down men and wage eternal war. And there Tarzan meets the beautiful queen Nemone, who is determined to have Tarzan as her king--or feed him to the lions! Edgar Rice Burroughs, 2022. More… Item Code: ERBA16H Hard Cover, 6x9, 342pg, Text/b&w $29.95 |
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DAVID BOWIE IN COMICS By Thierry Lamy. Art by Martin Trystam et al.From David Jones to David Bowie and from Ziggy Stardust to The Thin White Duke, the story of an artist with a thousand faces. He was one of the most influential and creative artists of the 20th century, and his incredible ever-changing and pioneering visions endure today. A graphic novel biography with photo-illustrated articles breaking up the comics chapters, which present all his different personas. A career marked by constant re-invention. NBM, 2022. More… Item Code: DAVBH Hard Cover, 8x10, 176pg, Full Color |
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RED SONJA The Price of Blood Collects #1-3. Covers by Joseph Michael Linsner et al.Writer Luke Lieberman (Red Sonja: Birth of the She-Devil) and fan-favorite artist Walter Geovani (Gail Simon's run of Red Sonja) team-up to tell an early tale of the adventures of Red Sonja -- where she faces the gallows! There is a price to be paid for all the blood that she has spilled... Each cover artist did covers for all three issues: Linsner, Geovani, Michael Golden, plus several others and a cosplay cover. Dynamite, July 2022. More… Item Code: REDSPB Soft Cover, 7x10, 104pg, Full Color $14.99 |
| Here is more of the latest starring Red Sonja. |
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NEGALYOD The God Network Recommended. By Vincent Perriot."Dinotopia meets Mad Max." Shades of Moebius, a post-apocalyptic Earth that is clearly inspired by the work of the master, and yet captivating in its originality. We follow dinosaur shepherd, Jarri, when he loses his herd to a human-created disaster. With nothing left to lose, he joins a rebel group intent on destroying the totalitarian government that controls his dystopian world, where dinosaurs roam the desolate land and the last of humanity survive in technological cities run by a military regime. Titan, 2022. More… Item Code: NEGALH Hard Cover, 8x11, 208pg, Full Color |
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MYOPIA Recommended. By Richard Dent. Art by Patrick Berkenkotter and Freire Ronilso.Science fiction, noir steampunk and a thrilling and complex alternate reality. Imagine a world where your every thought, your every move, is filtered through The Central Lens Network. Now imagine being a twelve-year old boy and discovering a special pair of lenses that allow you to access this network undetected. This is exactly what happens to Matthew Glen the day his father is murdered -- then two years later mysteriously appears back in his life. A journal is left on the edge of a subway platform, filled with stories about a world that doesn't exist. Nearby a scientist is murdered and his lab burned down. The only clues? A magnetically propelled motorcycle, and a man walking around New York City with the last living falcon on the planet. Bonus line art and character studies. Dynamite, 2022. More… Item Code: MYOPI Soft Cover, 7x10, 174pg, Full Color $19.99 |
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ARROWSMITH Volume 1 So Smart in Their Fine Uniforms Collects #1-6, 2003-04. Highly Recommended. By Kurt Busiek. Art by Carlos Pacheco. An oversized, fully remastered collection of the fantasy-adventure epic to accompany the all-new series. Young Fletcher Arrowsmith learns the true cost of war in an alternate history where dragons and magic spells are as much a part of World War I as bullets and barbed wire. He joins the Overseas Air Corps in hopes of adventure and glory. This edition, in hardcover for the first time, presents the art as Pacheco originally intended. 42 bonus pages with an all-new afterword, original series proposals, character designs, a comprehensive history of the world of Arrowsmith and more. Image Comics, 2022. More… Item Code: ARR01 Hard Cover, 7x11, 208pg, Full Color $24.99 |
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DISNEY MASTERS Volume 20 Donald Duck 20,000 Leaks Under the Sea Who lives in a submarine under the sea? Donald's cuckoo-bananas cousin Fethry, that's who! He's roping desperate Don into a two-week treasure hunt on the ocean floor and a bear-taming trip to Duckburg's deepest woods--and a mission to cure hiccups with scary rural remedies! Are fame and fortune worth it? Cartoon story man Dick Kinney and beloved kids'-comic artist Al Hubbard created these duck tales in the swinging '60s. Disney Masters collects their best! Fantagraphics, 2022. More… Item Code: DM20H Hard Cover, 8x11, 184pg, Full Color |
| Here are more Disney Masters, and click here for the Carl Barks reprint series. |
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52 Omnibus Collects #1-52, 2006-2017. New edition, first published in 2012. After Infinite Crisis, the DC Universe had its most eventful year ever. It was a year without Superman, Batman or Wonder Woman--but not a year without heroes! Collects the entirety of the ground-breaking, critically acclaimed DC Comics weekly series by award-winning writers Geoff Johns, Grant Morrison, Greg Rucka, Mark Waid and Keith Giffen. DC Comics, 2022. More… Item Code: 52OMH Hard Cover, 7x10, 1216pg, Full Color |
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THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN Omnibus Volume 1 New printing. Our Highest Recommendation. Collects Amazing Fantasy #15, Amazing Spider-Man #1-38, Annual #1-2 & more, 1961-64. THE Spider-Man collection, from his origin story all the way to the end of the Steve Ditko run, plus four bonus annuals which all featured new stories. In 40 issues of web-slinging, wisecracking wonderment, Lee and Ditko built the foundation for decades of Spidey spectaculars: girl trouble, bill trouble, bully trouble, the Daily Bugle, and a cast of friends, family and foes unlike any other! Now, experience the entire Lee/Ditko Spider-Man run in one gorgeous volume! Marvel, 2022. More… Item Code: AM01H Hard Cover, 7x11, 1152pg, Full Color |
| See Omnibus 2 and 3 and more Spider-Man here. |
The New Overstreet Price Guide |
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THE OVERSTREET COMIC BOOK PRICE GUIDE 52nd Edition EC Horror Host Hardcover EC Horror Host Softcover |
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52nd Edition Black Terror Hardcover Black Terror Softcover |
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52nd Edition Winter Soldier Hardcover Winter Soldier Softcover |
| Not quite here but expected momentarily is the Heroes Initiative edition with a special new Batman & Green Arrow cover by Mike Grell [CB52HH. $44.95]. This is limited to 500. Last year, the cover for this edition by Linsner turned out to be the best-selling of all the Overstreet variants! This year, I think it’s going to be the EC Horror Hosts, that’s a fun one. In fact, we’re temporarily out of the Hardcover version of Horror Hosts but more are expected momentarily, perhaps by the time you read this. |  |
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THE BIG! BIG! OVERSTREET COMIC BOOK PRICE GUIDE 52nd Edition Black Hood Highly Recommended. Cover by Rick Burchett.This oversized, limited edition version usually sells out first! It features just the pricing from the standard edition of the book, with none of the articles, ads, or other features, but with far larger type for easy viewing, and convenient stay-flat binding so it will lay open! Also includes grading definitions, glossary, Overstreet's Market Report, Top 100 and Top 10 comics in all categories, and prices realized on Key Books over the last ten years. I always take home one of each, small and large, because they both have their uses - Bud. Gemstone, 2022. More… Item Code: BIG52B Soft Cover, 12x12, 900pg, b&w |
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THE BIG! BIG! OVERSTREET COMIC BOOK PRICE GUIDE 52nd Edition Diamond 40th Anniversary Variant cover with all previous Overstreet covers in a diamond-shaped design. Gemstone, 2022. More… Item Code: BIG52D Soft Cover, 12x12, 900pg, b&w |
2023 Calendars |
In July yet! Well, no fear of them selling out yet. I particularly like the two I marked Highly Recommended. |
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GEORGE R.R. MARTIN THE WORLD OF FIRE & BLOOD 2023 Calendar Plus bonus fold-out poster. Highly Recommended. A stunning calendar featuring never-before-seen illustrations of the Targaryen civil war, the the first-ever illustations focused exclusively on material from the #1 New York Times bestseller Fire & Blood, the inspiration for the upcoming HBO series House of the Dragon. The Dance of the Dragons is the most infamous period in Westerosi history, in which two legitimate claimants for the Iron Throne, along with their supporters -- and their dragons -- fought for the right to sit that legendary chair. Bantam, 2022. More… Item Code: GSF23 12x12, 24pg, Full Color $18.00 |
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KAWASE HASUI 2023 Calendar Highly Recommended. One of modern Japan's most prominent artists, Kawase Hasui is known for atmospheric prints of Japanese architecture and landscape. A blaze of maple leaves announces autumn at Oirase Gorge, Towada, and gentle snowfall speaks quietly of winter at a temple in Izumo province. Hasui was also influenced by Western realistic art, particularly photography, and in concert with the opening of Japan's cultural and political borders, his imagery reflected an increased emphasis on shading and linear perspective. Hasui created more than 600 woodblock prints, 12 of which are collected in this wall calendar. Pomegranate, 2022. More… Item Code: KH23 12x13, 24pg, Full Color $15.99 |
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INTERPLANETARY VACATIONS 2023 Calendar Highly Recommended. Our favorite calendar yet this year! One small step for man, and one giant leap into the worlds of tomorrow through wonderfully imaginative interstellar travel posters. Each unique destination (Titan, Europa, Enceladus, Kepler-186f, Venus, Mars, Ceres, Trappist-1) is inspired by a different exoplanet -- all designed by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) for the series "Visions of the Future." The project reminds us that we are the architects of our own destiny, and that these far-flung, dreamy galaxies could become real vacation locales in the far future. Pomegranate, 2022. More… Item Code: IV23 12x13, 24pg, Full Color $15.99 |
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THE ART OF DANIEL MERRIAM 2023 Calendar Recommended. Very popular year after year, with wonderful images spread over his career, from 1994 to 2020. Dive into worlds of fantastic creatures and Victorian architecture with Daniel Merriam's surrealist art. From tightrope-walking cats to hot-air balloons drifting over choppy shores, and surral fantasy castles filled with mysterious lights and curious stories...Merriam's romantic works combine adventure and whimsy in each scene. Pomegranate, 2022. More… Item Code: ADM23 12x13, 24pg, Full Color $15.99 |
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ALPHONSE MUCHA 2023 Calendar Recommended. Alphonse Mucha's iconic posters and advertising pieces remain some of the most recognizable art from the late 19th century. Producing lithographs advertising everything from champagne to theater productions, his portraiture of glamorous women draped in flowing gowns and pastel florals helped to define the Art Nouveau movement. Pomegranate, 2022. More… Item Code: AM23 12x13, 24pg, Full Color $15.99 |
| Here is more about these calendar subjects: woodblock art, George R.R. Martin material, and vintage art books devoted to Alphonse Mucha. |
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We just lowered the prices on the very last of the 2022 calendars. They are now as low as $1.99 for regular and even some adult titles. We have a few very special art calendars left that double as lovely art portfolios of rare vintage artwork, printed in the smallest possible editions of less than 100, sometimes less than 50 copies--one of these is above, the Modern ABC Book. See all the on-sale calendars here. |
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Mature ReadersAnd now in stock, we have a new 42nd Street Forevercollection (click here for more in this series), and we have a new book from German publisher Goliath: A Photographic History of Nudism. Warning…it’s kind of a small book for the price, see my note in the full description. Click here for more Goliath collections. Coming in August is an interesting new photography book by Stephan Soell. It is entirely focused on one African model. “In addition to modelling, Shasta designs and handmakes clothing in the fabrics, patterns and colours typical of her home country, ingeniously combining traditional African aesthetics with more modern, sensual styles.” We expect copies in August. Click here for moreStephan Soell collections. Adult 2022 Calendars – we just reduced the very last of our 2022 calendars down to the lowest price they’ll ever be, as low as $1.99! As I write this, we still have copies of Asian Babes, Lingerie, Pin-Up, Retro Pin-Ups, Erotic Photography, Booty and Racks.
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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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THE SIMPSONS Treehouse of Horror Ominous Omnibus Volume 1 Scary Tales & Scarier Tentacles. Recommended. By Matt Groening et al. Introduction by Bart Simpson. The Treehouse of Horror started as an annual Halloween tradition on The Simpsons. In fall 1995, the first of 23 comics were produced by Bongo, telling new stories written and illustrated by Michael Allred (Madman), Sergio Aragonés (MAD Magazine), Kyle Baker (Nat Turner), Jeffrey Brown (Star Wars: Darth Vader and Son), and Jill Thompson (Scary Godmother), as well as celebrities such as Mark Hamill, Thomas Lennon, and Patton Oswalt. These award-winning comics place the world's most beloved animated family in hilarious horror, science-fiction, and supernatural settings. Abrams, 2022. Due: Aug. More… Item Code: SIMPTH Hard Cover, 8x12, 416pg, Full Color $39.99 |
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THE STYLE OF LOISH Finding Your Artistic Voice Highly Recommended. By Lois van Baarle (Loish). Her previous collections in 2016 and 2018 have sold 85,000 copies. This new book bursts with brand new, specially commissioned art that provides a unique opportunity to understand the foundations of Loish's style. Now we see the artist explore her own style through several facets of her work, including creating volume, choosing color, establishing flow, and the ideas and subjects themselves. While looking at the motivation behind her own work, Loish also guides the reader through ideas and tutorials to help them identify, understand, and even evolve their own style. 3dtotal Publising, 2022. Due: Aug. More… Item Code: STYLH Hard Cover, 8x10, 168pg, Partial Color $50.00 |
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FIGHT COMICS Featuring Senorita Rio Volume 2 Hardcover Collects stories from Fight #35-50, 1944-47. Recommended. Art by Lily Renee and Bob Lubbers. Señorita Rio, the lovely actress-turned-agent survives in a male-dominated world due to her extraordinary skills: marksman, athlete, expert fighter, jiu-jitsu and fencing. Throughout the Golden Age she was battling Axis agents all over South America--she truly is "The Queen of Spies!" Señorita Rio was one of the first female and Latin characters to feature on 7 covers of the former all boys club of Fight Comics! Due: Aug. More… Item Code: FCSR02H Hard Cover, 7x10, 184pg, Full Color $46.99 |
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ALSO AVAILABLE FIGHT COMICS Featuring Senorita Rio Volume 1 Collects stories from Fight #19-34, 1942-44. Highly Recommended. Art by Nick Cardy, Lily Renee et al. A wonderful wartime series, usually 10 full pages in each issue. This lovely actress-turned-agent was a mainstay in Fight for many years. Created by a true legend in the industry Nick Viscardi, later known better as Nick Cardy, he stayed with the series for eleven adventures. Lily Renée's first Rio adventure is here and she is most strongly associated with the character, being one of the greatest female comic artists in the history of the business! PS Artbooks, 2022. More… Item Code: FCSR01 Soft Cover, 7x10, 184pg, Full Color $29.99 |
| Also available in hardcover [FCSR01H. $46.99]. The first six issues of Fight Comics, Volumes 1 and 2, are available in both hardcover and softcover. Señorita Rio had not yet started in the title then. |
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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 |
| Here’s more Fiction House archives in the PS Artbooks series: Planet Comics, Ghost Comics and Sheena. |
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ALKEME The Art of Brad Kunkle Deluxe Signed Almost Gone! Signed & limited special publisher's edition limited to 400. Recommended. 100 paintings and a dozen studies handpicked by the artist in an oversized format. Numerous paintings include details or alternative lighting carefully photographed under the supervision of the artist. His realism is simply amazing; the strangely ethereal and beautiful women and outdoor scenes of animals and trees are captivating. Flesk, 2022. Due: Sep. Out of print. More… Item Code: ALKED Hard Cover, 11x12, 320pg, Full Color $125.00 |
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ALKEME The Art of Brad Kunkle Regular Edition Recommended. Flesk, 2022. Due: Sep. More… Item Code: ALKEH Hard Cover, 11x12, 320pg, Full Color $69.95 |
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Here's another batch of 30 items that are going away soon, down to just one, two or three copies left. You can now see the latest 3…2…1 items in a new section on our website, called ALMOST GONE, at the top of the home page, right next to CLOSEOUTS. We are continuously adding to our Imperfect Editions sections as well. |
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