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Mike Mignola & Lemony Snicket’s Pinocchio Deluxe is here. Frank Miller’s Ronin sequel. Spidey & Venom first encounter. Eerie Archives. Legion of Super Heroes. Godzilla Encyclopedia. New Charles Burns. Ian Kennedy. Taschen’s Donald Duck XL edition. John Bolton’s Shame. Dejah Thoris before John Carter. Elvira & more 2025 calendars. Arthur Adams coming in December. A special Rare Books Email went out two days ago. Click here to see it. We feature 300 just-discounted titles at 20% off, hand-picked new arrivals and Mature titles. Our last Rare Books Sale several months ago sold out 150 of the 500 books we discounted. Act now for the best selection with this all-new offering. Shop our September Sale here. |
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SPIDER-MAN The Complete Black Costume Saga Omnibus Collects Amazing Spider-Man #252-263, The Spectacular Spider-Man #90-100, 1984-85 and much more. Recommended. By Tom DeFalco, Roger Stern, Bob Layton et al. Art by Ron Frenz, Rick Loenardi, Bret Blevins et al. The entire saga of the symbiotic suit that became the villain Venom! When Spider-Man returns from the Secret Wars with a snazzy new black costume, he's faster and stronger — and has an unending, built-in supply of webbing! All the better for tussling with foes like the Rose, Black Fox, Red Ghost, Jack O'Lantern, Puma and the Blob! But something's not quite right. Curse that ol' Parker luck, the black costume is a hungry alien symbiote...and it's grown very attached to him! Marvel, 2024. ...More. Item Code: SPIDBCH Hard Cover, 8x11, 992pg, Full Color |
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EERIE ARCHIVES Volume 7 Collects #32-36, 1971. Recommended. Into the nether-worlds of horror and fantasy with Richard Corben, Frank Brunner, Boris, Syd Shores, Mike Ploog, Sanjulian and Esteban Maroto. Covers by Enrich and Corben! Weird, wild art, circuitous plot-lines and campy comics gore. Including all "Monster Gallery" features and "Dear Cousin Eerie" letters pages. Dark Horse, 2024....More. Item Code: EER07 Soft Cover, 8x11, 288pgs, b&w |
| Volumes 1-6 are all at the same discounted price. Also see the Creepy series. |
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LEGION OF SUPER HEROES The Great Darkness Saga Collects Legion #287, 290-294 and Annual #3, 1982-84. The godlike Darkseid emerges in the 30th century with an ingenious plot to finally conquer the universe. Paul Levitz and Keith Giffen's timeless epic! Using his faithful minions to acquire all of the mystic artifacts, Darkseid gains mental control over a race of three billion all-powerful beings. The Legion of Super-Heroes amass their own army of every champion who ever held the status of Legionnaire to stand against the Dark Lord and his invincible soldiers. DC Comics, 2024....More. Item Code: LEGSG Soft Cover, 7x10, 192pg, Full Color $14.99 |
| Here are more Legion archives. Omnibus Vol 3 is available by special order [LEGS03H. $99.99], with stories Adventure and Action Comics from 1967-70. |
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| FRANK MILLER'S RONIN RISING Collectors Edition Impressive oversize, oblong hardcover. Recommended. Foreword by Jim Lee. The long-awaited sequel to the award-winning classic Ronin by Frank Miller. A cursed Ronin. Psychological manipulation by a sentient AI. A security commander turned savior. And a post-apocalyptic biotech war in the demon-teeming pits of a twenty-first century New York. Abrams, 2024....More. Item Code: FMRONH Hard Cover, 10x13, 192pg, Full Color $40.00 |
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ALSO AVAILABLE DAREDEVIL BY FRANK MILLER Omnibus Companion Collects Daredevil #226-233, The Man Without Fear #1-5, Marvel Graphic Novel: Daredevil - Love and War, 1979-1994, and much more. Highly Recommended. The Man Without Fear is born and reborn in this collection of Frank Miller's finest! These are the stories that made Miller the most popular artist in comics — this is where it all began. Follow this new look for Daredevil, these new darker adventures into the depths of desperation and back again after being cut down by the Kingpin! Packed with bonus material: prelim pages, scripts, special covers and more. Marvel, 2024....More. Item Code: DAREFH Hard Cover, 7x11, 540pg, Full Color |
| More Miller: We have an original Ronin (Fine minus) in Rare Books [RB8333. $25] as well as a set of four graphic novels, two from Sin City [RB8227. $50]. |
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CHARLES BURNS FINAL CUT New from the award-winning author of Black Hole. A haunting and highly visual story of an artist's obsessions, his wannabe girl friend who doesn't quite know what to make of his strange alien drawings and horror movie-making...and the value and cost of pushing the boundaries of creativity. Minor nudity. Pantheon, 2024....More. Item Code: CBFINH Hard Cover, 9x11, 224pg, Full Color |
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ALSO AVAILABLE KOMMIX Highly Recommended. Master cartoonist Charles Burns has never hidden his passion for comic books and pop culture from the 1950s and 1960s. Inspired by the romance, horror, and sci-fi comics of his youth, the author of Black Hole has created a collection of eighty original comic book covers that, through his own inimitable aesthetic, present an alternate universe of stories that never were, but that you will wish existed. Some nudity. Fantagraphics, 2024. Mature Readers....More. Item Code: KOMMH Hard Cover, 8x10, 80pg, Full Color |
| Here’s more Burns, he’s in Comic Art #4 RB8890 $25 and RB5724 $30. And also as one of the artists explored in In The Studio: Visits with Contemporary Artists, which also looks at R. Crumb, Clowes, Panter, Chris Ware, Jaime Hernandez, Art Spiegelman and others. We have two copies in Rare Books: RB8004 $60 and RB4492 on sale for $40. |
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SHAME Volume 6 Cradle's End Recommended. By Lovern Kindzierski. Art by John Bolton. Book 6 of 9 in the Eisner-nominated fantasy series with stunning art and beautiful (and not so beautiful) heroines. Hope and Merritt fight their way deeper into Cradle to heal the wound that could allow demons of hell to spew their terror into the world. Shame, trapped and broken into pieces, works to recover her powers and free herself and her evil, sorcerous allies. Will Hope and Merritt stop Shame in time or will the queen of the darkest powers vanquish them all? Renegade Arts Entertainment, 2024. Mature Readers....More. Item Code: SHAM06 Soft Cover, 7x11, 64pg, Full Color $12.99 |
| Books 4 (2 copies, $11.99) and 5 (4 copies, $12.99) are still available. We hope to see a compilation of these but have no word yet on one. Here’s more work by John Bolton, including John Bolton: Haunted Shadows on sale $60, $48, and the superlative Marvel Graphic Novel, Marada the She-Wolf. We have two copies in Rare Books, $30 and $40, $32 on sale. |
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GODZILLA The Encyclopedia The many incarnations of Godzilla and his monstrous foes, from the original 1954 movie to Shin Godzilla in 2016 and the 2021 animated film. In-depth annotations, illustrations from renowned monster designer Shinji Nishikawa. Explore the powers and anatomy of over 100 kaiju, including Mechagodzilla, Shin Godzilla and Mothra. Nishikawa worked on the monster designs for many Godzilla movies from 1989 to 2004, and here he unravels the live-action special effects and theatrical CG animations of the Godzilla franchise in this essential encyclopedia.Titan, 2024....More. Item Code: GODEN Soft Cover, 7x10, 216pg, Partial Color |
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| PINOCCHIO An Illuminated Edition Our Highest Recommendation. By Carlo Collodi. Art by Mike Mignola. Introduction and notes by Lemony Snicket. Mike Mignola (Hellboy) and Lemony Snicket (A Series of Unfortunate Events) invent an entirely new vision of Pinocchio!! This classic stands as one of the strangest and darkest texts ever, yet still beloved by generations of children. Now it receives full-text annotations (as special inserted pages!) from one of our great contemporary children's authors, and over fifty illustrations from one of the modern masters of visual storytelling. Mignola and Snicket walk us through the wilds of Collodi's masterpiece. Beehive Books, 2024....More. Item Code: PINOCH Hard Cover, 9x12, 264pg, Full Color $100.00 |
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This new entry in their matching, deluxe editions is one of the best yet. Here’s more of their titles, all with deluxe die-cut slipcases. Each one is a gem. We can special order these previous editions, allow 3-4 weeks: The Island of Doctor Moreau, Crime and Punishment, A Voyage to Arcturus (all $100 each) and The Temple of Silence: Forgotten Works and World of Herbert Crowley [TEMPH. $125]. Harrison Cady: Madness in Crowds is still in stock now [MADNH. $125] with our highest recommendation. |
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EDGAR RICE BURROUGHS UNIVERSE A PRINCESS OF MARS Shadow of the Assassins Hardcover Includes bonus John Carter novella. By Ann Tonsor Zeddies and Geary Gravel. Cover by Douglas Klauba. Dejah Thoris, fairest daughter of Helium, sets off on the first adventure of her young life, plunging headlong into a murky den of treachery and deadly peril. Defying her father and traveling to a foreign city, her hosts are not like the gallant folk of Helium. Their nefarious machinations ensnare her in a tangled web of artifice and murder — and a treacherous plot against the entire empire. ERB Inc., 2024....More. Item Code: ERBPMH Hard Cover, 7x9, 288pg, Text/b&w $36.95 |
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Also available in softcover. The hardcover has no text on the backcover, but is otherwise the same, in jacket. Both editions include a bonus J. Allen St. John trading card, while supply lasts. [ERBPM. $21.95]. This is a unique story of Dejah Thoris as a young woman, long before John Carter came to Mars to meet her. The bonus novella stars John Carter who is tracking down his son’s lost speedster, found flying full speed across the Martian landscape with no one on board. I particularly like Douglas Klauba’s cover for this, it nails a young and troubled Dejah Thoris. |
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COMING SOON PIRATES OF VENUS The Illustrators Edition Limited, 548. Pirates of Venus-The Illustrators Edition is the first novel in the Amtor series and the ninth title in the ERB Limited Edition Collection. This curated set includes a profusely illustrated new edition of Pirates of Venus and a collector's portfolio full of rare replica items all housed in a decorated and illustrated custom leather clamshell case. ERB Inc., 2024. Due: Nov....More. Item Code: PIRVH Hard Cover, Partial Color $375.00 |
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ALSO AVAILABLE THE MOON MAID The Centennial Edition Three book set! Signed by the contributors, numbered & limited to 600. Art by Mark Schultz, Sanjulian, Bob Eggleton, Joe Jusko, J. Allen St. John, Jeffrey Jeff Jones, Frank Frazetta, et al. Special edition of The Moon Maid, The Moon Men, and The Red Hawk trilogy, published for the first time in hardback in three separate volumes. With 20,000 words not found in the 1926 A. C. McClurg first edition. Each book in the set is printed on archival paper, Smyth-sewn, bound in a leather cover, double stamped in gold and wrapped in a newly commissioned, full color dust jacket. The set is housed, with a collector's portfolio of bonus artifacts in facsimile, in a decorated leather clamshell case. 100 illustrations from 20 different artists past and present, including 20 tipped in color plates, 30 full page b&w illustrations and 40 spot b&w illustrations. And one of ERB’s most interesting concepts, a story that takes place over 400 years, on Earth and on the Moon. ERB, Inc., 2023....More. Item Code: MOONMH Hard Cover, 6x9, 468pg, Partial Color $350.00 |
| Here’s more of the latest from ERB, Inc: Korak at the Earth’s Core, Dark Tides of Mars, Tarzan Authorized Library Vol 21-24, Savage Epics (3 books in one) and Cosmic Epics (3 also). |
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ELVIRA MISTRESS OF THE DARK 2025 Calendar All-photo every month, of the classic tongue-in-cheek Elvira humor. Captivating and thematic monthly spreads, each month unveils a new image of Elvira. Includes major U.S. holidays, moon phases and international holidays, perfect for tracking lunar events and global festivities. Note: every copy we have has two corners lightly bumped. We cannot get replacements. Calendar Ink, 2024. ...More. Item Code: ELV25 Calendar, 12x12, 24pg, Full Color $16.99 |
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ART NOUVEAU 2025 Calendar Recommended. Well-chosen images, some not often seen in print and even ones new to us and we know this area well. From Jugend, legendary 1890s posters and other rare sources. Eugene Grasset and other top designers. This beautiful Art Nouveau Calendar is printed on thick glossy paper with plenty of space for personal notes and birthdays, plus important holidays. Tushita, 2024....More. Item Code: ARTN25 Calendar, 12x12, 24pg, Full Color $16.95 |
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PRE-RAPHAELITES 2025 Calendar Recommended. Exquisitely detailed paintings by the most renowned artists of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood movement, with several works each by Rossetti and by J.W. Waterhouse, in our opinion the finest of the PRB artists. Includes Lady Godiva nude on horseback, the drowned Ophelia, and images from the poetry of Christina Rossetti's poems such as Goblin Market. Minor nudity. Tushita, 2024....More. Item Code: PRE25 Calendar, 12x12, 24pg, Full Color $16.95 |
| Here’s all of our books examining the Pre-Raphaelite artists. |
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CINEMA NOIR 2025 Calendar Recommended. Classic collection of twelve amazing and mostly little-seen movie posters, both domestic and international, from the golden age of Hollywood crime dramas. The Big Sleep with Bogart and Bacall, Psycho, Woman in Red, Maltese Falcon, Female on the Beach with Joan Crawford, Orson Wells in The Third Man, Jane Russell in The Outlaw, and more. 16-month calendar with international holidays and the holidays of the most important world religions. Tushita, 2024....More. Item Code: CN25 Calendar, 12x12, 24pg, Full Color $16.95 |
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INTERNATIONAL MOVIE POSTERS 2025 Calendar Twelve movie posters featuring classic American Movies: The Philadelphia Story, Streetcar Named Desire, Marilyn Monroe in Niagara, Gene Kelly in Singing in the Rain and An American in Paris, Harold and Maude, Rear Window, Audrey Hepburn, Marlene Dietrich, Cary Grant, Ingrid Bergman, and more. 16-month calendar with international holidays and the holidays of the most important world religions. Tushita, 2024....More. Item Code: IMP25 Calendar, 12x12, 24pg, Full Color $16.95 |
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PIN-UP HISTORY 2025 Calendar Classic Pin-Ups from an impressive variety of artists, from Elvgren to Earl Moran to Fritz Willis. Fun works. All with that wonderful appeal of vintage pin-up art. 16-month calendar with international holidays and the holidays of the most important world religions. Tushita, 2024. Mature Readers. ...More. Item Code: PI25 Calendar, 12x12, 24pg, Full Color $16.95 |
| Click here for all the 2025 calendars that are in stock. More titles are on the way, and we’ll have a complete listing late next month. We don’t list and take orders for calendars until they are in stock. |
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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.
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A couple weeks ago we sent out our latest clearance sale that included the best of two months of reduced items. Click here to see the email, and click on AUGSALE and SEPTSALE to see the entire listings for the two months. Click here for more Sale Items that will be included in upcoming sale lists. Plus you can see the newest editions to our Closeout section, including bargain Imperfect Editions. |
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MATA HARI ESCAPES HARDCOVER Signed Signed color bookplate! Recommended. By Jim Silke. A profusely illustrated prose novel presenting a fictionalized adventure of the legendary woman whose beauty captivated and subverted every acquaintance. From a 2021 Kickstarter project, our supply is very limited. “Mata Hari Escapes is a rip-roaring adventure story with the pace of a Saturday serial and the intrigue of a Graham Greene spy story.” Nudity. Full color illustrations. Big Wow!, 2021. Out of Print....More. Item Code: MATAHEHS Hard Cover, 6x9, 364pg, Text/Full Color $75.00 |
We have just two copies left of the out-of-print softcover, which comes with the same signed bookplate [MATAHE. $50]. Here’s more by pin-up master Jim Silke. We have two copies of his Pin-Up: The Illegitimate Art in Rare Books -- RB4183 $52 (very good) and RB4441 $60 (fine). His sketchbook Vol 1 is also in stock as I write this, just one copy RB5867. $35. Jim was a close friend of Dave Stevens and designed Bettie Page: Queen of Hearts, which we co-published with Dark Horse many years ago. |
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WOMAN & MAN+ Signed Recommended. Woman & Man is a wildly surreal autobiographical telling of its artist, publisher, editor and artist Craig Yoe, losing his love, his country, and, some say, his sanity — and his struggle to reinvent himself. His passion for drawing comics was sidetracked for over a half a century by a career as a creative director for Jim Henson and the Muppets, Disney, Nickelodeon, and MTV. Coming back to his roots, he now dives deep into sex, horror, and drama, with a hint of humor and a whiff of hope. Clover Press, 2024. Due: Nov....More. Item Code: WOMMAH Hard Cover, 7x10, 168pg, Partial Color |
| Craig is a good friend, so we’re working on getting a bookplate, maybe even with a remarque. Stay tuned. |
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BILLI 99 With José Villarrubia and Sarah Byam. Set in 1999, Billi 99 embodies a cautionary tale in which corporate greed and corrupt government affected an America very much like our own today. With that, they posed the question, what is power when everything has been taken away? 200 pages of breathtaking, lovingly painted, duo-shade art, with the hand lettering that would become Tim’s official font. Nominated for three Eisner awards!! Clover Press, 2024. Due: Nov....More. Item Code: BILLIH Hard Cover, 7x11, 232pg, Full Color |
| Here’s more by the late Tim Sale, who passed away in 2022. We have his work on The Gray Hulk, Grendel, Aztec Ace and Spider-Man. He’s also in Spectrum Quarterly #2, which has a memorial to him. |
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DONALD DUCK The Ultimate History Recommended. In true Taschen fashion, the end-all book on Donald! Nothing succeeds like success, as the saying goes, but in the case of Donald Duck the opposite is true: the candor with which Donald reveals his weaknesses wins our hearts and stays with us forever. Revisit Donald’s life’s work from nine decades in one of the most expansive illustrated publications on the Disney universe. Following Taschen’s Mickey Mouse: The Ultimate History, we witness the career of Mickey’s only rival for the throne as Disney’s most popular creation. Taschen, 2024. Rush Service and International shipping could require an additional charge. Due: Nov. ...More. Item Code: DDULTH Hard Cover, 11x16, 564pg, Full Color |
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ALSO AVAILABLE CARL BARKS AND THE DISNEY DUCKS First Edition. By Geoffrey Blum. This book follows Carl Barks (Donald Duck) during the creative process, in his many creations from the 1990's, from his initial conception to the sculpting of some of Disney's most beloved characters: Donald Duck, Uncle Scrooge, and their nephews. Another Rainbow, 1992. Out of Print. Condition: Fine. Corner bumps....More. Item Code: RB5703 Soft Cover, 8x10, 28pg, Partial Color $35.00 |
| If you find this sold out, we have three more: RB8197 with The Midnight Egg $60; RB5745 (fine minus) $30; RB5034 (very fine/as new) $45. Here’s much more with Donald, from Carl Barks archives to Silly Symphonies, the latest Vacation Parade and other new collections by top European creators. |
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STRIPPED FANTASIES Hot Girls with and without Transparent Lingerie. By Adam Koons. Pretty, casual, free-spirited models, dressed in see-through lingerie — but only for a short time. Then, the photographer captures each scene as each one takes it all off...exposing themselves in ultimately explicit shots, nothing left to the imagination. European models. Cheeky, uninhibited, and over the top. Goliath, 2024. Adult Material. ...More. Item Code: STRFAH Hard Cover, 5x8, 256pg, Full Color |
| Photographer Adam Koons and German Publisher Goliath present their latest collection, Stripped Fantasies. Adam Koon's work can also be found in Fresh Naked Girls, All Natural Beauties, and Super Beauties Parade. Here’s more from Goliath. |
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We sent out our newest Rare Book List on Tuesday. We reduced another 300 titles by 20%. You can get a look at these items by clicking here. 65 titles added this week! Scoll through the first few page of Just Arrived - Rare & Out of Print to see all the titles that just went live yesterday. We still have over 300 rare book titles that were discounted in August by 20%, many of them for mature readers. Here are the various categories of those books on sale indefinitely. Graphic Novels ~ Photography ~ Comic Book Collections Art & Illustration ~ Pin-Up & Erotic Art ~ Comic Book Archives
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We have ten of our finest books listed in this week’s ABAA 75th Anniversary Virtual Book Fair. It opened Wednesday and closes 7pm EST on Friday. Anne’s also created a new catalog just for the fair. We went through some of our best books and reduced prices on each one of them, some as much as 30% off. You can see that catalog and more recent catalogs here. This is a related but entirely separate business—none of its books are listed on the Bud’s Art Books site.
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Flesk News Art Adams Prelimary Studies will be published in early December in softcover and hardcover. It’s a small book, 5.x7, but it’s 224 pages! Prepub softcover will be $19.95 and the hardcover $29.95. We’re not sure if we can get signed hardcovers yet or not. We will not be listing it for a while, so stay tuned. Portfolio by Mark Schultz will be in our hands mid-October. John Fleskes is hand-delivering them to us to make sure every book is in perfect condition. We like this book so much, we got permission from Mark to feature it on our Holiday Catalog cover. Watch for it, the entire catalog will be uploadable next week.
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Upcoming Shows we will be exhibiting at: OAF-Con October 4-6 Norman, Oklahoma Folsom Con October 20 Folsom California. Free pass upon request: bpandhbooks@mac.com. More shows in Folsom will begin in March. Seattle Antiquarian Book Fair October 26-27 Seattle Washington In 2025: Rare Books San Francisco February 1-2 2025 98 exhibitors; all booths are sold out. We are NOT doing the Pasadena ABAA show this year, which is one week after San Francisco. We decided to put all our eggs in one basket, so to speak, and do the show closer to home! I hope to see many of our customers there. ~Bud
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Our Catalog and Contact Info We publish a color catalog every two months—if you’ve placed an order in the last 12 months, you will receive it hot off the press. If this is your first order, or if you’d like an extra copy, you can add one to your order: click here. Or call or send us your address and we’ll mail one to you. You can also download it here. Place your order before noon PST, Monday through Friday for SAME DAY shipping (for in-stock items). Note: FREE SHIPPING OVER $300. If your order total is $300 or more and you are in the U.S., we pay the standard shipping cost. Contact us: csr@budsartbooks.com or 530-273-2166 Mon-Fri 9-4 |
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