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Times running out to get the pre-pub price on Mark Schultz’s Portfolio. Diana Rigg. Cormac McCarthy’s The Road. Kirby Collector and facsimile Stuntman #1. Marvel in the 60s. Phantom Lady. Micronauts. Ditko’s Mysterious Traveler. 2025 Calendars: Frazetta, Rayyan, Batman, Pin-Ups. Coming: Alex Raymond's Flash Gordon 2 and Irwin Allen. And news & notes. We emailed out a brand new SALE LIST this last Tuesday. See it here and act now, quantities are very limited. Next Tuesday we’ll have a all-new list of 300 more Rare and Out of Print Books at 20% off. See them all right now and get a jump on everyone next week. Our last 20% off sale is still good, but we’ve sold 150 of the 500 titles we listed! See the rest here. |
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CORMAC MCCARTHY'S THE ROAD Highly Recommended. The first-ever graphic novel adaptation of Cormac McCarthy’s Pulitzer Prize-winning classic, The Road, approved and authorized by McCarthy before his death, and illustrated by acclaimed French illustrator Manu Larcenet. The story of a nameless father and son trying to survive with their humanity intact in a post-apocalyptic wasteland where Earth’s natural resources have been diminished, and some survivors are left to raise others for meat. The Road is one of Cormac McCarthy’s bleakest and most prescient novels. Abrams, 2024....More. Item Code: CORMRH Hard Cover, 9x10, 160pg, Full Color $26.99 |
| I literally just finished this minutes ago, could not put it down. It’s grimm, it’s apocalytic plus. Its the story of a young boy and his father trying to stay alive and head south into warmer weather, in a blasted world of grey skies, swirling ash and the dead. Those left alive are mostly starving and not "good people." But the art, man, it is powerful work, beautifully illustrated in every panel and superb narrative. I really liked it. - Bud |
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JACK KIRBY COLLECTOR #91 30th Anniversary Edition Highly Recommended. Edited by John Morrow. For its 30th anniversary issue, the Jack Kirby Collector pulls out all the stops for a celebration of Kirby’s greatest victories! All the major triumphs are covered, from Jack getting the girl (wife Roz Kirby) and scoring early hits with Captain America and Boy Commandos, surviving WWII combat, pioneering romance comics, to launching Captain Victory and the direct market, resolving his original-art battle with Marvel Comics, and posthumously winning credit at Marvel in 2014 — which is the culmination of what the Kirby Collector was all about from its beginning in September 1994! TwoMorrows, 2024....More. Item Code: JKC91 Magazine, 8x11, 84pg, Text/Partial Color $10.95 |
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MARVEL COMICS IN THE EARLY 1960S Recommended. This new volume in the ongoing "Marvel Comics in the..." series takes you all the way back to the legendary beginnings, when gunfighters traveled the West and monsters roamed the Earth! The company's output in other genres influenced the development of their super-hero characters from Thor to Spider-Man, completing issue-by-issue reviews of every Marvel comic of note from 1961-1965! Presented are scores of handy, easy to reference new entries on Amazing Fantasy, Tales of Suspense (and Astonish), Strange Tales, Journey Into Mystery, Rawhide Kid, plus issues of Fantastic Four, Avengers, Amazing Spider-Man, and others that weren't in the previous 1960s edition. TwoMorrows, 2024....More. Item Code: MARCE Soft Cover, 8x11, 224pg, Text/b&w |
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ONE TOUGH DAME The Life and Career of Diana Rigg Recommended. By Herbie J. Pilato.A sweeping portrait of the revered performer’s life and career. Deemed a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 1994, Diana Rigg (1938–2020) initially found fame as super sleuth Mrs. Emma Peel in the 1960s BBC/ABC-TV espionage series, The Avengers. A classically trained and multi-award-winning thespian, Rigg is known for her diverse body of work – from her big-screen debut in 1969 as Countess Teresa di Vincenzo, wife of James Bond in On Her Majesty’s Secret Service, to her Tony Award-winning, leading role in Medea on Broadway, culminating with her Emmy-nominated portrayal as Lady Olenna Tyrell on the heralded small-screen gem, Game of Thrones. 16-page section of photos plus more. Index. University of Mississippi Press, 2024....More. Item Code: ONETH Hard Cover, 6x9, 224pg, Text/b&w $35.00 |
| Here’s more actress biographies and more from McFarland, who has done similar bio books. |
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FILM BY DESIGN The Art of The Movie Poster A scholarly examination of film poster design, this is a groundbreaking and comprehensive exploration of the international and Hollywood movie poster as a dynamic artistic and cultural formation. Drawing inspiration from genres like horror, science fiction, and noir, the twelve essays in this collection provide insightful analyses of the movie poster as a vital component of the cinematic landscape from the silent era to the contemporary period. Dozens of illustrations, some in color, index. University of Mississippi Press, 2024....More. Item Code: FILMB Soft Cover, 6x9, 256pg, Text/Partial Color $25.00 |
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TERRY & THE PIRATES #5 Facsimile Edition From 1947. Recommended. By Milton Caniff, Bob Powell et al. Sunday page reprints of the story from the beginning of Terry, circa 1934-36. Embark on a riveting journey with Terry and the Pirates, crafted by the master storyteller. An early issue in the long-running reprint series from Harvey Comics, as Terry and Pat are escaping a criminal river pirate Pyzon in the outback of China. Includes new material also, including Tommy Tween by Bob Powell, Junior Genius by J. Keeler, and a Black Cat text story. PS Artbooks, 2024....More. Item Code: TERR05 Comic, 7x10, 56pg, Full Color $15.99 |
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PHANTOM LADY #16 Facsimile Edition From 1948. Highly Recommended. Cover and two stories by the legendary Matt Baker: "The Avenging Skulls" and "The Monster in the Pool." DC's very own Gil Kane draws the final Phantom Lady story "Clara Peete — The Beautiful Beast." One of the most notorious comics of the Golden Age, with good-girl art, racy panels, lots of cleavage and sexy legs. Publisher Fox was not shy about exploiting the ladies in these adult-themed comics. PS Artbooks, 2023....More. Item Code: PHLA16 Comic, 7x10, 36pg, Full Color $15.99 |
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PHANTOM LADY #17 Facsimile Edition From 1948. Highly Recommended. One of the most iconic good girl covers of the entire Golden Age, and one of Matt Baker's finest! This issue includes "The Soda Mint Killer" and the "Stinging Whip" by Baker, possibly with some work by EC's Jack Kamen on "Whip." "Evelyn Ellis Queen of Gangsters" is a crime back-up feature drawn by Rudy Palais. PS Artbooks, 2023....More. Item Code: PHLA17 Comic, 7x10, 36pg, Full Color $15.99 |
| These were previously released accompanied by a matted print at a higher price. We were never too enthusiastic about the prints since it drove up the price, so we are happy to see PS re-issuing these sans print. See the other Phantom Lady issues here. See all the PS Facsimiles here. |
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STUNTMAN #1 Facsimile Edition Highly Recommended. High-flying action and jaw-dropping stunts as legendary creators Jack Kirby and Joe Simon create an entirely new non-super character. A daredevil stuntman is embroiled in circus stunts and movie directing, and it's all some of S&K's finest Golden Age work. Killer double-page action spreads akin to their work for Captain America in 1941-42. PS Artbooks, 2024....More. Item Code: STUN01 Comic, 7x10, 56pg, Full Color $15.99 |
| Darn it, I underestimated demand for Jack Kirby’s Captain 3-D and we blew out all our copies last week. We’ll have more in 8 weeks or so. They come from England. See more by Simon and Kirby here. |
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ALSO AVAILABLE SKY MASTERS OF THE SPACE FORCE The Complete Sunday Strips in Color New Edition, larger size with 16 bonus pages in color. Our Highest Recommendation. By Jack Kirby and Wally Wood. The Sky Masters of the Space Force newspaper strip is one of the most fascinating and obscure works by comics legend Jack Kirby. Created and developed by Kirby with writer Dave Wood at the beginning of 1958 while Kirby was working for National (DC), the Sky Masters daily strip debuted on September 8 of that year. Five months later, on February 8, 1959, the color Sunday strips arrived featuring a totally independent story line from the dailies.The strip narrates, with a realistic approach, the adventures of Major Sky Masters during the early days of space exploration in the late 1950s, just as a new front opened in the Cold War between the U.S. and U.S.S.R.: a frenzied space race. Kirby Museum Press, 2024. Due: Dec....More. Item Code: SKYMH Hard Cover, 9x12, Partial Color $55.00 |
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ALSO AVAILABLE THE BEST OF SIMON & KIRBY'S MAINLINE COMICS 1954-56. Our Highest Recommendation. In 1954, industry legends Joe Simon and Jack Kirby founded Mainline Publications to publish their own comics. The four titles — Bullseye, Foxhole, Police Trap, and In Love — looked to build off their reputation as hit makers, but the 1950s backlash against comics killed any chance at success, and Mainline closed its doors just two years later, selling the unpublished stories to Charlton. For the first time, here is their best including all of the stories with S&K art, as well as key tales with contributions by Mort Meskin and others— plus the scarce work that Charlton published! Complete stories and lots of wonderful covers. TwoMorrows, 2023. ...More. Item Code: BESKMH Hard Cover, 8x11, 256pg, Full Color |
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MICRONAUTS The Original Marvel Years Omnibus Volume 2 Collects #30-54, 1981-83. By Bill Mantlo. Art by Pat Broderik, Gil Kane, Butch Guide et al. Collected for the first time! Marvel’s second Micronauts omnibus begins with an explosive six-part origin of the Microverse. Commander Rann and his band of freedom fighters must find three keys to stave off a time of darkness while remaining one step ahead of the mad King Argon. To do that, they’ll need help. Enter: Doctor Strange. Marvel, 2024. ...More. Item Code: MICMY02H Hard Cover, 8x11, 888pg, Full Color |
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TALES OF THE MYSTERIOUS TRAVELER Volume 1 Collects #1-5, 1956-57. Highly Recommended. Courtesy of the Traveler's creator, Steve Ditko, this scarce Charlton title stood out on the comic book spinners with Ditko's unique covers. A clear inspiration to the hugely popular Marvel title Amazing Adult Fantasy. Offbeat stories! Additional artists: Dick Giordano, Charles Nicholas, Tony Tallarico and Bill Molno. PS Artbooks, 2024....More. Item Code: SATM01 Soft Cover, 7x10, 184pg, Full Color $32.99 |
| Generally when PS issues the softcover like this, before a hardcover edition, it means there will NOT be a hardcover edition. Lately they’ve settled into doing the hardcover first, followed by the softcover, if they intend to do both. More by Steve Ditko HERE. |
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CLASSIC HORROR COMICS Volume 7 Hardcover Recommended. Starting with tales of stalking terror with Ajax/Farrell title Fantastic Fears #4 and 5 (1953-54), we have Steve Ditko's "Stretching Things" story, his first ever in comics! Followed up with the iconic The Purple Claw #1-3 (1953). Dr. Jonathan Weir told an African witch doctor how to combat malaria and in thanks he's given the Purple Claw, a magic glove he wears to gain superpowers for fighting weird horrors! Shades of Hellboy's special arm! PS Artbooks, 2024. ...More. |
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PLANET COMICS Volume 18 Collects #59-62, 1949. Highly Recommended. PLost World by EC's own George Evans; cult favorite Futura; Star Pirate by Leonard Starr; Auro; Star Ranger by the outstanding artist FERMO#, aka Giorgio Lo Fermo; Mysta of the Moon by Matt Baker! And that's only the who's who in issue #59! More wonderful work by Joe Doolin, Charles A. Winter, and Lee Elias in The #1 Sci-Fi Comic of The Golden Age. PS Artbooks, 2024....More. Item Code: PLC18 Soft Cover, 7x10, 192pg, Full Color $32.99 |
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There’s too many Planet Comics for us to keep them all in stock. Click here for available back issues of both hardcover editions (which contain more issues) and softcovers still available. We will not be restocking the earliest volumes. Planet 19 also came in but with damages we had no copies to list. We’ll have a new shipment in 8 weeks. Unfortunately the same thing happened with Thunda Vol 1 hardcover and softcover, American Greatest Comics Vol 1 and Startling Vol 1. Normally we have no problem with shipments from England like this, but they came in UPS instead of the usual way and, sadly, we had to cull out most of the copies of these titles. |
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THE ART OF OMAR RAYYAN 2025 Calendar Signed Signed! Highly Recommended. An new selection of fine fantasy work one of today's finest illustrators. Omar's oil paintings, depicting classic fantasy stories and his own fantastic scenes, are unparalleled. We love his rich colors and his unique perspective, windows to another world! His illustrated Goblin Market is a masterpiece and this is more stunning work in the same imaginative vein. 12 unique images. Omar is signing all of our copies on the cover. The print run may be limited. Omar Rayyan, 2024....More. Item Code: AOR25 Calendar, 12x12, 24pg, Full Color $28.00 |
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BATMAN 2025 Calendar Powerful, dark painted images of Batman from the film, all by the same artist, who's not identified but who is quite good. One calendar page for each month of 2025, as well as the last four months of 2024. Each monthly calendar spread features enough room to mark important dates or write down reminder notes. Dateworks, 2024....More. Item Code: BAT25 Calendar, 12x12, 28pg, Full Color $17.99 |
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FRANK FRAZETTA 2025 Calendar Highly Recommended. Conan, Death Dealer, Egyptian Queen, Savage Pellucidar, Silver Warrior... This is the best of the best, Frank's finest paintings, which include, in our opinion, two of his very finest Conan book covers, including his very first Lancer paperback cover for Conan. Breathtaking and vivid artwork that defined the genre. Dateworks, 2024. ...More. Item Code: FRAZ25 Calendar, 12x12, 28pg, Full Color $17.99 |
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PIN-UPS 2025 Calendar Recommended. Twelve barely clad classic pin-ups bathing, in revealing lingerie, and sometimes caught in embarrassing situations. Fritz Willis (cover), Art Frahm (2), Harry Ekman, R. Skemp, Elvgren, and several unidentified creators. Light-hearted and sexy fun. 16-month calendar with international holidays and the holidays of the most important world religions. Tushita, 2024. Mature Readers. ...More. Item Code: PINUP25 Calendar, 12x12, 24pg, Full Color $16.95 |
| We also have a signed Charles Vess calendar coming in. Several more titles just arrived this week, see the home page and look here for all in stock Calendars. |
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MARIA LLOVET'S CRAVE Collects #1-6, 2023-24. Black Mirror meets Eyes Wide Shut in this dark and sexy erotic thriller. Crave, a mysterious app that promises to make your desires come true, spreads among the students of an elite university who use it as a hookup app. David, a top student, engages in a game of seduction with the unattainable Alexandra but gets much more, from multiple girls, than he bargained for. Requests to the app escalate and uncontrolled passions are rampant on the entire campus. Explicit erotica. Image Comics, 2024. Adult Material....More. Item Code: MARCR Soft Cover, 7x10, 176pg, Full Color $16.99 |
| Maria Llovet is back with a new erotic graphic novel: Crave. It's about AI running a new app that promises to make your every desire come true. They call it “Black Mirror meets Eyes Wide Shut." It’s steamy but with interesting repercussions. Watch out! We have several books by Llovet in stock, including her erotic Faithless series. |
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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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On Tuesday 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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THE FANTASY WORLD OF IRWIN ALLEN By Jeff Bond. Foreword by actor Bill Mumy. Take a visual journey through the mind and career of the Master of Disaster, producer of The Poseidon Adventure and The Towering Inferno, illustrated with over 2,000 exclusive images. This lavish coffee table hardback book is the first and only book of its kind, revealing the mind and career of legendary producer Irwin Allen, the man also behind some of the most popular television programs of the 1960s. It traces Allen from his early days as a Hollywood agent and radio personality to his lengthy stint at 20th Century Fox, where he produced movies such as The Lost World and Five Weeks in a Balloon and the popular television shows Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, Lost in Space, The Time Tunnel and Land of the Giants. Titan, 2024. Due: Nov....More. Item Code: FANIAH Hard Cover, 11x12, 612pg, Full Color |
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SUPERMAN THE DEFINITIVE HISTORY Recommended. By Edward Gross and Robert GreenbergerThe most comprehensive book about Superman ever! From Krypton and Smallville to Metropolis and beyond, explore 85 years of Superman’s history in radio, TV, film, animation, computer games, advertising, merchandise and, of course, comics. Unpublished artwork, exclusive interviews, unique bonus inserts, and little-known facts. Insight Editions, 2024. Rush Service and International shipping could require an additional charge. Due: Dec....More. Item Code: SUPDEFH Hard Cover, 11x15, 400pg, Partial Color $175.00 |
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FLASH GORDON CLASSIC COLLECTION The Complete Sunday Strips Volume 2 1937-1941 Highly Recommended. In this volume, the escalating tensions between Flash and Ming threaten to bring about a full-scale planetary war...and only Ming’s estranged son-in-law, Prince Barin, can avert it. This collection reprints all of Alex Raymond’s Sunday strips from April 25, 1937 to January 12, 1941, the period considered his artistic peak, and the art has been restored from the original tearsheets to present the series as intended. Mad Cave Studios, 2024. Due: Dec....More. Item Code: FLAG02H Hard Cover, 11x10, 208pg, Full Color |
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ALSO AVAILABLE FLASH GORDON CLASSIC COLLECTION The Complete Sunday Strips Volume 1 1934-1937 Our Highest Recommendation. By Alex Raymond and Don Moore. Introduction by Alex Ross. The most beautifully drawn science fiction Sunday page ever....Flash Gordon returns in a newly-restored edition, collecting his first adventures with Dale Arden, Dr. Zarkov and Ming, on the mysterious planet Mongo. They discover the Water World of Mongo, the Ice Kingdom and its beautiful Queen, the flying Hawkmen, strange monsters and hidden menace everywhere, with stunning artwork by Alex Raymond. Mad Cave Studios, 2024....More. Item Code: FLAG01H Hard Cover, 11x10, 208pg, Full Color |
| We’ve had a heck of a time getting Volume 1. Two shipments all came in all damaged; we’re awaiting a new shipment. I am really excited to see a new complete collection of Alex Raymond’s masterwork, so it’s frustrating to have no copies to offer to you...yet. |
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Anne’s readying a new list of exceptional rare books for the upcoming New York ABAA Virtual Show. Get an advance look and maybe scoop everyone…contact Anne: info@budplantandhutchisonbooks.com. Featuring: Berni Wrightson’s Edgar Allan Poe Portfolio signed $300; Hannes Bok: His Life in Art Regular $350 and Deluxe limited to 200, $850. Frazetta Icon Super Deluxe limited to 100, $1250 signed by Stout, Rick Berry and James Bama; Carl Barks: The Art of Donald Duck signed deluxe in slipcase with print, $1250. Plus Brunelleschi’s Venus Nights, Fritz Eichenberg, Herman Vogel, and Garth Jones Deluxe from 1899. Also see her latest catalogs early, which will go out to her mailing list next week before they go public.
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Fantastic Worlds of Frank Frazetta On or about Oct 15 we’ll have an new edition of the $200 XXL book…for $30. It’s smaller in size but same number of pages! Meanwhile, while the $200 1st numbered edition is out of print, we still have copies at the special price of $175 while our supply lasts. Most sellers online start at $300! This won the 2023 Eisner Award for Best Archival Collection and has our highest recommendation. 11 pounds. You can’t order the $30 edition yet; we don’t advertise lower priced items like this in advance, due to extra shipping cost to backorder them. But as soon as it is in our hands, you’ll see it here.
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This went out of print many weeks ago. We sold out our copies with a bookplate. We are now down to just 12 as-new copies, still cover price. After that, orders will be filled with slightly blemished copies that we put aside from our shipment. Our Highest Recommendation.
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Penthouse Comics #1 We may not be able to restock the Scalara cover, which we are still backordering…but available are issues up to #4, with cover variants, while they last.
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The Obscure Cities Deluxe limited to 500 I’m shocked this is still available, but we have a reorder coming. Beautiful book, also available in a regular edition. François Shuiten’s latest graphic novel.
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Poker Face – "crime comedy series" on Peacock Here’s the teaser: When a close friend meets an untimely end, Charlie Cale, a casino cocktail waitress with an uncanny knack for identifying lies, is determined to unravel this mystery…It co-stars Benjamin Bratt (Law & Order) and in the first episode, Adrien Brody. And Hellboy actor Ron Pearlman! This is our very favorite series lately and I could not resist sharing. It stars Natashha Lyonne who was nominated for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series at the 75th Primetime Emmy Awards! She also stars in Russian Doll, which now has two seasons on Netflix, and we really are enjoying that too, and recommending both series to anyone who will listen! So there!
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Nucleus X by Mark Wheatley Usually our featured item way up above, in this case Nucleus, is listed in this same email. But we listed it last week already. It is just so good, I made an exception and wanted to give it an extra push. It has my highest recommendation. ~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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