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Happy Halloween!!! Wood’s Witzend is in and very cool. I remember ordering the original issues straight from Wood himself, and we handled all of them beginning in 1970. Here is a new book of D&D art, a new Misty graphic novel, a wonderful new Barks Duck collection, and much more. Enjoy!!! Only some of our customers are signed up to get our periodic Rare Books emails. We just did one this past Wednesday. You can see it here, and you can sign up for future special mailings here. We plan to do these more frequently, perhaps twice a month to keep up with all the out of print books we have from collections we’ve bought. |
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DUNGEONS AND DRAGONS Art and Arcana A Visual History |
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| We have one copy of DUNGEONS & DRAGONS Art and Arcana A Visual History Deluxe [RB1436. $100] in stock, in a clamshell box and published in 2018. This above is a new printing of the regular edition. Also available is this 2023 collection: |
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ALSO AVAILABLE DUNGEONS & DRAGONS Lore & Legends Recommended. Exclusive interviews and more than 900 pieces of artwork, photography, and advertising. An illustrated guide to Dungeons & Dragons‘ beloved fifth edition told through interviews, artwork, and visual ephemera from the designers, storytellers. When the re-imagined fifth edition of Dungeons & Dragons debuted in the summer of 2014, tabletop role-playing games were on the brink of obsolescence. But within a few short years, D&D found greater success than it had ever enjoyed before, even surpassing its 1980s golden age. How did an analog game nearly a half century old become a star in a digital world? A massive oversized coffee-table volume. Ten Speed Press, 2023. ...More. Item Code: DDLOREH Hard Cover, 9x12, 416pg, Full Color |
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THE ART OF POPEYE A Masterwork of the Medium When cartoonist Elzie Segar created Popeye, a minor character ten years into the run of the Thimble Theatre strip in 1929, little did he know that the world's most famous sailor would still be around over ninety years later and still in the Sunday papers. To celebrate Popeye, the character, the comic strip and his universe, Hermes Press is publishing the definitive art monograph on the subject. This book features a comprehensive essay written by pop culture historian R.C. Harvey accompanied by over 350 illustrations of original strip and comic book art, animation art, advertising art, products, the Robert Altman film, and everything Popeye, from Olive Oyl and Eugene the Jeep to Wimpy and Bluto. Hermes Press, 2024....More. Item Code: ARTPOPH Hard Cover, 10x10, 304pg, Full Color $65.00 |
| Here’s more Popeye, including the new series with die-cut covers, Volumes 1-3 |
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WALLY WOOD FROM WITZEND Complete Collection Slipcased Limited, 750. Includes 16 bonus pages. Our Highest Recommendation. Hall of Fame comics creator Wallace Wood's revolutionary witzend has been called the birth of the pro-zine, underground, independent... but all agree witzend was a mid-'60s milestone event that represented the loftiest goals of the Underground Movement including art-for-art's-sake, freedom from censorship, and creator rights. For the first time ever, this single volume collects ALL of Wood's own contributions to his revolutionary witzend including Animan, Sally Forth, The Rejects, Bucky Ruckus, Pipsqueek Papers, The Wizard King, Snorky, Lunar Tunes, and more. Vanguard, 2024. ...More. Item Code: WALWCCD Hard Cover, 8x11, 176pg, b&w $69.95 |
| Like their last release, this will also be available in a hardcover edition sans the slipcase and 16 bonus pages [WALWCCH. $39.95]. We expect copies any day now. There is no softcover scheduled. Here are more collections from Vanguard. Click here for original issues of Witzend (with other artists such as Vaughn Bode, Steve Ditko, Reed Crandall. The list is long and impressive.) Here are other vintage fanzines. |
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FANTASTIC FOUR FULL CIRCLE Expanded Edition Recommended. An oversized, expanded edition of the award-winning national bestseller, named Graphic Novel of the Year by the National Cartoonists Society and the Washington Post, with 288 pages of new material, including commentary and unpublished preparatory material from Alex Ross. Abrams, 2024....More. Item Code: FFFULH Hard Cover, 10x13, 352pg, Full Color $65.00 |
| The regular edition published in 2022 is also available [FFFULLH. $24.99]. We have only two copies left. |
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ACME NOVELTY DATEBOOK Volume 3 Recommended. By Chris Ware. "After over fifteen years deferral, delay and dawdling, the ink-and-paper cheerleader Chris Ware finally succumbs to imaginary public pressure by concluding his experiment in reader trust with the third and final volume of secret notebooks and sketches spanning over thirty-seven years of bus rides, airport delays and telephone hold music." Drawn & Quarterly, 2024. ...More. Item Code: ACME03H Hard Cover, 7x9, 208pg, Partial Color |
| This third volume is being released along with a slipcased set of Volumes 1-3, due soon (below). The first two volumes came out in 2003 and 2007. We no longer handle them. |
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COMING IN NOVEMBER ACME NOVELTY DATEBOOK 1-3 Box Set Recommended. By Chris Ware. "All three Acme Novelty Datebooks are available in a compacted and easily recyclable slipcase, the spine of which is punched through with a training timepiece for those caregivers who would like to adjust its miniature metal hands as a teaching aid to suit their own pedagogical exercise, private nostalgia or personal anxiety." Drawn & Quarterly, 2024. Due: Nov....More. Item Code: ACMEP Hard Cover, 7x9, 624pg, Partial Color $149.95 |
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ANDREI BRESSAN SKETCHBOOK #1 Limited, 150. A collection of Andrei Bressan sketches and commissions. Spanning his 15-year career with Birthright, Dark Ride, G.I. Joe, DC, Marvel, and Independent comic books. Berserker, 2024....More. Item Code: ANDB01 Soft Cover, 7x10, 58pg, Partial Color $23.99 |
| Here are more recent sketchbooks. |
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DC VERSUS MARVEL Omnibus Collects Marvel Treasury Edition #28, DC Special Series #27, 1980-81 and many, many more. Superman vs. Spider-Man? Batman vs. Captain America? The X-Men meeting the Teen Titans? For years, these stories have been out of print and out of reach for most readers — but they’re making their return here, collecting everything from 1976’s Superman vs. The Amazing Spider-Man to 2000’s Batman/Daredevil! Revered talent: Denny O’Neil, George Pérez, Dan Jurgens, Chris Claremont, Walt Simonson, J.M. DeMatteis, Mark Bagley, Gerry Conway, John Romita Jr., and more.. DC Comics, 2024. Rush Service and International shipping could require an additional charge. ...More. Item Code: DCVEMH Hard Cover, 7x11, 1096pg, Full Color |
| All the rare cross-over stories between the two comics giants! Pretty cool. |
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BATMAN & SUPERMAN WORLD'S FINEST The Silver Age Omnibus Volume 1 Collects Superman #76, 1952 and World's Finest #71-116, 1954- 61. Highly Recommended. By Edmond Hamilton, Jerry Coleman and Bill Finger. Art by Curt Swan and Dick Sprang. Foreword by Mark Waid. Afterword by Jim Amash. Witness Batman and Superman’s first encounter! They had been fighting crime separately for years, but it wasn’t until the historic Superman #76 in 1952 that Superman, the Man of Steel, finally teamed up with Batman himself. That story proved so popular that the two quickly became the main feature in World’s Finest Comics — and the greatest friendship in comics was born. All those first adventures together are gathered for the first time!! DC Comics, 2024. ...More. Item Code: BATS01H Hard Cover, 7x11, 632pg, Full Color |
| Here are more Silver Age Omnibuses from DC.. |
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WALT DISNEY'S DONALD DUCK Frozen Gold Our Highest Recommendation. As we circle back to Carl Barks’s earlier stories, the Good Duck Artist delivers another superb collection of surprise, delight, comedy, adventure, and all-around cartooning brilliance. Eighteen stories in all in more than 200 pages of story and art, each meticulously restored and newly colored. Plus, insightful story notes by an international panel of Barks experts. Fantagraphics, 2024....More. Item Code: WD02H Hard Cover, 7x10, 240pg, Full Color |
| Fantagraphics is finally publishing the very earliest Barks stories — they began with later work and are now working back to the beginning of Barks. Click here for the other latest releases, in publication order. |
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X-MEN X-TINCTION AGENDA Omnibus Collects Uncanny X-Men #270-272, X-Men Annual #14-15, 1990-92, and much, much more. By Chris Claremont et al. Art by Jim Lee et al. The X-Men, New Mutants and X-Factor are targeted for X-Tinction! When the island nation of Genosha strikes at the X-Men, the mutants mount a rescue mission that leads to disaster! With old foe Cameron Hodge pulling the strings, the X-teams are captured, brainwashed, stripped of their powers and forced into combat — and at least one among them will die! Plus: In the sequel to "Days of Future Past," the X-teams and Fantastic Four are shaken when an adult Franklin Richards travels back in time from a horrific future — with the mutant-killing Ahab hot on his heels! Marvel, 2024....More. Item Code: XMXAH Hard Cover, 7x11, 984pg, Full Color |
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WEB OF EVIL Volume 1 Collects #5-9, 1951-52. Highly Recommended. By Jack Cole, Chuck Cuidera, Charles Nicholas et al. Presented in the popular "Softee" format for the very first time! We probably already said this before but this title has the lot... including persuasive evidence that animated corpses (that's zombies to you, fella) used to be gray and had see-through rib-cages. Just shows you how far medical science has come in the almost seventy intervening years. They're all good, these books we're bringing out (bringing out? Heck, we're unleashing 'em!) but this one may well be the gerkin on the burger. PS Artbooks, 2024....More. Item Code: WEB01 Soft Cover, 7x10, 288pg, Full Color $32.99 |
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GHOST COMICS Volume 2 Collects #6-11, 1953-54. Highly Recommended. This often unfairly forgotten series, surely boasted some of the most magnificent covers of any of the EC wannabes, despite the artists being a anything but "household names." One of these forgotten masters is Maurice Whitman, plus you get EC's very own Jack Kamen regularly popping up. Wonderful stuff. This was material that suggested unpleasantness rather than just stepped forward and pulled the old schlock-it-up-lever. Heartily recommended for the more discerning horror comics reader. Presented in our popular "softee" format for the very first time! PS Artbooks, 2024....More. Item Code: PCGS02 Soft Cover, 7x10, 216pg, Full Color $32.99 |
| Here’s Ghost 1 and more from Fiction House, the legendary 1940s comics publisher. Web of Evil was a Quality Group title; here are all of PS’s releases of Quality’s comics so far, from Plastic Man and The Spirit, to the very popular Blackhawk series. |
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UNIVERSAL MONSTERS Creature from The Black Lagoon Lives Collects #1-4. Cover by Joshua Middleton. Acclaimed creators Dan Watters (Home Sick Pilots, Lucifer), Ram V (The Many Deaths of Laila Starr, Batman: Detective Comics), and Matthew Roberts (Manifest Destiny) rise from the depths for an all-new epic. Years after the events of the original film, journalist Kate Marsden hunts for a notorious serial killer in the heart of the Amazon. Hot on the trail of this madman, she soon encounters an unexpected new threat — but is he friend or foe? Or is he simply...The Creature From The Black Lagoon? Image Comics, 2024....More. Item Code: UMCREH Hard Cover, 7x11, 112pg, Full Color $24.99 |
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MISTY 2024 SPECIAL Cover by Tula Lotay. Created by Pat Mills and launched in 1978, Misty was a horror comic like no other. Now, more than two decades later, Misty returns and has been brought into 2024 at the pen of Gail Simone (Wonder Woman, Birds of Prey, Red Sonja). This anthology features three brand-new chilling stories by Simone, with art by Carola Borelli (The Deadliest Bouquet, Spider-Woman), Aly Fell (A Trick of the Light) and Marianna Ignazzi (Buffy the Vampire Slayer). Rebellion/2000AD, 2024....More. Item Code: MIST24 Hard Cover, 8x10, 48pg, Full Color $12.50 |
| The original Misty collection is still available: Misty, 45 Years of Fear [MISTYH. $52.99]. |
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MORTAL TERROR Volume 1 New York Times best-selling writers Christopher Golden and Tim Lebbon team up with award-winning horror and fantasy artist Peter Bergting for this revamped twist on Dracula! Vampires Jonathan Harker, Lucy Westenra, and Mina Murray live in underground London, trying to keep the undead city safe from the rumored mortals above who seek to give them life, only to kill them. But when the authorities refuse to believe mortals, let alone the mysterious Count Dracula, are anything more than myth, they are on their own to keep their city eternally dead. Dark Horse, 2024....More. Item Code: MORT01H Hard Cover, 7x10, 120pg, Full Color |
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ALSO AVAILABLE THE ART OF PETER BERGTING Highly Recommended. 30 years of dark, mystical, and mysterious work collected for the first time. Introduction by award-winning horror writer and longtime collaborator Christopher Golden! Bergting’s repertoire of fantasy, horror, and sci-fi illustrations include comics, magazines, novels, and games, and he’s worked in collaboration with creative giants like Mike Mignola. This is an impressive, top notch collection of fine fantasy artwork, including the likes of Hellboy and more work for Dark Horse and other publishers. Dark Horse, 2023....More. Item Code: ARTPBH Hard Cover, 9x12, 208pg, Full Color |
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I, DRAGON Book 1 The End of Genesis By Juan Gimenez. Fiefdom of the royal family, Rosentall Castle lives its darkest hours surrounded by a huge army. The leader who heads it is the bastard descendant of a lost royal line, and she has returned to reclaim her throne. A long and bloody struggle for power is about to begin. Meanwhile, inside the castle, a strange carnival woman gives birth to her first child... Alien Books, 2024....More. Item Code: IDRA01 Soft Cover, 8x11, 56pg, Full Color $12.99 |
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THE LEGENDARY LYNX THE LEGENDARY LYNX was created in the 1970s by writer Harvey Stern and artist Doug Detmer, two creators who died under mysterious circumstances before and shortly after the series was first published. Welcome to Triumph City. A city plagued by corruption and crime, where every alleyway and dark corner holds a deadly secret. The lone figure, standing against the onslaught of crime, is a savvy crimefighter known as the Lynx – sworn to protect the city that forged her. By day, she’s Claudia Calla, a quiet secretary at Triumph City’s biggest paper. A woman haunted by a dark tragedy that has pushed her toward taking on the mantle of the Lynx – to prevent others from experiencing the same pain she’s dealt with. But when a specter from her earliest days returns, asking for her help against a cabal of dark forces, the Lynx must choose between her heroic responsibilities and her debt to a dear friend. Mad Cave Studios, 2024....More. Item Code: LEGEL Soft Cover, 7x10, 112pg, Full Color $17.99 |
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SAVAGE RED SONJA Devil in the Sand Collects #1-5. Tasked with retrieving a long-hidden gem from a crumbled, ancient kingdom, the She-Devil with a Sword must navigate a dangerous wasteland, defeat its bloodthirsty bandits, and escape its monstrous guardian - all before facing off against the legendary Slayers of Shadizar!Written by comics legend Dan Panosian and illustrated by rising star Alessio Petillo, Savage Red Sonja: Devil in the Sand collects all five issues of their acclaimed series and includes a complete cover gallery featuring stunning artwork from Panosian, Frank Cho, Art Adams, Gary Frank, Joseph Michael Linsner, and more! Dynamite, 2024....More. Item Code: SAVDE Soft Cover, 7x10, 128pg, Full Color $19.99 |
| Here’s more of Sonja. |
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ILLUSTRATORS QUARTERLY SPECIAL #14 The Illustrated History of Warren Magazines New printing, revised and expanded with eight more pages. Our Highest Recommendation. This explores and showcases James Warren's highly successful magazines and their artists: Famous Monsters of Filmland, Screen Thrills, Creepy, Eerie, Vampirella, 1984, The Spirit, Comix International and more. Packed with cover art and interior pages by the likes of Corben, Wrightson, Neal Adams, Ditko, Toth, Frazetta, Wood, Severin, Crandall, Infantino, Niño and many, many more. Plus the entire history, the ups and downs, of Warren's empire. Book Palace, 2024....More. Item Code: IQS15 Soft Cover, 9x11, 152pg, Partial Color $45.99 |
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ILLUSTRATORS QUARTERLY SPECIAL #14 The Illustrated History of Warren Magazines Deluxe Hardcover Revised and expanded, a variant cover. Highly Recommended. By Peter Richardson. This explores and showcases James Warren's highly successful magazines and their artists: Famous Monsters of Filmland, Screen Thrills, Creepy, Eerie, Vampirella, 1984, The Spirit, Comix International and more. Packed with cover art and interior pages by the likes of Corben, Wrightson, Neal Adams, Ditko, Toth, Frazetta, Wood, Severin, Crandall, Infantino, Niño and many, many more. Plus the entire history, the ups and downs, of Warren's empire. Book Palace, 2024. ...More. Item Code: IQS14H Hard Cover, 9x11, 152pg, Partial Color $110.00 |
| Here are more IQ Specials. |
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JOHNNY HAZARD NEWSPAPER DAILIES Volume 12 1962-1964 Frank Robbins' masterpiece - one of the all-time greatest action/adventure newspaper comic strips, Johnny Hazard - returns with Volume Twelve of the series! This volume continues the adventures of Johnny Hazard picking up the story line where Volume Eleven left off. See more trend-setting artwork by comics legend Frank Robbins in one of the most important adventure strips ever to grace newspapers. Reproduced entirely from original King Features press proofs! Hermes Press, 2024....More. Item Code: JH12H Hard Cover, 10x6, 240pg, b&w $54.99 |
| We still carrry Volumes 8-11. 8-10 are $50 each, 11 is $54.99. We have only two copies left of Vol 8 then it will be gone; all of these are tough to keep in stock, so take warning. Also click for several Rare Books collections, including Alex Toth’s work on the strip! |
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COMICS REVUE PRESENTS OCT 2024 Cover by Jeremy Macpherson. Complete in this issue: Rick O’Shay by Stan Lynde, Buz Sawyer by Roy Crane, Sir Bagby by R&D Hackney. 19 pages of color Sunday pages featuring Flash Gordon by Dan Barry, Flash Gordon by Mac Raboy and Harry Harrison, Gasoline Alley by Dick Moores, Alley Oop by V. T. Hamlin, Casey Ruggles by Warren Tufts, Steve Canyon by Milton Caniff, and The Phantom by Lee Falk and Wilson McCoy. Plus the following stories in B&W: Mandrake the Magician, Krazy Kat, Buz Sawyer, Rick O’Shay, Sir Bagby, Garth, and Chris Welkin, Planeteer! Manuscript Press, 2024....More. Item Code: CR1024 Magazine, 8x11, 128pg, Partial Color $19.95 |
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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. | ||
| Bud's October Clearance Sale! | ||
We recently sent out our latest clearance sale with over 100 items newly reduced. You can see the email on our blog, or you can search OCTSALE to see the full list of items that were put on sale this month. Click on AUGSALE and SEPTSALE to see the entire listings for the previous 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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FRAZETTA & BURROUGHS MASTERS OF ADVENTURE 2025 Calendar Limited, 1000. Frazetta Girls, in collaboration with Edgar Rice Burroughs Inc., presents the Masters of Adventure 2025 Wall Calendar. This limited edition calendar—strictly limited to just 1,000 units—features a 12-month spread showcasing 12 of our favorite Frank Frazetta book covers inspired by the legendary works of Edgar Rice Burroughs. Each calendar comes with a premium slipcase cover and is individually numbered, making this a true collector’s item for fans of Frazetta’s iconic fantasy art and Burroughs’ timeless adventures. ERB Inc., 2024. Due: Nov....More. Item Code: FRBU25 na, 12x12, 24pg, Full Color $40.00 |
| The Frazetta family is doing a calendar again this year, and we’ll have copies available in November. Last year’s Frazetta Girls production is sold out. Here are the bargain-priced 2024 calendars, just a handful left now. And here are all of our 2025 calendars They are all in our latest catalog and going very well, thank you very much! |
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THIS MAGAZINE IS HAUNTED Facsimile Edition #3 Slipcased Collects #15-21, 1954. Collect the third wave of 7 issues from the legendary series by Charlton Comics, This Magazine is Haunted! For the first time ever collect 7 Facsimile Editions in one premium Slipcase! Issues include work by Sheldon Moldoff, Bob Powell, Dick Giordano, Robert McCarty, Ed Waldman, Bill Molno, Seymour Moskowitz and Steve Ditko. With over 200 pages of nightmare fuel you can't get much better bang for your buck! PS Artbooks, 2024. Due: Nov....More. Item Code: THM03D Comic, 7x10, 256pg, Full Color $104.99 |
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THIS MAGAZINE IS HAUNTED Facsimile Edition #4 Slipcased Collects #12-16, 1957. Collect the last wave of 5 issues from the legendary series by Charlton Comics, This Magazine is Haunted! For the first time ever collect 5 Facsimile Editions in one premium Slipcase! Issues include work by Bill Molno, Steve Ditko, Rocco Mastroserio, and Maurice Whitman, we guarantee you will be left quaking in your boots! With over 150 pages of nightmare fuel you can't get much better bang for your buck! PS Artbooks, 2024. Due: Nov....More. Item Code: THM04D Comic|na, 7x10, 256pg, Full Color $104.99 |
| We announced volumes 1 and 2 a couple weeks ago. PS is trying something new with these — instead of individual facsimiles (at least for now) they are issuing them in a set with slipcase.. Here are the first two, still coming items. |
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Yesterday we sent out an email with our newest Rare Book listings. Click here to see it. If you'd like to sign up for future mailings, please click here. The previous week we had over 70 new items listed, and you can see those right here. We continue to work through multiple collections as well as many warehouse finds. Remeber that most items only have one in stock, so if you see something you like, grab it fast! Rare Books Sale! – our 20% off special on more than 300 titles is still available. Click here for the latest list of 292 titles, and our first offering, with more than 300 titles still available.
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10 Calendars Lost An entire pallet of calendars has been lost in transit to us. It's been more than a month now, so we are considering them lost for good and they are all sold out from the publisher. We’ve never advertised any of them here in the weekly email, since they were not in stock. But they are pictured and listed in the latest catalog, so that customers could order them before the holidays. Most are adult titles: Asian Babes, Babes, Booty, Dinosaurs, Erotic Lingerie, Lingerie (Bright Day), Lingerie (Avonside), Racks, Retro Pin-Ups and Retro Pin-Ups (Gifted). If they do show up, we’ll let you know. They are NOT on the website. ~Bud
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