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Big week for EC -- we have the final volume of Tales from the Crypt in softcover; Coming this Spring is the first Taschen XXL EC Library -- with a signed bookplate --Weird Science. Also news on the next EC Fan Addict, #7!!! Arthur Adams Preliminary Studies is here and $5 off FOR ONE WEEK ONLY. Leslie Cabarga (Topless Summer Love Girls) returns with Wild Girl. Hammer Films Complete is now half price. Ron Lesser 2 is here in softcover. Alley Oop’s here in dailies and color Sundays. Nosferatu tells the surprising story of the fabled film in comics. Traveling to Mars is nominated for Best New Series and Best Writer! Three new Flash Sale books, news on Diamond’s bankruptcy and our upcoming shows and more…. |
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EC ARCHIVES TALES FROM THE CRYPT Volume 5 |
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HAMMER COMPLETE The Films, The Personnel, The Company Back in stock at HALF PRICE! Highly Recommended. By Howard Maxford. Everything you could ever want to know about the fabled "Studio that Dripped Blood." A massive 984 page lowdown on all the imperishable classics of horror, like The Curse of Frankenstein, Horror of Dracula and The Devil Rides Out. And every star, from Christopher Lee to the voluptuous ladies. Lavishly illustrated. Every Hammer film and television production in thorough detail: budgets, shooting schedules, publicity, all the actors, supporting players, writers, directors, producers, composers and technicians. Packed with quotes, behind-the-scenes anecdotes, credit lists and production specifics, this all-inclusive reference work is the last word on this cherished cinematic institution, one of the most beloved horror film companies ever. McFarland, 2019....More. Item Code: HAMCH Hard Cover, 9x11, 992pg, Text/b&w |
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THE ART OF RON LESSER Volume 2 Dangerous Dames and Cover Dolls Highly Recommended. By Robert Deis. Foreword by Joe Jusko. Introduction by Dan Zimmer. In the late 1950s, while studying with the legendary art teacher Frank J. Reilly at the Art Students League in New York City, Ron Lesser embarked on a long career as one of America’s top illustration artists. Over the next four decades, his artwork was used for thousands of paperback book covers, movie posters, magazines, and advertisements. Many great artists once made a good living doing such illustration artwork and Ron Lesser is among the greatest. He’s also one of the few who are still alive and still painting. Subtropic Productions, 2024. ...More. Item Code: ARTRL02 Soft Cover, 8x11, 130pg, Full Color $39.99 |
| The hardcover came in previously [ARTRL02H. $49.99]. Volume 1 is still available: Softcover [ARTRL01. $39.95], Hardcover [ARTRL01H. $55]. |
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MARVEL MASTERWORKS DOCTOR STRANGE Volume 11 Collects Doctor Strange #74-81, hamballa Graphic Novel and more, 1983-87. By Peter B. Gillis and J.M. DeMatteis. Art by Chris Warner, Dan Green et al. As the Sorcerer Supreme, Doctor Strange protects our dimension from threats we can hardly comprehend. What happens when the things that keep these terrors at bay — his many mystic tools and protections, his Sanctum Sanctorum itself — are gone? A gauntlet of Mephisto, the demon Khat and alien sorcerer Urthona send Doctor Strange on the run. He must find a way to repair his mystic cloak and survive death itself to save our realm... Marvel, 2024....More. Item Code: MMD11H Hard Cover, 7x10, 344pg, Full Color |
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ARTHUR ADAMS PRELIMINARY STUDIES Signed Signed! Highly Recommended. $19.95 Pre-pub Price only good until 1/30/25. Amazing and fascinating blue pencil preliminaries — only a few of these have ever been seen on Arthur's Instagram page. But this is how he works out his final drawings and figures — so John Fleskes began with a big stack of originals and culled it down to this cool little book, which is small but quite thick! 224 page 5 x 7.5 inches. There are action scenes, heroines in motion, closeups — all variety of images as Art works out what will go onto his final pencil and inked work. Flesk, 2025....More. Item Code: ARTAP Soft Cover, 5x7, 224pg, Partial Color |
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The Arthur Adams Sampler V, signed artist’s file copy, is still available [AASBS05. $90], from 2006. The Marvel Universe by Arthur Adams Omnibus is in stock [MUAAH. |
New and Back in Stock from Leslie Cabarga |
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WILD GIRL: WILHEMINA OF THE RIVER BOTTOM Signed Signed! 1st orders will include a full color oversized bookmark! Recommended. Leslie Cabarga resurrects this legend from obscurity in eight hand drawn and photo-fummetti stories, spanning the years 1897-2027. Wilhemina the wild waif, abandoned in various far-away forests by random negligent moms, and one totally screwy mad scientist, grows to adulthood never having seen another human being — or clothing! That is, until her bucolic, idyllic, idiosyncratic, existence hurls this savage daughter into the modern world. Cabarga has drawn four comics stories spoofing such classics as The Yellow Kid, Betty Boop, Anime, and 60s psychedelic European comics, with four "fumetti" or photo-comics. They include a spurious 1924 German silent film, an improbable 1960s TV sitcom, an alleged documentary, and a sci-fi fantasy about a Wild Female Cyborg called Wilderella who conquers the world in her "birthday suit!" Iconoclassics, 2025. Mature Readers....More. Item Code: WILGHS Hard Cover, 10x11, 176pg, Partial Color $27.95 |
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PROGRESSIVE GERMAN GRAPHICS 1900-1937 Signed Authors File Copies, signed! Highly Recommended. By Leslie Carbaga. Explores the unique and attractive German and Austrian graphic design of a hugely creative four decades. Highly conceptual and geometric, this style has had a significant impact on modern design. Includes superbly designed posters, packaging, trademarks, letterheads, and advertising ephemera that exemplify this distinctive genre, from Jugenstil (German Art Nouveau) to Art Deco. Chronicle Books, 1994....More. Item Code: PROGGS Soft Cover, 9x8, 132pg, Partial Color $16.95 |
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THE LETTERING AND GRAPHIC DESIGN OF F.G. COOPER Signed Signed! Author's File Copies. Highly Recommended. By Leslie Cabarga. A chronicle of the life and art of Fred Cooper (1883-1961), one of America's great cartoonists and designers who was also a founding member of the Society of Illustrators. In fact, Fred designed the lettering on the plaque at the Society's Manhattan headquarters. Lavishly illustrated with many pages in 2-color, the book displays a wide variety of Cooper's versatile work. Art Direction Book Company, 1996....More. Item Code: LETFGS Soft Cover, 8x11, 128pg, Partial Color $16.95 |
| Also see Cabarga’s Topless Summer Love Girls, in the adult section. |
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ALLEY OOP AND THE MAGIC STAFF The Compete Sundays 1997-1999 Full Color Sundays. By Dave Graue & Jack Bender. Foozy is possessed by the powerful Magic Staff! Can he and Moo survive its terrible ambition? Other storylines include Umpa's art contest, the perils of prehistoric climate change, and a fancy hat party for dancing dinosaurs! Acoustic Learning, 2025....More. Item Code: ALLEMAG Soft Cover, 9x8, 156pg, Full Color $34.99 |
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ALLEY OOP AND THE NEANDERTHALS 1967 Hamlin/Graue Daily strips, 1967. By V.T. Hamlin and Dave Graue. Alley joins a Swingin' Sixties rock band on the opening time-travel story. But he soon finds out that his beloved country of Moo is at war with Neanderland! How will he save his home from this savage threat — and save himself from the designs of the rather cute Neanderthal Princess? Acoustic Learning, 2025....More. Item Code: ALLE67 Soft Cover, 11x7, 106pg, b&w $19.99 |
| Here are more in both series, and the latest BIG Sunday page collection, Alley Oop and Julius Caesar 1949-1950 [ALLEJUL. $75]. |
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TRAVELING TO MARS Collects #1-11, cover gallery, bonus material. Recommended. Introduction by Patton Oswalt. Eisner Nominee for Best New Series and Best Writer! From Eisner Award winning writer Mark Russell and artist Roberto Meli comes a compelling new sci-fi series: Traveling to Mars tells the story of former pet store manager Roy Livingston, the first human ever to set foot on Mars. Roy was chosen for this unlikely mission for one simple reason: he is terminally ill and therefore has no expectation of returning. Roy is joined on his mission to Mars by Leopold and Albert, two Mars rovers equipped with artificial intelligence, who look upon him as a sort of god. Against the backdrop of not only his waning days but those of human civilization as well, Roy has ample time to think about where things went wrong for both of them and what it means to be a dying god. Ablaze, 2025....More. Item Code: TRAVM Soft Cover, 7x10, 280pg, Full Color |
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BEHIND THE HORROR AND DEATH NOSFERATU Recommended. Introduction and Afterword by the author/artist. Italian artist Marco Fontanili's illustrative exploration of the history, life, death, and legacy of the classic German Expressionist film, Nosferatu. 128 pages of evolving art in a interesting oblong format, telling the tragic story behind one of the most important horror movies of all time, from its birth, assassination, near extermination, and eventual resurrection. Starring the main character himself. The book and even the artwork continues the Expressionist style of the film. I quite like it! - Bud Invader Comics, 2025....More. Item Code: BEHHOR Soft Cover, 6x10, 176pg, b&w $19.99 |
| We also have a very limited number (we were allocated just five copies) with a variant cover, which is also by the artist/writer [BEHHORV. $24.99]. |
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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 the section on our website, called ALMOST GONE, at the top of the home page, right next to CLOSEOUTS. |
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| We have our next three sale groups all discounted and ready for your orders.They will become our Jan, Feb and March sale emails. But right now you can see all these --click on Jansale, Febsale and Marsale. If you want to browse through all next-up savings at once, click on nrp0125. | ||
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GEORGE HERRIMAN'S KRAZY KAT The Complete Color Sundays 1935-1944 Highly Recommended. For the first time ever, ten full years of George Herriman’s Krazy Kat Sunday pages, his best and brightest work, in nice large 10x14 size. One of the first comics to be considered a work of art, Krazy Kat delights with its characterization and visual-verbal creativity alongside the slapstick shenanigans between Krazy and Ignatz the mouse. This book comes with an illustrated introduction by Alexander Braun. Taschen, 2025. Rush Service and International shipping could require an additional charge. Due: Mar....More. Item Code: GEOKKSH Hard Cover, 10x14, 632pg, Partial Color $100.00 |
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KRAZY & IGNATZ Volume 5 1928-1930 Recommended. By George Herriman. Meticulously and lovingly restored, this Eisner Award-nominated series showcases one of the most renowned and celebrated comic strips in the art form’s history. This exquisite, generously sized volume finishes up the 1920s collecting the acclaimed and groundbreaking Krazy Kat Sunday strips in an archival hardcover edition. What profound insights can Krazy glean from an art exhibit of the old masters? What happens when Krazy applies for a job as a debt collector and discovers the biggest debtor is Ignatz? What’s with all the balloons? And volcanos? Why is a giraffe wandering lost in the desert? Where will the unending travels of Mr. Bum Bill Bee take him? Is it fate or is it fake? With incisive essays by Herriman scholars, and reproductions of rare Herriman ephemera. Fantagraphics, 2025. Due: Mar....More. Item Code: KRAZ05H Hard Cover, 11x14, 228pg, b&w |
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FARSCAPE BOOK Book 1 Collects Farscape #1-4, Farscape Vol. 2 #1-4, and 3 more stories, 2009-11. 'Scapers will be frelling delighted to experience what happens to the Moya crew after the Peacekeeper Wars in the first of two ultimate collections officially extending the show mythology! After the events on Hyneria, the crew of Moya face a new, mysterious menace, discover their greatest enemies might just be themselves, John Crichton and Aeryn Sun reunite at last, and so much more! Farscape creator Rockne S. O’Bannon is joined by writer Keith R.A. DeCandido, with art by Tommy Patterson, Neil Edwards, and more in the massive omnibus collection SIX COMPLETE adventures in a single volume!Archaia, 2025. Due: Mar....More. Item Code: FARS01H Hard Cover, 7x10, 688pg, Full Color $59.99 |
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KILL OR BE KILLED COMPENDIUM Collects #1-20, 2017-18. Recommended. Afterword by Brubaker. Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillips' bestselling series is finally collected under one cover. The twisted story of a young man forced to kill bad people, and how he struggles to keep his secret from destroying his life. Grad student Dylan must kill one person who deserves it every month, and the deeper he gets in, the more he realizes how many people there are that deserve it. Catcher in the Rye meets Death Wish in a dark take on the vigilante genre that became a cracked reflection of the world around us.Image Comics, 2025. Due: Mar....More. Item Code: KILLBK Soft Cover, 6x10, 600pg, Full Color |
| Here’s more by Brubaker and Phillips. |
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CLASSIC HORROR COMICS Volume 9 Hardcover Collects Haunted Thrills #12-13, Fantastic Fears #8-9, Man in Black #2, 1943-57. Recommended. Art by Bob Webb, Iger Shop, and Bob Powell. Unearthing more little horrors beginning with Haunted Thrills #12, 1953 where practical joker Biff inherits a haunted house in "Death Laughs Last." And from issue #13, "Death Do Us Part," the baboon kills his wife! Quickly followed by woe be to those receiving the deadly invitation... all it said was "Be My Ghost!" in Fantastic Fears #8 and from issue #9, 1954, "If a Body Kill a Body," two Scottish highlanders from warring families come back as ghosts to get their revenge! And finally, from the Man in Black #2, 1957, our faceless occult avenger tells strange stories, sometimes intervening in person, other times merely letting fate unfold. PS Artbooks, 2025. Due: Mar....More. |
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THE ATLAS COMICS LIBRARY Volume 5 Police Action Our Highest Recommendation. Edited by series editor Dr. Michael J. Vassallo. Pre-Code cops and robbers' action from the early 1950s! This is the fifth stand-alone genre-themed collection in Fantagraphics’ archival series of mid-century Marvel Comics. Police Action had a seven-issue run of violent and noir-ish morality plays, pitting the officers of the law against the forces of urban malevolence. With the cream of the Atlas freelance roster, including Joe Maneely, Robert Q. Sale, Gene Colan, Art Peddy, Mort Lawrence, Werner Roth and Bob Powell. Fantagraphics, 2025. Due: Mar....More. Item Code: ATL05H Hard Cover, 9x11, 254pg, Full Color |
| Here’s more in the Atlas Comics Library. The Al Williamson Artist Edition is already selling briskly and we’re featuring it as the cover of our next catalog. Volume 6, after Police Action, will be Shiver as You Read, a second horror collection. See it now |
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EC COMICS LIBRARY WEIRD SCIENCE Volume 1 XXL Signed Collects Weird Science #1-11, 1950-52. Oversized 11x16. Our Highest Recommendation. By Grant Geissman. Art by Wood, Feldstein, Kamen, Orlando, Kurtzman et al. Reproducing the initial eleven issues of the world’s first true science-fiction comic, this seminal collection exemplifies the genre’s Golden Age. Full of vivid artistry and narrative twists, the trailblazing series features wildly imaginative tales of nuclear apocalypse, interstellar adventures, and glittering utopias. Rather than recolor the artwork, this edition works with super-high-resolution photographs of each page as it was printed more than half a century ago, using modern retouching techniques to correct problems with the era’s inexpensive, imperfect printing. The result is a pristine product, keeping the character and feel of the classic issues, but freshly printed by a world-class press oversized, nearly twice the original size. Taschen, 2025. Rush Service and International shipping could require an additional charge. Due: Apr....More. Item Code: ECLWS01H Hard Cover, 11x16, 462pg, Full Color |
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EC COMICS LIBRARY WEIRD SCIENCE Volume 1 Deluxe Edition Collects Weird Science #1-11, 1950-52. Limited to 1,000, slipcase, limitation page; further information to follow. By Grant Geissman. Art by Wood, Feldstein, Kamen, Orlando, Kurtzman et al. Reproducing the initial eleven issues of the world’s first true science-fiction comic, this seminal collection exemplifies the genre’s Golden Age. Full of vivid artistry and narrative twists, the trailblazing series features wildly imaginative tales of nuclear apocalypse, interstellar adventures, and glittering utopias. Rather than recolor the artwork, this edition works with super-high-resolution photographs of each page as it was printed more than half a century ago, using modern retouching techniques to correct problems with the era’s inexpensive, imperfect printing. The result is a pristine product, keeping the character and feel of the classic issues, but freshly printed by a world-class press oversized, nearly twice the original size. Taschen, 2025. Rush Service and International shipping could require an additional charge. Due: Apr....More. Item Code: ECLWS01D Hard Cover, 11x16, 462pg, Full Color $650.00 |
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New this week: Topless Summer Love Girls (signed)…a book we brought back in, in conjunction with Carbarga’s new Wild Girl above (which is also filled with nudity, but nothing more suggestive). It’s a lot of fun, a mashup between Mad Magazine and Harvey Kurtzman’s adult themes! |
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SAVAGE ART 20th Century Genre and the Artists that Defined It Hardcover Closeout Price! Highly Recommended! Entirely from the original paintings, with stunning reproduction, full page for each pulp cover. The lurid and violent illustrations which prefigured and helped create the visual language in movie poster art, comic books, and game art. Featuring classic illustration by pulp artists Virgil Finlay, Norman Saunders, H.J. Ward, Harold McCauley, Austin Briggs, Emsh, Harry Parkhurst, Walter Baumhofer, Rafael de Soto, George and Jerome Rozen, Tom Lovell and, of course, Weird Tales legend Margaret Brundage, and others. Underwood Books, 2010. Out of print....More. Item Code: SAVAH Hard Cover, 9x12, 112pg, Full Color |
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SHAMELESS ART 20th Century Genre and the Artist That Defined It Closeout Price! Highly Recommended. All from the original art: Rare, completely nude ladies by famous pin-up artists Fritz Willis, Roy Best, Zoe Mozart, Gil Elvgren (who rarely did nudes), Andrew Loomis, Earl Moran, Art Sarnoff, Rolf Armstrong (several), George Petty (one nude, four just-about), Bergey, and of course, Vargas. Suggestive pin-ups by Caldwell Higgins, Bill Randal, Ted Withers, Art Frahm, 11 pieces including one nude and several great Film Fun covers by Enoch Bolles. And much more by lesser-known and unknowns. Underwood Books, 2010. Out of print. Mature Readers. ...More. Item Code: SHAAH Hard Cover, 10x12, 112pg, Full Color |
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EVERETT RAYMOND KINSTLER Closeout Price! The Artist's Journey through Popular Culture 1942-62. Our Highest Recommendation. By Jim Vadeboncoeur, Jr. and Everett Raymond Kinstler. Kinstler's work hangs in museums, boardrooms, banks, private collections, The White House, and in the homes of his clients and friends. Before portraiture became his life's work, he spent the 1940s and 1950s honing his craft in comic books: Hawkman for DC's The Flash, Black Hood and Black Terror for Standard. And dozens upon dozens of covers, inside cover contents pages, and stories for those delightfully lurid Avon titles like Eerie, Cowpuncher, Dalton Brothers, Jesse James, Strange Worlds, etc. And illustrating for pulp magazines like The Shadow, Doc Savage and Detective Tales! JVJ, 2005....More. Item Code: EVEH Hard Cover, 8x11, 228pg, Partial Color |
We have signed deluxe copies of this in slipcase with 16 extra pages also [EVED. We have a total of 28 titles now on a Flash Sale like these three above—many are as low as $5 each. This has been so successful, we’ve added these three additional titles and extended the sale prices beyond our original deadline. |
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Jules Feiffer 1929-2025 Sadly, we have to report that cartoonist Jules Feiffer passed away this week at the age of 94. Besides being famous as a cartoonist. Feiffer worked with Will Eisner on many of the best-ever Spirit sections in the late 1940s, and he wrote the iconic Comic Book Heroes, which was the introduction for many, myself included, to the Golden Age of Comics…still a brilliant book that was even abridged into a Playboy Magazine article in 1964-65.
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Diamond Bankruptcy Update Diamond continues to ship product. They may be losing some exclusive distribution deals, but so far publishers are willing to still work with them along with other distribution channels. I’ve spoken with Steve Geppi. We’ve been friends since we both got into new comics distribution at the same time, in 1982. I wished him well and he was optimistic that Diamond can weather this and emerge as a healthy company without negatively affecting any publishers or retailers. We all want to see that.
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Shadow Scrapbook We’re down to four copies of this vintage book—we were lucky enough to get a nice batch of them a few months ago.
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We are assured our reorder on these is still due to ship soon; they are taking quite some time to ship out their Zoop orders first. So we are still taking backorders for the Barry Windsor-Smith cover, John Buscema cover, and Jim Lee cover.
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Edgar Rice Burroughs Tarzan We’ve found that nearly everyone likes to buy these in the discounted sets of four volumes. We are selling almost no copies of the individual volumes, so we’re dropping them. We do still have a handful of copies left of most volumes 1-20, so act now if you want any particular titles. We’ll keep Tarzan of the Apes available. Next up is the Barsoom series; so far we are accepting advance orders for both individual volumes ($36.95 each) and also the discounted set [BARS01P. Pirates of Venus is taking a bit more time, we now anticipate copies in March [PIRVH. $375]. Since we discounted the 3-volume set of The Moon Maid, sales jumped. When we have just a few copies left, the price will go back to full retail. Save $50 for now [MOONMH.
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Upcoming Events We hadn’t planned to exhibit at the Pasadena Internationall Antiquarian Book Fair this year, opting instead to just do the San Francisco Rare Books, taking place a week earlier Feb 1-2. Sadly, the Pasadena show has now been cancelled; FEMA took over the convention center to deal with the fire situation in Los Angeles. There will be a virtual show sponsored by the ABAA over the same time, Feb 6-8 and we will have 70+ of our best books listed. Information here at the ABAA or from Anne@budplantandhutchisonbooks.com. See our events page for more. The N. California Mangani ERB show has just been announced for May in Roseville. ~Bud
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