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Gil Elvgren: The Wartime Pin-Ups (Vignettes)

2 reviews
Max Allan Collins

Collectors Pr, 1997

Outstanding
An excellent presentation of the greatest pinup artist of all time

Maxfield Parrish Identification & Price Guide

2 reviews
Erwin Flacks

Collectors Pr, 1995

Advice From a Parrish Fanatic
Incredibly useful. I believe Flacks has written the most accurate and convenient pricing guide available for Maxfield Parrish collectors and anyone else who wants to figure out what a Parrish item is worth. If you're looking for a great coffee table book, I suggest Alma Gilbert's The Masterworks. -- James Halperin, sf novelist (The Truth Machine & The First Immortal) and Parrish collector.

The J. C. Leyendecker Collection: American Illustrators Poster Book

7 reviews
Kent Steine, Frederic B. Taraba

Collectors Pr, 1995

A MASTER OF HIS ART
You might not know his name but if you've ever seen the cover of The Saturday Evening Post, then you've probably seen at least on of his unforgettable images. Back in the hey day of commercial illustration Leyendecker was a celebrity. He practically created the look so associated with such publications. His dapper, muscular men and angelic women graced magazine covers and countless ...

Earl MacPherson: The Sketchbook Pin-Ups (Vignettes)

3 reviews
Max Allan Collins

Collectors Pr, 1997

Another major book by Pin Up Art Specialist Max Allan Collin
Award winning Author Max Allan Collins is also one of the foremost collectors of original pin up art in the country. He combines his love of this media with the detailed research evident in his awardwinning Nate Heller and Eliot Ness historical novels to produce yet another outstanding pin up book similar to his award winning collaboration with artist Gil Elvgren's son Drake last year. Max ...

Alberto Vargas : The Esquire Years Vol. II (Vignettes)

3 reviews
Michael Goldberg

Collectors Pr, 1997

Size does Matter!
I came across pin-ups during my studies in history in college. And that's where I fell in love with Vargas' Women. Never before had I feasted my eyes on such beauty and innocence which he had the ability to create. "The Esquire Years, (Vignettes)is a beautiful book depicting most of his works. I've never seen a more complete collection of Vargs' work ever before printed. The one ...

Pin-Up Poster Book : The Billy DeVorss Collection

1 review
Max Allan Collins

Collectors Pr, 1997

A timeless memorial to pretty girls artfully presented.
In the heyday of the pin-up girl, Billy DeVorss offered gorgeous women rich in color, glamour, fashion, and appeal. With a sincere appreciation of the female form and the romantic, artful eye of a painter, DeVorss pin-ups boldly engage the viewer with confidence, charm, and grace. These were sweethearts, not hussies, icons of love, not lust. Pin-Up Poster Book: The Billy DeVorss Collection is ...

Elvgren: His Life & Art

10 reviews
Max Allan Collins, Drake Elvgren

Collectors Pr, 1998

Most comprehensive collection of Elvgren'w work
This fabulous volume is surely the most comprehensive collection of Gil Elvgren's work ever assembled in book form. It should go far to establish Elvgren, along with Petty and Vargas, as a master of the American pin-up. The biographical information is complete and well written including Elvgren's personal, commercial and artistic endeavors. The information on his associations with other pin-up ...

Pin-Up Poster Book: The Edward Runci Collection

1 review
Charles G. Martinette, Edward Runci, ...

Collectors Pr, 1997

Fabulous
I love to see the glamour girls of "older" Hollywood, the younger ones do not have IT

Pulp Culture: The Art of Fiction Magazines

7 reviews
Frank M. Robinson, Lawrence Davidson

Collectors Pr, 2001

WONDERFUL HISTORY AND DAZZLING ARTWORK
Hard-boiled Detectives, mysterious heroes, shadowy villains, evil oriental masterminds, and dames in distress...they are the stuff of the pulp magazines and the subject of this wonderful book by Frank Robinson which traces the history of pulp magazines and provides covers to hundreds of these great pulp magazines, so many lost in the antiquity of time...not to mention paper drives of the 1940's ...

Maxfield Parrish Edison Mazda Collection
Maxfield Parrish

Collectors Pr, 1994

Alphonse Mucha: An American Collectio (Vignettes)

5 reviews
Don Kurtz

Collectors Pr, 1997

Part of a Really Useful Series
I run enrichment programs for school age children and this book along with the other books in the Vignette series from the Collector's Press have been terrific in introducing kids to great artists. This book does a great job of chronicling Mucha's life and career. I highly recommend it as an introduction to Art Nouveau and Alphonse Mucha.

James Montgomery Flagg: Uncle Sam and Beyond (Vignettes)

2 reviews
Nicholas Steward

Collectors Pr, 1997

The FLAGG Waves On!
Short, concise, to-the-point information with wonderfully reproduced portaits of Flagg's work. Flagg had his thumb on the nation's pulse and stayed a few steps ahead of its desires and passions. His work has inspired countless partriots and Americans alike. It did then, does still today, and this book ensures it will tomorrow.

Billy Devorss: The Classic Pin-Ups (Vignettes)
Kent Steine

Collectors Pr, 1996

Maxfield Parrish

3 reviews
Michael J. Goldberg, Maxfield Parrish

Collectors Pr, 1999

Best Parrish 'Buy"
Of all the books on Parrish, these authors are the most responsible in the history of the artist, in their analysis of the art works, and their research of the genre!! The illustrations are directly from the original paintings and glow as do the originals themselves. Who can go wrong at $9.99 with such printing quality as this hardback?

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