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Condition: BRAND NEW (FOUR AVAILABLE) Title:Gil Elvgren: All His Glamorous American Pin-ups-
Author: Charles G. Martignette, Louis K. Meisel Pub. Date: September 2005 Format: Large Paperback, 271pp
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From the publisher: Post-depression America was in desperate need of a defining iconography that would lift it out of the black and white doldrums, and it came in the form of Gil Elvgren's Technicolor fantasies of the American dream. His technique—which earned him a reputation as "The Norman Rockwell of cheesecake"—involved photographing models and then painting them into gorgeous hyper-reality, with longer legs, more flamboyant hair and gravity-defying busts, and in the process making them the perfect moral-boosting eye-candy for every homesick private.
This book is a heavy illustrated collection of pin-up illustrations by Gil Elvgren, the master of pin-ups.
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Condition: BRAND NEW Title: Marilyn: A Life in Pictures Author: Diana Karanikas Harvey Binding Type: Hardcover
Copyright Date: 1999
Number of Pages: 96 Heavily Illustrated
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Hollywood starlet Marilyn Monroe lights up the silver screen. Some like it hot, but Marilyn Monroe kicks up a notch in this collection of stunning photographs. Whether coyly lounging in a bikini or having dinner with her famous friends, she exudes glamour and charm.
Marilyn: A Life in Pictures includes both black-and-white and color photographs from throughout her life, the majority focusing on her heyday in Hollywood. With alluring photographs like these it's no wonder gentlemen prefer blondes.
A Life in Pictures is a biography series that uses photographs and film stills, accompanied by commentary, to tell the fascinating life stories of the twentieth century's most famous stars.
From The Critics:
Booknews
Dramatic b&w and color photographs, each accompanied by a detailed description or anecdote, capture the actress's unique combination of vulnerability and allure while documenting both her public and private lives. The volume provides a warm-hearted portrait of a screen goddess who defied expectations by persevering in the industry and whose story continues to interest film lovers around the world. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknew.com)
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Condition: BRAND NEW (ONE AVAILABLE) Title: The Great American Pin-Up
Author: Martignette, Charles G.; Meisel, Louis K.
Binding Type: Hardcover
Copyright Date: September 2002
Number of Pages: 447 8.1" x 10.4". Color illus. *Sealed in Plastic Wrap | $22.95 *No longer available as brand new sealed in plastic. There is one copy available that is NEW but has been removed from the plastic. It is in perfect condition. | Calculated on Checkout | From the Publisher
This book tells the tale of a genre as utterly American as the paintings of Edward Hopper, describing its origins and development in detail and showcasing the most important artists. With over 900 illustrations, The Great American Pin-Up is one of the first comprehensive studies of the genre to appear anywhere.
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Explores how what started as an exercise in oil painting soon was taken up in various media; from calendars, posters, and playing cards to the fuselages of warplanes. It showcases the most important artists, whose work entertained generations of American men. |
Condition: BRAND NEW (TWO AVAILABLE) Title: BURLESQUE:LEGENDARY STARS OF THE STAGE Author: Jane Briggeman
Binding Type: Hardcover
Publisher: Collectors Press (Sept 2004)
Number of Pages: 176 | $39.95 | Calculated on Checkout | Book Description They were temptresses of tease and specialists in seduction—bawdy and beautiful burlesque performers. Expertly twirling their tassels, these sexy stage professionals took cues from their vaudeville and variety show predecessors. Remembering the time when a striptease was a theatrical act complete with humor, live music, and skits, BURLESQUE: LEGENDARY STARS OF THE STAGE captures the spirit of the genre with photographs, interviews, and histories. The book is a tribute to the performers who shimmied and shook for countless crowds while striving to maintain a high level of artistry and professionalism. Author Jane Briggeman is the founder of the Golden Days of Burlesque Historical Society, whose mission is to unite former stage performers and promote the story of their craft. Spurred by the deaths of some of burlesque’s greatest names, BURLESQUE captures the heart of this unique industry.
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 Condition: LIKE NEW (ONE AVAILABLE) Title: Maxfield Parrish: The Advertisements, the Art Prints, the Book Illustrations, the Magazine Covers Author: Michael J. Goldberg Format: Hardcover
Heavily illustrated. Hardcover: 64 pages each book
Publisher: Collectors Press Limited edition (one of 7,500 prints): 1998
Language: English
Product Dimensions: 2.2 x 5.0 x 6.5 inches (each of four books) | $49.95 | Calculated on Checkout | Breaking the boundaries of commercialism and intent on inventing a surrealistic style, he successfully captured the dreamer in all of us. Present throughout the series is the artist's passionate color, allegorical settings, and eye for architecture. This is a series of 4 hard cover small books highlighting the work of Maxfield Parrish. They include:
The Book Illustrations
The Art Prints
The Magazine Covers
The Advertisement
These books are small, measuring 4 ½ x 6 each. They are housed in a box that holds all four books. Published by Collectors Press, Inc., this set is one of only 7,500 editions that were made. Each book contains descriptions and information about the paintings. This is a great and unusual piece for any Parrish collector.
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Condition: BRAND NEW (SIX AVAILABLE) Portfolio of Prints The Great America Pin Up
by Louis K. Meisel Pub. Date: August 2001
| $36.00 | Calculated on Checkout | Leading art dealer Louis K. Meisel and art collector Charles G. Martignette present eight nostalgic illustrations by premier commercial artists in this wonderful tribute to the great American pin-up. The beautifully reproduced prints are gallery-quality and ready for framing, housed in a portfolio that will protect them for many years to come. Eight 16" x 20" Gallery Quality Prints Ready for Framing. Featuring the Top Pin-Up Artists of the Twentieth Century including Rolf Armstrong, Earl Moran, Al Buell and others. |
Condition: USED (ONE AVAILABLE) Title: Gil Elvgren: All his Glamorous American Pin-ups
Author: Martignette, Charles G.; Meisel, Louis K.
Binding Type: Paperback
Copyright Date: 2003
Number of Pages: 271
| SOLD | | THE PERFECT MORALE-BOOSTING EYE-CANDY FOR EVERY HOMESICK PRIVATE. POST-DEPRESSION USA WAS IN DESPERATE NEED OF A DEFINING ICONOGRAPHY THAT WOULD LIFT IT OUT OF THE BLACK AND WHITE DOLDRUMS, AND IT CAME IN THE FORM OF GIL ELVGREN'S TECHNICOLOR FANTASIES OF THE AMERICAN DREAM. FROM THE FORTIES TO THE SIXTIES HIS PAINTED ADVERTS AND POSTERS FOR, AMONG OTHERS, COCA-COLA AND PANGBURN'S CHOCOLATES, AS WELL AS THE LONG-RUNNING BROWN AND BIGELOW CALENDARS, WERE A BRIGHT RED WHITE AND BLUE ACCOUNT OF THE COUNTRYSS ASPIRATIONS AND HOPES. |
 Condition: BRAND NEW (FOUR AVAILABLE) Title: Winchester Rarities
Author: Webster, Tom
Format: Hardcover, 11" tall x 8 1/2". 208 p.
Heavily illustrated
| $18.95 | Calculated on Checkout | By gaining access to private collections across the country, David Kowalski presents some of the most interesting items produced under the Winchester banner. From sporting goods to coffeepots, Winchester was everywhere. Now collectors, history buffs and anyone interested in one of the biggest names in American manufacturing can see the rarest of these items in full color in a beautiful hard cover book.
-All 37 Winchester calendars from 1887 to 1934.
-The largest collection of Winchester store items ever assembled.
-Rare five-panel displays reproduced in color.
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 Condition: USED -EXCELLENT CONDITION (ONE AVAILABLE) Title: Maxfield Parrish
Author: Coy Ludwig
Binding Type: Hard Cover with dust jacket
Copyright Date: 1973
Number of Pages: 223
Size: 9 x 12 1/2
| $37.95 | Calculated on Checkout | A compendium of the life and work of Maxfield Parrish, it is an essential part of a Parrish library.
Examples of Parrish's most famous book illustrations are shown, including selections from Mother Goose in Prose and the Arabian Nights. Also included are his famous magazine covers-from Life, Collier's, Harper's Weekly, etc., as well as all the landscapes that he painted for Brown and Bigelow, who reproduced them as calendars every year from 1936 to 1963.
One of the highlights of the book is the chapter on Parrish's technique, examining in depth his materials, favorite methods, and unique way of painting. In addition, there is a lengthy excerpt from an unpublished manuscript by Maxfield Parrish, Jr., explaining step-by-step his father's glazing technique and use of photography in his work. |
Condition: BRAND NEW (THREE AVAILABLE) Title: Jeepers Peepers!
Author: Louis K. Meisel
Binding Type: Softcover
Copyright Date: June 2006 (1st edition)
Number of Pages: 176 6.4 x 5.2 x 0.6 inches Color illus. Publisher: Collectors Press | $19.95
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Careful planning, camaraderie, reliable weapons — these were the WWII GI’s necessities. Pinups provided a different kind of support, mentally transporting American soldiers from the perilous front lines into the accommodating arms of gorgeous, nude, or barely clothed women. Featuring art by such legendary pinup masters as Gil Elvgren, Billy DeVorss, Rolf Armstrong, and Zoe Mozert, this colorful collection commemorates the strange blend of innocence and erotica that characterized the 1940s pinup. Louis K. Meisel has gathered over 300 of the era’s most striking images, arranged into six different themes from Nudes to Swimsuit and Seaside to Indian Maidens, Pirates, and Gypsies. Meisel’s introduction expertly examines the idealized settings and dreamy drawings of a uniquely American icon.
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 Condition: USED LIKE NEW CONDITION (TWO AVAILABLE) Title: Looping the Loop: Posters of Flight
Author: Villard, Henry; Willis M. Allen Jr; Jack Remert
Format: Hardcover, 2000 160 pp. Folio hardcover in dust jacket, near fine,slightly shelfworn dust jacket, no chips or tears. beautiful book of aviation posters, color illustrated
| $24.95 | Calculated on Checkout | From The Critics:
Deirdre Donahue - USA Today
It's a collection of 102 posters used to stimulate interest in hot-air balloons, airplanes, patriotism and exotic locations from the start of the 20th century through World War II. The color, the talent, the visual inventiveness will make one yearn for the commercial artists of the past. A must for poster lovers. What People Are Saying:
Bill Allen and Henry Villard have collected the finest examples of historic aviation posters and the National Air and Space Museum is proud to be the first venue for the Looping the Loop exhibition. The accompanying book, with its beautiful reproductions of the posters, is a must for aviation and art buffs, and for historians. It is a treat to the eyes and to the mind as a representation of how aviation was viewed in those pioneer years.
— Donald S. Lopez Acting Director of the National Air and Space Museum, Smithsonian Institution
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Condition: BRAND NEW Title: The Art of The Airways
Author: Geza Szurovy
Binding Type: Hard Cover with dust jacket
Copyright Date: Zenith Press December 29, 2002
Number of Pages: 180
Size: 12.4 x 10.8 x 0.8 inches | $40.00 | Calculated on Checkout | Book Description:
Capture the glory of flight in this nostalgic look back at the colorful posters that lured yesterday's passengers to take to the air. Constellations, tri-motors, and DC-3s are featured decked-out in the liveries of their owners and presented in stunning color artworks created by such famed artists as Norman Rockwell, Calder, and other popular painters. Nostalgic poster art contained within tells the history of yesteryear's airways through its free-spirited and colorful advertising.
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Condition: USED VERY FINE CONDITION (ONE AVAILABLE) Title: Art of the Forties The Museum of Modern art
Edited by Rita Castleman Binding Type: Hard cover with dust jacket
Copyright Date: 1991
Number of Pages: 160 | $26.00 | Calculated on Checkout | Book Description:
160 pp., w/ list of plate illustrations and chronology; 173 illustrations, including 48 color plates. This book offers a revealing panorama of the creative climate of the tumultuous decade of the 1940s. Published on the occasion of the exhibition Art of the Forties. held at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, February 24-April 30, 1991. |
 Condition: BRAND NEW (THREE AVAILABLE)
Title: Flying Aces; Aviation Art of World War II
Author: James H. Kitchens/Bernard C. Nalty
Binding Type: Hard Cover with dust jacket
Copyright Date: 2002 Number of Pages: 144
Size: 12.4 x 11.3 x 0.7 inches | $22.95 | Calculated on Checkout | From the Publisher:
The "Ace" had become a new kind of hero by the time the skies became a primary battlefield during World War II--and the dogfights that ensued became more deeply personal than those on the ground below. These inspired paintings capture both the courage and tenacity of these men and their machines in more than seventy works, painstakingly recreated by artists in vivid detail. They tell harrowing stories of wounded Robert S. Johnson, tailed by a Luftwaffe full of deadly purpose--but without ammunition--and Germany's legendary Erich Hartmann, the first fighter pilot to down 300 enemy aircraft. Each painted by respected aviation art masters, including Stan Stokes, Robert Taylor, and Roy Grinnell, they are enhanced with archival photographs of legendary Aces and their planes and battles. It's an authoritative tribute to the men of the skies--and a great gift for any aficionado of aviation or military history.
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Condition: BRAND NEW (THREE AVAILABLE) Title: Bomber Missions; Aviation Art of World War II
Author: G.E. Patrick Murray Binding Type: Hard Cover with dust jacket (slightly wrinkled)
Copyright Date: 2006 Number of Pages: 144
Size: 12.4 x 11.3 x 0.7 inches | $21.95 | Calculated on Checkout | Book Description:
"...features 75 paintings that showcase the drama and action of combat in World War II."--Publishers Weekly. Breathtaking paintings capture in vivid detail the drama of air combat in World War II. The contributors include today's most noted historical artists, including Robert Bailey, Stan Stokes, Robert Taylor, Roy Grinnell, and Jim Dietz. Extensive captions offer additional insight, with information on the pilot, crew, and unit, while archival photographs breathe life into each scene. "Definitely a coffee-table item....historically valuable."--Booklist.
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Condition: USED VERY FINE CONDITION (ONE AVAILABLE) Title: Posters of World War II Edited by G.H. Gregory Binding Type: Hard cover with dust jacket
Copyright Date: 1993
Number of Pages: 127 | $21.00 | Calculated on Checkout | Description from the inside cover: Posters produced by governments during wartime undoubtedly function as propaganda and can be considered wholly appropriate weapons in a nation’s war effort. In addition, such posters can be appreciated as masterful art – beautiful, affecting and visually important works that combine pictures and words in original ways. The more than one hundred posters reproduced in full color in Posters of World War II are among the finest American representations of the genre. This exciting collection has been culled from the files of the National Archives in Washington, D.C. |