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ICON: A RETROSPECTIVE... with LEGACY: SELECTED DRAWINGS AND OF FRANK FRAZETTA with TESTAMENT: A CELEBRATION OF THE LIFE AND ART OF FRANK FRAZETTA. 3 volumes.
Grass Valley, CA: Underwood Books, 1998, 1999, 2001. 3 volumes, pictorial boards. First trade editions. All three volumes produced by Underwood Books. Besides much of his legendary work the volumes include work previously unpublished and work that has not been published in any previous Frazetta art book as well as revised works and essays about Frazetta and his art.
PERFUMED bound with THE WILD WEEK.
[New York: Tower Publications, Inc., 1963]. Small octavo, illustrations by Frank Frazetta, pictorial wrappers. First thus. Midwood #34-612. First combination of two previously published novels. Two novels bound together. 8 inserted full page ink illustrations by Frank Frazetta. Scarce.
LITTLE ORPHAN ANNIE AND THE HAUNTED HOUSE.
New York: Cupples & Leon Company, [1929]. Octavo, cloth backed boards. Later printing. The third book in this series, collecting the comic strips from 1927. Later printing, books on verso of jacket date to 1929. Still uncommon in jacket.
LITTLE ORPHAN ANNIE BUCKING THE WORLD.
New York: Cupples & Leon Company, [1929]. Octavo, cloth backed boards. First edition. The fourth book in this series, collecting the comic strips from 1928.
LITTLE ORPHAN ANNIE.
New York: Cupples & Leon Company, [c. 1928]. Octavo, pictorial boards. Later printing. The first book in this series, collecting the comic strips from 1925. Later printing as books on the verso of the jacket are can be dated to 1928, rear panel prices the series of books at 75 cents. Still uncommon to find in the dust jacket.
BOULOGNE. A BASE IN FRANCE. BEING THIRTY-TWO DRAWINGS FROM THE SKETCH BOOK OF CAPT. MARTIN HARDIE.
London: A. & C. Black Limited, [1918]. Octavo, pp. [1-64], original white boards, title with illustration pasted to front cover. First edition. Reproduces 32 illustrations from the originals, 8 in color of various scenes from Boulogne. After the war Captain Hardie worked in the South Kensington Museum (later Victoria and Albert Museum) where he was involved in creating a exhibition of posters from the War in 1920. He later headed departments of painting, engraving, illustration, and design where he helped build a world class graphics collection.
ROBERT E. HOWARD: CONAN: TOWER OF THE ELEPHANT: A CLASSIC FANTASY ADVENTURE FOLIO...
Merriam, KS: House of Fantasy, 1977. Large folio, publisher's "verification of authenticity" leaf, poem "Yag-Kosha, The Elephant God" - a single leaf, eight plates (including title plate), enclosed in stiff color illustrated covers and illustrated envelope. First edition. Limited to 1000 numbered copies signed by Fabian.
ROBERT E. HOWARD: CONAN: TOWER OF THE ELEPHANT: A CLASSIC FANTASY ADVENTURE FOLIO...
Merriam, KS: House of Fantasy, 1977. Large folio, publisher's "verification of authenticity" leaf, poem "Yag-Kosha, The Elephant God" - a single leaf, eight plates (including title plate), enclosed in stiff color illustrated covers and illustrated envelope. First edition. Limited to 1000 numbered copies signed by Fabian.
ROBERT E. HOWARD: CONAN: TOWER OF THE ELEPHANT: A CLASSIC FANTASY ADVENTURE FOLIO...
Merriam, KS: House of Fantasy, 1977. Large folio, publisher's "verification of authenticity" leaf, poem "Yag-Kosha, The Elephant God" - a single leaf, eight plates (including title plate), enclosed in stiff color illustrated covers and illustrated envelope. First edition. Limited to 1000 numbered copies signed by Fabian.
ILLUSTRATION.
Kirkland, MO: Illustration, 2002. Large octavo, single issue, pictorial wrappers. Slick magazine devoted to illustration art. This issue features articles about Robert Maguire (includes a Maguire checklist of works) and Eugene Iverd.
ILLUSTRATION.
Kirkland, MO: Illustration, 2002. Large octavo, single issue, pictorial wrappers. Slick magazine devoted to illustration art. This issue features articles about Norman Saunders (includes a Saunders checklist of works), Frank Frazetta, Russ Cochran and Perry Peterson.
ILLUSTRATION.
St. Louis, MO: Illustration Magazine, 2004. Large octavo, single issue, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Slick magazine devoted to illustration art. This issue features articles on Rafael DeSoto (includes a DeSoto magazine checklist), Mitchell Hooks, War paperbacks and more.
ILLUSTRATION.
Kirkland, MO: Illustration Magazine, 2003. Large octavo, single issue, pictorial wrappers. Slick magazine devoted to illustration art. This issue features articles on Ernest Chiriacka, William George and the Aurora Model Kit artists.
THE ART OF JEFFREY JONES.
Nevada City, CA: Underwood Books, 2002. Large octavo, cloth. First edition. One of 1200 numbered copies signed by Jones. A major book with a comprehensive look at the work of Jones (1944-2011), the majority of the material is color reproductions with some previously unpublished material. Jones contributed many great fantasy and science fiction covers during the period of 1960s - 1970s. His work illustrated Robert E. Howard, Andre Norton, Dean Koontz, Jack Vance, Fritz Leiber, Karl Edward Wagner and many others. For a time in the 1970s he founded and shared a studio in New York with Berni Wrightson, Barry Windsor Smith, and Michael W. Kaluta. Jones was a major talent of the latter half of the 20th Century.
WIJ WAREN GETUIGEN.
Amsterdam: Uitgeverij Vrij Nederland, 1946. Large octavo, pp. [1-72], illustrations by Piet Klaasse, cloth backed boards. First edition. Title translates as WE WERE WITNESSES. Illustrations by Piet Klaasse, poetry text by Van Theun De Vries. Introduction by Jan H. De Groot. 30 dramatic illustrations by Klaasse with poetry by De Vries on the facing page. Klasse's illustrations reflect the War in Holland 1940-45.
ALL THE FUNNY FOLKS: THE WONDER TALE OF HOW THE COMIC-STRIP CHARACTERS LIVE AND LOVE "BEHIND THE SCENES."
New York: The World Today, Inc., [1926]. Quarto, pp. [1-9] 10-112, color illustrations by Louis Biedermann, original green cloth, spine panel lettered in gold, color pictorial onlay affixed to front panel, pictorial endpapers. First edition. A story by Jack Lait featuring 1920's comic characters created by George McManus, George Herriman, Frederick Burr Opper, Reuben L. Goldberg, E. C. Segar, Chester Gould, all shown interacting -- at a banquet, the races (a match between Spark Plug and Maud), and at a wedding -- in color drawings (some double page) by Louis Biedermann. Louis Biederman worked as a staff assistant at King Features at this time, filling in when cartoonists went on vacation, inking different cartoonists work and pitching in on the lettering. This allowed Biederman to develop the skill of being able to copy any of the cartoonists at King features and it was he who was assigned the artwork in this book. To write the book, King Features brought in erstwhile Hollywood scriptwriter, playwright and newspaper columnist Jack Lait, who would later co-author "New York Confidential", "Chicago Confidential" and "Washington Confidential". This duo created what was in essence a marketing book about the stable of comic characters at King Features. Though the book itself is not rare, the wraparound dustwrapper containing all the Hearts/King Features characters is scarce.
THE ART OF MAHLON BLAINE.
[East Lansing, MI]: Peregrine Books, 1982. Large octavo, numerous illustrations, color and black and white, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Trade paperback. Along with artwork a reminiscence by Legman and a bibliography by Roland Trenary. Barron (ed), Fantasy and Horror 14-38.
WEIRD TALES FROM NORTHERN SEAS from the Danish of Jonas Lie by R. Nisbet Bain [translator]...
[London]: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co. Ltd., 1893. Octavo, pp. [i-v] vi [vii-viii] [1-3] 4-201 [202-204: blank], First edition. Collects eleven short stories, mostly supernatural. "Lie was one of Norway's most noted novelists. A writer of sea lore, he specialized in fusing realism with mysticism. This edition of tales ... focuses on the magic and folklore of the Lapp races ..." - Tymn (ed), Horror Literature 3-149. "Enthusiasts of the macabre know Lie for his WEIRD TALES FROM NORTHERN SEAS (1893) a fine set of folklore-influenced stories." - Sullivan (ed), The Penguin Encyclopedia of Horror and the Supernatural, p. 268. Ashley, Who's Who in Horror and Fantasy Fiction, p. 118. Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 1018. Bleiler (1978), p. 124. Not in Reginald (1979; 1992).
MOFFENSPIEGEL: EEN BOEKJE OVER ADOLF DE EERSTE (EN DE LAATSTE) EN ZYN TRAWANTEN.
N.p., De Bezige Bij:, 1944. Small octavo, pp. [1-38], illustrated cloth. First edition. Title translates to: A BOOK ABOUT ADOLF THE FIRST AND THE LAST AND HIS HENCHMEN. This is the first Moffenspiegel, published during the Nazi occupation by the underground press (quite illegally). 35 Anti-Nazi cartoons, a number with color, done during the war. This edition published during the war makes no reference to Links. Mof or Moffen was the derogatory word used by the Dutch for the German occupiers. The second edition published in 1945 identified Links as the artist and contained some different material.
SWOLLEN HEADED WILLIAM: PAINFUL STORIES AND FUNNY PICTURES AFTER THE GERMAN.
London: Metheun & Co., Ltd., nd. [1914]. Octavo, cloth. Later printing. Satire of the Germans and the Kaiser at the beginning of WW I. George Morrow was a cartoonist for Punch magazine. A popular book, it went through multiple printings in a two-week period.
THE PANDEMNIUM PORTFOLIO OF DENIS TIANI [Centipede Artist Series].
[Lakewood, CO: Centipede Press, 2019]. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Introduction by Jason Van Hollannder and afterword by Harry O. Morris. This copy was sent out for review and has no limitation leaf.
THE HANNES BOK MEMORIAL SHOWCASE OF FANTASY ART.
San Francisco: Sisu Publishers, [1974]. Large octavo, profusely illustrated in color and black and white, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Includes a lengthy introductory essay on fantasy art by Petaja, thirty-one biographies or autobiographies of fantasy artists illustrated with examples of their art, and other material.
THE HANNES BOK MEMORIAL SHOWCASE OF FANTASY ART.
San Francisco: Sisu Publishers, [1974]. Large octavo, profusely illustrated in color and black and white, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Includes a lengthy introductory essay on fantasy art by Petaja, thirty-one biographies or autobiographies of fantasy artists illustrated with examples of their art, and other material.
LE GUERRE AU VINGTIÉME SIÉCLE.
Paris: Georges Decaux éditeur, n.d., [1887]. Oblong octavo, pp. [1-4] 5-48, original pictorial green cloth, front panel stamped in red, black and gold, pictorial endpapers, all edges stained red. First edition. The second, scarcest and least popular of the three major parts of Robida's mammoth history of the twentieth century: LE VINGTIÉME SIÉCLE, LE GUERRE AU VINGTIÉME SIÉCLE, and LA VIE ÉLECTRIQUE. Robida's LE VINGTIEME SIECLE, the first and central part of his remarkable vision of life in a technology-driven world of tomorrow, was first published as a fifty-part serial beginning in January 1882. The work was first published in book form in 1883. Robida's fantastic satire opens in the Spring of 1952 and focuses upon the activities of Helene Colobry, a recent graduate from a private provincial school, who becomes a broadcast journalist and foreign correspondent. Robida continued his extraordinary depiction of life in the twentieth-century in LE GUERRE AU VINGTIÉME SIÉCLE (1883; 1887), LA VIE ÉLECTRIQUE (1891-1892) and several lesser works (VOYAGE DE FIANCAILLES AU XXe SIECLE, etc.). Robida (1848-1926), French illustrator, lithographer and writer, "was the most important and popular of nineteenth-century science fiction illustrators, and may even be said to have founded the genre, though he was clearly working in the tradition of such French fantastic artists as Grandville (Jean Gerard; 1803-1847) and Gustave Dore (1932-1883) ... The texts [of his prophetic] works are generally undistinguished. The illustrations, however, mostly in a vein of detailed caricature, are consistently inventive and amusing. Robida worked mostly with lithographic pencil and crayon, achieving a haphazard but impressive vigor. The figures are very much those of Victorian Europe, dressed in the fashions of the time, and involved in various busy scenes with a huge variety of modernistic devices. Among his hundreds of predictions were the videophone and germ warfare." - Clute and Nicholls (eds), The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction (1993), p. 1014. "Writers everywhere drew upon the deposit of contemporary credibility for their accounts of the future; and between the extremes of peace and war they roamed at will, dealing in the exciting rhetoric and heroic deeds of 'the next great war' or giving their readers the utopian delight of living in the most desirable world of the twentieth century. The most striking illustration of this general practice appeared in the extraordinary fantasies of Albert Robida, the most gifted and original artist in the history of science fiction. His singular talent, remarkable even in that age of prophets, lay in his ability to imagine a future period in which all the anticipations of his day would decide the way of life in a self-explanatory world of the twentieth century. In 1882 he began the serial publication of LE VINGTIÉME SIÉCLE, in which his exceptional imagination created a complete society at work and play in the year of 1952: angry wives upbraid their husbands by le telephonoscope; women wear short dresses designed for use in flying machines; families watch the latest news from Africa on the television; there are food factories, submarine towns, aerocabs, and underwater sports. All the elements in the Robida projection coincided in the natural unity of a feasible society; and that same coherence of the imagination decided the application, but failed entirely to foresee the consequences, of the military technologies he was the first to describe in his spectacular fantasies on twentieth-century warfare." - Clarke, The Pattern of Expectation 1644-2001, pp. 104-05. LE GUERRE AU VINGTIÉME SIÉCLE was first published, in a drastically abridged version, in the 27 October 1883 issue of LE CARICATURE, the magazine Robida owned and edited. The 1883 version is set in Africa in 1975, partly to distance its slaughter from Europe. In the more sinister 1887 book version the war is fought in Europe in 1945 and Robida has filled its pages with many graphic illustrations of total war on land, at sea, and in the air. As a whole, it is a remarkable and sober anticipation of the full range of military tactics and weapons of mass destruction employed during World War I and World War II. Lundwall, Science Fiction: An Illustrated History, p. 74. Rottensteiner, The Science Fiction Book: An Illustrated History, pp. 93-94. Stableford, The Plurality of Imaginary Worlds: The Evolution of French Roman Scientifique, pp. 413-415. Versins, Encyclopédie de l'Utopie, des Voyages Extraordinaires et de la Science Fiction, pp. 759-760.
NELLIE'S PRAYER.
London, Paris & New York: Raphael Tuck & Sons, nd [c. 1890-93]. Octavo, [1-24], illustrated by J. Willis Grey, cloth backed boards. A wife gets news her husband is killed in action, delays telling her daughter who prays for his safe return, upon finally telling her the child goes and prays again and her father appears at the door, a mistake being made on the battlefield.