Mid- to Late 20th-Century Illustrators

 
Moon & Stars Bookmarks
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Barry Windsor-Smith, Windsor-Smith, Barry, Fine, Gorblimey Press, New York, 1975, 1st, 8 inches, 2.5 inches, color and black & white

Two sets of five pen and ink drawings by Barry Windsor-Smith presented as bookmarks. Five illustrations of Red Sonja wielding various weapons and five...

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Opus, Vol. One
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Barry Windsor-Smith, Windsor-Smith, Barry, Near Fine in Very Good dustjacket (light rubbing to the book's corners, moderate wear to dustjacket), Fantagraphics, Seattle, 1999, 2nd, 11.25 inches, 8.8 inches, 176 pages, 66 color and 60 black & white illustrations, hardcover, cloth, English

An incredible collection of Barry Windsor-Smith artwork. Classic pieces and never-before-seen works, as well as sketches and in-progress drawings and...

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Barry Windsor-Smith, Windsor-Smith, Barry, Limited to 750 copies signed by the artist on an extra illustrated limitation page, Fine in Very Good+ dustjacket (moderate wear to the dustjacket), Fantagraphics, Seattle, 1999, 1st, 11.25 inches, 8.8 inches, 176 pages, 66 color and 60 black & white illustrations, hardcover, cloth, English

The scarce signed limited edition of BWS' art book featuring a tipped-in vellum limitation page illustrated with a beautiful pen & ink drawing of a...

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Opus, Vol. Two
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Barry Windsor-Smith, Windsor-Smith, Barry, Very slight blunt bump to the base of the spine otherwise Very Fine in Very Fine dustjacket in publisher's shrinkwrap, Fantagraphics, Seattle, 2000, 1st, 11.25 inches, 8.8 inches, 224 pages, 144 color and black & white illustrations, hardcover, cloth, English

A nearly pristine copy still in its original shrinkwrap . An incredible collection of Barry Windsor-Smith artwork. Classic pieces and never-before-seen...

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Opus, Vol. Two
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Barry Windsor-Smith, Windsor-Smith, Barry, Fine in Near Fine dustjacket (mild wear to the top of the dustjacket spine), Fantagraphics, Seattle, 2000, 1st, 11.25 inches, 8.8 inches, 224 pages, 144 color and black & white illustrations, hardcover, cloth, English

An incredible collection of Barry Windsor-Smith artwork. Classic pieces and never-before-seen works, as well as sketches and in-progress drawings and...

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Barry Windsor-Smith, Windsor-Smith, Barry, Cut out otherwise Near Fine (light corner wear), Hollywood, Columbia Records, 1973, 12.4 inches, 12.4 inches, color, English

An original LP album with record sleeve art by Barry Windsor-Smith. (This copy has a "cut out" corner from the manufacturer signifying it was meant to be...

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Dick Voll, Basil Wolverton, Voll, Dick, Wolverton, Basil, Near Fine (mild cover wear, interior very flat, bright, clean), Seattle, WA, Fantagraphics, 1989, 1st, 9781560970224, 12 inches, 9 inches, 136 pages, 20 color and over 300 black & white illustrations, softcover, wraps, English

A Basil Wolverton retrospective focusing on his trademark grotesques for humor comics, magazines, bubble gum cards, etc. with a 12-page interview with...

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Wallace Wood's Wayout
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Fine, Wood, Wallace, Wally Wood, Pure Imagination, 2005, 1st

A 160-page collection of Wally Wood's black & white sci-fi illustrations for "Galaxy" and "If" from 1958 to 1960. Four cover paintings are reproduced...

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Swallow #3
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Ashley Wood, David Choe, Louie Del Carmen, Ronnie Del Carmen, Glyn Dillon, Duncan Fegredo, Jeremy Geddes, Uwe Heidschoetter, Rian Hughes, James Jean, Jock, Ilana Kohn, Ted McKeever, Sean Phillips, Andrew Robinson, Robh Ruppel, Greg Staples, Frank Stockton, Wood, David Choe, Louie Del Carmen, Ronnie Del Carmen, Glyn Dillon, Duncan Fegredo, Jeremy Geddes, Uwe Heidschoetter, Rian Hughes, James Jean, Jock, Ilana Kohn, Ted McKeever, Sean Phillips, Andrew Robinson, Robh Ruppel, Greg Staples, Frank Stockton, Barro, Ashley, Fine (very flat, tight, clean), San Diego, IDW, 2007, 1st, 978160010072, 11 inches, 8.5 inches, 300 pages, color, softcover, French wraps, English

"It's about pictures." Presenting the third edition of a deluxe magazine devoted to modern illustration and the artists that produce it. Featuring the...

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Patrick Woodroffe, Woodroffe, Patrick, Near Fine (top edge lightly spotted, cover slightly rubbing), Paper Tiger / Dragon's World, Surrey, 1987, 1850280479, 11.5 inches, 8.25 inches, 80 pages, color and black & white illustrations, Softcover, color wraps, English

A witty fantasy tale liberally illustrated with Woodroffe's drawings and paintings.

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The New City - Hardcover 1st
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Lebbeus Woods, Woods, Lebbeus, Fine in Fine dustjacket, New York, Simon & Schuster, 1992, 1st, 0671781170, 15.25 inches, 11.25 inches, xii, 84 pages, 28 color and over 70 black & white illustrations, Hardcover, cloth, English

The late visionary architect and illustrator Lebbeus Woods' oversize art book. The author of several books on architecture, this is his best book from an...

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Back for More - Signed
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Berni Wrightson, Wrightson, Berni, Signed by the artist, Near Fine (light bump to the upper tip, very flat, tight, bright), Archival Press, Cambridge, MA, 1978, 1st, 11 inches, 8.5 inches, 64 pages, black & white, softcover, color wraps, English

A very sharp copy of this 1978 collection: "Tales you've all seen before... Back for More." Seven early stories by Wrightson: The Last Hunters, Feed It!,...

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Christopher Zavisa, Berni Wrightson, Zavisa, Christopher, Wrightson, Berni, #247 of 300 hardcover copies signed on an extra-illustrated plate by Wrightson, Harlan Ellison (introduction), & Zavisa, clothbound in a matching cloth-covered, velvet-lined clamshell box, Very Fine in Very Fine dustjacket in a Near Fine clamshell box (some small light brown stains on the grey cloth exterior of the box), Underwood-Miller, Novato, CA/Lancaster, PA, 1991, 1st Underwood-Miller printing, 12.25 inches, 9.25 inches, 360 pages, 100 color and 300 black & white illustrations, hardcover, cloth, English

#247 of 300 hardcover copies signed on an extra-illustrated plate by Wrightson, Harlan Ellison (introduction), & Zavisa, clothbound in a matching...

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Bernie Wrightson, Wrightson, Bernie, Limited to 185 copies with a trading card signed & numbered by the artist, Very Fine in Very Fine dustjacket in Very Fine slipcase, FPG, Pittsburgh, 2022, 1st, 11.5 inches, 9.5 inches, 200 pages, color illustrations throughout, Hardcover, pictorial boards, English

This is #5 of 185 numbered deluxe slipcased copies signed by publisher Michael Friedlander with a trading card signed in gold by the artist.   This...

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Bernie Wrightson, Wrightson, Bernie, Limited to 185 copies with a trading card signed & numbered by the artist, Very Fine in Very Fine dustjacket in Very Fine slipcase, FPG, Pittsburgh, 2022, 1st, 11.5 inches, 9.5 inches, 200 pages, color illustrations throughout, Hardcover, pictorial boards, English

This is #97 of 185 numbered deluxe slipcased copies signed by publisher Michael Friedlander with a trading card signed in gold by the artist. This copy...

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Akihiro Yamada, Yamada, Akihiro, With a color illustrated plate laid in, Very Fine in Near Fine dustjacket with Very Fine obi band, Tokyo, Chuoukouron Shin Sha, 2004, 1st, 4120035239, 11.75 inches, 8.4 inches, 152 pages, 80 color pages and 72 black & white pages, Softcover, wraps, Japanese

Akihiro Yamada is an author, manga artist, and designer/illustrator for videos and RPGs. His artwork is absolutely beautiful. This volume features a wide...

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Phil Yeh, Yeh, Phil, One of 1000 numbered copies signed by the artist, Very Fine, issued without dustjacket, Winged Tiger, San Diego, 2022, 1st, 10.75 inches, 8.25 inches, 136 pages, color illustrations throughout, Hardcover, pictorial boards, English

This book reproduces 126 watercolors painted by Phil Yeh, representing places around the world that he has been during his 37-year Cartoonists Across...

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75 Years of Capitol Records
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Barney Hoskyns, Hoskyns, Barney, Very Fine in Very Fine dustjacket in publisher's Near Fine custom cardboard carrying box, Taschen, Cologne, 2017, 9783836550284, 14 inches, 15.75 inches, 492 pages, color and black & white illustrations throughout, Hardcover, pictorial boards, English

From the Beatles to Beck, Sinatra to Sam Smith, a parade of era-defining artists have passed through the doors of the Capitol Records Tower, one of...

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Very Good+ (lower corners bumped, light wear), James Laver, Laver, James, Studio, nd (circa 1940s), 1st, 128 pages, 172 black & white illustrations, Hardcover, cloth, English

172 illustrations by 124 artists. Emphasis is on British and American illustrators including Brangwyn, Cornwell, Covarrubias, Flint, Kent, Marshall,...

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Very Fine/Very Fine, Doreen Bolger, Bolger, Doreen, Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1989, 1st, 11 inches, 9 inches, xii, 248 pages, 35 color and 205 black & white illustrations, Hardcover, cloth, English

"This catalogue investigates the Museum's remarkable collection of American pastels, from charming eighteenth-century portraits to abstract works by...

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Joanna Ebenstein, Ebenstein, Joanna, Very Fine, issued without dustjacket, Laurence King, London, 2020, 9781786275714, 10.75 inches, 8.75 inches, 272 pages, over 250 color and black & white illustrations, Hardcover, pictorial boards, English

From the publisher: "There's a fine line between the horrible and the sublime, and Joanna Ebenstein's Anatomica: The Exquisite and Unsettling Art of...

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Signed an dated 9.27.18 by Robert Williams, Very Fine, Petersen Automotive Museum, Los Angeles, 2018, 1st, 10 inches, 7.75 inches, 136 pages, over 150 color illustrations, Softcover, wraps, English

Signed and dated 9.27.18 by Robert Williams. From the publisher: Prior to the introduction of Juxtapoz Magazine, artists working within a variety of...

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Maria Kakoulas, Kakoulas, Maria, Near Fine, issued without dustjacket (light cover wear, interior as new and unread), Glattbach, Germany, Edition Reuss, 2013, 1st, 9783943105216, 12.6 inches, 9.9 inches, 448 pages, over 600 color photographs, Hardcover, pictorial boards

More than 600 photographs Text in English & German. This is the second incarnation of what has been deemed the "Bible of Blackwork Tattoos" continues...

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Richard Slocombe, Slocombe, Richard, Very Fine, Imperial War Museums, London, 2014, 1st, 8.7 inches, 7.2 inches, vi, 90 pages, over 200 color illustrations, Softcover, French wraps, English

From the publisher: British Posters of the Second World War presents one hundred posters from this important period in world history. Some proclaimed in...

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Julie Cummins, VF/VF, Cummins, Julie, PBC, 1998, 1st, cloth, English

55 contemporary illustrators each receive a two-to-four page profile with two-to-eight illustrations. Each illustration is accompanied by the artist's...

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From the library of Disney Legend Burny Mattinson, Near Fine, issued without dustjacket (upper rear corner very lightly bumped, very light rubbing to the tail of the spine, bright, tight, clean), Alexander Gallery, New York, 1987, 1st, 11 inches, 8.75 inches, 128 pages, 161 color illustrations, hardcover, Red cloth with onlaid color plate, English

From 1934 to the late 1940s, Walt Disney Studios produced a full-color page for Good Housekeeping magazine featuring the famous Disney characters (Donald...

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Maurice Horn, VG+ ex-library copy (library bookplate on front end paper, library stamp on top edge otherwise unmarked, clean & tight), Horn, Maurice, Gale Research Co., 1986, 1st, cloth, English

"A biographical, bibliographical, and critical guide to current illustrators, animators, cartoonists, designers, and other graphic artists." Over 100...

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Contemporary Western Artists
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Peggy and Harold Samuels, Fine/NF (small blemish on dust jacket spine), Samuels, Peggy and Harold, Bonanza, 1985, 1st thus, cloth, English

A biographical dictionary of over 1500 western artists with a biography, a photo, signature and example of their work. A great reference for Western art...

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Contemporary Western Artists
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Peggy and Harold Samuels, Fine, Samuels, Peggy and Harold, Bonanza, 1985, 1st thus, cloth, English

A biographical dictionary of over 1500 western artists with a biography, a photo, signature and example of their work. A great reference for Western art...

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Antonis Antoniou, Steven Heller, Antoniou, Steven Heller, Antonis, Very Fine in Very Fine dustjacket, New York, Abrams, 2021, 1st, 9781419747601, 11.25 inches, 9.25 inches, 240 pages, over 250 color illustrations, Hardcover, boards, English

As illustrators, one conveys information visually. This is a feast of visual interpretations--or visualizations--of information. Entertaining, inspirational...

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Very Fine, William L. Bird, Jr., Harry R. Rubenstein, Bird, Jr. and Harry R. Rubenstein, William L., Princeton Architectural Press, 1998, 978156981406, 8 inches, 8.75 inches, viii, 111 pages, over 150 color illustrations, Softcover, French wraps, English

From the Publisher: Inciting Americans at home to do their part in producing for the war effort, the poster -- inexpensive, accessible, and...

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Arpi Ermoyan, Ermoyan, Arpi, Very Fine in Very Fine dustjacket in publisher's shrinkwrap, Crans, Switzerland, Rotovision, 1997, 1st, 9782880463168, 12 inches, 12 inches, 224 pages, 450 color illustrations, hardcover, decorative cloth with an onlaid color plate, English

The original edition of this excellent survey features decorative cloth covers with an onlaid color plate and a translucent dustjacket. This survey contains...

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Joanne Gernsten London, NF/VG+, London, Joanne Gernsten, National Geographic, 2007, 1st, boards

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Christopher Hume, Fine/NF, Hume, Christopher, Summerhill Press, 1986, 1st, cloth

Robert Bateman, Stanley Meltzoff, Bob Kuhn, George McLean, John Schoenherr, Fenwick Lansdowne, Glen Loates, Claudio D'Angelo, Lanford Monroe, Ron Parker,...

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Christopher Hume, NF/VG, Hume, Christopher, North Word, 1987, 1st revised edition, cloth

Robert Bateman, Stanley Meltzoff, Bob Kuhn, George McLean, John Schoenherr, Fenwick Lansdowne, Glen Loates, Claudio D'Angelo, Lanford Monroe, Ron Parker,...

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Near Fine (only light shelfwear, flat, tight, and unread), 1994, 1st, Softcover, wraps

"Crimes 'n' Gals in the USA: A Pictorial History 1930s-1960s." An excellent collection of pin-up art. Chapters on comic strips (55 illus), comic books (63...

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Limited to 500 copies. This copy has a bookplate signed by Glenn Bray., Very Fine, issued without dustjacket, Glenn Bray, Bray, Glenn, Art Works Fine Art Publishing, 2022, 1st, 9781732561281, 12.25 inches, 9.25 inches, 800 pages, over 2000 color illustrations, hardcover, pictorial boards, English

"No Sense Makes Sense." 800 pages! Limited to 500 copies. This is one of a smaller number with a bookplate signed by Glenn Bray. From the publisher:...

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Golden Legacy - First Printing
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Leonard S. Marcus, Marcus, Leonard S., Fine in Very Good+ dustjacket (corners of dustjacket worn), New York, Random House, 2007, 1st, 9780375829963, 10 inches, 10 inches, 246 pages, color illustrations, Hardcover, cloth, English

"How Golden Books Won Children's Hearts, Changed Publishing Forever, and Became an American Icon Along the Way" From the publisher: Eminent children's...

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Los Elegidos
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Very slight surface nicks otherwise VF, Dibbuks, 2004, 1st, pictorial boards, Spanish

A collection of the best illustrations to appear in the magazine Training & Development Digest in its fifty first issues. This book reflects almost a...

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One of 150 copies with a bookplate signed by Len Brown and Zina Saunders and numbered to 150, Very Fine/Very Fine, Brown, Zina Saunders, Len, Abrams, 2012, 1st, Hardcover, pictorial boards with dust jacket, English

This San Diego Comic-Con 2012 Exclusive is one of 150 copies with a bookplate signed by Len Brown and Zina Saunders and numbered to 150.  It sold out...

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Monogram Models
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Thomas Graham, Graham, Thomas, Near Fine (light wear to lower front corner, other corners sharp, flat, tight, clean), Atyglen, PA, Schiffer, 2006, 1st, 9780764324819, 11 inches, 8.5 inches, 160 pages, over 300 color illustrations, Softcover, color wraps, English

An illustrated history of Monogram scale models. 300+ photos of models and box art. From 1940s onward, Monogram's model cars, ships, aircraft, and...

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Nick Meglin, Meglin, Nick, From the collection of Nick Meglin with a Certificate of Authenticity, Near Fine in Fine dustjacket (lower tips very lightly bumped otherwise Very Fine), Watson-Guptill, New York, 1969, 1st, 10.5 inches, 8.2 inches, 160 pages, 132 black & white illustrations, hardcover, cloth, English

From the collection of longtime Mad Magazine editor Nick Meglin with a Certificate of Authenticity "Madly Yours, From The Estate Collection of Nick Meglin"...

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Simon Braund, Braund, Simon, Very Fine in Very Fine dustjacket in publisher's shrinkwrap, Titan Books (UK), London, 2019, 9781789090321, 12.5 inches, 9.3 inches, 192 pages, color and black & white illustrations throughout, Hardcover, boards, English

From the publisher: A lavish hardback containing Orson Welles' Portfolio, much of which has never been seen before. Orson Welles, famous as an...

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Pioneers Of German Graphic Design
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Jens Muller, Muller, Jens, copies with bumped corners in varying areas otherwise Very Fine, issued without dustjacket, in publisher's shrinkwrap, Berlin, Callisto, 2017, 1st, 9783981753912, 12.25 inches, 9.25 inches, 400 pages, 630 color and 450 black & white illustrations, Hardcover, pictorial boards, English

1,080 high-quality reproductions of iconic milestones in graphic design. Muller successfully conveys the reasons for Germany's rise to become perhaps the...

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Pioneers Of German Graphic Design
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Jens Muller, Muller, Jens, Very Fine, issued without dustjacket, Berlin, Callisto, 2017, 1st, 9783981753912, 12.25 inches, 9.25 inches, 400 pages, 630 color and 450 black & white illustrations, Hardcover, pictorial boards, English

1,080 high-quality reproductions of iconic milestones in graphic design. With an entire chapter devoted to each of these fourteen graphic designers: Peter...

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Posters of the First World War
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Very Fine, Imperial War Museums, London, 2014, 1st, 8.7 inches, 7.2 inches, iv, 92 pages, over 200 color illustrations, Softcover, French wraps, English

From the publisher: Recruitment, propaganda, rationing, fundraising - during the First World War posters were used to inform and rally the public as...

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Fine/VG price-clipped dustjacket (chipped), Frediderick Fell, 1956, 1st, cloth

"By 95 of America's Foremost Cartoonists Members of the National Cartoonists Society" including Frazetta, Walt Kelly, Chic Young, Caniff, Rube Goldberg,...

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VG+/VG price-clipped dustjacket (endpapers slightly foxed, short gift inscription on front free end paper, Frediderick Fell, 1956, 1st, cloth

"By 95 of America's Foremost Cartoonists Members of the National Cartoonists Society" including Frazetta, Walt Kelly, Chic Young, Caniff, Rube Goldberg,...

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