Featured New Items FAMOUS AMERICAN ILLUSTRATORS On our Cover Specially Priced SOI file copies from 1997! Our NAUGHTY AND NICE The Good Girl Art of Highest Recommendation. By Bruce Timm Publisher Edition Arpi Ermoyan. Fascinating insights New Edition. Special into the lives and works of 82 top exclusive Publisher’s artists elected to the Society of Hardcover edition, 1500. Illustrators Hall of Fame make Highly Recommended. this an inspiring reference and art An extensive survey of book. From illustrators such as N.C. Bruce Timm’s celebrated Wyeth to Charles Dana Gibson to “after hours” private works. Dean Cornwell, Al Parker, Austin These tastefully drawn Briggs, Jon Whitcomb, Parrish, nudes, completed purely for Pyle, Dunn, Peak, Whitmore, Ley- fun, are showcased in this endecker, Abbey, Flagg, Gruger, exquisite new release. This Raleigh, Booth, LaGatta, Frost, volume boasts over 250 Kent, Sundblom, Erté, Held, full-color or line and pencil Jessie Willcox Smith, Georgi, images, each one full page. McGinnis, Harry Anderson, Bar- It’s all about sexy, nubile clay, Coll, Schoonover, McCay... girls: partially clothed or fully nude, of almost every con- the list of greats goes on and on. ceivable description and temperament. Girls-next-door, Society of Illustrators, 1997. seductresses, vampires, girls with guns, teases...Timm FAMAMH. HC, 12x12, 224pg, FC blends his animation style with his passion for traditional $40.00 $29.95 good-girl art for an approach that is unmistakably all his JOHN HASSALL own. Flesk, 2021. Mature readers. NOTE: Unlike the The Life and Art of the Poster King first, Timm didn’t sign this second printing. Our Highest Recommendation. By NAUNBH. HC, 9x12, 256pg, PC $59.95 Lucinda Gosling. Foreword by film SOFTCOVER EDITION director Mike Leigh. A biography of New printing. Flesk, 2021. NAUNB. SC $44.95 $39.95 British commercial illustrator John Front cover image courtesy of Bruce Timm and Flesk Hassall (1868-1948), “The Poster Publishing, ©2021 Bruce Timm. King,” who was also a prolific book illustrator and cover designer, with one hundred color illustrations. In the CHILDREN OF THE NIGHT Signed early twentieth century, he was one Highly Recommended. By Dan of Britain’s best-known, highest-pro- Brereton. A bewitching new art book file artists, as well know as Cheret, by illustrator and comics creator Dan Mucha and Toulouse Letrec were in Brereton. A deluxe hardcover edition France for their poster art! Though he worked across a variety presented in spectral color, featuring of disciplines, it was his commercial art for travel companies, an extensive collection of haunting political causes, and well-known brands that made him a new artwork, consisting of 136 pages, household name. With bold lines, flat colors, and an engag- a “Virgin” dustcover with wrap-around ing, cheery style, Hassall created some of the most famous art--no titles--and full color illustrated and influential designs of the era. Unicorn, 2021. endsheets. And...illustrations, pin-ups, JOHAH. HC, 8x10, 208pg, PC $37.95 drawings and sketches, featuring a line-up of majestic monster gals, noble brutes and pulpish heroes, most of this Look for the star symbol. These are entirely new work. Dan Brereton, 2021. items that are deeply discounted from CHILHS. HC, 9x12, 136pg, FC $39.95 the original publisher’s price. Most of these items have been closed out by the Signed with Original Drawing Highly Recommended. Dan Brereton, 2021. publisher and we have limited copies. Buy CHILHD. HC, 9x12, 136pg, FC $100.00 now before they’re gone! TABLE OF CONTENTS News & Notes Artists & Illustration ...................... 4 I hope you are having a good summer. On one level it’s been a bit grim here Comics & Graphic Novels............. 4 in Northern California. First we had a heat wave, now we have another nasty French Graphic Novels ................. 5 fire season. My house was on the very edge of the evacuation zone for the Comic Book Archives ................... 6 River Fire. It made the national news and was just a few miles from here. It DC Comics ................................... 7 burned along a river that we kayak on and know very well. The town of Colfax Marvel Archives ............................ 9 was evacuated, which is where we turn off Highway 80 to come to our house, not many miles as the crow flies. We were out of town (see below) so it was all Comic Strip Collections .............. 10 beyond our control! Comic Reference & Fun Stuff ..... 10 Pin-Up & Erotic Art .......................11 But they got the fire under control very quickly, using 737 air tankers and the Nude Photography .......................11 air attack base which is at our local airport just up the street from our ware- house (which was never threatened). So we have much to be thankful for, in Adult DVDs ................................... 12 the end. Collectors Supplies ..................... 12 Coming Soon ............................... 13 And on the other level, we’ve been dealing with two collections of older books Rare Books................................... 18 that belonged to two very good friends of ours, both of whom sadly passed away. We’re buried in outstanding out-of-print books, as we sort things out and Don’t Miss These! ........................ 19 try to start getting them priced and online, for Rare Books here and for shows, Just Arrived .................................. 30 when they start up again. Key for price line codes Both of my friends were long time customers, so they had a great number of HC Hardcover the best books that we’ve handled over the last 40 years or so. Signed limited HCW Hardcover w/o dustjacket editions, unusual French imports, every book about comics imaginable. My SC Softcover one friend, Richard Dix from Portland, also had a wonderful collection of PC Partial color vintage illustrated books…very much like I collect myself. So I found things for FC Full color myself, I upgraded other book to earlier editions or copies with jackets, and yet B&W Black & white there’s so much left. Anne had dozens of boxes of children’s picture books to deal with, including a huge number of signed books. Richard had met many of F53- Fall 2021 the illustrators. continued on page 12 2 BudsArtBooks.com ♦ 530-273-2166 Featured New Items DOPE RIDER A Fistful of Delirium SEX AND HORROR The Art of Emanuele Taglietti Recommended! Dope Rider is back Back in stock. Recommended. 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