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BOOKS: Vintage, Collectable, Rare
Vintage, Collectable, and hard to find pre-owned (used) book titles available to buy. Conditions are rated by Poor, Fair, Good, Very Good, Excellent, and Like New. All are compared to other like editions.
Marvel Superheroes Art Book Vallejo & Bell RARE Edition
"Superheroes; the Heroic Visions of Boris Vallejo and Julie Bell" is a hard to find collectable edition art book with over 170 dazzling full-color paintings of Marvel Comic superheroes. It was later published as "Titans", making this a rare collectible edition. When I compared the two, this book seems to have more illustrations than the newer version, as well as other details I can't recall. This is great coffee table type book, but also a super reference for an art student; offering illustartion art history and daring figure studies. The spine is not cracked open, as it was always viewed with care; I'm it's second owner, and I've enjoyed this book for it's art value but now it's time for it to find a home with a caring collector. The opening bid price is far below the retail collectable value, based on compared online editions.
Bibliographic Details
- Superheroes : the Heroic Visions of Boris Vallejo and Julie Bell / text by Nigel Suckling
- ISBN: 1560252731
- Publisher: Thunder's Mouth Press
- Publication Date: 2000
- Binding: Hardcover
- Book Condition: Excellent, near to new
- Dust Jacket Condition: Great with very slight shelf wear; ie. mild warble to ends of dust jacket. (I've seen new books in stores with much worse wear!)
- Edition: First Edition
- Note: 160 p. : col. ill. ; 32 cm.
Superheroes is a collection of awe-inspiring original artwork created by husband and wife team Boris Vallejo and Julie Bell. Along with using a classic sense of style to create and master sensuous full color oil paintings, Boris Vallejo is best known as the visual creator of Conan the Barbarian. Combining strength with sensuality and infusing the human form with incredible power and motion, fantasy artist Julie Bell continues to use her "metal flesh" trademark to produce dramatic works of art. This collection overflows with superhuman characters captured in the act of saving the world, destroying evil protagonists and battling dark beasts. Featuring fantastic figures such as Spiderman, Captain America, and the X-Men, these paintings represent the best of Boris and Julie.
$30.00 + $4.00 SH
MUSIC HISTORY Wild Bill Davison; A Celebration SIGNED
Shown is the exact signed and inscribed by the author book offered.
Wild Bill Davison, A celebration: an illustrated tribute; A Peronal Behind-the-scene Look At A Favorite Musician, by Doug Armstrong
- Condition: Good; Moderate cover wear with flattened dog ear fold. Slight age browning to pages. Rubbing/creasing to cover due to shelf wear. Light wear creasing to page edges. Text and images remain in great condition. (Rated by Poor, Fair, Good, Very Good, Excellent, and Like New. All are compared to other like editions.)
Jazz scene biography of historic musician "Wild Bill Davison", William Stethen Davison (1906 - 1989), Cornetist and Bandleader; played with Louis Armstrong. Filled with black and white images of music history; original flyers, banners, ticket stubs, other cool stuff, and lots of great photos. Signed and inscribed by the author in attractive handwriting on the front inside. Reads as...
" To Tom Kono(??): a good friend and close admirer of the Wild One. Thanks for joining in the celebration of Bill and his music. Doug Armstrong".
A "like" copy not signed and inscribed by the author currently lists elsewhere for $35.00!!
$30.00 + $4.00 SH
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#14.Expressing our Love- by Susan Polis Schutz, Wedding poems for today's couples including a section on personalizing your own wedding ceremony. C.1979 Continental Publications, First Edition, oversized paperback, illus., CONDITION- VERY VERY GOOD. Very minor wear. 80pgs. Out of print. PRICE:$8.50
#15. IN THE CLEARING - by ROBERT FROST, fifth printing 1963, Holt Rinehart & Winston, hardback, grey cloth, gilt silver lettering on spine.
CONDITION- VERY GOOD. W/O dust jacket, very slight wear on edges, metallic silver lettering on spine pristine. 101pgs. Similar condition copies have sold on line for $20 - 45.00! PRICE:$18.00
#16. IVANHOE- by Sir Walter Scott,Bart. American Book Co. 1892, English Classics for Schools, hardback 484pgs. CONDITION: ACCEPTABLE / GOOD, thread wear along spine,cover a bit worn, decorative cover, tan color. Small inscription. PRICE $5.00
#16. Chardenal's Complete French Course- by C.A. Chardenal, Copyright 1920 Allyn & Bacon, Revised & rewritten with additional selections for reading & illustrations. Hardback, 399pgs. CONDITION: Nice illustrations, shelf worn on edges, title faded from spine, slightly worn but attractive cover, red in color, much pencil within though still quite readable & still practicle for today, binding in good shape PRICE:$ 4.00
#17. The Young Housekeeper's Friend- by Mrs.Cornelius, Brown Taggard & Chase 1859 (this book is an early 1970's exact reproduction of original)254pgs. CONDITION:GOOD,knick on lower front corner, some page staining, spine never cracked. This book has NEVER been fully opened! Highly decorative brown leather look with gold gilt on cover & spine. Very pretty and lots of good info! PRICE:$12.50
#18.What to Have for Dinner- by FANNIE FARMER, Dodge Publishing Co. New York 1905 (this book is an early 1970's exact reproduction of original, including vintage ads in back!)271pgs. CONDITION:VERY GOOD, red/brown leather look hardback with gold ribbon place marker. Gold gilt decorative front & spine, dust staining to edges, bought in 1974, PRICE:$ 23.50 This book lists for over $30.00 in present condition!
#19. BAMBI- by Felix Salten, Translated by Whittaker Chamber, Forward by John Galsworthy, Grosset & Dunlap, Copyright 1929 Simon & Schuster, 293pgs. Companion Library, hardback CONDITION:ACCEPTABLE,collectable-quite readable, green cover is worn but highly illustrated with many figues, cover worn on edges and has upper left side scuff, upper portion of spine missing to cloth( @ 2") title still visible well on spine & also has decorative characters, shelf worn, cover slightly indented, foxing on pages but not brittle at all, charming illustrations, inside cover board inscription(should not detract from collector value)PRICE:$20.00
