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OUR BOOK CATALOGUE GIFT IDEAS Looking for an impressive, unusual, or unique gift? Here are some hard-to-categorize items that would make excellent gifts.
Carl Barks. THE FINE ART OF WALT DISNEY'S DONALD DUCK BY CARL BARKS. [SN11227] $1450 Scottsdale, AZ: Another Rainbow, 1981. 1st. Folio (13" or taller), 311pp, 135 color plates (12 gate-folds), numerous b&w illustrations and photographs, maroon cloth in matching slipcase. Fine in Fine slipcase. #934 of 1875 SIGNED copies. This massive volume reproduces 122 duck paintings - Barks entire output at that time. Also includes a previously unpublished Barks' 10-pager from 1946: Donald Duck in "Silent Night."
Greg Preston. THE ARTIST WITHIN. [SN22578X] $40 Milwaukie: Dark Horse, 2007. 1st. Square 4to (11-13”), 48pp, b&w illustrations, cloth. VF/VF. "The culmination of more than fifteen years of photography by photographer Greg Preston, this book is a living history of the men and women who have shaped the imaginations of countless millions of people around the world through their work in the fields of animated cartoons, comic books, comic strips, and editorial cartooning. The list of artists includes Frank Miller, Al Hirschfeld, Joe Barbera, Jack Kirby, Joe Simon, Moebius, Walter and Louise Simonson, and many more, all in photographs shot expressly for this book." "Presenting a unique glimpse into the creative mind through never-before-allowed access to the artists' studios, many of these pictures have never been published before, and capture several creators who have passed away, making this book an invaluable resource and window into the history of comics."
Meyer, Susan E. AMERICA'S GREAT ILLUSTRATORS. [SN20994] $95 NY: Abrams, 1978. 1st. Folio (13” or taller), 311pp, 417 illustrations, including 186 color plates, some tipped-in , cloth. NF/NF (PON on FFEP, only very slight wear). A very attractive copy. A first printing of an absolutely dynamite book profiling ten artists from the Golden Age of illustration: Howard Pyle, N.C. Wyeth, Frederic Remington, Maxfield Parrish, J.C. Leyendecker, Norman Rockwell, Charles Dana Gibson, Howard Chandler Christy, James Montgomery Flagg, and John Held, Jr. Even 25 years later, this is about the best introduction to the Golden Age illustrators there is: excellent reproduction, extensive color, images never otherwise reproduced, well-written & well-researched text. The biographies relate the illustrators’ careers to each other and to the evolution of the illustration business.
Nautilus. $1000
Stanislav Szukalski. STANISLAV SZUKALSKI: TROUGHFUL OF PEARLS. [SN18685] $1500 Sylmar, CA: Glenn Bray, 1980. 1st. Square 4to (11-13”), 176pp, color and b&w, cloth. Fine/VG+ (slight DJ edgewear with a few small tears). #21 of 100 copies hardbound and signed & dated by the artist. Troughful Of Pearls was the first book on the art of Szukalski since 1929. The bok is divided into two sections of 88 pages each. "Troughful Of Pearls" reproduces sculptures, projects, drawings and portraits from 1912 to 1980. "Behold!!! The Protong" is a sampling from Szukalski's 39 volume work on Zermatism. Included is a 33 1/3 rpm record with talk by the artist and a card of Protong volabulary. Also laid in is an ad sheet reproducing a Copernicus Print by Szukalski, and a two-sided sheet describing "Troughful Of Pearls." The book is profusely illustrated with hundreds of photographs of Szukalski's works, with commentary on the various pieces, and noting which pieces of his art works were stolen by the Communist Government of Poland. Exceedingly scarce in the first edition and rare in this Signed edition of only 100! Only the second half of this book was reprinted in Behold the Protong.
Mark Ryden. MICRO PORTFOLIO 3: BUNNIES & BEES. [SN22673X] $50 Los Angeles: Porterhouse, 2007. 1st. 4to (11-13”), 14 color prints, cloth covered box with an onlaid color plate. VF in shrinkwrap. Limited edition of 10,000 numbered copies. Portfolio of 14 prints, including a numbered certificate. Prints are 8" x 10" high quality lithographic printing on cardstock with an embossed border. Prints come in a Japanese silk covered box. This portfolio features paintings, details and studies from the Mark Ryden Bunnies and Bees show. Edition of 10,000.
Regis Loisel. PETER PAN INTEGRALE. [SN22580M] $375 France: Granit Associes, 2006. 1st. Folio (13” or taller), b&w, alligator skin. VF. One of 950 numbered copies SIGNED by the artist. A deluxe oversize hardcover volume collecting all six albums (1989-2004). The artwork is reproduced in its b&w form without coloring. A massive tome bound in alligator skin.
Ray Bradbury. Weist, Jerry. BRADBURY: AN ILLUSTRATED LIFE - A JOURNEY TO FAR METAPHOR. [SN16826M] $375 Hampton Falls, NH: Donald M. Grant, 2004. 1st. 4to (11-13"), 265pp, color and b&w, snakeskin. VF/VF clamshell traycase. One of 350 numbered copies SIGNED by Bradbury & Weist. This deluxe edition has an additional 32 pages of material not included in the Harper Collins trade edition. This Grant edition contains THE GHOSTS OF FOREVER, a previously unpublished film script by Ray Bradbury illustrated with 83 story boards by Joseph A. Mugnani as well as 16 illustrations done by Ray Bradbury in 1949 to accompany the original manuscript of his children's book SWITCH ON THE NIGHT which was not published until 1955. Issued in a velour lined, snakeskin clamshell traycase.
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