Take a Cold Tub Sir! The Story of the Boy's Own Paper
Jack Cox. Butler & Tanner, 1982. First Edition. Out of Print. Very Fine. First issued in 1879, priced at one Penny, the Boy's Own Paper was produced as an antidote to the lurid penny dreadfuls of the day. In its heyday its influence was worldwide & the name remains a household word. In eleven chapters Jack Cox tells the paper's enthralling story from the start to its demise in 1967, each filled with classic illustrations from this vintage Comic book.

This is an uncommon edition offered here, in very collectable condition. 1st print, minor spine bumps, VF/ NM. Dust wrapper, minor edge creases, attractive, VF. (ISBN: 0718825055) 128 pages. Hard Cover Black & White 8" x 10" (20cm x 25cm) Dust Jacket

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Unseen America The Greatest Cult Exploitation Magazines 1950-1966
Alan Betrock. Shake Books, 1990. The American fifties are usually thought of as tame and conservative times. But during this era, a relatively forgotten wave of scandal, crime, sex, drugs, gossip, violence, and vice swept over the country. This was the world of 'unseen America', the other side of the rush to middle-class suburban families. For over a decade, this torrent of scandal was brought to the American public via mass circulation magazines - magazines that today offer us a unique view of another America, and graphically illustrate a chapter of American pop culture and journalistic happenings previously left unchronicled. This book shows the hidden side of the American 50s in over 350 photos! 115 pages. Soft Cover Black & White 8" x 10½" (20cm x 25cm)

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The Untold Story (Signed) (Limited Edition)
CONTAINS ADULT MATERIAL. Frans 'the fox' Leeflang, Davido 'sorted' Howarth. Leeflang-Howarth Ink, 1946. This VERY LIMITED edition introduces two unsung heroes who have become the key movers and cocktail shakers in the field of British comics. Their unqualified knowledge of the genre is matched only by book-keeping brilliance and dogged organizational flair. Their art is always sought after, but never by the cognoscenti. Yet their pencil strokes are sharp, and they have acquired a biro-centric art paradigm that allows their luminous personalities to shine through. Although Woolly Jumpers have - with remorseless enthusiasm - enhanced their output, the heady mix of untutored talent is indubitable. A fascinating tome for all fans of the unknown, and especially recommended for the professional connoisseur. Rare edition, slight yellowing. Too many pages. Very Hard Cover Grey 2" x 4"

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Victorians At Home And Abroad
Paul Atterbury and Suzanne Fagence Cooper. V & A Publications, 2001. Published on the centenary of Queen Victoria's death, this richly illustrated book is an opportunity to revisit the achievements of the Victorian period, putting aside the attitudes and judgements of the twentieth century. Monarchy, family, Victoria's New Britain and the Gothic vision, sport, ships and trains, domestic life, death and religion, nature and landscape, interior decoration, the impact of world cultures and exoticism are all featured in this colourful snapshot of the Victorian vision of the world. 100 pages. Hard Cover Full Colour 7½" x 8½" (19cm x 22cm) Dust Jacket ISBN: 0810965739

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Victorian Illustrated Books
Percy Muir. Portman Books, 1985. Out of Print. A fully illustrated book on this fascinating subject. Collectors and booksellers will especially welcome the sections on the most important books of the period and category.

Illustrated throughout. 288 pages. Hard Cover Part Colour 8" x 10" (20cm x 25cm) Dust Jacket
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The Victorian Vision
Edited by John M. Mackenzie. V & A Publications, 2001. The Victorians were people with vision: they were ambitious and outward looking, always seeking to change and improve society.

Published to coincide with a major exhibition at the V & A, this highly illustrated and broad- ranging survey looks at how the Victorians went about creating a new, more modern world: at home in domestic and public life, and globally, as the Empire expanded and widened their horizons. 360 pages. Hard Cover Full Colour 10" x 11½" (25cm x 29cm) Dust Jacket ISBN: 0810965798
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The War Libraries: The Fleetway Picture Library Index volume 1 (Signed)
Compiled by David Roach and Steve Holland. Book Palace Books, August 2007. This is the first in a series of 3 volumes chronicling the full credits of all Fleetway Picture Libraries. This volume lists full writer, artist and cover artist credits for War Picture Library #1 – 2083, Battle Picture Library #1 – 1706, Air Ace Picture Library #1 – 545, War At Sea Picture Library #1 – 36, plus Giant War Picture Library and all the Holiday Specials.

An enormous undertaking that required years of research, this definitive index is an essential purchase for all fans and students of British comics. This indispensable index has over 420 cover illustrations of which 202 are in colour, including 32 colour pages of comic covers and original cover art recently discovered in the IPC warehouse.

In addition there are 60 interior page illustrations and 72 full colour illustrations of original art covers. Also included is an expert detailed essay on the publishing history of these hugely popular comics. 196 pages. Soft Cover Part Colour 7" x 10" (178mm x 254mm) (ISBN-13: 9780955159626)
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Watching The Watchmen
Dave Gibbons, Chip Kidd & Mike Essl. Titan Books, October 2008. Voted among Time magazine's 100 Best Novels from 1923 to the present, a perennial bestseller over the past twenty years and widely considered the greatest graphic novel of all time, WATCHMEN is a gripping, labyrinthine piece of comic art, which has earned an acclaimed place in modern literary history.

Now, you can enjoy the ultimate companion to the comics masterpiece, as artist Dave Gibbons gives his own account of the genesis of WATCHMEN in this dust-jacketed hardback volume, opening his vast personal archives to reveal excised pages, original character designs, page thumbnails, sketches and much more, including posters, covers and rare portfolio art.

Featuring the breathtaking design of Chip Kidd and Mike Essl, this is both a major art book in its own right, and the definitive companion to the graphic novel that changed an industry. 208 pages. Hard Cover Part Colour 9" x 12" (228mm x 304mm) Dust Jacket (ISBN-13: 9781848560413)

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Wooley's History of the Comic Book 1899 - 1936 The Origin of the Superhero
Charles Wooley, 1986. A brief but detailed history of the period. Magazine size. 48 pages. Soft Cover Black & White

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The Adventures of Tintin at Sea
Yves Horeau edited and translated by Michael Farr. John Murray, 2004. Published in conjunction with the exhibition held at the National Maritime Museum in Grenwhich in 2004 this book is devoted to all things nautical that occurred in Tintin's worldwide adventures. The exhibition marked the 75th anniversary of Hergé's creation.

Although Tintin's adventures were fanciful creations Hergé made certain that the settings were realistic. This book shows exactly how much research was done for Tintin's adventures on the High Seas, which included The Crab with the Golden Claws (where in he first meets Captain Haddock) The Shooting Star, The Secret of the Unicorn and its sequel Red Rackham's Treasure.

The author has assembled a fascinating collection of photographs, maps, diagrams and sketches together with relevant examples from the stories. Great fun for the casual fan and Tintin completists alike. 58 pages. Hard Cover Full Colour 9" x 12" (225mm x 300mm) ISBN: 0719561191

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Tintin 60 Years of Adventure
Casterman, 1989. Out of Print. Very Fine. Large format celebration put together by the Hergé Foundation in order to celebrate 60 years of the world's most intrepid boy reporter. There are many examples of Hergé's original artwork showing how and why he created certain pieces and how the books were edited in the 1930's and 1940's when stories that had originally appeared in black and white in magazines were to be republished in colour for the 63 page album format. The book contains a biography of Tintin's creator Georges (Hergé) Remi and gives us the background in terms of his life and world events that shaped the Tintin stories. Also included is an 8 page pull out newspaper that gives a timeline for all Tintin's adventures. 48 pages. Soft Cover Full Colour 12" x 15" (295mm x 385mm) ISBN: 2203004053
Rare find in Very Fine / Near Mint condition.

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Tintin & Co.
Michael Farr. Egmont, 2007. Tintin & Co. is the perfect book to celebrate Herge's centenary. Michael Farr has written numerous books on Tintin and Herge as well as translating several others into English. His writing style is engaging and easy to read, with several moments of shared humour as readers will recall their favourite moments from the stories.

Illustrations, facts and Herge's early sketches provide a remarkable insight into the fictional world of Tintin and into the real time in which Herge was writing.

As well as covering the main characters - Tintin, Snowy, Captain Haddock, Professor Calculus, Thomson and Thompson and Bianca Castafiore - this book also includes chapters on the Arab princeling Abdullah, chess-loving General Alcazar, the villainous Doctor Mueller, Tintin's mortal enemy Rastapopoulous, the insurance salesman Joylon Wagg who is always turning up at unexpected moments and the orphan Chang. 132 pages. Hard Cover Full Colour 9" x 12" (235mm x 305mm) (ISBN-13: 9781405232647)
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Underground Classics: The Transformation of Comics into Comix
James Danky and Denis Kitchen. Abrams ComicArts, 2009. The impact of American underground comix is profound: They galvanized artists both domestically and abroad; they forever changed the economics of comic book publishing; and they influenced generations of cartoonists, including their predecessors. While the works of Robert Crumb and Art Spiegelman are well-known via the New Yorker, Maus, and retrospective collections, the art of their contemporaries such as Gilbert Shelton, Trina Robbins, Justin Green, Kim Deitch, S. Clay Wilson, and many other seminal cartoonists who came of age in the 1960s is considerably less known.

Underground Classics provides the first serious survey of underground comix as art, turning the spotlight on these influential and largely underappreciated artists. Essays from curators James Danky and Denis Kitchen, alongside essays by Paul Buhle, Patrick Rosenkranz, Jay Lynch, and Trina Robbins, offer a thorough reflection and appraisal of the underground movement. Over 125 original drawings, paintings, sculptures, and artifacts are featured, loaned from private collections and the artists themselves, making Underground Classics indispensable for the serious minded comics fan and for the casual reader alike. 144 pages. Hard Cover Full Colour 9" x 12" (230mm x 310mm) (ISBN-13: 9780810905986)

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True Crime Detective Magazines 1924 - 1969
Taschen, October 2008. In 1924 the "true crime" detective magazine genre was born, and it thrived and evolved in all its fishnet-stocking, smoking-gun glory until its demise in the mid-1990s. Cashing in on people's secret voyeuristic, morbid natures, magazines such as True Detective and American Detective profiled scandalous crimes and the villains - often sexy women in stiletto heels - who committed them. Over the years, the magazines became more and more focused on crime and sexuality, until they became smutty to the point of being too racy for the newsstands.

Approximately 500 pages of covers, spreads, and text explore this sensational magazine genre in vibrant detail, with 450 covers. Among the texts included are a profile of the eccentric man who invented the genre in 1924, profiles of the cover artists, a decade-by-decade analysis of what sort of crimes were most popular with readers, profiles of the writers (many of whom went on to fame in crime fiction writing), a feminist scholar's analysis of the portrayal of women on the magazine covers, and a reprint from a 1986 forensic magazine damning the magazines as porno for sadists.

A comprehensive listing of all known titles and their publishers completes this excellent book. 336 pages. Hard Cover Full Colour 11" x 10" (278mm x 242mm) (ISBN-13: 9783822825594)

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