BUD'S ART BOOKS
BLACK & WHITE IMAGES ANNUAL COLLECTION #5
(W) Jim Vadeboncoeur (A) Various (CA) William Ladd Taylor
Special Price. Published at $25.00. From the Golden Age of Pen & Ink illustration, 1890-1922. Packed with gorgeous art, featuring Herbert Railton's The Haunted House, the earliest known work of Frank C. Papé (1902), all the art from an 1897 L'Image article on Daniel Vierge, and an extended section on Will Crawford. Plus Helen Stratton, Frederick Richardson, Rose O'Neill, Joseph Clement Coll, John R. Neill, Gustave Dore, Christy, Benda, Shinn, Rackham, Rountree, Howard Pyle and many others. Book format, limited to 2,000 copies, 2010.
EVERETT RAYMOND KINSTLER ARTISTS JOURNEY 1942 1962 HC
Special Price. Published at $44.95. Kinstler's work hangs in museums, movie stars' homes, private collections, and The White House. Before portraiture became his life's work, painting presidents and film stars, he spent the 1940s and 1950s honing his craft in comic books: Hawkman for DC's The Flash, Black Hood, and Black Terror. Plus a plethora of covers, inside cover contents pages, and stories for those delightfully lurid pre-code Avon comics: Eerie, Cowpuncher, Jesse James, Strange Worlds, etc. And illustrating for pulp magazines like The Shadow, Doc Savage and Detective Tales! Full biography, anecdotes about working with film stars, comic artists and famous illustrators.
VADEBONCOEUR COLLECTION OF IMAGES #12
(W) Various (A) Various (CA) Lawson Wood
Special Price. Published at $25.00. Venture back to the Golden Age of illustration with this sumptuous collection of images, reprinted in full color! This gorgeous compilation collects rare artwork from obscure sources, much of it never before collected. Here are Arthur Rackham, Willy Pogany, J.C. Leyendecker, Eric Pape, Heinrich Kley, Gustaff Tengren, Frank Godwin, the great Sarah Stillwell Weber, Charles Robinson and many more! This lovingly curated magazine is loaded with vibrant images of knights, heroes, fairies, damsels in distress, and mythical creatures, taken from pre-1923 illustrated books and magazines. Beautifully reproduced. Limited to 2,000 copies, published in 2011.
VADEBONCOEUR COLLECTION OF IMAGES #13
(W) Jim Vadeboncoeur (A) Various (CA) Alphonse Mucha
Special Price. Published at $30.00. "A handsomely-selected tasteful mix of the best, well mounted, printed." -Alex Toth. Final issue with 24 more pages. Norman Lindsay feature, Maxfield Parrish, Frank & J.C. Leyendecker, Edmund Dulac, special Lous Chalon L'Illustration portfolio from 1897, Howard Pyle, George Barbier, Willy Pogany and far more, Here's Jim: "I scour original source material, magazines and books, from before 1923 for the most beautiful and forgotten images by great illustrators. Using the best technology available today on museum quality stock...with modern reproduction technology so as to show you these artists as they have never been seen before." Limited to 2,000 copies, published in 2014.