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It's a Man's World: Men's Adventure Magazines, The Postwar Pulps
by Feral House (Hardcover)

Men’s magazines first appeared in great numbers after World War II and the Korean War. Their signature stories, supposedly based on reality, often depicted brawny he-men protecting lustful women from savages, Nazis, Koreans, or Cubans. It’s a Man’s World explores a time when magazines like Argosy and True flourished, along with their more sexually charged counterparts such as Stag and For Men Only. The book is both an art gallery and a lively history, profiling the magazines’ themes of bondage and S/M, racism, and sexism. Editor Adam Parfrey provides sociological context for the extraordinary covers, interior art, and articles in these cultural artifacts. Extensively illustrated with reproductions from magazines like Saga, Stag, and more, this is a colorful and lively retrospective of masculinity in the cold-war era.

B. J. Summers
B.J. Summers Guide to Coca-Cola: Identifications, Current Values, Circa Dates (B. J. Summers' Guide to Coca-Cola: Identifications, Current Values, Circa Dates)
by Collector Books (Hardcover)

B.J. Summers, author of two popular books on advertising and gas station memorabilia, offers this refreshing book on Coca-Cola collectibles. This deluxe hardbound book will become the essential reference book for collectors of Coca-Cola items, including thermometers, jewelry, china, calendars, fans, bottles, trays, games, clocks and Santas. 750 color photos.

Stephen J. Sansweet, T. N. Tumbusch
Tomart's Price Guide to Worldwide Star Wars Collectibles
by Tomart Pubns (Paperback)

TV Guide The Official Collectors Guide: Celebrating An Icon
by Bangzoom Publishers (Paperback)

TV Guide: The Official Collectors Guide is the ultimate price guide for collectors, as well as a history of TV as seen through the pages of TV Guide® magazine. The book contains almost 38,000 covers – all in color, as well as the values of every issue starting from the 1950s. It profiles the history of TV programs by decades and tells collectors where and how to find back issues. The book is 8 ½ x 11 inches, perfect bound, and has 315 full-color pages. This is the first time every TV Guide digest-size cover has been printed in one publication. Dr. Stephen H. Hofer, a professor of communications at Chicago State University and curator of the Philo T. Farnsworth Television History Center in Auburn, Indiana, is the Editor.

Richard Russell, Elaine Gross Russell
Antique Trader Vintage Magazines Price Guide
by Krause Publications (Paperback)

Whether it's historic relevance or artistic impression that draws people to collect magazines, this handy reference with 1,000 full-color photos and updated pricing is the perfect tool for collectors. With listings for magazines of 1830 to post-WWII, Antique Trader Vintage Magazine Price Guide is the most comprehensive guide on the market. This thorough reference explores magazines that feature the work of literary giants like Edgar Allan Poe, Arthur Conan Doyle, and famed illustrator Maxfield Parrish. Magazines including The Saturday Evening Post and The Strand Magazine are featured with sub-categories and listings to assist collectors in identification. This celebration of print history is sure to please current collectors, and spark an interest in anyone with an attic full of vintage magazines. -Features 250+ magazines -Contains 1,000 brilliant photos of covers and images

Richard E. Clear, David T. Alexander
Old Magazines: Identification & Value Guide
by Collector Books (Paperback)

Old Magazines, Second Edition, will delight both collectors and dealers. Author Richard E. Clear has 30 years of experience dealing in periodicals, and wrote his first book on magazines in 1974. Magazines from many different areas are included: movie, trade, fashion, farm, sports, and more, and over 300 new color photos have been added to this edition, representing the thousands of magazines available. The book focuses on the more common, easily recognized and attainable copies rather than rare issues. Each listing includes information such as title, size, volume, publisher, dates published, all known names of the magazine, and a realistic market value. Because old magazines often span large periods and appear in literally thousands of issues, Clear gives criteria for spotting the more valuable issues. Included in this new edition is a list of illustrators with information about where to find their work, a suggested grading guide, a list of paper dolls by name and where they can ...

Freddi Margolin
Peanuts: Home Collection--A Collector's Guide to Identification and Value
by Antique Trader Books (Paperback)

Room by room, this colorful book takes the collector through a typical home, with relevant collectibles presented in the rooms where they might customarily be displayed. More than 2,500 collectibles are listed with descriptions and current values. Tips for starting and maintaining a collection, verifying authenticity, identifying fakes, and determining values are also included.

John Campbell
The Winchester Single-Shot, Vol. 1
by Andrew Mowbray Incorporated, Publishers (Hardcover)

The Winchester Single-Shot is one of the most admired and sought after rifles ever made. In fact, the Single-Shot's reputation has been without equal from the time of its invention by the legendary John M. Browning through today's renewed enthusiasm for black powder cartridge shooting. This book covers every important aspect of the Single-Shot, from its design and invention to its many component parts, alterations, chamberings, sights, style variations and vital specifications. There is also a wealth of practical information and suggestions about repair and restoration. 302 photographs.

Ernst Gerber, Mary Gerber
Photo-Journal Guide To Comics Volume 2 K-Z (Photo-Journal Guide to Comic Books)
by Diamond Comic Dist - Stock (Hardcover)

This volume display hundreds of full-color photos of comic book covers spanning from the earliest years of Comics' Golden Age (1938-45) through the dawn of its Silver Age in the mid-1950s. The second volume contains books with titles from K-Z. HC, 10x14, 452pg, FC

Peter Haining
The Classic Era of American Pulp Magazines
by Chicago Review Press (Hardcover)

The period between the World Wars—the era of sexual liberation, Prohibition, the rise of organized crime, and the Great Depression—was also the classic era of American pulp magazines, the subject of this fascinating volume. Pulps, with their lurid color covers depicting the thrills of sex and violence, and with stories to match inside, fuelled America’s dreams—and nightmares. For a few cents they offered everything young men wanted: sex, action, adventure. But they also fostered the talents of some of the greatest popular writers of the century—Arthur C. Clarke, Isaac Asimov, Raymond Chandler, James M. Cain, and Dashiell Hammett, among others—and virtually invented the genres of science fiction and hard-boiled crime. From the cheap thrills of the “hot” and “spicy” pulps and the sexual sadism of the “shudder” pulps to the weird worlds of the fantasy, sci-fi, and horror pulps, this book displays their art and tells their history, capturing the original ...

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