The Paperback Art Of James Avati

Author : Piet Schreuders,Kenneth Fulton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Book covers
ISBN : 1880418711

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The Paperback Art of James Avati by Piet Schreuders,Kenneth Fulton Pdf

James Avati (1912-2005) is regarded as the pre-eminent painter of paperback covers in the second half of the 20th century. He was known in the business as the 'King of the Paperbacks'. Avati designed realistic cover illustrations for novels by the likes of Steinbeck, Faulkner, Salinger, Caldwell and Moravia, covers that appealed directly to broad sections of the population. He worked for the New American Library (Signet Books) and for every other major paperback publisher including Bantam, Avon, Pocket, Fawcett and Dell. In this lavishly illustrated book graphic designer Piet Schreuders reconstructs Avati's life and 40-year career. During the past 25 years most of Avati's original paintings have been salvaged from the warehouses of American publishers and now fetch many thousands of dollars among collectors. Here, for the first time, Avati's universally admired work is available in full-size quality reproductions and expertly described.This is a paperback volumn with sewn signatures

Author : Erskine Caldwell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1971
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:11032762

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Place Called Estherville by Erskine Caldwell Pdf

Author : Vincent Sheean
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1952
Category : American fiction
ISBN : UCAL:$B105431

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Rage of the Soul by Vincent Sheean Pdf

"To those who read Lead Kindly Light (1949) and shared through that Sheean's mystical experience with Gandhi in search of peace, this novel will come as something of a shock. For here he tells, in convincing terms, the story of a very troubled lady who goes to India, seeking help and understanding -- and finds it, but not through her contact with mysticism and asceticism, not through her time of contemplation in a "clean and tidy Ashram", not through watching others prostrate themselves before an imposing woman, the "Feminine Principle" or the carefully guarded yoga. All of that she found faintly ridiculous, unreal (and one senses that to Sheean, also, it has become unreal). Through a young Hindu she has a more enlightening experience in meeting his guru, and learns that her own readiness is vital- and that when that comes she will find the answer, in her own heart. The story is told in counterpoint:- first Elizabeth's story, as she journeys half a world away from her husband, a member of the State Department, learns that she is at times possessed wholly, unreasonably, by a purely physical lust, the object meaningless to her, and that she must understand this in herself before she can accept -- and bring him to accept- her undeviating love for her husband; second- and alternating thereafter- the story of her husband, Charles, and his brief but spectacular involvement in "the Affaire Sneeze", when his interest in human beings in trouble persuades him to help a couple escape the closing-in of the net of the Soviet -- and almost costs him his job. Ultimately, of course, she finds the answer in her own heart- and they are joined again, this time "for keeps".--Kirkus.

Author : William Gardner Smith
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1973
Category : African American soldiers
ISBN : STANFORD:36105036411168

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Last of the Conquerors by William Gardner Smith Pdf

The novel concerns the author's experience as an African-American GI serving in the racially segregated United States Army in US-occupied Germany after World War II.

Author : Ed Hulse
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2021-09-28
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN : 9781684057993

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The Art of Pulp Fiction: An Illustrated History of Vintage Paperbacks by Ed Hulse Pdf

Judge these books by their covers! Get immersed in the definitive visual history of pulp fiction paperbacks from 1940 to 1970. The Art of Pulp Fiction: An Illustrated History of Vintage Paperbacks chronicles the history of pocket-sized paperbound books designed for mass-market consumption, specifically concentrating on the period from 1940 to 1970. These three decades saw paperbacks eclipse cheap pulp magazines and expensive clothbound books as the most popular delivery vehicle for escapist fiction. To catch the eyes of potential buyers they were adorned with covers that were invariably vibrant, frequently garish, and occasionally lurid. Today the early paperbacks--like the earlier pulps, inexpensively produced and considered disposable by casual readers--are treasured collector's items. Award-winning editor Ed Hulse (The Art of the Pulps and The Blood 'n' Thunder Guide to Pulp Fiction) comprehensively covers the pulp-fiction paperback's heyday. Hulse writes the individual chapter introductions and the captions, while a team of genre specialists and art aficionados contribute the special features included in each chapter. These focus on particularly important authors, artists, publishers, and sub-genres. Illustrated with more than 500 memorable covers and original cover paintings. Hulse's extensive captions, meanwhile, offer a running commentary on this significant genre, and also contain many obscure but entertaining factoids. Images used in The Art of Pulp Fiction have been sourced from the largest American paperback collections in private hands, and have been curated with rarity in mind, as well as graphic appeal. Consequently, many covers are reproduced here for the first time since the books were first issued. With an overall Introduction by Richard A. Lupoff, novelist, essayist, pop-culture historian, and author of The Great American Paperback (2001).

Author : Erskine Caldwell
Publisher : New York : New American Library
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1951
Category : American essays
ISBN : UOM:39015016449715

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The Humorous Side of Erskine Caldwell by Erskine Caldwell Pdf

Author : Erskine Caldwell
Publisher : Open Road Media
Page : 195 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2011-06-21
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781453217078

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Trouble in July by Erskine Caldwell Pdf

DIVDIVA community lynches a wrongly accused man in Caldwell’s scathing indictment of Southern prejudice/divDIV /divDIVWhen word spreads through Julie County that Sonny Clark, a black man, has assaulted Katy Barlow, a white woman, the man’s fate is sealed. With frightening speed, authorities and an outraged mob align to apprehend Clark and condemn him without trial. By the time Barlow confesses that no crime occurred, it is too late./divDIV /divDIVTold from the multiple perspectives of victim and victimizers as well as passive onlookers, Trouble in July depicts in harrowing detail the tragic ignorance of individuals who fail to understand their roles in a hateful miscarriage of justice./divDIV /divDIVThis ebook features an illustrated biography of Erskine Caldwell including rare photos and never-before-seen documents courtesy of the Dartmouth College Library./div/div

Author : Ellery Queen
Publisher : Overamstel Uitgevers
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2011-10-25
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9789049986506

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Calamity Town by Ellery Queen Pdf

Looking for trouble, Ellery Queen descends on a small town At the tail end of the long summer of 1940, there is nowhere in the country more charming than Wrightsville. The Depression has abated, and for the first time in years the city is booming. There is hope in Wrightsville, but Ellery Queen has come looking for death. The mystery author is hoping for fodder for a novel, and he senses the corruption that lurks beneath the apple pie façade. He rents a house owned by the town’s first family, whose three daughters star in most of the local gossip. One is fragile, left at the altar three years ago and never recovered. Another is engaged to the city’s rising political star, an upright man who’s already boring her. And then there’s Lola, the divorced, bohemian black sheep. Together, they make a volatile combination. Once he sees the ugliness in Wrightsville, Queen sits back—waiting for the crime to come to him.

Author : Michiko Oki,Justin Mortimer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2015-02-21
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1880418800

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Life Wants to Live by Michiko Oki,Justin Mortimer Pdf

This 8 x 8 inch 96 page hardcover book was published in an edi-tion of 1,000 copies; 500 for United States distribution and 500 for European distribution. It is a joint Donald M. Grant, Imbroglio and Allen Spiegel Fine Arts publication which pre-miered at Phil's Gallery Show opening at Jonathan Levine's Gallery in New York City on February 21, 2015 and contains all 15 paintings exhibited as well as pencil drawings, an introduction by Michiko Oki and a conversation with Justin Mortimer.

Author : Michael Whelan
Publisher : Bantam Dell Publishing Group
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Art
ISBN : 0553074474

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The Art of Michael Whelan by Michael Whelan Pdf

Award-winning artist Whelan has illustrated the work of almost every major author in speculative fiction. Here are featured all the artist's major recent paintings, as well as a series of 25 never-before-seen works produced especially for this book. Over 100 full-color reproductions.

Author : Ray Bradbury
Publisher : Wildside Press LLC
Page : 60 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2010-09-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781434406330

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Paperback Quarterly (Vol. 3 No. 3) Fall 1980 by Ray Bradbury Pdf

Paperback Quarterly, journal of mass-market paperback history, Fall 1980, Volume 3 Number 3, contains: "Louis L'Amour's Pseudonymous Works," by John D. Nesbitt, "First Printing: Two Million," by Michael Barson, "Interview with John Jakes," by Michael Barson, "Reprints/Reprints: Ray Bradbury's FAHRENHEIT 451," by Bill Crider, "Agatha Christie in Dell Mapbacks," by Bill Lyles, "Soft Cover Sketches: an introduction," by Thomas L. Bonn, "Soft Cover Sketches: James Avati," by Thomas L. Bonn and "Collecting Original Paperback Cover Art," by Robert Weinberg.

Author : Rick Berry,Phil Hale
Publisher : Donald M. Grant Publishers
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Art
ISBN : UCSD:31822034588970

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Double Memory by Rick Berry,Phil Hale Pdf

Phil Hale and Rick Berry met in 1980. Hale was sixteen and Berry twenty-seven. After founding the Newbury Studio (along with Tom Canty and Rick Salvucci) in Boston, they went on to illustrate the work of people who make up a veritable Who's Who of three major literary genres: William Gibson, Stephen King, Robert E. Howard, Frank Herbert, Peter Straub and the list goes on...Going well beyond the roles of illustrators, they are considered innovators and artistic pioneers -- Berry produced the first digital cover paintings (W. Gibson's Neuromancer, as seen in Time Magazine, 8 Feb. 1993) for trade fiction in the world. Hale's superb brush work garnered him so much attention, by age eighteen he was a pro in demand. Soon he was tapped for King's Drawing of the Three. Among their numerous awards is the 1989 World Con Best of Show for Dry Science by Berry. Berry's design and painting for Straub's Mrs. God was considered by Communication Arts as one of the year's best illustrated books. CA plus the Society of Illustrators annuals and Print magazine have published their works for music, literary and pop culture. Both have also contributed extensively to gaming cards and comic books.It is remarkable ... that somehow out of the discontinuities of the unexpected universe two of the most creative artists and best draftsmen I've ever seen should met at the right time. -- Jeff Jones

Author : Tim Underwood,Arnie Fenner,Cathy Fenner
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Art, Modern
ISBN : 1599290510

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Shameless Art by Tim Underwood,Arnie Fenner,Cathy Fenner Pdf

Unrepentant, unapologetic, unbridled and under-appreciated, genre art from the first half of the 20th century reflected subconscious urges of a economically deprived and sexually depressed generation. This popular art set the stage for the advertised expression of today's more liberated consumer culture. Shameless Art explores the influential work of imaginative illustrators who helped create the visual language for everything from today's comic books, magazine and television advertising, as well as imaginative movies like Avatar and sensual films like Y Tu Mama Tambien. Featuring stunning art by such genre masters as Tom Lovell, Virgil Finlay, Hannes Bok, Margaret Brundage, and Enoch Bolles, this beautifully produced full color collection mirrors mid-20th century masculine fantasies.

Author : Monica Baldwin
Publisher : Robert Hale
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2015-02-28
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780719816444

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I Leap Over the Wall by Monica Baldwin Pdf

At the age of twenty-one, Monica Baldwin - the niece of Stanley Baldwin - entered one of the oldest and most strictly enclosed contemplative orders of the Roman Catholic Church. At the age of forty-eight, and after struggling with her vocation for many years, she obtained a special rescript from Rome and left the convent. But the world Monica had known and forsaken in 1914 was very different to the world into which she emerged at the height of the Second World War ...This is the fascinating account of one woman's two very different lives, with revealing descriptions of the world of a novice, the duties of a nun's day, and the spiritual aspects of convent life. Interwoven with these are the trials and tribulations of coping with a new and alien world, as the author is confronted with fashions, interventions, politics and art totally unfamiliar to her. Written in the post-war years, this re-issue is as fresh and engaging today as it ever was. Humour, intelligence, an endearing humility and a searing honesty all characterize this remarkable classic, giving readers both a glimpse into a hidden world and a unique view on one more familiar.

Author : Willard W. Savoy
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1949
Category : Electronic
ISBN : STANFORD:36105037319683

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Alien Land by Willard W. Savoy Pdf