 | The Great American Pin-Up (Jumbo Series) by Charles G Martignette Dr.
Buy used from: $25.98 ***** The definitive book. Dozens of artists and over nine hundred pictures in this beautifully produced book, also out in a reduced size, with the same contents.
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 | Gil Elvgren: All His Glamorous American Pin-Ups (Jumbo) by Louis K Meisel
Buy used from: $45.00 *****The complete works of the brilliant Elvgren. Also available in a reduced size edition.
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 | Varga, the Esquire Years: A Catalogue Raisonne by Alberto Vargas
Buy used from: $23.49 ***** I think this is the best book on Vargas, excellent production with several hundred pictures and a fascinating sixteen pages in the back showing how his paintings were used commercially.
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 | Elvgren: His Life & Art by Max Allan Collins
Buy used from: $17.25 *****Another beautiful Elvgren book but this one also includes the black and white photos he used for his paintings.
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 | Sorayama: Complete Works by Hajime Sorayama
Buy used from: $64.99 ***** The best contemporay pin-up artist around, a thick paperback with hundreds of sexy chrome robots, pin-ups and a few examples of his ad airbrush work.
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 | Mel Ramos Pop Art Fantasies: The Complete Paintings by Donald Kuspit
Buy used from: $90.00 ***** Pin-ups meet fine art in this lovely book with 470 paintings from Ramos.
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| Vargas by Alberto Vargas
Buy used from: $3.22 **** More a biography but with plenty of pictures, some of which are, unfortunately, in black and white.
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| Varga by Tom Robotham
Buy used from: $3.00 ***** Large size reprint of a 1991 book, good intro essay and 89 pages of well produced pin-ups. Many large enough to be worth framing.
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 | Petty: The Classic Pin-Up Art of George Petty by Reid Stewart Austin
Buy used from: $14.96 ****The best book on Petty so far but the production does not do this great artist justice. The definitive Petty book is still to come.
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 | The Wonderful World of Bill Ward: King of the Glamour Girls
Buy used from: $34.99 ***** A huge coffee-table book with surely the best of Ward. Includes a long illustrated life story of the artist. Hundreds of pin-up cartoons in a well designed book.
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 | The Glamour Girls of Bill Ward by Alex Chun
Buy used from: $22.89 ***** A handsome portfolio of females only Bill Ward could create. He specialised in using Conte crayon for his work and although his format was cartoons his females have a special allure.
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 | Pin-Up Art of Bill Ward by Bill Ward
Buy used from: $39.98 Another Ward book coming in early 2007
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 | The Best of Gil Elvgren by Reid Stewart Austin
Buy new: $21.36 / Used from: $43.80 ***** Sixteen large pages, wide margins make these Elvgren's well worth framing and in 200 dpi, too. Interesting text by Reid Stewart Austin.
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| Sexy Robot by Hajime Sorayama
Buy used from: $10.67 **** I've included this because it has some great metallic robot pin-ups (they must be unique to Sorayama) but also six pages with lots of photos and captions showing how he does one of his paintings. This book seems to be in several versions so it's worth checking that you get the right one.
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 | Pin-Up Poster Book: The Elvgren Collection by Marianne O. Phillips
Buy used from: $8.36 ***** Another sixteen worth framing pin-ups. Marianne Phillips wrote the intro which includes photos and Elvgren graphics.
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 | Calendar Girl: Sweet & Sexy Pin-Ups of the Postwar Era by Max Allan Collins
Buy used from: $16.50 *****A handsome large-size book devoted to pin-up calendars of 1943 thru 1957. Divided into monthly chapters, with thirty or so pictures in each. You can see the dates and company names.
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 | The Art of Ricky Carralero (Knockabout Comics) by Ricky Carralero
Buy used from: $48.75 **** Well produced large-size paperback of this contemporary pin-up artist with a strong emphasis on fantasy females. Carralero's style is not particularly distinctive though.
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 | Pin-Up Poster Book: The Edward Runci Collection by Charles G. Martignette
Buy used from: $14.68 **** Sixteen Runci posters, good but not quite Elvgren quality.
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 | Pinup: The Illegitimate Art by Jim Silke
Buy new: $17.05 / Used from: $11.99 **** A sort of history of pin-ups mixed in with Jim Slke's contemporary art. Lots of well produced images plus some text.
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 | Uncovered: The Hidden Art Of The Girlie Pulp by Douglas Ellis
Buy used from: $35.95 **** Over four hundred covers displayed in the very comprehensive study of cover art from Thirties pulp magazines.
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