It's from the same comics experts that produce the Comics Buyer's Guide, comic fandom's #1 weekly newspaper. 300 photos. Synopsis Get the guide more collectors depend on for comic book pricing. New and updated, this 1997 edition puts readers at the leading edge of comic pricing, from 1961 (Silver Age) to the present, and includes a detailed checklist for easy cataloging and grading of collections. It's from the same comics experts that produce the Comics Buyer's Guide, comic fandom's #1 weekly newspaper. 300 photos.

 Krause Pubns Inc 0873414667 / 9780873414661
Soft Cover New Condition Iola, Wisconsin, U.S.A. 

Price: 14.21 USD

Color Photos, PB-159 Pgs. 8-1/2 x11". This new volume explores the realm of all these items from days long gone in a vivid, easy-to-use price guide.

Advertising, books, ceramic items, dolls, prints, music, & various textiles are but an example of what is contained within this guide. Full color photographs, up-to-date listings, and a convenient index make this volume a pleasure to work with. Includes an enhanced section on displaying your collectibles.

 L-W Book Sales 0895380773 / 9780895380777


Price: 24.01 USD

Owing as much to the rhythmic constructions of jazz as to established methods of scholarship, Thompson plays a riff on biology and culture seeing the birth of the mind in Proust's Madeleine, the displacement of humanity in Christo's wrapping of the Reichstag and, in Lao Tzu's Tao Te Ching, the path forward to a new planetary culture. In Coming Into Being, William Irwin Thompson presents a fascinating vision of our past, our present, and our future that no one will want to miss.

In these wide-ranging, deep essays, cultural critic and philosopher Thompson (At the Edge of History) continues his investigation of what he perceives to be an emerging planetary culture. An unorthodox, adventurous thinker, he applies Buddhist concepts to map the evolution of life from bacteria to humans, skips from prehistoric Mother Goddess sculptures to Christo's outdoor environmental wrappings, jumps from Proust to the Bible. He wrestles with the emergence of consciousness, the advent of patriarchy and the postindustrial breakdown of literate middle-class culture. For Thompson, anthropological bestsellers like Richard Leakey's Origins and Donald Johanson's Lucy are myth-laden projections by "the men's club of anthropology" onto the African savanna, while the story of Mary and Jesus, deeply embedded in Near Eastern mythology of the dying male, is a retelling of the ancient Egyptian legend of Isis and Osiris. In Taoist sage Lao Tzu's classic Tao Te Ching, with its celebration of anarchic decentralization and the feminine principle, Thompson finds "the road not taken," an alternative to our world of hierarchy and rigid polarities. Thompson, a poet, essayist, historian, philosopher, and prolific author (Imaginary Landscape, St. Martin's, 1990) who has taught at Cornell, MIT, and other universities, integrates a synthesis of science, the arts, and his New Age faith and philosophy into a prediction of "planetary culture." Thompson maintains that scientific narrative is structured like folklore and a performance of myth, as illustrated by the theories on hominid evolution and their lack of "factual truth" in hominization. He sees contemporary society as a dark age leading to the establishment of the last of "five evolutionary stages or quantum jumps." The narrative is witty at times, especially when Thompson is discussing Zecharia Sitchin, the 12th planet, and Van Daniken's "pot-boiler" space alien theories. Familiarity with basic New Age jargon and concepts is assumed. Those who can move in such philosophical and spiritualizing thought, whether or not they agree, will find his work compelling. scholars form a panel of essays answering to the major ideas and thoughts of Hannah Arendt, the influential and often controversial intellectual in the 1930s and through the 1970s.

The contributors come from the most central philosophy schools in critical theory, communitarianism, virtue theory, and feminism, covering themes of political action and judgment, ethics and the nature of evil, Self and world, and gender and Jewishness.

 Palgrave Macmillan 0-312-15834-3 / 9780312158347
Hardcover New Condition New York 

Price: 15.35 USD

Meet the man who made Eloise "not yet pretty but already a person.." -- acclaimed illustrator Hilary Knight. With his lively line drawings and marvelous imagination, Knight captured the spirit of Kay Thompson's rambunctious character, Eloise -- and brought the naughty yet lovable little girl to life! For the last 35 years, only the original book, Kay Thompson's Now you will -- and Eloise: The Absolutely Essential Edition contains all sorts of additions, biographical notes, and unpublished photos and sketches. As an artist, who has had the greatest influence on your work? HK: I grew up in a great period, the '20s, '30s, and '40s. Commercial and decorative art were at their inventive height, and my parents [artists Katharine Sturges and Clayton Knight] being part of it helped me decide that was the direction I wanted. In their library and on my bookshelves were the books that inspired me -- illustrations by Edmund Dulac and Ernest Shepard made me want to be an illustrator. bn: How did you end up being the one to illustrate Eloise? HK: It was Kay and me from the beginning. Our mutual friend (and my neighbor), a fashion editor at Harper's Bazaar, D. D. Dixon, got us together, and we became an instant team. It was a thrilling part of my life. bn: Eloise is the quintessential six-year-old. Is she modeled after a real little girl? HK: Eloise is the alter ego of Kay Thompson but was visually inspired by a painting my mother had done in the 1930s. "Quintessential" suggests that there are more like her out there -- that's just not possible. bn: Have you ever stayed at the Plaza Hotel? HK: I'm waiting for Eloise to ask me for a weekend. bn: For Eloise in Paris, you and Kay Thompson actually traveled to France together. Can you talk a little bit about that trip? HK: All of the Eloise books were done in close collaboration from the start. Kay and I worked night and day at the Plaza in New York, then in hotels in Paris and Moscow. If you love laughing a lot, eating delectable meals, and having the best time of your life, it was absolutely great -- it certainly wasn't work. bn: Did you have any pets when you were a child, such as a dog or a turtle, like Eloise? HK: I cannot recall a moment in time when my family didn't have pets -- dogs, cats, finches, gerbils, and turtles. I think they are a vital part of life, as Weenie and Skipperdee are to Eloise. bn: How much research did you do at the Plaza Hotel before you illustrated Eloise ? HK: I have sketchbooks bursting with drawings and notes. If the Plaza should vanish one day for some mysterious reason, come to me -- I'll reconstruct it for you. bn: What have you been up to since illustrating the last Eloise book? Where else have your drawings appeared? HK: I've kept at it. I love work. I have illustrated over 50 books that do not feature Eloise (9 of which I also wrote), and I've done greeting cards, CD covers, Broadway show posters, and lots of magazine illustrations. Recently, I've contributed regularly to Neiman Marcus's catalogue, "The Book," and Vanity Fair magazine.

Your name is unusual for a man. Is there a story behind the origin of your name? HK: When I was born in the 1920s, Hilary was a man's name. My father, a pilot in World War I, had a good friend and fellow flyer named Hilary. He liked the name and passed it on to me in 1926. bn: What do you say to people who insist that Eloise is a "girls' book"?

 Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing 0689827032 / 9780689827037
Hardcover Very Good New York 

Price: 19.55 USD