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Title: Paperback Covers of Robert McGinnis by Art Scott, Wallace, Dr Maynard, Richard S. Prather, Robert McGinnis ISBN: 0-9666776-5-X Publisher: Pond Press Pub. Date: 01 April, 2001 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $40.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.67 (3 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: (Not Enough) Paperbacks Covers of Robert mcGinnis
Comment: Well, right off the bat let me just say that if you are a Robert McGinnis fan, you must have this book. The production standards are terrific and the reproductions of paintings, from the originals, are as crisp and eye-popping as you always hope for in an art book. The book is also a valuable companion volume to "Tapestry" released. last year and covers completey new ground in terms of illustrations reproduced. All this said, I do have a quibble with the thought that went into the layout. Fine coated art paper is used throughout and what did the authors do? They filled up huge portions of this gorgeous paper with a complete checklist of McGinnis paperback covers, rather than the illustrations us fans were looking for. The checklist is a valuable tool for those who wish to compile a complete library of McGinnis paperbacks, (say, 5% of the people who love the work of McGinnis), but it could easily have fit at the back of the book on cheaper stock, which would have left room for dozens (if not hundreds) of color McGinnis covers. Oh well! Still good, but it was "this close" to being great!
Rating: 3
Summary: A Book of Narrow Focus
Comment: Robert McGinnis is one of America's most gifted illustrators and the breadth of his talent was well-documented in his art book, TAPESTRY. Pin-ups, Westerns, movie posters--the guy could paint it all. THE PAPERBACK COVERS OF ROBERT MCGINNIS, though featuring several paintings as well as pencil roughs and a couple of photo references, is not an art book, but rather is a rather pricey checklist geared toward paperback collectors. The majority of the color works are small reproductions of the actual covers as they originally appeared--and the focus is firmly on McGinnis' detective covers with the other genre's he's worked in getting barely a nod. Even so, I would have preferred to see large reproductions of the artist's trademark femme fatales unmarred by titles instead of the plethora of tiny second-generation reproductions found in this volume: the format and content is geared SO much toward the hardcore collector mentality that the editors/authors seemed to have lost track of the ART and the ARTIST they supposedly revere. A disappointment.
Rating: 4
Summary: Good Buy For McGinnis Fans
Comment: After picking up the superlative TAPESTRY: THE PAINTINGS OF ROBERT MCGINNIS, I took a chance on THE PAPERBACK COVERS OF ROBERT MCGINNIS to see if it would be worthwhile as well.
I had some doubts THE PAPERBACK COVERS would be a good use of my money, since it sounded like it was just a grab-bag collection of cover scans that might or might not be very clean, but that wasn't what I got. It's actually basically a text listing of all the paperback covers RFM ever did, with pages showing selected groups of covers, plus background material and a number of full-page paintings.
The book's layout is clean, and so are the prints, though the cover copies are (necessarily) on the small side. However, the full-page prints are worth the price of admission. If you have to choose between TAPESTRY and PAPERBACK COVERS, I'd say pick up TAPESTRY hands-down, but if you have TAPESTRY then PAPERBACK COVERS makes a very nice accessory.
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Title: Tapestry: The Paintings of Robert McGinnis by Cathy Fenner, Arnie Fenner, Al Fick, Robert McGinnis ISBN: 1887424563 Publisher: Underwood Books Pub. Date: 01 October, 2000 List Price(USD): $30.00 |
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Title: The Great American Paperback : An Illustrated Tribute to Legends of the Book by Richard A. Lupoff ISBN: 1888054506 Publisher: Collectors Press Pub. Date: 24 July, 2001 List Price(USD): $60.00 |
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Title: John La Gatta : An Artist's Life by Jill Bossert, John Hawley Olds La Gatta, Walt Reed ISBN: 0942604822 Publisher: Madison Square Press Pub. Date: 27 December, 2000 List Price(USD): $39.95 |
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Title: It's a Man's World: Men's Adventure Magazines, the Postwar Pulps by Adam Parfrey, Bruce Jay Friedman, Josh Alan Friedman, Mort Künstler, Bill Devine, Josh Alan Friedman, David Saunders ISBN: 0922915814 Publisher: Feral House Pub. Date: May, 2003 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
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Title: The Glamour Girls of Bill Ward by Alex Chun, Bill Ward ISBN: 1560975318 Publisher: Fantagraphics Books Pub. Date: May, 2003 List Price(USD): $28.95 |
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