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GREETINGS  1969 [Pin-up Girl Calendar with 12 color pin-ups]

GREETINGS 1969 [Pin-up Girl Calendar with 12 color pin-ups]

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GREETINGS 1969 [Pin-up Girl Calendar with 12 color pin-ups]

by Elvgren, Gillette (Gil)

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Brown and Bigelow. Very Good. 1969. First Edition. Pictorial Wrappers. Clean and secure in spiral wire. The size is 7 ½ x 9 ½" which opens to double size with twelve month calendars at bottom and twelve illustrations at tops. Printed for "The Beach Shop" and "The Beach Market" in Sarasota, Florida. Twelve "American Beauties" created by Siesta Key Artist Gil Elvgren. The themed beauties include a cowgirl, Gillette Elvgren (1914 – 1980) was an American painter of pin-up girls, advertising and illustration. Best known for his pin-up paintings for Brown & Bigelow, Elvgren studied at the American Academy of Art. He was strongly influenced by the early "pretty girl" illustrators, such as Charles Dana Gibson, Andrew Loomis, and Howard Chandler Christy. Other influences included the Brandywine School founded by Howard Pyle. .

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Bookseller
Antiquarian Book Shop US (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #
42322
Title
GREETINGS 1969 [Pin-up Girl Calendar with 12 color pin-ups]
Author
Elvgren, Gillette (Gil)
Format/Binding
Pictorial Wrappers
Book Condition
Used - Very Good
Edition
First Edition
Publisher
Brown and Bigelow
Date Published
1969
Size
4to.
Weight
0.00 lbs
Keywords
Pin-up Girl Calendars, Gil Elvgren, Advertising Art, The Sixties, 1960s, Advertising Ephemera, The Beach Market, Sarasota Florida
Bookseller catalogs
Illustrated Books; Illustrated; Advertising;

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At The Antiquarian Book Shop, located in Georgetown - an historic neighborhood of Washington, D.C. we have been buying, selling & appraising rare, interesting and scholarly books in Georgetown for more than 30 years. Over those many years we have taken great pleasure from satisfying our customers' eclectic literary requirements in the shop and hope to continue in that tradition now that we have moved our operation on-line.Currently, our catalogued inventory includes about 4,000 books from the sixteenth century through the twentieth century in a variety of subject areas. Our stock comprises antiquarian books, collectible books and scholarly books, as well as a selection of antique prints and ephemera.The books listed here represent only a small portion of our total inventory. We are in the process of cataloguing the extensive holdings in our warehouse (15,000+ books) and hope to flesh out these pages over the months to come. Our new format allows us to expand & update our listings frequently. We have included images of many items listed to better convey their quality and condition.

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