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Interested in finding books in print which explore the realms of vintage paperback and pulp fiction books cover art and various aspects of American 20th-Century Pop Culture, like my line of Pulp Fiction Postcards do? I've done quite a bit of "surfing" on AMAZON.COM'S Website bookstore in search of books on these themes, both for myself and as further suggested readings for anyone interested in Pulp Fiction, Pop Culture, Noir Books and Film, the Graphic Arts and related issues. Herewith you'll find a listing of books on such topics as:

Vintage Paperbacks

Pulp Fiction

Book Noir

Pop Culture

1950s Culture

1960s Culture

Television and Culture

Gay & Lesbian Art & Culture

Pin-Up Art

Pulp & Illustration Art

Erotic Art

Movie Poster Art

Freak Shows and Banner Art

Sci-Fi, Fantasy and Horror Films

Film and Film Noir

The Sociology of Film

The History of Magazines

Magazine and Record Album Cover Art

The Funnies, Comics & Super Heroes

R[obert] Crumb

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1950s

1960s

Cover Art

File Noir, Book Noir

Kitsch

Mid-Century Modern

Modernism

Pin-Up Art

Pulp Art

Retro Style

You can also do your own search directly in Amazon.com:

Books on Vintage Paperbacks & Magazines

*Title*	*Author*	*Publ. Date*
COLLECTIBLE PAPERBACK BOOKS: A New Vintage Paperback Price Reverence	Jeff Canja	2002
PULP: A Collectors Book of [Australian] Pulp Fiction	Dr. Toni Johnson-Woods	2004
THE GREAT AMERICAN PAPERBACK: An Illustrated Tribute to Legends of the Book	Richard A. Lupoff	2001
THE CLASSIC ERA OF AMERICAN PULP MAGAZINES	Peter Haining	2001
IT'S A MAN'S WORLD	Adam Parfrey, et al	2003
HARDBOILED AMERICA: Lurid Paperbacks and the Masters of Noir	Geoffrey O'Brien	1997
OVER MY DEAD BODY: The Sensational Age of the American Paperback: 1945-1955	Lee Server	1994
PAPERBACK TALK	Ray Walters	1985
PUTTING DELL ON THE MAP: A History of the Dell Paperbacks	William H. Lyles	1984
TV TIE-INS: A Bibliography of American TV Tie-In Paperbacks	Kurt Peer	1997
TWO-BIT CULTURE: The Paperbacking of America	Kenneth C. Davis	out-of-print

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Books on Pulp Fiction

*Title*	*Author*	*Publ. Date*
THE ADVENTURES OF RACE WILLIAMS: A Dime Detective Book (Dime Detective Pulp Classics)	Carroll John Daly	1989
ALL IN COLOR FOR A DIME:	Richard A. Lupoff et al	1997
AMERICAN PULP	Edward Gorman et al	1997
ART OF IMAGINATION	Frank M. Robinson et al	2002
DANGER IS MY BUSINESS: An Illustrated History of the Fabulous Pulp Magazines/1893-1953	Lee Server	1993
MAMMOTH BOOK OF PULP ACTION	Maxim Jakubowski	2001
MAMMOTH BOOK OF PULP FICTION	Maxim Jakubowski	1996
THE BIG BOOK OF BIG LITTLE BOOKS	Bill Borden & Steve Posner	1997
BIG LITTLE BOOKS: A Collector's Reference & Value Guide	Larry Jacobs	1996
THE CLASSIC ERA OF AMERICAN PULP MAGAZINES	Peter Haining	2001
CULT FICTION: Popular Reading and Pulp Theory	Clive Bloom	1996
THE GREAT PULP HEROES	Don Hutchinson	1996
PULP CULTURE: The Art of Fiction Magazines	Frank M. Robinson	1998
PULP SCIENCE FICTION VOICES: Interviews with 6 Writers and Editors	Jeffrey M. Elliot	1983
PULP VOICES: Interviews with Pulp Magazine Writers and Editors	Jeffrey M. Elliot	1982
THE PULP WESTERN: A Popular History	John A. Dinan	1983
PULPING FICTIONS: Consuming Culture Across the Literature\Media Divide	Deborah Cartmell et al	1986

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Books on Book Noir

*Title*	*Author*	*Publ. Date*
CHANDLER: Stories and Early Novels	Raymond Chandler & Frank MacShane	1995
DASHIELL HAMMETT	Dashiell Hammett & Steve Marcus	1999
CRIME NOVELS: American Noir of the 1950s	Jim Thompson et al	1997
THE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF FICTIONAL PEOPLE: The Most Important Characters of the 20th Century	Seth Godin	1996
GETTING HOOKED: Fiction's Opening Sentences 1950s-1990s	Sharon Rendell-Smock	1996
GUILTY PARTIES: A Mystery Lover's Companion	Ian Ousby	1997
HARDBOILED: An Anthology of American Crime Stories	Bill Pronzini & Jack Adrian	1997
A CENTURY OF NOIR	Mickey Spillane, Max Allan Collins	2002
THE BIG BOOK OF NOIR	Lee Server et al	1998
PULP MASTERS	Edward Gorman et al	1997
MYSTERY, DETECTIVE AND ESPIONAGE FICTION: A Checklist of U.S. Pulps 1915-1974	Michael L. Cook	1988
PULP CULTURE: Hardboiled Fiction and the Cold War	Woody Haut	1996

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Books on Pop Culture

*Title*	*Author*	*Publ. Date*
1940s: (Fashion Sourcebook)	John Peacock	1998
21st CENTURY DICTIONARY OF SLANG	Princeton Language Institute	1994
OXYMORONICA	Mardy Grothe	2004
THE BIG BOOK OF URBAN LEGENDS	Jan Harold Brunvand et al	1994
THE BIG BOOK OF LOSERS	Paul Kirchner & Irwin Chusid	1997
THE BIG BOOK OF WEIRDOS	Carl A. Posey & Gahan Wilson	1995
THE BIG BOOK OF THE UNEXPLAINED	Doug Moench	1997
BOYS' TOYS OF THE FIFTIES AND SIXTIES	Thomas W. Holland	1997
MORE BOYS' TOYS OF THE FIFTIES AND SIXTIES	Thomas W. Holland	1998
BOARD GAMES OF THE '50S, '60S & '70S	David Dilley	1996
BUZZWORDS: L.A. Fresh Speak	J. T. Steiny	1997
COCKTAIL NATION: Cosmic Cocktails, Space Age Shots and Other Rituals of Release...	Beverly West & Kim Doi	19??
DRIVE IN MEMORIES: Popcorn and Romance Under the Stars	Don & Susan Sanders	2000
CRUISIN'	Michael Karl Witzel et al	1997
THE AMERICAN MOTEL	Michael Karl Witzel	2000
GOING HOME TO THE FIFTIES	Bill Yenne	2002
EASTERN TIME ZONE: A Guide to Asian Influence on American Culture	Jeff Yang et al	1997
FUTURE TOYS: Robots, Astronauts, Space Ships, Ray Guns	Antoni Emchowicz et al	2000
GROWING UP WITH DICK AND JANE: Learning and Living the American Dream	Carole Kismaric & Marvin Heiferman	1996
HIGH AND LOW: Modern Art and Popular Culture	Kirk Varnedoe & Adam Gopnik	1990
HOME AWAY FROM HOME: Motels in America	John Margolies	1995
IDIOM SAVANT: Slang As It Is Slung	Jerry Camarillo Dunn	1997
MODERN RETRO: Living With Mid-Century Modern Style	Neil Bingham et al	2000
LIPSTICK TRACES: A Secret History of the 20th Century	Greil Marcus	1990
OUT OF TIME: Designs for the Twentieth-Century Future	Norman Brosterman	2000
BLAST OFF! Rareties from the Golden Age of Space Toys	S. Mark Young et al	2001
RAY GUN: The History of Ray Guns and Space Toys Over 40 Years	Eugene W. Metcalf et al	1999
RED SCARED!: The Commie Menace in Propaganda and Popular Culture	Steven Heller & Michael Barson	2001
RETRO HOME	Suzanne Trocme et al	2001
SAUCER ATTACK: UFO Phenomenon from the Golden Age of Flying Saucers	Eric Nesheim & Leif Hesheim	1997
SEX, AMERICAN STYLE: An Illustrated Romp Through the Golden Age of Heterosexuality	Jack Boulware	1997
A TASTE FOR POP: Pop Art, Gender and Consumer Culture	Cecile Whiting	1997
TEENAGE CONFIDENTIAL: An Illustrated History of the American Teen	Michael Barson & Steve Heller	1998
VAMPS: An Illustrated History of the Femme Fatale	Pam Keesey	1997
VINTAGE TOYS: Robots and Space Toys	Jim Bunte et al	2000
YESTERDAY'S TOMORROWS: Past Visions of the American Future	Joseph J. Corn et al	1996
WHAT A CHARACTER!: 20th Century American Advertising Icons	Warren Dotz et al	1996
WHERE THE GIRLS ARE: Growing Up Female With the Mass Media	Susan J. Douglas	1995

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1950s Culture

*Title*	*Author*	*Publ. Date*
THE 1950S: (Fashion Sourcebooks)	John Peacock	1997
ALL-AMERICAN ADS OF THE 50S	Warren Dotz et al	2002
ALL THAT HOLLYWOOD ALLOWS: Re-Reading Gender in 1950s Melodrama	Jackie Byars	1991
AMERICA'S 5 & 10 CENT STORES: The Kress Legacy	Bernice L. Thomas	1997
AS SEEN ON TV: The Visual Culture of Everyday Life in the 1950s	Karal Ann Marling	1996
THE BEAT GENERATION IN NEW YORK: A Walking Tour of Jack Kerouac's City	Bill Morgan	1997
THE BEAT GENERATION IN SAN FRANCISCO: A Literary Tour	Bill Morgan	1997
CAR HOPS AND CURB SERVICE: A History of American Drive-In Restaurants 1920-1960	Jim Heinmann	1996
DESIGN IN THE FIFTIES: When Everyone Went Modern	George H. Marcus	1998
FABULOUS FABRICS OF THE 50S	Gideon Bosker et al	1992
FABULOUS FIFTIES: Designs for Modern Living	Sheila Steinberg et al	1993
FIFTIES FURNITURE	Leslie A. Pina	1996
GOOGIE: Fifties Coffee Shop Architecture	Alan Hess	1986
THE BOOK OF TIKI	Sven Kirsten	2003
TIKI ROAD TRIP: A Guide to Tiki Subculure in Northe America	James Teitelbaum, Sven Kirsten	2003
HI-FI'S & HI-BALLS: The Golden Age of the American Bachelor	Steven Guarnaccia et al	1997
PAD: The Guide to Ultra-Living	Matt Maranian	2000
THE ART OF SHAG	Shag	2001
SHAG PARTY	Adam Roche, Shag	2002
RETRO BARBEQUE: Tasty Recipes for the Grillin' Guy	Linda Everett	2002
SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA IN THE '50S: Sun, Fun and Fantasy	Charles Phoenix	2002
SOUTHERN CALIFORNIALAND: Mid-Century Culture in Kodachrome	Charles Phoenix	2004
MID-CENTURY MODERN: Furniture of the 1950s	Cara Greenberg et al	1995
MILLER'S COLLECTING THE 1950s	Madeleine Marsh	1997
MOM 'N' POP'S APPLE PIE 1950S COOKBOOK: Over 300 Great Recipes from the Golden Age of American Home Cooking	Barbara Stuart Peterson	1997
THE OTHER FIFTIES: Interrogating Midcenury American Icons	Joel Foreman	1996
PATIO DADDY-O: '50s Recipes With a '90s Twist	Gideon Bosker et al	1996
RETRO STYLE: The '50s Look for Today's Home	Marion Haslam et al	2000
RETRO HAPPY HOUR: Drinks and Eats With a '50s Beat	Linda Everett	2003
ATOMIC COCKTAILS: Mixed Drinks for Modern Times	Karen Brooks et al	1998
HIGHBALLS HIGH HEELS: A Girls Guide to the Art of Cocktails	Karen Brooks et al	2001
RETRO BEACH BASH: A Sunlover's Guide to Food and Fun	Linda Everett	2003
RETRO DINER: Comfort Food from the American Roadside	Linda Everett	2002
RETRO LUAU: Drinks and Eats With a '50s Beat	Richard Perry	2004
RETRO BREAKFAST: Memorable Meals Morning, Noon or Night	Linda Everett, Richard Perry	2004

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1960s Culture

*Title*	*Author*	*Publ. Date*
THE 1960s: (Fashion Sourcebook)	John Peacock	1998
60s!	John Javna & Gordon Javna	1988
THE ART OF THE FILLMORE: The Poster Series 1966-1971	Garle Lemke & Gayle Lemke	1997
BENEATH THE DIAMOND SKY: Haight-Ashbury 1965-1970	Barney Hoskyns	1997
COVERING THE 60S: George Lois, the Esquire Era	George Lois	1996
SPACE TOYS OF THE '60S	James H. Gillam	1999
TOYS OF THE '60S	William R. Bruegman	1996
I WANT TO TAKE YOU HIGHER: The Psychedelic Era 1965-1969	Charles Berry et al	1997
THE MINI-MOD SIXTIES BOOK	Samantha Bleikorn	2002
SWINGING CHICKS OF THE '60S	Chris Strodder	2000

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Television and Culture

*Title*	*Author*	*Publ. Date*
THE BOX: An Oral History of Television, 1920-1961	Jeff Kisseloff	1997
CHANGING CHANNELS: America in TV Guide	Glenn C. Altschuler & David I. Grossvogel	1996
COLLECTOR'S GUIDE TO T.V. Memorabilia of the 1960's and 1970's	Greg Davis & Bill Morgan	1996
COMIC VISIONS: Television Comedy and American Culture	David Marc & David Bianculi	1997
THE GOLDEN AGE OF TELEVISIONS	Philip Collins	1997

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Books on Gay & Lesbian Art & Culture

*Title*	*Author*	*Publ. Date*
BIKE BOYS, DRAG QUEENS & SUPERSTARS: Avant-Garde, Mass Culture and Gay Identities in the 1960s	Juan Antionio Suarez	1967
BUTCH/FEMME: Inside Lesbian Gender	Sally R. Munt et al	1998
LESBIAN ART IN AMERICA: A Contemporary History	Harmony Hammond	2001
THE LESBIAN MENACE: Ideology, Identity and the Representation of Lesbian Life	Sherry A. Inness	1997
MONSTERS IN THE CLOSET: Homosexuality and the Horror Film	Harry M. Benshoff	1997
OUT IN CULTURE: Gay, Lesbian, and Queer Essays on Popular Culture	Corey K. Creekmur & Alexander Doty	1995
PASSION AND PENANCE: The Lesbian in Pulp Fiction	Dawn B. Sova	1998
QUEER PULP: Perverted Passions from the Golden Age of Paperbacks	Susan Stryker	2001
A QUEER ROMANCE: Lesbians, Gay Men, and Popular Culture	Paul Burston & Colin Richardson	1995
STRANGE SISTERS: The Art of Lesbian Pulp Fiction 1949-1969	Jaye Zimet	1999
PULP FRICTION: Uncovering the Golden Age of Gay Male Pulps	Michael Bronski, ed.	2003

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Books on Pin-Up Art

*Title*	*Author*	*Publ. Date*
BAD GIRLS OF PULP FICTION (has images from our line of Pulp Fiction Postcards)	Thomas Campbell et al	1999
THRILL-MAD PUSSYCATS (has images from our line of Pulp Fiction Postcards)	Prion Press	2002
UNCOVERED	Douglas Ellis	2003
1000 PIN-UP GIRLS	Burkhard Riemscneider, ed.	2002
ALBERTO VARGAS: The Esquire Years	Michael Goldberg	1996
BOMBSHELLS: Glamour Girls of a Lifetime	Steve Sullivan	1998
FOR THE BOYS: The Racy Pin-Ups of World War II	Max Allan Collins	2003
CALENDAR GIRL: Sweet and Sexy Pin-Ups of the Postwar Era	Max Allan Collins	2003
THE GREAT AMERICAN PIN-UP	Charles G. Martignette & Louis K. Meisel	2002
ELVGREN: His Life & Art	Max Allan Collins & Drake Elvgren	1998
GIL ELVGREN: All His Glorious American Pin-Ups	Chas. G. Martignette & Louis K. Meisel	2000
GIL ELVGREN: The Wartime Pin-Ups	Max Allan Collins	1997
PETTY: The Classic Pin-Up Art of George Petty	George Petty & Reid Stewart Austin	1997
PIN-UP POSTER BOOK: The Billy DeVorss Collection	Max Allan Collins	1997
PIN-UP POSTER BOOK: The Edward Runci Collection	Charles G. Martignette & Louis K. Meisel	1997
PIN-UP POSTER BOOK: The Elvgren Collection	Marianne Ohl Phillips	1995
VARGA	Tom Robotham	1995

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Books on Pulp & Illustration Art:

*Title*	*Author*	*Publ. Date*
THE ART OF RICHARD POWERS	Jane Frank et al	2001
BELARSKI PULP ART MASTERS	Rudolf Belarski	2003
WALTER BAUMHOFER PULP ART MASTERS	Walter Baumhofer	2004
INFINITE WORLDS: The Fantastic Visions of Science Fiction Art	Vincent Di Fate & Ray Bradbury	1997
MASTER PIECES: The Art History of Jigsaw Puzzles	Chris McCann	1999
THE MUSEUM OF BAD ART: Art Too Bad to Be Ignored	Tom Stankowicx & Marie Jackson	1996
PAPERBACK COVERS OF ROBERT McGINNIS:	Art Scott & Wallace Maynard	2001
PULP ART: Original Paintings	Robert Lesser & Roger Reed	1997

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Books on Erotic Art:

*Title*	*Author*	*Publ. Date*
ARS EROTICA: An Arousing History of Erotic Art	Edward Lucie-Smith	1997
EROTICA: An Illustrated Anthology of Sexual Art and Literature	Charlotte Hill & William Wallace	1992
EROTICA II: An Illustrated Anthology of Sexual Art and Literature	Charlotte Hill & William Wallace	1993
THE ILLUSTRATED HISTORY OF EROTICA	Charlotte Hill & William Wallace	1997
THE MAMMOTH BOOK OF HISTORICAL EROTICA	Maxim Jakubowski	1998
THE MAMMOTH BOOK OF INTERNATIONAL EROTICA	Maxim Jakubowski	1996
THE MAMMOTH BOOK OF EROTICA	Maxim Jakubowski	2000
SUBLIMINAL ADVENTURES IN EROTIC ART	Wilson Bryan Key	1993

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Books on Movie Poster Art:

*Title*	*Author*	*Publ. Date*
ACADEMY AWARD WINNERS' MOVIE POSTERS	Bruce Hershenson	1997
CARTOON MOVIE POSTERS	Bruce Hershenson	1997
MORE COWBOY MOVIE POSTERS	Bruce Hershenson	1998
CRIME MOVIE POSTERS	Richard Allen	1997
CRIME SCENES: Movie Poster Art of the Film Noir: 1941-1959	Lawrence Bassoff	1997
FILM POSTERS OF THE 50s: The Essential Movies of the Decade	Tony Nourmand & Graham Marsh	2001
FILM POSTERS OF THE 60s: The Essential Movies of the Decade	Tony Nourmand & Graham Marsh	1998
ROCK, POP & CLASSIC CINEMA POSTERS	Bruce Hershenson	1999
SPORTS MOVIE POSTERS	Bruce Hershenson	1997
VINTAGE HOLLYWOOD POSTERS	Richard Allen	1998
VINTAGE HOLLYWOOD POSTERS II	Bruce Hershenson	1999
VINTAGE HOLLYWOOD POSTERS III	Bruce Hershenson	2000
WAR MOVIE POSTERS	Bruce Hershenson	2001
WHO GOES THERE? 1950s HORROR AND SCI-FI MOVIE POSTERS	Bruce Hershenson	2001

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Books on Sci-Fi, Fantasy and Horror Films:

*Title*	*Author*	*Publ. Date*
THE A-Z OF HORROR FILMS	Howard Maxford	1997
CHEAP TRICKS AND CLASS ACTS: Special Effects, Makeup and Stunts from the Films of the Fantastic Fifties	John J. J. Johnson	1995
CREATURE FEATURES: The Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror Movie Guide	John Stanley	1997
CULT HORROR FILMS: From Attack of the 50 Foot Woman to Zombies of Mora Tau	Welch Everman	1993
ENCYCLOPEDIA OF MONSTERS	Jeff Rovin	1990
FANTASTIC CINEMA SUBJECT GUIDE: A Topical Index to 2500 Horror, Science Fiction, and Fantasy Films	Bryan Senn & John Johnson	1992
THE FEARMAKERS: The Screen's Directorial Masters of Suspense and Terror	John McCarty	1994
AN ILLUSTRATED HISTORY OF HORROR AND SCIENCE-FICTION FILMS: The Classic Era, 1895-1967	Carlos Clarens & J. Hoberman	1997
IMMORTAL TALES: European Sex & Horror Movies 1956-1984	Cathal Tohill & Pete Tombs	1995
LAUGHING SCREAMING: Modern Hollywood Horror and Comedy	William Paul	1994
THE MAMMOTH BOOK OF VINTAGE SCIENCE FICTION: Short Novels of the 1950s	Isaac Asimov et al	1990
MEN, MAKEUP, AND MONSTERS: Hollywood's Masters of Illusion and FX	Anthony Timpone	1996
THE OFFICIAL SPLATTER MOVIE GUIDE: More than 400 of the Goriest, Grossest, Most Outrageous Movies Ever Made	John McCarty	1989
OFFICIAL SPLATTER MOVIE GUIDE II: Hundreds More of the Grossest, Goriest, Most Outrageous Movies Ever Made	John McCarty	1992
RATIONAL FEARS: American Horror in the 1950s	Mark Jancovich	1996

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Books on Film and Film Noir:

*Title*	*Author*	*Publ. Date*
CLASSIC GANGSTER FILMS	Robert Bookbinder	1993
FILM NOIR: An Encyclopedia Reference to the American Style	Alain Silver & Elizabeth Ward	1993
FILM NOIR READER	Alan Silver	1996
HARD-BOILED: Great Lines from Classic Noir Films	Peggy Thompson et al	1996
THRILLERS: Seven Decades of Classic Film Suspense	John McCarty & John McCrary	1992
365 FOUR-STAR VIDEOS YOU (PROBABLY) HAVEN'T SEEN	Leslie Hamilton	1996
THE 100 BEST FILMS TO RENT YOU'VE NEVER HEARD OF: Neglected Classics, Hits from By-Gone Eras, and Hidden Treasures	David N. Meyer	1997
2004 LEONARD MALTIN MOVIE/FILM GUIDE	Leonard Malton	2004
2005 LEONARD MALTIN MOVIE/FILM GUIDE	Leonard Malton	2005
ROGER EBERT'S MOVIE YEARBOOK 2005	Leonard Malton	2005
LEONARD MALTIN'S MOVIE ENCYCLOPEDIA: Career Profiles of More Than 2,000 Actors and Filmmakers, Past and Present	Leonard Malton et al	1995

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*Title*	*Author*	*Publ. Date*
ATTACK OF THE LEADING LADIES: Gender, Sexuality and Spectatorship in Classic Horror Cinema	Rhona J. Berenstein	1995
GRINDHOUSE: The Forbidden World of 'Adults Only' Cinema	Eddie Muller & Daniel Faris	1996
MOVIE PSYCHOS AND MADMEN: Film Psychopaths from Jekyll and Hyde to Hannibal Lecter	John McCarty	1993
REEL TO REAL: Race, Sex and Class at the Movies	Bell Hooks	1996
THE SLEAZE MERCHANTS: Adventures in Exploitation Filmmaking	John McCarty	1995

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Books on the History of Magazines:

*Title*	*Author*	*Publ. Date*
THE BOOK OF 'ZINES: Readings from the Fringe	Chip Rowe	1997
GOOD DAYS AND MAD: An Hysterical Tour Behind the Scenes of MAD Magazine	Dick DeBartolo	1994
HEAVY METAL: A Cultural Sociology	Deena Weinstein	1991
HIGH TIMES GREATEST HITS: Twenty Years of Smoke in Your Face	Editors of High Times	1994
LIFE SIXTY YEARS: A 60th Anniversary Celebration 1936-1996	The Editors of LIFE [Magazine]	1996
MAD ABOUT THE FIFTIES: The Best of the Decade [of MAD Magazine]	The Editors of MAD Magazine	1997
MAD ABOUT THE SIXTIES: The Best of the Best Decade [of MAD Magazine]	The Editors of MAD Magazine	1995
MAD ABOUT THE SEVENTIES: The Best of the Best Decade [of MAD Magazine]	The Editors of MAD Magazine	1996
MAD ABOUT THE EIGHTIES: The Best of the Best Decade [of MAD Magazine]	The Editors of MAD Magazine	2001
A MAGAZINE OF HER OWN?: Domesticity and Desire in the Woman's Magazine, 1800-1914	Margaret Beetham	1996
NOTES FROM UNDERGROUND: 'Zines and the Politics of Alternative Culture	Stephen Duncombe	1997
THE PLAYBOY BOOK: Forty Years	Gretchen Edgren et al	1994
THE PLAYBOY BOOK: Five Decades of Centerfolds	Gretchen Edgren	1996
PLAYBOY FIFTY YEARS: The Photographs	James R. Petersen	2003

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Books on Magazine & Record Album Cover Art:

*Title*	*Author*	*Publ. Date*
1000 RECORD COVERS	Michael Ochs	1997
THE ALBUM COVER ART OF SOUNDTRACKS	Frank Jastfelder & Stefan Kassel	1997
THE ART OF THE NEW YORKER: 1925-1995	Lee Lorenz	1995
BLUE NOTE: The Album Cover Art [of Blue Note Records]	Graham Marsh et al	1991
BLUE NOTE 2: The Album Cover Art: The Finest in Jazz Since 1939	Graham Marsh et al	2002
THE BLUE NOTE YEARS: The Jazz Photography of Francis Wolff	Francis Wolff et al	1995
EXOTIQUARIUM: Album [LP] Art from the Space Age	Jennifer McKnight-Trontz	1997
IN THE GROOVE: Vintage Record Graphics 1940-1960	Eric Kohler & Tony Bennett	1999
FOR THE RECORD: The Life and Work of Axex Steinweiss	Alex Steinweiss et al	2000
COVER STORY: The Art of American Magazine Covers 1900-1950	Steven Heller & Louise Fili	1996
VIXENS OF VINYL: The Alluring Ladies of Vintage Album Covers	Benjamin Darling	2001
NAKED VINYL: Bachelor Album Cover Art	Tim O'Brien, Mike Savage	2003
VINYL HAYRIDE: Country Music Album Covers 1947-1989	Paul Kingsbury	2001

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Books on the Funnies, Comics & Super Heroes:

*Title*	*Author*	*Publ. Date*
AMERICA'S GREAT COMIC-STRIP ARTISTS: From the Yellow Kid to Peanuts	Richard Marschall	1997
THE ART OF THE FUNNIES: An Aesthetic History	Robert C. Harvey	1994
THE CLASSIC ERA OF AMERICAN COMICS	Nicky Wright & Joe Kubert	2001
COMIC BOOK NATION: The Transformation of Youth Culture in America	Bradford W. Wright	2001
COMIC BOOKS AND AMERICA, 1945-1954	William W. Savage	1990
COMICS AND SEQUENTIAL ART	Will Eisner	1985
COMICS UNDERGROUND JAPAN	Kevin Quigley	1996
MARVEL MASTERWORKS: Presents the Amazing Spider-Man Vol. 2	Stan Lee & Steve Ditko	2002
MARVEL UNIVERSE: A Tour of the World of Marvel Comics	Peter Sanderson & Les Marvel Daniels	1996
TIJUANA BIBLES: Art and Wit in America's Forbidden Funnies, 1930s-1950s	Bob Adelman, Richard Merkin & Art Spiegelman	1997
UNDERSTANDING COMICS	Scott McCloud	1994

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Books by R[obert] Crumb:

*Title*	*Author*	*Publ. Date*
BOOK OF MR. NATURAL	R. Crumb	1995
CARLOAD O' COMICS	R. Crumb	1996
COMPLETE CRUMB: We're Livin' in the Lap of Luxory (Vol 12)	R. Crumb	1997
COMPLETE CRUMB: Mr Sixties	R. Crumb	1989
ODDS AND ENDS	Robert Crumb	2001
THE R. CRUMB COFFEE TABLE ART BOOK	Peter Poplaski & Robert Crumb	1997

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*Title*	*Author*	*Publ. Date*
FREAK SHOW: Presenting Human Oddities for Amusement and Profit	Robert Bogdan	1990
FREAK SHOW: Sideshow Banner Art	Carl Hammer & Gideon Bosker	1996
FREAKS, GEEKS AND STRANGE GIRLS: Sideshow Banners of the Great American Midway	Randy Johnson et al	1996