Ex-Robert Maguire estate NUDE CROQUET Faulkner Signed LE art only 1/15 Noir pulp

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Welcome to Words & Music 415! We are an Ebay site devoted to the sale of unique collectibles including music & entertainment memorabilia, antiquarian & rare books, modern first editions, fine art & photography, autographs & handwritten lyrics, vintage toys & electronics, sports-related items, and many other intriguing and magical memories! All items are guaranteed to be genuine. Any item may be returned for any reason as long as it is returned in the same condition that it was sent. As reflected by our Ebay badges, we take immense pride in our customers enjoying an excellent buying experience. We accept Pay Pal for all purchases. Wherever possible, we offer free shipping. For nearly every item we offer next-business-day shipping and upload your Delivery Confirmation tracking number to you on all domestic U.S. transactions, as well as a 14-day return policy. For all orders, we offer combined shipping, and quite often will reduce or remove the stated shipping costs when you purchase several items. For most international sales, we use USPS International First Class with no tracking, however Priority Mail will be considered on specific items at a substantial cost to the buyer who contacts us in advance before purchasing. California sales tax (7.25%) will be applied to residents of California. We like to remind our customers that shipping not only includes the actual postage fee, but also the packaging, labeling, and the time spent to and from the post office and/or UPS Store. For repeat customers and to our store subscribers, we offer ongoing Preferred Buyer Discounts. Please send us a message to find out more! Finally, we give buyers positive feedback on all smooth transactions and truly appreciate yours as well! Thank you for shopping at W & M 415! For Maguire Art, FLAT RATE SHIPPING OF $18.00 WITHIN THE CONTINENTAL U.S. ONLY-SORRY NO INTERNATIONAL OR HAWAII SHIPPING. Please email in advance with any concerns or questions. Artist: Robert A. Maguire Title: Nude Croquet Year originally published: 1958 Publisher: Berkley Books Limitation number: "12/400" ( actually #12/15 signed only , see explanation below) Framed: Yes, to dimensions of 24” by 18” (metal & Plexiglas) Renowned Illustrator/painter/paperback cover artist Robert A. Maguire (1921-2005) created stunningly beautiful cover art for more than 600 books, working for virtually all of America’s mainstream publishers. Best known for his incomparably sexy femme fatale images (“ The Maguire Girls” ) found on paperbacks in the 1950s and 1960s, Maguire built a legendary career among post-war paperback illustrators, showcasing character portraits that were both iconic and impactful, and painting subjects that were sensually compelling and emotionally powerful. And when it came to classic golden age crime noir American Good Girl Art (or “Bad Girl Art”) he (along with only fellow master Robert McGinnis) stood at the very top of the profession. Although Maguire illustrated the covers of novels and short stories for most of the best known writers of past and present, the images most often prized today are those he painted to illustrate crime noir authors such as Raymond Chandler, David Goodis, Jim Thompson, John Dickson Carr, Charles Willeford, John D. McDonald. Mickey Spillane, John Ross MacDonald. Erle Stanley Gardner, and James M. Cain among many others. In 2004, the year before he died, Maguire began a project to turn 40 of his most admired paperback art cover prints into a signed limited print series. These 13” by 19” signed inkjet prints were originally intended to be a series of 400 each. Unfortunately the artist passed away shortly after the project was initiated. There exist no more than 15 signed prints of each of 40 titles, these were signed and numbered up to #15/400 but that was it. Most of those sold were done so at paperback book fairs; as far as we know, this is the first occasion that they have been offered online. We purchased all we could, those few that still remained, from ... read more

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