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This Birchgrove Press edition is based on an English translation published by The John Day Company, New York, in 1929 that was illustrated by Mahlon Blaine.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":49950612652305,"sku":"CIN0987195395G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":50404121608465,"sku":"GOR013935513","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51010813034769,"sku":"NIN9780987195395","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0987195395.jpg?v=1751203743"},{"product_id":"mahlon-blaine-s-blooming-bally-bloody-book-book-mahlon-blaine-9780989577502","title":"Mahlon Blaine's Blooming Bally Bloody Book","description":"An Amazon #1 ebook rank. A glass-eyed Jazz Age artist bounces between pre-talkies Hollywood and sinful New York City. Dealing with nudes and demons while in pursuit of the perfect model - who had killed herself. This historical novel takes a rollicking ride through one-eyed Mahlon Blaine's adventures and experiences as an early 20th-Century illustrator. Exploring his friendships with the famous and infamous from bohemian San Francisco to Hollywood to New York City, this (self)portrait paints the struggles and triumphs of an artist truly committed to his unique singular vision. Included are over 120 Blaine illustrations and photographs (most previously unpublished, unearthed from the vaults of collectors and friends). Ribald, risque, bawdy, naughty, salacious - take your pick. Despite labels like these, Mahlon Blaine, 1920s book illustrator and pen-and-ink maestro, campaigned for freedom of art against dysenteric hypocrites who proclaimed beauty is obscene. He mixed his commercial success with an underground vocation of creating playful drawings - sly dancing thoughts that would delight all men blest with the godly gift of laughter. This bohemian Rabelaisian, with 2000 published illustrations ranging from children's books to erotica, fought for the beautiful and imaginative - conceptions beyond all limits of time and morality. John Steinbeck was one of his best friends, and Blaine illustrated two of his early novels. The actor John Carradine knew Blaine during his Hollywood career, as did Tina Modotti. Infamous booksellers and art dealers like Jake Zeitlin, Jack Brussel, and Bernard Guerney promoted his work. He painted world-famous ballerina Lydia Lopovka, and God knows who else. Did he win a Caldecott Award? A Newbury? Maybe not, but there were rumors. Did he know Woody Guthrie, and was Bob Dylan an acquaintance? Perhaps. Was his Venus Sardonica folio the high point of 20th Century published erotica? It's been claimed so, by scholar G. Legman. Until now, no one knew what to believe. Maybe they still don't. This is his unauthorized autobiography.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50370025947409,"sku":"CIN0989577503G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":53437824631057,"sku":"NIN9780989577502","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0989577503.jpg?v=1750948504"},{"product_id":"mahlon-blaine-one-eyed-visionary-book-mahlon-blaine-9781481905916","title":"Mahlon Blaine * One-Eyed Visionary","description":"With seventeen 5-star reviews already, Mahlon Blaine One-Eyed Visionary has been well received. Now with a redesigned cover and white-paper interior, it's ready for bookstore and library distribution. The artist? He's pretty much an unknown, and yet... In two thousand drawings published between 1917 and 1967, illustrator Mahlon Blaine revealed his subjects - from Demons to Deities, Maylasians to Martians, Biology to Biography, Lasciviousness to Literature. He painted, but he is best known for pen and ink - an uncanny artistic master of Erotica and Exotica who lived for decades in cheap hotels and borrowed rooms, acutely observing humanity while wielding pens and brushes dipped in wit and wry. With everything from children's classic tales to cookbooks to treatises on witchcraft to mainstream fiction to literature (including Steinbeck, Hemingway and Voltaire), the publishing industry relied on Mahlon Blaine often. His best book productions feature twenty to a hundred illustrations each, and he garnered several awards for design and illustration. His personal life is obfuscated by a combination of time's grime and his own desire for privacy and outlandish cover stories. The author Roland Trenary has been collecting and researching the artist for almost 40 years, amassing the most comprehensive assemblage of information and artwork that one might imagine, given the elusive nature of the subject. The book includes a complete bibliography of published work and a biography that emphasizes the professional side of Blaine. Among the 350 illustrations herein are rare photographs and self-portraits of Blaine and, especially interesting, dozens of published and unpublished drawings and paintings that reveal a side of the artist previously unknown and unseen. This goes beyond either The Art of Mahlon Blaine (1982) or The Outlandish Art of Mahlon Blaine (2009) in presenting both rare published and unpublished examples of Blaine's unique artistic vision. And remember, unbelievably, he only had one eye  Bibliographically, here are 130 books and 70 magazines described and (mostly) pictured that held Blaine's public outpouring, as well as ephemera and posthumous publication listings - information not available anywhere else.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50379267375377,"sku":"CIN1481905910G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":53407309201681,"sku":"NIN9781481905916","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1481905910.jpg?v=1750758420"},{"product_id":"mark-twain-s-date-1601-book-mahlon-blaine-9781304619167","title":"Mark Twain's Date . . 1601","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis volume pays tribute to the work of Professor Kate Marsh (1974-2019), an outstanding scholar whose research covered an extraordinarily wide range of interests and approaches, encompassing the history of empire, literature, politics and cultural production across the Francophone world from the eighteenth to the twenty-first century. Each of the chapters within engages with a different aspect of Marsh's interest in French colonialism and the entanglements of its complex afterlives -- whether it be her interest in the longevity of imperial rivalries; loss and colonial nostalgia; exoticism and the female body; decolonization and the ends of empire; the French colonial imagination; the policing of racialized bodies; or anti-colonial activism and resistance. As well as reflecting the geographical and intellectual breadth of Marsh's research, the volume demonstrates how her work continues to resonate with emerging scholarship around decoloniality, transcolonial mobilities and anti-colonial resistance in the Francophone world. From French India to Algeria and from the Caribbean to contemporary France, this collection demonstrates the persistent relevance of Marsh's scholarship to the histories and legacies of empire, while opening up conversations about its implications for decolonial approaches to imperial histories and the future of Francophone Postcolonial Studies.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51022845083921,"sku":"NIN9781304619167","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1304619168.jpg?v=1751369206"},{"product_id":"nova-venus-book-mahlon-blaine-9781304607751","title":"Nova Venus","description":null,"brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":53406206984465,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":53406207279377,"sku":"NIN9781304607751","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9781304607751.jpg?v=1776201488"}],"url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/en-gb\/collections\/author-books-by-mahlon-blaine.oembed","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}