The Best of American Girlie Magazines

by Harald Hellmann and Taschen Publishing

A facsimile reprint of some of the most famous American girlie magazines, this volume contains a compendium of the covers and contents of 250 magazines. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3822879142
• ISBN13: 9783822879146
• Release Date: November 1997
• Publisher: Taschen
• Length: 704 Pages
• Weight: 2.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 2.3" x 5.6" x 7.8"

Customer Reviews

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This book is flawed but if you want the covers from Robert Harrison's magazines by famous pin-up artists this is it. One problem is the cropped covers that prevent the reader from seeing the whole effect. The images also cover the full page so there is no white margin to absorb finger marks and other edge damage from use without harming the image. This book is also a paperback despite coming in at over 700 pages. At 2.5 inches thick the spine creases with ease, and with long use the book will likely fall apart. Taschen should have focused on the pin-up artists rather than trying to make a book cover all of Robert Harrison's magazines. By changing focus to the artists they could have dumped the black and white photos and shrunk the book. They then could have published full covers in an oversized book. Taschen has republished the same material in two other books but they repeat many mistakes, and make some new ones. First, is a much smaller selection of covers from this book in "Pin-Up Icons" by Neret. I would just buy a good used version of "Girlie Magazines" for a little more and get 3-4X the illustrations. Second, is 1000 Pin-Ups which is a hard back (good), apparently adds 60 pages (good), but also comes in at 1/2 an inch thinner (bad). How did they do this? The pages are much thinner paper. While a good value, in my opinion "Girlie Magazines" remains the better book, with better paper quality.

Really, an amazing bargain

As an earlier reviewer pointed out, there are problems with image oversizing (but, to my mind, it's not a significant problem). I would also say that too much space is devoted to reproducing the covers (some of which are identical) and not enough space given over to those wacky and surprisingly still erotic photo spreads. It's also true that this is a reprint of another Taschen book, but this time it comes with hard cover and glossy pages (as opposed to the hard-cardboard backs and pulpy pages of the original). This book is practically being given away at this price and while I might have made different editorial choices, I am very happy with this book as is.

Covers of Classic Pin-up girls! This is a great reference!

If you like pin-up girls and the 40's and 50's style pictures. This is the book to get! It is filled cover to cover with amazing art work. There are a variety of artists shown. The art varies from movie posters to pulp fiction book covers and magazine covers. I have never found a book with such a great range, as I said a real resource for fans of pin-up girl art.