Beautiful Macabre: Rare Posters 1868-1981 [Hardcover]

$79.00

Suave skeletons, shocking social hygiene ads, and all manner of dark and eerie occult artworks! Over one hundred rare original posters are documented in the expanded hardcover edition of Beautiful Macabre: Rare Posters 1868-1981 with commentary from historian and museum director Thomas Negovan. This deluxe, limited edition hardcover book features full-page, full-color, high-resolution images captured directly from the original artworks in the Century Guild museum archive!

Expanded Hardcover edition:

  • Limited edition hardcover
  • Large-format 9 in. x 12 in. book
  • Foil stamping and spot varnish
  • 128 pp, full color throughout
  • All high-resolution, original source images
  • Edition of 3000 

Expanded Slipcase edition:

  • Limited edition hardcover
  • Presented in cloth-wrapped, foil stamped slipcase
  • Each book hand signed on tipped-in vellum sheet
  • AP edition
  • High-quality midnight-black fabric slipcase debossed in red with Bernhard Pankok's 1896 Sphinx Moth illustration

While the internet is a magnificent repository of data, at Century Guild we still love curling up with books!  And many–if not most–of the images presented here are not available on the internet at all. Each image was captured from the original artwork, professionally photographed and meticulously color corrected, and printed for you to enjoy at the highest resolution possible.

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Christopher P.
Excellent book!

This collection is well written and has some beautiful art in it. Guided pages and a very expensive feel for an inexpensive price.

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Josh M.
What a book

Honestly, wow. So well crafted and just something that’s out of the ordinary. Absolutely love it.

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Cora G.
worth every cent

i absolutely love this book. so so high quality, informative, and shipped with care! absolutely made me want to order more!!

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Albert R.

Absolutely beautiful happy to add this to my collection beautiful job!!!

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Donald H.
Stunning!

This book is a stunning production. The reproductions are brilliantly reproduced and the text is equally illuminating. I have always had a strong interest in German films of the 1920’s so I am thrilled to see so any posters from that era.
I am also interested in art from the “Orchid Garden” and my only disappointment
is that so many editions are sold out. I hope this situation will be rectified soon.