Varga, the Esquire Years: A Catalogue Raisonne Blackwing Pencils & Accessories absentee Congressman O'Malley finally makes

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Varga, the Esquire Years: A Catalogue Raisonne Blackwing Pencils & Accessories absentee Congressman O'Malley finally makesThe first lavish, full color collection of the sensationally popular art of Alberto Vargas, whose scintillating Varga Girls became the 1940s feminine ideal. More than 250 full color illustrations. This Catalogue Raisonne reproduces every Esquire Varga girl ever printed: the gatefolds, the calendars, the military edition covers, and every piece of Esquire Varga merchandise and non Esquire advertising art by Varga 1941 1947. Foreword by Kurt Vonnegut.