A RARE COLLECTION OF VARGAS GIRLS ARTWORK IN BOOK, ON LP's & FROM ACTUAL ESQUIRE MAGAZINE CENTERFOLDS  PLUS AUTOGRAPHED ALBUM BY BERNADETTE PETERS (see photos for playlists) :
1) Now Playing Bernadette Peters (1981) – (MCA-5244)  LP SIGNED BY BERNADETTE PETERS. She signed the LP while I was in her presence. Bernadette's second solo album, features songs by JerryLeiber and Mike Stoller, Carole Bayer Sager and Marvin Hamlisch, and Stephen Sondheim (for example, "Broadway Baby"). The cover is taken from a painting by the famous illustrator ALBERTO VARGAS. He is often considered one of the most famous of the pin-up artists. Numerous Vargas paintings have sold and continue to sell for hundreds of housands of dollars.CONDITION: Vinyl=Excellent, Cover=Very Good +                                         2) Now Playing Easel Back Counter Display 1981 cardboard cutout countertop display for retail promotion of LP. 20" x 14". CONDITION: Excellent. Easel back has never been used.    
3) 1993-94 Season Program, Concert Program, & Ticket.  Cerritos Center for the Performing Arts, Pacific Theatre.  October 2, 1993 concert starring Bernadette Peters. This is where and when I obtained her signature. CONDITION: Excellent
4)  Gee Whiz (1980) – (MCA-41210) –(7" 45RPM Single) With original picture sleeve with artwork by Vargas. CONDITION: Vinyl & Cover = Very Good +. 
5) Two( 2) Vargas original 1940's centerfolds from Esquire magazines (not in magazine- but you can see other advertising on back side of centerfolds).  CONDITION: Very Good + (see photo.)
6) Bedside Companion For Playboys (1959) (Omega-OSD-2) Jazz compilation. CONDITION: Vinyl = Good  C= Very Good - . The vinyl plays with some skips on some tracks. The cover artwork is rare. 
7) Candy-O - THe Cars (1979) - (Elektra-5E-507)  CONDITION: Vinyl = Very Good ++. Cover = Very Good +.
8) ALBERTO VARGAS: Works From The Max Vargas Collection (2007) (Bulfinch Press) Narrative essay and captions by Reid Stewart Austin. Forward By Hugh Hefner. The book draws from the collection of Vargas's nephew, Max Vargas; a collection of works from Florence Ziegfeld's Follies in the 1920's to Hollywood in the '30's to Esquire magazine and the emergence of the "Vargas Girl" in the '40's and ultimately, to a lasting home at Playboy magazine in the '60's & '70's. 143 pages of 100 four-color illustrations, including many unpublished works from his entire career that have not ever been seen before. CONDITION: Book and Paper Cover = Excellent +.
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LP's come boxed carefully in corrugated boxes made specifically for LP's, with filler pads and bubble wrap on both sides to protect the cover. LP's are housed in clear plastic LP sleeves. The LP is removed from the cover for shipping to prevent seam splitting unless when purchasing a sealed LP or when specified otherwise. Tracking numbers will be provided on all purchases.

 

From the time Esquire first introduced America to the Varga Girl in 1940, the name Vargas has been synonymous with pin-up and pin-up art .  Vargas' first calendar jobs were two pastel glamour pinups executed for Joseph C. Hoover and Sons between 1937 and 1939. He became an American citizen in 1939, the same year that he received an invitation from Esquire magazine to visit with publisher David Smart in Chicago to discuss the possibility of working together. Vargas was immediately hired as a replacement for George Petty, whose contract was to expire in December 1941. Agreeing to drop the "s" from his last name in all his work for the magazine, he had his first painting published in the October 1940 issue. Two months later, Esquire introduced the first Varga Girl calendar, which sold better than any other published up to that time. Over the next five years, Vargas became known worldwide, and his work, both in the monthly magazine and the yearly calendar, was eagerly awaited. Although he had a full schedule of work for Esquire during the war years, he often, accommodated special requests from soldiers to paint mascot pin- ups.