by Norman I. Platnick.
It's back -- and better! It's been out of print for the past two years, but Enchantment Ink is pleased to re-introduce "The Lady Seldom Smiles: A Collector's Guide to Neysa McMein." The brand-new, full-color, Version 2.0 of this book is by far the most comprehensive study ever produced on McMein's work. "The Lady Seldom Smiles" features an extensive biography and over 400 color (plus over 100 B&W) images. The book attempts to include every known magazine cover, magazine illustration, advertisement, postcard, poster, print, book illustration, calendar, etc., done by McMein during her long and productive career. The 133 8.5x11", velo-bound pages include a detailed index/price guide
Click here to download this guide, for free.
Hello Enchantment Ink visitor. On April 8th, 2020, the author of all these books, my father, Norman Platnick, died of complications due to a serious fall.
Words cannot describe the amount of pain my family is in right now. My father was a wonderful, humble, loving, passionate and intelligent man. He had 3 passions in life: my mother, spiders and collecting.
As a way of honoring my father's legacy in the illustrated artwork community, I will be turning as many books of his as possible into PDF files and distributing them online, for free.
If you have found these collector's guides useful, I ask that you make a donation to the Norman I. Platnick Memorial Fund, which will be setting up a scholarship in the field of arachnology, my father's career.
If you'd like to learn more about my father and his amazing life (such as skipping middle school and high school and going to college when he was 12), I'd like to lift up just a few pieces:
NY Times: Norman Platnick ObituaryConcord University Magazine Fall 2018: Friendly Neighbordhood Arachnologist page 20
NY Times: The Exciting Adventures of Spider Man
Daily News: NYC'S real-life spider man
NY Times: For Some, an Appliance; for Others, Art
The Wall Street Journal: Warming Up to Spiders