The Little Book of Pin-Up: Driben
(2015 - Taschen)

(by Dian Hanson) Only 5-by-7-inches in size, it is the only collection devoted to Peter Driben I've come across yet. Also, it is the best of the 'Little Book Of Pin-up' series that Taschen has produced. Out of its 195 pages, 171 carry full-page reproductions - only four of those are used to convey two double-page-spreads (one works, the other doesn't). There is also another two pages that carry multiple images. The rest of the book is an introduction to the artist, presented additionally in German & French. A large majority of the images come from the Robert Harrison magazines that were Driben's mainstay, but there are numerous examples of his work for other magazines, including the detective pulps. I'd say a little more than half the images are the magazine covers, with all the trade dress in place, but that leaves a huge proportion taken from the original paintings themselves. Note that on the spine appears just his name, PETER DRIBEN. All the works are pretty innocent by today's standards.