London: Wm. Heinemann Ltd., 1923. George Belcher. First Edition. Hardcover with Dust Jacket. 8vo. Pp. 77. Illustrated with black & white reproductions of drawings and a manuscript facsimile. Text on heavy Greenfield watermarked paper, bottom and fore edges untrimmed. Bound in brown cloth, gilt titles stamped on the cover and.....
Paris: Chez Brunet, 1785. Third Edition. Hardcover. Small 8vo. Pp. 65. Later brick-red quarter cloth-bound over marbled boards, without titles. Edges untrimmed and moderately chipped. First and last leaves chipped, soiled and rubbed, with tears repaired. Moderate foxing to original leaves, age tone transfer to later endpapers. Bookplate "Librairie du.....
Princeton Wisconsin: Kitchen Sink Press, 1989. Drew Friedman (cover). First Edition. Stiff illustrated wraps. 8vo. Pp. 128. Illustrated with comics panels. Color illustrated stiff paper wraps, perfect bound. With contributions from Daniel Clowes, Spain Rodriguez, Richard Sala, Jack Jaxon, Doug Allen, Skip Williamson, Joe Coleman and an interview with Mark.....
San Francisco: Last Gasp Publishing, 2007. Basil Wolverton. First Edition. Hardcover. 4to. 271. Illustrated throughout with Basil Wolverton's artwork and comics. Color photographs of Wolverton on endpapers. Bound in paper-covered boards with illustrations by Wolverston on covers. Corners just a tad smudged. Cartoonist Basil Wolverton (1909-1978) was a significant influence.....
New York: Longmans, Green and Co., 1935. Reprint. Hardcover. 16mo. Pp. 120. Frontis. illustration. Illustrated with etchings. Dark green cloth, titles stamped in gilt on the spine and with illustration on the cover. Spine moderately sunned and gilt dulled, leaves crisp and bright, binding tight. A Massachusetts paperboy falls through.....
New York: T. J. Maloney, Inc., (1937). Will Connell (photography). First Edition. Coil bound in slip case. Folio. Pp. 104. Illustrated with full-page black & white fine gravure photo reproductions recto, text verso, on Collins special gravure stock. Stiff printed wraps with titles in black, wire coil bound. Edges minimally.....
New York: Liveright Publishing Corporation, (1940). John Ruge. Reprint. Hardcover. 8vo. Pp. 154. Illustrated with line drawings by Jacks. Bound in blue cloth with black lettering stamped on front cover, black lettering on spine. Old bookseller tag ("Smith & Hardwick," Birmingham, Alabama) adhered upside down on the front free endpaper.....
New York: Top Stories, 1986. Gail Vachon (cover woodcut). First Edition. Stiff printed wrappers. 8vo. Pp. 49. Bound in stiff printed wraps. Mellowed creases to the front cover, moderate foxing to the spine, light wear to rear cover. Five writers contribute short stories to "A Prose Periodical," as it referred.....
Garden City: Doubleday & Company, 1981. Norman Klein illustrations. First Edition. Hardcover with dust jacket. 8vo. Pp. 167. Black cloth backstrip with titles in gilt over red paper. In the unclipped dust jacket. A collectible copy. Signed on the front free endpaper. Dust jacket is now housed in a removable.....
London: Sherwood, Neely, and Jones, 1821. George and Isaac Robert Cruikshank illustrations. First Edition. Leatherbound. 8vo. Pp. xvi, 376. Frontis. hand-colored engraving, title-page vignette. Illustrated with an additional 36 hand-colored aquatint plates plus many intertextual woodcut vignettes by I. R. and G. Cruikshank. Six pages of engraved music scores on.....
(New York): Pantheon Books, (1987). Matt Groening. First Edition. Printed wrappers, saddle-stapled. Oblong 4to. Unpaginated. Illustrated throughout with reproductions of Groening's strips. Bound in glossy printed wrappers, saddle-stapled. Inscribed in red ink on the inside front-cover: "To -- -- !!! / Matt Groening 9/18/87" A spin-off of Groening's Life In.....
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Copenhagen: Kobenhavns Bogforlag, (1981). First Edition. Stiff printed wrappers. 4to. Unpaginated. Danish text translated from the French. Illustrated throughout with black & white comics. Bound in stiff printed wrappers with comics printed on front and rear covers. Paperclipped in are photocopies of two leaves from the French original. Rubbing to.....
New York: Leslie-Judge Company, (1920). First Edition. Hardcover. Tall 8vo. Unpaginated. Illustrated throughout with black & white illustrations. Bound in dark green cloth with white lettering printed on cover. Lettering faded; edges of spine worn; front hinge starting. A fine example of humor in the era following WWI. Now housed.....
Paris: Le Rire, 1894-1903. First Edition. Quarter leather. 4to. French language. Pp. 14 each number with color illustrated chromotypograph covers and center spread, monochrome illustrations, cartoons and advertisements. Volumes uniformly bound in quarter dark green morocco with spine titles and decorative blocking in gilt, blue and green marbled paper covered.....
Paris: Le Rire, 1911. First Edition. Quarter leather. 4to. Pp. Unpaginated; [pp. 14 each issue.] Color illustrated chromotypograph covers and center spread each issue, with numerous monochrome illustrations, cartoons and advertisements. French language. Black morocco backstrip with spine titles and rules stamped in gilt, black and green mottled paper covered.....
Paris: Le Rire, 1912. First Edition. Quarter leather. 4to. Pp. Unpaginated; [pp. 14 each number.] Color illustrated chromotypograph covers and center spread each issue, with numerous monochrome illustrations, cartoons and advertisements. French language. Includes no. 481 bis, "numéro exceptionelle à l’occasion du VIeme Salon des Humoristes" in color on coated.....
Paris: Le Rire, 1913. First Edition. Quarter leather. 4to. Pp. Unpaginated; [pp. 14 each number.] Color illustrated chromotypograph covers and center spread each issue, with numerous monochrome illustrations, cartoons and advertisements. French language. Black morocco backstrip with spine titles and rules stamped in gilt, black and green mottled paper covered.....
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1967. Walt Kelly. First Edition. Stiff printed wrappers. 8vo. Pp. [10], 11-176. Illustrated throughout with Kelly's comic strips. Bound in stiff printed wraps that show just a hint of wear in the form of light scuffs. Corners sharp. Stated first printing. A handsome copy.
Hudson Massachusetts: Cat-Head Comics, 1998. Limited Edition. Stiff illustrated wraps. 8vo. Pp. 48, [2]. Black & white cartoons. Perfect bound two-color silk-screened covers illustrated and printed by Lafler, signed and numbered 189 of 400. A bright, sharp copy.
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Kansas City & New York: Andrews and McMeel, Inc, (1983). Gary Larson. First Edition. Stiff printed wrappers. Oblong 8vo. Unpaginated. Illustrated throughout with black & white comics. Bound in stiff paper wraps; spine and cover lettered in white; color comic to front panel. Minor edgewear and marks. Signed by the.....
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Kansas City & New York: Andrews and McMeel, Inc, (1983). Gary Larson. Reprint. Stiff printed wrappers. Oblong 8vo. Unpaginated. Illustrated throughout with black & white comics. Bound in color-illustrated stiff paper wraps; spine and cover lettered in white. Clean and fresh throughout. Signed by the author-illustrator on half-title. A bright.....
Paris: Librairie de la Madeleine, 1901. Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec illustration. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Tall 8vo. Pp. 70. Text in French. Hand numbered 78 of an edition limited to 300 with the Toulouse-Lautrec illustrated wraps. Rebound 1971 in transparent acrylic covers on leatherette backstrip with titles stamped in gilt, original wraps.....
Annapolis: Self published / Franklin Printing, 1989. First Edition. Stiff printed wraps. 8vo. Pp. vii, 62. Stiff printed wraps saddle stapled. With four illustrations re-drawn from the Sun originals. Spine minimally sunned, else near fine. Ten articles reprinted in full, with the editor's introduction. Uncommon. Preserved in a clear archival.....
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[Seattle]: Self published, 1977. First Edition. Folded menu card. Tall 4to. (14 x 7) Stiff coated card stock printed in black recto and verso with b&w photo reproductions, folds open to three panels. With the slightest hint of toning and corners minimally bumped. A sophisticated menu spoof - dishes are.....
New York: Albert & Charles Boni, 1926. Rea Irwin jacket illustration, Herbert Johnson cartoons. First Edition. Hardcover with dust jacket. 8vo. Pp. xv, 17-263. Frontis. Rea Irwin caricature. Illustrated with halftone reproductions of Herbert Johnson cartoons. Brown cloth with titles in dark blue. In the three color Irwin illustrated dust.....