Softcover. New York, Dell, 1st, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Mass market paperback, Dell #5868, unpaginated. B&w cartoon drawings throughout by the Berenstains. Clean.
Softcover. San Francosco, San Francisco Comic Book Company, 1st, 1971, Book: Good, Softcover, October 1971 First edition, first printing 50 cents original price. Mr. Natural (Fred Natural) is a comic book character created and drawn by 1960s counterculture and underground comix artist Robert Crumb. Mr. Natural #2 : "A Gurl in Hotpants" (with Flakey Foont), "Sittin' Around the Kitchen Table" (with Flakey Foont), "The Girlfriend" (with Flakey Foont), "Have you seen 'um lately?", "I am the greatest! Make way! Make Way!" (with the Snoid), "On the Bum Again, part two". Ccorner creases, mild wear.
Softcover. Milwaukee WI, Krupp Comic Works, 1st, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover in pictorial color wraps, $1 cover price. Bawdy, sexually graphic, underground comics by Robert Crumb featuring his Mr. Natural character in strips that first appeared in the Village Voice. Some ink dates in upper corner of first page, otherwise like new.
Softcover. San Francisco, Apex Novelties, 3rd pr., 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Soft cover with stapled binding, color covers with b/w internal illustrations, 28 pages. It has nearly every point of the first printing, including a fifty-cent cover price, wording of publishing information on inner front cover ("Printed by Apex Novelties and published by the San Francisco Comic Book Company...") etc.; distinguished as third printing by lack of fading especially at lower left corner of front cover, 6 & 1/3" width of back cover artwork. Mild wear, rubbing.
Hardcover. NY, Pegasus Books, 1st, 2020, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 242 pages. A finely wrought coming-of-age memoir about the author's relationship with her beloved grandfather Joe Simon, cartoonist and co-creator of Captain America. In the 1990s, Megan Margulies's Upper West Side neighborhood was marked by addicts shooting up in subway stations, frequent burglaries, and the "Wild Man of 96th Street," who set fires under cars and heaved rocks through stained glass church windows. The world inside her parents' tiny one-bedroom apartment was hardly a respite, with a family of five-including some loud personalities-eventually occupying the 550-square-foot space. Salvation arrived in the form of her spirited grandfather, Daddy Joe, whose midtown studio became a second home to Megan. There, he listened to her woes, fed her Hungry Man frozen dinners, and simply let her be. His living room may have been dominated by the drawing table, notes, and doodles that marked him as Joe Simon the cartoonist. But for Megan, he was always Daddy Joe: an escape from her increasingly hectic home, a nonjudgmental voice whose sense of humor was as dry as his farfel, and a steady presence in a world that felt off balance. Evoking New York City both in the 1980s and '90s and during the Golden Age of comics in the 1930s and '40s, My Captain America flashes back from Megan's story to chart the life and career of Rochester-native Joe Simon, from his early days retouching publicity photos and doing spot art for magazines, to his partnership with Jack Kirby at Timely Comics (the forerunner of Marvel Comics), which resulted in the creation of beloved characters like Captain America, the Boy Commandos, and Fighting American. My Captain America offers a tender and sharply observed account of Megan's life with Daddy Joe-and an intimate portrait of the creative genius who gave us one of the most enduring superheroes of all time.
Hardcover. London, Chatto & Windus, 1st, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, satirical comic strips on the famous, recounting of a typical day by the former Australian, now New Yorker cartoonist. No dj issued.
Hardcover. New York, Simon and Schuster, 1st, 1963, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 96 pages, b&w cartoons by Price, most from The New Yorker. Dust jacket bright but with a small chunk gone from bottom of front panel and some light chipping.
Hardcover. Chicago, McClure, Phillips and Co., 1st, 1905, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, gray illustrated boards with brown cloth spine. A collection of b&w cartoons from two Chicago papers. Unpaginated, about 150 cartoons printed on one side only. Clean, tight copy with some light wear to covers at corners.
Softcover. US, Simon & Schuster , 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 127 pages. Softcover. A collection of b&w drawings by The New Yorker cartoonist. Light edgewear to wrappers.
Hardcover. New York, DC Comics, 2nd, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 168 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.
Softcover. NY, National Lampoon Inc., 1st, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, Thick magazine of sexually-themed comics. Edited by Peter Kaminsky, Translated by Sophie Balcoff, Valerie Marchant, and Sean Kelly. Original French material compiled by David Pascal and Jean-Pierre Dionnet. Clean copy.
Softcover. NY, National Lampoon Magazine, 1st, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Large format paperback, 96 pages. "A savage, hilarious view of modern life" by the French cartoonist. Clean, bright copy.
Softcover. New York , National Lampoon, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, magazine format. Unpaginated, illustrated in color and b&w by various artists. Because of raunchy material, this comic publication had limited distribution, hard to find.
Hardcover. London, MQ Publications, 1st, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 383 pages. "Aline Kominsky Crumb was one of the pioneers of women's comics, a genre that emerged in California in the sixties & seventies. She became well known during that period for her autobiographical work, influencing many comic book artists after her. Need More Love draws on her remarkable body of comic strips over the past four decades, many featuring her self-effacing character Bunch. Need More Love is a unique blend of comics, art, photographs & memorabilia, & portrays the movers & shakers (and the jerks) of the art & music worlds from the sixties to the present. Aline promises the reader: "I am packing this book with sordid details from my real life. I don't have to make up anything! You'll get fabulous adventures, sex, humor and advice on behavior, lifestyle & aesthetic judgment."
Hardcover. London, MQ Publications, 1st, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 383 pages. "Aline Kominsky Crumb was one of the pioneers of women's comics, a genre that emerged in California in the sixties & seventies. She became well known during that period for her autobiographical work, influencing many comic book artists after her. Need More Love draws on her remarkable body of comic strips over the past four decades, many featuring her self-effacing character Bunch. Need More Love is a unique blend of comics, art, photographs & memorabilia, & portrays the movers & shakers (and the jerks) of the art & music worlds from the sixties to the present. Aline promises the reader: "I am packing this book with sordid details from my real life. I don't have to make up anything! You'll get fabulous adventures, sex, humor and advice on behavior, lifestyle & aesthetic judgment."
Softcover. Agoura CA, Fantagraphics, 1st, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, magazine format with stapled binding, color wraps, b&w illustrations, 66 pages. Articles on Jack Kent's King Aroo, the wild west of Harold Gray and Little Joe, the slum kids of Percy Crosby. Clean, bright copy.
Softcover. Agoura CA, Fantagraphics, 1st, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, magazine format with stapled binding, color wraps, b&w illustrations, 66 pages. Articles on the comic strips of John Held Jr., art of Jimmy Swinnerton, Joe Palooka by Ham Fisher, labor violence and cartoonists 100 years ago. Clean, bright copy.
Softcover. Agoura CA, Fantagraphics, 1st, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, magazine format with stapled binding, color wraps, b&w illustrations, 66 pages. Articles on Little Orphan Annie (1937 episode), Fontaine Fox and The Toonerville Trolley, Hi and Lois by Mort Walker and Dik Browne. Clean, bright copy.
Hardcover. Berlin, Hermann Klemm, 1st, n.d., Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 488 pages, hardcover illustrated with about 1,500 b&w cartoons, photos, some color plates. Terra cotta cloth with gilt lettering. Previous owner's inscription on prelim page, one loose plate otherwise very good.
Softcover. New York, Four Walls Eight Windows, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 300 pages. Softcover with light edgewear to wrappers. Black and white pictures throughout.
Hardcover. Montreal, Drawn & Quarterly, 1st, 2012, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 176 pages. Adrian Tomine's illustrations and comics have been appearing for more than a decade in the pages (and on the cover) of The New Yorker. Instantly recognizable for their deceptively simple and evocative style, these images have garnered the attention of The New Yorker's readership and the approbation of such venerable institutions as the Art Directors Club and American Illustration.New York Drawings is a loving homage to the city that Tomine, a West Coast transplant, has called home for the past seven years. This lavish, beautifully designed volume collects every cover, comic, and illustration that he has produced for The New Yorker to date, along with an assortment of other rare and uncollected illustrations and sketches inspired by the city. Complete with notes and annotations by the author, New York Drawings will also feature a new introductory comic focusing on Tomine's experiences as a New York illustrator.
Hardcover. New York , Harper and Brothers, 1st, 1955, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue cloth covers, black cloth spine. Cartoons from the golden age of the New Yorker, including many covers reproduced in color. Clean, very good. Lacks dust jacket.
Hardcover. New York, Atria, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 112 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. Here is a cornucopia of 104 dead-on drawings and eye-opening ruminations on all things bookish, writerly, and readerly, courtesy of The New Yorker's renowned stable of cartoonists, including Charles Barsotti, Roz Chast, Ed Koren, J.B. Handelsman, Jack Ziegler, and Victoria Roberts.
Softcover. Italy , Coconino Press, Reprint, 2018, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Unpaginated. Softcover with dust jacket. A very clean, unmarked copy with minor creasing to dust jacket rear flap.