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NY, Harry Abrams, 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 336 pages, 575 illustrations, more than 100 plates in color. Like new condition.

Hardcover. NY, Harry Abrams, 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 336 pages, 575 illustrations, more than 100 plates in color. A comprehensive survey of fifty years of comics explores how such characters as Buster Brown, Krazy Kat, and Li'l Abner reflected societal attitudes and changes in the first half of the twentieth century, providing in-depth biographies of twenty-one influential comic creators and featuring rare original depictions of those creator's work. Lacks dust jacket but a clean, bright copy.

Hardcover. NY, Harry Abrams, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 336 pages, 776 illustrations, more than 100 plates in color. Contents include comic strips from the post war years followed by each decade to the nineties concluding with the twenty-first century. Lacks dust jacket but a clean, bright copy.

Hardcover. Milwaukie, OR, Dark Horse Comics, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 498 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. A very clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket edges. Features 670 illustrations and photos -- including dynamic and bizarre cover art compiled under such curious headings as Atomic Bombs, Death with Indignity, Gorillas, Headlights, Hooded Menaces, and Skulls. Containing countless stories gleaned from over 150 interviews of comics industry veterans, Comics Between the Panels is loaded with more than half a century of insider information on the talented and eccentric creators who forged the comics industry and art form.

Hardcover. San Diego, IDW Publishing, 3rd pr., 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, Presenting a deluxe hardcover collection of Chester Gould's timeless comic strip, Dick Tracy. The second volume of this multi-year project includes nearly 500 comic strips from May 1933 to January 1935. This special second volume also features an exclusive essay from Consulting Editor and longtime Tracy writer Max Allan Collins.

Softcover. Poughkeepsie, Father Tree Press/Warp Graphics, 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, The Complete Elf Quest Graphic Novel - Book Five: Siege at Blue Mountain. Softcover. 112 pages of full color graphic novel followed by full color character gallery and black & white portfolio and comics. Illustrated by Wendy Pini in full color and black & white. Light wear. Clean, unmarked copy.

Hardcover. Seattle, Fantagraphic Books, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 96 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Orange cloth boards. Comic strips by McCay reproduced in color. Nice, crisp copy in a dust jacket.

Hardcover. San Diego CA, Idea & Design Works/ IDW, 1st, 2009, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 319 pages. Color and b&w strips from the newspapers between 1927 and 1929. Little Orphan Annie -- the original female comics hero -- takes on chiseling business men and a gang of thieves, armed only with her sharp wit and a good left hook. Then she helps her surrogate parents by nursing "Daddy" Warbucks to health and helping save the Silos' family farm. And only that little chatter-box could become a cross between Robinson Crusoe and Dr. Doolittle when she and Sandy are shipwrecked on a deserted island.

Hardcover. New York , Pantheon, reprint, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 296 pages, b&w illustrations by Spiegelman. Maus is a holocaust survival story, a biography, and an autobiography. Written as a graphic novel (and winner of a Pulitzer Prize), Art Spiegelman captures the process of interviewing his father while simultaneously telling his father's story. In that sense, the text is very self-reflexive - there are parts in it showing Spiegelman working to create the very page you read, as previous parts of the his father's story are reintroduced from previous portions of the text. The story is complex. It not only details the horrors of the holocaust and the extreme lengths to which people went to survive, but it also captures the harrowing guilt survivors faced, and the lifelong aftereffects of the war. It also shows the struggle between father and son, both through the lens of a typical familial challenge, and of those unique between a survivor and child born afterwards.

Hardcover. New York , Pantheon, reprint, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 296 pages, b&w illustrations by Spiegelman. Maus is a holocaust survival story, a biography, and an autobiography. Written as a graphic novel (and winner of a Pulitzer Prize), Art Spiegelman captures the process of interviewing his father while simultaneously telling his father's story. In that sense, the text is very self-reflexive - there are parts in it showing Spiegelman working to create the very page you read, as previous parts of the his father's story are reintroduced from previous portions of the text. The story is complex. It not only details the horrors of the holocaust and the extreme lengths to which people went to survive, but it also captures the harrowing guilt survivors faced, and the lifelong aftereffects of the war. It also shows the struggle between father and son, both through the lens of a typical familial challenge, and of those unique between a survivor and child born afterwards.

Softcover. New York, Nantier Beall Minoustchine, 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Unpaginated. Softcover. First volume of reprinting, covering 1924-1925. With an introduction by Bill Blackbeard. An unmarked, clean and tight copy with only light edge wear to wrappers.

Hardcover. Casterman, reprint, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. FRENCH TEXT. The history of Pratt's most famous character told in pictures and words. Illustrated in color and b&w. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Harry N. Abrams, 2nd pr., 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. 320 pages, 9.9x1.2x12.3 inches. Color illustrations throughout. Michael Benson, one of the world's leading authorities on the visual legacy of space exploration and astronomy, tells a riveting story of the discovery of the universe through pictures. Selecting strikingly powerful and intriguing illustrations and maps, many hidden away in the world's great science libraries and virtually unknown today, he chronicles more than three thousand years of humanity's ever-expanding understanding of the size, shape and visual texture of the cosmos from the planets of our Solar System to the Milky Way and to the large-scale structure of the greater universe, with its teeming swarms of galaxies. These illustrations - some are maps, some are diagrams, some are speculative works of representation- are among history's most powerfully compelling works of data visualization, an art that is increasingly necessary in today's data-intensive world. NOTE: DUE TO WEIGHT, DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.

Softcover. US, JRP|Ringier, 1st, 2009, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 244 pages. Softcover with no dust jacket. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to wrappers. Like new in publisher's shrink-wrap. This is the End: Cover Art by H5 focuses entirely on the company's music design, and includes several essays and an interview. It comes with a vinyl EP specially produced for this publication, with contributions from Alex Gopher, Air and de Crecy & Darkel.

Softcover. US, Laurence King, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 318 pages, illustrated throughout in color and b&w. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to wrappers. The album cover is a subject of perennial interest among graphic designers. Sleeve design remains a popular subject for college projects, and many young working designers aspire to design for the music industry. Revealing state-of-the-art contemporary music graphics, Cover Art By: is packed with more than 400 examples of sleeve art. As well as CD and album covers, the insides of CD booklets and the backs of vinyl sleeves are shown. The book opens with an in-depth essay reviewing the current scene, then focuses on the work of 30 international designers/labels who are the most influential in the field, making this a must-have for designers and students, as well as music industry professionals and fans.

Hardcover. New York , Viking Studio Books, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 298 pages, reproduces 3500 covers in color. An indispensable volume for the collector or researcher. Three thousand and five hundred reproductions include virtually every cover of the America's most popular magazine during its entire run, from 1899 to 1969, complemented by an essay tracing the magazine's evolution. 15,000 first printing.

Softcover. West Plains, MO, Bruce Hershenson, 1st, nd, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover. Color reproductions of old cowboy movie posters. Light shelfwear.

Softcover. Beverly Hills, CA, Lawrence Bassoff Collection, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Large softcover, 159 pages, illustrated throughout in color. Light wear to pictorial covers, else a very nice, tight. clean copy. Foreword by Robert Wise. 100 beautiful reproductions of classic crime film posters.

Softcover. Seattle WA, Fantagraphics, 2012, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 134 pages. Clean, unmarked copy in excellent condition. "They were all there, the pimps, the fags, the whores, the curious, the alcoholic, the weird of the late '50s... blues lovers, Canadian bikers, thrill seekers, junkies, insomniacs, hepcats..." So begins "Down at the Kitty Kat," one of the 20-plus never-before-collected memoirs and yarns by Spain Rodriguez, one of the original gang of Zap Comix provocateurs. Although he's best known for his two-fisted tales of the chopper-riding Trashman, Spain's blunt graphic style and uncompromising gift for caricature, rendered in eye-punishing slabs of black and white, work equally well for more subtle fare -- such as these memoirs of his misspent youth. Cruisin' with the Hound ranges from Spain's days as an innocent young churchgoer to his time as a member of the Road Vultures motorcycle gang, with stops along the way for his discoveries of science fiction and other, more adult pursuits ("The Birth of Porn") -- as well as the "The Education of an Underground Cartoonist," describing his journey from a pimply Captain Marvel-reading scribbler to his arrival as a professional artist. But the heart of this collection is a cycle of stories ) set during Spain's teenage days in the 1950s, often featuring the doomed, dot-eyed Fred Toot.

Softcover. London, Korero Press, 1st, 2017, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 576 pages. Softcover. Very clean, unmarked copy with only minor edgewear to wrappers. A celebration of the stunning and stylistically varied headline lettering that existed before the advent of phototypesetting or the computer. Collects more than 4500 examples

Hardcover. New York, D.A.P./The National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 432 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. A very clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket edges. Covered here are works by some 40 artists made in the period from circa 1916, when the Cabaret Voltaire was founded in Zurich, to 1926, by which time most of the Dada groups had dispersed or significantly transformed. The city sections bring together painting, sculpture, photography, collage, photomontage, prints and graphic work.Relying on dynamic design and vivid documentary images, Dada takes us through these six cities via topical essays and extensive plate sections; an illustrated chronology of the movement; witty chronicles of events in each city center; a selected bibliography; and biographies of each artist--accompanied by Dada-era photographs.

Hardcover. London, Hawk Books, 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 144 pages. oversized hardcover with no dust jacket. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to laminated boards. Color comics throughout.

Softcover. London, Unicorn Press Ltd, 1st, 2015, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 96 pages. Softcover. Very clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to wrapper edges. Many color illustrations and photographs throughout. Artist David Shillinglaw is as comfortable in the street as in the studio, as likely to paint on found objects as on canvas, as interested in tiny hand-made artist's books as in large-scale public murals. His mural in the Olympic Park in East London is the longest mural ever commissioned in Great Britain, while his brilliantly inventive creations enliven construction hoardings throughout London's changing cityscape. The Dance of 1000 Faces is the first book to gather a significant number of Shillinglaw's works. It presents his art in full color in all its many forms: not only paintings and murals, but journals drawings, sketches, and more. It reveals Shillinglaw's particular genius for depictions--and distortions--of the human face, grimacing and grinning, shifting and shaping as it becomes no one and everyone at once.

Softcover. San Francisco, Chronicle Books, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 144 pages. An illustrated history of the fabulous pulp magazines from 1896 to 1953. After tracing the birth of the pulps back to the 1882 launching of Golden Argosy magazine, printed on pulpwood pages, Server organizes his unwieldy subject into categories of pulps: adventure, romance and sex, horror and fantasy, private eye, weird menace, science fiction. Each receives a lively capsule history that covers trends, reader (and sometimes, as in the case of the ``Spicys,'' government) response, and writers' bios--which, though sketchy (Hammett's Hollywood experience gets one sentence), resurrect a number of relatively obscure but seminal and fascinating figures, like Conan- creator Robert E. Howard, who shot himself dead at age 30 on the day his mother died, and Frederick Faust (a.k.a. Max Brand), who sometimes wrote around the clock, piling up two or three million words a year. Server attributes the pulps' demise to, among other factors, the advent of TV, paperbacks, and comic books, and he winds up with a note on pulp-collecting. For all of the author's savvy, though, it's above all the eye- popping illustrations (100 color, 57 b&w) that will have readers beaming. Magazine covers (some lurid, some of eerie beauty), sample pages of text and ads (``Raise Giant Frogs'')--the pulps come alive once again here, in all their eccentric glory.