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Softcover. The Illustrated Press, 1st, 2017, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 80 pages, color illustrations. In this issue: the brilliant work of Saul Tepper, illustrated profusely with original paintings and rare tear sheets. Next up the work of James Avati, and his paperback cover paintings for the novels of William Faulkner. The final feature Gum's Graphics concerns the packaging design and illustrations for chewing gum over the years. Book reviews, exhibitions and events, and more round out the issue.

Softcover. Princeton WI, Kitchen Sink Press, 2nd pr., 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 142 pages illustrated in b&w by Caniff. Clean, very good.

Softcover. NY, Simon and Schuster, 4th pr., 1951, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 173 pages, b&w drawings by Price. Droll humor from the man who later gave us Droodles and Mad-Libs. Clean, bright copy with mild shelf wear.

Hardcover. NY, Princeton Architectural Press, reprint, 2017, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards. First published in Italy in 1956, Bruno Munari's In the Darkness of the Night tells the tale of an interconnected, intimate yet expansive journey across three settings--in the darkness, through a meadow, and into a mysterious cave--through a spellbinding combination of paper stocks, transparencies, cutouts, and simple but lively characters. This timeless artist's book, available in a new English edition, is a must-have for Munari fans, designers, bibliophiles, and lovers of exceptional book design.

Hardcover. NY, Pantheon, 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Tall vertically oblong folio (14 1/2" ) board book. Speigelman addresses his personal experiences in New York during the attack on the twin towers as he, his wife and daughter walked in New York. He decided on this large format, almost elephant folio sized, board book in his unique graphic illustrated style. A unique attempt at coming to grips with the tragic and frightening events of nine eleven. DUE TO SIZE, DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.

Hardcover. New Haven, CT, Yale University Press, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 320 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Very clean, unmarked copy with only minor edgewear. Illustrated with full-color reproductions of the artists' works, including some that have been published and others not originally intended for publication, such as sketchbooks and personal projects. Additional illustrations show behind-the-scenes working processes of the cartoonists and particular works by others that have influenced or inspired them. Through the eyes of these artists, we see with a new clarity the achievement of contemporary cartoonists and the extraordinary possibilities of comic art.

Hardcover. New Haven, CT, Yale University Press, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 320 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Very clean, unmarked copy with only minor edgewear. Illustrated with full-color reproductions of the artists' works, including some that have been published and others not originally intended for publication, such as sketchbooks and personal projects. Additional illustrations show behind-the-scenes working processes of the cartoonists and particular works by others that have influenced or inspired them. Through the eyes of these artists, we see with a new clarity the achievement of contemporary cartoonists and the extraordinary possibilities of comic art.

Hardcover. NY, New York Graphic Society, 1st, 1973, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 192 pages. 200 black-and-white photographs by Dorothea Lange, Walker Evans, Carl Mydans, Marion Post Wolcott, Ben Shahn, Arthur Rothstein, Jack Delano, Russell Lee, and Others. Black cloth, missing dust jacket.

Softcover. New York , Epic/Marvel Comics, 1st US, 1988, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcovers, unpaginted. Color art throughout by Moebius. Three books, the complete series. Clean, bright set.

Softcover. NY, BisPublishers, 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, pictorial wraps with flaps. 393 pages. Infiltrate is a comprehensive collection of contemporary, cutting-edge New York design. It features established and emerging studios together with some extraordinary, little known companies and individuals. Each of the 30 ground-braking designers is interviewed and all artwork is captioned. Infiltrate is full of creative energy, experiments, challenging ideas and unexpected solutions. Clean copy.

Softcover. Milano, 5 Continents , 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, pictorial wraps, 96 pages. Considered one of the greatest French draughtsmen of all time, Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres (1780-1867). left thousands of preparatory drawings for his paintings, along with an incomparable series of almost five hundred graphite portraits that have always been deemed the highest expression of his genius. The Louvre collection offers excellent examples of these two aspects of Ingres' graphic activity; each work is accompanied by a brief comment. Clean copy.

Softcover. New York, Graphic Books, 1st, 1956, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 190 pages. Paperback. A Graphic Mystery # 125. Moderate wear to pictorial wrappers. Pages tanned. Previous owner's ink notation on first page. Cover art by Saul Levine.

Softcover. New York, Stewart Tabori & Chang, 1st, 1982 , Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 144 pages. A history of the classic VW ad campaign that began in 1959. Profusely illustratedClean copy.

Softcover. Seattle, Fantagraphics, 1st, 2011, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, ISoftcover, graphic novel llustrated throughout in color. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to wrappers.

Softcover. Seattle, Fantagraphics, 1st, 2011, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, graphic novel Illustrated throughout in color. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to wrappers.

Hardcover. New York, Rizzoli International Publication, reprint, 2013, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 239 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Extensive color and b&w photographs throughout. Illustrated end papers and fly leafs. Tear to top right corner of rear dust jacket flap repaired with tape. Light edge wear to dust jacket, otherwise clean, tight copy.

Softcover. San Francisco, Chronicle Books, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 133 pages illustrated in color. This lavishly illustrated volume offers a unique survey of Italian commercial graphic design during a period of both creative artistic vitality and extreme political turmoil. The first English-language book to showcase the bold typography and streamlined imagery of modern Italian design motifs on commercial products of the day, this fascinating and important resource for designers, history buffs, and collectors includes a discussion of the Futurist influence on the Italian Art Deco style and the success of such individualized expression despite a ruthless Fascist regime. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Greenwich CT, New York Graphic Society, 1st, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a bright, edgeworn dust jacket. 322 pages. 100 B&W and color plates and 56 B&W illustrations. Pictorial dust jacket with edgewear. Light brown cloth. Auction stamp on front pastedown. Otherwise, a clean, tight copy. DUE TO WEIGHT, DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.

Hardcover. New York, Museum of Modern Art, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 152 pages, illustrated throughout in color. Spotless and tight copy. 128 Italian film posters that are a rich array of both Italian films and the international cinema. Includes text and notes on each poster. Arranged by genre from the 30's to the late 50's.

Softcover. NY, Harry N Abrams, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, large format, 64 pages. A catalog for an exhibition at The Corcoran Gallery of Art showcasing works that blend mundane, found materials with sophisticated graphic design. The collection highlights, with text by Dore Ashton, how Chermayeff repurposed, for example, office scraps, envelopes, and paper, creating complex, often whimsical, portraiture. Clean, bright copy.

Hardcover. NY, Watson Guptill, 1st, 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. Beautiful copy of this detailed study of the American illustrator. Color, black & white plates. 206 pages. In a bight, unclipped dust jacket.

Softcover. San Francisco, Chronicle Books, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 144 pages. Light shelf-wear to wrappers, else a clean, tight copy. "For years Jack Cole labored dutifully as a cartoonist, comic book illustrator, and Playboy's premier artist. But one look at his most famous creation---the manic, surreal Plastic Man---and there is no question that much more lurked in the mind of this tragic artist than anyone suspected. Pulitzer Prize-winning writer and cartoonist Art Spiegelman and renowned graphic designer Chip Kidd pay homage to Plastic Man and his creator. With exuberant energy, extraordinary flexibility, and bizarre plot twists, Jack Cole stretched Plastic Man beyond the traditional limits of the comic book form."

Hardcover. US, IDW Publishing, 1st, 2013, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Like new in publisher's shrink-wrap. Hardcover issued w/o a dust jacket. Jack Cole's often overlooked horror work finally gets the hardcover treatment. The stories hit many of the usual horror themes, and a few unique ones, with many based in the crime genre. Cole brings his own outlook to the idiom; casually violent and gruesome, with kinetic artwork and splash panels/pages that will knock your socks off.Offered chronologically, the earlier stories outshine most of the later ones. The best ones are "borrowed" from a couple of "Weird Tales" authors- "Custodian of the Dead" (Henry Kuttner's "Graveyard Rats") and "The Corpse That Wouldn't Die" (Clark Ashton Smith's "The Return of the Sorcerer"). Cole's own stories are pretty original, compared to the mostly ho-hum output of contemporaries like Stan Lee's ATLAS line, and he doesn't try to imitate the EC horror comics like 99% of the rest of the field did. Some of the stories are ludicrous and will make you roll your eyes ("Goddess of Murder" especially), but it's refreshing to see a different take on the comic book horror story.

Hardcover. NY, Ten Speed Press, 1st, 2020, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in pictorial boards, no dust jacket issued, 201 pages. This sweeping, full-color comic book biography tells the complete life story of Jack Kirby, co-creator of some of the most enduring superheroes and villains of the twentieth century for Marvel Comics, DC Comics, and more. Critically acclaimed graphic novelist Tom Scioli breathes visual life into Kirby's life story--from his days growing up in New York during the Great Depression and discovering a love for science fiction and cartoons to his time on the frontlines in the European theatre of World War II where he experienced the type of action and adventure he'd later imbue his comic pages with, and on to his world-changing collaborations at Marvel with Stan Lee, where the pair redefined comics as a part of pop culture.