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Softcover. Fairfield CT, Cartoonist Profiles, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 98 pages, b&w illustrations throughout. Quarterly magazine for cartoon fans, articles, interviews and biographies on cartoonists and their work. Articles on The Yellow Kid by Outcault, Michael Sporn, Russ Heath of The Lone Ranger strip, Hank Fletcher, Joe Kubert on Winnie Winkle, the Muppet comic strip, others.

Softcover. Fairfield CT, Cartoonist Profiles, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 82 pages, b&w illustrations throughout. Quarterly magazine for cartoon fans, articles, interviews and biographies on cartoonists and their work. Articles on Milt Caniff and Chuck Jones birthdays, editorial cartoonist Calvin Grondahl, Fontaine Fox, Don Martin, Clare Briggs, David Wright of the UK strip Carol Day, others.

Softcover. Fairfield CT, Cartoonist Profiles, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 82 pages, b&w illustrations throughout. Quarterly magazine for cartoon fans, articles, interviews and biographies on cartoonists and their work. Articles on Bill Mauldin and Pat Oliphant, Dick Wingert, Zim autobiography, animator Nancy Beiman, editorial cartoonist Daniel Fitzpatrick, others.

Softcover. Fairfield CT, Cartoonist Profiles, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 82 pages, b&w illustrations throughout. Quarterly magazine for cartoon fans, articles, interviews and biographies on cartoonists and their work. Articles on the annual editorial cartoonist convention, Al Hirschfeld, comic strip balloons by Jack Markow, Karl Hubenthal, British cartoonist Clive Collins, editorial cartoonist Mike Keefe, others.

Softcover. Fairfield CT, Cartoonist Profiles, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 82 pages, b&w illustrations throughout. Quarterly magazine for cartoon fans, articles, interviews and biographies on cartoonists and their work. Articles on Moon Mullins by Ferd Johnson (Frank Willard's assistant and successor), illustrator Jared Lee, editorial cartoonist Jack Ohman, Prince Valiant, Hugh Harman animator at Warner Bros., Australian cartoonist Peter Foster, others.

Softcover. Fairfield CT, Cartoonist Profiles, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 82 pages, b&w illustrations throughout. Quarterly magazine for cartoon fans, articles, interviews and biographies on cartoonists and their work. Articles on James Swinnerton, Harrison Cady, Broom Hilda by Russell Myers, comic book artist Dick Ayers, Zim autobiography, others.

Softcover. Fairfield CT, Cartoonist Profiles, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 82 pages, b&w illustrations throughout. Quarterly magazine for cartoon fans, articles, interviews and biographies on cartoonists and their work. Articles on Grim Natwick, Winsor McCay, Jerry Robinson, editorial cartoonist Bob Drebelbis, others.

Softcover. Fairfield CT, Cartoonist Profiles, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 82 pages, b&w illustrations throughout. Quarterly magazine for cartoon fans, articles, interviews and biographies on cartoonists and their work. Articles on Milton Caniff & real people, editorial cartoons from the Sacramento Bee, Hanna-Barbera animation, Fenton by David Wiley, Frank Johnson of Jiggs and Maggie, others.

Softcover. Fairfield CT, Cartoonist Profiles, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 82 pages, b&w illustrations throughout. Quarterly magazine for cartoon fans, articles, interviews and biographies on cartoonists and their work. Articles on Rick Veitch comic book artist, editorial cartoonist Sandy Campbell, Disney studio nostalgia, Luther Bradley, theater artist Kevin McVey, others.

Softcover. Fairfield CT, Cartoonist Profiles, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 82 pages, b&w illustrations throughout. Quarterly magazine for cartoon fans, articles, interviews and biographies on cartoonists and their work. Articles on Betty Boop and Felix the Cat, Berry's World, Winsor McCay, the Henry strip, Dick Locher and Dick Tracy, comic book artist Bill Sienkiewicz, others.

Softcover. Fairfield CT, Cartoonist Profiles, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 82 pages, b&w illustrations throughout. Quarterly magazine for cartoon fans, articles, interviews and biographies on cartoonists and their work. Articles on political cartoonist Kate Salley Palmer, Howie Schneider, Mort Drucker on caricature, editorial cartoonist Jimmy Margulies, others.

Hardcover. New York, Harper and Brothers, 1st, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards with a b&w cartoon featuring the Toonerville Trolley gang. Blue cloth spine. Clean and sharp. No credits, commentary or date but undoubtedly reprinted from his syndicated strip Toonerville Folks. There is an ink inscription on the front fly leaf dated 1922. In great overall condition, now protected by an acetate dust jacket.

Hardcover. NY, HarperCollins, 1st, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 311 pages. Why can't you remember where you put your keys? Or the title of the movie you saw last week? Anyone older than forty knows that forgetfulness can be unnerving, frustrating, and sometimes terrifying. With compassion and humor, acclaimed journalist Cathryn Jakobson Ramin explores the factors that determine how well or poorly one's brain will age. She takes readers along on her lively journey--consulting with experts in the fields of sleep, stress, traumatic brain injury, hormones, genetics, and dementia, as well as specialists in nutrition, cognitive psychology, and the burgeoning field of drug-based cognitive enhancement. Along the way, she turns up fresh scientific findings, explores the dark regions of the human brain, and hears the intimate confessions of high-functioning midlife adults who--like so many of us--are desperate to understand exactly what's going on upstairs. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Viking, 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. A humorous mystery set in the hills of Tuscany. Clean copy.

Hardcover. New York, Random House, 1st, 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Non-paginated. Hardcover, no dust jacket. Full color illustrations by Dr. Seuss. 19 Seuss-Songs for Beginning Singers - Piano Score and Guitar Chords by Eugene Poddany. Previous owners bookplate opposite title page. Quarter size abrasion at top right corner of front endpaper. Light wear to cover, corners. Clean, tight copy.

Softcover. San Francisco, Pomegranate, 1st pbk, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 96 pages. Collects the cat paintings that Kliban did for a series of calendars from 1977 through 1986. All in full color. Like new, clean.

Hardcover. Boston, D. Lothrop and Co., 1st, 1887, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards, 32 pages. Humorous poetry with b&w cat illustrations on opposite page. Gutter cracked after front fly leaf, but binding firm, pages bright and clean.

Hardcover. Paris, Grund, 1st illust thus, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, glazed boards, illustrated in color by Ludmila Jirincova. Robert Desnos, the famous surrealist poet in the 20s, later joined the Resistance while working as a journalist in Paris. He forged papers and passed along information, but also wrote humorous and lyrical animal poems to cheer little children, though they often had a double meaning. This is his last book, published in 1944. In February of that year, he was deported to Auschwitz and later Treblinka. He died of typhus soon after the liberation. FRENCH TEXT.

Hardcover. New York, Random House, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 382 pages, b&w illustrations. Like new in a bright dust jacket. In this first biography of the great cartoonist, written with exclusive access to Addams's intimates and his private papers, we finally meet the man behind the famed cartoons and circling rumors. Here is his surprising childhood in New Jersey, the cartoon that offended the Nazis, the friend whose early death Addams long mourned. Here are his wives, the stories behind his most famous-and some of his most private-cartoons, and the Addams whom even his closest friends didn't know. With wit, humor, poignancy, and insight-enhanced by rare family photographs, classic and previously unpublished cartoons, and private drawings-Linda H. Davis paints an engaging and endearing portrait of a marvelous American original.

Hardcover. New York, Random House, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 382 pages, b&w illustrations. Like new in a bright dust jacket.

Hardcover. New York, Random House, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 382 pages, b&w illustrations. Like new in a bright dust jacket. In this first biography of the great cartoonist, written with exclusive access to Addams's intimates and his private papers, we finally meet the man behind the famed cartoons and circling rumors. Here is his surprising childhood in New Jersey, the cartoon that offended the Nazis, the friend whose early death Addams long mourned. Here are his wives, the stories behind his most famous-and some of his most private-cartoons, and the Addams whom even his closest friends didn't know. With wit, humor, poignancy, and insight-enhanced by rare family photographs, classic and previously unpublished cartoons, and private drawings-Linda H. Davis paints an engaging and endearing portrait of a marvelous American original.

Hardcover. NY, Abrams, 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 128 pages, pictorial boards. A lighthearted exploration of pop culture's fascination with gag and practical joke novelty items celebrates the history of the industry, exploring the originality, if tastelessness, of such items as the Whoopee Cushion, the artificial ink spot, and the rubber chicken.

Hardcover. NY, Abrams, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Glazed pictorial boards, 176 pages, a collection of early cartoons and illustrations by the creators of the Berenstain Bears.

Softcover. University of Washington Press, 1st, 1999, Softcover, 176 pages. Traces the development of the comic strip since its birth at the turn of the century. The reproductions of vintage strips are strikingly pristine, due to the use of original artwork rather than published versions in the production of the volume. The author, a seasoned writer and scholar of the subject is good at historical and aesthetic discussion, less so at discussing the sociological context of various strips. Two other experts in the field, Brian Walker and Richard V. West, contribute a foreword and afterword. An attractive and enjoyable volume. 9x12