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Hardcover. NY, Charles Scribner's, 1st, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 159 pages. A collection of b&w cartoons that originally ran in The New Yorker. In a bright, unclipped dust jacket.

Hardcover. New York, NYU Press, 1st, 2009, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 308 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Very clean, unmarked copy with only minor edge wear to dust jacket. Black and white illustrations throughout. Tight copy

Hardcover. New York, NYU Press, 1st, 2009, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 308 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Very clean, unmarked copy with only minor edge wear to dust jacket. Black and white illustrations throughout. Tight copy

Softcover. New York, St. Martins, 1st, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 127 pages. Softcover with light edge wear to paper wrappers. Black and white line cartoons throughout by author. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. Schirmer/Mosel, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 144 pages. Self-reflection by celebrities tends to be fraught with unmentionable difficulties. Not, though, when the star in question is the ever intelligent, self-aware, articulate, and magnificent Isabella Rossellini. For years, a wall in the entrance of Rossellini's apartment has been covered in pictures taken of her by different photographers. Looking at the "Me Wall," Rossellini writes that she never really saw herself; instead she "saw the photographer's work, their ideas, and our collaboration in capturing fantasies." Looking at Me gathers together Rossellini's private collection of portraits taken of herself by some of the world's leading photographers, including Eve Arnold, Richard Avedon, Michel Comte, Patrick Demarchelier, Fabrizio Ferri, Horst P. Horst, Brigitte Lacombe, Annie Leibovitz, Peter Lindbergh, Robert Mapplethorpe, Steven Meisel, Irving Penn, Herb Ritts, Paolo Roversi, Ellen von Unwerth, and Bruce Weber, as well as filmmakers David Lynch and Wim Wenders. Rossellini invites us to join her as she looks at her favorite portraits, privileging us with her witty, humorous, and self-ironical comments. She traces her career, in photographs, from boxing reporter in Muhammad Ali's training camp to highly successful model, from actress in some of Hollywood's more controversial films to head of her own cosmetic line, Manifesto. Mixed in with these public images are pictures of Rossellini in private, with her children, her dog Macaroni, and her pig Spanky. Irresistibly charming, intelligent yet whimsical, Looking At Me proves the perfect complement to Rossellini herself.

Hardcover. NY, Harcourt Brace, 1st, 1945, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, wartime cartoon book showing the life of the enlistee (as a dog). One of the early Freeman efforts. Dust jacket edge worn, soiled, price-clipped.

Softcover. Kansas City, Hallmark, 1st, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, spiral bound, a week-by-week calendar with each spread illustrated with a two-color cartoon by the Berenstains. Art reprinted from 16 years of their cartoon series which ran in McCalls Magazine. Light wear, clean.

Hardcover. Philadelphia/NY, David McKay Company, 1st, 1961, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 127 pages, illustrated with O. Sogow's great cartoons. In an edgeworn dust jacket that's price-clipped. A book full of ridiculous laws and accompanying comic-style illustrations. It's illegal in New York to shoot at rabbits from the rear end of a moving 3rd Ave streetcar. In Baltimore it's illegal to sell a parrot, or even to give one away. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Boston, Little Brown, 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Color illustrations by James Marshall. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. NY, Harper & Brothers, 1st , 1940, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Black & white drawings by Thurber. 124 pages. Previous owner's bookplate. Bright dust jacket with only minor chipping.

Hardcover. NY, Doubleday, reprint, 2024, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 320 pages. A brilliant, action-packed re-imagining of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, both harrowing and darkly humorous, told from the enslaved Jim's point of view. Copyright pages states First Edition with the number 10 above it, so a later printing. Clean copy.

Hardcover. New York, E. P. Dutton & Co., Inc., 1st, 1946, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Non-paginated. Hardcover. Full color illustrations by Einar Norelius. Text by Nils Bohman. Areas of staining/darkening to illustrated covers. Interior pages clean, unmarked.

Hardcover. NY, Viking Press, 1st, 1953, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in beige cloth stamped in red. Black & white illustrations by Gay. Previous owner's bookplate. Ex-lib, with light stamp to front fly leaf, residue to rear end papers. Humorous poetry for young readers.

Hardcover. Philadelphia, John C. Winston Company, 1st, 1933, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a worn, chipped dust jacket that has a paper scar to spine where label was removed. Illustrated on dj and cover of a man standing at a bar. B&w illustrations by Jack Gallagher. A satiric view of tipplers, depicted in the character of a Falstaffian American male apparently meant to counteract the caticature of prohibition and prohibitionists as a pinch-faced old spoil sport put forth by the cartoonist Rollin Kirby in the "New York World."

Hardcover. New York , DK Publishing/Dorling Kindersley, 1st US, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 128 pages, illustrated throughout in color by Burningham. Clean hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. SIGNED BY BURNINGHAM on a bookplate pasted to the front fly leaf.

Hardcover. Chicago, Caxton Club, 1st, 1948, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 287 pages, SIGNED BY AUTHOR on front fly leaf, 2 signed notecards and relevant clippings taped in, with illustrations throughout. Minor edge wear and fade, otherwise, very clean and tight, 1 of a limited 1000 copies.

Hardcover. Seatle, WA, Fantagraphics Books, 1st, 2017, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 160 pages. Hardcover with no issued dust jacket. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to cover boards. Color pictures throughout. This is a deluxe, full-color, coffee table book biography; the first of one of America's greatest storytellers. It's filled with beautifully reproduced artwork from the comic books Little Lulu, and his creations Melvin Monster and Thirteen(Going on Eighteen); rare drawings and cartoons; and never-before-seen photographs. Bill Schelly tells Stanley's life story through interviews with his family, friends, and colleagues: his childhood in Harlem and the Bronx, life with his strict Irish Catholic mother, his education at Parsons, his first job as an animator at Max Fleischer Studios, and his years working as a commercial artist, before finding his true metier in comic books during World War II (while battling clinical depression and alcoholism).

Hardcover. New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1st, 1901, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 207 pages with 24 publishers pages in rear. B&w frontispiece and 3 b&w illustrations by Harold Copping. Cover lightly soiled with minor rubbing and edgewear. Inscription by previous owner on front flyleaf. A clean, tight copy.

Softcover. NY, Judge Publishing Co., 1928, Book: Good, Softcover, 32 pages. Color cover art by Jefferson Machamer, "The Dummy". Color ads for Fatima and Marlboro cigarettes. B/w cartoons by Gardner Rea, Suess, others. Small tan spot to bottom edge.

Softcover. NY, MFA Publications, reprint, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 368 pages. Julien Levy opened his New York gallery in 1931, and the following year assembled the first Surrealist show ever held in that city. Over the next two decades he exhibited works by Dali, Ernst, Joseph Cornell, Calder, Eugene Berman, Tchelitchew, Giacometti, Arshile Gorky and many other luminaries of twentieth-century art, giving a number of them their first shows. But Levy was more than a gifted dealer: he also had a gift for friendship, and in this charming, anecdotal memoir he recounts his intimate dealings with some of the most innovative figures of his generation. He crossed the Atlantic with Duchamp and introduced Tanguy to New York. He conceived the idea for Dali's Birth of Venus pavilion at the World's Fair, shared a summer house with Ernst and fished with Andre Breton (yielding a memorable description of the Surrealist leader's run-in with a blowfish). And he was with Gorky in the final, tragic days before the painter's suicide. Memoir of an Art Gallery is the story of prescient vision and lifelong devotion. By turns humorous and moving, and back in print after many years, it is also one of the most enjoyable works ever written about the pivotal time when Manhattan became the art capital of the world. This edition features a new introduction by Ingrid Schaffner, senior curator at the Institute of Contemporary Art in Philadelphia.

Hardcover. New York, D. Appleton-Century Company, 1st US, 1935, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 306 pages. Tan cloth covers with maroon titles and illustrations on cover and spine. Dust jacket with darkening, three spots of staining on spine, light edge wear. Line of holes created by hole punch along right side of front inside dust jacket flap - from top to bottom. Dust jacket now protected with clear plastic cover. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. Garden City, Garden City, 1st Thus, 1912, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 249 pages. Hardcover. Previous owners bookplate on inside front cover. Full color and black & white illustrations by J. M. Gleeson and Paul Bransom. Clean, unmarked copy.

Softcover. Seattle, Fantagraphics, 1st, 2007, Softcover, 168 pages. Edward Sorel is widely recognized as America's premier illustrator. But when he wasn't painting covers and doing drawings for The New Yorker, The Atlantic, Time, Rolling Stone, and many other mass circulation magazines, he was indulging, over the last 30 years, in his first love--making comic strips. Sorel's strips are iconoclastic, cynical, and universally excoriating. No target escapes his watchful wrath: politicians, theological dynasties, ideologues left and right, lawyers, publishers, and the usual gang of movers and shakers--panderers, philistines, money-grubbers. (Nor does he spare himself.) Culled from the pages of The Nation, The Village Voice, Penthouse, and other magazines, Sorel proves he is that most dangerous of creatures--a cartoonist with a chip on his shoulder, an inveterate troublemaker, a burner of bridges.

Hardcover. New York, Viking Press, 1st, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 500 pages. Beige cloth spine with red-colored lettering. Dust jacket with clear plastic cover. Binding slightly wrinkled at top. First edition of this large adventure novel by the author of the Dortmunder series of humorous crime stories.