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Hardcover. Boston, MA, Houghton Mifflin Company, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 321 pages. Hardcover. Dust jacket unclipped. Gilt title on spine. Previous owner dated signature on front flyleaf. Just a touch of wear to dust jacket at corners, still in very good condition. Binding tight.

Softcover. New York, National Cartooonists Society, 1st, 1965, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 183 pages. Spiral bound softcover with light browning to paper wrappers. Black and white cartoons, and text throughout, tight copy.Album of the National Cartoonists SocietyCompilation of over 350 biographies, photos and drawings of America's best loved cartoonists of 1965 including Walt Disney, Charles Schulz, Al Capp, Hank Ketch

Softcover. NY, Natioal Lampoon, 1st, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 90 pages. B&w illustrations throughout. Minor wear to wrappers, clean inside.

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. Los Angeles, National Lampoon Press, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 208 pages. Mel Brooks said, Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you fall in an open sewer and die." It's this kind of thinking that got National Lampoon a reputation in the first place, and now in this glorious collection they're committing that reputation to print again. It's funnier than a fetus in a cookie jar, grosser than a thong with cellulite cling-ons, and even less intelligent than intelligent design".

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."

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. Greenwich, New York Graphic Society Ltd., First Thus, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non paginated. Hardcover. Grey boards and black titles to red cloth spine. Dust jacket with sun fading to spine & light wear to edges. Black & white illustrations, tight binding, toning to edges throughout. Otherwise, clean & unmarked.

Hardcover. New York, Bloomsberg Press, 1st Edition, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 110 pages. Hardcover. B/w illustrations throughout. Gray cover boards, green quarter cloth, gilt title on spine. Binding tight. Spine straight. Pages clean and unmarked. Dust jacket unclipped, excellent. In beautiful condition. Spanning the years from 1938-1998, each of these 100 classic cartoons pack a time-lsss, powerful punch.

Hardcover. New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1st Edition, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 86 pages. Hardcover. B/w illustrations throughout. Dust cover unclipped, excellent. Binding tight. Previous bookstore price tag on back cover. Spine straight. Pages clean and unmarked. Cream cover boards, brown quarter cloth, gilt title on spine. In beautiful condition. Here is your doctor--through the eyes and imaginations of some of the most brilliant cartoonists of our time.

Hardcover. New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1st Edition, 1992, 102 pages. Hardcover. B/w illustrations throughout. Cream cover boards, decoration in brown on front cover, brown quarter cloth, gilt title on spine. Dust jacket price-clipped, excellent. Binding tight. Spine straight. Pages clean and unmarked. In beautiful condition. Go climb a tree, cats! it's the year of the dog--thanks to the 101 inimitable cartoons in this book, a whole glorious, uproarious world of dogs from more than sixty-five years of The New Yorker.

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.

Hardcover. New York, Seabury Press, 1st, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Non-Paginated. Hardcover. SIGNED BY AUTHOR ON HALF TITLE PAGE. Full color illustrations by Clement Hurd. Dust jacket with darkening to spine, light wear to edges. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. NY, Dominic Books, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in pictorial glossy boards. When a jazz-loving kitten named Nicky meets a legendary trumpet player, he learns how to play jazz and word travels fast--soon all the top musicians hear about this jazz cat and want to play with him. This charming story is illustrated with photographs of Nicky with jazz greats Roy Eldridge, Lionel Hampton, Lena Horne, Quincy Jones, Abbey Lincoln, and Gerry Mulligan as they meet and make friends. The colorful graphics and rhyming text--call and response conversation between Nicky and his new musician friends--reflect the humor, rhythm, and spirit of jazz itself. Nicky the Jazz Cat teaches children about the magic of jazz, the value of friends and mentors, and the power of imagination and originality. Children and adults alike will delight in his journey from curious jazz kitten to acclaimed jazz cat. This is the true first edition published 2 years before the poerHouse edition.

Hardcover. NY, Simon & Schuster, 1st, 1957, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. A collection of Addams macabre cartoons mostly from The New Yorker. No dust jacket. Minor shelf wear.

Hardcover. Seattle, Fantagraphics, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 144 pages. This is an essential purchase for fans of Felix the Cat. As all true fans know, Felix's real glory days were in the silent era, when Pat Sullivan's animation studio produced over a 100 ingenious short cartoons featurng the protean ebony feline. Though Sullivan hogged all the credit, the artist behind the series was Otto Messmer, who also worked on Felix's spin-off newspaper comic strip. He continued with that strip after the cartoons ended in 1930 (due to Sullivan's incompetent management).Editor David Gerstein has compiled a sampling of strips from the early 1920s to the 1930s. It's fascinating to see how Felix changed over a decade, moving from a blocky, snout-nosed design to a sleek look with rubber hose limbs and circular head and torso. Comic-strip Felix is of naturally talkier than his film self, and Messmer's sight gags flow less smoothly when broken up by panels and dialogue, but these strips remain a delight, especially since a couple stories are adaptations of now-lost cartoons (and even re-use art from them). As for the original stories, they take advantage of the format to tell longer tales, often in the sort of gently humorous adventure genre later used by Floyd Gottfredson's Mickey Mouse and Carl Bark's Donald Duck comics. Sadly, Felix's comic strip adventures remain far more obscure than those Disney productions.

Softcover. NY, Perigee Book, reprint, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, unpaginated. B&w cartoons that satirize the efforts of owners to discipline their pet dogs and pokes fun at the behavior of dogs. Mild shelf wear, clean copy.

Hardcover. US, Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, 1st, 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, SIGNED BY BOTH AUTHOR and ILLUSTRATOR on title page. Clean, tight copy. Margie Palatini brings her signature humor to this rollicking sing-song read-along, inviting readers on a fast-paced chase through every room in the house as we follow Mommy on her quest to settle Baby down for nap. Dashing from family room to living room, both on the table and under it, through the kitchen and even hiding in the laundry basket, acclaimed artist Dan Yaccarino creates a hilarious romp in his signature retro style that culminates with mommy and baby collapsed - AT LAST -- fast asleep in a chair.

NY, Harper Collins, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Color illustrations by the author.

Hardcover. NY, Harper Collins, 3rd, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. Color illustrations by New Yorker cartoonist Roz Chast. Illustrated end papers. Light edgewear to dust jacket.

Hardcover. NY, Harper Collins, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Color illustrations by Roz Chast. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY MARTIN. Hardcover with dust jakcet. Clean, tight copy.