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Hardcover. NY, Flying Dolphin Press, 1st, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. The acclaimed entertainer and bestselling author Steve Martin and the wildly clever New Yorker cartoonist Roz Chast team up in a weird, wonderful excursion through the alphabet. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Flying Dolphin Press, 1st, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Color drawings by New Yorker cartoonist Roz Chast. Clean copy.

Hardcover. US, Archie Comics, 1st, 2013, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 157 pages, illustrated throughout in color. Light shelf-wear to boards with slight bump to lower edge of spine. Clean, tight copy. A beautifully designed celebration of over 70 years of comic book covers featuring America's reigning cartoon high school icons: Archie, Betty, Veronica and friends. Featuring beautiful full-color artwork by fan favorite artists Dan DeCarlo, Harry Lucey, Bob Montana, Dan Parent and many more in a deluxe, oversize hardcover edition, The Art of Archie: The Covers goes behind the scenes on the all-time best comic book covers in Archie's history with an insider's look at their inspiration, creation and ongoing cultural legacy.

Hardcover. NY, Abrams, 1st, 2009, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 256 pages. Harvey Kurtzman discovered Robert Crumb and gave Gloria Steinem her first job in publishing when he hired her as his assistant. Terry Gilliam also started at his side, met an unknown John Cleese in the process, and the genesis of Monty Python was formed. Art Spiegelman has stated on record that he owes his career to him. And he's one of Playboy publisher Hugh Hefner's favorite artists.Harvey Kurtzman had a Midas touch for talent, but was himself an astonishingly talented and influential artist, writer, editor, and satirist. The creator of MAD and Playboy's "Little Annie Fanny" was called, "One of the most important figures in postwar America" by the New York Times. Kurtzman's groundbreaking "realistic" war comics of the early '50s and various satirical publications (MAD, Trump, Humbug, and Help!) had an immense impact on popular culture, inspiring a generation of underground cartoonists. Without Kurtzman, it's unlikely we'd have had Airplane, SNL, or National Lampoon.The Art of Harvey Kurtzman is the first and only authorized celebration of this "Master of American Comics." This definitive book includes hundreds of never-before-seen illustrations, paintings, pencil sketches, newly discovered lost E.C. Comics layouts, color compositions, illustrated correspondence, and vintage photos from the rich Kurtzman archives

Hardcover. Detroit MI, Stabur Press, 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 144 pages, illustrated in color and b&w. With the illustrated paper covered slipcase. The full-color jacket art by him was done expressly for this publication. Includes a checklist of his works: comic books, humor magazines, other magazines (Playboy, Esquire, etc), books, advertising, misc. prints, etc. All quotes in the book are from interviews conducted by the author.

Hardcover. Hermes Press, 1st, 2024, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards, 190 pages. When cartoonist Elzie Segar created Popeye, as a minor character ten years into the run of the Thimble Theatre strip in 1929, little did he know that the world's most famous sailor would still be around over ninety years later and still being offered as a Sunday feature.To celebrate Popeye, the character, the comic strip and his universe, a feature cartoonist Charles M. Schulz described as "perfect... consistent in drawing and humor," Hermes Press is publishing the definitive art monograph on the subject.This book features a comprehensive essay written by pop culture historian R.C. Harvey accompanied by over 350 illustrations of original strip and comic book art, animation art, illustrations, advertising art, products, the Robert Altman film, and everything Popeye. Every aspect of Popeye is explored, from Olive Oyl and Eugene the Jeep to Wimpy and Bluto. Clean, bright copy.

Hardcover. NY, Oxford University Press, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, glossy boards, 160 pages. SIGNED BY PARINI on the title page. A writer and critic looks back over his own decades of trials, errors, and triumphs, in an intimate memoir that brims with humor, encouragement, and hard-won wisdom about the teacher's craft. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Crowell-Collier Press, 1st, 1962, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial cloth boards. 64 pages illustrated with b&w cartoon-like drawings by Robert Jones. Mild soil to covers, name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Hardcover. NY, New York Review of Books, reprint, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in pictorial boards with a red cloth spine. First publlshed in 1950, this charming picture book by the Caldecott Medal-winning team of Simont and Krauss features bold illustrations that bring to life a humorous and engaging reversal of ordinary reality that will enchant young children and their parents. Full color. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 1st, 2013, Book: Very Good, Hardcover, 400 pages. The Best American Comics showcases the work of both established and up-and-coming contributors. Editor Jeff Smith--creator of the classic comic Bone, a comedy/adventure about three lost cousins from Boneville--has culled the best stories from graphic novels, pamphlet comics, newspapers, magazines, mini-comics, and web comics to create this cutting-edge collection.

Hardcover. London, The Bodley Head, 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a in a bright dust jacket except for a sliver of fading to fore-edge, oblong format, unpaginated, illustrated with 52 full color cartoons. Foreword by Mark Boxer. Small owner's stamp on front fly leaf with bottom corner clipped. Uncommon in hardcover.

Softcover. NY, Holt Rinhart Winston, 1st, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 190 pages. Cartoonist Al Capp presents 26 of his favorite sequences from his cartoon strip.

Hardcover. NY, Exposition Press, 1st, 1965, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn jacket with fading to spine. B&w drawings by the author. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, George Braziller, 1st, 1959, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in an edgeworn, price-clipped dust jacket, 111 pages. Wonderful b&w illustrations by Ronald Searle. The first collaboration between these Atkinson and Searle, a look at the 'new poor' in the London of the 1950's. Taking Henry Mayhew's 19th century work 'London Labour and London Poor' as their guide, the writer and artist take a perceptive, compassionate and subtly humorous, look at how the burden of poverty has shifted into some surprising quarters - including a look at a literary exile, an aging actress, enclyopedia salesman, ice cream seller and more. Shelfworn copy, but sound with a light ownership stamp to front fly leaf.

Hardcover. Chapel Hill NC, Algonquin Books, 1st, 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 240 pages. Each morning at first light, Michele Raffin steps outside into the bewitching bird music that heralds another day at Pandemonium Aviaries. A full symphony that swells from the most vocal of more than 350 avian throats representing more than 40 species. "It knocks me out, every day," she says.Pandemonium, the home and bird sanctuary that Raffin shares with some of the world's most remarkable birds, is a conservation organization dedicated to saving and breeding birds at the edge of extinction, with the goal of eventually releasing them into the wild. In The Birds of Pandemonium, she lets us into her world--and theirs. Birds fall in love, mourn, rejoice, and sacrifice; they have a sense of humor, invent, plot, and cope. They can teach us volumes about the interrelationships of humans and animals.

Softcover. Berkeley CA, Black Lizard Books, reprint, 1989, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, mass market paperback, 171 pages. "No one writes a better crime novel than Charles Willeford" Elmore Leonard THE BLACK MASS OF BROTHER SPRINGER tells the story of Sam Springer, a drifter novelist who meets Jack Dover, the retiring Abbot of the Church of God's Flock. Dover's final official act is to ordain Springer and send him off to serve as pastor of an all-Black church in Jacksonville, Florida. Springer soon becomes entangled in the city's growing civil rights movement . . . and with the church deacon's earthy young wife, Merita. The Washington post calls this darkly humorous novel by Charles Willeford, one of the great crime writers of the 20th century, "his masterpiece." Light wear, book store stamp, price on first page, crease to rear cover. Otherwise clean.

Softcover. Brunswick ME, Shanti Arts , 1st, 2023, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 121 pages. Poet J. R. Solonche adds The Book of a Small Fisherman to his impressive list of over thirty published poetry collections. His poems, says Chase Twichell, "are an extraordinary amalgam of wit, close observation, humor, and clear-seeing. Each one singles out and illuminates an ordinary moment-ordinary, that is, until the poet explodes into a miniature epiphany. Easy of access and frequently profound, J. R. Solonche's poems induce in me a state of delighted surprise."

NY, G.P. Putnam's Sons, 2nd pr., 1904, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardccover, red cloth binding, with stamped titles and decoration to upper board and spine, and pastedown illustration in corner of upper board. Color frontis. and 8 b&w plates by Peter Newell. Eight tales of a man and his relationship with various animals. Hinges cracked, binding solid. No markings.

Hardcover. Last Gasp, 1st, 2019, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards, 288 pages. Illustrated with photographs and back and white illustrations. Introduction by Drew Friedman. Fantastic reference work on the history and back story of the creation of R. Crumb's legendary humor comics anthology.

Hardcover. Last Gasp, 1st, 2019, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 288 pages. The Book of Weirdo is the definitive - and hugely entertaining- examination of Weirdo magazine, renowned underground comix cartoonist Robert Crumb's legendary humor comics anthology, which was originally published throughout the 1980s. A "low-brow" counterpoint to Art Spiegelman and Francoise Mouley's rather high-faluttin' RAW comix publication, Weirdo influenced an entire generation of alternative and neo-underground artists, as well as creative refuge for the underground comix veterans, and this book features the complete story of the well-recalled comics magazine, along with testimonials from over 130 of the publication's contributors, including interviews with Weirdo's three editors - R. "Keep on Truckin'" Crumb, Peter "Hate" Bagge, and Aline "The Bunch" Kominsky-Crumb - and publisher "Baba Ron" Turner. As much a history of the alternative comics scene of the 1980s - from New York City punk to Seattle grunge - this exhaustive retrospective includes rare and unseen artwork from that era, as well as new comics from modern-day artists celebrating their love for the great oddball magazine. In its time, the periodical featured the finest work of many artists, particularly the best material by Robert Crumb himself, Weirdo's founder and best known for ZAP Comix, Fritz the Cat, and Mr. Natural, and a man widely heralded as the greatest cartoonist of all time. We get photos of the various contributors, some samples of the work, more than a few brand-spanking-new artistic tributes to the magazine and the people who made it. And lots and lots of stories about what it was like to work for and with Robert Crumb.

Softcover. NY, Dover, reprint, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, Bright purple cover. A collection of cartoon stories, reproduced unabridged from an original 1892 publication. Plus seven picture stories from issues of Life Magazine, 1921-22. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Charles Scribners Sons, reprint, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Oblong hardcover, green boards, 118 pages, 10 stories, each told by a series of cartoon sketches by Frost. Light shelf wear.

Hardcover. NY, Blue Sky Press, reprint, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. With warmth, humor, and dazzling landscapes, award-winning writer Audrey Wood and acclaimed illustrator David Shannon team up to present the tall-tale beginnings of Niagara Falls, the Rocky Mountains, Old Faithful, and more. Meet the Bunyans - a family you'll never forget! Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Doubleday, 1st, 1952, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 94 pages. B&w cartoon illustrations by Gluyas Williams. In a dust jacket with light edgewear.