Softcover. Seattle, WA, Fantagraphics, 2nd, 2012, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 250 pages. Softcover. Light wear to corners, otheriwse Clean, unmarked copy. Black and white drawings throughout. Spanning the most formative era of his life, from the painful years of adolescence to the fame and fortune of early adulthood, this collection of personal correspondences with two near-lifelong friends sheds light on the artistic development, bitter struggle, and ultimate triumph of the world's greatest living cartoonist.Crumb writes about many key events in his life: the dissolution of his first marriage, the pain of being separated from his first child, his troubles with the IRS, and his obsessions with comics, music and women, most notably his earliest experiences with Aline Kominsky-Crumb, now his wife of over 30 years. An entertaining and revealing look into the mind of a great artist and thinker; this is Crumb's sketchbook of words, featuring scores of rare art, including entire letters drawn in cartoon form.
Hardcover. London, Frederick Warne, 1st, 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 284 pages. B&W, color illustrations. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. Susquehanna University Press, 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, pages. This volume pieces together three partial autobiographies of Eugene Zimmerman (1862-1935) as well as his sketches, notes, letters, and articles to produce a coherent life story of one of America's leading one-panel cartoonists. Illustrated.
Hardcover. New York, Tudor Publishing Co., reprint, 1960, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 308 pages, b&w illustrations throughout. Yellow cloth with red title on spine. Pictorial tan dust jacket with light wear to edges and spine and some sunfading to back cover. Overall a tight, clean copy.