Softcover. New York, Quill William Morrow, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 109 pages. Softcover with light wear to paper wrappers. Illustration in black and white by Callahan. Tight copy.
Hardcover. NY, Philomel Books, 1st, 2015, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in pictorial boards. A TIME Magazine Top 10 Children's Book of 2015! Ducks growing out of bananas? A mouse catching a cat? What's wrong with this book from the creator of The Very Hungry Caterpillar? Yes, there is something strange, something funny and even downright preposterous on every page of this book. But its not a mistake - its nonsense! And its also surrealism. Nonsense lies at the heart of many beloved nursery rhymes. Children readily accept odd statements like the cow jumped over the moon and the dish ran away with the spoon. This fanciful bending of reality is also basic to surrealism. In this book, nonsense and surrealism combine to spark creativity and imagination. No dust jacket, clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Farrar Straus & Giroux, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Retells stories from the Old Testament in humorous, less-than-reverent verses. Illustrated in b&w by her husband, William Steig.
Softcover. Needham Heights MA, Old Trusty Dog Food, 1st, 1939, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 100 pages. A promotional booklet issued by a dog food company. The highlight of the book are the many b&w cartoons by Beck. Funny, well done in the style of H.T. Webster. Light chipping to paper spine, otherwise clean. Uncommon.
Hardcover. NY, Bloomsbury USA, 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 96 pages. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. Readers can't get enough of Roz Chast. Together, these cartoons, which originally appeared in The New Yorker, Scientific American, Redbook, and other publications, constitute a spot-on record of our increasingly absurd existence. The book is a powerful reminder of how lucky we are to have Roz Chast among us to tackle some of the toughest themes of the times with uproarious humor: genetically altered mice, birthday parties from hell, and comfort drinks in the age of insecurity.
Softcover. San Francisco, Golden Gate Publishing, 1st, 1972, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover First Edition September 1972. Printed price of .50 cents on front cover. Near fine in stapled pictorial printed wrappers.
Hardcover. NY, HarperCollins, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 32 pages illustrated in color by Jack E. Davis. Clean copy. A classic horror movie on TV inspires Morty and Ray to paint a picture of themselves for all the wrong reasons.
NY, Simon and Schuster, 2nd pr., 1953, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 192 pages. The fourth collection of Kelly's topical cartoons, b&w comic strip art throughout. Nice
Softcover. NY, Simon and Schuster, 1st, 1953, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover with lightly soiled wrappers, internally clean. Light fraying to paper spine. Stated first printing on copyright page.
Hardcover. NY, Simon Spotlight Enterteinment, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. We are accustomed to enjoying no more than 20 cartoons in each issue of the New Yorker Magazine. These are chosen from ten ideas, submitted weekly, by some 50 New Yorker cartoonists. This is an anthology of "the rejects" from known contributors edited by Matthew Diffee (himself a contributing cartoonist since 1999), and a foreword from Cartoon Editor Robert Mankoff of some 20 years. 264 pgs of hilarious rejected cartoons, accompanied by handwritten questionnaires & photographed self-portraits. Clean copy.
Hardcover. Boston, Bulfinch, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 135 pages, Color photos by Schiffman that originally appeared in Rolling Stone magazine. Brief profiles accompany portraits of Robin Williams, Steve Martin, Lilly Tomlin, Jerry Lewis, Jonathan Winters, Whoopi Goldberg, and other comedians.
Hardcover. NY, Random House, reprint, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, price-clipped dust jacket, 78 pages illustrated in 2-colors by Seuss. Here is the true story about the Godiva family, and the seven sisters who are each far too intelligent to waste time worrying about frivolous things like doing their hair, makeup, or you know, clothes. When their father is killed by a horse, they take it upon themselves to discover seven Horse Truths, one from each sister, before any of them will ever know true love. What follows is a clever, funny and sometimes touching story that is a little different from your average Dr. Seuss book. Originally published in 1939. Clean copy.
Softcover. Overlook Books, reprint, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 144 pages. The adorable squash-shaped character was so popular it immediately spawned the largest merchandising craze in the nation's history. In the words of Life magazine, the nation was "Shmoo-struck." The Short Life and Happy Times of the Shmoo collects, for the first time in one volume, Capp's essential comic strips about the Shmoo. This is Al Capp and his incisive social criticism at its best.
Hardcover. NY, Viking, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright unclipped dust jacket. Color illustrations by Lane Smith. Unpaginated. With complete number line. A 1993 Caldecott honor book - delightfully illustrated parodies of children's fairy tales. The entire book, with its unconventional page arrangement and eclectic, frenetic mix of text and pictures, is a spoof on the art of book design and the art of the fairy tale. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Viking, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright unclipped dust jacket. Color illustrations by Lane Smith. Unpaginated. With complete number line. A 1993 Caldecott honor book - delightfully illustrated parodies of children's fairy tales. The entire book, with its unconventional page arrangement and eclectic, frenetic mix of text and pictures, is a spoof on the art of book design and the art of the fairy tale. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Viking, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright unclipped dust jacket. Color illustrations by Lane Smith. Unpaginated. With complete number line. A 1993 Caldecott honor book - delightfully illustrated parodies of children's fairy tales. The entire book, with its unconventional page arrangement and eclectic, frenetic mix of text and pictures, is a spoof on the art of book design and the art of the fairy tale. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Norton, 1st, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 112 pages. The "nasty, negative, misanthropic" comic genius proves he has a sweet side.Cute little kittens, angels, and babies? Flowers, ice cream cones, and German boy bands? Coming from, supposedly, the creepiest and most pessimistic artist of his generation? Yes indeed, there is a "sweeter side" to R. Crumb. These delectable illustrations-whether depicting Bernie the Cat pawing for his master's affection, the timeworn beauty of a French village cul-de-sac, or a quiet night chez Crumb-wonderfully exemplify the many tender moments that have, until now, played second fiddle to the cult icon's more raunchy sketches. Now Crumb harkens back to his humble American beginnings as a Cleveland greeting card illustrator, when his innate knack for the grotesque had to be suppressed for the perennial appeal of "cute." The result is this cheery and blue-skied world, where readers of every conceivable personality type, age group, even sexual persuasion can finally enjoy the artist's momentary lapse from naughty to nice. Color and black-and-white illustrations throughout
Hardcover. Secaucus NJ, Citadel Press, 1st, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. 255 pages, many b&w illustrations. The movies featured are: You nazty spy, Three little pigskins, and Men in black. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Abrams, 1st, 2009, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, SIGNED BY SPIEGELMAN & MOULY AND JON SCIESZKA who did the introduction. The TOON Treasury of Classic Children's Comics is an unprecedented collection of the greatest comics for children, artfully compiled by two of the best-known creators in publishing and the field of comics--Art Spiegelman and Francoise Mouly.This treasury created for young readers focuses on comic books, not strips, and contains humorous stories that range from a single-page to eight or even twenty-two pages, each complete and self-contained. The comics have been culled from the Golden Age of comic books, roughly the 1940s through the early 1960s, and feature the best examples of works by such renowned artists and writers as Carl Barks, John Stanley, Sheldon Mayer, Walt Kelly, Basil Wolverton, and George Carlson, among many, many others.Organizing the book into five categories (Hey, Kids!; Funny Animals; Fantasyland; Story Time!; and Wacky & Weird), Spiegelman and Mouly use their expertise in the area of comics to frame each catego
Softcover. Montreal, Drawn and Quarterly , 1st, 2017, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover. The master of the comic book mash-up finds the POTUS to be his ultimate super-villain R. Sikoryak is famous for taking classic comics and mashing them with famous literature as he did in Masterpiece Comics or even using comics to visualize the iTunes Terms and Conditions contract. Now in these uncertain times, cartoonist R. Sikoryak draws upon the power of comics and satire to frame President Trump and his controversial declarations as the words and actions of the most notable villains and antagonists in comic book history. Reimagining the most famous comic covers, Sikoryak transforms Wonder Woman into Nasty Woman; Tubby Tompkins into Trump; Black Panther into the Black Voter; the Fantastic Four into the Hombres Fantasticos and Trump into Magneto fighting the Ex-Men.
Hardcover. NY, Dow Jones & Co., 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 172 pages. Illustrated with 175 b/w cartoons. 'The Wall Street Journal Book of Business Cartoons is a collection of the funniest cartoons published in the nation's premier business and financial daily over the past 50 years. Along the way it's also a hilarious history of American business foibles during the past half century. It skewers everyone you've ever worked with -- your broker, accountant, banker, lawyer, doctor and secretary. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, William Morrow, 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, lightly worn dust jacket with a small closed tear. A Vermont farmer finishes his chores quickly with the help of a rolling pile of hay. Color illustrations by Gackenbach. Clean copy.