Softcover. New York, Abrams, Wraps, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 190 pages of great advertising art. 160 illustrations, 150 in color. Oblong Paperback.

Softcover. US, Laurence King Publishing, 1st, 2013, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 186 pages, illustrated throughout in color and b&w. Light edgewear to wrappers, else a clean, tight copy. This is the first comprehensive survey of Modernist graphic design as it emerged in America in the period from 1920 and 1960 in various media--advertising, information design, brand identity, magazine design, book design, and posters. It examines the great works which by mid-century had defined American graphic design. The book begins with a section devoted to the emergence of Modernism and its major historical influence, such as European avant-garde movements, popular culture, educational innovations such as the Bauhaus School, architecture, industrial design, and photography. The heart of the book includes the key works of mid-century Modernism as it matured into a fully-formed American style, bringing together such great names as Alexey Brodovitch, Lester Beall, Paul Rand, Saul Bass, Will Burtin, and Alvin Lustig. The final section looks at the impact of and reactions to this new movement as graphic design in America matured in the 1960s and beyond.

Softcover. NY, Monacelli Press,, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 272 pages, illustrated in color and b&w. The roadside sign has become an American icon: a glowing neon symbol of the golden age of the open road. Yet signs are complex pieces of design, serving not only as physical markers but also as cultural, political, and economic ones. In American Signs, Lisa Mahar traces the evolution of motel signs on Route 66 in a distinctive visual approach that combines text, images, and graphics. American Signs reveals the rich vernacular traditions of motel sign-making in five eras, spanning from the late 1930s through the 1970s. The motel signs of the early 1940s, for instance, reflect vernacular traditions dating back at least a century, while examples from the later years of the decade reveal a culture newly obsessed with themes. America's fascination with newness and technological progress is manifested in 1950s motel signs. Finally, in the 1960s, a turn toward simplicity and the use of new, modular technologies allowed motel signs to address the needs of a mass society and the beginnings of a national, rather than regional, aesthetic for motel signs.

Softcover. New York , Ballantine Books, 1st thus, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 320 pages, b&w art by R. Crumb, Kevin Brown, Gregory Budgett and others. Clean, bright paperback. The classic collection of the comics that inspired the movie "American "Splendor, winner of the Grand Jury Prize at the 2003 Sundance Film Festival "American Splendor is the world's first literary comic book. Cleveland native Harvey Pekar is a true American original. A V.A. hospital file clerk and comic book writer, Harvey chronicles the ordinary and mundane in stories both funny and touching. His dead-on eye for the frustrations and minutiae of the workaday world mix in a delicate balance with his insight into personal relationships. Pekar has been compared to Dreiser, Dostoevsky, and Lenny Bruce. But he is truly more than all of them--he is himself. "Mr. Pekar has . . . proven that comics can address the ambiguities of daily living, that like the finest fiction, they can hold a mirror up to life."

Softcover. New Haven CT, Yale University Press;, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 208 pages. An authoritative guide to the world's greatest typographers, spanning the history of printThis handsomely illustrated volume features a comprehensive listing of outstanding type designers from around the world, ranging from Johann Gutenberg (c. 1394-1468) to the present day. Arranged alphabetically by designer, the book features the work of more than 260 figures in type design, many of whom are among the field's most renowned--including Morris Fuller Benton, Matthew Carter, Adrian Frutiger, Claude Garamond, Eric Gill, Frederic W. Goudy, Bruce Rogers, and Hermann Zapf--as well as entries on lesser-known designers whose contributions to typography are substantial. Entries are illustrated by examples of the designers' work taken from posters, private press editions, magazine covers, book designs, and rare archival specimens. An A-Z of Type Designers also features eight essays by leading contemporary typographers Jonathan Barnbrook, Erik van Blokland, Clive Bruton, John Downer, John Hudson, Jean Francois Porchez, Erik Spiekermann, and Jeremy Tankard. These authors discuss different aspects of contemporary type design, including typeface revivals, font piracy, and designing fonts for corporate identities.

Softcover. New Haven CT, Yale University Press;, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 208 pages. An authoritative guide to the world's greatest typographers, spanning the history of printThis handsomely illustrated volume features a comprehensive listing of outstanding type designers from around the world, ranging from Johann Gutenberg (c. 1394-1468) to the present day. Arranged alphabetically by designer, the book features the work of more than 260 figures in type design, many of whom are among the field's most renowned--including Morris Fuller Benton, Matthew Carter, Adrian Frutiger, Claude Garamond, Eric Gill, Frederic W. Goudy, Bruce Rogers, and Hermann Zapf--as well as entries on lesser-known designers whose contributions to typography are substantial. Entries are illustrated by examples of the designers' work taken from posters, private press editions, magazine covers, book designs, and rare archival specimens. An A-Z of Type Designers also features eight essays by leading contemporary typographers Jonathan Barnbrook, Erik van Blokland, Clive Bruton, John Downer, John Hudson, Jean Francois Porchez, Erik Spiekermann, and Jeremy Tankard. These authors discuss different aspects of contemporary type design, including typeface revivals, font piracy, and designing fonts for corporate identities.

Hardcover. New Haven CT, Yale University Press, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 400 pages, illustrated throughout in color and b&w. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. The book presents contemporary art comics produced by 75 artists, along with some classic comic strips and other related fine art and historical materials. Brunetti arranges the book to reflect the creative process itself, connecting stories and art to each other in surprising ways: nonlinear, elliptical, sometimes whimsical, even poetic. He emphasizes continuity from piece to piece, weaving themes and motifs throughout the volume. As gorgeously produced as Brunetti's previous anthology of graphic fiction, this book does full justice to the creative work of Art Spiegelman, Chris Ware, Charles Burns, Gary Panter, and the other prominent or emerging comic artists who are currently at work at the cutting edge of their medium.

Hardcover. NY, Princeton Architectural Press, 1st US, 2019, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, decorated cloth covers, oblong format. This is the first book to catalog comparative maps and tableaux that visualize the heights and lengths of the world's mountains and rivers. Produced predominantly in the nineteenth century, these beautifully rendered maps emerged out of the tide of exploration and scientific developments in measuring techniques. Beginning with the work of explorer Alexander von Humboldt, these historic drawings reveal a world of artistic and imaginative difference. Many of them give way--and with visible joy--to the power of fantasy in a mesmerizing array of realistic and imaginary forms. Most of the maps are from the David Rumsey Historical Map Collection at Stanford University.

Hardcover. Seattle, Fantagraphics Books, 1st, 2023, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards. 184 pages in color. Anais Nin, the author of works such as Delta of Venus and House of Incest, is the patron saint of taboo-breaking pop culture sexual iconoclasts. Not only is she an inspiration for contemporary figures such as Madonna, but her oeuvre, which encompasses erotica, autobiography, essays, short fiction, novels, and much more, has been adapted into film (Henry and June), television (Little Birds), and other media.The cartoonist Leonie Bischoff traces the life of the prolific writer in this lushly colored graphic novel. It begins with Nin struggling to reconcile the man she married (who had artistic aspirations) with the banker she finds herself living with in the Parisian suburbs. Soon, her obsession with June Miller leads to inspiration. Nin's life and art, the truth and fiction, are further intertwined as she recounts her many sexual liaisons including those with Henry Miller (whom she and her husband subsidize so he can write the controversial Tropic of Cancer), her psychoanalysts, and even her father. Although Bischoff's drawing is largely representational, she occasionally depicts Nin's sexual experiences in scenes as surreal as Nin's own written portrayal of them.

Softcover. NY, Grolier Club Of New York, 1st, 2023, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover. A lively look at an under-explored niche in the history of American ads: pop-ups. Drawing from Ellen G. K. Rubin's extensive collection of more than 7,000 pop-up books and related ephemera, Animated Advertising demonstrates how animated and dimensional paper devices have been used throughout US history to promote products, art, entertainment, and ideas. The book displays the creativity of advertisers in food, fashion, tobacco, pharmaceuticals, travel, music, politics, and more. Rubin's diverse examples of historical paper pop-ups show how they leaped from the pack of standard marketing materials to catch the eye and inform patrons and clientele about the items being sold. Illustrated with two hundred and fifty color images, and published to coincide with a Winter 2023 exhibition at the Grolier Club's New York headquarters, Animated Advertising is a lively look at an under-explored niche in the history of American marketing, graphic design, and paper engineering.

Softcover. NY, Grolier Club, 1st, 2023, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 112 pages. A lively look at an underexplored niche in the history of American ads: pop-ups. Drawing from Ellen G. K. Rubins extensive collection of more than 7,000 pop-up books and related ephemera, Animated Advertising demonstrates how animated and dimensional paper devices have been used throughout US history to promote products, art, entertainment, and ideas. The book displays the creativity of advertisers in food, fashion, tobacco, pharmaceuticals, travel, music, politics, and more. Rubins diverse examples of historical paper pop-ups show how they leaped from the pack of standard marketing materials to catch the eye and inform patrons and clientele about the items being sold. Illustrated with two hundred and fifty color images, and published to coincide with a Winter 2023 exhibition at the Grolier Clubs New York headquarters, Animated Advertising is a lively look at an underexplored niche in the history of American marketing, graphic design, and paper engineering. Still in publisher's shrinkwrap.

Hardcover. New Haven CT, Yale University Press, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 400 pages, color and b&w cartoon art. Brunetti focuses on very recent works by contemporary artists engaged in presenting a world of rapid and unpredictable change. The book presents contemporary art comics produced by 75 artists, along with some classic comic strips and other related fine art and historical materials. Very good in a bright dust jacket.

Softcover. Berkeley CA, The Print Mint, 1st, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 8.25 x 10.75", 52 pages, including semi-glossy color cardstock covers, and b/w interior. An anthology comic. Cover art by Robert Crumb. Frosty the Snowman and His Friends, script and art by Robert Crumb; Frosty and friends plot to throw bombs disguised as snowballs at the "Rockerfella" mansion. Fun City In Ba'Dan, script by William Burroughs, art by S. Clay Wilson. As the Mind Reels, script and art by Art Spiegelman; a surreal soap opera. Dollboy, script and art by Bill Griffith; A ventriloquist's dummy is kidnapped. Stalin bio by Spain Rodriguez. The Adventures of Don Carlos Balmori, script and art by Kim Deitch; the story of a Mexican hoaxer. Saddle-stapled wraps.

Softcover. Berkeley CA, Print Mint, 1st, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 44 pages. An anthology comic. Cover art by R. Crumb. Sawney Beane bio. Let's Talk Sense About This Here Modern America, script and art by Robert Crumb; Crumb rants about America. Gilbert Shelton's Advanced Motoring Tips. Where Are They Now?, script and art by Kim Deitch; A reporter learns about a practical joker. A Couch in the Sun, script and art by Bill Griffith; biography of Henri Rousseau. Who Killed Lenny Bruce? article, art by Crumb. Goethe's Faust, script and art by Justin Green.

Softcover. Berkeley, Print Mint, 1st, 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover comic, 8.25 x 10.75", with 52 pages, including semi-glossy color wraps and b/w interior. An anthology comic. Cover art by Jay Lynch. Crybaby's Blues, script and art by Robert Crumb; the harshness of life. Comedia Dell' Zippy starring Zippy The Pinhead, script and art by Bill Griffith; Outlawed clowns put on a show. The Great Ajeeb, Chess Playing Automaton, script and art by Kim Deitch; fake chess playing machine. The Corpse Gobblin' Ogre of Columbite Mountain, script and art by S. Clay Wilson. A Modern Mystery starring Arnold Peck, script and art by Willy Murphy. Some Boxes for the Salvation Army, script and art by Art Spiegelman. The Calvin Coolidge Story, script by Jim Hoberman, art by Kim Deitch. Gotterdammerung, script and art by Spain Rodriguez.

Hardcover. San Diego, Idea & Design Works, 1st, 2012, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, oversize format, pictorial boards, 157 pages, color throughout. Continuing the Eisner Award-winning series of the rare Archie newspaper strips by Bob Montana, we turn our attention to his remarkable, full-color Sunday pages. Archie''s Sunday Best is the first-ever collection of the late 1940s and early 1950s Sundays. Montana is approaching the peak of his creative juices in these pages, which feature classic Archie themes and characters. The cartoonist draws on the facts, fantasy, feelings, and fun of his own high school days in Haverhill, Massachusetts. DUE TO WEIGHT, DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONY.

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin , 1st, 2012, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 290 pages, illustrated in b&w and reddish tones by Bechdel. In a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Alison Bechdel's Fun Home was a pop culture and literary phenomenon. Now, a second thrilling tale of filial sleuthery, this time about her mother: voracious reader, music lover, passionate amateur actor. Also a woman, unhappily married to a closeted gay man, whose artistic aspirations simmered under the surface of Bechdel's childhood . . . and who stopped touching or kissing her daughter good night, forever, when she was seven. Poignantly, hilariously, Bechdel embarks on a quest for answers concerning the mother-daughter gulf. It's a richly layered search that leads readers from the fascinating life and work of the iconic twentieth-century psychoanalyst Donald Winnicott, to one explosively illuminating Dr. Seuss illustration, to Bechdel's own (serially monogamous) adult love life. And, finally, back to Mother -- to a truce, fragile and real-time, that will move and astonish all adult children of gifted mothers.

Softcover. New York , Marvel Entertainment Group, 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 48 pages illustrated in color by Jones. Clean, bright copy.

Softcover. Seattle, WA, Fantagraphics, 1st, 2007, Book: Very Good, 120 pages. Softcover. Very clean, unmarked copy. The third volume of the popular "Arf" series, Arf Forum, runs the gamut from Krazy Kat's kartoonist George Herriman to heartbreak rocker Elvis Presley, Spider-Man's Stan Lee to New Yorker cartoonist Otto Soglow, Little Nemo's Winsor McCay to silent-film star Charlie Chaplin, Nancy's Ernie Bushmiller to Surrealist Max Ernst.

Softcover. Seattle, WA, Fantagraphics, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 120 pages. Softcover. Very clean, unmarked copy. Arf Museum explores the unholy marriage of art and comics in a stunning array of rare masterpieces, guaranteed to make you "pop-eyed!" With 120 large-format and colorful pages, Arf is a treat for the senses, encompassing a rich treasure trove of images spanning the 19th, 20th, and 21st centuries. This iconoclastic tome showcases the gamut of artists, from celebrated innovators to forgotten geniuses.

Hardcover. New Rochelle NY, Arlington House, 1st, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, pages. This large volume has much of the background and comic art that made the series so popular. It dealt with Depression under which Daddy Warbucks was wealthy and Annie survived with her dog Sandy. Strips run July 1, 1935, to Dec. 25, 1945. Introduction by Al Capp.

Softcover. New Haven, CT, Yale University Art Gallery, 1st, 1985, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Exhibition catalog. 172 pages, illustrated throughout in b&w. Blue pictorial stiff wrappers. Covers slightly sunned and lightly worn around the edges. Writings in ink on front cover. Nice, tight copy.

Hardcover. NY, Harcourt Brace, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 154 pages, in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Wonderfully illustrated survey of the dust jacket art of an American master. Introduction ("The Times and Places of Wendell Minor") by David McCullough; introductory artist's statement. SIGNED("W. Minor") and with rubber stamp monogram by Minor on first preliminary leaf. Clean, bright copy.

Hardcover. Mineola NY, Calla Editions, reprint, 2017, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Designers, collectors, and Art Nouveau aficionados will treasure this original collection of 100 plates of decorative full-color graphics. These authentic images are reproduced from the now extremely hard-to-find periodical La decoration artistique, which was published in Paris during the decade before World War I. They constitute some of the rarest and best material printed during the Art Nouveau period, and these uncommonly graceful and appealing illustrations are now available in this beautifully designed hardcover edition. The dazzling array of images includes headpieces, typographical banners, and other sinuous designs bursting with parrots and peacocks, vines and flowers, and other natural motifs. Examples include storefront signage for bakeries and cafes; decorative friezes of theatrical masks and grapevines; borders of flowers, books, and birds; stenciled decorations for fire screens; and corner and ceiling ornaments. An essential acquisition for any library or collector of Art Nouveau graphics and illustration, this volume promises to provide a lasting source of inspiration and pleasure. Clean copy.

Hardcover. New York, Abrams ComicArts, 1st, 2012, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 224 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. A very clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket edges. Throughout his 25-year career, alternative cartoonist/screenwriter Daniel Clowes has always been ahead of artistic and cultural movements. Clowes has been praised for his emotionally compelling narratives that reimagine the ways that stories can be told in comics. The Art of Daniel Clowes: Modern Cartoonist is the first monograph on this award-winning, New York Times-bestselling creator. It includes all of Clowes's best-known illustrations as well as rare and previously unpublished work, all reproduced from the original art.

Hardcover. San Francisco, Last Gasp, 1st, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 80 pages. Glossy illustrated boards, color illustrations. Hideshi Hino is a cult author both in the comics and horror world. This volume features a selection of his artwork and three new short manga stories.

Hardcover. Portland, Collectors Press, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 768 pages. Profusely illustrated with full color and black & white photographs and art. Light wear to corners of dust jacket at flaps. Clean, tight copy. A monumental work devoted to art depicting life in the future. The authors present the most important, thought-provoking examples from each genre using vast collections of novels, posters, magazines, movies, and more.

Hardcover. San Francisco, Chronicle Books, 2nd printing, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 263 pages, illustrated throughout in color and b&w. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. Created by McSweeney's in celebration of their 11th anniversary, this book showcases the independent literary publisher's award-winning art and design across all its activities, including McSweeney's books, quarterly journals, Wholphin DVDs, and The Believer magazine. Hundreds of images - from napkin sketches to final objects - offer insights into McSweeney's creative process, and a narrative history in interviews explores the incidental, accidental, and deliberate ways they have helped transform the visual experience of reading. hundreds of photos and illustrations, and interviews with the staff and writers and artists such as Rick Moody, Sarah Vowell, John Hodgeman, Lawrence Weschler, Michael Chabon, Chris Ware, Ben Katchor, Charles Burns, and many more.

Hardcover. San Francisco, Chronicle Books, 2nd printing, 2010-06-23, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 263 pages, illustrated throughout in color and b&w. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. 263 pages, illustrated throughout in color and b&w. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. Created by McSweeney's in celebration of their 11th anniversary, this book showcases the independent literary publisher's award-winning art and design across all its activities, including McSweeney's books, quarterly journals, Wholphin DVDs, and The Believer magazine. Hundreds of images - from napkin sketches to final objects - offer insights into McSweeney's creative process, and a narrative history in interviews explores the incidental, accidental, and deliberate ways they have helped transform the visual experience of reading. hundreds of photos and illustrations, and interviews with the staff and writers and artists such as Rick Moody, Sarah Vowell, John Hodgeman, Lawrence Weschler, Michael Chabon, Chris Ware, Ben Katchor, Charles Burns, and many more.

Hardcover. San Francisco, Ten Speed Press, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Color, b&w illustrations. THE ART OF S. CLAY WILSON is the long-awaited career retrospective of the most extreme of the Zap cartoonists of the late 1960s. A self-described "graphic agoraphobe," Wilson draws manically dense scenes of lurid mayhem that rank among the seminal works of underground, counterculture American art. It's all here, from the classic chronicles of the Checkered Demon to salacious stories about the pirates, prostitutes, and poets that inhabit Wilson's divinely depraved world.The definitive collection of the art of legendary Zap comic artist S. Clay Wilson.Features 200 full-color images, including new work and previously unpublished prints commissioned for private collections.Introduction by R. Crumb touts Wilson's role as one of the originators of underground comix."Wilson was the strongest, most original artist of my generation that I had yet met. . . . There was something very familiar about the drawings, yet something entirely new, never before seen! It looked like folk art, like old-time tattoos, like some high school hotrodder's notebook drawings. They were rough, crazy, coarse, deeply American."

Softcover. NY, Harmony Books, 1st, 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 128 pages illustrated in color and b&w. Gathered here for the first time in book form are 130 extraordinary illustrations, with 32 pages in full color, including Norman Rockwell, Vargas' pin-ups, Remington's gunfighters, Parrish's landscapes etc. Nice tight binding. Clean. Light crease to cover at bottom front corner.

Hardcover. Petaluma CA, Acid Test, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 240 pages. Hardcover. Extensive color illustrations throughout. Illustrated endpapers and paste downs. Includes appendix of artist names. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Hardcover. New York , Harry N. Abrams, 1st, 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 384 pages. Like new in publisher's shrink-wrap. In the 1940s Joe Simon and Jack Kirby started their partnership and created memorable characters such as Captain America and Sandman. This book includes artwork from Joe Simon's private archive, some of them have never been seen.

Hardcover. New York, Harry N. Abrams, 1st, 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 384 pages. Like new in publisher's shrink-wrap. In the 1940s Joe Simon and Jack Kirby started their partnership and created memorable characters such as Captain America and Sandman. This book includes artwork from Joe Simon's private archive, some of them have never been seen.

Hardcover. Boston, MFA,Boston/Harvard University, 1st, 1961, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 232 pages. Illustrated with mostly black & white examples of fine book design. Dust jacket shows wear with small tears and chunks missing from edges. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. Verba Volant, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 480 pages, 796 b/w & 12 color illustrations. A showcase of the Architecture & Decorative arts of the Art Deco period. Originally published in 1930, in Italy, under the title 'Le Arti d'Oggi' the book is divided into six sections - Architecture, Interiors, Metalwork, Ceramics, Glasswork & Fabrics. A superb pictorial reference for anyone interested in the art & design of the 1920 art deco period.

Hardcover. Seattle, Fantagraphics Books, 1st, 2024, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in pictorial boards. In the vein of earlier comics-to-multimedia stars Buck Rogers and Flash Gordon, Atlas Comics launched their own pulp hero in 1951, looking ahead to the futuristic year 2000. Across five issues of Space Squadron (and one of Space Worlds), headline talents including George Tuska, Werner Roth and Allen Bellman (with back-up features by Joe Maneely, Christopher Rule, George Klein and Vern Henkel) showed Captain Jet Dixon and his Space Squadron blasting into action, facing cosmic threats like "The Armada of Death," "The Space Demons," "Terror from the Deep," "The Temptress of Jupiter," and "The Midnight Horror."Come 1953, Hank Chapman and Joe Maneely gazed further into the future, envisioning the distant year 2075 and the adventures of Speed Carter, Spaceman. Scripted throughout by Chapman, Maneely launched and drew the first three issues before handing off one issue each to Mike Sekowsky, George Tuska and Bob Forgione, with back-up features by John Romita, Maneely, and Bill Savage. As other aspects of the Atlas line leaned into the peak of pre-Code horror, the Captain of the Space Sentinels and young cadet Johnny Day battled monstrous aliens with stories including "The Space Trap," "A Slaughter in Space," "Die, Spaceman, Die," and "The Thing in Outer Space." Unseen in 70 years, scanned in high resolution, restored to perfection and packaged as one extra-sized, beautiful hardcover volume, In the Days of the Rockets! will open a wormhole to the early cold-war four-color era of futuristic science fantasy.

Hardcover. NY, Random House, 1st, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 127 pages. Features 100 B&W and color automobile ads from 1905-1976. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Milwaukie WI, Dark Horse Comics, 1st, 2021, Hardcover in pictorial boards, 96 pages. A collection demonstrating the effectiveness of the comics medium for telling the most personal of stories--the autobiography. Showcasing some of the first published autobiographical stories from living-legend artists, mainstream greats, and young "indie" up-and-comers!Featuring stories by Will Eisner, William Stout, Gabriel Ba and Fabio Moon, Stan Sakai, Sergio Aragones, and many more of comics' top talent! Clean copy.

Softcover. Park Forest IL, Ken Pierce, 1st, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 64 pages illustrated in b&w by Romero. Edited by Catherine Yronwode. From the British newspaper strip which ran in the London Daily Express starting in 1981. Color wrappers, clean, bright copy.

Hardcover. New York , Nan A. Talese, 1st, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, SIGNED BY FEIFFER on title page. Hardcover, 431 pages, b&w photographs and drawings by author. The legendary cartoonist's candid, self-deprecating, and beautifully written memoir describes his childhood in the Bronx, evolution from "smart-ass kid into an enraged satirist" (with inspiration from a stint in the Army) and his later successes as a pioneer of the graphic novel and a collaborator with the likes of film greats Robert Altman, Mike Nichols and Jack Nicholson. SIGNED by Feiffer on title page.

Hardcover. NY, Nan A. Talese, 1st, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 440 pages, in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. The legendary cartoonist's candid, self-deprecating, and beautifully written memoir describes his childhood in the Bronx, evolution from "smart-ass kid into an enraged satirist" (with inspiration from a stint in the Army) and his later successes as a pioneer of the graphic novel and a collaborator with the likes of film greats Robert Altman, Mike Nichols and Jack Nicholson. SIGNED by Feiffer on title page.

Hardcover. Montreal, Drawn and Quarterly, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 250 pages, color illustrations by Mumford. Light bump to top of spine. Bright dust jacket. Not overtly political, Bagdad Journal presents portraits of life from all sides of the polarizing conflict. With sketch pad and notebook in hand, Mumford illuminates the routine activities of a nation in turmoil-from the individual soldiers of American platoons to Baghdad residents going about their daily lives amid the chaos surrounding them.

Hardcover. New Haven, Yale University Press, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 134 pages, illustrated in color and translated by Jonathan Hammer. Illustrated by Jonathan Hammer. Introduced, edited, & annotated by Jeffrey T. Schnapp. In this unconventional book, Jonathan Hammer offers a new translation of Hugo Ball's visionary novella Tenderenda the Fantast, along with his own unique Tenderenda-inspired images.

Hardcover. Cambridge MA, The MIT Press, 1st, 2021, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in boards, 208 pages, illustrated in color. Banksy is the world's most famous living artist, yet no one knows who he is. For more than twenty years, his wryly political and darkly humorous spray paintings have appeared mysteriously on urban walls around the globe, generating headlines and controversy. Art critics disdain him, but the public (and the art market) love him. With this generously illustrated book, artist and critic Carol Diehl is the first author to probe the depths of the Banksy mystery. Through her exploration of his paintings, installations, writings, and Academy Award-nominated film, Exit through the Gift Shop, Diehl proves unequivocally that there's more to Banksy than the painting on the wall.Seeing Banksy as the ultimate provocateur, Diehl investigates the dramas that unfold after his works are discovered, with all of their social, economic, and political implications. She reveals how this trickster rattles the system, whether during his month-long 2013 self-styled New York "residency" or his notorious Dismaland of 2015, a full-scale dystopian "family theme park unsuitable for children" dedicated to the failure of capitalism. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, St. Martin's, 1st, 2013, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 333 pages. Now, in the first ever full-scale investigation of the artist, reporter Will Ellsworth-Jones pieces together the story of Banksy, building up a picture of the man and the world in which he operates. He talks to his friends and enemies, those who knew him in his early, unnoticed days, and those who have watched him try to come to terms with his newfound fame and success. And he explores the contradictions of a champion of renegade art going to greater and greater lengths to control his image and his work.

Softcover. London, Century, 1st thus, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 240 pages. Banksy, Britain's now-legendary "guerilla" street artist, has painted the walls, streets, and bridges of towns and cities throughout the world. Many color and b&w plates. Clean, bright copy.

Hardcover. New York, Prestel, 1st, 2017, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 294 pages, 259 color and 53 b&w illustrations. Focuses on Jean-Michel Basquiat's extraordinary breadth of influences, from graffiti to bebop jazz to Hollywood cinema, this exciting new survey charts his ground-breaking career. This work accompanied a major exhibition at the Barbican Art Gallery.

Softcover. Golden CO, Fulcrum Publishing, 1st, 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 126 pages. Story and color illustrations by Gill INSCRIBED BY GILL on the first page with a sketch of Bass Reeves. Clean, bright copy.

Softcover. NY, DC Comics, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 189 pages in color. Sixteen vintage stories from the golden years illustrated by Bob Kane. Clean copy.