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Hardcover. NY, Chartwell Books, reprint, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 448 pages, color illustrations throughout. This is a heavy and oversized book and will require extra shipping. International customers please ask for a shipping quote before purchasing.

Softcover. NY, Chartwell Books, reprint, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 448 pages, color illustrations throughout. Originally published as a hardcover in 2004. Errata slip laid in. Color illustrated wraps.

Hardcover. NY, McSweeney's, 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 263 pages. Guest-editing Dave Eggers's literary journal, Jimmy Corrigan cartoonist Ware has assembled a beautifully designed anthology of contemporary art comics, with a few vintage treats thrown in, including an excerpt from "Obadiah Oldbuck"--an 1842 publication that's arguably the first American comic book--and a series of very rough sketches by Charles Schulz. A few pieces have recently been published elsewhere (including excerpts from Mark Beyer's loopy, design-heavy Amy and Jordan and Joe Sacco's comics essay on Sarajevo, The Fixer), but the book is a superb introduction to the best American cartoonists working today. Some of them, including Richard McGuire and Mark Newgarden, haven't published much since the heyday of RAW in the late 1980s and early '90s; others, like Lynda Barry and Jaime and Gilbert Hernandez, are prolific creators at the top of their form. As Ira Glass points out in his introduction, Ware seems to believe cartooning gets no respect at all, and his McSweeney's is a passionate defense of the medium. Ware has included work by artists with an impressively varied range of visual styles and narrative techniques. And Ware's own contribution is brilliant: the book's cover unfolds into a gigantic "comics supplement" of his bitter little cartoons, with extra, tiny comic books by Ron Rege Jr. and John Porcellino tucked into its folds.

Hardcover. US, McSweeney's, 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 263 pages, illustrated throughout in color and b&w. Clean, unmarked copy in excellent condition. Focus of Vol. 13 is on comic art. Preface by Ira Glass. Introduction by Chris Ware. Work by scores of artists from R. Crumb to Rodolphe Topffer (considered the creator of the comic strip and graphic novel). DJ is a broadside decorated with comics with minor shelf wear. Reverse side of broadside has descriptions of contributing artists along with strips of comic art.

Hardcover. Taschen, 1st, 2011, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 392 pages, 684 illustrations, 664 in color. Text in English, German and French. Large volume, pictorial covers, no dust jacket issued. Menu Design is an omnibus showcasing the best examples of this graphic art. With nearly 800 examples, illustrated in vibrant color, this deluxe volume not only showcases this extraordinary collection of paper ephemera but serves as a history of restaurants and dining out in America. An introduction on the history of menu design by graphic design writer Steven Heller and extended captions by culinary historian John Mariani accompany the menus throughout the book.

Hardcover. Neshannock, PA], Hermes Press, 1st, 2011, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 145 pages. Milton Caniff's famous good girl, created just for servicemen during WW II, known to G.I. Joes everywhere as "Lace," is available to all her fans in a deluxe hardcover art book reprinting the entire run of the strip. Move over Rita Hayworth - sultry, sassy Miss Lace and her daily adventures are given the royal treatment with a host of extras including a detailed intro by noted Caniff historian R.C. Harvey, complete with unused art, documentary materials, advertising art, and more.

Softcover. Checker, 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 148 pages. The entire first year of the great Milton Caniff's landmark action and adventure strip featuring All-American flyboy Steve Canyon and a menagerie of faithful comrades and diabolical rogues. Recurring sidekicks and villains like Copper Calhoon and Happy Easter appear are introduced in four great stories: "Copperhead", "Delta," "Easter's Oil," and "Jewels of Africa."

Softcover. Checker, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 168 pages. Year two on Steve Canyon sees comics master Milton Caniff truly hit his stride. Gorgeously rendered exotic locales, breathlessly paced adventure, and beautiful women as only Caniff could draw await in four story arcs: "Medical Sabotage," "The Nine Maid," "Convoy," "Plantation Sabotage," and "Puppy Love."

Hardcover. Woodstock NY, Overlook Press, 1st, 1973, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket with wear to extremities. 239 pages with 344 illustrations, 97 in color. This book explores the extraordinary achievement of America's pre-eminent graphic artist. Here Glaser undertakes not only a wide-ranging representation of his oeuvre but, in a personally revealing introduction, speaks of the influences on his work, the responsibilities of the artist, the hierarchies of the traditional art world, and the role of graphic design in the area of his creative growth. His work ranges from posters to book and record covers; from store and restaurant design to toy creations, magazine formats, and logotypes all of which define the look of the 1960s and 70s. Tape repair to reverse of dust jacket, no markings. DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.

Hardcover. Secaucus NJ, Chartwell Books, 1st US, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a bright, edgeworn and chipped dust jacket. Catalogue of the posters by Gloria Picazo. 119 posters reproduced in full color. 269 pages. Thick 4to, beige boards. Inscription on front fly leaf, therwise clean. DUE TO WEIGHT, DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.

Hardcover. NY, Hacker Art Books, 1st US, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 269 pages, illustrated throughout with 119 plates in color. Light edgewear and rubbing to dust jacket. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. NY, Pantheon, 1st, 2011, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, glossy boards in an oblong format. 80 pages. Color art by Clowes. The fan-favorite Eisner Award-winning story, originally seri-alized in The New York Times Magazine, now collected and with forty pages of new material. Meet Marshall. Sitting alone in the local coffee place. He's been set up by his friend Tim on a blind date with someone named Natalie, and now he's just feeling set up. She's nine minutes late and counting. Who was he kidding anyway? Divorced, middle-aged, newly unem-ployed, with next to no prospects, Marshall isn't ex-actly what you'd call a catch. Twenty minutes pass. A half hour. Marshall orders a scotch. (He wasn't going to drink!) Forty minutes. Then, after nearly an hour, when he's long since given up hope, Natalie appears--breathless, apologiz-ing profusely that she went to the wrong place. She takes a seat, to Marshall's utter amazement. A captivating, bittersweet, and hilarious look at the potential for human connection in an increasingly hopeless world, Mister Wonderful more than lives up to its name. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Pantheon, 1st, 2011, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, glossy boards in an oblong format. 80 pages. Color art by Clowes. The fan-favorite Eisner Award-winning story, originally seri-alized in The New York Times Magazine, now collected and with forty pages of new material. Meet Marshall. Sitting alone in the local coffee place. He's been set up by his friend Tim on a blind date with someone named Natalie, and now he's just feeling set up. She's nine minutes late and counting. Who was he kidding anyway? Divorced, middle-aged, newly unem-ployed, with next to no prospects, Marshall isn't ex-actly what you'd call a catch. Twenty minutes pass. A half hour. Marshall orders a scotch. (He wasn't going to drink!) Forty minutes. Then, after nearly an hour, when he's long since given up hope, Natalie appears--breathless, apologiz-ing profusely that she went to the wrong place. She takes a seat, to Marshall's utter amazement. A captivating, bittersweet, and hilarious look at the potential for human connection in an increasingly hopeless world, Mister Wonderful more than lives up to its name. Clean copy.

Hardcover. London, Gingko Press, 1st, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards, 256 pages. Modart editors showcase some of the actions and events from the first decade of the new millennium. It features now iconic images, passionate writing and a veritable fount of great new art from around the world.

Hardcover. Czech Republic, Kant, 1st, 2025, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards, 264 pages. Venturing across five decades of American culture, this landmark book explores how modern graphic design emerged in the United States and how it became an intrinsic feature of the country's identity. Author and design professor Christopher Long tells this story in a wholly new way, exposing many long-forgotten figures and movements and resurrecting the debates and conceptions that were integral to the new art. In a series of deeply involving portraits of American artists and innovators who helped shape the very look of the modern age, Modern Americanness offers a sweeping story of the country's visual culture and its distinctiveness across a variety of designed objects: magazine covers, food labels, event posters, chapbooks, advertisements, propaganda and much more. Still in publisher's shrinkwrap.

Hardcover. London, Black Dog Publishing, 1st, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 192 pages. Hardcover no dust jacket. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to boards.

Hardcover. NY, William Helburn, 1st, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue cloth with silver stamping. Folio, 9 1/4 X 13 1/2". 80 plates printed on one side only, most in color. No date given but appears to be late 20s/1930. With architect Albert Kahn's ownership signature in pencil on front fly leaf. Covers with edgewear but interior is clean and bright. Bookplate on inside front cover. Scarce. DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.

Hardcover. New Haven CT, Yale University Press, 1st, 2020, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, Original black lettered cloth quarter laid on pictorial boards, 184 pages. A fascinating exploration of how photography, graphic design, and popular magazines converged to transform American visual culture at mid-century. This dynamic study examines the intersection of modernist photography and American commercial graphic design between 1930 and 1960. Avant-garde strategies in photography and design reached the United States via European emigres, including Bauhaus artists forced out of Nazi Germany. The unmistakable aesthetic made popular by such magazines as Harper's Bazaar and Vogue--whose art directors, Alexey Brodovitch and Alexander Liberman, were both immigrants and accomplished photographers--emerged from a distinctly American combination of innovation, inclusiveness, and pragmatism. Beautifully illustrated with more than 150 revolutionary photographs, layouts, and cover designs, Modern Look considers the connections and mutual influences of such designers and photographers as Richard Avedon, Lillian Bassman, Herbert Bayer, Robert Frank, Lisette Model, Gordon Parks, Irving Penn, Cipe Pineles, and Paul Rand. Essays draw a lineage from European experimental design to innovative work in American magazine design at mid-century and offer insights into the role of gender in fashion photography and political activism in the mass media.

Hardcover. London & New York , The Studio Publications, 1st, 1941, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, red cloth stamped in black, 127 pages + ads, illustrated throughout in b&w. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on front fly leaf. Light rubbing, fraying to edges, binding slightly shaken. Internally very good.

Softcover. London, Batsford, 1st, 2012, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Softcover in pictorial dust jacket, 224 pages, color illustrations. A stunning survey of modern illustration that uses older styles of artistic expression to evoke a sense of another time and place. These vintage-style illustrations play with the past, subvert it, on occasion, but always feel fresh. Organized into 12 chapters by historical or cultural period, the book features hundreds of the best examples of modern retro illustration including styles as varied as Constructivist, Dada and Art Noveau. From work showing the ornamentation of Victorian fonts, the stylized angles of Art Deco, the lines of soviet poster art, the influence of Saul Bass and Blue Note record sleeves to the new slant on photorealism, and the renaissance of punk and comic art. Hundreds of artists from all over the world have contributed to a beautiful, witty and inspiring collection of vintage illustration. Clean copy.

Softcover. Seattle, Fantagraphics, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 112 pages. Written and Illustrated by Andrice Arp, Gabrielle Bell, Jonathan Bennett, Jeffrey Brown, Sophie Crumb, David Heatley, Paul Hornschemeier, Anders Nilsen, John Pham and Kurt Wolfgang. Designed by Jordan Crane. A quarterly anthology of literary comics.

Softcover. Seattle, Fantagraphics, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 112 pages. Written and Illustrated by Andrice Arp, Gabrielle Bell, Jonathan Bennett, Jeffrey Brown, Sophie Crumb, David Heatley, Paul Hornschemeier, Anders Nilsen, John Pham and Kurt Wolfgang. Designed by Jordan Crane. A quarterly anthology of literary comics.

Softcover. Seattle, Fantagraphics, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 112 pages. A quarterly anthology of literary comics. Contributions by Andrice Arp, Tim Hensley, Anders Nilsen, Paul Hornschemeier, Sophie Crumb, others.

Softcover. Seattle, Fantagraphics, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 112 pages. A quarterly anthology of literary comics. Contributions by Andrice Arp, Tim Hensley, Anders Nilsen, Paul Hornschemeier, Sophie Crumb, others.