Small Octavo. A giveaway provided by the Daisy Air-Rifle company using reprints of newspaper comic strips and produced as a promotional mini-comic. Similar to other promotional items of the early comics era, except that this represents one of the first appearances of Buck Rogers on the cover of a comic..... More
New York: Harry E. Wolff, 1923. Small Quarto. 28 pages. Described under the rich color picture on the cover as Kit Carson rescues the Covered Wagon pioneers: "putting spurs to their horses, they dashed through the astounded redskins and put for the wagons at wall speed. Such howls as went..... More
New York, (1926): Harper and Brothers. First Edition. Small Quarto. 133pp., illustrated, Inscribed by George w. Carpenter to Miss Hathaway, also tipped in at rear are two letters to Miss Hathaway from Clare Briggs, one on New York Herald Tribune letterhead, the other on Clare Briggs stationary, signed and dated..... More
New York: Chelsea House Publishers, 1977. Limited Edition. Folio. 154pp. Limited to 2000 signed by Burne Hogarth, the present copy is number 87 edited by Maurice Horn. Introductory essays by Hogarth and Horn. This specially hand-crafted volume was reproduced from original Sunday pages photo-separated and printed in offset lithography by..... More
New York: New York Tribune, 1922. 8 unnumbered pages, a very scarce edition of which the only recorded copy is in the Free Library of Philadelphia. Based on the character by Beatrix Potter in The Tale of Peter Rabbit, Harrison Cady creates these characters both in color and black-and-white. Staple..... More
Chicago/New York; (1978): Circle Fine Art Press. Limited Edition. Oblong Quarto. Limited to 9500 copies. The present copy is number 460. Contains four original color serigraphs of scenes from Walt Disney's 1937 film of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. The four serigraphs were created especially for this book. The..... More
A pleasant letter from the cartoonist who created Cathy which had a 34 year run in 150 major newspapers. She began drawing pictures as an "emotional coping mechanism" but when her mother suggested sending them to a publisher she did to stop the nagging. Instead she received a contract which..... More
London: The Bodley Head, 1946. First Edition. Small Quarto. no pagination. A curious work which displays faces in which one can turn up side down to see a different face. Bound in pictorial paper covered boards lettered and decorated in red, brown, blue and white, A near fine copy in..... More