A substantial group of 58 original drawings for About People, Steig’s first collection of psychologically charged “symbolic drawings.” Steig (1907–2003) began making his symbolic drawings in the latter part of the 1930s. Unlike his humorous New Yorker cartoons of the era, these images were "surreal illustrations of character types and.....

An original pen-and-ink line drawing illustration of a woman carrying a bundle of fruit who is scolding two small boys engaged in fisticuffs. The image may have been published in a magazine. 6-1/2 by 8-1/2 inches on a 9-1/8 by 11-1/2 inch Whatman's water colour sketching board. W. Heath Robinson.....

First Edition. The fifth installment in the one of the most successful "funny animal" comic books series, now in its fifth decade. This is one of 1000 numbered hardcover copies signed on a bookplate on the front pastedown (the typical Fantagraphics limited edition format). Title on the spine: "Lone Goat.....

First Edition. The fifth installment in the one of the most successful "funny animal" comic books series, now in its fifth decade. This is one of 1000 numbered hardcover copies signed on a bookplate on the front pastedown (the typical Fantagraphics limited edition format). Title on the spine: "Lone Goat.....

First Edition. The second of what would become 40-odd Usagi Yojimbo books. Collects Usagi Yojimbo comics nos. 1 through 6. Usagi Yojimbo is one of the longest-running comics series written and illustrated by a single artist, spanning 250 comic book issues over four decades. This is a young adult samurai.....

First Edition. A landmark graphic novel: the first of what would become 40-odd Usagi Yojimbo books. This first volume collects stories from Albedo (a legendary independent comic), Critters, Doomsday Squad, and Usagi Yojimbo Summer Special. Usagi Yojimbo is one of the longest-running comics series written and illustrated by a single.....

Original art for the first page of a story penciled and inked by Alex Niño (the writer is not identified). The plot involves two antiques pickers and the imagery borrows from the mid-1970s horror of Eerie, although toned down for DC's mainstream audience. In the large first panel (a half-splash).....

In Histoire d’oublier (“A Story of Forgetting”), Emilia Faure (1924–?) constructs a tactile meditation on memory and erasure. The work unfolds across 26 hand-assembled fascicles, enclosed within the modified covers of Louis Dimier’s 1926 "Histoire de la peinture française ...1627 à 1690." Faure deliberately incorporates the history of French art.....

First Edition. The first edition of the mystery writer's memoir, with a color portrait drawing of Hillerman by the Navajo artist Ernest Franklin added to the half-title page. These special copies (often called remarqued by collectors) were commissioned by Hillerman's friend, Ernie Bulow of Buffalo Medicine books. Franklin, who often.....

First Edition. A murder mystery featuring Navajo Tribal Police officers Jim Chee and Joe Leaphorn here in a special edition with an ink-and-pastel drawing by Franklin on the half-title. The illustration in this copy is of a skull rising out of the New Mexico landscape. Ernest Franklin was a......

First Edition. A mystery featuring Navajo Tribal Police sergeant Jim Chee, Joe Leaphorn, and Bernie Manuelito, here in a special edition with a full-page ink-and-pastel drawing by Franklin on the half-title. The illustration in this copy is of Chee speaking into a walkie-talkie above a montage of a cup of.....

First Edition. This is one of 100 first printing copies of this book with an added illustration by Ernest Franklin on the half-title page, in this case an ink-and-pastel mosaic of scenes from the book in the shape of puzzle pieces. Ernest Franklin was a Navajo artist who liked embellishing.....

First Edition. This is one of two copies designated "author copy" on the colophon of this collection of short stories. The title story was previously unpublished. This author's copy has the same format as the lettered copies, including the main book, a second short book printing an alternate ending to.....