Thirty-five new arrivals in modern first editions, including portfolios by Moebius and Carl Barks, signed Jim Harrison, and a few graphic novels.
First Edition. Each author contributes a short essay about illustrating children's books along with a number of illustrations of them making art. Each author is presented on a fold-out page. Robert Sabuda and Matthew Reinhart contribute a pop-up. The publication of this book was organized by the Eric Carle Museum.....
Price: $200
First Edition. The second volume in Angelou's seven-book autobiography. 214 pages. First edition (first printing with first edition stated and a numberline ending in 2, as was the publisher's standard method for identifying first printings). Mild spine lean; glue remnants on front free endpaper from a large bookstore bookplate, else.....
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First Edition. The author's third volume of autobiography, out of seven, covering the years 1949 to 1955. 269 pages. First edition (first printing, with first edition stated and a numberline ending in 2, as was typical for Random House). A near fine copy in a near fine dust jacket and.....
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![Item No: #361991 Barks Treasury: The Art of Carl Barks [Signed, Limited]. Carl...](https://downtownbrown.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/361991.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&v=1658703814)
First Edition. A monograph of 40 color drawings of Barks' signature Disney characters, Scrooge McDuck, Donald Duck, and Huey, Dewey and Louie. These drawings were made during his 96th year on the planet. These drawings are printed in full color and tipped into the book, which was issued in an.....
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First Edition. A book documenting Carl Barks' first 122 Disney character paintings, which he began making in his seventies in the early 1970s. For many years, these paintings were his primary source of income and they were exceptionally popular at comics conventions and among Disney fans. The Walt Disney Company.....
Price: $1,250
![Item No: #362017 A Lithographic Suite of Preliminary Paintings [No. 2]. Carl Barks](https://downtownbrown.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/362017.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&v=1658703826)
First Edition. This is the second portfolio of Barks offset lithographs with this title. As with the 1986 version, this collection contains 10 previously unpublished preliminary works made by Barks before starting work on full-fledged oil paintings. These images vary in size, from roughly 7 by 9 inches to 12.....
Price: $1,850
![Item No: #361993 Walt Disney's Uncle Scrooge in Color [Signed, Numbered]. Carl...](https://downtownbrown.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/361993.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&v=1658703822)
First Edition. A collection of three color Scrooge McDuck works by Carl Barks: the comic-book story Christmas on Bear Mountain; and two children's books, Uncle Scrooge's Christmas Carol and Walt Disney's Uncle Scrooge: The Lemonade King. With storyboard paintings by Norman McGary and commentary by Geoffrey Blum. This is one.....
Price: $600
Uncorrected Proof. An advance copy, preceding the first edition, of this memoir by Raymond Carver's first wife. Advance reading copy (ARC), labeled Advance Uncorrected Proofs. A fine copy in wrappers (paperback). Signed by Maryann Burk Carver on the title page; scarce signed.
Price: $50
First Edition. Early stories, poems, book reviews, etc. This UK printing is the correct first edition. 239 pages. First edition (first printing, with a numberline ending in 1). A near fine copy in a like dust jacket.
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First Edition. Carver's influential volume of short stories, nominated for the National Book Award. In the late 1990s, after Gordon Lish's archive became available to researchers at the Lilly Library, the extent that Lish edited Carver's stories became apparent. Lish had been Carver's advocate for many years, as an editor.....
Price: $300
First Edition. The Pulitzer Prize-winning author's debut novel. 297 pages. First edition (first printing). Near fine in a near fine dust jacket with the usual mild yellowing. Signed by Chabon on the title page.
Price: $60
First British edition. The Pulitzer Prize-winning author's debut novel. 297 pages. First UK edition (states "First printed 1988" on the copyright page). Page block slightly browned, as usual, thus a near fine copy in a fine dust jacket. Signed by Chabon on the title page.
Price: $50
First Edition. A novel about a novelist. Adapted into a film starring Michael Douglas, Tobey Maguire, and Frances McDormand. 368 pages. First edition (stated, with a numberline ending in 2, as was the typical way Random House subsidiaries marked first printings). A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. Signed.....
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![Item No: #362057 The Yolo Portfolio [Winds of Change]. R. Crumb, Robert](https://downtownbrown.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/362057.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&v=1658703854)
First Edition. Four 20 by 20 inch single color (black) serigraphs / screenprints of cover art designs Crumb made for the Winds of Change environmental newspaper in the early 1980s. Crumb joined the staff as an art director and drew many covers, spot drawings, and cartoons, but ultimately he found.....
Price: $500
First hardcover edition. A feminist science fiction satire, set on the penal planet where women who won't submit to the patriarchy are sent. This is the hardcover graphic novel issued for Local Comic Shop Day in November 2015, a month after the paperback original graphic novel came out. The series.....
Price: $100
![Item No: #53687 Journals: Mid Fifties, 1954–1958 [Signed, Numbered]. Allen...](https://downtownbrown.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/53687.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&v=1658703858)
First Edition. One of 176 signed copies. The Beat poet's poems, dreams, journal entries, drawings, and a travelogue. 489 pages. Spine lightly faded, else a fine hardcover copy in a matching slipcase. This is copy 113 of 150 numbered copies signed by Ginsberg.
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First Edition. A novel of male middle age set in Greenwich Village, with brief mentions of characters based on Beat writers. First edition (stated). A near fine copy in a very good tanned dust jacket, missing a small chip at the top of the spine. This copy has an intriguing.....
Price: $150
First Edition. Three long short stories. 274 pages. First edition (first printing). Fine in a fine dust jacket. Signed by Harrison on the title page.
Price: $40
![Item No: #361906 The Big Seven: A Faux Mystery [Signed]. Jim Harrison](https://downtownbrown.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/361906.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&v=1658703800)
First Edition. Harrison's last novel. This is one of an unspecified number of copies signed by Harrison on a tipped in page. First edition (first printing, with a numberline ending in 1). A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. Signed on a tipped in page.
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First Edition. Three novellas: Brown Dog, Sunset Limited, and The Woman Lit by Fireflies. First edition (first printing, with a numberline ending in 1). A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. Signed by Harrison on the half-title page.
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![Item No: #362021 The Walking Dead: Rise of the Governor [Signed, Numbered]....](https://downtownbrown.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/362021.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&v=1658703834)
First Edition. A Walking Dead novel, with illustrations by Charlie Adlard. This is one of 500 numbered copies signed by Kirkman on a tipped-in limitation page. Issued in a slipcase, without a dust jacket. First edition (first printing). A fine copy in a near fine slipcase that is lightly bumped.....
Price: $125
First Edition. Reprints Loeb and Sale's imaginative redo of the Batman series, in 1993 and 1994. This oversize reprint includes creator interviews, the original proposal, early sketches, and four pages cut from the published version. This storyline inspired the film Batman Begins; the director of that movie, Christopher Nolan, contributes.....
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First Edition. A collection of funny and satiric short pieces by this comedian and actor. Many were first published in the New Yorker. First edition (stated, with a numberline ending in 1). A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. Inscribed by the stand-up comic and actor, "To Twaci, you're.....
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First Edition. A densely illustrated and inventively imagined suite of ten (10) images made by Moebius (pseudonym of Jean Gerard) in collaboration with Geof Darrow, a Moebius fan and comic illustrator. Darrow met Moebius in Los Angeles when Moebius was working on Walt Disney's Tron movie. He later went to.....
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