BREAKDOWNS: Portrait of the Artist as A Young % @ &* !
by Spiegelman, Art
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Issued Without Jacket
- Seller
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Canandaigua, New York, United States
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About This Item
New York: Pantheon Books, 2008. First Edition. . Hardcover. Very Good/Issued Without Jacket. Originally published in a different form in1977 by Belier Press, this collection of comics by Spiegelman, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author/artist of "Maus," presents the seminal works that changed how comics are made and appreciated today. Revised and re-issued in 2008, with an introduction that's almost as long as the book it introduces, and certainly autobiographically intimate and daring. (Note: This is NSW, adults-only material.) . First Printing, First Edition Thus. 10 x 14 inches in pictorially illustrated boards, filled with both black & white and full-color graphics. Upper corner of both covers bumped, o/w only very minor surface and edge wear. Text is clean and unmarked, tight and square. A collectable copy.
Synopsis
Perhaps best known for his masterful Holocaust narratives Maus and Maus II – which in 1992 won a Pulitzer Prize–Art Spiegelman is one of the world's best known and beloved comic artists. Born in Stockholm in 1948, Spiegelman rejected his parents’ aspirations for him to become a dentist, and began to study cartooning in high school and drawing professionally at age 16. He went on to study art and philosophy at Harpur College before joining the underground comics movement. As creative consultant for Topps Candy from 1965-1987, Spiegelman designed Wacky Packages, Garbage Pail Kids and other novelty items, and taught history and aesthetics of comics at the School for Visual Arts in New York from 1979-1986. In 1980, Spiegelman founded RAW , the acclaimed avant-garde comics magazine, with his wife, Françoise Mouly. His work has since been published in many periodicals, including The New Yorker , where he was a staff artist and writer from 1993-2003. He has since published a children’s book entitled Open Me… I’m A Dog , as well as the illustration accompaniment to the 1928 book The Wild Party , by Joseph Moncure March. Spiegelman is the author, most recently, of In the Shadow of No Towers . He is the recipient of a Guggenheim fellowship, and, in addition to the winning the Pulitzer Prize, Maus was nominated for a National Book Critics' Circle Award. His drawings and prints have been widely exhibited here and abroad. He lives in New York City with his wife and their two children.
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- Bookseller
- H.W. Gumaer, Bookseller
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 005258
- Title
- BREAKDOWNS: Portrait of the Artist as A Young % @ &* !
- Author
- Spiegelman, Art
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Issued Without Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition.
- Publisher
- Pantheon Books
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 2008
- Keywords
- FIRST EDITION, COMICS, MAUS, GRAPHIC ART, EROTIC BIOGRAPHY,
- Bookseller catalogs
- Humor; Art; Biography/Memoirs;
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About the Seller
H.W. Gumaer, Bookseller
Biblio member since 2005
Canandaigua, New York
About H.W. Gumaer, Bookseller
H.W. Gumaer, Bookseller, has been serving customers on the internet since 2003. We specialize in modern American and English fiction and in mystery and detective thrillers, as well as art and art history. We also have a growing selection of mid-to-late 19th century history and literature. Nearly all our modern and contemporary books are first editions or otherwise collectable.
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