E-120: Pantheon. Very Good. 2012. Hardcover. Boxed. Folio. Pantheon, New York. 2012. 260 pgs. 14 distinctively discrete Books, Booklets, Magazines, Newspapers, and Pamphlets. First Edition/First Printing. Slipcased. Bound in cloth boards with titles present to the spine and front board. Boards have light shelf-wear present to the extremities. No ownership marks present. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. With the increasing electronic incorporeality of existence, sometimes it’s reassuring—perhaps even necessary—to have something to hold on to. Thus within this colorful keepsake box the purchaser will find a fully-apportioned variety of reading material ready to address virtually any imaginable artistic or poetic taste, from the corrosive sarcasm of youth to the sickening earnestness of maturity—while discovering a protagonist wondering if she’ll ever move from the rented close quarters of lonely young adulthood to the mortgaged expanse of love and marriage. Whether you’re feeling alone by yourself or alone with someone else, this book is sure to sympathize with the crushing sense of life wasted, opportunities missed and creative dreams dashed which afflict the middle- and upper-class literary public (and which can return to them in somewhat damaged form during REM sleep). EB; 1.97 x 16.69 x 11.65 Inches .

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CHRIS WARE is widely acknowledged as the most gifted and beloved cartoonist of his generation by both his mother and seven-year-old daughter. His Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid on Earth won the Guardian First Book Award and was listed as one of the "100 Best Books of the Decade" by The Times (London) in 2009. An irregular contributor to This American Life and The New Yorker ( where some of the pages of this book first appeared) his original drawings have been exhibited in the Whitney Biennial, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago and in piles behind his work table in Oak Park, Illinois.

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Bookseller: Last Exit Books (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 60792
Title: Building Stories
Author: Ware, Chris
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - Very Good
ISBN 10: 0375424334
ISBN 13: 9780375424335
Publisher: Pantheon
Place of Publication: E-120
Date Published: 2012

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