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New York: Harper & Row, 1970. First edition of Kay Thompson's satirical account of a New York teenager's dating life, arranged alphabetically in Pooky Peckinpaugh's "secret private boyfriends book." A dreamier, less tyrannical presence than Thompson's famous Eloise, Pooky spends most of her entries venting her frustration with the unobtainable boys she meets, only to end each page with a plaintive call: "Oh GOOD GAG GIG You're GORGEOUS;" "Oh NEDDY NOD to me or I'll NEVER notice you again;" "Oh Willy YOU worm. . . What's with the WEEKEND? WHERE? WHEN?" A very good copy of a comic period piece, from the days when a telephone book was a genre of its own. Single volume, measuring 11 x 7.5 inches: [30]. Original pictorial boards stamped in black, original clipped pictorial dust jacket. Minor discoloration to boards; offsetting to endpapers; edgewear and faint tidemark to dust jacket, with a few tape repairs to verso.

[Montreal]: Drawn & Quarterly, 2015. First edition of this collection of six stories by graphic novelist Adrian Tomine, originally published in Optic Nerve. Dealing with complicated experiences of marriage, separation, and parenthood, the emotional weight of the material is the more powerful for Tomine's precise draughtsmanship, which conveys the exact decrepitude of a rental apartment, the subtle details of cancer treatment. The more fluid graphic style in the final story, "Intruders," is a homage to pioneering Japanese manga artist Yoshihiro Tatsumi (1935-2015), to whom it is dedicated. Tatsumi's closely observed gekiga, "dramatic pictures," produced during the 1960s and 1970s, were a major influence on Tomine's work. A fine copy, signed by Adrian Tomine. Single volume, measuring 9.25 x 6.25 inches: 121, [3]. Original color pictorial boards, original printed mylar dust jacket, color pictorial endpapers. Illustrated in color throughout text. Signed by Adrian Tomine on the half-title.

Plauen: Christian Stoll, 1915. Vibrant Art Deco ornamental design, Plate 1 from Volume XV of Kunstgewerbliche Schmuckformen für die Fläche. Christian Stoll's influential pattern book series was an important source for graphic design in central Europe from the height of the Art Nouveau movement to the early days of Art Deco. Modernist surface designs like this one reflected the avant-garde painting styles of the early twentieth century, including Cubism, abstraction, and distortion. The geometric shapes and vivid colors were elements of a new style of ornamentation that found expression in architecture and the applied arts. An exemplary Art Deco design from a major pattern book. Single pochoir plate of a geometric airbrush design, measuring 9.5 x 7.25 inches. Tipped to black paper mount with publisher's label mounted to upper right corner. Archivally matted to 14 x 11 inches.