Comic Art In America

New York: Simon and Schuster, 1959. cloth. small 4to. cloth. xi, (1), 387+(1) pages. First printing. Lacking the dust jacket. Else a near fine copy. "A Social History of the Funnies, the Political Cartoons, Magazine Humor, Sporting Cartoons and Animated Cartoons." With an introduction by Rube Goldberg and nearly 400 illustrations. Chapters on the beginnings of comics and cartoons,… Read more about this item

NY: Simon and Schuster, 1959. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Hardcover with an unclipped dust jacket that has minor edgewear. 287 pages with nearly 400 illustrations in b&w, introduction by Rube Goldberg. One of the best overall surveys of American caricature and cartoons, covering the period from the 1890s to the 1950s. Record # 356550

Simon and Schuster, 1959. First Edition. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. Pages are fairly clean and bright with no markings, minor soiling here and there but nothing major or disruptive. No DJ. Binding is fine. Heavy rubbing to the corners and some of the edges of the coverboards.