BOOK SALES

In my feverish attempt to lay hands on every comics-related publication in the known universe, I often mistakenly acquire more than one copy of a single title. That is usually the case with the books I list here from time-to-time. I’m not really in the bookstore business. But when I’ve acquired duplicate copies, I offer them for sale to the first-taker at ridiculously low prices. When not duplicate copies from my collection, the books tend to be review copies or contributors' copies (sent in multiple copies, but I need only one for my archives). Most of these, in other words, are new books, often not even read—unless otherwise noted. The Rare books, on the other hand, tend to be second owner tomes. Generally speaking, the prices are about half the original price for the "recent" publications; the Old and Rare, however, are priced accordingly.

Shipping. For one book, the Media Mail p&h is $3; add $1 for each additional book. (Overseas, it’s $20 for the first book, plus $3 for each additional book.) Magazine shipping costs are different; see that section. If you’re interested in making a purchase, drop down below (to the very end) where you’ll find my e-mail (or go to the website’s front page), jot me a note, and I’ll give you ordering instructions and hold the book(s) for you for two weeks, pending receipt of your check.

All are paperback publications unless otherwise noted.

SECTIONS OF THE LIST

There are three sections of this list, each corresponding to the time the books therein were offered for sale:

SECTION 1

Books Added Since the Last Sale in November 2009 (i.w., THE MOST RECENT BOOKS)

SECTION 2

The November 2009 List (what’s left of it)

SECTION 3

Books Left over from All Previous Sales

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SECTION 1: THE MOST RECENT BOOKS

Books Added Since November 2009

GRAPHIC NOVELS & Comic Book Reprints

Coward, superb graphic novel by Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillips; 120 7x10-inch pages; color, paperback; $4

George Sprott (98 12x14-inch pages, two colors; hardcover, Drawn & Quarterly, 2009) by Seth, his latest graphic novel; $10

The Complete Jack Kirby: June-August 1947 by Jack Kirby; 196 8x11-inch pages; b/w paperback; $6

The Complete Milt Gross Comic Books and Life Story, ed. Craig Yoe; 356 9x11-inch pages; color, hardcover; the most comprehensive life and art tome on Gross that you can find; $7

Magazine

Comics Revue, No. 17: Modesty Blaise in “Adam and Eve,” illustrated by John Burns, the best after Jim Holdaway; $2           

Comic Strip Reprints

George Herriman’s Krazy and Ignatz in “Tiger Tea”; 122 8x8-inch pages; hardcover, b/w; a rare sequence reprinted for the first time (was Krazy a pothead?); $5

Classic Cowboy Cartoons: Vol. 1, by J.R. Williams; 150 6x8-inch pages; b/w, paperback; $3

Bull of the Woods: Vol. 5, also by J.R. Williams, life in a machine shop; 150 6x8-inch pages, b/w, paperback; $3

Bull of the Woods: Vol. 6, also by J.R. Williams, more life in a machine shop; 150 6x8-inch pages, b/w, paperback; $3

Edge City by Terry and Patty LaBan; 128 8x9-inch pages; all color, paperback; $5

Soup to Nutz: The First Course by Rick Stromoski; 128 8x9-inch pages; b/w, paperback; $4

In Search of Cigarette Holder Man, a classic by G.B. Trudeau; 96 8x9-inch pages; b/w, paperback; $4

Nick Cardy: Comic Strips by Sean Menard with Nick Cardy; 146 8x11-inch landscape pages; b/w, paperback; $8

Buster Brown Early Strips in Full Color, by Richard F. Outcault; a Dover reprint of the 1904 collection with a new introduction by August Derleth, 30 9x12-inch pages; color, paperback; $3

Betsy and Me by Jack Cole; 120 5x8-inch landscape pages; b/w, paperback with introduction by RCHarvey; the only complete reprinting of the comic strip Cole so longed to produce and which, having sold it into syndication, he committed suicide; $6

Political Cartoons

Herblock’s Here and Now by Herbert Block; 280 5x8-inch pages; text and political cartoons; b/w, hardcover; an early compilation, setting pace for the rest of Herblock’s books; $4

Herblock at Large by Herbert Block; 224 7x9-inch pages; b/w, hardcover; $4

History & Biography

Hogan’s Alley, No. 16, 2009; history of the controversial Disney Br’er Rabbit/Uncle Remus movie, “Song of the South,” plus interview with Stephen Pastis; $4

The Ten-Cent Plague: The Great Comic-Book Scare and How It Changed America by David Hajdu; 420 6x8-inch pages; history text, b/w, paperback uncorrected proof; $3

The ‘30s: A Time to Remember by Don Congdon; what really happened back in those Depression Years?, $2

Goodnight Sweet Prince by Gene Fowler, a biography of John Barrymore; hardcover, $3

Gentleman: The William Powell Story by Charles Francisco, the life of the dapper Powell; hardcover, $3

Mysteries

The Old Man in the Corner: Twelve Mysteries by the Baroness Orczy (of Scarlet Pimpernel fame); 164 5x8-inch pages; b/w no illos, paperback; $2

Arsene Lupin, Gentleman Thief, by Maurice LeBlanc, an early rival for Sherlock Holmes; paperback; $3

Miscellaneous

The Autobiography of Lincoln Steffens, Vol. II; by Steffens, of course; it’s in Volume II that he begins to regale us with his famous “muckracking” adventures (today we call it “investigative reporting,” but in Steffens’ day, it was a good deal more exciting); paperback with illos; $3

Rumpelstiltskin with illustrations by the incomparable Edward Gorey; a tiny but exquisite paperback in two colors; $3

Cartooning (how-to) by John M. Byrne, paperback; $2

The Case of the Midnight Voices, a Billy Jo Jive Adventure by John Shearer illustrated by his father, Ted Shearer, a master of cartoon drawing, creator of the comic strip Quincy; hardback, a children’s book but with Shearer’s drawings, who cares? $2

The Trumpet of the Swan by E.B. White, hardcover and illustrated; $4

Matilda by Roald Dahl, illustrated by the antic Quentin Blake; tattered paperback, $1

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SECTION 2

Books Left from the November 2009 Sale

Magazines, $3 each, plus $1 each for Media Mail; overseas, mailing is $4 each

Note: through No. 283, Comics Journal was $9.95; starting with No. 284, it was $11.95

Comics Journal, No. 275: interviews with David B., plus the Danish Cartoon Controversy, including reprints of the offending dozen; and the Best Comics of 2005

Comics Journal, No. 282: Alison Bechdel interviewed; and Fred Gardineer, plus Part I of RCHarvey’s review of the infamous Masters of Comic Art show

Comics Journal, No. 289 (beginning the “new format” for the magazine, which now looks like a paperback book): Robert Kirkman interviewed

Comics Journal, No. 293: S. Clay Wilson interviewed, and Alex Robinson

Heavy Metal, September 1997, "Aphrodisia" by Serpieri, a Julie Strain gallery, and "Ranx 3: Amen" by Liberatore, Tamburini and Chabat; $5

Newspaper Comic Strip Reprints

Beetle Bailey: 1950-1952 (280 8x10-inch landscape pages; hardcover) the first volume in the proposed “complete Beetle Bailey” reprint project, this one includes a brief biography of creator Mort Walker and a short history of the conception of the strip; $12.

Catch of the Day (128 8x9-inch pages, b/w; 2004 paperback) by Jim Toomey; the 8^th collection of Sherman’s Lagoon strips about a shark and his deep sea denizens that appear in about 200 newspapers; $5

Lio: Happiness Is a Squishy Cephalopod (128 8x9-inch pages, b/w and Sunday strips in color; paperback) by Mark Tatulli, perhaps the first Andrews McMeel compilation of this strip that chronicles the misguided nefarious and usually macabre doings of a small boy with a strange imagination; $5

The Long Road Home: One Step at a Time (102 6x8-inch pages, b/w one daily strip to a page; paperback) by Garry Trudeau; the first of two books tracing D.B.’s loss of his leg in Iraq and his subsequent counseling and rehabilitation by military agencies, for which Trudeau was repeatedly commended for both his compassion and his humorous accuracy in portraying the fates of wounded veterans of Iraq; $4

Garfield Minus Garfield (128 8x5-inch landscape pages, b/w; paperback) by Dan Walsh, who created the concept of reprinting Jim Davis’ strip without Garfield, thereby providing a curious and hilarious insight into the human predicament as exemplified by Garfield’s owner, Jon—all of which was enthusiastically endorsed by Davis; $5.

Mister Boffo: Unclear on the Concept (96 8x8-inch pages, b/w; paperback) by Joe Martin, 1989; $3

Zits: 2008 Calendar (desk type), reprints favorite comic strips by Jerry Scott and Jim Borgman even though the dates no longer apply; $1

Political Cartoon Collections

The Best Political Cartoons of the Year: 2007 Edition (288 8x10-inch pages, b/w; paperback) edited by Daryl Cagle (liberal) and Brian Fairrington (conservative); the best cartoons from November 2005 through October 2006, including cartoons about the infamous Danish Cartoon Controversy; this is the best of the two annual collections of editoons and includes hundreds of cartoons; $8

The Best Political Cartoons of the Year: 2008 Edition (288 8x10-inch pages, b/w, paperback) edited by Daryl Cagle (liberal) and Brian Fairrington (conservative); the best cartoons from November 2006 through October 2007. More of the above; $8.

The Best Political Cartoons of the Year: 2009 Edition (286 8x10-inch pages, b/w, paperback) edited by Daryl Cagle (liberal) and Brian Fairrington (conservative); the best cartoons from November 2007 through October 2008, which ought to embrace the presidential election of 2008 but barely does because the same two editors produced a single tome on the election, so this one deals with what else was happening in the world in more than 1,000 cartoons by the nation’s best; $8

Mission Accomplished (198 10x7-inch landscape pages, b/w; paperback) by Khalil Bendib, an American Muslim, survivor of the infamous Battle of Algiers, who sees American culture and politics from a skewed but truth-laden perspective peculiar to his background; $7.

Herblock: A Cartoonist’s Life (416 7x10-inch pages, b/w; paperback), the autobiography of Herbert Block, one of America’s most celebrated political cartoonists, with 250 cartoons; $7.

Code Red (150 5x8-inch landscape pages; paperback) by Ed Hall, who is syndicated through DBR Media; $3

Gag Cartoon Reprint

Crazy Cartoons by VIP, Fawcett pocketbook, 1956 (3^rd printing 1962); these are from VIP’s best years with True magazine and Collier’s

It’s Still in the Family (128 8x10-inch pages, b/w; hardcover), a 1961 collection of gag cartoons by Stanley and Janice Berenstain, subsequently the Berenstain Bears duo; but these cartoons are all about kids and their mothers and fathers, the forte that initially brought the Berentains fame; rare, dust jacket photo tucked in, $5,

The PreHistory of The Far Side: A 10^th Anniversary Exhibit (288 8.5x10.5-inch pages, b/w plus some color; paperback) by Gary Larson, who herein explains the origins and evolution of his nefarious newspaper cartoon panel, a valuable historic document; $5.

The Dedini Gallery (128 7x10-inch pages, b/w; hardcover), one of the few collections of gag cartoons by the great Eldon Dedini; first edition, 1961; $8.

Mondo Bizarro (104 8x5-inch landscape pages, b/w; paperback), just the third collection of Dan Piraro’s oddly amusing cartoons; $2.

Graphic Novels

Vigilante: City Lights, Prairie Justice (40 6x10-inch pages, full color; paperback) by James Robinson and Tony Salmons; $8

Never Ending Summer (96 7x8.5-inch pages, b/w; paperback) by Allison Cole, who draws in a highly simplified manner; autobiographical account of Cole’s summer with some friends; $2

Smoke and Guns (92 6x10-inch pages, b/w; paperback) by Kirsten Baldock and Fabio Moon; when ambitious cigarette girl Scarlett starts selling cigarettes outside her district, gang warfare erupts between gangs of cigarette girls; $5

Zoot Suite (78 6x10-inch pages, b/w; paperback) by Andrew and Roger Langridge; not, strictly speaking, a “graphic novel” but, rather, a collection of one-, two-, and more-page comic strip stories; and if I don’t sell this, I’ll happily keep it as a second copy of the work of a cartoonist whose visual technique and sense of comedy is beyond compare (Roger); merely $5 for a work of graphic genius

The Fate of the Artist (96 6x8.5-inch pages, b/w and color; paperback) by Eddie Campbell, one of world’s hardest-working cartooners; autobiographical whimsey at its best; $7

Therefore Repent! (160 6x8-inch pages, b/w and heavily gray-toned; paperback) by Jim Munroe and Salgood Sam; what chaos prevails after the Rhapsody; $6

Sojourn: the Thief’s Tale (158 6x10-inch pages, color; paperback), a grand sword and scorcery tale by Ron Marz, penciled by Greg Land and inked by Jay Leisten; volume 4 of a series, it sez here; the protagonists are female this time, and surpassingly comely without being naked, which accounts for the charm if not the appeal; $7

Crecy (48 6.5x10-inch pages, b/w; paperback) by Warren Ellis, copiously illustrated by Raulo Caceres, one of those illustrators who specialize in drawing the tiniest details (the sort of thing Ellis seems to like best, judging from all his other graphic enterprises); a re-telling of a classic battle at Crecy, France, in 1346, after which, it sez here, “modern warfare changed forever”; $3

Blanga: Heroes of the Black Age (100 6x10-inch pages, b/w with one story in color; paperback) by various; a “collector’s edition” commemorating the 25^th anniversary of Onli Studios; $3

Streets of Glory (162 6x10-inch pages, color; paperback) by Garth Ennis illustrated by Mike Wolfer, who specializes in gore; a western set in 1899 about the last of the olde time bounty-hunters; $6

Incognegro (136 7x9-inch pages, b/w; hardcover) by Mat Johnson as drawn by Warren Pleece, a remarkably intricate plotting of a stunning story of racism, lynching and other injustices; $9.

Mad Man’s Drum: A Novel in Woodcuts (144 6x9-inch pages, b/w; paperback) by the famed Lyn Ward, who developed wordless pictorial storytelling; this is his first work, 1929, reprinted by Dover; $4.

Lucky Luke: Jesse James (48 8x11-inch pages, color; paperback) by Morris and Goscinny, one of the lively Lucky Luke series spoofing the American Western; $4.

Kings in Disguise (192 8x10-inch pages, b/w; paperback) by James Vance and Dan Burr, the classic tale of a cross-country quest among hoboes in the Depression 1930s; $6.

Seattle Laughs (112 8x11-inch pages, b/w; paperback) by various, edited by Shary Flenniken; among those represented in these tales about Seattle are Steve Greenberg, Colin Upton, J. R. Williams, Dennis Eichhorn, Jim Woodring, Donna Barr, Dan O’Neill, Pat Moriarity, Charles R. Johnson (before he became famous as a novelist), Roberta Gregory, and Trina Robbins—to name just a few who produced short stories, one- and two-pagers usually; with signed bookplate by Shary Flenniken, $4.

Brickman Begins (152 5x7-inch pages, b/w; paperback) by Lew Stinger with an introduction by Alan Moore (just to show you something of the caliber of the work); $2.

The Apocalipstix (150 5x7-inch pages, b/w; paperback) by Ray Fawkes and Cameron Stewart, who give us a well-drawn epic about a girl band turned superheroine to fight the end of the world; $2

Mona Street, 3 64 9x12-page paperbacks, “The Secret Books of Glamour, Glamour International Production”; all erotic comics by Frollo, all in Italian; the attraction is the artwork, exquisite drawings, many reproducing pencil sketches; each volume, priced individually at $5 each,  is different, and the listing here distinguishes one from the other by citing the title of the first story in each:

1991: Entra in Scena Mona Street; mostly pencils but some inked b/w; $5

1991: Tith Massages, some pin-ups in color; mostly inked b/w; $5

1995 (ostensibly “volume 3"): Lezioni di Igiene, some pin-ups in color; otherwise, stories half-and-half, pencils and inks; $5

Picture Books

The Women of Manara (84 9x13-inch pages, color; hardcover, Heavy Metal, 1995) by Milo Manara, erotic pin-up pix; $7

Calendar Girl: Sweet & Sexy Pin-ups of the Postwar Era (146 10x13-inch pages, color throughout; hardcover, Collectors Press, 2003) edited and annotated by Max Allan Collins, who has mustered here pages of calendar cuties from the late 1940s and early 1950s by Elvgreen, Moran, Mac Pherson, Munson, Elliot, Moore, Chriaka, and more; $17

Erotica: An Illustrated Anthology of Sexual Art and Literature (164 9x11-inch pages, color and b/w; paperback, Carroll & Graf, 1992) by Charlotte Hill and William Wallace; copiously illustrated text; $7

The Golden Days of San Simeon: A Portrait of Hearst’s Magnificent Castle and the Hollywood Stars Who Glittered There (164 7x10-inch pages, b/w; paperback, Murmar Publishing, 1971 & 1995) by Ken Murray, annotated photographs all about the fabulous part of the Press Lord’s life; $5

Books with No Pictures At All (or Very Few)

Forever Barbie (320-plus pages) by M.G. Lord, “the unauthorized biography of a real doll” (yup, that one); $3

Russ Meyer: The Life and Films (136 pages, b/w photos but mostly text; paperback, McFarland Classics, 1990) by David K. Frasier, short biography and long filmography; $4

Rare and Therefore Wonderful

Verdun Belle and Some Others (122 6x9-inch pages, b/w; hardcover, Grosset & Dunlap), dog stories by Alexander Woollcott illustrated by Edwina; 1928, some pages showing tan at the edges, which makes it all the more rare (originally published, same year, by Coward-McCann under the title Two Gentlemen and a Lady); $15

Terry and the Pirates (208 12x9-inch landscape pages, b/w; hardcover) by Milton Caniff; the first reprinting of the famed strip from Woody Gelman’s Nostalgia Press, it was this volume and a few others (Flash Gordon, Little Nemo, The Phantom) that inaugurated the first wave of classic comic strip reprints of the 1970s; the pages of this one are beginning to brown at the edges, and the dust jacket is tattered but present; the first 13 months of the dailies; $8.

The Collective Unconscience of Odd Bodkins (112 0x12-inch pages, b/w; Glide Publications, 1973) by Dan O’Neill, an early manifestation of the underground genius in this collection of his famed newspaper strip; $6.

Research and Miscellaneous

Arguing Comics (200 6x9-inch pages; text with no illos; paperback), a collection of long-lost essays about comics and cartooning over the years from 1895 to 1972 or thereabouts; collected and edited by Jeet Heer and Kent Worchester, it includes Gilbert Seldes’ classic appreciation of Krazy Kat, Dorothy Parker’s mash note to Crockett Johnson and essays by Robert Warshow, Walter J. Ong, Leslie Fiedler, Gershon Legman and many others; $10

The Image of America in Caricature and Cartoon (236 8.5x9.5-inch pages, b/w some color; paperback), an extensively annotated catalog of an exhibition that started at the Amon Carter Museum of Western Art in Fort Worth and traveled around the country in the mid-1970s; text by Ron Tyler, who is otherwise unidentified but the history and notations seem authoritative and informed; $9

All-Star Companion (208 8.5x11-inch pages, b/w; paperback) edited by Roy Thomas, the world’s champion All-Star fan, who has collected here a vast history of the series, plus some rare and seldom-if-ever seen artwork; from TwoMorrows, $10.

Erotic Comics: A Graphic History from Tijuana Bibles to Underground Comix (196 10x10-inch pages, color; hardback, Harry N. Abrams) by Tim Pilcher with Gene Kannenberg, Jr. and a Foreword by Aline Komisky Crumb; the subtitle says it all, perhaps, although I could add that the early chapters, after beginning with “prehistory” of erotic art and the Romans and Japanese, go on through Aubrey Beardsley, the birth of pin-ups and WWII comics, then on to Playboy and its imitators, “Bondage Babes,” under-the-counter stuff and undergrounds, ending with overseas comics; chapters are often divided by cartoonist (4 pages by Dan DeCarlo followed by 4 pages of Bill Wenzel, 4 pages of Jack Cole followed by 4 of Bill Ward, f’instance); a $30 book originally, but here you can get it for $14

Unrelated to Comics but Still Fascinating

The Greatest Book Ever Written, the famous book in which the Old Testament Story is re-told as a novel by Fulton Oursler; hardcover, $2

David Harum by Edward Noyes Westcott, hardcover (discarded library book)—everyone needs in his/her library a copy of the most-frequently-shelved book in America’s used book stores (few people actually own a copy of this, which makes it rare, valuable, and collectible); $1

The Happy Harvest, a novel by Brit author Jeffery Farnol in which his peculiar detective, Jasper Shrig, once again prevails; hardcover, $2

The Computer Connection by Alfred Bester, renowned author of Stars My Destination, the sf book after which one needn’t ever read another sf book (except, perhaps, this one); hardcover, $2

Try and Stop Me: A Collection of Anecdotes and Stories, Mostly Humorous by Bennett Cerf, but the chief attraction in these parts is that it is illustrated by one of the best cartooners of the time, Carl Rose; hardcover, $3 (and Rose’s caricature of Heywood Broun is, alone, worth the price of admission)

The Wayward West, entitled after the newspaper humor column it reprints by the Denver Post’s Bill Barker, who also drew pictures of himself for the column, too few of which appear herein; nice short bits that you can read while enthroned on the nearest family crapper; hardcover, $2

Mysteries

Fearless Jones, a new mystery by Walter Mosley, a new detective character by the creator of Easy Rawlins; hardcover, $10

First Rumpole Omnibus by John Mortimer; paperback, $2

History

The World and the 20s: The Golden Yeas of New York’s Legendary Newspaper, reprints articles published in Pulitzer’s famed World during the decade, edited by James Boylan; hardcover, $5

The World Through a Monocle: The New Yorker at Midcentury by Mary F. Corey is an examination of the magazine and its influence in the years immediately after WWII and before its founding editor, Harold Ross, died; hardcover, $5

That Was the Life, a history of the famed photojournalism mag by Dora Jane Hamblin; paperback, $2

The Western Peace Officer: A Legacy of Law and Order by Frank Richard Prassel; paperback, $3

Biography

The Life and Legend of Gene Fowler by H. Allen Smith, who better to write the life of Fowler?; hardcover, $5

The Fine Art of Literary Mayhem: A Lively Account of Famous Writers and Their Feuds by Myrick Land; paperback, $2

A Texas Cow Boy, Or Fifteen Years on the Hurricane Deck of a Spanish Pony; “taken from real life by Charles A. Siringo, “an old stove up ‘cow puncher,’ who has spent nearly twenty years on the great Western cattle ranges”; published originally in 1885, this exact reprint regales us with the autobiography of an authentic “cow boy”; $4

I Never Left Home, Bob Hope’s earliest autobiography, copiously illustrated by Carl Rose, whose work is worth te price of admission alone; hardcover with dust jacket, $2

Everybody’s Pepys, an abridged version of the otherwise lengthy tome, this volume distinguished by the exquisite illustrations of Ernest H. Shepard; hardcover, $3

Mr. Nonsense: A Life of Edward Lear, very short (126-pages) with a few of his illustrations/cartoons, by Emery Kelen; hardcover, $2

Reference

An Incomplete Education by Judy Jones and William Wilson, a grand 680-page compendium of that vast arena, “miscellaneous information,” divided, here, fortunately, into chapters—Art History, Film, Music, Religion, etc.; hardback, $5

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SECTION 3: Super Leftovers

AND NOW, RESUMING OUR PREVIOUS LISTING, THE LEFT-OVERS FROM THE JANUARY, APRIL, AUGUST AND MARCH SALES OF LONG AGO

NOTE: Prices of books left on this list from before January 2006 have been Reduced Drastically.

Research and Miscellaneous

The Standard [Krause] Catalog of Comic Books by the Editors of the Comics Buyer’s Guide; 1^st edition of 2002, $8

GRAPHIC NOVELS & PICTURE BOOKS

The Fallen, Vol. 2 “Cold Reunion” by David Laaron Clark and David Rankin, “an intoxicating mix of words and pictures” said Skin Two; “visions of a tortured physical world with the dark sensuality of a fleeting dream” sayeth Juxtapoz, and I couldn’t say it better m’self; 9x12, $4

Waterwise (126 6x9-inch pages, b/w; paperback) by Joel Orff; young love and water, b&w, $3

Black Rust by Chad Michael Ward; spooky pictures (sometimes of barenekidwimmin) and occasional eerie text, $5

XXX Live Nude Girls: Pretty Like a Princess by Laurenn McCubbin and Nikki Coffman, a somewhat misleading title about slices of life, $2

Raptors, Vol. 3, by Dufaux and Marini; more vampires taking over the world, $4

House of Java (94 6x9-inch pages, b/w; hardcover), slice-of-life short stories by Mark Murphy, $3

Like a River (110 6x9-inch pages, b/w; paperback) by Pierre Wazem; a strange and affecting tale of alienation and reconciliations, $3

RARE AND THEREFORE WONDERFUL

Lady Loverly's Chatter by Mart Reb, a tiny (4x5") jewel of a mildly amusing, mildly risque novel, but its chief attraction, and the thing that inspires the price, are Fritz Willis' delicate pen-and-ink drawings of nekid ladies that illustrate the tale; pages turning brown but not yet brittle; with dust jacket nearly entact; hardcover, $30

All Women Are Wolves by Abner Silver, who describes 27 different kinds of female wolf and gets several notables (Earl Carroll, Jimmy Durante, W.C. Handy, even Hildegarde and others) to add their testimonies to the score, illustrated b&w throughout by the incomparable Russell Patterson (hence its attraction); hardcover, with dust jacket, $40

Father of the Bride, the classic novel by Edward Streeter, made even better in this case by being illustrated by the ever formidable Gluyas Williams, $4

Merry Christmas, Mr. Baxter, another Edwart Streeter novel, this one illustrated by Dorothea Warren Fox, whose quirky filigree lines are a joy; hardcover with dust jacket intact, $3

Stark Naked by Norton Juster with the usual outlandish comedic renderings from Arnold Roth that make the book the hilarity that it is; hardcover, first edition, $8

BOOKS THAT DON'T HAVE ANYTHING TO DO WITH COMICS

Is Our Children Learning? Paul Begala's "case against George W. Bush,” $2

Dude, Where's My Country by Michael Moore (yes, that Michael Moore), hardcover, $9

A Reporter's Life, Walter Cronkite's autobiography; hardcover, $9

The Woman Who Wouldn't Talk, Susan McDougal's recounting of her ordeal at the hands of Ken Starr et al; library discard/sale, hardback, $4

Out of the Old Rock, tales of the Old West by J. Frank Dobie; hardcover, $6

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