Boston, MA: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1981. Book. Fine. Cloth. First Edition. First Printing. Small quarto, black cloth covered boards. 336 pp. including Selective Annotated bibliography. Truly profusely illustrated with color reproductions of the most famous comic books and comic book illustrators of the twentieth century. Each section has a brief text introduction with historical and critical commentary followed by multiple pages reproducing the selected comic book. Almost every page a color reproduction. This volume is a very tight, clean, crisp, with bright, unmarked pages fresh cloth and spine titles, in a tight, clean, glossy, unclipped dust jacket with a nick to lower rear edge and two very small edge tears at top rear, else fine. Fine in very good plus dust jacket..

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Seller: Brillig Books (US)
Seller's Inventory #: 09918
Title: Smithsonian Book of Comic-Book Comics
Author: Barrier, Michael and Martin Williams
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - Fine
Jacket Condition: Fine
Edition: First Edition
Publisher: Smithsonian Institution Press
Place of Publication: Boston, MA
Date Published: 1981
Keywords: SMITHSONIAN, GRAPHIC, COMIC, BOOK, COMIC-BOOK, ART, HISTORY, SURVEY, BARRIER, WILLIAMS, STORY, NARRATIVE, NOVEL, SUPER, HERO, HEROES, PUBLISHERS, ARTISTS, ILLUSTRATED, ILLUSTRATIONS, ILLUSTRATORS, CARTOON
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