Search Results: Cartoons from Minotavros Books

Lisbon: Mattos Moreira & C., 1876. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/No Jacket. 4to. Original red cloth binding. 30 p.p. [preface], plus [14] p.p. b/w illustrations. Bookplate on pastedown endpaper. Large stains to front and rear boards. Rubbed to spine, edges and extremities. Pages lightly foxed. Raphael Bordallo Pinheiro (1846-1905) was a popular portuguese artist, who was known for creating the comic book character Ze Povinho (1875), an iconic symbol of the Portuguese everyman. He is credited as being the first creator of Portuguese comics.

Orlando: Harcourt, 2006. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Gorey, Edward. 8vo (imperial). Unpaginated. Illustrated blue cloth boards with matching dust jacket. Some bumping and rubbing to extremities, else fine. Illustrated thoughout, some in colour. This latest collection displays in glorious abundance the offbeat characters and droll humor of Edward Gorey. Figbash is acrobatic, topiaries are tragic, hippopotami are admonitory, and galoshes are remorseful in this celebration of a unique talent that never fails to delight, amuse, and confound. "Amphigorey Again "contains previously uncollected work and two unpublished stories--"The Izzard Book," a quirky riff on the letter "Z ," and "La Malle Saignante," a bilingual homage to early French silent serial movies.

London: Eyre Methuen, 1978. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Near Fine. 4to. Soft cover. Unpaginated, [86] pp. Fully illustrated, mostly in colour. Light rubbing and a few small spots of wear to extremities, some light creasing to covers. Damp staining to edges of front cover.

City of Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1971. Hardcover. Good/Good. 8vo. Green cloth with gilt lettering. xi, 126 p.p. B&W illustrations. Foxing to top edge of text block, Staining to spine. Bumping to spine ends. Slight bowing to boards. Wear and chafing to extremities of dust jacket, chafing to rear, a few short tears. Damp stain and sunning to spine head. Jacket is price clipped. Ink ownership inscription to ffep. The combination of forces leading to the Anglo-Saxon portrayal of his Irish Celtic cousins as chimpanzees, orangutans, and gorillas is the subject of this original, informative, and often witty study of political cartoons in the Victorian Era.

New York: Stewart, Tabori & Chang, 1990. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 4to. First edition. 208 p.p. Red cloth boards with white lettering to spine and title in blind to front board. Colour illustrated dust jacket. Illustrated endpapers with images of Bambi. Bumped at spine ends and corners at head, else fine. Dust jacket lightly bumped at corners and spine ends, small chip to front corner at head. A few black smudges to front. Copiously illustrated throughout. For the first time ever, the complete film story of Bambi is told in book form and accompanied by the unparalleled artwork from the Disney archives. Two of the top animators, Ollie Johnston and Frank Thomas, complement the story of Bambi's life with vivid recollections of the creative struggles that culminated in Walt Disney's favourite film.

New York: Ace Books, Inc, 1955. Soft cover. Good. 12mo. Paperback. 128 pp. B&W illustrations. Light patches of wear to spine and edges, creasing to covers, a few small stains. Foxing to edges of text block. Staining to edges of interior of covers. A new collection of the best cartoons by Richter, Vip, Keller, Williams, Rea, Wenzel, Temes, Nofziger, Filchock, and many more.

New York: Random House, 2006. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo. First edition stated. Glossy pictorial paper boards. xiv, 382 pp. B&W photos and illustrations in-text. Light bruise to spine head, else fine. "They're creepy and they're kooky" is how the catchy theme song of The Addams Family described everyone's favourite nonconformists - Morticia, Gomez, Lurch, Uncle Fester, Grandmama, Wednesday, and Puglsey. But for all of the novelty of the sitcom based on Charles Addams' ground-breaking New Yorker cartoons, Hollywood's Addams family paled beside the cartoonist's. In this first biography of the great cartoonist, written with exclusive access to Addams' intimates and his private papers, we finally meet the man behind the famed cartoons.

New York and Toronto: Signet Books, 1967. First Edition. Soft cover. Fine. 4to (oblong). First Printing. Illustrated wrappers, [unpaginated] illustrated with colour drawings throughout. Pages a bit browned, some markings on wrappers o/w about fine. "Nice guy's don't come in last! everybody's a winner in Charlie Brown's All-Stars. Join the losers and be a winner: Charlie Brown & Snoopy & Linus & Lucy have never won a ball game yet but they're the Winningest Losers in the World.

Vancouver: The Georgia Straight, 1972. First Edition. Soft cover. Near Fine. 10.5" x 14" Original illustrated covers. Saddle stitch binding. 34 one page comic strips. Features the adventures of beloved hippie, Harold Hedd, created by Canadian cartoonist Rand Holmes [1942-2002]. While working as an illustrator for B.C.'s The Georgia Straight newspaper, Holmes created Harold Hedd, an immensely popular and satirical comic strip in the 1970s. Light bumping and rubbing to covers. Crease to middle of covers where it has been folded. Sporadic stains. Pages lightly browned. Otherwise a near fine copy.

Greenwhich, Conneticut: Fawcett Publications, 1956. Soft cover. Very Good. 12mo. Paperback. 128 pp. B&W illustrations. Light wear to joints, bumping to corners. 200 triple-X charges of high-explosive humor!

Munich: Josef Mueller. Hardcover. Vey Good/No Jacket. 4.75" x 5.75" [Copr. 1935]. Purple boards with pictorial illustration on front board. [18] p.p. Includes [8] colour illustrations telling the story of a hardworking and violin playing bee. Light scuffing, scratches to boards. Wear along joint. Spine and edges rubbed. Light foxing throughout. Three staples in the gutter of p. 8,. but otherwise in very good condition.

Amsterdam: Scheltens & Giltay, 1915. Soft cover. Very Good. 4to. Orig. decorative wrappers stamped in black, 189pp. With four colour plates including frontispiece plus illustrations in-text. Light foxing, some creasing to pages, light damp staining to covers and bruising to spine, otherwise very good. A collection of caricatures from the start of WWI portrayed by cartoonists in various countries.

Jakarta: Penerbit PT Gramedia Pustaka Utama, 1999. Soft cover. Very Good. Paperback. xii, 377. Numerous colour illustrations in-text featuring famous Disney characters. Rubbing to edges, spine ends. Very small tear to lower rear joint. Some smudges to covers. Interior clean. In very good condition. An fun A-Z illustrated dictionary with text in English and Indonesian. Also features tips for grammar, numbers, and days and months of the year.

Watertown, Massachusetts: Boston America Corp, 1996. Soft cover. Near Fine. 8vo (imperial). Flip activity book for adults. Printed card wraps, with sewn and glued binding at head. Unpaginated. [31] leaves unused puzzles, games, colouring pages, word searches, and more based on MTV's Beavis and Butthead. One small scuff at head of front cover, else a fine, clean copy.

Greenwich, Connecticut: Fawcett Crest, 1968. Soft cover. Very Good. 12mo. Paperback. Unpaginated, approx. 180 p.p. of B&W illustrations. All edges orange. Some light creasing to covers and spine, and minor wear to edges and joints. Overall a very good copy.

New York: Frederick A. Strokes, 1888. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 10" x 8.25" Original blue pictorial cloth and white cloth onlay at head with gilt illustration of dancing shepherds. .64 p.p. A collection of humorous comic sketches and caricatures from Life Magazine, originally founded in 1883, co-founded by John Ames Mitchell and Andrew Miller. Features artwork by American illustrators Roswell Bacon [1868-1913], Albert E. Sterner [1863-1946], and Charles Dana Gibson [1867-1944]. Heavy wear and fraying to spine-ends and corners. Rubbing at edges with light soil to covers. Light sunning to endpapers and yellowing to pages. Interior clean. Otherwise a very good copy.

New York: The Citadel Press, 1961. 1st American Edition. Soft cover. Very Good. Rubington, Norman. 4.5" x 7" Soft cover. Unpaged. B&W illustration. Covers rubbed, spine sunned, edge worn. Stamp to tail edge. Light wear to hinge inside rear cover.

New York: International General, 1977. Soft cover. Near Fine. 8vo. 112 p.p. Paperback. No jacket. Covers colourfully illustrated. Black and white illustrations throughout book.Translated and introduction by David Kunzle. Some foxing to covers. Some rubbing to spine ends. Light browning to pages.

Toronto: Art Gallery of Ontario, 1980. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Near Fine. 9" x 8" Oblong soft cover. 48 pp. Numerous illustrations, several in colour. Covers are age toned, bumped at corners, some slight warping to joints.

[Peterborough, Ontario]: Rose Bergeron Productions, 2005. Soft cover. Near Fine. 8.5" x 9.5" SIGNED by author with inscription to title page. Soft cover. 192 p.p. B&W illustration. A few scuffs to rear cover, else fine. Two laid-in promotional order slips, and one laid-in Rose Bergeron business card.