[Chicago]: Second Ward Times, [1938]. First Edition. Rare and fragile campaign flyer for Roscoe Conkling Simmons's failed 1938 run for U.S. Congress, to represent Illinois' 1st District (including most of South-side Chicago). Published and illustrated by Henry Brown, who had been the chief editorial cartoonist for Chicago's leading African-American newspaper..... More

New York: North American Review Corporation, 1920. Single issue of this journal of conservative opinion and politics, edited and published by the New York railway magnate, staunch anti-Wilsonian, and Ambassador to the United Kingdom under Harding, George B.M. Harvey. Harvey's Weekly ran from 1919-1921 as a continuation of Harvey's North..... More

London: Published by the Author at the Stock Exchange, 1887. First Edition. Octavo (22cm.); original plum cloth, upper cover double ruled in black, gilt lettered spine, marbled endpapers; vi,183pp.; double frontispiece, one additional plate, text illus. throughout. Boards rather rubbed with shallow losses at spine ends, spine a bit sunned..... More

Chicago: Thompson & Thomas, N.d. [1906]. Undated reprint (ca 1906); originally published Phila: 1894. Octavo. Pictorial cloth; 329pp; illus. Mild bumps to board corners; spine leaning slightly, still a bright, Very Good or better copy with color stamping to cloth still vivid and legible. An attractive copy of a book..... More

[New York]: Quip Publishing, 1924. First Edition. Bleiler-listed pastiche of humorous fantasy vignettes featuring the title character, clearly modeled on the eponymous fictional character invented by Rudolf Erich Raspe in his 18th-century fantasy Baron Munchausen's Narrative of his Marvellous Travels and Campaigns in Russia. Brandeis was a long-time attending physician..... More

New York: The Daily Worker, 1935. First Edition. First printing. Limited issue; no. 50 of 100 clothbound copies signed by Burck. Quarto; tan buckram with titles and decorations stamped in brown on front and rear covers; 247pp. A lovely, fine copy, free of soiling or wear. There was a simultaneous..... More

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1956. First Edition. Compilation of women-related cartoons culled from major American periodicals. Grouped into chapters by subject ("Fashion and Beauty," "Love, Sex, and the Pursuit of the Male," etc.) Includes works by Currier & Ives, William Steig, James Thurber, and Art Young, among many others. Large..... More

Barcelona: Edicions del Comissariat de Propaganda de la Generalitat de Catalunya, [ca 1936]. First, Limited Edition. Suite of twelve handsome lithographs by the Catalan painter Pere Créixams (1893-1965), all depicting Catalonian children against the backdrop of various scenes from the Civil War. Each image is accompanied by a brief patriotic..... More

[1945]. A very fine example of Gropper's post-War style, depicting a husband, wife and infant, perhaps in a shtetl or ghetto. A decrepit-looking beggar sits in the background. Undated, but likely ca. 1945-50. Brown crayon on paper, 18" x 15". Professionally matted and handsomely framed in walnut, with original gallery..... More

Milwaukee: Kitchen Sink Enterprises, 1972. First Edition. Staple-bound wrappers; unpaginated (ca 48pp); illus. Price cancel to upper cover, else Fine. First and only issue. Underground comic featuring the Black superhero "Soul-Brother American," and "Eric Private, the Black Eye." More

New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, [1962]. First Edition. Folio (33cm.); original blue and red pictorial staplebound wrappers; unpaged; chiefly illus. About Fine. Satirical cartoon collection of Caroline Kennedy's doll collection, namely political and popular figures depicted as wind-up dolls, including the Jackie Kennedy doll: "You wind it up and invites..... More

N.p. [New York? Kanrom Inc., 1962]. First Edition. Sardonic joke-coloring book, inspired by Richard Nixon, with text written in the first person as JFK's children. Begins with "My daddy is very important. He has a lot of people working for him. They would do anything for my daddy. Color their..... More

Seattle: Fantagraphics Books, 2011, 2012, 2014. First Edition. First printings. Landscape octavo (24cm). Three volumes in blue blindstamped cloth and dust jackets, two in original slipcase; I: [xviii],[290]pp; II: xviii,[338]pp; III: [xii],[356]pp; color and black and white comic strips throughout. Onwership inscriptions of noted zoologist James G. Mead. Straight, bright..... More