Category: Animation, Cartoons & Comics

ANIMATION. DESIGN LIBRARY

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: Gloucester, Massachusetts, Rockport : 1998

Seller ID: 10597

Condition: Near Fine

79 pp, 4to (12" H). Profusely illustrated in color. Examples of work from various design studios - cartoons, commercials, etc. "(A)nimation has gained popularity because of its attention-grabbing potential. An animated logo or interactive interface will keep the viewer's interest and attention longer than a static image. (This book) explores some of these new uses, and should provide endless inspiration for today's designers." Interior - clean and tight with no previous ownership marks. Exterior - bright and clean.
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WALT DISNEY'S ELMER ELEPHANT. 948

By: (Walt Disney.)

Price: $50.00 USD

Publisher: Racine, Wisconsin, Whitman : 1938

Seller ID: 29248

Binding: Sewed in wraps

Condition: Good-

Unpaginated (12 pages including covers), 12 1/8" H. Thick stock - "Linen-like and Sewed". Colorful illustrations with text below. Mickey Mouse helps Elmer Elephant built a house, but before it is complete, the sleepy Elephant decides to take a nap in Pluto's dog house, with disastrous results. Interior - light wrinkling at top/bottom of page gutters, small dent in middle of pages, some pages with a small corner crease, 1" tear at top edge of pages - archivally taped, slight browning to page edges and in gutters. Exterior - creases at top/bottom of spine, some tears at top edge of front an...
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THE SAD SACK.

By: Baker, George, Sergeant. Introduction by Sgt. Marion Hargrove.

Price: $50.00 USD

Publisher: New York, Simon & Schuster : 1944

Seller ID: 30860

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good-

Unpaginated, 7 1/2" H. Maroon cloth with black lettering on spine, small black illustration on front board. Price of $2.00 on bottom of dust jacket front flap. 115 b&w cartoons by George Baker who, prior to being inducted into the army in 1941, had worked for Walt Disney. "The Sack is the perfect personification of the Army's little man, the hopeless underdog who has no stripes, no glory, no friends in the orderly room, no escape from the dread terrors of red tape and higher ranks. He is the military cycle caught in a cartoon." A previous owner's bookplate on the front pastedown, a 1944 Chri...
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THE PRINCESS ELIZABETH GIFT BOOK. IN AID OF THE PRINCESS ELIZABETH OF YORK HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN.

By: Barrie, J.M.; Kipling, Rudyard; Young, Francis Brett; Chesterton, G.K.; Uncle Dick (B.J. Lamb); Blackwood, Algernon; Struther, Jan; Tourtel, Mary; Bagnold, Enid; Davies, W.H; Hilton, James; Mackenzie, Compton; Asquith, Herbert; de la Mare, Walter; et al.

Price: $65.00 USD

Publisher: London, Hodder & Stoughton : 1935

Seller ID: 30972

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good

224 pp, 10" H. No date, but c1935. White cloth with blue lettering/decoration on spine and front board. Endpaper and title page decorations by Rex Whistler. B&w double page spread of some of the authors/artists as children, colour plates including 2 double spreads of Mickey Mouse and gang, frontispiece of Princess Elizabeth, and illustrations by Sylvia Salisbury (2), A.H. Watson, Herbert Foxwell, Frank Salisbury and H.M. Talintyre. B&w illustrations by Paul Bloomfield, Mary Tourtel, Bip Pares, A.B. Payne (cartoons), Herbert Foxwell, H.M. Talintyre, Laurian Jones and R.L. Brightwell. All pla...
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THE PRINCESS ELIZABETH GIFT BOOK. IN AID OF THE PRINCESS ELIZABETH OF YORK HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN.

By: Barrie, J.M.; Kipling, Rudyard; Young, Francis Brett; Chesterton, G.K.; Uncle Dick (B.J. Lamb); Blackwood, Algernon; Struther, Jan; Tourtel, Mary; Bagnold, Enid; Davies, W.H; Hilton, James; Mackenzie, Compton; Asquith, Herbert; de la Mare, Walter; et al.

Price: $55.00 USD

Publisher: London, Hodder & Stoughton : 1935

Seller ID: 31038

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good+

224 pp, 10" H. No date, but c1935. White cloth with blue lettering/decoration on spine and front board. Endpaper and title page decorations by Rex Whistler. B&w double page spread of some of the authors/artists as children, colour plates including 2 double spreads of Mickey Mouse and gang, frontispiece of Princess Elizabeth, and illustrations by Sylvia Salisbury (2), A.H. Watson, Herbert Foxwell, Frank Salisbury and H.M. Talintyre. B&w illustrations by Paul Bloomfield, Mary Tourtel, Bip Pares, A.B. Payne (cartoons), Herbert Foxwell, H.M. Talintyre, Laurian Jones and R.L. Brightwell. All pla...
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MAX AND MORITZ, WITH MANY MORE MISCHIEF-MAKERS MORE OR LESS HUMAN AND APPROXIMATELY ANIMAL.

By: Busch, Wilhelm. Edited and annotated by H. Arthur Klein. Translated by H. Arthur Klein and others.

Price: $10.00 USD

Publisher: New York, Dover : 1962

Seller ID: 20702

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Good+

216 pp + publisher's catalog, 8vo (8 7/16" H). Profusely illustrated with Busch's b&w cartoons. Bilingual text (English/German). "Wilhelm Busch (1832-1908), endowed with an equipotent facility with sketch-pad and rhyming dictionary, created during his career some of the most arresting sketches and drollest verses the world has ever seen. Few men since his time have shown the same ability to match simple yet penetrating pictures with rollicking, quotable verse. In his native Germany he is still by all odds the best-loved creator of illustrated light verse. (Many of his pithy aphorisms have long...
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THIS ARMY VOL. 2: ANOTHER MAPLE LEAF ALBUM.

By: Coughlin, Bing. Lt.-Col. C.W. Gilchrist, Foreword.

Price: $25.00 USD

Publisher: Rome, Italy, No. 2 Canadian Public Relations Group : 1945

Seller ID: 30726

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Good-

63 pp, 9 1/4" H. "A portfolio of (b&w) cartoons drawn on the Italian battle front especially for The Maple Leaf, Canadian Army newspaper". As a sargeant with the 4th Princess Louise Dragoon Guards, the 32-year-old cartoonist participated in the invasion of Sicily and served through four months of the Italian Campaign before joining the Maple Leaf staff in January of (1944). Soft creases at the corners of the pages, tiny piece missing at the bottom corner of the first two pages, tiny tear with crease at top edge of last page - archivally taped, light toning to pages, previous owner's name at ...
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MUTT AND JEFF. BOOK 13.

By: Fisher, Bud.

Price: $50.00 USD

Publisher: New York, Cupples & Leon : 1928

Seller ID: 30804

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Good-

48 pp, 9 3/4" H x 10" W. Card covers with cloth tape spine. B&w comic strips. Mutt and Jeff revisited the First World War, play golf, take a trip to Mexico, etc. Interior - light to moderate browning to the pages, several taped tears/creases on the inside of the covers, the last two pages have pulled away from the staples but are holding firmly in the binding, small soft corner creases to the pages, light wear at the staple locations. Exterior - creasing to the covers - also a crease down the centre of the front cover, light to moderate edge wear, light brownig and some foxing marks, a few...
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BRINGING UP FATHER. SERIES NO. 20.

By: Geo. (George)

Price: $40.00 USD

Publisher: New York, Cupples & Leon : 1931

Seller ID: 30805

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Good-

Unpaginated, 9 7/8" H x 10" W. Card covers with cloth tape spine. B&w comic strips. The battling of Jiggs and his social-climbing wife, Maggie. Interior - moderate to heavy browning to the pages and to the inside of the covers, soft corner creases to the corners of the pages, some paper loss and wear on the inside of the covers at the staple locations, small area of water marks at the top edge of the front cover. Exterior - moderate edge wear, moderate edge creases/wrinkles, light to moderate browning, one small edge tear taped on the inside, 1" split at the bottom of the spine tape, two v...
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GILES - SUNDAY EXPRESS & DAILY EXPRESS CARTOONS. SEVENTEENTH SERIES.

By: Giles. Introduction by Spike Milligan.

Price: $20.00 USD

Publisher: Beaverbrook Newspapers, London, (1963).

Seller ID: 23046

Unpaginated, oblong soft cover (7 5/8" H x 10 1/8" D). B&w cartoons of British family, political and social life. Interior - price clipped on first page, small light finger mark on inside of front cover, otherwise clean and tight with no other own ership marks. Exterior - crease down rear cover, minor edge wear, small corner creases on rear cover, slight curl at fore-edge of covers. Very Good-
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SNOW WHITE AND THE SEVEN DWARFS & THE MAKING OF THE CLASSIC FILM.

By: Hollis, Richard and Sibley, Brian.

Price: $20.00 USD

Publisher: Hyperion, New York, 1994, Ist edition.

Seller ID: 1311

88 pp, small 4to (10 7/8" H), hard cover in dust jacket. "(Snow White) was the world's first animated feature film, and it remains an undisputed movie classic as well as a milestone in the history of cinema. This book is a celebration of the extraordinary film and of the unique creative achievement that it represented. Introducing the film's engaging cast of characters, (it uses) original Disney artwork (and) relates the story of Snow White's adventures. Illustrations include the highly evocative preliminary paintings, produced by gifted illustrators, that inspired the Studio artists. The...
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THE POGO CANDIDATURE: A CARTOON STORY FOR NEW CHILDREN. A POGO BOOK.

By: Kelly, Walt and Kelly, Selby. Afterword by Bill Vaughan.

Price: $25.00 USD

Publisher: Kansas City, Sheed Andrews and McMeel : 1976

Seller ID: 4182

ISBN-13: 9780836206876

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Very Good-

96 pp, 8" H. Profusely illustrated with b&w cartoons. "(A) classic civics-class lesson on the process of American politics. One of its most fascinating characters is one P.T. Bridgeport, who reveals a remarkable ability for puffery and vacuous statements of political fact. And Pogo, in remaining immune to the political flu, raises serious questions about the American way of politics: What are the responsibilities of the candidate to the people? And, as important, what are the responsibilities of the people to the candidate?" Interior - clean and tight with no previous ownership marks. Exteri...
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THE WORK OF E H SHEPARD.

By: Knox, Rawle, editor. (Ernest Shepard.) (Penelope Fitzgerald, H.F. Ellis, Bevis Hillier.)

Price: $25.00 USD

Publisher: Toronto, McClelland and Stewart, (Toronto, 1979). : 1979

Seller ID: 27923

ISBN-13: 9780771045448

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

256 pp, large 8vo (9 7/8" H). Profusely illustrated in b&w and colour. "This volume, published to mark the 100th anniversary of the birth of Ernest Shepard, offers the best and most characteristic of his whole range of work; it also provides a balanced appreciation of the man as artist and companion. Ernest H Shepard, 'Kipper' to his family and friends, is perhaps best known - and loved - for the children's illustrations he did for the work of A.A. Milne and for his incomparable drawings for Kenneth Grahame's 'The Wind in the Willows'. His output, however, was considerable and altogether h...
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THE WORLD OF WILLIAM STEIG.

By: Lorenz, Lee. (William Steig). (Introduction by John Updike).

Price: $30.00 USD

Publisher: New York, Artisan : 1998

Seller ID: 27807

ISBN-13: 9781885183972

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

207 pp, 11 1/4" H x 11 1/4" D. Profusely illustrated in color and b&w. "William Steig, the dean of 'New Yorker' cartoonists, began his career at the magazine in 1930. After achieving acclaim with his gang of street urchins, affectionately nicknamed the 'Small Fry', Steig branched out, exploring through his drawings the psychological undercurrents in relationships between parent and child, husband and wife, self and society. Beginning in the sixties, Steig demonstrated his understanding and awe of children in numerous award-winning picture books, including such classics as: 'Rotten Island' (19...
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LITTLE LULU AND HER PALS.

By: Marge. (Marjorie Henderson Buell, 1904-1993.)

Price: $20.00 USD

Publisher: Philadelphia, David McKay : 1939

Seller ID: 30313

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good

Unpaginated, 8 3/8" H. "Little Lulu is the reason why thousands of people open the 'Saturday Evening Post' back end foremost - to laught at her latest antic. Sixty of these amusing cartoons, specially selected for their appeal to children are presented in this book. (N.B. Adults proceed at their own risk.) Here is Lulu, always resourceful, always nonchalant - at a party, in school, with her pals, on Sundays and holidays - smiling, frowning, at the dentist. Here is Lulu at her best - or is it worst?" Previous owner has taped three additional Lulu cartoons on the blank pages at the end of the ...
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ANIMALS IN MOTION.

By: Muybridge, Eadweard. Edited by Lewis S. Brown.

Price: $45.00 USD

Publisher: New York, Dover

Seller ID: 23204

ISBN: 0486202028

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

72 pp text & b&w illustrations, followed by 182 double-page b&w plates, each with multiple images. "Here is the largest, most comprehensive selection of Muybridge's famous animals photos - more than 4000 high-speed shots of 34 different animals and birds, in 123 different types of action. Animals are shown walking, running, leaping, flying - in typical action. The horse alone is shown in more than 40 different ways: galloping with nude rider, trotting, pacing with sulky, cantering, jumping hurdles, carrying, rolling on barrels, and 36 other actions. All photos (are) taken against ruled backgro...
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THE VAGABOND VENDER.

By: N/A

Price: $25.00 USD

Publisher: Toronto, Dominion Bureau of Circulation : 1929

Seller ID: 19111

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good-

66 pp, small 8vo (7 1/2" H) - pale orange boards with red spine, black and red lettering/decoration on front board. Exotic 'reptile skin' patterned endpapers in shades of brown, green, peach and gold. Profusely illustrated with b&w comic illustrations. When travelling salesman Zep Hawker pulls into Mud Creek with his "cure-alls", we meet villagers like Kiss-Proof Kelly, Eppy Demmick, Bacteria Bates, Hippo Potts and Daley Tipple - and he gets run out of town on a rail! Title page has become detached from the staples but is still firmly held to the binding (manufacturing flaw), light liquid mar...
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SCRAPPY. COLUMBIA PICTURES AND WINKLER FILM PRODUCTIONS PRESENTS. BIG LITTLE BOOK 1122.

By: Patterson, Pat, adapted by. (Hal Hode.)

Price: $45.00 USD

Publisher: Racine, Wisconsin, Whitman : 1934

Seller ID: 29521

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good

283 pp, 5 1/2" H. "A Charles Mintz Production." B&w drawings. Contains: Scrappy's Circus; Scrappy's Big Adventure; Scrappy and the Black Sheep (Rimes by Hal Hode). Light browning to pages, paper at inside hinges are split - hinges are holding firmly, light to moderate edge wear, browning to edges of text block, wrinkling at top/bottom of spine, light rubbing and soiling - mainly on rear board.
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RUPERT: A BEAR'S LIFE.

By: Perry, George. With Alfred Bestall.

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: London, Pavilion : 1986

Seller ID: 27654

ISBN-13: 9780907516767

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Very Good

169 pp, 9 5/8" H. Profusely illustrated in colour and b&w. "(T)ells the story of Britain's longest-lived children's comic character, Rupert Bear. Rupert commenced his existence in the pages of the Daily Express in 1920 and for generations of Britons he has been part of childhood mythology. The central character, apart from the small bear himself, is the late Alfred Bestall, who drew Rupert daily for thirty years. He was interviewed at length, and gave the book his full co-operation. The book assesses Rupert's popularity and includes full descriptions of the associated enterprises, the fa...
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HOW THE BAND GOT TOGETHER. MAID MARIAN AND HER MERRY MEN SERIES.

By: Robinson, Tony. Illustrated by Paul Cemmick.

Price: $20.00 USD

Publisher: BBC Books, (London, 1992), reprint.

Seller ID: 14383

Unpaginated, 11 3/4" H, soft cover. Full-color cartoons throughout. "After hours of painstaking research, the true story of what happened in Sherwood Forest has been uncovered: Maid Marian did all the work and Robin Hood took all the credit. Robin was actually a terrific coward. It was Marian, a born leader ever since she was her school's rounders captain, who managed to assemble a complete bunch of idiots to fight the evil ways of King John and the Sheriff of Nottingham. In the earliest legend about Maid Marian and Robin Hood...we learn how the Sheriff of Nottingham swallowed Marian's pe...
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Category: Animation, Cartoons & Comics