What would happen if William Faulkner, James Joyce, Samuel Beckett, and Eugene O'Neill drew masterful strips for their Sunday comics pages? Frankly, we'll never know. But, in the meantime, we'll have "The Acme Novelty Library" and its eye-tearingly beautiful depictions of longing, despair, melancholy, disappointment, bleakness, lethargy, abandonment, and relentless parental cruelty. Not since Tosca has such utter emotional collapse been so ravishingly depicted. All of Ware's extraordinary cast of characters are here: Jimmy ...
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What would happen if William Faulkner, James Joyce, Samuel Beckett, and Eugene O'Neill drew masterful strips for their Sunday comics pages? Frankly, we'll never know. But, in the meantime, we'll have "The Acme Novelty Library" and its eye-tearingly beautiful depictions of longing, despair, melancholy, disappointment, bleakness, lethargy, abandonment, and relentless parental cruelty. Not since Tosca has such utter emotional collapse been so ravishingly depicted. All of Ware's extraordinary cast of characters are here: Jimmy Corrigan, the put-upon sad sack of the space age in "Tales of Tomorrow", Rocket Sam, Quimby the Mouse, the Super-man, Sparky the cat, Big Tex, and introducing...Rusty Brown - the world's most pathetic over-grown adolescent toy collector and the star of Ware's next magnum opus (which won't be finished for years). Also included are Ware's trademark ingenious make-it-yourself paper toys, including: Rocket Sam's rocket ship, a Victorian 'library' cabinet, and an actual, working stereopticon picture movie viewer!
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Add this copy of Acme Novelty Library #18 to cart. $33.37, good condition, Sold by LeifBooks rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Georgetown, CO, UNITED STATES, published 2007 by Drawn & Quarterly.
Add this copy of The Acme Novelty Library (Pantheon Graphic Library) to cart. $38.00, good condition, Sold by Tin Can Mailman rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Arcata, CA, UNITED STATES, published 2005 by Pantheon.
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Good. Size: 9x0x15; Minor shelf and perusal wear; slight bumping to corners. Mild scuffing and smudging to covers. Missing wraparound jacket. Pages are well bound. Text appears clean and unmarked.
Add this copy of Acme Novelty Library #18 (No. 18) to cart. $51.95, very good condition, Sold by Bookworks rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Chicago, IL, UNITED STATES, published 2007 by Drawn and Quarterly.
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Near Fine. No dust jacket as issued. Book First Edition, First Printing. Review copy with the publisher's material laid in. Clean and tightly bound with extremely slight shelf wear including a 1/2" dent on rear cover, otherwise Very Fine. The contents appear unread. No dust jacket as issued.
Add this copy of The Acme Novelty Library to cart. $56.50, like new condition, Sold by Mostly Useful Fictions rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Commack, NY, UNITED STATES, published 2005 by Pantheon.
Add this copy of The Acme Novelty Library to cart. $57.00, very good condition, Sold by Books on the Boulevard rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Sherman Oaks, CA, UNITED STATES, published 2005 by Pantheon.
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Very Good in No Dust Jacket dust jacket. 0375422951. Boards show few small scuff marks to front cover and bottom edges. Binding tight and straight, inner pages clean and unmarked. Publisher band intact.; Pantheon Graphic Library; 9.4 X 0.75 X 15.25 inches; 108 pages.
Add this copy of Acme Novelty Library #18 to cart. $63.00, new condition, Sold by Singing Saw Books rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Portland, OR, UNITED STATES, published 2007 by Drawn & Quarterly.
Add this copy of Acme Our Annual Report to Shareholders and Rainy Day to cart. $72.00, like new condition, Sold by Dave Wilhelm Books rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Evanston, IL, UNITED STATES, published 2005 by Pantheon.
Add this copy of The Acme Novelty Library (Pantheon Graphic Library) to cart. $105.50, new condition, Sold by GridFreed rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from San Diego, CA, UNITED STATES, published 2005 by Pantheon.
Add this copy of The Acme Novelty Library (Signed First Edition) to cart. $107.00, new condition, Sold by Dan Pope Books rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from WEST Hartford, CT, UNITED STATES, published 2005 by Pantheon (New York)..
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New in New jacket. Signed by Author(s) Pantheon, New York, 2005. First edition. First printing. New, in mini-wrap-around dust jacket. SIGNED BY CHRIS WARE on the front cover jacket, as is his custom, as "C. Ware" (as pictured). A pristine, unread copy. Very fine/very fine in all respects, never even opened. Smoke free shop. Shipped in sturdy box with bubble wrap. The tabloid-sized collection includes many of Ware's recurring characters: Rocket Sam, Quimby the Mouse, cowboy Big Tex, the futuristic consumer from Tales of Tomorrow, Jimmy Corrigan, obsessive toy collector and social outcast Rusty Brown, Rusty's boyhood pal, Chucky White. The volume also features some of Ware's meticulous, nostalgia-fueled renditions of vintage advertisements and a history of his Acme Novelty Company. This is a perfect copy, the true first printing. Shipped in a well padded box. You cannot find a better copy.
