Comic Art in America: A Social History of the Funnies, the Political Cartoons, Magazine Humor, Sporting Cartoons and Animated Cartoons by Stephen Becker - 1959

Simon and Schuster, 1959. First Edition. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. Pages are fairly clean and bright with no markings, minor soiling here and there but nothing major or disruptive. No DJ. Binding is fine. Heavy rubbing to the corners and some of the edges of the coverboards.

New York: Simon and Schuster, 1959. cloth. small 4to. cloth. xi, (1), 387+(1) pages. First printing. Lacking the dust jacket. Else a near fine copy. "A Social History of the Funnies, the Political Cartoons, Magazine Humor, Sporting Cartoons and Animated Cartoons." With an introduction by Rube Goldberg and nearly 400 illustrations. Chapters on the beginnings of comics and cartoons, a century of magazines, from almanacs to The New Yorker, World War II and after. A comprehensive survey, that includes such diverse specimens as Hairbreadth Harry, The Boy Hero (1907), to Milt Gross' Count Screwloose from Toulouse Soglow's Little King, and Pogo. .

NY: Simon and Schuster, 1959. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Hardcover with an unclipped dust jacket that has minor edgewear. 287 pages with nearly 400 illustrations in b&w, introduction by Rube Goldberg. One of the best overall surveys of American caricature and cartoons, covering the period from the 1890s to the 1950s. Record # 356550