Read Yourself Raw: Pages from the Rare First Three Issues of the Comics Magazine for Damned Intellectuals - Softcover
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Comic strips offer a surreal look at city life, death, television, alienation, art, tragedy, and love
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Comic strips offer a surreal look at city life, death, television, alienation, art, tragedy, and love.
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Read Yourself Raw
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Pantheon Books, New York, 1987
ISBN 10: 0394755510
ISBN 13: 9780394755519
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Softcover
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Seller: Fahrenheit's Books, Denver, CO, U.S.A.
Seller rating 5 out of 5 stars
Softcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. First edition (stated), large trade paperback with 8 trading cards bound in at the center, has bumps with creasing and peels to the spine ends and cover corners, damage with scraping and losses to the base of the spine, wear with peels and scuffs along the hinges and cover edges, soiling to the head of the front cover with a touch to the first pages, and a previous seller's price sticker to the back cover. Overall, this is a solid, tight, Good only copy. Seller Inventory # 215264
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Read Yourself Raw
Published by
Pantheon Books, 1987
ISBN 10: 0394755510
ISBN 13: 9780394755519
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Soft cover
First Edition
Seller: Pulpfiction Books, Vancouver, BC, Canada
Seller rating 5 out of 5 stars
Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First edition, first printing. Huge oversize trade paper original. Very Good- condition. Light creasing and dog earing to all corners. Base of spine heavily worn and abraded. Some interior page separation, though all pages are still attached at spine. See photographs for details of this damage. Oversize book will require a shipping surcharge if not sent via US Media Mail, or to any non-US destination. Seller Inventory # 014630
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Read Yourself Raw
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Pantheon, 1987
ISBN 10: 0394755510
ISBN 13: 9780394755519
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Soft cover
First Edition
Seller: tim hildebrand books, Janesville, WI, U.S.A.
Seller rating 5 out of 5 stars
Soft cover. Condition: As New. No Jacket. 1st Edition. New book in excellent condition. Edited by Art Spiegelman and Francoise Mouly. Seller Inventory # B838
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Read Yourself Raw: Pages from the Rare First Three Issues of the Comics Magazine for Damned Intellectuals
Seller: diakonia secondhand, München, Germany
Seller rating 5 out of 5 stars
Condition: Gut. 86 S. Einband an Ecken und Kanten leicht berieben. Seiten sauber. 1006 Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 560 Taschenbuch, Maße: 26.67 cm x 0.64 cm x 34.93 cm. Seller Inventory # 46518
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READ YOURSELF RAW
Published by
Pantheon, 1987
ISBN 10: 0394755510
ISBN 13: 9780394755519
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Soft cover
First Edition
Seller: SPHINX LIBRARY, CHONBURI, Thailand
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Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. 86 pages. 1st Edition. Very Good Condition with slight shelf rubbing to top and bottom front edge of cover. This book reprints the first three issues of RAW, the "comics magazine for damned intellectuals." It contains some of the classics of "New Wave" cartooning. Included is work by Spiegelman, Mouly, Moriarity, Mariscal, Tardi, Capelle, Kaz, Beyer, Burns, Munoz, Swarte, Griffith, Meulen, etc. It is a collection of cutting edge European and American material from the mid-seventies to the mid-eighties. The tone is intelligent, sophisticated, and existential (or is it nihilistic?) Visually, it is an eclectic feast for the eyes. It has been called a magazine of visual literature. This is a large, oversized publication, softbound, mostly black and white, with full-color cover reproductions. Bound into the volume are Art Spielgelman's all-color comic, "Two-Fisted Painters", and Mark Beyer's "City of Terror" bubblegum trading cards. Spiegelman's 'Two Fisted Painters' is a mock pulp thriller about about "sunday painter" August Dabbler, a colour stealing alien, and a performance artist. As an anthology of alternative, serious, experimental "comix" it was groundbreaking in the 1980s, and still unsurpassed. Today, the quantity of serious comics and graphic novels available is almost overwhelming, but the landscape before Raw was unrecognisable. In 1980 Art Spiegelman was a little known, but innovative American comics artist, previously co-editor of Arcade (until Raw the best anthology of alternative comics). Parisian Françoise Mouly's background was in design and print, and a passion for European comics. All this experience is evident in their editing of this collection. Raw appeared in a deluxe format with double (US Comic) sized pages and considered production and design. It demanded respect, both for its physical form and for the range and quality of its contents. It published acclaimed European creators in their first English translations. Joost Swarte, and Ever Meulen immaculately compose their playfully experimental 'clear line' pages. Swarte, particularly, is like a super-distilled Herge. Jacques Tardi, and Argentinian-born, Mediterranean-based José Muñoz and Carlos Sampayo look through European eyes at America. Their 'Mr Conrad, Mr Wilcox,' from the Joe's Bar series, is a well-observed and charming story of the friendship between two middle aged men, with an blind-siding noir conclusion. Seller Inventory # 001141
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RAW; Read Yourself
Seller: Alta-Glamour Inc., Seattle, WA, U.S.A.
Seller rating 5 out of 5 stars
[125]pp. Collected together the first three issues of Raw. Please note: Oversized volume: this book will require additional shipping for destinations outside the US; we will ship at cost. Original wrappers. Light shelfwear. Very good. Seller Inventory # 99954
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Read Yourself Raw
Published by
Pantheon, 1987
ISBN 10: 0394755510
ISBN 13: 9780394755519
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First Edition
Seller: Nicholas J. Certo, Newburgh, NY, U.S.A.
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Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. The best of the long-out-of-print first three issues of RAW, the magazine that first published Art Spiegelman's MAUS. Small scuff to rear cover, NEAR FINE copy in oversized wraps. Seller Inventory # 25-12 rbb comic art tall office
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Read Yourself Raw
Seller: Magers and Quinn Booksellers, Minneapolis, MN, U.S.A.
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paperback. Condition: Acceptable. May have underlining, highlighting, margin notes, remainder marks, inscriptions, book plates, tears, significant wear, and/or a missing dust jacket, box, or discs. Damaged item. Seller Inventory # 1543910
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Read Yourself Raw: Pages from the Rare First 3 Issues of the Comics Magazine for Damned Intellectuals
Published by
Pantheon, 1987
ISBN 10: 0394755510
ISBN 13: 9780394755519
Used
Softcover
First Edition
Signed
Seller: Moe's Books, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.
Seller rating 4 out of 5 stars
Softcover. Condition: Very good. No jacket. Signed by Spiegelman on the title page. Light edgewear. Seller Inventory # 110855
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READ YOURSELF RAW
Seller: Glands of Destiny First Edition Books, Sedro Woolley, WA, U.S.A.
Seller rating 5 out of 5 stars
paperback. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Publisher: Pantheon, New York, 1987. FINE- softcover in illustrated wraps, as issued. Includes the inserts: "City of Terror Trading Cards" and "Two Fisted Painters Action Adventures." Tiny bit of wear at heel of spine, otherwise as new. First Softcover Edition, First Printing. Seller Inventory # 2411120004