Zimmerman Eugene Zim (5 results)

Unbound. Condition: Very Good. Eugene Zimmerman "Zim" (illustrator). 1st. full page farcial cartoon with 2 frames showing black baseball players as inept Size: 10" x 13".

THIS VOL ONLY, quarto, black heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, loosely enclosed ephemera to front eps and prelims, illus/photos, VG+ (minor creasing to extrems, minor wrinkling to lower board edges) in d/w, VG+ (light creasing to head of spine and heads of hinges, minor creasing to extrems) (photos available on request).

THIS VOL ONLY, quarto, black heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, illus/photos, Near Fine in d/w, VG+ (light creasing to head of spine and heads of hinges, minor creasing to extrems, light fading to spine, moderate creasing/rolling to front flap) (photos available on request).

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. original red and white pictorial cloth, some surface wear on exterior and endpapers, 96 pages.

23 pen and ink drawings affixed to a sheet of ruled paper on card mount, signed "from sketches by 'Zim'" lower right on paper. Highly accomplished sketches after Eugene "Zim" Zimmerman (1862 - 1935), a Swiss-American cartoonist, an early pioneer in the exaggerated "big foot" style of caricature, who did much work for Puck and Judge. This grouping of "American types" includes racial and ethnic stereotypes of blacks, Jews, Italians, and so on. [With:] "A Sample of American Humour," a two-panel pen-and-ink drawing involving a Chinese and Native American, inscribed "from 'Judge'", possibly after "Zim" [and:] "A Page from America" and "Another Page from America," two sheets containing 9 pen-and-ink comic drawings, some hand-colored, signed "W.O.H." Many with highly problematic portrayals of race and gender. Some foxing, wear to mount with some loss 23 pen and ink drawings affixed to a sheet of ruled paper on card mount, signed "from sketches by 'Zim'" lower right on paper. Signed.