Jack Kirby, First Edition, Signed (32 results)

Condition: Very Good +. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good +. New York: Marvel Enterprises, 2005. First Edition. Bookplate signed by Mosley loosely laid in front. Quarto. 236 pages. Color illustrations. Illustrated dust jacket, folds out to double-sided poster. Illustrated boards. Dust jacket rubbed with some creasing along edges. Boards slightly crushed at spine ends and top rear corner bumped. Rear gutter starting but otherwise binding sound and pages unmarked.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. A very good copy of the first softcover edition, inscribed and signed by Jack [Temple Kirby] on the title page, with a typed and signed note to the recipient laid in. The text is wholly unmarked, pristine, and the binding is bright and fresh in appearance, with no creasing to the spine. A sharp copy. Inscribed by Author(s).

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. Josh Kirby (cover); Jack Gaughan (interior (illustrator). 1st Edition. First edition/printing paperback original (PBO) 1973 DAW No. 70 UQ1070. Fine, unread condition. Signed by Coney! A sharp copy. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First edition, hardcover. Gold cloth with red/black lettering on the spine. xviii,203 pages. Table of Contents. List of Illustrations. Acknowledgments. Preface. Notes. Essay on Sources. Index. Very good with head of spine lightly pushed and foxing to top edge of text block, in a very good, unclipped dust jacket with light wear to edges and faint crease on rear panel. Mylar cover on jacket. Inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper: "To the __-some folks from the old country Jack Kirby.". Inscribed by Author(s).

Soft cover. Condition: As New. Kirby, Jack (illustrator). 1st Edition. First printing, with full number line. A very fine (as-new) copy. A clean, beautiful copy. Comes with publicity materials from Hofstra Cultural Center's "Signature Event: Ta-Nehisi Coates" and "Writer stresses influence of voting." SIGNED by Coates in gold on front cover (as pictured). Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: New. KIRBY, JACK : SIMON, JOE (illustrator). First Edition. Hardcover - 1st. Revised Vanguard Deluxe Limited Edition - Signed & Numbered No. 383 of 600) Signed by both Joe and Jim Simon - FINE/FINE in FINE Slipcase ( note: top tip of front board lightly bumped) - The Comic Book Makers tells the real stories of the Golden Age era, written by a leading participant of the age! Joe Simon tells the compelling, definitive history of the creators. Meet the crime comics editor who would himself be accused of a gruesome murder, the horror artist who was periodically released from a mental hospital in order to meet his publishing deadlines, the famous Senator Estes Kefauver, whose subcommittee investigated comic books as a cause of juvenile delinquency, and dozens of other fascinating personalities! Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. Jack Kirby (illustrator). First Edition. Signed by Steve Saffel on title page. Also Signed book plate glue4d in on inside blank page - signed by Joe Simon Signature only. First Edition, First Printing. With corresponding number line. Book is in Fine condition. Boards are clean, not bumped. Not remaindered. Dust Jacket is in Fine condition. Not chipped or crinkled. Not price clipped. Book is an oversize table top book - heavy extra postage may be required. Book is covered by Mylar Brodart. All-ways well boxed, All-ways fast service. Thanks. Signed by Author(s). Book.

Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. KIRBY, JACK : ROMITA, JOHN : SEVERIN, MARIE : COLAN, GENE : STERANKO, JIM : ADAMS, NEAL (illustrator). 1st Edition. Leatherbound - Signed & Numbered Limited Edition No.1588 of 2500 Signed by Stan Lee & Ernst Gerber on limitation page - As New in NF Diust-Jacket in NF Slipcase - Note: closed tear on edge of pg. 279, other-wise As New) - Volumes 3: A-J & 4: K-Z in One Volume - 1st printing. By Ernest W. Gerber. Introduction by Stan Lee. Featuring 17,700 color illustrations of Marvel comics, starting from June 1961 through 1990. Also included is a relative value index and detailed artist compilation. Signed by Contributors.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. Kirby, Jack (illustrator). 1st Edition. Personally signed by Stan Lee directly on the first free end page. Not signed to anyone. First Edition/First Printing with full number line: 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1. Hardcover. Book is in FINE CONDITION and UNREAD. Very minor pushing to spine end. No marks, no inscription. Dust jacket is in FINE, NEW CONDITION, not price clipped, in a removable, protective clear cover. This is a beautiful autographed first edition for collectors. Makes a great gift. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: New. ROMITA SR., JOHN : KIRBY, JACK (illustrator). 1st Edition. Hardcover - 1st. Print - Signed & Numbered Limited Edition No. 611 of 850 (Signed by John Romita on limitation page & Signed by Stan Lee on bookplate attached to ffep) - NEW/NEW - Stan Lee sets out to teach everything he knows about writing, drawing, and creating comic book characters. The book focuses primarily on action-adventure comics, but will touch upon other genres and styles. From producing concepts and character sketches to laying out the final page of art, the man with no peer, Stan Lee, is the ultimate guide to the world of creating comics. - This limited edition will be signed by Stan Lee and features a numbered, tipped-in piece of commissioned art by legendary Spider-Man artist and long-time collaborator John Romita, Sr. Signed by Author and Illustrat.

Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. Jack Kirby (illustrator). 1st Edition. First edition/printing. Book and jacket each in Fine, unread condition. Signed, limited (1/500) sheet by Joe Simon! All six issues in one volume. Signed by Author(s).

Soft cover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Signed by Burroughs, Ginsberg, and McClure (1994)++ William S. Burroughs, "Excerpt from Naked Lunch" with contributions by Jack Kerouac, Bruce Conner, Allen Ginsberg, John Wieners, Robert Duncan, Michael McClure, Kirby Doyle, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Philip Whalen, Aaron Siskind, Parker Tyler, et al. In Chicago Review, 12/1 (Spring, 1958). Chicago: Chicago Review, 1958. 1st edition. Original wrappers. Good+ copy. 8vo, 92pp, in the original printed wrappers. This issue contains the third Burroughs Naked Lunch periodical appearance [++] Appearing here are: "Three Poems" (Ginsberg); "Four Poems" (McClure);"The Origins of Joy in Poetry" (Kerouac); "Note on Poetry in San Francisco" (Ferlinghetti); "Two Poems" (Kerouac); "Upon Taking Hold"(Duncan); "And the Arabs" (Ferlinghetti); "Two Poems" (Wieners); "Strange" (Doyle); "There's a Glow to the Wind" (Lamantia); "10:X:57" (Whalen). [++] The original wrappers are a bit faded around the edges, but the text is clean and crisp, in spite (I think) of having been read more than a couple of times. Nice copy with three good signatures. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Signed by Author. Signed by Martin Multiple copies available this title. Dust Jack in mylar guard. Quantity Available: 6. Category: American Indians; Americana, Revolutionary Era. Signed by Author. ISBN: 0809046016. ISBN/EAN: 9780809046010. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 15851.

Marvel / Panini France 2003. In-4 reliure éditeur plein skyvertex noir de 192 pages au format 27,5 x 3,5 x 17,5 cm. Couverture avec illustration argentée. Album glissé sous coffret. Bandes dessinées retraçant les origines des supers-héros ( La Torche Humaine, Daredevil, Captain America, Iron Man, Wolwerine etc ) sur des scénarios de Stan Lee illustrés par Jack Kirby, Joe Simon, Don Heck, Carl Burgos, etc. Etat de neuf. Un des 222 exemplaires du tirage de luxe avec certificat d'authenticité signé par John Romita. Rarissime édition originale complétement épuisée. Neuf sous blister.

Auto-édité par Eric Vignolles 2022. In-4 cartonnage éditeur, non paginé, de 200 pages, au format 32,5 x 3,5 x 24,5 cm. Couverture illustrée par Jean Frisano. Dos carré avec titre. Plats et intérieur parfaits. Livre neuf sous blister. Eric Vignolles étudie la création du magazine Fantask et ses 7 numéros parus, mais aussi " Wampus " ainsi que l'arrivée des super-héros Marvel en 1969. Rigoureuse étude avec une bibliographie et une magnifique iconographie composé d'illustrations en noir et en couleurs de Jack Kirby, John Buscema, Steve Ditko, Jean Frisano, etc. Photographies in et hors texte. Rare édition originale en tirage de tête limitée à 200 exemplaires numérotés et signés par l'auteur ( n° 170 ), avec ex-libris numérotés et dessin original dédicacé de Eric Vignolles. Totalement épuisée. Collection personnelle.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. 1st edition. First edition. Signed with a personal inscription " Montgomery from Caffee Winter of 1940-41" (Walter A. Montgomery, who has contributed a section of the book) and another inscription "To Jack Dalton from the Gaffer November 7 1944", library binding, soiled and some rubbing, pages 207-220 marked(Montgomery section, appears to be editing notes), all others are clean, binding is tight. Brick and mortar bookshop since 1975! Signed.

Mass Market Paperback. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Original price $0.75; Ace Double #11560; 22nd of 56 non-letter series back to back "Ace Doubles", published Oct. 1970: The Communipaths: 110 pages, cover art by Josh Kirby; The Nobelest Experiment in the Galaxy: 143 pages, cover art by Jack Gaughan, signed by Gaughan. Signed by Cover Artist.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket (as issued). First Edition. 1st Printing. 1987. Limited Edition. Nice Firm Clean copy ! Unmarked. Has slipcase. Signed and presented by a member of Westvaco. 271 pages. Privately published by Westvaco, Christmas 1987. A collection of essays about thirteen American innovators. Eli Whitney, Robert Fulton, Cyrus McCormick, Samuel Morse, Elias Howe, Alexander Graham Bell, Thomas Edison, Wright Bros., Henry Ford, James Watson, Jack Kirby, Robert Noyce. 6386.

Hardback in Dust Wrapper. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good+. First edition (first printing). Signed copy. Hardback. Dust wrapper over green boards with gilt titles to the spine & upper board; Measures 14" x 9¾" (1.6 kg); pp 133; Signed by the author, with dedication, on the title page without provenance but with an additional signed ms taped to the first blank. Contains: Black & white plates; Black & white drawings; Frontispiece; Title page vignette; || The book is on the shelf, ready to be appropriately packed, and posted from the pastoral paradise of Peasedown St. John, Bath, by a real bookseller in a real book shop - with my personal guarantee and beady eye on the Consumer Contracts Regulations. REMEMBER! Buying my copy means the book shop Jack Russells get their supper! My Book #183654 ||.

Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket issued. 1st Edition. Like New. Unmarked. Has slipcase. Signed and presented by a member of Westvaco on a bookplate that is not affixed. 271 pages. Privately published by Westvaco, Christmas 1987. A collection of essays about thirteen American innovators. Eli Whitney, Robert Fulton, Cyrus McCormick, Samuel Morse, Elias Howe, Alexander Graham Bell, Thomas Edison, Wright Bros., Henry Ford, James Watson, Jack Kirby, Robert Noyce. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. A Fine, Collectible book, SIGNED by NEIL GAIMAN, who wrote the Introduction to the book. Mark Evanier met Jack Kirby in 1969, worked as his assistant, and later became his official biographer; Jack Kirby created or co-created some of comic books' most popular super heroes, including Captain America, The X-Men, The Hulk, The Fantastic Four, The Mighty Thor, Darkseid, and The New Gods. More significantly, he created much of the visual language for fantasy and adventure comics. Large quarto in dust jacket, 224 pp., color illustrations throughout. "?the best part of "Kirby: King of Comics" is the beautiful color art found throughout. There are almost as many pages of art as there are pages of text, which makes the book a treasure."?The Cleveland Plain Dealer. SIGNED.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Included. 1st Edition. SIGNED. First Edition (stated) & First Printing (full number line). FINE hardcover in fine first state dust jacket (protected in mylar): NO "New York Times Bestseller" mast on front; seven review blurbs on back cover, including Louise Erdrich and S.C. Gwynne. 8vo. x, 338 pp. photos; end paper maps. Signed by David Grann on flyleaf after fep. Previously, the Osage murders have been told in comic book format by Jack Kirby and in the novel _Mean Spirit_ by Linda Hogan, which was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize in 1990. Grann's meticulously researched non-fiction account unfolds like a mystery novel. A film adaptation by Martin Scorcese to be released in 2023. NO ownership or remainder marks. Ships fast with tracking. Signed by Author(s).

Cloth and boards. Condition: Very Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. Woodcuts (illustrator). First Edition, First Printing. INSCRIBED by Co-creator/editor Janet Berliner on the title page & SIGNED by her on her story "Indigo Moon,", tall 8vo, black quarter cloth with gold lettering & large "DC" on dark blue front cover, illustrated with B&W woodcuts (uncredited) heading each story, archival mylar-protected glossy dust jacket (unclipped) with B&W photo of David Copperfield by Herb Ritts, dark blue endpapers, xi, [xii-xiii] + 385 pages + [1] Copyrights. Copperfield invited 18 of our most ingenious authors to create original stories for this "Impossible" volume. Anthology with original contributions from: Dean Koontz, David Copperfield, Ray Bradbury, Jack Kirby, S. P. Somtow, Kevin J. Anderson, Eric Lustbader, Joyce Carol Oates, F. Paul Wilson, Lucy Taylor, Dave Smeds, Larry Bond, Raymond E. Feist, Robert Weinberg, Lisa Mason, P.D. Cacek, Dave Wolverton, Matthew Costello, and JANET BERLINER, author & collaborator with Copperfield. SUPERIOR CONDITION: tight, bright, very clean. Only flaws are a few light wrinkles to the rear panel of the dust jacket (unclipped).

Original Wraps. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. Quarto. 191pp illustrated. A very good copy inscribed/signed to. by Greg Theakston Inscribed By Author.

Condition: Fine in fine slipcase. 1998 Long Beach, 1st edn, 399pp, illus in color and b&w, ltd to 1000 signed, numbered, & slipcased copies. This is the seventh volume in Safari Press's African Country Series and covers hunting in South Africa from 1790 to1997. This volume contains the largest selection of hunting stories ever collected on South Africa. Contributors include Cattrick, Paul Kruger, Conrwallis Harris, Gordon Cumming, Lucas, Baldwin, Leveson, Fernandes Das Neves, Holub, Mosop, Ballantyne, Anderson Bryden, Tom Bulpin, Vaughn Kirby, Findlay, John Millais, Harry Wolhuter, Fitzpatrick, Walker, James Mellon, Brian Marsh, Jack Atcheson, Walt Prothero, Peter Flack, Ken Elliot, Craig Boddington, Todd Smith, Thomas McIntyre, Joe Coogan, Tony Sanchez, and others. Tony Sanchez-Arino has carefully selected all the stories to give a complete view of hunting in South Africa, and each book is signed by Sanchez and Bosman and is limited to 1,000 numbered copies. Each book has elaborate gilt stamping on the covers, is slipcased, printed on acid-free paper, Smyth sewn, bound in grade-A wax-impregnated cloth, and features a ribbon marker. Illustrated with the original artwork of Paul Bosman.

First Edition. Signed by the author Ray Bradbury and 29 other attendees of the 40th anniversary of Comic-Con International, the largest comic book and popular arts convention in the world. With the signatures of Mike Pasqua, Phil Yeh (with a drawing by him of a cat, a small heart, and Ô09), Janet Tait, Barry Short, Lance Geeck, Mark Stadler, Jim Valentino (with a caricature self portrait), David Scroggy (with a caricature self portrait), Dave Clark, Roger Freedman, Barry Alfonso, Jackie Estrada, Vicky Kelso-Goulart, Wendy All, Scott Shaw (with a caricature self portrait), Greg Bear, William R. Lund, Mike Towry, Richard Butner, Clayton A. Moore (twice and with a printed flyer laid-in signed by him in silver), Max Allan Collins, John ÔChrisÕ Christensen, Bill Mumy, Steve Leialoha, Beth Holley, Chris Sturhann, Mary Sturhann, Richard Alf, and Clydene Nee (ÓDene CycloneÓ). Oversize art book, 207 pages. Very minor bump to the boards at top of the spine, else mint in a mint bright dust jacket. Illustrated throughout with drawings, photographs, programs, comic book covers and drawings, movie posters and promotional materials, memorabilia, behind the scenes photos, and more. Comic-Con began in 1970 in San Diego and continues as a very special place for artists, fans, writers, celebrities, and other professionals to gather in celebration of all things wonderful in the world of comics, science fiction and fantasy, film, videos, anime, and fun. From Ray BradburyÕs foreword: ÒWhen I was in my late forties, I was asked to come down to San Diego to attend the first Comic-Con at the El Cortez Hotel. I was part of a group of about three hundred people, if you can believe that. The fascinating thing about this was that these people all loved illustration. We were all very happy being there and enjoying one anotherÕs company.Ó Accompanying Bradbury (who is featured extensively throughout the book) at that first gathering were such luminaries as A.E. van Vogt, Jack Kirby, and Forrest J Ackerman.

Hardcover. First edition, third printing. This is the 1925 printing of Charmian London's account of her voyage with her husband, Jack, inscribed, signed, and dated by the author and featuring her bookplate. Inked in ten lines on the front free endpaper recto, Charmian wrote: "To Dr. Frank B. Kirby: The author hopes that | your life has fulsome | adventure as much to your | liking as was this one to | Jack and | Charmian London. | Glen Ellen, | California | 1929." On the front pastedown, facing the inscription, is Charmian's illustrated bookplate. Appropriate to the title, the plate features a woman astride a horse, the pair surrounded by waves. This third printing of May 1925 followed the first of October 1915 and the second of November 1916. The book contains no other ownership marks. Condition is good plus sound, internally clean, and complete, though showing exterior wear. The illustrated binding has a forward lean, shows light soiling and shelf wear to extremities, including the corners, spine ends, and the upper front joint. The spine is mildly toned and the gilt on both the spine and front cover is scuffed and dulled. The contents are mildly age-toned but otherwise clean, with no spotting or soiling.When Charmian ` (1871-1955) first met Jack five years her junior "London found her literary knowledge impressive and they both hit it off." Nonetheless, Jack married someone else, a marriage that ended in divorce in 1904. "A year after the divorce was finalized, Jack and Charmian were married in Chicago on November 19, 1905." Charmian was a vital partner to Jack. "Beginning with London's classic novel,The Sea-Wolf, Charmian edited most of London's writing. She also collaborated and contributed passages to many other works."The Londons settled in Glen Ellen. "Upon re-readingJoshua Slocum'sSailing Alone Around the Worldtogether,they decided to plan their own journey around the world on a small yacht they planned to build themselves. After many delays, they sailed to the South Seas.Charmian would write her first book about their travels, entitled,The Log of the Snark(1915) which first appeared serially inMid-Pacific Magazine.The book provided a daily log of their adventures traveling through the South Seas.Charmian drew from the writing of Isabel Bird for inspiration.Due to Jack's serious health issues, the couple had to abandon their ambition to travel the world and return to the Bay Area from Sydney, Australia. TheLogwas well received by reviewers, who described the book as a "vivacious account of their remarkable adventure." Charmian also wrote two more books that drew from theirSnarkjourney:Our HawaiiandOur Hawaii: Islands and Islanders."During the journey, Charmian kept a journal, upon which she drew for The Log of the Snark. In it, she details, day by day, "the trials, challenges, and joys of sailing a small boat through mostly wild islands. The book includes a number of photographs she took on the trip."When Jack died of uremia at the age of 40 in 1916 Charmian arranged for the publication of all of Jack's finished and unfinished work Encouraged by Jack's publisher at Macmillan, Charmian wrote and published a two-volume biography about her husband. During the 1920s and 1930s Charmian traveled throughout Europe where she promoted her own writing and secured translations of Jack's.Sometimes speaking to upwards of 23,000 people, Charmian remained a celebrity." (Jack London State Historic Park).

Condition: Fine in fine slipcase. 2015 Long Beach, 1st edn, 475pp, drawings, ltd to 1000 copies, numbered, signed, slipcased copies. Finally, the long awaited and much anticipated "Rhino" book is available now. Safari Press has agreed to produce this book with James Rikhoff, the publisher of Amwell Press. The book was produced to match the physical appearance of the other four books in the Amwell series (elephant, buffalo, leopard, and lion), thus completing the matching set with similar binding, paper, and slipcase. As before, Jim Rikhoff has done a special commentary, and Guy Coheleach has created his magnificent color illustrations as well as his incredible pencil drawings of rhinos. The African rhino has sadly taken a huge hit in recent times, but there was a time, which extended well past World War II, when rhinos were incredibly plentiful. In fact, when Theodore Roosevelt proceeded from Nairobi on foot into the interior of Kenya in 1909, rhinos had to be shot repeatedly because they attacked the caravan and knocked over and sometimes even killed the porters. Later, John Hunter was paid to clear out hundreds of black rhinos from the Makueni district in Kenya in the 1930s. Imagine being paid to shoot rhinos, while currently, permits for the same animal go for hundreds of thousands of dollars! As with the other books in this series, the book is divided into four parts. The first section begins with the very earliest written records (in the English language) of rhino encounters and then continues through three additional sections with progressively more modern rhino-hunting stories. Some of the greatest names in the annals of African big-game hunting grace the pages of this book: Henry Stanley, A. Blayney Percival, Theodore Roosevelt, Fred Kirby, Jack O'Connor, John Batten, Elgin Gates, Edison Marshall, Bunny Allen, Dean Witter, Soren Lindstrom, Finn Aagaard, and many others.

Pamphlet. Condition: Very good. 48 pages. RARE surviving inscribed copy!!! Notable Translator. Two Point Saddle Staple Binding. Off white/very light puce colored paper covers, with photo on the front cover, are clean and sharp. Inscribe by Whitten inside the front cover. The inscription reads "For Ron-In hopes you'll hit the novel of your dreams--or something. These poems, modest as they are make me feel damned good. I hope you get some pleasure out of them; theres even a kind of happy one on page 28 to brighten your day--a beintot until that long [unclear] lunch--Les April 12-'06". Leslie H. Whitten Jr., b. 1928, is a novelist, poet, translator and was a prize-winning investigative reporter. Ten of his novels have been published, plus a biography of Lee Bailey, three books of translations of the French poet Charles Baudelaire, a children's book and a book of his own poems. His books have been praised by The New York Times, The Washington Post, Time, The Los Angeles Times, The Baltimore Sun, The Chicago Tribune, Publishers Weekly and many others. As a journalist with the Washington Post, Jack Anderson and others, he covered every president from Eisenhower to Bush, Watergate, other major political scandals, and innumerable other national events. He has reported from the Middle East, Europe and Asia, on the Indochina war, hurricanes and other natural and unnatural ills to which the press is heir. For refusing to reveal his Native American sources despite being jailed by the FBI, he was given a major civil liberties award and was made a Blood Brother of the Iroquois. He has appeared on the "Today" and other national TV shows. Charles Pierre Baudelaire (9 April 1821 31 August 1867) was a French poet, essayist, translator and art critic. His poems are described as exhibiting mastery of rhyme and rhythm, containing an exoticism inherited from the Romantics, and are based on observations of real life. His most famous work, a book of lyric poetry titled Les Fleurs du mal (The Flowers of Evil), expresses the changing nature of beauty in the rapidly industrializing Paris caused by Haussmann's renovation of Paris during the mid-19th century. Baudelaire's original style of prose-poetry influenced a generation of poets including Paul Verlaine, Arthur Rimbaud and Stéphane Mallarmé. He coined the term modernity (modernité) to designate the fleeting experience of life in an urban metropolis, and the responsibility of artistic expression to capture that experience. Marshall Berman has credited Baudelaire as being the first Modernist. From information gleaned on line: "Charles Baudelaire (1821-1867), was certainly a genius, regarded as such from high school to the time of his death. His unnumerable biographers have also called him the greatest of all French poets, rivaled since the Greeks only by Shakespeare and Goethe. His poems achieve a wrenching clarity quite at odds with the train wreck of his personal life. His history seems a dark, turbulent sky on which the lightning of his poems was projected. The magnificent thunder still rumbles. For some of us, Baudelaire, like a skilled psychotherapist, has changed our lives, peeled away our pretensions and then laid bare the genesis and the meaning of our rawest emotions." -Leslie H. Whitten Jr., in The Introduction. "You will find here a poet-translator who steers between the dangers of expansive ego and slavish transcription. Whitten has not just captured the recurrent symbols and images that express Baudelaire's deep thematics, but he has found the rare and fragile metric and lyric devices to orchestrate and give nuance to the extraordinarily varied Fleurs." -Maurice A. O'Meara, Ph.D., Poet Laureate of France. "These splendid translations, all true to the original meter and rhyming creative pure refined lead us to the authentic, somberly erotic Baudelaire." -Sophy Burnham, best-selling author of A Book of Angels. "Intense, sometimes darkly comic and always wise, these are the best of Baudelaire for the reader in English." Roderick MacLeish, novelist, broadcast commentator & critic. "I have had Baudelaire's work on my shelf for decades and always felt intimidated by the obligation to educate myself by reading his work but I never did. This pamphlet takes away the burden of coping with a monument." -Kirby Congdon. "The result of Mr. Whitten's efforts is true to the feel and spirit of the poems and is, in fact, quite fluid, graceful and capable of making one forget indeed that these are translations from another language." -Phil Wagner, Iconoclast. Whitten was an American investigative reporter, and had a reputation for his horror fiction - Stephen King has listed Whitten's Progeny of the Adder on the list of essential horror novels that appears in his book Danse Macabre. First Edition [stated], presumed first printing thus.

Rare original oversized Batman sketch. One page on off-white cardstock, original felt tip sketch of Batman, Robin, and the Penguin, boldly inscribed by Bob Kane, "For my friend Cork, write on! Bats wishes, BobÂKane, '94." Additionally annotated and signed on the reverse by writer Cork Millner, "Personally drawn for Cork Millner at the Biltmore Hotel, Santa Barbara, during BobÂKane's visit to the SBWC (as a speaker) in exchange for a signed copy of Portraits." Framed. In fine condition. The piece measures 20 inches by 12 inches. Rare and desirable. Robert Kane was the American comic book writer, animator and artist who co-created Batman and most early related characters for DC Comics. He was inducted into the comic book industry's Jack Kirby Hall of Fame in 1993 and into the Will Eisner Comic Book Hall of Fame in 1996, and his legacy continues to thrive thanks to the ever-popular Caped Crusader.