META MAUS; I: A Survivor's Tale: My Father Bleeds History / II. And Here My Troubles Began

New York: Pantheon Books, 2011. First Edition, First Printing. Pictorial boards. Like New/Like New Glassine. Art Spiegelman. Tall 8vo, red 1/8th back strip with white lettering over pictorial boards with image of a mouse with eye-hole revealing Swastica, profusely illustrated in B/W & color images, cartoons, & photos accompanying text, glassine wrapper, gray pictorial endpapers, 299, [300-301] pages. Includes an unopened CD "The Complete Maus Files" affixed to the front pastedown. Art Spiegelman (born 1948) is a well-known American cartoonist, editor, and comics advocate best known for his Pulitzer Prize-winning graphic novel Maus. From 1992 he spent a decade as contributing artist for The New Yorker. Along the way he has created memorable characters like the Garbage Pail kids and made many contributions to underground and alternative comix.<br /> <br /> "The Complete Maus Files" has been developed around taped conversations with Prof. Hillary Chute of the University of Chicago, Afterwards, Art "gave her free access to my [his] rat's nest of files, archives, artwork, notebooks, journals, books, and dirty laundry." This resultant publication has "haunted me ever since"... <br /> <br /> SUPERB COPY! No previous owner or remainder marks.<br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> SUPERIOR Condition: Solid copy with bright full-color illustratons. No remainder or internal markings.