THE COMPLETE CRUMB, VOLUME 1: THE EARLY YEARS OF BITTER STRUGGLE - LIMITED EDITION, SIGNED
Westlake Village, CA: Fantagraphics Books, 1987. First Edition. Item #7542
First Printing, limited issue, one of 150 numbered copies specially bound and signed by Crumb on the colophon, this one being an overrun from the binder (copy no.154). Quarto (29cm); pictorial paper-covered boards and black cloth backstrip, with printed title label mounted to spine; pictorial endpapers; xiv,128,[2]pp; illus. Hint of dust-soil to upper front cover else a fresh, Fine copy, without dustjacket, as issued. First volume in Crumb's multi-volume collected works, covering the years 1958-early 1962. Provenance: From the library of Earle and Larry Gray (of the Earle Gray Bookbinding Company), who bound most of the Black Sparrow Press titles produced between 1967-2001, as well as works by Capricorn, Turtle Island, and various other small presses.
Price: $250.00