Comic books in 'Nonfiction/History/Science/Biography'

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Valley Forge, Text & Pictures by Frederic Ray (1951, this is exactly like the first edition, but does not have a 35 cent price in upper left corner of back cover). Being "An illustrated account of the encampment of the Continental Army under Gen. Washington at Valley Forge during the Winter of 1777-78." Fred Ray created Golden Age covers to Superman and Tomahawk! His love for American History shows in this magnificently-illustrated book...the detail in each drawing is remarkable! 20-pages, black and white interior, 6-in. x9-in., with thick blue paper stock cover.

1st printing.

By Neil Zlozower. Foreword by David Lee Roth.

From the 1978 release of their debut record Van Halen through their multi-platinum album 1984, Van Halen indisputably ruled the world. With dynamic frontman David Lee Roth, revolutionary guitarist Eddie Van Halen, and the powerful rhythm section of Alex Van Halen on drums and Michael Anthony on bass, the original classic Van Halen line up sold millions of records, shook stadiums, and had fun doing it. Luckily, photographer Neil Zlozower was there to capture it all.

This visual history of Van Halen collects more than 250 live, session, candid, and backstage photos of the band along with testimony from the rock pantheon paying homage to Van Halen, including members of Led Zeppelin, Guns N Roses, Alice Cooper, Slipknot, Def Leppard, KISS, Motley Crue, and many, many more!

Hardcover, 9 1/2-in. x 10 1/2-in., 232 pages, full color.

Cover price $35.00.

2nd and later printings.

By Neil Zlozower. Foreword by David Lee Roth.

From the 1978 release of their debut record Van Halen through their multi-platinum album 1984, Van Halen indisputably ruled the world. With dynamic frontman David Lee Roth, revolutionary guitarist Eddie Van Halen, and the powerful rhythm section of Alex Van Halen on drums and Michael Anthony on bass, the original classic Van Halen line up sold millions of records, shook stadiums, and had fun doing it. Luckily, photographer Neil Zlozower was there to capture it all.

This visual history of Van Halen collects more than 250 live, session, candid, and backstage photos of the band along with testimony from the rock pantheon paying homage to Van Halen, including members of Led Zeppelin, Guns N Roses, Alice Cooper, Slipknot, Def Leppard, KISS, Motley Crue, and many, many more!

Hardcover, 9 1/2-in. x 10 1/2-in., 232 pages, full color.

Cover price $35.00.

1st printing.

By Jon Tuska.

Take a look back at the4 Golden Age of Hollywood and the once mighty Mascot Pictures.

Hardcover, 6-in. x 9-in., 216 pages Text (with B&W Photos).

1st printing.

By Jon Tuska.

Take a look back at the4 Golden Age of Hollywood and the once mighty Mascot Pictures.

Softcover, 6-in. x 9-in., 224 pages Text (with B&W Photos).

A hard bound collection of the first 26 issues of Vanity Fair. Saucy political and social satire from the 19th century. B&W, 8-3/4" x 11-1/4".

1st printing.

Written by Matteo Mastragostino. Art and cover by Paolo Castaldi.

The horrific true story of the Cambodian painter Vann Nath, who used his art to fight against barbarism and tyranny.

In 1978, a young painter named Vann Nath was arrested by the Khmer Rouge, the violent and totalitarian Communist Party of Kampuchea that ruled Cambodia from 1975 to 1979. Imprisoned in the infamous Tuol Sleng prison, better known as S-21, painting became synonymous with survival for him. Ordered, like many Cambodian artists and craftsmen, to put his talent to use to glorify his captors, upon his release he continued painting-this time, to remember and pay tribute to the victims of Pol Pot's evil regime.

Softcover, 128 pages, B&W. Mature Readers

Cover price $22.99.

1st printing. Written by Benjamin Dix. Art and cover by Lindsay Pollock. A village in the crossfire of civil war. A family searching for safety. In the tradition of Maus, Persepolis, and The Breadwinner, Vanni is a graphic novel documenting the human side of the conflict between the Sri Lankan government and the "Tamil Tigers." Told from the perspective of a single family, it takes readers through the horrors and life-changing decisions individuals are forced to make when caught up in someone else's war. Set in the northern region of Sri Lanka, which was devastated by the civil war, this graphic novel follows the Ramachandran family as they flee their home after the 2004 tsunami and move from one displacement camp to the next, seeking an ever-elusive safe haven and struggling to keep each other alive. Inspired by Benjamin Dix's experience working in Sri Lanka for the United Nations during the war, Vanni draws on more than four years of meticulous research, official reports, and first-hand interviews with refugees. Elegantly drawn by Lindsay Pollock, it depicts heroic acts of kindness and horrific acts of violence, memorializing the experiences of the Tamil civilians against the forces that seek to erase their memory. Softcover, 10-in. x 10-in., 256 pages, B&W. Cover price $19.95.

1st Printing. By Alberto Vargas and Reid Austin. Foreword by Hugh Hefner. The life story and art of the famous South American painter Alberto Vargas. Hardcover, 128 Pages, Full Color, 9" x 12". Cover price $14.95.

Add to cart Near Mint $9.95

Add to cart Very Fine $7.99

1st printing. By Bill Kelter and Wayne Shellabarger. It's a tired but true cliché that every American Vice President is just a heartbeat away from the most powerful job in the world, a job they've often never really interviewed for. Who are these people? We all know about the one who shot his hunting partner in the face, but how about the tavern owner who once married one of his slaves and then sold her at auction when she tried to leave him? Or the one whose President went to his death regretting that he hadn't had his Vice President hanged? Or the one who was too frequently inebriated to serve out the whole of his term? Over more than 200 years, the American voters have sent a platoon of rogues, cowards, drunks, featherweights, doddering geriatrics, bigots, and atrocious spellers to Washington D.C. to sit one bullet, cerebral hemorrhage, or case of pneumonia away from the highest office in the land. Veeps tells the sordid, head-scratching, perversely-entertaining stories of these men we've chosen to ride shotgun in the biggest rig in democracy, without ever seriously considering the possibility that they might have to take the wheel. Hardcover, 5 1/2-in. x 8 1/2-in., 288 pages, Text ( with B&W Chapter Illustartions). Cover price $19.95.

Add to cart Near Mint $11.00

1st printing. By Nigel Hawkes. The fascinating stories behind the creation of the world's most marvelous machines and their remarkable journeys and adventures. Hardcover, 8 1/2-in. x 11-in., 240 pages, full color. Cover price $39.95.

Add to cart Near Mint $10.00

1st printing.

Written by Maite Labat and Jean-Baptiste Veber. Art by Alexis Virebert and Stephane Lemardele.

A fascinating historical biography of the man who brought fame, grandeur and revolution back to the Palace of Versailles. Henri de Nolhac grew up without a father...though his father, Pierre, was very much alive and working mere meters away from their home at the Palace of Versailles.

Once appointed to the Palace in 1887, Pierre de Nolhac dedicated his life to protecting its historical archives and restoring Versailles to its former glory: an agora of politics, art and culture. But it soon became more than a passion to him--it turned into an obsession, and the closer he got to Versailles, the further he drifted from his family and himself.

Softcover, 168 pages, B&W.

Cover price $19.99.

Weekly comic anthology from Great Britain in the vein of Tiger and Battle 40 pages, newsprint