Walt & Skeezix: 1921 & 1922
$50
By Frank O. King
Collected edition of two early years of long-running comic strip Gasoline Alley
Out of stock
Description
- First Printing [Drawn & Quarterly Books, Montreal, 2005]; 60pp [introduction by Jeet Heer], unpaginated comic strips [1 or 2 strips to page – complete run of two years], viii [Appendix]; gunmetal grey cloth over black cloth spine, gold titling to spine, impressed car illustration to front board, illustrated endpapers, silk ribbon marker, an excellent copy; in like illustrated dustjacket, large strip illustration on verso, a little bumped & rubbed at extremities
- Gasoline Alley was a long-running comic strip serialised in a Chicago daily newspaper from the 1920s through to the 1960s, devised with the advent of the automobile as inspiration
- ISBN: 1-896597-64-5 / 1896597645