Description: Rare! American underground comic R. CRUMB’S “THE YUM YUM BOOK” Hardcover. DJ. The Scrimshaw Press, San Francisco, CA., 1975. Illustrated with Color Plates. First Edition/First Printing. Book well preserved. DJ has shelf-wear on edges and corners and staining is visible around front and back edges. DJ torn at top of spine and at lower back edge. DJ is unclipped and shows original price. Bound in matching illustrated paper-covered boards with titles on the spine and front board. Boards have light shelf-wear. Back flyleaf has previous price in pencil. Text block is clean, contains no underlining and is free of marks. Binding tight and solid. Photos provide details on condition. This book is 8.2” x 5.7” and is unpaginated but about 150 pages long. Crumb explains in a forward that he wrote the book when he was 19. The style shows signs of Crumb’s more mature work and there is a simplicity to the illustrations appropriate to the late adolescent stage of the artist. FROM WIKIPEDIA: Crumb contributed to many of the seminal works of the underground comix movement in the 1960s, including being a founder of the first successful underground comix publication, Zap Comix, contributing to all 16 issues. He was additionally contributing to the East Village Otherand many other publications, including a variety of one-off and anthology comics. During this time, inspired by psychedelics and cartoons from the 1920s and 1930s, he introduced a wide variety of characters that became extremely popular, including countercultural icons Fritz the Cat and Mr. Natural, and the images from his Keep On Truckin' strip. Sexual themes abounded in all these projects, often shading into scatological and pornographic comics. In the mid-1970s, he contributed to the Arcadeanthology; following the decline of the underground, he moved towards biographical and autobiographical subjects while refining his drawing style, a heavily crosshatched pen-and-ink style inspired by late 19th- and early 20th-century cartooning. Much of his work appeared in a magazine he founded, Weirdo (1981–1993), which was one of the most prominent publications of the alternative comicsera. As his career progressed, his comic work became more autobiographical. In 1991 Crumb was inducted into the comic book industry's Will Eisner Comic Book Hall of Fame, and in 1994 the Terry Zwigoff film Crumb explored his artistic career and personal life. He was married to cartoonist Aline Kominsky-Crumb, with whom he frequently collaborated. Notes: *Early work of risqué artist *Nudity *Mature themes PLEASE SEE PHOTOS. From a pet-free, smoke-free home. Please refer to the photos, which show actual item offered for sale. Photos show details of condition.
Price: 105 USD
Location: Austin, Texas
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Shipping Cost: 6.38 USD
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Restocking Fee: No
Return shipping will be paid by: Buyer
All returns accepted: Returns Accepted
Item must be returned within: 14 Days
Refund will be given as: Money Back
Binding: Hardcover
Place of Publication: San Francisco, CA
Signed: No
Publisher: Scrimshaw Press
Modified Item: No
Subject: Illustrated
Original/Facsimile: Original
Year Printed: 1975
California Prop 65 Warning: NA
Unit Type: Unit
Language: English
Illustrator: Robert Crumb
Special Attributes: 1st Edition, Dust Jacket, Illustrated, First Edition, With Dust Jacket, Robert Crumb
Author: Robert Crumb
Personalized: No
Region: North America
Country/Region of Manufacture: United States
Topic: Robert Crumb
Unit Quantity: 1
Character Family: The Yum Yum Book
