SPIEGELMAN, Art.

£300 · Offered by Peter Harrington · No longer available

Maus: A Survivor's Tale; [together with] -- Maus I: A Survivor's Tale: My Father Bleeds History; [and] -- Maus II: A Survivor's Tale: And Here my Troubles Began. A group of Maus books from the library of Raymond Briggs, presented to him by the publishers; the books are accompanied by press clippings, letters, and other ephemera relating to the title's UK publication. It is the only graphic novel to have won the Pulitzer Prize, awarded in 1992.The collection includes a letter from Spiegelman stating that he thinks of Briggs as "one of Britain's most remarkable artists". Maus was serialized in Raw magazine from 1980-1991, and was published as a book by Pantheon in 1986.The posthumous book label of Briggs (1934-2022), illustrator, graphic novelist, cartoonist, and author, is on the front pastedown of each book, and his black and gold address label in Maus. The winner of numerous awards, including the Kate Greenaway Medal (twice), the Hans Christian Andersen Award, the Boston Globe-Horn Book Award, and the Kurt Maschler Award, Briggs noted that "the whole point of illustration is that it is literary. If it is not, it remains a drawing only... Something must be 'going on' in the illustration" (Horne, p. 124). He is chiefly remembered for Father Christmas (1973), Fungus the Bogeyman (1978), When the Wind Blows (1982), and the perennial classic The Snowman (1978).The collection:i) Maus, first US edition, fifth printing.ii) Maus I: A Survivor's Tale: My Father Bleeds History, the rev

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