History of the Comic Strip (Vol. 1): The Early Comic Strip, 1973, NF w/VG DJ

Kunzle, David. History of the Comic Strip, Volume I: The Early Comic Strip; Narrative Strips and Picture Stories in the European Broadsheet from c. 1450 to 1825 (Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1973).

English, a Near Fine book in a Very Good dust jacket,  HC, fo, 14" x 10 3/4," 471 pp., including illustrations, Bibliography and Index.

ISBN: 0520018656

Near Fine yellow cloth-covered boards. Covers have slight darkening and a small faint mark on front, else pristine and intact, binding tight, sharp tips. Very Good multicolored pictorial paper dust jacket. Black lettering on black, white, and yellow spine. Dust jacket has all-over black-and-white illustrations of comic strips. Dust jacket has light age toning and several chips along top and bottom edges and tips (largest measures about 1 1/2" x 1"), else clean and intact, not price-clipped. Dust jacket protected in a paper-backed Mylar sleeve. Pages have light age toning, else pristine and intact. Replete with black-and-white illustrations of comic strips. One color frontispiece included. Volume I of the series, History of the Comic Strip. Vol. I focuses on early European comic strips from about 1450 to 1825.