Maus: A Survivor’s Tale.

SPIEGELMAN, Art.

$1,600.00

Item Number: 141043

New York: Pantheon Books, 1986.

First edition of the bestselling first installment of the graphic novel acclaimed as “the most affecting and successful narrative ever done about the Holocaust” (Wall Street Journal) and “the first masterpiece in comic book history” (The New Yorker). Octavo, original illustrated wrappers, illustrated. Signed by Art Spiegelman on the title page. In very good condition. Rare signed.

Spiegelman’s Maus books are a monumental achievement, both as a Holocaust survivor narrative and as a dramatically unique use of the comic strip form. A deceptively simple, chillingly effective cat-and-mouse allegory, Maus interweaves young Vladek and Anje’s horrifying struggles to survive in Hitler’s Europe and in Auschwitz with aging Vladek and his son Artie’s troubled relationship as they try to piece together “normal” lives. Recognizing the originality of the work, the 1992 Pulitzer Prize board created a special category to honor Spiegelman and the story’s two volumes. A brutally moving work of art—widely hailed as the greatest graphic novel ever written.