Barbarella
New York: Grove Press, Incl, 1966.
First Edition. Hardcover.
First American Edition. Second Printing. Translated by Richard Seaver.
Billed as the first comic strip for grownups and considered a pioneer in the field of mature graphic novels, Barbarella first appeared in the French magazine V in 1962. In this her first adventure, Barbarella's spaceship breaks down and she has a series of adventurous and bawdy encounters with a variety of strange beings, from robots to angels.
Item #9026939-5/8 x 12-5/8", red cloth, gilt spine titles, 68pp, fully illustrated.
Tight, clean of owner's marks, a little sun-fading to extreme bottom-edge of red boards, near fine in very good bit rubbed dust wrapper with two short edge-tears and a crease to top-edge of rear panel, in protective mylar.
Price: $85.00