MAUS. A Survivor's Tale.

First UK edition, first printing. Publisher's original grey cloth with gilt titles to the spine, in the Art Spiegelman illustrated dustwrapper. A graphic novel, illustrated throughout in black and white. A near fine copy, the binding square and firm with a little rubbing to the extremities and light fading to the bottom edge of the upper board. The contents are clean throughout and without inscriptions or stamps. Complete with lightly rubbed dustwrapper, that has a vertical crease to the laminate at the spine and light fading at the edge of the front panel. It is otherwise bright and without loss or tears. Not price-clipped (£9.95 to lower front flap).

The first volume of the autobiographical graphic novel by Swedish-born American cartoonist Art Spiegelman, which was the first graphic novel to win the Pulitzer Prize in 1992. This profoundly moving work of Holocaust literature examines the author's parents' experiences during the Holocaust and the traumatic aftermath for the entire family. Known for balancing dark humour with historical accuracy and an overall reflective and anguished tone, Maus (Vols 1 "A Survivor's Tale" and 2 "And Here My Troubles Began") has been the basis of museum exhibitions and a CD with all of the taped interviews of Spiegelman's father, which were the basis of the work. First published in the USA in novel form by Pantheon Books in 1986, chapters 1-6 first appeared in a different format in 'Raw' magazine between 1980 and 1985.