Lot 596: SPIEGELMAN, ART.

A COLLECTION OF VOLUMES RELATING TO MAUS , COMPRISING:

Maus -- A Survivor's Tale. New York: Pantheon Books, 1986, presentation copy inscribed by the author with an illustration of a mouse, first edition, original wrappers; Maus II -- A Survivor's Tale. New York: Pantheon Books, 1991, signed by the author with an illustration of a mouse, first edition, original cloth-backed boards, dust-jacket, slight fading at foot of boards--Spiegelman, Art and Françoise Mouly. Raw. Vol. II, No. 1. New York: Penguin Books, 1989, signed on upper cover by seven contributors, first edition, original wrappers; Raw. Vol. II, No. 2. New York: Penguin Books, 1990, first edition, original wrappers; Raw. Vol. II, No. 3. New York: Penguin Books, 1991, first edition, original wrappers--together with one other; all 8vo (6)

NOTE

Art Spiegelman, co-founder and editor of avant-garde comic Raw, developed the experiences of his parents as concentration-camp survivors into his graphic novels, Maus and the concluding Maus II. Mice represent Jews and cats represent Germans (the Katzies). In 1992 he was awarded a special Pulitzer Prize for Maus. In September 2004, he released his response to the 11 September terroist attacks as In the Shadow of No Towers.