{"product_id":"to-2026-089","title":"Harvey Kurtzman's Jungle Book (INSCRIBED)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e KURTZMAN, Harvey. \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eHarvey Kurtzman's Jungle Book.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFIRST KITCHEN SINK PRESS EDITION, FIRST PRINTING\u003c\/strong\u003e. Princeton, Wisconsin: Kitchen Sink Press, 1986.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eInscribed copies are uncommon, and Kurtzman's habit of adding a small drawing to an inscription makes this a characteristic example of his hand. \u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eInscribed by Kurtzman on the front free endpaper: \"Pretty Wild Stuff for Stanley Simon. H. Kurtz,\" with his characteristic small stick-figure drawing. A fine copy of an influential book. \u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eTall octavo. 140 pp. Color-illustrated glossy boards, issued without dust jacket as published. Introduction by Art Spiegelman.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe deluxe hardcover reissue of a foundational work of American comics. Kurtzman first published \u003cem\u003eJungle Book\u003c\/em\u003e in 1959 as a Ballantine paperback — the first mass-market paperback composed entirely of original comics, and his bid to make comics an adult literary form. This 1986 edition with the pages reproduced at the size in which Kurtzman had originally drawn them, and carried a new introduction by Art Spiegelman, placing \u003cem\u003eJungle Book\u003c\/em\u003e as a demonstration of what the comics medium could do.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSKU\u003c\/strong\u003e TO-2026-089\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Kurtzman, Harvey","offers":[{"title":"Fine","offer_id":46459953479841,"sku":"TO-2026-089","price":375.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0729\/7001\/0785\/files\/TO-2026-089_01.jpg?v=1785777309","url":"https:\/\/twoorangesbooks.com\/products\/to-2026-089","provider":"Two Oranges Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}