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Crime Fiction: a Reader’s Guide by Barry Forshaw. Oldcastle Books, 2019. 448 pp. ISBN: 9780857303356. Foreword by Ian Rankin. Softcover. Near fine. $15

Guilty but Insane: Mind and Law in Golden Age Detective Fiction by Samantha Walton. Oxford University Press, 2015. 304 pp. ISBN: 9780198723325. Series: Oxford Textual Perspectives. Softcover. Near fine. $20

Twentieth-Century Crime Fiction by Lee Horsley. Oxford University Press, 2009. 313 pp. ISBN: 9780199253265. Softcover. Near fine. $10

The Natural History of the Romance Novel by Pamela Regis. University of Pennsylvania Press, 2003. 224 pp. ISBN: 9780812233032. Hardcover. Very good in a very good jacket. Notations in pencil. $25

Storytelling in the Pulps, Comics, and Radio: How Technology Changed Popular Fiction in America by Tim Deforest. McFarland, 2004. 235 pp. ISBN: 9780786419029. Softcover. $20

Detective Fiction and the Rise of Forensic Science by Ronald R. Thomas. Cambridge University Press, 2003. 341 pp. Illus. ISBN: 9780521527620. Series: Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth Century Literature and Culture, 26. Softcover. Very good. $20

Mechanical Accidents: Dime Novels and Working-Class Culture in America by Michael Denning. Verso, 1998. 271 pp. ISBN: 9781859842508. Revised edition. Softcover. Near fine. $20

American Gothic: Sixty Years of Horror Cinema by Jonathan Rigby. Reynolds & Hearn, 2007. 272 pp. ISBN: 9781905287253. Softcover. Near fine. $15

Dangerous Curves: Action Heroines, Gender, Fetishism, and Popular Culture by Jeffrey A. Brown. University Press of Mississippi, 2011. 269 pp. ISBN: 9781604737141. Hardcover. Near fine. $40

Bubblegum Music is the Naked Truth: The Dark History of Prepubescent Pop, from the Banana Splits to Britney Spears by Kim Cooper. Feral House, 2001. 320 pp. Illus. ISBN: 9780922915699. Softcover. Near fine. $20

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I Never Liked You: A Comic Strip Narrative by Chester Brown. Drawn and Quarterly, 2002. 200 pp. ISBN: 9781896597140. Softcover. Near fine. $10

Commies, Cowboys, and Jungle Queens: Comic Books and AMerica 1945-1954 by William W. Savage, Jr. Wesleyan University Press, 1998. 151 pp. Illus. ISBN: 9780819563385. Softcover. Very good. $10

Palookaville: Seth and the Art of Graphic Autobiography by Tom Smart. Porcupine’s Quill, 2016. 95 pp. Illus. ISBN: 9780889843974. Softcover. Near fine. $10

Anti-Foreign Imagery in American Pulps and Comic Books 1920 to 1960 by Nathan Vernon Madison. McFarland, 2013. 233 pp. Illus. ISBN: 9780786470952. Softcover. Near fine. $20

Seth Conversations edited by Eric Hoffman and Dominick Grace. University of Mississippi Press, 2015. 230 pp. Illus. ISBN: 9781496807885. Softcover. Near fine. $20

Chester Brown Conversations edited by Dominick Grace and Eric Hoffman. University of Mississippi Press, 2013. 249 pp. Illus. ISBN: 9781617038686. Hardcover. Fine. $20

Chris Ware by Daniel Raeburn. Yale University Press, 2004. 112 pp. Illus. ISBN: 9780300102918. Series: Monographics. Softcover. Very good. Spine faded. $20

Why Comics?: from Underground to Everywhere by Hilary Chute. Harper, 2017. 449 pp. Illus. ISBN: 9780062476807. Hardcover. Near fine in a very good jacket. $25

Pulp Empire: The Secret History of Comic Book Imperialism by Paul S. Hirsch. University of Chicago Press, 2021. 337 pp. Illus. ISBN: 9780226350554. Hardcover. Fine in a fine jacket. $30

Metamaus: A Look Inside a Modern Classic, Maus by Art Spiegelman. Pantheon, 2011. 299 pp. Illus. ISBN: 9780375423949. Includes DVD. Hardcover. Near fine. $20

Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity by Judith Butler. Routledge, 2006. 236 pp. ISBN: 9780415389556. Softcover. Good+. Cover faded. $10

My New York Diary by Julie Doucet. Drawn and Quarterly, 2013. 104 pp. ISBN: 9781896597836. Softcover. Very good. $10

Alien Zone: Cultural Theory and Contemporary Science Fiction Cinema edited by Anette Kuhn. Verso, 2003. 227 pp. ISBN: 9780860919933. Softcover. Near fine. $20

Young Eliot: From St. Louis to The Waste Land by Robert Crawford. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2015. 493 pp. Illus. ISBN: 9780374279448. Hardcover. Fine in a fine jacket. $20

The Cultural Front: The Laboring of American Culture in the Twentieth Century by Michael Denning. Verso, 2010. 580 pp. ISBN: 9781844674640. Softcover. Near fine. $15

Grand Union: Stories by Zadie Smith. Hamish Hamilton. 2019. 243 pp. ISBN: 9780735235533. Hardcover. Fine in a fine jacket. $15

Blaxploitation Cinema: The Essential Reference Guide by Josiah Howard. FAB Press, 2088. 239 pp. Illus. ISBN: 9781903254448. Softcover. Very good. $40

Ulysses Annotated: Notes for James Joyce’s Ulysses annotated by Don Gifford with Robert J. Seidman. University of California Press, 1989. 698 pp. ISBN: 9780520067455. Softcover. Very good. $20

The Playboy by Chester Brown. Drawn and Quarterly, 2013. ISBN: 9781770461185. Softcover. Near fine. $10

Seconds by Brian Lee O’Malley. Random House Canada, 2014. 321 pp. ISBN: 9780307363060. Hardcover. Near fine. $15

The Troublemakers by Gilbert Hernandez. Fantagraphics, 2009. 120 pp. ISBN: 9781560979227. Hardcover. Near fine in a near fine jacket. $10

Chance in Hell by Gilbert Hernandez. Fantagraphics, 2007. 120 pp. ISBN: 9781560978336. Hardcover. Near fine in a near fine jacket. $10

Love from the Shadows by Gilbert Hernandez. Fantagraphics, 2011. 120 pp. ISBN: 9781606994061. Hardcover. Near fine in a near fine jacket. $10

Beyond Palomar by Gilbert Hernandez. Fantagraphics, 2007. 253 pp. ISBN: 9781560978824. Softcover. Near fine. $15

Amor Y Cohetes by Los Bros Hernandez. Fantagraphics, 2008. 283 pp. 9781560979265. Softcover. Near fine. $15

Heartbreak Soup by Gilbert Hernandez. Fantagraphics, 2007. 287 pp. ISBN: 9781560977834. Softcover. Near fine. $15

Human Diastrophism by Gilbert Hernandez. Fantagraphics, 2007. 250 pp. ISBN: 9781560978480. Softcover. Near fine. $15

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