Description: First printing (Number line). Tight, clean, flat, square, sharp and crisp book in slightly wrinkled DJ under mylar. Ex-library, properly de-accessioned with shelf tags and labels. A careful collector could have a near fine copy with some cautious use of adhesive solvents. Crumb burst on the scene during the Haight-Ashbury years, peddling home-made comic books from a baby carriage (so the story goes) and in the process birthed an entire "underground" comic industry. Whether the baby-carriage story is apocryphal or not (books sold by push cart are a centuries old tradition) the growth of an alternative form of comic book--one which relied on artistic form, line, current events and thumbing the nose at the rather Nouveaux-Victorian attitudes of the mainstream at the time, certainly is a fact. Crumb evolved into quite the artist and illustrator, idolized almost as much as Frazetta and often by the same groups of people. Envisioning the first book of the bible like no one before him, R. Crumb, the legendary illustrator, reveals here the story of Genesis in a profoundly honest and deeply moving way. Originally thinking that he would do a take off of Adam and Eve, Crumb became so fascinated by the Bible’s language, “a text so great and so strange that it lends itself readily to graphic depictions,” that he decided instead to do a literal interpretation using the text word for word in a version primarily assembled from the translations of Robert Alter and the King James bible. As Crumb writes in his introduction, “the stories of these people, the Hebrews, were something more than just stories. They were the foundation, the source, in writing of religious and political power, handed down by God himself.” Crumb’s Book of Genesis, the culmination of 5 years of painstaking work, is a tapestry of detail and storytelling.
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All returns accepted: Returns Accepted
Item must be returned within: 30 Days
Refund will be given as: Money back or replacement (buyer's choice)
Brand: Unbranded
Type: Graphic Novel
Tradition: US Comics
Cover Artist: Robert Crumb
MPN: Does not apply
Country/Region of Manufacture: United States
Publisher: W. W. Norton
Genre: Religious
Publication Year: 2009
Language: English
Artist/Writer: Robert Crumb
Character: Basemath (Daughter of Elon the Hittite), Nahor (Serug's Son), Ham's Wife, Laban, Ehi, Judah, Tidal, Eber, Issachar, Zohar, Jeush, Serug, Nahor (Terah's Son), Reuel, Sered, Arpachshad, Enoch (Jared's Son), Jemuel, Duma, Levi, Rebekah's Mother, Basemath (Daughter of Ishmael), Sarai/Sarah, Hamul, Tubal-Cain, Shem's Wife, Ard, Lot's Older Daughter, Joseph, Jobab, Ben-Ammi, Cain, Korah, Seth, Haran, Potiphar's Wife, Mizzah, Lot's Herdsmen, Lamech (Methuselah's Son), Puvah, Onan, Asher, Asenath, Abraham's Servant, Huppim, Japeth's Wife, Samlah, God, Ezer, Zibbon, Husham, Gatam, Heber, Ham, Midian, Adbeel, Hadad (Son of Ishmael), Zebulun, Isaac, Reu, Jahzeel, Omar, Arodi, Jubal, Abram/ Abraham, Bela, Son of Beor, The Serpent, Jetur, Tamar's Father, Gershon, Shuni, Chedorlaomer, Jalam, Mibsam, Enoch (Reuben's Son), Serah, Chieftain Magdiel, Prison-House Warden, Benjamin, Gad, Shillem, Jahleel, Abel, Chieftain Jetheth, Shobal, Abimelech, Arioch, Shimron, Milcah, Elon, Abram's Herdsmen, Ezbon, Er, Japeth, Manasseh, Naphtali, Keturah, Man Who Was over Joseph's House, Melchizedek, Phicol, Potiphar, Mahalalel, Perez, Muppim, Becher, Hadad (Son of Bedad), Noah's Wife, Zillah, Kohath, Ampraphel, Ashbel, Mishma, Methuselah, Ephraim, Bilhah, Hezron, Jabal, Dishon, Nahath, Hadad (Last King of Edom), Terah, Ishuah, Anah, Jezer, Mahalath, Lot, Kenan, Jacob / Israel, The Chief Baker, Pharaoh (Abram's Contemporary), Naaman, Naamah, Kenaz, Eri, Chieftain Iram, Canaan, Judith, Nebaioth, Amalek, Moab, Ishmael, Chieftain Elah, Ahuzzath, Jacob's Unnamed Wrestling Opponent, Bela (Son of Benjamin), Peleg, Kedmah, Rosh, Ishmael's Wife, Ziphion, Dishan, Hirah the Adullamite, Shelah (Son of Arpachshad), Hushim, Imnah, Guni, Shelah (Son of Judah), The Chief Cupbearer, Zepho, Dan, Simeon, Hamor, Enoch (Cain's Son), Saul from Rehoboth-On-The-River, Tola, Merari, Areli, Reuben, Tamar, Birsha, Lotan, Timna (Concubine of Eliphaz), Chieftain Pinon, Rachel's Midwife, Shechem, Adah (Daughter of Elon the Hittite), Kedar, GERA, Carmi, Rebekah, Naphish, Jared, Enosh, Cain's Wife, Baal-Hanan, Zerah (Son of Judah), Esau, Leah, Chieftain Mibzar, Massa, Lord's Messenger (El-Roi), Ishvi, Saul, the Son of the Canaanite Woman, Jacob's Messengers to Esau, Ephron, Oholibamah (Daughter of Anah), Adam, Eve, Zerah (Son of Reuel), Mehetabel, Adah (Lamech's Wife), Chieftain of Oholibamah, Dinah, Tema, Lamech (Methusael's Son), Bera, Chieftain Alvah, Pallu, Two Messengers, Jamin, Iob, Hagar the Horrible, Beriah, Eliphaz, Shua, Teman, Rachel, Jachin, Noah, Haggi, Shammah, Zilpah, Malchiel, Pharaoh (Joseph's Contemporary), Ohad, Shem, Lot's Younger Daughter, Chieftain of Timna
Era: Modern Age (1992-Now)
Series Title: The Book of Genesis Illustrated
