Second Story Books' great expectations

I walked past Second Story Books on Dupont Circle yesterday and saw this copy of The Art of Cartooning, usually a $10 book at best, for $1200.

  

As you can see, it's signed by several cartoonists, some of whom have passed away such as Ziegler and Fradon. Still, you could almost recreate this today.

 

Instead I spent $4 on Robert Osborn's How to Shoot Quail from the outside selection. It's beat-up but I enjoyed it.

Next to the Cartooning book was an early, perhaps first edition of the Star Wars novelization for $50.

Osborn. Robert Osborn

Robert Osborn was a BIG name cartoonist in the 1960s who's mostly dropped out of favor now. He did a lot of advertising and commercial work. Here's a dustjacket I stumbled across last week.

Nothing to do with comics in Washington, but I like his work.