Maus II: A Survivor's Tale: And Here My Troubles Began by Art Spiegelman [TRADE PAPERBACK / 1992]

Maus II : A Survivor's Tale - And Here My Troubles Began by Art Spiegelman  FIRST PAPERBACK EDITION [1992] PANTHEON BOOKS Large deluxe first trade paperback edition of this graphic novel with decorative front and rear panels.  Book reads like new.  Cover looks great.  Small split area at bottom of spine [see last photo]  Otherwise, excellent.  Acclaimed as a quiet triumph and a brutally moving work of art, the first volume of Art Spieglman's Maus introduced readers to Vladek Spiegleman, a Jewish survivor of Hitler's Europe, and his son, a cartoonist trying to come to terms with his father, his father's terrifying story, and History itself. Its form, the cartoon (the Nazis are cats, the Jews mice), succeeds perfectly in shocking us out of any lingering sense of familiararity with the events described, approaching, as it does, the unspeakable through the diminutive.This second volume, subtitled And Here My Troubles Began, moves us from the barracks of Auschwitz to the bungalows of the