Contract With God Trilogy Life On Dropsie Avenue HC (2006) # 1 Reprint (9.2-NM)

2nd and later printings. NOTE: Covers on reprints may vary. Story and art by Will Eisner.

A Contract with God, originally published in 1978, was the first graphic novel. Along with A Life Force and Dropsie Avenue, they laid the track for such seminal works as Maus and Persepolis.

Set during the Great Depression, this literary trilogy, assembled in one volume for the first time, presents a treasure house of now near-mythic stories that fictionally illustrate the bittersweet tenement life of Eisner's youth.

With nearly two dozen new illustrations and a revealing new foreword, this book ultimately tells the epic story of life, death, and resurrection while exploring man's fractious relationship with an all-too-vengeful God.

Hardcover, 510 pages, B&W.