Stephens, M.G.; Rand, Archie — Popeye, Unchained

New York, Spuyten Duyvil, 2025. Hardcover. Small Quarto. Hardcover. Illustrated wraps, No jacket as issued. 174 pages : color illustrations ; 27 cm. "M. G. Stephens (Michael Gregory Stephens) was born in Washington, D.C. and grew up in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, and further out on Long Island, into a family of sixteen children. His father came from Ireland and his mother was from an old New England family whose ancestors included a North African indentured servant to the Wheelock family, the founders of Dartmouth College. His mother grew up in a 27-room Brooklyn mansion on Madison near Stuyvesant, right where Spike Lee shot Do the Right Thing, which was also a few blocks from where Stephens lived as a child. He has been around boxing all his life. He also worked various jobs, including a stint in the Merchant Marine, greens-keeping, being a caddy, Christmas tree salesman on the Lower East Side, gas-pump jockey, dishwasher, East Asia correspondent, bartender, and of course journeyman boxer and sparring partner"-- |c Provided by publisher. VG. Inscribed by Rand with numerous penned doodles.