From the dustjacket:

Windsor McCay's graphic masterpiece of dreams and fantasy, Little Nemo in Slumberland, was cherished in its day and has been continually honored through the years. It was perhaps the greatest comic strip ever published -- brilliant in its conception, design, and color.

The original run of Little Nemo was 1905 to 1911, but since then it has lived mostly on its glorious reputation and through small selections of reprints; modern readers also know it through the praise of such Nemo fans as illustrator Maurice Sendak. But with this volume readers can now appreciate Winsor McCay and Little Nemo in their full glory.

The Complete Little Nemo in Slumberland presents, for the first time since original publications, the full run of this classic creation, faithfully reproduced in its original colors from rare, vintage file-copy pages.

Little Nemo was a weekly comic strip drawn in detailed, art-nouveau style about a little boy's fantastic dreams. There is humor, excitement, adventure, danger, joys, fears, monsters, dangers. joys, fear, monsters, princesses, and surprises at every turn. This collection, printed meticulously on heavy art paper, is introduced by comics historian and popular culture critic Richard Marschall.