Footnotes in Gaza Signed First Edition Reference

Footnotes in Gaza (Metropolitan/Holt, 2009) is Sacco’s most ambitious investigative work — a 400-page reconstruction of two massacres committed by Israeli forces in Khan Younis and Rafah in 1956. Sacco combines present-day interviews with survivors, archival research, and speculative reconstruction of the events themselves. The result is both a meticulous act of historical recovery and a meditation on the limits of journalism.

First Edition Identification

Metropolitan Books/Henry Holt hardcover, 2009. First printing identifiable by number line.

Signed Copy Market Values

• Signed first edition hardcover: $30–$75
• Unsigned first edition: $10–$25

Footnotes in Gaza represents Sacco’s maturation as both a journalist and an artist. The book’s dense, crosshatched art reaches a level of visual complexity that rewards multiple readings.