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New York Chicago Toronto: P.F. Volland Company NONE [NONE] 1919. (hardcover) NP. Good, no dust jacket. 8vo. Quarter bound, beige paper boards with illustrated front. Separated, though not detached at the title page, and pages loose; remains intact, clean, and bright. The cartoons are black and white with peach toned skin colour; as… Read more about this item

Racine, Wisconsin: Whitman Publishing Co. NONE [NONE] [circa 1936]. (hardcover) 423pp. Very good, no dust jacket. 32mo. Based on the famous comic strip. The covers show moderate wear, with some tears at the front hinge, and rubibng to the edges. Pages age-toned. Lightly starting at pages 146-147. Else is clean and bright. Big Little… Read more about this item

Bangor, Maine: University of Maine at Orano Press/Bangor Publishing Company [0-89101-059-9] 1984. (Mass market paperback) xv, 337pp. Very good. 4to. Signed, with drawing, to first page. Bright red, illustrated wrappers show light wear. There is a persoanl gift inscription delicately penned to the inside front cover. Pages 317 through 320 are detached, and the spine… Read more about this item

Cobalt, Ont.: Highway Book Shop 1972. (Mass market paperback) NP. Fine. 8vo. Card covers. Illustrations by author. A delightful look at some the outhouses found in eastern Canada. Pretty much guaranteed to bring at least a smile..

Saskatoon: Western Producer Prairie Books [0-88833-240-8] 1987. (Mass market paperback) [unpaginated]. Fine. 8vo. Wrappers. B&W cartoons throughout. Personal inscription (small) to half title..

New York: Cupples & Leon Company 1926, 1st edition. (4to) Very good, no dust jacket. Square quarto. Covers are separated but would be an easy fix with some white glue. There is a couple of math problems scribbled onto the cover and a water stain. Internally it is in fantastic shape..

New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc [0-8109-0122-6] 1973, 1st edition. (Folio) Near fine in poor dust jacket. Internally fine with original die-cut colour cardboard Mickey on white cloth covers. The original lettered acetate dustjacket intact with two tears to front and one to back. 763 illustrations including 351 plates in full color, some fold-out. Large and… Read more about this item

Toronto: Stoddart [0-7737-2242-4] 1988. (Cloth) 228pp. Fine in fine dust jacket. Slight price sticker residue near head of D.J..

New York: Penguin Books 1986. (Mass market paperback) 70pp. Near fine. Illus. Dick does systems engineering; Jane does Amway; Sally's twice divorced; Puff's dead, but Spot's reincarnated. OK?.

McLean, Virginia: Author 1931. (Cloth) 252pp. Very good plus. Frontispiece, illus. Pictorial boards in acetate. Free front endpaper bears a full page pen&ink drawing, inscription and signature by the author, the creator of the syndicated strip SKIPPY, which film adaptation starred Jackie Cooper..

London: Brown Watson Ltd. 1973, 1st thus. (hardcover) Fine. Illus. But for one pair of pages which are loose from the middle of a signature, this is as new. A British annual edition of this popular American comic strip..

London: John Camden Hotten 1869. (Cloth) Very good. Variously paginated. Cover & spine gold stamped..

Kansas City: Andrews and McMeel 1981. (Mass market paperback) 127pp. Near fine. Illus. This copy INSCRIBED by the author / cartoonist, with a sketch on the half-title of Johnston and her husband..