"LITTLE LULU" COLLECTION OF FIVE EARLY CARTOON REPRINT BOOKS/FOUR WITH DUST JACKETS.
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Auction #203 - Part II
Item numbers 1429 through 3205 in auction 203
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Item Description
All feature reprints of Little Lulu cartoons by Marge as published in The Saturday Evening Post. All are hard cover with an average of 60 pages each. First title is "Little Lulu". 6x6.5" #196 published by Rand McNally copyright 1935-1936, edition of 1939. Covers have nice specialty art of Lulu trying to learn how to knit using a goat's horns to hold yarn. Covers have dust soil and scattered lt. wear with .5x.75" bit of missing surface paper at upper right corner of front cover. Covers Good. Inside Fine. This title was the first Lulu reprint book featuring her earliest cartoons. Next four titles are published by David McKay Company Philadelphia. Each is 7x8.25" and each has dust jacket with specialty cover art on front and back cover which matches inside book covers. Dates and titles are: 1939 "Little Lulu And Her Pals, 1942 Laughs With Little Lulu, 1943 Oh, Little Lulu!, 1944 Fun With Little Lulu". Marge specialty covers include Lulu using sling shot to feed peanuts to giraffe, Lulu's mother being startled when she finds dog sleeping under covers with head on pillow with Lulu at end of bed, Lulu with toe sticking out of hole in sock with startled shoe clerk, and Lulu putting up curtains in birdhouse as startled bird looks on. Dust wrappers have some lt. dust soil and bit of wear around edges but overall Fine. First title has 1" diagonal crease at lower right corner of last inside blank page but o/w contents on all four are Exc. Wonderful cartoons hand picked by creator Marge for publication. Books complete with dust jackets are scarce.
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