Good Ol’ Charlie Brown: A New Peanuts Book.

Rare first edition of Charles M. Schulz's Good Ol' Charlie Brown; with a full page inscription and original drawing of Snoopy by Charles M. Schulz

Good Ol’ Charlie Brown: A New Peanuts Book.

SCHULZ, Charles M.

Item Number: 101800

New York and Toronto: Rinehart & Company, Inc, 1957.

First edition of this Peanuts classic. Octavo, original illustrated wrappers. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title page, “For Doris Laufer, from ‘Good Ol’ Charlie Brown’ and Charles M. Schulz, with kindest regards.” Schulz has added a large drawing of Snoopy. Laid in is a letter from the publisher addressed to the recipient which reads, ‘Dear Doris, As you will see from the enclosed you have one of the real first editions of what SNOOPY (to be published in August) will be looking like. Charles Schulz said he was pleased indeed to do this original for you and yours. Kindest personal regards, “George” P.S. If you haven’t received the material you needed from Virginia Townsend (advertising department), let me know by return collect wire.’ In near fine condition. Rare and desirable with an early original drawing of Schulz’s beloved Snoopy.

"Peanuts first appeared in October 1950 in eight daily newspapers. The feature was immediately popular and was soon picked up by hundreds of other newspapers throughout the country. By the end of the decade Schulz had become arguably the best-known cartoonist in the United States… By the time of Schulz's death [in 2000] he had drawn a total of 18,250 Peanuts strips, and the cartoon was syndicated in 2600 newspapers worldwide, appearing in 21 languages in 75 countries" (ANB).

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