CHILDREN & ILLUSTRATED 86 “I Think You And Snoopy Would Do Well As A Team In An Olympic Chariot Race” 98SCHULZ, Charles M. Peanuts Jubilee. New York, 1975. Oblong folio (11-1/2 by 15-1/2 inches), original aluminum-covered boards, dust jacket, custom clamshell box. $9800 First edition, presentation copy of this celebration of Peanuts’ silver anniversary, wonderfully inscribed on the half title with a sketch of Snoopy, “ For Charlton Heston with friendship and every best wish—Charles M. Schulz.” With an additional typed letter signed by Schulz to Heston. Laid into this copy is a typed letter signed by Schulz (with an image of Snoopy typing printed in the corner of Schulz’s stationery) dated December 21, 1983 and reading, “Dear Mr. Heston: Thank you very much for your kind note. It was exciting to hear from someone whom I have admired for so many years. I think you and Snoopy would do well as a team in an olympic chariot race. Incidentally, I am a very good friend of Chanin Hale who did a short segment with you in ‘Will Penny.’ At the risk of being presumptuous, I am sending you one of my books with my very best wishes. Thank you again for writing. Kindest regards, Charles M. Schulz.” Boards rubbed; bright, price-clipped dust jacket with short closed tear to front panel. Wear along bottom edge of laid-in letter. A near-fine copy with a wonderful inscription and provenance. “The Overworked Word ‘Classic’ Is Well Deserved Here” 99LEAF, Munro. The Story of Ferdinand. Illustrated by Robert Lawson. New York, 1936. Octavo, original half tan cloth, dust jacket, custom clamshell box. $8500 First edition of one of the most popular and enduring children’s books ever written, in original dust jacket. “Leaf struck a vein of purest gold, producing an indisputable classic of children’s literature” (Kirkpatrick, 461). “This is perhaps one of the finest 20th-century examples of the inspired wedding of a text and illustrations to make a children’s book that as a whole is even greater than the sum of its parts—which are in themselves very fine indeed... The overworked word ‘classic’ is well deserved here. Children have adored The Story of Ferdinand ever since the book was published” (Early Children’s Books and Their Illustrations, 251). Seen as “an international emblem of pacifism… Ferdinand created a global controversy overnight. The Story of Ferdinand was denigrated and banned in civil war-torn Spain, scorned and burned as propaganda by Hitler, and labeled in America as promoting fascism, anarchism, and communism” (Silvey, 396). “Possibly the most famous example of the picture book as political text” (Norton, 1060). Book exceptionally fine, with bright covers and clean interior. Some small chips and creases to edges of bright and lovely original dust jacket, very good.
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