Estimate: $350 - $450
Offered for sale by Peter Austern of 'Brooklyn Books' - for more information please contact him via email at info@brooklynbooks.us
'To Sam my native guide' - inscribed by Al Capp.
1964. 1st Edition. BOOK SIGNED & INSCRIBED by AL CAPP - 'FROM DOGPATCH TO SLOBBOVIA - THE GASP!! WORLD OF LI'L ABNER'. Beacon Press, Boston.
An uncommon, early collection of Al Capp's 'Li'l Abner' - in very nice condition.
In 1934, Al Capp used his considerable talents to create a comic strip he named 'Li'l Abner'-- Capp struck gold with his tale of amiable yokels, beautiful women, and satirical symbols of pomposity and disreputability set in a mythical, Southern hillbilly realm called Dogpatch, USA.
'Li'l Abner' had millions of fans and ran in the newspaper 'funnies' from 1934-1977 in American, Canadian and European papers.
Domestic s&h $15.
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