Everyone Loves A Local Library Sale


This is work from the early 1970s. I was always baffled by these as a kid because when it came to saying where the material came from they would reference another set of books. It also strikes me as humorous how you read different things in Peanuts when you get older. Like there's a sequence in here where Peppermint Patty comes to stay with the Browns and she ends up sleeping in Snoopy's doghouse. What I didn't get when I was a kid is how funny Schulz made the Brown kids' dull lives, as all they do is watch TV and eat cold cereal.

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It's amazing how well these paperback versions of MAD have done over the years, and how they hold up despite the severe reformatting that took place in their creation. Many folks have as their primary access to these specific works the paperbacks rather than the magazine. Every bathroom in the nation should have at least one.

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This was the belle of the ball: a first-edition printing of David Breger's third (I think) book. Not that the first-edition means it's worth anything. Breger was widely published and there's little demand for his work today, so I can't imagine the book's worth a dime. I just think it's a cool-looking little package. I believe Breger gets credit for coining the term "GI Joe."

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This is one of the later editions of this book, which I picked up to go in the gift drawer and because I was dazzled by a cover that looks like it was lacquered.

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I bought this joke book for the illustrations.

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I'm not sure exactly what this is, but I figure it's early Jeff Danziger work with more of a local perspective than the angrier, punchier work by which he's become more recently known. It's always great to see these weird, regional books.

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Everybody likes and frequently forgets about John Callahan.

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I didn't have any of these albums, French or English.

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Total price: $2.80

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