199
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CHARLES M. SCHULZ.
Peanuts.
Original 4 panel comic strip. Pen and ink and pencil on card; United Feature Syndicate
pastedown on third panel. 160x705 mm; 6
1
/
2
x27
3
/
4
inches. Signed “Schulz” in last panel and
dated “6-2” with additional penciled date below. June 2, 1956. Not examined out of frame.
[6,000/9,000]
Warmly inscribed in second panel margin: “For Freya with / sincere best wishes - / Charles M.
Schulz.” Freya Hulmer was a longtime California schoolteacher who befriended Schulz when she
began taking “her daughter to ice skating practice at Charles M. Schulz’s Redwood Empire Ice Arena
in Santa Rosa ... she graded homework and assignments and had occasional coffee and conversations
with Schulz himself, with the late cartoonist picking her brain for insight into her young students”
(The Press Democrat, Sunday, June 15, 2008). Published in the Complete Peanuts, Volume 3,
1955-56 (Fantagraphics, 2005).
200
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CHARLES M. SCHULZ.
Snoopy and the Red Baron.
8vo, original pictorial cloth, minor rubbing to spine tips; dust jacket, two clean closed tears
to lower front panel; colored stock.
FIRST EDITION
, third printing.
INSCRIBED WITH AN
ORIGINAL SNOOPY DRAWING
on front free endpaper. New York: Holt, Rinehart and
Winston, (1967).
[800/1,200]
201
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CHARLES M. SCHULZ.
Thompson is in Trouble, Charlie Brown.
Black marker drawing of Charlie Brown and Snoopy, flanking Schulz’s full signature, on
front free endpaper. Book is 8vo, publisher’s color pictorial cloth, spine ends and tips
rubbed. First Edition in book form. NewYork: Hold, Rinehart andWinston, 1973.
[1,500/2,500]
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