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The latest addition to the AAUGH.com Reference Library is Insuperabilis Snupius, a tall-but-short (48 pages), full-color reprint of daily strips… in Latin. Published in 1984 by the European Language Institute (an Italian publishing house that puts out mainly educational materials), this hardcover includes one nice touch that I always like seeing in strip reprints targeted at language education: it includes silent strips. Now, that may not be purposeful; the design of this suggest to me that it may just be a translation of some specific European album.

Now, this isn’t the only Latin Peanuts book out there; Hallmark published a quartet of very small books over a decade before. I suspect that this was the only Peanuts book in this line; tin the back of the book is listings for four other Latin volumes, but as best as I can parse them, they all look like Disney titles.

The dialogue is all done in set type, although where someone is handwriting a letter, they show it as handwritten. Sound effects (including special effects dialog, like WAAH!) are left in Schulz’s hand.

Thanks to AAUGH Blog reader Caren for pointing out to me that this book was up for auction… although if you want to grab a copy, at the moment there’s a used one available for order here. (If it’s not still available when you get there, another blog reader probably beat you to it!)

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