The newest oldest Peanuts books

Here’s one (well, two) I wasn’t expecting: in August, British publisher Titan Books will reprint Peanuts and More Peanuts, the first two Peanuts books that were published, collecting strips from the first half of the 1950s.

As far as I know, this is the first time that More Peanuts has been published in the UK, and Peanuts was only published in an abridged edition.

(The links above are to Book Depository, which offers free shipping to the US.)

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