The big Big Book of Peanuts strikes again!

New releases

img_0529Today’s find actually comes as little surprise – for the fourth year in a row, Andrews McMeel Publishing has unleashed a new volume in the The Big Book of Peanuts series. This year’s entry has all of the dailies from 1950s. These books are not distributed through the standard book channels, which makes them hard to find, but when you find them, there are deals to be had! Snagged my copy for $19.99 at Costco, which also had in stock some copies of the previous three volumes, covering dailies from the 1960s through the 1980s.

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