Bookplates

Classic finds

Oooh, look at the lovely bookplates I just got.

So am I going to stick these in my books?

Of course not! That would degrade the condition of both the books and the bookplates themselves!

Ah, the disease of collecting…

(Oh, note the simplified copyright of “Peanuts Characters copyright 1950.” Doesn’t seem that meaningful; Charlie Brown was greatly redesigned since then, and Lucy didn’t even exist in 1950…)

Classic finds
Charles M. Schulz: Pinko scum?

As with most of my history finds, I found the column when I was looking for something else, something only related because they both had the term “comic strip.” But there it was… George Boardman, PhD, was telling the world that there was a problem with socialist propaganda on America’s …

New releases
Peanuts Storybook Treasury

The Peanuts Storybook Treasury slams 18 of the Simon Spotlight storybooks from 2015 through 2021 into a single hardcover volume. In order to get them all into 304 pages, it cheats just a little bit, skipping over the covers and individual copyright pages, and occasionally combining what had been two …

Classic finds
A set completed and a mystery solved

Twenty years ago when I first published a collection of It’s Only a Game by Charles Schulz and Jim Sasseville, I proudly announced that it was the first reprint collection of the strip ever! But then I saw at auction a little pamphlet that looked like this: and I later found …