BARNABY

Garden City: Blue Ribbon Books, 1943. Good +.. Early collection of the first "Barnaby" comic strips, beginning with "Episode One: Mr. O'Malley Arrives". This copy signed and dated (November 24, 1945) by Eldon Dedini, cartoonist for Playboy and The New Yorker. Hardcover. 8vo. Brown faux-leather boards, no jacket. Light edgewear and soil to boards. Faint staining/scuffing to spine. Ownership signature to ffep. Touches of soil to endpapers; interior otherwise unmarked. Good plus. 361pp.