Popeye with the Hag of the Seven Seas

1935. First Edition. SEGAR, E.C. Popeye with the Hag of the Seven Seas. Chicago: Pleasure, (1935). Quarto, original pictorial paper boards. $950.First edition of this early pop-up book starring Popeye, one of the scarcest of the comic pop-ups, featuring three bright, double-page pop-ups.""American cartoonist Elzie Crisler Segar developed Thimble Theater, a series featuring Olive Oyl, Caster Oyl, and (later) Popeye, for the New York Journal in 1919. This beautifully illustrated pop-up book is one of several published by Pleasure Books in the 1930s that were inspired by comic strips"" (Cooper Hewitt). Montanaro, 233. Published later the same year in a Blue Ribbon Press edition. Interior generally quite nice, rear pop-up creased and taped at center split but fully functional, boards unusually nice. A near-fine copy.