Skippy - Percy Crosby - Grosset & Dunlap Reprint - 1929 - DJ - Illustrated
Language: English
Published by Grosset & Dunlap, New York, 1929
- Hardcover
- Used
Seller: Stone Sentinel Books, Newcastle, CA, U.S.A.Stone Sentinel Books
AbeBooks seller since February 12, 2026
Condition: Used - Good
£ 11.49
Quantity: 1 available
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Before Charlie Brown, there was Skippy Skinner. Percy Crosby's comic strip ran from 1923 to 1945, earned him a fortune, inspired an Academy Award winning film, and lent its name to a peanut butter that Crosby fought in court for years. Crosby's own story ended tragically, but his scrappy philosopher of a boy remains the spiritual ancestor of Peanuts and Calvin and Hobbes. This is Crosby's novel, illustrated throughout with his own ink and wash drawings. Grosset & Dunlap reprint edition, issued in the publisher's "Famous Stories for Young People" series. Copyright 1929. Hardcover in pictorial dust jacket. PUBLISHER: Grosset & Dunlap, New York (reprint of the 1929 Putnam first edition) CONDITION: - Dust Jacket: Good. Bright yellow front panel with Crosby color illustration. Chipping with loss at the head and tail of the spine and along the top edges of both panels. Short closed tear at the right edge of the front panel, small stain at the lower front panel, rear panel dust soiled with chipped corners. Some dampstaining to the jacket verso. Now protected in a new archival Brodart cover. - Book: Good+. Tan cloth stamped in red with a Skippy vignette on the front board. Light wear to the spine ends, faint mark at the top of the front board. Illustrated endpapers with offset toning, top edge stained red, text toned with age. Binding sound. Small vintage bookseller's label (H.C. Capwell, Oakland) on the rear pastedown. Shipped with care via USPS Media Mail with tracking.…
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Bibliographic details
- Title
- Skippy - Percy Crosby - Grosset & Dunlap Reprint - 1929 - DJ - Illustrated
- Author
- Percy Crosby
- Publisher
- Grosset & Dunlap, New York
- Publication year
- 1929
- Condition
- Good
- Dust jacket
- Good
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Illustrator
- Percy Crosby
Stone Sentinel Books
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You're building something specific. Not just a shelf of books: a library with atmosphere. The kind of room that feels like it has a history before you walked into it. The problem is finding the real thing. The vintage market is full of book club editions dressed up as first printings, reprints with no dust jackets, and sellers who grade "Good" when they mean "survived a flood." It's time-consuming, confusing, and easy to overpay. That's where I come in. I'm Rob. I worked in the archive stacks at UW's Suzzallo Library. Gothic reading rooms, stained glass, the kind of place where books feel like they matter. I've been authenticating and grading vintage editions ever since. Now I spend weekends hunting first editions at estate sales across Northern California: literary horror, classic sci-fi, and Gothic fiction from the 1960s–1980s. The books that actually built the Dark Academia aesthetic, not the modern reprints cashing in on it. Every book in my shop has been verified for edition and graded honestly. Sometimes brutally. You'll know exactly what you're getting before it ships. Your order arrives wrapped in tissue paper with a wax seal sticker. Because the details matter, and you're not buying shelf filler. If you're building a library that looks like it belongs in a Victorian study instead of a big-box store, you're in the right place. Browse the collection.…
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