Billy Debeck (17 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. DeBeck, Billy (illustrator). Illustrated cover in color. 1923. Contains 5 pages. Illustrated by Billy DeBeck. Song by Bill Rose and Con Conrad. Fox Trot. Inside clean with no writing or highlighting. Owner's name and 1923 on front cover, protective tape on inside page borders. Black/white musical piano and lyrics. Back cover contains music and lyrics for "Beside A Babbling Brook". Please see pictures for detail of condition. Any shiny spots are from camera. Note that I do not use stock photos.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. A volume similar to those in the 'Big Little Books' Series. Modest wear, but overall a solid example. ; Softcover.

SheetMusic. Condition: good. DeBeck (illustrator). 12.25" tall; 6pp; color cartoon on front; 1" tear front fore edge; store name (Newberry's) stamped on front cover; darkening to pp 3-4. SheetMusic.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Cover shows minor wear, pages are tanned and clean.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. First edition with complete number line, hardcover, has a lean to the binding, slight bumps to the spine ends and cover corners, moderate rubbing with dulling and smudges to the covers, and a few smudges to the edges of the text block. Overall, this is a solid, Very Good copy.

Eight pager. Very crudely illustrated in a style more reminiscent of Underground comix than classic strips. Starring Snuffy Smith from Billy Debeck's comic strip Barney Google and Snuffy Smith. Crudely illustrated in a style more reminiscent of Underground comix than classic strips. First line reads, "Where are you off to pa?." Saddle-stapled booklet. Beige and green-flecked covers, interiors printed on light green stock. Very good condition.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Fine copy in hardcover, pictorial boards. No jacket, as issued.

Ten pages. Based on Billy DeBeck's comic strip Barney Google and Snuffy Smith. A photocopy reproduction. line reads, "So youse just came up from Georgia?" See D.H. Gilmore, Sex in Comics v.1 , p.58-59. Side-stapled booklet, three staples. Photocopy reproduction. Yellow paper covers. Pages printed on one side only. Very good condition.

Eight pager. Based on the comic strip Barney Google and Snuffy Smith. Crude reprint of a c. 1930s original, presented by the supposedly fictional V. Fuzzynuts. First line reads, "Ah nuts I got a century here." Saddle-stapled booklet. Tan paper cover. Double sided printing. Very good condition.

Softcover. Condition: Good+. Illustrated by Billy DeBeck (illustrator). White paper binding rubbed at extremities; cover hinge starting to split; a few small closed tears to edges; corners bent, else a nice copy. ; In wraps; great color cover artwork by Billy DeBeck, Google's creator; b&w musical score; single-fold, with one unbound sheet.; 4to; 5 pages.

Hard Cover. Condition: New. No Jacket. New Graphic Novel.

Oblong 32mo; stiff pictorial wraps, softcover; unpaginated, b&w illustrations on almost every page; a few are neatly hand colored by young readers; edgeworn and rubbed wraps else a good, clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Acceptable. Heavily tanned pages. P.o name on the upper right edge of the first page. Wraps separated from the binding. Lower right corner has heavy chipping. Overall quite rough.

Adapted from the famous Newspaper Strip. Illustrated. Oblong 12mo, publisher's boards illustrated in color. Light rubbing to edges of boards.

Eight pager. Starring Snuffy Smith from Billy Debeck's comic strip Barney Google and Snuffy Smith. First line reads, "You got a hard-on Suffy! Show it to Goody - She'll fix it up!." Saddle-stapled booklet. Gray wraparound manila cover. Pages printed on both sides. Vertical fold to body; some splitting along spine.Good+.

couverture souple. Editions Francis Salabert | Paris 1923 | 27.10 x 35 cm | une feuille rempliée | Edition originale de cette partition pour piano, premier plat illustré en couleurs par Debeck. Agréable exemplaire en dépit de quelques salissures et d'une petite déchirure marginales. | [ENGLISH DESCRIPTION FOLLOWS] First edition of this piano score, first cover illustrated in color by Debeck. Handsome copy despite some soiling and a small marginal tear. *.

Softcover. Condition: Very Good. First edition. Cover illustration by DeBeck. Quarto. Single bifolium with a single sheet insert making six pages. Light staining on the front cover going through to the verso, rubbing and light foxing to the exterior, and separating a bit at the bottom of the fold, still a very good and complete copy. For voice and piano. Plate number, 1373-4. The horse, Spark Plug, is from the comic strip *Barney Google and Snuffy Smith*, the third-longest running comic strip in history, and it is still being produced today. This song is a follow-up to the wildly popular song "Barney Google," penned by the same authors. Both songs were released in 1923 at the height of Spark Plug's popularity. Commenting on Spark Plug, comics historian Don Markstein said, "Sparky's first race became one of comics' first national media events, eagerly anticipated by millions of newspaper readers. So great was the public's enthusiasm that DeBeck, who had been planning to retire the plug after that one storyline, made him a permanent part of the cast. Spark Plug was such a star during the 1920s that children who enjoyed the comics were liable to get 'Sparky' for a nickname, for example, Charles M. 'Sparky' Schulz, who grew up to create *Peanuts*" (Wikipedia). The cover illustration of this song depicts Barney Google's jockey, Sunshine, using a pitchfork to spur Spark Plug in the big race. *OCLC* locates only five holdings and it appears to be equally scarce in the trade. A rare piece of both music and cartoon history.