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Softcover. Condition: Fair. First Edition. A scarce item in the trade, there being only one additional copy of the 32-page version of the item and another of this, the 20-page version. No. 316 in the series assembled by J. Keeley, and published jointly by M.A. Donohue & Co and the Essanay Company. Better than Fair condition, all pages present, previously detached front panel newly restapled. Moderately soiled and worn, some chipping to fore-edges, but interior clean and unmarked. Some pencil lines to front cover. Brilliant quadrachrome illustration to rear panel, being of a young Chaplin's cartoon likeness sporting prison headgear, lightning bolts emanating therefrom. A due homage in artistic, cartoon form to the brilliance of a very young Charlie Chaplin and his "The Tramp" character that made him famous and a good salary. Measures 16 1/4" in width and 9 5/8" in height. Full-color front panel, black-and-white cartoon panels throughout. "Instructions for the Young Artist" at outset, Cartoon panels inside front and rear panels, too. Housed in a plastic sleeve.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. Additional postage may be required for oversize or especially heavy volumes, and for sets.

Oblong folio. 16.2 x 9.75 in. [32 pp (unpaginated).], comic strips illustrated throughout. Colour-illustrated softcvers, cover art of Charlie Chaplin as Tramp on front cover (minor creasing, edgewear, closed tears neatly repaired at gutter margins, lower fore-edges, minor edgewear), still VG- copy, w/ very small bookseller's label in upper corner for Zinger's Books & Stationary, Astoria, OR on front cover. First edition of this very scarce anthology of the Charlie Chaplin's Comic Capers strip which was intended by Donohue to be used as a colouring book, with colour instructions at the beginning. this work was issued in Donohue in two different versions, one with 20 pp., and the other with 32 pp. Chicago-based Essanay studios lured Chaplin away from Keystone Film Co. by offering him an unprecedented $ 1250.00 per week, and he made over 14 silent films with them, including the famed "The Tramp." The studio closed in 1918, and Chaplin left to join the Mutual Film Corporation. Worldcat locates 4 copies (Duke - 30 pp.; Chicago Public - 16 pp.; MOMA & Motion Picture Academy - 20 pp.); See: Bruce C. Shults, Spotlight on the Pre-Popeye, Works of E.C. Segar (2010).