Automobilist Mishaps 1903 de Witt Clinton Falls rare 12 color plate cartoon book
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$ 295.00

The Mishaps of an Automobilist.by de Witt Clinton Falls.

Published NY, 1902 by F.A. Stokes Co. Oblong soft fabric covers with original string tied spine, 13 color lithographed plates total (counting cover).

Rare early automobile cartoon book in a large oversized oblong format. Splendid humorous color lithographed illustrations interleaved with sheets of humorous text which each contain delightful humorous pen and ink line drawings of the highest comic order.

Title leaf (missing lower internal corner blank margin piece, 12 color plates, 12 text leaves, soft green fabric covers with paste-on color lithographed images (edge chipped).

Covers worn and with some loss of fabric along the edges and fraying all around, Internally various paper issues with early amateur repairs, some edge chips and short edge tears, some sheets very clean and fresh some damaged, overall still nice to browse through and enjoy.

Book displays condition issues, not fine or even VG. More like a wonderful low grade example of a rare color plate auto story comic book that is a perfect place holder while you wait (years?) to upgrade. Bumps against early color comic book incunabula, similar to comic strip albums sold around this time by publishers reprinting their Sunday Funnies comics by title, such as Buster Brown, Little Nemo and Little Sammy Sneeze, Foxy Grandpa, Po Li'l Mose, etc. which eventually led to the earliest reprint true comic books, which leads to the Golden Age of Batman & Superman, DC comics, Sheena, Matt Baker, EC comics, the Code, Ditko, Kirby, Moebius, Vaughn Bode, Richard Corben, Robert Crumb, Art Spiegelman, Mike Mignola and too many more to list continuing right up to today.

Scarce to rare book in any condition.

Oblong format Book measures c 9 3/4” x 12”.

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