SAM ET SAP. Aventures surprenantes D'un Petit Negre et de son Singe

by Le CORDIER.GEORGE.; CANDIDE.ROSE.(Probable Pseudonym of Emile Tap).Illustrates

Price: £1,450.00 ($ 2373.51)
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Book desription: Librairie Ch.Delgrave.Paris.,ND(1908). FIRST EDITION.-----THE FIRST FRENCH COMIC STRIP BOOK.-----Oblong 4to.(13.9 x 10.8 inches).30pp+Table Des Matieres.104 colour illustrations,four to a page,in boxes and with the characters speech written in bubbles,the first time this format was published in France and only a few short years after the technique became popular in America with Frederick Burr Opper's Sunday Pages strips,Happy Hooligan and Alphonse and Gaston.The gatherings have become loose,but all still attached,where the inner spine has split.The books plain white cloth spine is fully intact,if a little loose,and the whole book could be easily re-cased if desired.Publishers original green paper covered boards,the front illustrated and lettered in black,red,yellow and white,showing Sam,the small Negro boy in his red Bell Boy suit,hanging onto the tie rope of a hot air balloon which has taken off.His Monkey,Sap,dressed in a green jacket,red cap and stripey red and white trousers,is hanging on to Sam's foot as they fly over the tree tops.Rear board with black Peacock design.Inside the book Sam & Sap's adventures include them driving,and crashing,an early Motor Car.-----Overall a complete and near to very good copy of this fragile and rare title.Although the speech balloon,or Bubble,had been used before,as had the box strip style of illustrating a story,this book is the first compleat marriage of the two to be published in France in what became known as the Comic Strip format.A rare and important book.:

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