Barnaby by Johnson, Crockett - 1943

E-01: Henry Holt & Company. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1943. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Hardcover. 8vo. Henry Holt and Company. 1943. 361 pgs. First Edition/First Printing. Illustrated with line drawings. Signed and inscribed by Crockett Johnson on the FFEP. DJ has light shelf-wear present to the DJ extremities. No ownership marks present. Text is clean and free of marks, binding tight and solid, boards lightly rubbed and worn with some light discoloration present to the crown of the spine. "The most important addition to American arts and letters in Lord knows how many years." — Dorothy Parker. Reproduced in full color and featuring Mr. O'Malley, McSnoyd, Gorgon, Gus, and other delightful comic creations, here are 13 of the most popular Barnaby adventures. Includes the famous scrap iron drive and the hot coffee ring escapades. Barnaby was a comic strip which began 20 April 1942 in the newspaper PM and was later syndicated in 64 American newspapers (for a combined circulation of more than 5,500,000). Created by Crockett Johnson, who is best known today for his children's book Harold and the Purple Crayon, the strip featured a cherubic-looking five-year-old and his far-from-cherubic fairy godfather, Jackeen J. O'Malley, a short, cigar-smoking man with four tiny wings. With a distinctive appearance because of its use of typography, the strip had numerous reprints and was adapted into a 1940s stage production. The usually caustic Dorothy Parker had nothing but praise: "I think, and I'm trying to talk calmly, that Barnaby and his friends and oppressors are the most important additions to American Arts and Letters in Lord knows how many years." E-01; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 361 pages; Signed by Author .