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Condition: Good. Fontaine Fox (illustrator). Good condition. Good dust jacket. (Cartoons, Humor) A copy that has been read but remains intact. May contain markings such as bookplates, stamps, limited notes and highlighting, or a few light stains.

Hardcover. 4to 184 pp. Illustrated. One of the most popular American cartoonists of the 20th century. For more than forty years, Toonerville Trolley cartoons were syndicated across the U.S. Fine dust jacket with slight year at top on rear.

Fontaine Fox (illustrator). Fontaine Fox's Toonerville Trolley. Compiled by Herb Galewitz & Don Winslow. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1972. First edition, first printing. Quarto, illustrated, trade cloth in pictorial dust jacket. A handsome collected edition celebrating Fontaine Fox's classic American newspaper strip The Toonerville Trolley That Meets All the Trains, one of the most influential comic series of the early twentieth century. This volume gathers a wide range of Fox's best-loved characters including Flem Proddy, Mickey (Himself) McGuire, the Terrible Tempered Mr. Bang, the Powerful Katrinka, and many others - reproduced from original newspaper sources and archival collections. Fox's humor, rooted in small-town absurdity, mechanical mishap, and character-driven farce, remains both historically important and highly entertaining. Book is Very Good+ : clean, tight, and square, with bright, unmarked pages and no pencil, ink, or stains. Cloth is fresh with sharp spine lettering and only the faintest evidence of handling. Limited soiling to bottom edge.Dust jacket is Very Good, bright and attractive, showing light edge wear and mild age-toning; no chips or major tears, and presents very well in a protective sleeve. First edition, first printing, indicated by stated 1972 Scribner publication with no later printing notices; copyright page, binding, and dust jacket all conform to the initial trade-cloth issue. Fontaine Fox (1884-1964) was one of the most popular American cartoonists of the early twentieth century. His long-running newspaper strip The Toonerville Trolley That Meets All the Trains was syndicated nationwide for decades and became a defining example of character-driven humor in American comic art, influencing generations of cartoonists.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Fontaine Fox (illustrator). 1st Edition. 1ST (A) PRINTING STATED hardcover NEAR FINE/dustjacket VERY GOOD priced clipped.