Terry and the Pirate (1938-1939) by Milton Caniff - 1985-06

Flying Buttress / NBM, 1985. hardcover. Good. Sturdy hardcover, does not have dust jacket, covers are clean with light shelf wear, solid spine, unmarked text. CC

New York: Nantier-Beall-Minoustchine Pub. Co, 1985. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. No. 780 of 1,200 copies. Jacket's spine-ends are a bit worn.

NBM Publishing/Nanier Beall Minoustchine Publishing, 1985. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Good++/Good++. Hardcover in dust jacket. Limited printing of 1200 copies, this is # 806. Volume 5 only. Flying Buttress Classics Library. Brown cloth boards with title in gold on front board and spine. Light edge wear. Foxed fore edges and illustrated endpapers. Black and white illustration pages are clean. Black and white illustrated dust jacket shows edge wear and rubbing. Chipped corners and spine ends, a few creased short tears. Looks good when placed in new protective mylar. Always carefully wrapped and shipped in cardboard boxes to protect your purchase.

New York, New York, U.S.A.: N B M Publishing Company, 1985. Limited Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Very Good +. b/w Illustrations. This is # 112 of a limited edition of 1300. Terry and the Pirates was an action-adventure comic strip created by cartoonist Milton Caniff. Captain Joseph Patterson, editor for the Chicago Tribune-New York News Syndicate, had admired Caniff's work on the children's adventure strip Dickie Dare and hired him to create the new adventure strip, providing Caniff with the title and locale. (The precise reason behind including "the Pirates" in the title is a subject of some debate, but see Dragon Lady (etymology) for one plausible version.) The daily strip began October 22, 1934, with the Sunday color pages beginning December 9, 1934. Initially the storylines of the daily strips and Sunday pages were different but on August 26, 1936 they merged into a single storyline. In 1946, Caniff won the first Cartoonist of the Year Award from the National Cartoonist Society… Read More

hardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.