FIRST EDITION OF CHARLES SCHULZ’ FIRST CHRISTMAS BOOK, INSCRIBED BY HIM AND WITH AN ORIGINAL DRAWING OF LINUS
SCHULZ, Charles M. Christmas is Together-Time. (San Francisco: Determined Productions, 1964). Small square quarto, original pictorial white paper boards, original dust jacket.
First edition of Schulz’ first Christmas book featuring Charlie Brown and his gang, with 30 “Peanuts” cartoons by Schulz, inscribed by Charles Schulz using his nickname, "Sparky": For C——, my good friend—Sparky," with a scarce original drawing of Linus (drawings of characters other than Snoopy and Charlie Brown are quite scarce).
After the success of the “Peanuts” books Happiness Is a Warm Puppy, Security Is a Thumb and a Blanket, and I Need All the Friends I Can Get, Schulz created this, his first “Peanuts” Christmas book, predating A Charlie Brown Christmas by a year. Before Happiness is a Warm Puppy, Schulz had published only collected “Peanuts” strips; Happiness, which appeared in 1962, was the first “Peanuts” book to appear in a format of original text and illustrations on colored paper.
Book fine, dust jacket with light wear mainly to extremities. A near-fine inscribed copy, with an original sketch.