NAPOLEON AND UNCLE ELBY, with an Introduction by Don Herold

New York: Robert M. McBride and Company, 1945. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good/Very good. Review copy, with the publisher's slip affixed to the front flyleaf. A companion volume to the popular comic strip Napoleon and Uncle Elby, which first appeared on June 6, 1932 and by the mid-1940s was carried by 80 newspapers. Elby was based on McBride's uncle, Wisconsin lumberman Henry Elba Eastman, who was paired with a big, clumsy, ungainly dog named Napoleon. Following McBride's death in 1951, his second wife, Margot Fischer McBride, teamed up with former Disney artist Roger Armstrong, keeping the strip going for the next eight years. Small quarto: 128 pp. with illustrations throughout. Original glazed paper-covered boards. Tiny bump to the bottom edge of the front board, with some general edgwear to the boards and dust jacket; otherwise very good. (Inventory #: 77829)