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Booklets are in Fine condition; box/slipcase is battered, tears along bottom edge and around opening end. Paperbacks in box. A collection of 9 (of 10) booklets, each 7x10", 32 pp, in a slipcase; with a 1949 letter from the executive editor. "British Columbia" is missing from the set. Editor notes that 9 volumes were completed in 1948 and Newfoundland added April 1949. With many photos in two-column text. . .…

1st Printing. Broadside. Small vignette ilustration done by "Caran D'Ache". 6-1/2" x 4-1/4" "Caran d'Ache was the pseudonym of the 19th century French satirist and political cartoonist Emmanuel Poirà (6 November 1858 â" 25 February 1909). "Caran d'Ache" comes from the Russian word karandash ( ), meaning pencil. While his first work glorified the Napoleonic era, he went on to create "stories without words" and as a contributor to newspapers such as the Le Figaro, he is sometimes hailed as one of the precursors of comic strips. The Swiss art products company Caran d'Ache is named after him." [wiki]. A VG copy. Some horizontal creasing, light soiling to recto and verso, gilt and illustration bright. Esnault's name written as the last line of the menu. White cards stock, color illustration, black lettering, AEG, now housed in a mylar sleeve. …