SCHULZ, CHARLES.
Original 3-tiered Sunday Peanuts strip, ink on stiff paper, 17 x 23¾ inches, signed ("Schulz") in final panel, dated June 23 [1963], light even toning, 1/2 inch closed tear to bottom margin, creasing and closed tears to Peanuts logo pastedown, offsetting to verso from adhesive residue with faint bleed-through; still fine and crisp.
Charlie Brown, Schroeder and Lucy engage in characteristic pitcher's mound byplay in this relatively early baseball-themed Sunday strip. Accompanied by two typewritten letters signed by Schulz, dated July and August 1963, in which Schulz presents this original art to a collector, consents to the sale of other Peanuts art to raise funds for the La Jolla Little League, and expresses his approval of Little League baseball in general.
Charlie Brown, Schroeder and Lucy engage in characteristic pitcher's mound byplay in this relatively early baseball-themed Sunday strip. Accompanied by two typewritten letters signed by Schulz, dated July and August 1963, in which Schulz presents this original art to a collector, consents to the sale of other Peanuts art to raise funds for the La Jolla Little League, and expresses his approval of Little League baseball in general.
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