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Bill Watterson Extremely Rare Teaching With Calvin And Hobbes Book (Playground Publishing, 1993)....
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Bill Watterson Extremely Rare Teaching With Calvin And Hobbes Book (Playground Publishing, 1993). AVClub.com notes, "This is pretty much the only example of [Bill] Watterson licensing his characters for anything, and die-hard fans are desperate to get a copy." And "Those hoping to find a copy of Teaching With Calvin And Hobbes in the wild are usually advised to stop their search right now -- supposedly, only eight libraries in the world have copies, and three of those are in North Dakota, the state where the book was originally published 23 years ago. The Library Of Congress has a copy, however, which could one day be the inspiration for a heist film." But if you'd rather not resort to breaking into the Library of Congress, we have turned up one of the extremely rare copies of the book, and are offering it here. Watterson was unwilling to approve merchandising of his strip, so aside from books reprinting the strips themselves, official Calvin And Hobbes merchandise is all but nonexistent. So this obscure 1993 textbook such a rare and precious commodity. Created by a speech language pathologist and a learning disabilities educator, the elementary-level book incorporates 57 of Watterson's strips into various lessons like "The Bug Collector" and "The Christmas Story". Copies have sold in the past for anywhere from $6,000 to more than $30,000. It's in beautifully unread, Near Mint condition.Auction Info
2022 April 7 - 10 Comics & Comic Art Signature® Auction #7270 (go to Auction Home page)
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April, 2022
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