Edition: 1st Edition, 7th Printing
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Date Published: 1952
Description: Good. No Jacket. Stated FIRST EDITIONS / Seventh Printing-(1952) DUST JACKET NOTES: NO jacket. BOOK NOTES: GOOD / Softcover book has some cover wear including moderate foxing/soiling to covers, edge wear, bumping, creasing and missing the bottom inch of spine and first layer of an inch of the bottom back cover; inside has previous owner's name and store seller's sticker inside cover, there is light foxing here and there and some of the pages are halfway loose. Binding is partically loose but ... read more
Edition: First Edition; First Printing
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Simon and Schuster, 424
Date Published: 1952
Description: Very Good. Trade PB. 12mo. Simon and Schuster. 1952. 190 pgs. First Edition/First printing. Wrappers lightly worn. Book is free of ownership marks. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. 424; 12mo 7"-7½" tall; 190 pages. read more
Edition: First Edition-Printing Not Noted
Binding: Card Covers
Publisher: Simon & Schuster, New York
Date Published: 1952
Description: Walt Kelly. Near Very Good. Political Anthropomorphy. 5" x 8" Yellow pictorial wraps. 190 pp. Slight soiling to wraps as per usual, paper bit tanned, binding cracked with some loosened pages, prior owner's dated signature to first leaf, mild dogearing at corners-bit better than average condition of this, the 2nd Pogo collection. read more
Edition: First Edition (stated)
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Simon & Schuster, NY
Date Published: 1952
Description: VG. 190 pages soft cover SIGNED "Best Wishes, Walt Kelly" on first page. Binding mostly tight inside, page 25 protrudes a little further than rest and has become ragged along edge. Yellow covers are lightly silverfished at several small areas along spine, but otherwise just lightly worn. Overall a near VG copy. Signed by Author. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Date Published: 1953
Description: Acceptable. 1952 edition Cover has damage Pages loose Spine broken General Reading Copy, All pages and text intact, May contain highlighting/marking or other serious defects. Major defects may exist which may or may not be noted Customer Service isn't just a motto for us, its a way of life. read more
Edition: First printing
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Simon and Schuster: New York, NY
Date Published: 1952
Description: Good- Paperback, 190 pages. Clean and square copy, text unmarked. Some shelf wear, ffep missing, gathering of pages (149-190) detached. read more
Binding: Softcover; First Printing
Publisher: Simon & Schuster, New York
Date Published: 1952
Description: Fair. Spine and covers mildly soiled and edgeworn. Owner name top of first page. A few loose but present pages, with mild edgewear to fore edge. Otherwise clean, binding holding.; Cartoons; Small 8vo 7½"-8" tall; 190 pages; Studio (bagged) kvk yellow/black vartcat genrcat. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Date Published: 1952
Description: Good. Paperback, 1952, Simon and Schuster, 190 pages. Cover shows general wear, small spot on the edge of pages, otherwise pages are clean, binding is tight, a good reading copy. Within 2 days. Satisfaction guaranteed! read more
Edition: 7th printing
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Date Published: 1952
Description: Good. Simon and Schuster 1952 7th printing Some age toning/light soil to cover, some spotting to page edges, clean tight unmarked text. read more
Edition: Stated 1st Prtg
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Date Published: 1952
Description: Walt Kelly. Very Good. No Jacket. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. Pub by Simon & Schuster, 1952, stated 1st Printing. VG cond. trade softcover in yellow, white & black pict wraps, now in archival Brodart. Lt-mdt soiling to edges. Cartoons by the incomparable Walt Kelly. 190pp. Book is square, straight, tight & clean, overall VG or better cond. Same or next day shipping. Please email any questions. read more
Edition: First edition.
Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: Simon & schuster, New York, NY
Date Published: 1952
Description: Very good. No dust jacket as issued. 1st trade pb of classic Pogo election collection. Pen mark, crease on cover, insides unmarked and hilarious. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Date Published: 1953
Description: Good. First edition. edge worn cover, clean interior. Strong binding and solid spin Please contact us immediately with any problem/concern with your order. read more
Binding: Softbound
Publisher: Simon & Schuster, New York
Date Published: 1952
Description: b&w photo illus. Fair/no d.j. 190, Yellow wraps w/ black title at spine. Foxing to cover, foxed edges, pages 87-90 are loose but present. Damage to top left corner of back cover (from dampness? ) causing browning & light rippling to edges of pages 90-190. Inscribed by the author. read more
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Date Published: 1952
Description: Very Good- Small 8vo. 190 pp., light spine damage from silverfish, signed in pencil by the author front endpaper, in protective plastic cover-yellow, black-store room. read more
"Thirty years ago a colleague lent me 'I Go Pogo'. It got straight through to me, and ever since I've been annoying people by saying, 'I is covered with rue', and 'Is I got a campaign?' and 'I tole 'em, and I tole 'em ...' - because nobody else ever seems to have heard of Pogo. Not in the UK, anyway.
That's tragic. Pogo was originally a successful US strip cartoon. written and drawn by Walt and Selby Kelly. This is its book version. Little opossum Pogo is one of a crowded cast of Okefenokee swamp creatures, some virtuous, some not, living in a Little-House-On-the-Prairie or Waltons or Dukes-of-Hazard style America. Pogo is like a slightly smarter Christopher Robin character, more wideawake and aware, but still childlike and charming. Here, he finds himself caught up, more or less against his will, in a campaign to make him President.
The story doesn't really matter. What counts is the quality of the imagination which creates Pogo's buddies, such as Albert the alligator, Churchy (the turtle who writes hysterically funny campaign songs and poems), P.T. Bridgeport (a down-and-out showman bear )... an equally rich cast of opponents ... and lots of little wisecracking characters (bats, moths, bugs, cowbirds) who aren't really part of the story, but are very smart and funny. They are very sharply characterised and wonderfully drawn.
But in the end it's the words and punctuation that get me. 'This is your golden opportunity, (dear to the heart of every backward .. uh - backwoods boy) to sacrifice for one's friends!' Pogo's buddies tell him. 'An' how 'bout one's friends?' asks Pogo. 'Is they 'gone sacrifice somethin' too?' 'Well,' say his buddies,' it ain't a good year fer radical ideas. Yeh, that's carryin' things perty far, son.' 'I is covered with rue,' says Pogo apologetically.
The whole book is overflowing with characters, ideas, linguistic games, so many of them included, it seems, just for the fun (or the hell) of it.
Pogo seems to be pretty much out of print. If I were you, I'd buy a used copy while you can. They don't make them like Pogo any more. I tole you an' I tole you ..."
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