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33cm x 26.7cm
46 pages
1992

There appear to be at least two editions of this publication. The following listing of differences is courtesy of Mr. Riccardo Barro:

First Edition (This Edition):

• Black and two-color covers (Red and blue)
• Additional copy on cover: "Improved Edition"
• Pink Endpapers
• Inside cover Endpaper glued to cover
• Dated 1992
• 33cm x 26.7cm
• Jimmy Corrigan Back Cover
• Plastic-like tape binding
• Title Page includes different illustration, copy.
• Pages arranged in different order, but same content is present.

Second Edition:

• Full-color covers
• Light Blue Endpapers
• Inside cover Endpaper printed recto-verso (Same sheet)
• Dated 1993
• 35cm x 27cm
• Quimby The Mouse Back Cover
• Cloth tape binding
• Title Page includes different illustration, copy: "Second, improved edition."
• Numbered via blue-inked stamp on title page (the highest number reported thus far is #29)
• Pages arranged in different order, but same content is present.
• Many copies of this edition were inscribed on the first endpaper by Ware.

Pages: Front cover, endpapers, 46 pages (numbered from 3 to 45), endpapers, rear cover.

Contents: Quimby the Mouse and Sparky stories. Some of the stories have been reproduced in the Quimby the Mouse book (On page 4 of the Quimby book, the following quotation appears: "Howewer, as luck would have it, an anonymous collector (residing somewhere in the midwest) recently directed to the publisher's attention a privately printed, and, what appears to be, slightly earlier so-called ashcan version of the same material, entitled "Lonely Comics and Stories", hand-collected (possibly by the author) and rebound for public circulation by a small philanthropic Illinois lending institution [...]").

Print run: Unknown.

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