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The essential Calvin and Hobbes : a Calvin and Hobbes treasury

by Bill Watterson

This treasury compiles the first two collections of comic strips featuring the imaginative adventures of a young boy and his tiger. It includes black-and-white daily strips, colour Sunday pages, and an original sixteen-page story.

Accession 8404 ISBN 0751512745 Publisher Warner Books
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