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Thursday, December 24, 2020

"Porteé de Chats" de Siné (Litter of Cats, by Siné)

 A copy of Portée de Chats (Paris, 1958) was donated to the store last week.  Siné was Maurice Sinet (1928–2016), a political cartoonist who worked for the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo. *

I priced it at $10, walked out to the Books, and a customer bought it right out of my hand.


(Shame: reading further in his Wikipedia page, I see he was fired for anti-Semitism.)

6 comments:

  1. I would have bought it right out of your hands too! The cat with the musical whiskers is great!

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  2. SARAH: I did actually think of you and your kitties! and kitty-sitting.

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  3. What playful art.

    I just looked him up in Wikipedia — some ugliness there I wouldn’t have guessed from these drawings.

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  4. MICHAEL: Oh, dear--I didn't read that far down---I added a line to the post.
    Sigh.

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  5. STEVE: We do, sometimes! . . .But there are one thousand water-stained romance books to every amazing donated book.

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