Doris Laufer's Copy of Good Ol' Charlie Brown by Charles M. Schulz

One does not need to venture very far out on the proverbial limb to  surmise that the Doris Laufer to whom cartoonist Charles M. Schulz dedicated a prepublication copy of Good Ol' Charlie Brown (1957) must have been the Chicago bookseller of that name. Her copy of the Peanuts book features a highly-desirable early drawing of Snoopy made before Charlie Brown's dog matured into his rounder and more familiar proportions.

Charles M. Schulz
AbeBooks Listing Retrieved December 15, 2019

https://www.abebooks.com/Good-Charlie-Brown-New-Peanuts-Book/30514331243/bd?cm_ven=nl&cm_cat=trg&cm_pla=want_CM&cm_ite=viewbook

Doris who?

From The Art of the Bookstore by Gibbs M. Smith

https://books.google.com/books?id=cxJ54wLyhr8C&pg=PA22&lpg=PA22&dq=Doris+Laufer&source=bl&ots=Mzl61C7QuN&sig=ACfU3U08nn7uhwCafwHgYipgeJrxqb-Rzw&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjN9KyUqMPmAhXsguAKHZfeD2YQ6AEwBHoECAoQAQ#v=onepage&q=Doris%20Laufer&f=false

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