"The booklet '50 Years of Very Cheerful Work', published privately to mark Tintin's fiftieth anniversary, was printed in only a very small number of copies and is already completely sold out!"
800€
Georges Remi, known as HERGÉ
Letter signed to Michel Salesse-Lavergne
One page in quarto on Hergé Studios letterhead.
[Brussels] March 13, 1979.
Hergé celebrates the fiftieth anniversary of Tintin.
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“Dear friend, I received your letter. The booklet ‘50 Years of Very Cheerful Work,’ published privately to mark Tintin’s fiftieth anniversary, was printed in a very limited number of copies and is already completely sold out! However, it is not impossible—and this depends on my publisher—that the booklet may one day be made available for sale… Yours sincerely, Hergé.”
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Fifty years of very cheerful work – How a Tintin adventure is born, a rare album, printed in only 2000 copies not for sale, published in 1978 by Casterman, for Tintin's 50th anniversary