60 Page Bound Jimmy Swinnerton Sunday Color Comics 1908 - 1913 Artist's DIY Book For Sale

Listed artist Robert Schuyler Van Rensselaer made this DIY comic book when he wasa child. Real comic books wouldn't exist for another 25 years, so he had to make his own. Iwas planning to fix it up before listing it, but I've come to appreciate it as-is. The oldest pages (from 1908) have excess paste smeared everywhere, and while that couldbe easily cleaned usingadamp cotton rag, I think the sloppiness is a cool indicationof his age. He would've been 9 years old in 1908 and he must've slowly addedto the book over time because the pasting gets progressively better. I didn't remove the wrinkles for the same reason - the oldest pages are most wrinkled because he would've read those the most, and at the youngest age. Some of the stitching is missing, apparently having been removed by young Van so that he could add more pages/leaves.