The Complete Peanuts 1950-1952, Hardcover/Charles M. Schulz

This volume is rounded out with Garrison Keillor's introduction, a biographical essay by David Michaelis Schulz and Peanuts ) and an in-depth interview with Schulz conducted in 1987 by Gary Groth and Rick Marschall, all wrapped in a gorgeous design by award-winning cartoonist Seth.