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Red Back. Dark blue bracts. Back cover: A18 (BDM). Large (unique) drawing on the front plate. Thousand and small image of Tintin on title page. Black and white album with 4 color outer text plates (32-33, 48-49, 80-81, 96-97). Page numbering from 4 to 127.The last black and white version of the 'cigares du ..- is without a doubt the most beautiful of the serir. In 1942 Hergé designed a new, breathtaking front illustration for it. This beautiful full-page drawing was never retaken later for color reprints. Hence the very high asking price for this album from the 30th thousand that also received a smaller edition than most other grandes images. only 4000 copies. and -incomprehensible but where -on page 80 the wrong strip has surfaced from about 10 years ago. Doc. Tintin black on white by Marcel Wilmet, published by Casterman 2004 Wrong strip at the bottom of plate 76.
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