222 - PEYO. — The Greatest Smurf.

PEYO. — The Greatest Smurf. Marcinelle-Charleroi, Dupuis, 1965. In-4, publisher’s color-illustrated hardcover, blue spine. The second volume in *The Smurfs* series, featuring two stories: The Greatest Smurf and Smurfphony in C. Front cover illustrated with The Greatest Smurf, wearing a crown and an ermine coat, receiving a gift from another Smurf. Fourth gray cover featuring the first volume, *The Black Smurfs*, with twelve stories by Johan and Pirlouit and two by Benoît Brisefer. Copyright Peyo and Dupuis, 1965. Presumed first edition, subject to confirmation of the characteristics of the first printing. A fine copy, with a hardcover in fresh colors, showing slight signs of wear on the top and bottom edges and the corners. Interior is clean, slightly yellowed.