Sidney Smith's The Gumps #[nn]

This 1974 hardcover collection from Charles Scribner's Sons reprints selected daily and Sunday strips from Sidney Smith's long-running newspaper comic The Gumps, which originally debuted in 1917. The volume showcases Smith's pioneering soap-opera storytelling, focusing on the domestic trials and comic misadventures of the Gump family, particularly the blustering patriarch Andy Gump. It offers a representative sampling of the strip's early-to-mid run, preserving the work of a key figure in the development of the narrative comic strip.