[RARE COMPLETE RUN OF SATIRIC MAGAZINE IN ALL PRE & AFTER REPUBLICAN PERIODS] آى دده / Aydede: Pazartesi ve Çarsamba günleri nesrolunur mizah gazetesi. [i.e., Man-in-the-moon: Ottoman satyrical newspaper published twice a week]. 215 ISSUES COMPLETE SET

[KARAY], REFIK HALID (Founder and owner), (1888-1965). Aydede, Istanbul, 1922-1949. COMPLETE TITLE: [RARE COMPLETE RUN OF SATIRIC MAGAZINE IN ALL PRE & AFTER REPUBLICAN PERIODS] آى دده / Aydede: Pazartesi ve Çarsamba günleri nesrolunur mizah gazetesi. [i.e., Man-in-the-moon: Ottoman satyrical newspaper published twice a week]. 215 issues complete set: 1st Episode: 1-90 (1922-1923); 2nd Episode: 1-125 (1948-1949). Contemporary four separate cloth bindings. Folio. (40 x 29 cm). In Ottoman script (Old Turkish with Arabic letters) and Turkish with Latin letters. Extremely rare complete run of the first and second episodes in Arabic and Latin letters, of this richly illustrated pre- and post-Republican Turkish satiric magazine including all 215 issues in four folio volumes, published between 2 Kanun-i Sânî 1338 [February 2, 1922] - 9 Ikinci Tesrîn 1339 [November 9, 1923]; and from 1948 to 1949. This satirical magazine in Ottoman Turkish titled "Aydede" appeared in the first episode from