The New Yorker Album of Drawings 1925-1975 was the first
New Yorker collection I ever purchased. The hardcover volume sold for about $15 and I had to make a very deliberate decision to commit that amount of money to a mammoth book of cartoons. As it turns out, it had a profound and long-lasting effect on me. Can you tell?
A copy is currently available on eBay with the original signatures of five
New Yorker cartoonists. I got to know the work of these cartoonists primarily through the magazine and collections such as this one. Indeed, I started collecting older out-of-print
New Yorker albums fairly passionately and by this means I became familiar with the work of the pantheon of cartoonists who contributed to the magazine over the years.
The eBay seller has included a generous selection of images from the book and the cartoons are, of course, brilliant. Interestingly, though, the seller hasn't included any cartoons by the five signing cartoonists, which I would have thought good salesmanship. Still, there is an awful lot of Peter Arno instead and who can argue with that?
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The New Yorker Album of Drawings 1925-1975 signed by Herbert Goldberg, Edward Frascino, William Hamilton, Warren Miller, and Everett Opie. In the eBay listing, the seller has mistaken Edward Frascino's signature for Joseph Farris's.
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Peter Arno
The New Yorker Album of Drawings 1925-1975 |
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Ralph Barton, Alice Harvey, Helen E. Hokinson, Garrett Price
The New Yorker Album of Drawings 1925-1975 |
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John Held, Jr., Rea Irvin, Alfred Frueh
The New Yorker Album of Drawings 1925-1975 |
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Rea Irvin, Constantin Alajálov, Barbara Shermund, Peter Arno
The New Yorker Album of Drawings 1925-1975 |
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Ralph Barton, James Thurber, William Steig, John Held, Jr.
The New Yorker Album of Drawings 1925-1975 |
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Perry Barlow, George Price, Peter Arno
The New Yorker Album of Drawings 1925-1975 |
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Mary Petty, Garrett Price, Richard Decker
The New Yorker Album of Drawings 1925-1975 |
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Peter Arno, Garrett Price, Chon Day, Helen E. Hokinson
The New Yorker Album of Drawings 1925-1975 |
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Robert Kraus, Richard Taylor, Peter Arno
The New Yorker Album of Drawings 1925-1975 |
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Leslie Starke, Richard Taylor, Peter Arno
The New Yorker Album of Drawings 1925-1975 |
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Garrett Price, Joseph Mirachi, Gardner Rea
The New Yorker Album of Drawings 1925-1975 |
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Peter Arno, Garner Rea, Charles E. Martin
The New Yorker Album of Drawings 1925-1975 |
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Richard Taylor, Saul Steinberg, Barney Tobey, George Price
The New Yorker Album of Drawings 1925-1975 |
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Peter Arno, Frank Modell, Robert Day
The New Yorker Album of Drawings 1925-1975 |
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Charles Saxon
The New Yorker Album of Drawings 1925-1975 |
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Alan Dunn, Carl Rose, Peter Arno
The New Yorker Album of Drawings 1925-1975 |
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Mischa Richter, James Stevenson, Lee Lorenz, Richard McCallister, Ed Fisher
The New Yorker Album of Drawings 1925-1975 |
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Donald Reilly, Leslie Starke, John Corcoran
The New Yorker Album of Drawings 1925-1975 |
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Donald Reilly, J. B. Handelsman, Niculae Asciu, Mischa Richter
The New Yorker Album of Drawings 1925-1975 |
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| The artists represented in The New Yorker Album of Drawings 1925-1975 |
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| The image-hosting service Auctiva allows up to twenty-four photos per eBay auction listing, and this seller is determined to use them all. This is number 23. Instead of this close-up of the back cover, I think it would have been more helpful to photograph pages that include some of the cartoonists who signed this book. |
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| Again, this is really an unnecessary photograph. |
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| As stated above, the eBay seller has mistaken Edward Frascino's signature for Joseph Farris's. Tsk tsk. |
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Say, did I happen to mention that the eBay seller has mistaken Edward Frascino's signature for Joseph Farris's?
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For the record, this is what Joseph Farris's signature looks like:
October 6, 2013 Update: Sold!
Note: Yesterday, I was thrilled to see that my recent post about
Rea Irvin in the Virgin Islands was mentioned on
Ink Spill here. If you're interested in the very latest about
New Yorker cartoonists--and why on earth would you be reading this post if you weren't?--then you should be following
Ink Spill.
As if that weren't enough, today I'm quoted on
Perpetua, the
Ronald Searle tribute blog! The topic is Ronald Searle and the Berlin Wall. The post would be outstanding even if I weren't mentioned. See it
here.
I have a daily newspaper panel drawing by
William Hamilton on the blog
here.
An
Edward Frascino sandbox drawing is part of a larger post about
New Yorker cartoons at auction. I still don't know whether Mr. Frascino's drawing was ever published. You can see it all
here.
Then if you still have the energy, some of the other signed books featured on this blog can be found
here. Happy reading!
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