George Booth: A Chicken for Nick

Writer Nick Delbanco's copy of The Essential George Booth is lovingly inscribed by Mr. Booth with a bonus sketch of a chicken. This is the first use of color I have seen in a souvenir drawing of this sort by the artist. Poet and novelist Richard Elman and his wife Alice are also listed as recipients. But the chicken is for Nick.

The Essential George Booth
New York:  Workman Publishing Co., 1990

                                                        Inscribed "9/10/'99
Nick [Delbanco] and Ellen [Greenhouse] and Richard [Elman] and Alice [Elman]
and the rest of us. I am privileged.
  And if that is a little sticky sounding
I'll bear up.                                 
And, oh yes. A chicken for Nick,
G. Booth,"       

George Booth
AbeBooks Listing Retrieved October 2, 2018

https://www.abebooks.com/servlet/BookDetailsPL?bi=22470958883&searchurl=kn%3DGeorge%2BBooth%26sortby%3D1&cm_sp=snippet-_-srp3-_-title26

Note:  My thanks to Sarah Booth for identifying the people named in the inscription.

Books with original drawings by George Booth or by other New Yorker cartoonists are just what we're looking for here at Attempted Bloggery. Please send photos or scans of what you can find, poultry sketches and all.



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