The first issue of The New Yorker hit the newsstands 96 years ago this week. It featured Rea Irvin's novel cover illustration of a dandy regarding a butterfly through his monocle. A curiosity to be sure, it has become the magazine's classic image, rerun—or in more recent years, reimagined— annually. The character is today known fondly as Eustace Tilley. As it happens, a prized copy was sold on eBay just this week.
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| Rea Irvin The New Yorker, February 21, 1925 |
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| The New Yorker eBay listing ended February 19, 2021 |
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| The New Yorker eBay item description |
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| The New Yorker eBay bid history The bidder paid $240 more than the minimum bid to be assured of winning the auction. |
Note: My 2015 survey of The New Yorker's underachieving yet promising first issue may be found here.
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