David from Manhattan writes with a photo of a very special copy of a 1976 collection by New Yorker cartoonist George Booth.
The attached is the front free endpaper for Rehearsal's Off! According to Jeffrey Long of Long Brothers Rare Books in Seattle, it was in the estate of artist Guy Anderson, who spent nearly his whole life in Washington. I was kind of hoping Booth had known Anderson, but a note from his daughter Sarah, makes that doubtful...Price was $175.
Note: David from Manhattan comes through again with this, his 43rd contribution to this blog. Thanks, David.
The blog archives include Kay Sexton's somewhat related copy of the book here. Ms. Sexton managed the first B. Dalton Bookseller and her copy of Rehearsal's Off! also boast a Booth drawing featuring poultry and a pig.
Artist Guy Anderson's Wikipedia page leads with a disambiguation note so amusing I just have to share it:
Meanwhile, George Booth's Wikipedia page mistakenly dates Rehearsal's Off! (1976) to 1977. More seriously, it misdates Think Good Thoughts About a Pussycat (1975).
Original drawings by George Booth, particularly those which are, like Chicken yard with dancing shoat, new to the internet, are what makes a blog like this one dance in a chicken yard—metaphorically speaking. Your contributions welcome.
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