It looks for all the world like a mass market Cartoon Bank collection but The New Yorker Book of Christmas Cartoons was published in 2004 specifically for Restoration Hardware. It was priced at $19.95 and must have been sold in the company's stores. The contemporary bookseller's stock image of an embossed blue cover does not resemble the edition I was to receive. That almost makes a little sense, as the synopsis of this online listing instead described The New Yorker Desk Diary 2010 Desk Calendar, but then there are many online copies of The New Yorker Book of Christmas Cartoons which use the same stock photograph.
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| The New Yorker Book of Christmas Cartoons AbeBooks listing ended October 17, 2022 |
The cover is illustrated by Michael Witte, who did the covers for the Cartoon Bank's mass market editions. Many of the standard customized editions in the series simply have a cartoon on the front cover.
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The New Yorker Book of Christmas Cartoons Cover by Michael Witte The front dust jacket flap leads with a bedtime cartoon by Alex Gregory. Then there is some lighthearted text explaining the book's reason for being.  Charles Saxon.  The back cover cartoon is by Bruce Eric Kaplan. |
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