Jack Herbert's Copy of The Art in Cartooning

Bauman Rare Books offers a special copy of The Art in Cartooning: Seventy-five Years of American Magazine Cartoons  (1975), edited by Edwin Fisher, Mort Gerberg, and Ron Wolin for the Cartoonists Guild. The book is inscribed to one Jack Herbert and has original drawings by Jack Ziegler, Gahan Wilson, Sam Gross, and Bill Woodman. It is listed at $2,500.

The dust jacket shows The Closed Mind, an experimental piece by cartoonist Charles Saxon.

The drawings by Ziegler and Wilson are quite generous, each fairly elaborate and alone on a full page. The theme seems to be bottles. Unfortunately, the bookseller has not provided scans of the Gross and Woodman drawings, so we don't know whether this theme is continued.

The Art in Cartooning
Bauman Rare Books listing accessed April 13, 2024

https://www.baumanrarebooks.com/rare-books/booth-george-new-yorker/art-in-cartooning/125820.aspx

Note:  There are now seven copies of The Art in Cartooning posted to this blog. Each is unique in its own way. There are no doubt other fine copies out there with original drawings, signatures, or inscriptions from noteworthy cartoonists. I am always excited to post images from such copies. Please send them along to my inbox for consideration.

If anyone should happen into Bauman Rare Books, please see if you can snap a photo or two of the missing Gross and Woodman drawings for the sake of posterity.

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