Showing posts with label AbeBooks. Show all posts
Showing posts with label AbeBooks. Show all posts
Sunday, July 5, 2026

The D'Oench Family's Copy of The Chas Addams Mother Goose

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An interesting copy of The Chas Addams Mother Goose (New York: Windmill Books, 1967) came up on the AbeBooks platform this past May, offere...
Wednesday, July 1, 2026

Arthur Rackham: An Elegy on the Death of a Mad Dog, From The Vicar of Wakefield by Oliver Goldsmith

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In 1929, George G. Harrap & Co, Ltd., published a splendid new edition of Oliver Goldsmith's The Vicar of Wakefield with illustrat...
Wednesday, June 3, 2026

William Steig: Marriage in the Balance

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Another original New Yorker cartoon by William Steig, this one from 1969, was sold by Second Story Books on May 17. It had been collected b...
Friday, May 22, 2026

William Steig: Headstrong Husband

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A 1970 New Yorker cartoon original by the great William Steig remained in the collection of Neil and Susan Sheehan for well over five dec...
Thursday, May 21, 2026

William Steig: The Scolding That Doesn't End

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From the collection of Neil and Susan Sheehan  comes an imaginative and absurd  New Yorker drawing by William Steig. Published in 1969, th...
Saturday, May 9, 2026

Milt Gross: In Response to a Mislaid Letter

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Here's a little souvenir for a fan, Donald, from cartoonist Milt Gross. The AbeBooks seller Peruse the Stacks identifies the two figure...
Thursday, April 16, 2026

Arthur Rackham: The Little Mermaid's Home Life

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London publisher George G. Harrap gave us an edition of Hans Christian Andersen's Fairy Tales in 1932 featuring illustrations by Arth...