Peter Weed's Copy of Browse at Your Own Risk by George Price

Over the past few months, eBay seller Pinstripe Cards offered a number of books by New Yorker cartoonists that were inscribed to Peter or Lucretia J. Weed of the publishing firm Congdon & Weed. This copy of George Price's Browse at Your Own Risk (1977) was the last of them, signed to Peter a full decade after the collection was published.

"To Peter Weed
with all best wishes
Geo. Price
March 10 '87"

Title page

Below, we read that one-hundred eighty of the one-hundred ninety drawings were originally published in The New Yorker. This is a reminder, if any were needed, of the magazine's importance to a major cartoonist like Price and, in truth, to so many others.

"But you're not going girl-watching in that getup!"

What are the odds? In 2019, I posted the original art for the above cartoon here. 

"I said, you're standing on my metatarsals."

"Is this cabin pressurized properly? My baked apple just blew up."

This color art is Price's one and only New Yorker cover. It was published on December 25, 1965.

George Price
eBay listing accessed September 1, 2025

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George Price
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Note:  There's a lot more out there—books, original art, correspondence—about cartoonist George Price. If you have it, you know I'd love to see it.

I'd take cartoon-related material about the Weeds as well.

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Lucretia J. Weed's Copy of Let's Boogie! by James Stevenson

James Stevenson inscribed a copy of Let's Boogie!, his 1978 cartoon collection from Dodd, Mead, to Lucretia J. Weed, publisher at Congdon & Weed. He included an inscription and a drawing of a bear, presumably the tee-shirted one from the cover. The book is no longer available.

Dedication to New Yorker cartoonist Frank Modell

"It's me again."

It's just going to continue and continue

James Stevenson
eBay listing accessed July 10, 2025

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