Signed copies of Ed Fisher's First Folio (1959) are fairly hard to come by. An example inscribed by cartoonist Ed Fisher to one Lois was listed on eBay but is reportedly no longer available.
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| Ed Fisher eBay listing ended September 27, 2025 |
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| Ed Fisher eBay item description |
July 5, 2026 Update: The book was relisted for $34.95, a $5 discount, although the shipping cost went up by $1. It was subsequently sold.
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| Ed Fisher eBay listing accessed July 5, 2026 |
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I have no idea whether the Stan Cohen who obtained a personalized copy of The Art in Cartooning: Seventy-five Years of American Magazine Cartoons (1975) was also the sociologist who coined the term moral panic. The original drawings in the book added at a signing by cartoonists George Booth, Sam Gross, Gahan Wilson, and Bill Woodman don't necessarily shed any light on the possibility. If there's panic in any of these four drawings, it isn't particularly moral.
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| The Art in Cartooning Rare Book Cellar listing accessed August 1, 2024 |
Note: There are now nine—go ahead, count 'em—unique copies of The Art in Cartooning posted in the archives here, a claim no other blog can match. Is this then a good place to stop? Of course not. Collectors in possession of their own interesting copies of the book are urged to forward images of the interesting parts to the proprietor of this blog. With a little luck, there won't be any more cucarachas.
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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.
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| The Art in Cartooning Bauman Rare Books listing accessed April 13, 2024 |
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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On September 15, 1995, editor Tina Brown threw a launch party for Lee Lorenz's book The Art of The New Yorker 1925-1995. Gloria (glorbrue on eBay), then an employee of the magazine, took the opportunity to purchase a copy and have it signed and personalized by a group of artists at the Lincoln Center event.
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| The Art of The New Yorker 1925-1995 eBay listing ended February 7, 2024 |
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| The Art of The New Yorker 1925-1995 eBay item description ". . . and two signatures I can't make out. Ed Koren? Bill Hamilton?" Try Ed Fisher and Bob Mankoff. |
Note: Believe it or not, this is the fourteenth copy of this book to appear here on the blog. Many of these copies are from the signing event at Lincoln Center. I'd be pleased to post additional copies of the book signed by New Yorker cartoonists. I would also love to hear from anyone in possession of photographs taken at the event.
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According to eBay seller dc467 of Paramus, a very nicely signed copy of The Art of The New Yorker 1925-1995 by Lee Lorenz that belonged to cartoonist James Stevenson (1929-2017) was obtained from his estate. The seller suggests the volume was "presented to" Stevenson, raising the question of whether he himself attended the book launch party at 70 Lincoln Center Plaza. Stevenson doesn't seem to have signed anybody else's book there, so it's unclear whether he was or was not actually present.
In July, the seller first offered this book for $599.99. It's an unusually high price even for a copy signed by multiple cartoonists, but the volume does come with a great provenance. The truth is, there is no absolute evidence in the book that it belonged to Stevenson, but a lot of the cartoonists addressed him as Jim and seemed familiar enough with him, so there is really no reason to doubt he was the owner. Furthermore, there are apparent inside jokes from Roz Chast, Edward Koren, Victoria Roberts, and Robert Weber, two of them referring to his hair, perhaps his facial hair. A surprising number of the cartoonists signed not on the front endpapers, as seen in several other copies, but on pages in the book alongside their individual printed cartoons. On the downside, there are not enough original drawings here; the two by George Booth and Danny Shanahan are absolute highlights of the book.
The seller, dc467, did not accept sequential offers and counteroffers of $200, $225, and $250. Eventually, though, dc lowered the book's asking price to $350 and in late December, apparently despairing of another opportunity to sell it before Christmas, accepted a best offer of $280.
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| James Stevenson eBay listing ended December 20, 2021 |
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| Robert Weber actually wrote, "To Tom—Jim said that I loved your sculptures, too. Robert Weber." The unidentified signature on the back endpaper belongs to George Plimpton. James Stevenson eBay item description |
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| Sold for best offer of $280 |
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| "To Jim Very best wishes George Plimpton" |
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| Ed Fisher eBay Listing Ended March 9. 2020 |
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| Ed Fisher eBay Item Description |
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| Ed Fisher eBay Bid History One bid arrives in the last three hours |
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| Ed Fisher Chancery Hill Books and Antiques |
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| Ed Fisher Chancery Hill Books and Antiques |
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| Ed Fisher Original art The New Yorker, July 24, 1954, page 17 |
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| Cartoons by Garrett Price and Ed Fisher |
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