Sight Unseen: Edward Koren In Sloth

Sometimes a stock photo just isn't enough to make the call on a book purchase. A copy of Edward Koren's Do You Want to Talk About It? (1976) boasts "an original drawing by the artist of one of his monsters, the long snouted one with big circle eyes and three protruding teeth, lying in bed, under the covers and with his left hand, writing the following message on a card propped on an easel[:] "For Susan—In Sloth—Ed Koren." There's also a gift inscription above that. Is this book a worthy purchase, sight unseen, for $60? Let's find out.

Edward Koren
AbeBooks listing accessed December 14, 2022

https://www.abebooks.com/servlet/BookDetailsPL?bi=15235452041&searchurl=kn%3DKoren%2Boriginal%2Bdrawing%26sortby%3D20&cm_sp=snippet-_-srp1-_-image2

And now, we come to the actual book. Was it indeed worth pursuing? Personally, I have no regrets.

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Koren Creature

Cartoonist Edward Koren just celebrated fifty years of publishing drawings in The New Yorker, no mean feat. Here is a copy of his classic 1976 collection Do You Want To Talk About It? with an original signed drawing of a creature of some sort. Okay, I'm not sure exactly, but it appears to be in the shape of a bird. With fangs. And...um, pockets.

This book is from my own collection, acquired not too long ago on eBay.

Edward Koren, Drawing of a creature on endpapers
in Do You Want To Talk About It? (1976)

Do You Want To Talk About It? (1976) by Edward Koren

Do You Want To Talk About It? by Edward Koren
EBay Item Description

Note:  Edward Koren's charming, bookish print for Tri-Nip Press is one of four prints discussed in my milestone 300th blog post here.

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