Please Pass the Hostess, Signed by Whitney Darrow, Jr.

Please Pass the Hostess is a collection of New Yorker cartoons by Whitney Darrow, Jr. Published in 1949, it is Darrow's second cartoon collection. After seventy years, this book remains a pleasure to go through. It's hard to understand how a copy can remain so inexpensive, even a signed one.

The signature of Whitney Darrow, Jr.

Whitney Darrow, Jr. 
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Please Pass the Hostess Signed by Whitney Darrow, Jr.

With its spine cover missing and its cover worn and yellowed, a certain copy of Please Pass the Hostess (1949) by New Yorker cartoonist Whitney Darrow, Jr., cannot be said to have been passed down to us in ideal condition. Nevertheless, it provides an excellent example of Darrow's bold signature, here in green ink.

Darrow, Whitney Jr. Please Pass the Hostess. Random House, 1949.

Whitney Darrow, Jr.
eBay Listing Ended May 24, 2020

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Whitney Darrow, Jr.: Seeds of Future Delight

Few if any cartoonists were more skilled than Whitney Darrow, Jr. at creating original souvenir drawings in books. He could add color and even verse seemingly with little effort. Here are four such personalized books from the library of Pat Read, Darrow's editor at Random House. The set is currently available on AbeBooks and it can be yours for $4,800, give or take a few nickels.

Set of four cartoon collections by Whitney Darrow, Jr.

Whitney Darrow, Jr.

"You're Sitting on my Eyelashes" (1943) inscribed with two limericks and an original drawing of an African mother and three children with a sign reading "From Whitney, September 26 - '43."
The first stanza:
"I'm giving this book to the Reads
With hopes that the pictures are seeds
Of future delight
Far into the night--
(Which is all that anyone needs)."

Ex-collection Pat Read

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"Please Pass the Hostess" (1949) with a drawing inscribed "For Pat, Clif and Sheila with Love from Whitney 9/21/49"

Ex-collection Pat Read

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"Stop, Miss!" (1957) with a watercolor drawing inscribed "Merry Christmas to Pat from Whitney"

Ex-collection Pat Read

Whitney Darrow, Jr.

Give Up? (1966) with a drawing of a woman with a hatpin inscribed "To Pat with Love from Whitney 11/8/66"

Ex-collection Pat Read

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Do you know what Martha Stewart should say about any signed book with an original drawing? She should say it's a good thing.

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