Showing posts with label Whoops Dearie!. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Whoops Dearie!. Show all posts

Sunday, October 6, 2019

Peter Arno: Whoops Dearie! Signed and with a Dust Jacket

New Yorker cartoonist Peter Arno must have signed a great many copies of Whoops Dearie! (1927) because today such copies are not all that hard to come by in the market. The book, Arno's first, is a novel featuring his popular characters the Whoops Sisters. It was ghostwritten by Philip Wylie. A few signed copies have appeared on this blog before, but none of them have managed to retain their original dust jacket—until now. A signed copy currently on AbeBooks has a dust cover, albeit with significant losses, yet the front cover image remains pretty much intact. The sisters are seen in a bookshop stealing a glance at their own book and laughing uproariously to the point where one sister is falling over, and rather cartoonishly at that. The book, which originally sold for $1.75, is offered by Banjo Booksellers at $49 plus shipping.


Peter Arno
AbeBooks Listing Retrieved October 6, 2019



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Wednesday, September 20, 2017

Books Signed by Peter Arno, William Steig, and Chris Jensen

A somewhat unlikely trio of signed cartoon books were sold together—nearly given away—on eBay in June. Two are by classic New Yorker artists Peter Arno and William Steig, and one is by Chris Jensen. Whoops Dearie! (1927) is a novel based on Arno's raucous Whoops Sisters who were wildly popular in the New Yorker's early years. It is ghost written by Philip Wylie. Signed copies are not very hard to come by. The real find here is William Steig's Small Fry (1944), not at all common with the artist's signature. The signed copy of Chris Jensen's Sheepherder Sam Cartoons (1972) seems out of place in this group. Five copies are available on Abe Books right now, with prices ranging widely from $9.00 to $93.21. None of them are signed.

Peter Arno, Whoops Dearie! (1927), William Steig, Small Fry (1944), and Chris Jensen, Sheepherder Sam Cartoons (1972)
Note the eBay seller's footwear.

Peter Arno
Whoops Dearie! (1927)
Signed on front free endpaper with book plate

William Steig
Small Fry (1944)
Signed on front free endpaper

William Steig's signature

Peter Arno's signature

Chris Jensen
Sheepherder Sam Cartoons (1972)
Signed and inscribed on front free endpaper

Inscribed and signed by Chris Jensen

"It's my old college sweater...'Ewe of Ewe!'"                                                              
Chris Jensen, Sheepherder Sam Cartoons (1972)
Title page

William Steig
Small Fry (1944)
Title page

"Maybe we ought to change his analyst"                         
William Steig
Small Fry (1944)

Peter Arno
Whoops Dearie! (1927)
Title page


Peter Arno, William Steig, and Chris Jensen
eBay Listing Ended June 14, 2017

Peter Arno, William Steig, and Chris Jensen
eBay Item Description

Peter Arno, William Steig, and Chris Jensen
eBay Bid History
One and only one bid



Note:  Alas, I failed to record this seller's eBay auction of the rare book signed by cartoonist Mary Petty. Did any reader succeed in copying the photographs?

By the way, I'm in the market for scans and photographs of rare and unusual books by the likes of William Steig, Peter Arno, Mary Petty, and other New Yorker artists. What's in your library?

Cartoonist Chris Jensen is new to the blog today. Can't say I know much about him.


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Monday, May 16, 2016

eBay 101: Whoops! A Signed Copy of Peter Arno's Whoops Dearie!

Today's eBay 101 lesson is very simple:  If you're going to sell a signed book, take a picture of the signature. Peter Arno has gotten a lot of attention lately, so this copy of Whoops Dearie! (1927) found a buyer anyway, but really wouldn't seeing the signature help? Is there any excuse for an eBay listing not to show it?


eBay Listing Ended April 4, 2016






My own signed copy of the book—not the above one from eBay but one from eBay long ago—is a bit of an oddity. It has what I believe to be the genuine signature of Peter Arno, and that would be fine if the original owner had left well enough alone. Instead, one Thomas V. Mullane just had to add his signature to the book in 1927, the year of publication. There's also a mysterious "Hello Bill," at the bottom, maybe a gift inscription.

My copy of Whoops Dearie! (1927) signed by Peter Arno and other(s)



Note:  Go to the head of the class! This is not the first eBay 101 lesson to be posted here. No, that first one had to do with some indistinct original art by Whitney Darrow, Jr. Whatever became of that?

There are quite a few signed books to be seen here on the blog. Go ahead, have your fill. Please tell me if any are problematic.

Chris Wheeler does a much better job photographing signatures than this post's eBay seller. See Chris's beautiful, clean, signed copies of Whoops Dearie! No extraneous signatures there!

The latest book to take the cartooning world by storm is Peter Arno: The Mad, Mad World of The New Yorker's Greatest Cartoonist by Michael Maslin. Peter Tonguette's rather gushing book review
for the Christian Science Monitor calls the book "dazzling." An excerpt entitled The Peter Arno Cartoons That Helped Rescue The New Yorker was published on May 5 in the New Yorker's online edition and it's all about our friends the Whoops Sisters. 

By now you should have these links memorized:

Peter Arno posts on Ink Spill. 

Peter Arno in the April 26 Record. It's a New Jersey thing.

Peter Arno in April's Vanity Fair. 

Peter Arno in the March 29 Wall Street Journal. 

Peter Arno posts here on Attempted Bloggery. I hope I've given you your money's worth.

Hello, Bill!

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Wednesday, April 13, 2016

Peter Arno Book Promotions

How do you sell a new cartoon book? Take a look at a few vintage ads and other promotions for books by Peter Arno.

Whoops Dearie!, 1927
The New Yorker, April 30, 1927, page 51
Whoops Dearie!, 1927

Not a cartoon collection, but illustrated by Arno:
France on Ten Words a Day, 1927
The New Yorker, May 21, 1927

France on Ten Words a Day by H. McCarty-Lee, 1927

Advertisement for Peter Arno's Circus
The New York Times Book Review, January 11, 1931
Image added March 18, 2022
Photo by Scott Burns

Advertisement for Peter Arno's Circus
The New Yorker, December 14, 1931, page 91
Image added March 28, 2022



Circus, 1931
Image added March 18, 2022






"Briefly Noted"
The New Yorker, July 27, 1940, page 68
Image added June 7, 2016



Where are the Customers' Yachts? by Fred Schwed, Jr., 1940
Image added May 21, 2017


Man in the Shower, 1944
The New Yorker, November 4, 1944, page 80

Man in the Shower, 1944
The New Yorker, December 9, 1944, page 107
Man in the Shower, 1944

Sizzling Platter, 1949
Holiday book blurb from The New Yorker, December 10, 1949, page 143

Sizzling Platter, 1949

Ladies & Gentlemen, 1951
The New Yorker, November 24, 1951, page 159
Ladies & Gentlemen, 1951


Lady in the Shower, 1967

Lady in the Shower, 1967



Note:  For good measure, here are some Charles Addams book promotions.

But let's get back to Peter Arno:

Peter Arno's biography by Michael Maslin is coming our way on April 19. Get ready.

Peter Arno will be the subject of a conversation between Michael Maslin and Edward Sorel at Columbia University's Butler Library on April 18.

Peter Arno posts on Ink Spill include some images never before seen on the internet.

Peter Arno is a in full force at Chris Wheeler's Cartoon(ist) Gallery. See many of Arno's books in their rare original dust jackets!

Peter Arno is in April's Vanity Fair.

Peter Arno also made a recent Wall Street Journal article.

Peter Arno posts are presented with pride here on Attempted Bloggery.

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