The New Yorker Book of Literary Cartoons
by Mankoff, Robert (Edited by)
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- Hardcover
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- Condition
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- ISBN 10
- 0671035576
- ISBN 13
- 9780671035570
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About This Item
New York: Pocket Books, 2000. 105 pages, illustrations; 23 cm. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Dust jacket price-clipped on the front flap. "Welcome to The New Yorker Book of Literary Cartoons, a timeless tribute to the peerless power of the literary landscape. In 104 drawings, each of them certified by experts to be worth a thousand words (and some of them quite amusing), the essence of reading, writing, publishing, and shelving books is explored in all its glory and absurdity, from the stunning and sublime to the purple and pretentious. Here is Emma Bovary shrugging off those pesky bouts with existential boredom (on the tennis court), Dickens' fateful encounter with a martini (olive or twist?), and T.S. Eliot's "The Waste Land" thoughtfully rewritten for the Beavis and Butt-Head market ("April sucks"). Here is a long-awaited and wholly unprecedented comic takedown of that loftiest of all cultural arenas, the world of belles lettres. Here, finally, are dead-on portraits and eye-opening ruminations on all things bookish, writerly, and readerly, courtesy of The New Yorker's renowned stable of cartoonists. In the bestselling tradition of such classics as The New Yorker Book of Lawyer Cartoons and The New Yorker Book of Cat Cartoons; The New Yorker Book of Literary Cartoons is manna straight from bookworm heaven. / Bob Mankoff became The New Yorker's cartoon editor in 1997. He is also the founder and president of Cartoonbank, a division of The New Yorker, which maintains the Internet's only searchable cartoon archive. He has published four collections of his own work and has edited five other New Yorker cartoon collections, most recently The New Yorker's 75th Anniversary Cartoon Collection." - Publisher. . 1st.. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. 8vo.
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- LEFT COAST BOOKS (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 124088
- Title
- The New Yorker Book of Literary Cartoons
- Author
- Mankoff, Robert (Edited by)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Edition
- 1st.
- ISBN 10
- 0671035576
- ISBN 13
- 9780671035570
- Publisher
- Pocket Books
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 2000
- Size
- 8vo
- Bookseller catalogs
- American / 6. Late Modern, 1945-1999; Genre & Subject / Caricature & Cartoons;
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