Otto soglow illustrator (4 risultati)

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Fair. VG red cloth covered boards with red and blue lettering on beige pastedown along spine. Binding and hinges secure; contents clean and unmarked except for gift inscription on FFEP; Fair dust jacket; large chip along spine and small chips along edges. 121pp feauturing 22 illustrations by Otto Soglow.…

hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Near fine. Hardcover and dust jacket. Good binding and cover. Clean, unmarked pages. Dust jacket in protective mylar cover. 354 pages illustrations 21 cm. Minor toning to dj.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Good. First Edition. Simon & Schuster, 1933; same date on title and copyright pages, no additional printings indicated; 127pp. VG hardcover in G/G- dust jacket. Illustrations by Soglow. Binding is tight, sturdy, and square; light wear to edges of burgundy cloth boards, paper title plate text remains bold and crisp; text, illustrations very good throughout. Moderate amount of wear to edges of unclipped ($1.25) dust jacket; a couple small damp-spots, mild toning to jacket as well; text mostly faded on spine paneljacket arrives wrapped in protective mylar. A "Boners"-style compilation of crank letters from many sources. Ships same or next business day from Dinkytown in Minneapolis, Minnesota.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. 12mo. xi, 116p. Foreword by E.B. White. Illustrated throughout with delightful black and white drawings by O. Soglow. Green cloth with blue letters on the front cover and the spine. Some wear to the extremities with the corners just barely rubbed through, covers lightly soiled, lettering on spine pretty much faded, previous owners' signatures [Janet Wile Metzger, Louis Wile Metger July, 1931], all illustrations in fine condition, else very good to near fine with no internal markings. No dust jacket. This book comprises the original collection of Newsbreaks from the New Yorker. "Newsbreaks" are what the New Yorker used to fill out a column of type which might leave 2 or 3 inches blank at the bottom of the page. This empty space was filled with "excerpts from newspapers and other publications--excerpts that were supposed to be funny or instructive because they contained some error of typography or judgment. [For example, there might be a classified ad for a "widow dresser", when what was meant was "window dresser"!} This book contains about four hundred newsbreaks, a selection from those that have appeared in THE NEW YORKER in the past couple years [1929-1931]." [from the Foreword by E.B. White] Needless to say, this is a book full of humor. as well as humorous illustrations by O. Soglow. Otto Soglow was an American cartoonist best known for his comic strip The Little King. Soglow studied with John Sloan at the Art Students League of New York and had his first cartoon printed in 1919. Throughout the 1920s, his drawings were seen in numerous magazines, including New York World, Collier's, The New Yorker, and Judge and Life. He also illustrated more than 35 books. Per the signatures in the book, it once belonged to Louis Wile Meltzer and his wife Janet Wile Meltzer. Louis had been a cellist in the Rochester Philharmonic but in mid-life turned to comedy writing. According to Herb Wasserman, the Meltzers' one-time son-in-law, Louis wrote for the NBC Four TV comedy program "Broadway Open House," for which he invented the character "Dagmar". O. Soglow [Otto, 1900-1975] (illustratore).…