How About Never -- Is Never Good for You?: My Life in Cartoons
by MANKOFF, Bob
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good in Good dust jacket
- ISBN 10
- 080509590X
- ISBN 13
- 9780805095906
- Seller
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Littleton, Colorado, United States
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About This Item
New York: Henry Holt and Company. Good in Good dust jacket. 2014. First Edition. Hardcover. 080509590X . Stated first edition. An ex-library copy of this ". . .inside look at the nuts and bolts of the New Yorker cartoons: how the artists come up with ideas, how the cartoons are selected...and much more" (per Roz Chast on back of the jacket). The title is borrowed from a caption of a cartoon showing a busy executive consulting his calendar while on the phone, "No, Thursday's out. How about never--is never good for you?" The author served as the magazine's cartoon editor, and supplied cartoons of his own to the magazine. --- In blue paper-covered boards with gilt-stamped spine titling. Red jacket features the above-mentioned cartoon on back panel. --- With the usual trappings of a lending library: rubberstampings, stickers and mylar-wrapped dust jacket more or less permanently affixed to the book covers; otherwise a bright, tightly-bound copy with little wear.; Ex-Library; Tall Octavo - 9 to 10 in. tall; (12), 285, (6) pages .
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- Seller
- Bluebird Books (US)
- Seller's Inventory #
- 84905
- Title
- How About Never -- Is Never Good for You?: My Life in Cartoons
- Author
- MANKOFF, Bob
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good in Good dust jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 080509590X
- ISBN 13
- 9780805095906
- Publisher
- Henry Holt and Company
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 2014
- Keywords
- 080509590X
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