“The New Yorker Asks Consideration For Its First Number”
It is remarkable (to me anyway) how much Harold Ross name-dropped The New Yorker in its debut issue. The “Of All Things” column is not all New Yorker all the time, but close. Below is a sample.
Of All Things ends with a reference to the magazine’s famous Prospectus:
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1975 Was A very Good Year For New Yorker Cartoons
I was browsing The New Yorker issue of December 1st, 1975 this morning and came across a few ads for some just published must-have cartoon collections (and an ad for a reissued collection, also must-have). I’m also showing what The New Yorker itself had to say about the just published collections in its annual listing of books by contributors as well as the covers for each book)
Here’s the ad for The New Yorker 1925-1975 Album Of Drawings
…and here’s an ad for George Booth’s Think Good Thoughts About A Pussycat:
And here’s what The New Yorker had to say on its books by contributors page about the just published William Hamilton collection, Terribly Nice People:
Finally, this ad for a reissued edition of James Thurber’s Men, Women and Dogs:
Below, left: the 1975 reissue; right: the first edition, published in 1943.
