Latest Addition To The Spill Library: A Bound Volume Of New Yorker Covers It’s usually the unexpected odd items that turn up on Ebay that I find most interesting. The most recent example is a thin bound volume of New Yorker covers that showed up a few weeks back (the covers were detached from single issues). The covers are beautifully
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56 Years Ago this Week In The New Yorker Regular visitors to the Spill know that I’ve made a habit of pulling bound volumes of “vintage” New Yorkers off the shelf, flipping through and reporting on some of the things that jump out. Here’s a quick tour of the issue of November 25, 1967. Above is a splendid drawing by
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More Thurber From Stage Magazine What you’re seeing are James Thurber’s illustrations for his December 1936 Stage Magazine review of Noel Coward’s “Tonight At 8:30.” (cover below by Abe Birnbaum)* Harrison Kinney, in his massive and terrific Thurber biography, James Thurber: His Life And Times (Henry Holt, 1995), tells us this brief story about Thurber driving to Boston to see
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Cover Group When SPX’s Warren Bernard visited Spill headquarters recently, one of the topics of conversation was illustrated books. I mentioned that, at one time, long ago, I began collecting books
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