Gluyas Williams’s Benchley Covers Robert Benchley books and Gluyas Williams drawings go together like soup and sandwich. Yesterday I looked up the dust jacket art for Benchley’s collections (first editions, and only those books published before his death in 1945). Here’s what I found (still looking for the Williams cover art appearing on Benchley’s first collection, 1921’s Of All
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Latest Addition To The Spill Library: Cream Of Thurber I put off acquiring the 1939 UK collection, The Cream Of Thurber for many years, but finally caved last week when thinking about the paperback edition, published in 1948; the simplicity of the cover design was (suddenly!) appealing.
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Another in a series of looking at the very first and very last New Yorker contributions by its artists.
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What Is All This Stuff? There’ve been plenty of times when I’ve invited first time visitors to our home to see my “old workroom” — it’s a very small space that served as a laundry room when we bought the house. I eventually moved the washer/dryer out and brought in a makeshift desk and all of the stuff I deemed
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