ULTIMATE CARTOON BOOK OF BOOK CARTOONS

The world's greatest cartoonists drawing about books and bookshops, the book is a result of hearing hundreds of bookshop stories about cute bookshop cats, collectors, owners and the vibrant institutions that are our bookshops. See what can go wrong at a book event, a meet the author and a book signing, reading groups, book club enactments, bookshop signs. The first cartoon is of a house absolutely crammed with books, flowing out from the windows, and the owners and dog resigned to sitting outside and offering passing bibliophiles a chance to read. Next is Adam and Eve sitting in the Garden of Eden with the caption: 'I can't help thinking there's a book in this.' Next is a busy bookstore with a big display of 'Latte Damaged Books'. Next is 'We used your unsold copies to build a tree, but it's not the same' with a huge book stack in a forest alongside real trees - back to nature? A lady looks at the Memoirs section in a bookshop with the bookcases displayed under three headings: Way Better Than Your Life; Pretty Much Like Your Life; Way Worse Than Your Life. An enthusiastic love letter to books and bookshops with 33 masters of cartoon art in the USA including Nick Downes, Bob Mankoff and more which have all been published in the New Yorker, while others are published here for the first time. A bibliophile's delight, 144 large pages, 133 full page cartoons. 21 x 22.5cm.
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