Brooks, Charles (Editor)

Best Editorial Cartoons of the Year: 1976 Edition

ISBN: 0882891227
Gretna, LA: Pelican Publishing Company, 1976. First Edition. Hardcover. Inscribed & signed with caricature by Charles Brooks. “For the better part of a century, the editorial cartoon has ranked as one of the most avidly read features in most daily newspapers. This collection of more than 350 works, representing the best efforts of 145 leading editorial cartoonists in the United States and Canada, demonstrates why-and in the process adds a graphic dimension to the news events that headlined the year 1975. A pictorial history of the year's events, this fourth volume of an annual series focuses the editorial cartoonist's skilled pen and gimlet eye on 26 major news stories, including the ups and downs of the Ford Administration, the machinations of the CIA and the FBI (and their critics), the continuing strife in the Middle East, inflation, the energy crisis, a controversial United States Congress, and the growing parade of contenders for the U.S. Presidency” (from Front Cover flap). Offered here is another volume of selected editorial cartoons edited & with contributions by Charles Brooks (1920-2011), an award-winning editorial cartoonist for the Birmingham (Alabama) News & former president of the Association of American Editorial Cartoonists. As the above-quoted portion of its informal introduction makes clear, the political flavor of the time certainly surges to the forefront of these pages; and its fulsome enmeshment with topics such as those listed above (and others near-&-dear to the political world of the 1970s, generally) throb and pulse between these boards. Hardcover in clipped dust-jacket: First Edition, first printing, though neither explicated as such on copyright page. This item is additionally signed [with doodle of an elephant] by Brooks at FFEP. Brooks’ signature, in thin, gold pen ink, reads: “To: Bill Plumb — / with best wishes, / Charles / BROOKS.” In very fine condition with only minute shelf-wear, light bumping to fine-edges & corners of front, back covers & spine-edge. Dust-jacket in strong fine condition with only mild-to-moderate shelf-wear, light rubbing & some light crinkling (of the vertical, as well as horizontal varieties) to fine-edges & corners of front, back covers & spine-edge, otherwise clean. Very Fine / Fine. [Item #7303]

Price: $60.00