Book - The Rejection Collection: Cartoons You Never Saw ... in The New Yorker

Edited by Matthew Diffee. This listing is for Volume One of two. Hardback, 2006, 265 pages. This is coffee-table sized at 8-1/2" x 10-1/2". Very good pre-owned condition. The dust cover has some wear and a few creases, and a rip has been taped over at the bottom of the front cover (see pics), but the book itself, pages and spine, are all clean and intact. No writing, no missing pages, no dog-ears. "Each week about fifty New Yorker cartoonists submit ten ideas, yielding five hundred single-panel gags for no more than twenty spots in the magazine. From the artists' stacks of all-time favorite rejects, Diffee handpicked the standouts — the cream of the crap — and created The Rejection Collection, a place where good ideas go when they die. Too risqué, silly, or weird for The New Yorker, the cartoons in this book will appeal to fans of The New Yorker...and to anyone with a slightly sick sense of humor. Includes black-and-white photos of each artist and handwritten questionnaires that introduce their quirky characters."