Mannes, Marya — Subverse

New York, George Braziller, 1959. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Sturdy, attractive, tightly bound hardcover, clean, if toned, minimal rubbing to extremities. Illustrated paper dust jacket, illustrated, moderately worn and sunned, price-clipped. Bound in illustrated light gray paper over boards, black cloth-backed. 143 pp. Verse and pictures galore. A collection of whimsical, amusing poems on then contemporary issues with hilarious illustrations drawn by Osborn, from salesmanship to charity, faith to politics. Mannes was a native New Yorker, a feature editor at Vogue magazine, and a frequent contributor to the New Yorker among many other publications. The artist Robert Chesley Osborn (1904-1994) was an American satiric cartoonist, illustrator and author. According to his obituary, his drawings featured images of bloated power, violence and death, about society's pretensions, spoofing subjects such as psychiatry, advertising, suburbanites and social climbing.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Near Fine/Very Good,