Subverse: Rhymes for Our Times (First Edition)

FIRST EDITION, first printing. Quarter black cloth with gilt lettering on the spine, endpapers age-toned in the gutter. Jacket has been price-clipped, it is ate toned at the top two inches, and there is a half inch closed tear at the bottom of the front panel. No previous owner's names not exlibrary. Overall a VERY GOOD book in a GOOD PLUS dust jacket. Robert Chesley Osborn (1904-1994) was an American satiric cartoonist, illustrator and author. According to Osborn's New York Times obituary, over his 50 year career, Osborn's "sardonic and often savage drawings in books and magazines have arrested readers with their images of bloated power, violence and death. At the same time, he could be wittily ironic about society's pretensions, spoofing subjects like psychiatry, suburbanites and social climbing." Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.