William. The Lonely Ones.

by STEIG

£250 · Offered by Henry Sotheran Ltd

STEIG, William. The Lonely Ones. New York: Duell Sloan and Pearce. 1942. 8vo. Original pictorial boards with dust wrapper; pp. 102, [2], with 46 illustrations by William Steig; a little cocked, wrapper a little chipped with light rubbing and one small stain on spine, gift inscription, to front fly-leaf, otherwise a very good copy. First edition , foreword by Wolcott Gibbs. "In The Lonely Ones Mr Steig offers us a series of impressions of people who have been set off from the rest of the world by certain private obsessions - usually, it seems, by a devotion to some particularly disastrous cliché of thought or behaviour. They are not necessarily unhappy - some of them, in fact, are obviously only too well pleased with themselves, and loneliness, or singularity is, of course, by no means an unhappy state - they are simply not quite like other girls and boys." [ Sold with ]: 37 cocktail napkins (of 40) with Steig designs taken from the book. Bernard Creations 1952. In original (repaired)box. Although 3 napkins are missing all 20 designs are featured. SKU: 2096606

• Binding: Hardcover

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