Two volumes. Illustrated by the author. Cloth or boards, jackets.
Milt Gross (1895-1953), American cartoonist and animator, is noted for his exaggerated cartoon style and Yiddish-inflected English dialogue.
Includes:
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I Shoulda Ate the Eclair. With full-page sketch on leaf facing title, of a man with a pipe in his mouth gazing at an eclair, inscribed: For the one and only Elise, with all my best, Sincerely, Milt." Chicago & New York: Ziff-Davis, [1946].
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Hiawatha and de night in de front from Chreesmas. With full-page sketch on front free endpaper of a Native America child swinging in a hammock strung between the antlers of a moose, a bear ciub waving at the child, inscribed "Hi Elise!!! Hi Jimmy!! All the best, Sincerely, Milt." Garden City: Doubleday, 1950.