Name: The Benchley Roundup
SKU: BENCH
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The Benchley Roundup

£25.00

Cartoonist and humourist Robert C. Benchley was one of the founders of the famed Algonquin Round Table, a group of New York City writers, critics, actors and wits. Members of ‘The Vicious Circle’, as they dubbed themselves, met for lunch each day at the Algonquin Hotel from 1919 until 1929. At these luncheons they engaged in wisecracks, wordplay and witticisms that, through the newspaper columns of Round Table members, were disseminated across the country. The Benchley Roundup is a selection, chosen by Benchley’s son Nathaniel, of his father’s best cartoons and sketches, most of which originally appeared in The New Yorker. This is the first edition in good condition.

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SKU: BENCH Categories: Chap Books, Humour

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Cartoonist and humourist Robert C. Benchley was one of the founders of the famed Algonquin Round Table, a group of New York City writers, critics, actors and wits. Members of ‘The Vicious Circle’, as they dubbed themselves, met for lunch each day at the Algonquin Hotel from 1919 until 1929. At these luncheons they engaged in wisecracks, wordplay and witticisms that, through the newspaper columns of Round Table members, were disseminated across the country. The Benchley Roundup is a selection, chosen by Benchley’s son Nathaniel, of his father’s best cartoons and sketches, most of which originally appeared in The New Yorker. This is the first edition in good condition.