Here are two obscure Helen Hokinson book jackets, courtesy of Tom Bloom, without whom the Ink Spill Library would be a far less interesting place. The title above was published in 1929 by Coward-McCann. The title below was published in 1933 by MacMillan. Mr. Bloom had this to say about What Shall I Eat?:
“[It’s] a curious item–in that it is a very bare-bones production. The back of the dust jacket is totally blank, and the interior pages take
a little time to get to the body of the book. The inside flap describes the illustrations by Helen Hokinson “in the style of her famous
New Yorker Sketches.” This is basically a dietary book with recipes and planned meals, 10 illustrations, about the size of a small novel.
Here’s Ms. Hokinson’s entry on Ink Spill‘s “New Yorker Cartoonists A-Z”:
Helen Hokinson Born, Illinois, 1893; died, Washington, D.C., 1949. New Yorker work: 1925 -1949, with some work published posthumously. All of Hokinson’s collections are wonderful, but here are two favorites. Her first collection: So You’re Going To Buy A Book! (Minton, Balch & Co, 1931) and what was billed as “the final Hokinson collection”: The Hokinson Festival (Dutton & Co., 1956)
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