No Milt Gross collection should be without this book, worth it for the long, insightful, scholarly introductory essay alone - but stuffed with great, um, stuff (mostly Milt’s prose but also lotsa cartoons). An exceptionally clean, like new copy, HC with DJ in mylar sleeve. The original edition, with the Nize Baby on the cover in all his goofy, charming glory!
Introduced by an historical essay, Is Diss a System? presents some of the most outstanding and hilarious examples of Jewish dialect humor drawn from the five books Gross published between 1926 and 1928—Nize Baby, De Night in de Front from Chreesmas, Hiawatta, Dunt Esk, and Famous Fimmales—providing a fresh opportunity to look, read, and laugh at this nearly forgotten forefather of American Jewish humor.
No Milt Gross collection should be without this book, worth it for the long, insightful, scholarly introductory essay alone - but stuffed with great, um, stuff (mostly Milt’s prose but also lotsa cartoons). An exceptionally clean, like new copy, HC with DJ in mylar sleeve. The original edition, with the Nize Baby on the cover in all his goofy, charming glory!
Introduced by an historical essay, Is Diss a System? presents some of the most outstanding and hilarious examples of Jewish dialect humor drawn from the five books Gross published between 1926 and 1928—Nize Baby, De Night in de Front from Chreesmas, Hiawatta, Dunt Esk, and Famous Fimmales—providing a fresh opportunity to look, read, and laugh at this nearly forgotten forefather of American Jewish humor.