Heroes and Heroines (1946)
The Masters Affair (1971- Hard Cover Edition)
The Masters Affair (1971-Soft Cover Edition)
The Perez Arson Mystery (1972)
The Runaway Bus Mystery (1972)
The Washington Post (1976)
Mt. Tremper Haiku (2000)
Painted Memories (2004)
Line, Tone, Color, and William Hogarth (2008)
Kazuko: My Sweet Childhood Till the Bomb Fell (2010)
The Motel and Other Digressions (2012)
War and Laughter: The War Cartoons of Bruce Bairnsfather and Bill Mauldin (2012)
Why Me? said Leah (2013)
Dog Talk (2014)
After the Victorians- Paintings and Drawings (2015)
Heroes and Heroines (1946)Reed Whittemore was Irwin Touster’s captain in the army, and they became good friends. After the war Whittemore asked him to illustrate his book of poetry that was written between 1941 and 1946.
The Masters Affair (1971- Hard Cover Edition)The Masters Affair was a political thriller written by bestselling author Burt Hirschfeld, with story idea by Irwin Touster.
The Masters Affair (1971-Soft Cover Edition)
The Perez Arson Mystery (1972)“The Perez Arson Mystery” was the first book in a planned series of mysteries with a legal background, and was aimed to acquaint young readers with how the law funtions in both society and in the young readers own lives.Written with Richard Curtis and Illustrated by Richard Cuffari, only two books were eventually published in the “The Case Book Mystery Series”. The other was “The Runaway Bus Mystery”. (1972)
The Runaway Bus Mystery (1972)The second and final book published in “The Case Book Mystery Series” co-authored with Richard Curtis, and Illustrated by Richard Cuffari.
The Washington Post (1976)By Carol Williams and Irwin TousterThe Washington Post presents a picture of the day-by-day activities that are required in the making of a newspaper.
Mt. Tremper Haiku (2000)Drawings by Irwin Touster/ Poems by Ronald Baatz/ Introduction by Reed WhittemorePoet Ronald Baatz worked as the weekend manager at the Millstream Motel in Woodstock, NY when Touster owned the establishment. After the motel was sold Ronald moved into the house on Irwin’s Mt. Tremper property year round, living there for over 25 year, while Touster summered in the barn behind the house. All of the poems and drawing in this book were created on the Mt. Tremper property where they both lived.
Painted Memories (2004)In 1999 Touster began a series of small paintings influenced by an old album of family photographs that belonged to his mother. Each painting was a combination of selected sections of the album’s photographs as well as others. Each painting in the book faces a page of written memories and stories from his life.
Line, Tone, Color, and William Hogarth (2008)“Line, Tone, Color, and William Hogarth” is divided into four sections. The first is made up of etchings done solely with line. Line and aquatint (tone) make up the second section. Watercolor is added to the etchings in section three (color). The forth section and final group of etchings were inspired by the engravings of William Hogarth.
Kazuko: My Sweet Childhood Till the Bomb Fell (2010)Kazuko: My Sweet Childhood Till the Bomb Fell is the story of Touster’s long-term partner, Kathy Hyam’s childhood growing up in Japan prior to WW ll. Irwin conducted interview’s with Kathy to get her story and then wrote the book in her voice. After it was published it was mentioned to Kathy that she sounded exactly like an 80 year old jewish man from New York. She got a kick out of that!
The Motel and Other Digressions (2012)In 1970 Touster purchased a four acre piece of property in Mt. Tremper, NY and lived and painted in the barn that was on the property every summer. In 1979 he purchased the Millstream Motel in Woodstock, NY. This book is an autobiographical look into Touster’s life during those times.
War and Laughter: The War Cartoons of Bruce Bairnsfather and Bill Mauldin (2012)War and Laughter: The War Cartoons of Bruce Bairnsfather (WW 1) and Bill Mauldin (WW 2) “This book in not a study of war, its politics or strategies, but of war cartoons and two men who brought the art of cartooning to battle.” -Excerpt from book
Why Me? said Leah (2013)Why Me? said Leah was originally begun in the 1960’s when Touster worked for his father’s company, the Cinderella Hat Company. The manuscript went unfinished until 2013, when he finished and self-published it.
Dog Talk (2014)Dog Talk is an autobiographical novel using dogs as sit-ins for people in Touster’s life. This book allowed him to ruminate on a whole batch of issues that were near and dear to his heart.
After the Victorians- Paintings and Drawings (2015)The paintings and drawings for “After the Victorians” were started in 1998 and completed 2005.. The work was inspired by the Victorian painters, especially William Hogarth and later, Thomas Rowlandson. As Touster writes in the introduction to the book: “The Victorians were the real storytellers. This for me is what this book is about, not their paintings. I do not respond to the paintings of the time, but to the ideas of story and how to tell them.”
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