Thurber Country
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1953.
Price: $1,500.00
Hardcover. First edition. Fine in about very good dustwrapper with shallow loss at the crown, and some splitting along the front spine fold. Inscribed to the longtime office manager of *The New Yorker*, Daise Terry: "Dear Terry, I love you, Jim."
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James Thurber
birth name: James Thurber
born: 12/8/1894
died: 11/2/1961
Biography
American writer and cartoonist noted for his vison of the urban man as one who escapes into fantasy because he is befuddled and beset by a world that he neither created nor understands. Thurber's best-known portrait of this character is probably Walter Mitty. Thurber's stock characters-the snarling wife, her timid, hapless husband, and a roster of serene, silently observing animals-have become classics of urban mythology. - Merriam-Webster's Encyclopedia of Literaturemore