Men, Women and Dogs

New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, (1943).

Price: $1,750.00

Hardcover. First edition. Preface by Dorothy Parker. Corners frayed a bit, an about very good copy in near very good dustwrapper with some professional internal strengthening and some modest chips at the extremities. Inscribed to the longtime office manager of *The New Yorker*, Daise Terry: "For Terry, Love and kisses, James Thurber."

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Item #87450 Men, Women and Dogs. James THURBER.
Men, Women and Dogs

James Thurber
birth name: James Thurber
born: 12/8/1894
died: 11/2/1961

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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