The Thurber Carnival
New York: Harper & Brothers, (1945).
Price: $20.00
Hardcover. Later edition. Black and white illustrations by the author. Very good with a faded spine, faint staining on the boards, and a short tear on a few pages.
Item #195564
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