Thurber Country
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1953.
Price: $20.00
Hardcover. First edition. Near fine in very good dustwrapper. Clean text in clean cloth covers with slight spine lean and light rubs on corners, dustwrapper is chipped on top edge, taped on spine; bottom corners of dustwrapper are rubbed, rear dustwrapper cover shows light general wear. Please Note: This book has been transferred to Between the Covers from another database and might not be described to our usual standards. Please inquire for more detailed condition information.
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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