The Wonderful O
New York: Simon and Schuster, (1957).
Price: $45.00
Hardcover. First edition. Illustrated by Marc Simont. Contemporary owner's gift inscription on front fly, address penned on front pastedown, edges a bit tanned, else very good in a very good minus dustwrapper with offsetting to front panel, spine darkened, edges chipped.
Item #350773
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