The Middle-Aged Man on the Flying Trapeze: A Collection of Short Pieces, With Drawings by the Author
New York: Harper and Brothers, 1935.
Price: $500.00
Hardcover. First edition. Modest foxing on boards, dampstain on bottom of pages, very good in a lightly spine-tanned, near fine dustwrapper.
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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