Thurber & Company

New York: Harper and Row, (1966).

Price: $40.00

Hardcover. First edition. Quarto. Slight foxing at the top of the boards, else about fine in very good dustwrapper with a few light ink tracings on some letering on the front panel and a couple of small stains on the spine.

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Item #436163 Thurber & Company. James THURBER.

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