Thurber Country
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1953.
Price: $35.00
Hardcover. First edition. Owner's gift inscription on front fly, spine foxed and cocked, very good in a good only modestly chipped dustwrapper with dampstain on spine.
Item #442293
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